The officer aims his gun at them, but finds his efforts foiled by his unloaded gun. Later, when the same officer pulls them over again and reads a list of offenses, Maude and Harold steal his motorcycle. Maude speeds off during the officer's interrogation and drives around in circles until the motorcycle breaks down. Days later, when Harold and Maude rush through a tollbooth while delivering the smog-ridden tree to its new home, a motorcycle officer pulls them over.
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Harold returns home to find his mother has replaced his hearse with a new Jaguar sports car, which he quickly transforms into a mini-hearse with the help of a blowtorch. After playing a song on her player piano for him, Maude gives Harold a banjo.
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Later at her home, Maude reminisces metaphorically about her past as a political protestor and explains that now she attempts more idiosyncratic strategies toward change. When the car is ticketed by police officers, Harold and Maude steal a different vehicle and race through a stop sign, defying the awe-struck police. On another outing, Maude, in her zeal, drives over a curb to show Harold a tree being suffocated by the city's smog. She advises him that all humans are special the problem lies in the fact that they allow themselves to be treated all the same. After Harold, in turn, chooses a ground cover daisy, saying that all daisies are alike, Maude notes observable differences between them. Later, at a nursery, Maude explains that she likes to watch things grow and picks a tall solitary sunflower as her favorite flower. After he agrees with her that the nudity is permissible, Maude shows Harold her paintings, sculpture and "olfactory machine," demonstrating it with a scent called "Snow on 42nd Street." Entranced by Maude's creativity and her insistence on experiencing something new each day, Harold shares with her his favorite activities: watching building demolitions and picnicking at a metal junkyard. On his next visit to Maude, he finds his friend modeling in the nude for ice sculptor Glaucus. During his first date with Candy Gulf at the Chasen home, Harold pretends to set himself on fire within sight of young woman, who flees the house in terror. Later, at the psychiatrist's office, Harold admits that he might have one friend, Maude.
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#CAT STEVENS HAROLD AND MAUDE FULL#
Harold then drives Maude to her home, a converted railroad car full of art and memorabilia. At the end of the next funeral Harold attends, Maude steals his hearse for a joy ride, then turns the wheel over to him after he informs her that it is his vehicle. Chasen recites the dating service survey question "Do you have ups and downs without obvious reason?" Harold fakes shooting himself in the head. As the mourners exit the church, the affable Maude introduces herself, tells Harold they will be "great friends" and then steals the minister's car. During a funeral for another stranger, Maude offers Harold licorice and then suggests that the deceased, who was 80, died at the perfect age.
#CAT STEVENS HAROLD AND MAUDE SERIES#
Chasen announces that Harold must assume "adult responsibilities" by marrying and arranges for a series of dates. Days later, after Harold fails to shake his imperturbable mother by floating face down in her lap pool, Mrs. Victor Ball, a one-armed veteran who urges him to join the military and then salutes a portrait of his hero, Nathan Hale, using his mechanically rigged sleeve. Chasen, outraged by Harold's "amateur theatrics," sends him to his uncle, Gen. Soon after, Harold buys a hearse and goes to a funeral for a stranger, where he spots another casual observer, the 79-year-old Maude.
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During a therapy session, Harold explains that he finds "fun" in attending funerals. After another in a series of mock suicides staged by 20-year-old Harold Chasen fails to gain the attention he craves from his wealthy, socialite mother, the sullen young man stages a bloody scene in her bathroom, finally driving her to send him to a psychiatrist.