YMMV / Hud

• Award Snub: Did fairly well at the Academy Awards, earning Oscars for Patricia Neal's and Melvyn Douglas' performances, as well as the perfectly melancholy cinematography. However, the film missed out on a Best Picture nomination, which it might've been close to receiving, given how Martin Ritt managed to score recognition in the Best Director category.
• Draco in Leather Pants: Paul Newman played Hud as a villain. He was later stunned that so many young moviegoers had a poster of Hud and viewed him as their hero.
• Misaimed Fandom: Disaffected youth have long put up posters of the film in their rooms as a mark of admiration for this iconic counter-culture hero. The story is about Hud trying to get his father falsely declared mentally incompetent and himself power of attorney so he can sell his father's farm and keep the money. And he attempts to rape his love interest.
• Moral Event Horizon: Hud goes past this when, while drunk, he tries to rape Alma.
• Values Dissonance: While Hud does plenty that remain reprehensible today, many in the cynical, fiscally insecure New 20s can view Homer's insistence on repeatedly sticking to his pride for better (refusing to sell sick cows to neighboring ranchers) or worse (refusing to allow others to dig for oil and recoup losses just because he only takes pride in his cattle) to be downright foolish and untenable. While Hud's advice can be self-serving, as his urging for Homer to make some more money while he still has time to be a consequence of him wanting more inheritance, it still stands that he has a point and the fact that his inheritance is all but gone is directly related to Homer's myopic business practices.

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