9 Movie Scenes That Completely Change Their Film

Harold and Maude is a black comedy that sees a young man obsessed with death, fervently interested in both faking the end of his life as well as all the different methods that go into such an act, much to the upset of his immediate family members. Understandably, really.

He eventually meets Maude, a 79-year-old woman who's mantra of living life to the fullest comes alongside a care-free attitude to death too. It's one that draws Harold in as the pair form an unlikely friendship, and later on a relationship as they become romantically entwined, much to the upset of his immediate family members again. And again, understandably really, since he's only 18-years-old himself.

And whilst the strange duo's infatuation with death might raise eyebrows, their separate reasoning is heartbreakingly tragic. Whilst Harold's is explored as the film unfolds, Maude's is never explicitly mentioned - it's only one brief, easy-to-miss scene that reveals her influential past that instantly adds a whole new context and meaning to her celebration of every day of life.

Maude has a tattoo of Nazi concentration camp on her arm, marking her as a holocaust survivor.