Oh Industry - Bette - Scene from Beaches

[@Melanie-bm7vh]

Who else wanted to see the entire play ???? Bette is an absolute genius...

[@sheagroza]

Dude I would pay MONEY to see the full play! Like fr, I’d love to see it!

[@christianb836]

I love this song, this scene, and probably this play

[@shgnamaste7730]

Me!

[@sally_spice4507]

Me. When I was little I wanted to be her 😍

[@aimeerebecca1]

Genius? Or just epically talented?

[@moarroz]

Idk why i needed to see this at 2:42am but I'm here for it!

[@akiomarmalade6460]

CC approaching the entertainment industry, it was a great night

[@StephanieLexis]

Lol, I'm watching this at 2:26AM!

[@moarroz]

@@StephanieLexis bahahaha great minds think alike 😊

[@sunkat76]

2.55am for me albeit 7 months later

[@moarroz]

@@sunkat76 haha so crazy 🤣💚💚

[@Thurston86]

It’s 2024 and I’m _still_ wishing I could see the entirety of this play (as well as Otto Titsling)!

[@CelticSoul82]

Me too! I really wish they would have done some kind of a sequel to this

[@AhlSunnah111]

Same just finished it again! 😂

[@kathieprater2431]

Listen to all the textures she gets out of her voice! Masterful!

[@danielleking262]

This song always stuck out for me from this movie!! I would rewind it over and over again, it had such great depth and beat!!!

[@daniagadborg2026]

I can totally relate. I grew up watching this movie and everytime the song played, my sister and I rewinded it over and over and over. That 'stomping' of the heavy boots that the 3 men are wearing accompanied with music is awesome

[@MA-mc7vq]

So agree

[@callherfoofoo]

I needed so much more of this I messed my VHS rewinding lol

[@mythoughts5550]

This is my favorite song from Beaches, but love all her music

[@scouser2010ify]

I agree

[@sergiocabezuela9713]

I made a board game in early grade school called Oh Industry. Born and raised in Texas, it was based off of the oil industry. It was a school project. Thanks to Beaches.

[@TainaDelamar711]

Very cool. What grade did you get?

[@kristylewandowski8485]

The artistry behind both of her shows that we only got one song out of each was just spectacular and left me wanting more! I will never tire of this song, even if I often don't have the heart to watch the movie.

[@kel9361]

Love Bette's voice. Beaches is just a phenomenal movie!

[@lauraanderson958]

I’ll be honest those guys scared the crap out of me as a kid lol but I love this movie so much 🥰🥰😍

[@dabneyscholler8495]

Me too!

[@sharnadickerson8682]

Same!!! Loved this track

[@frankieyoung5065]

Me too!!!!

[@weedsville6318]

Right there with you

[@Joker88LESWALK]

Same !!

[@kimberlyrose984]

I wish the play were real! I remember when I first saw the scene and heard oh industry! It sticks with you! It’s so emotional and deco! She’s amazing!

[@MondoMiami]

It appeals to the simple-minded.

[@RavynArcadia]

@@MondoMiamibruh. Don’t be a dick.

[@leahfox7076]

@@MondoMiaminasty comment. Leave if you’re going to be like this.

[@MondoMiami]

@@leahfox7076 awwwwwww! Not everybody has the same opinion as you. Waaaahhhhhhh!!!!

[@ravyndoughty926]

​@MondoMiami still a nasty comment, can't call people idiots because you have different opinions about art

[@karliegilbert3917]

I love this scene

[@HauntFreak13]

This song is so fucking good

[@sarawashington5485]

RIP John Heard😇💖

[@leahfox7076]

This movie came out when I was 7 and I remember loving The Wind Beneath My Wings so much that my mom bought me the cassette single (remember those?). The B-Side was Oh Industry and that quickly became and even more beloved song for me and it is to this day!

[@kittybxoxo]

Yes girl !! my mother played them religiously ❤ this is her favorite movie besides joy luck club ❤

[@NefariousDreary]

This was my first look at steam punk

[@CB394]

This movie would *SO* not get made nowadays... but by goodness it's a classic!

[@ilovemykids1965]

The movie was okay but this song was unbelievable. To me it feels more like performance art. This song has a great message that we are in an unfortunate relationship with the industrial revolution: we love it, we desire it , it consumes us and we cannot live without it even as it is killing us.

[@AhlSunnah111]

🎯

[@SMBarbie]

That's about it--it's definitely meant to emulate a certain type of downtown NYC theater, which often takes an anti-capitalist bent.

[@nycosplayernetworkcospodbe5265]

An amazing avant garde performance with a powerful message for the ages!

[@OleHams]

Every 8 year old boys favorite scene. Watched it a million times. Idk why we were watching beaches at 8 don't worry about that.

[@dawnp5498]

My favorite scene🥰🥰

[@ericarocha2347]

I grew up watching this movie. This performance was amazing!!!

[@nellyluscious]

This woman just always amazes me! Bette Midler has always been a talent in her own league! She is a different pizazz! My favorite actress of all time!

[@amandac9894]

This scene used to scare me as a kid because of the masks 😅 also this is one of my favourite songs because of its very deep and powerful message

[@cha_hoe]

Lmaoo same

[@nichellejones2571]

Same🤣🤣but it pulled me in so much like I loved this scene!

[@ilovemykids1965]

I am the captain and this is my shrine. Lord of the manor. See what I leave behind. River in flames, cities on fire. Yes, I'm a relic trapped in the wire. Hydrogen fuel, it burns so clean, throbs in the veins; a mother lovin' machine. She is my wife. Her mechanical heart constantly serving 'til death do us part. Now a glorious war draws to a close. The yellow winds blow. And I have to know. Oh industry, whatever will become of me? Soon the cruel rains will start. Is it true we must part company? Oh industry, whatever will become of me? What have I ever done? Where did I go wrong? Joined at the hip; pain, hunger and I, leave our gift to the world 'neath the phosphorous sky. A labor of love is the truest of all. But will I be forsaken after the fall? Now a glorious war draws to a close. The yellow winds blow. And I have to know. Oh industry, whatever will become of me? Nothing after the flood but the fire and the mud's prophecy. Oh industry, whatever will become of me? Of me? Industry, charity, faith, hope. Industry, charity, faith, hope. Industry, charity, faith, hope. Industry, charity, faith, hope. Industry, charity, faith, hope.

[@danielleking262]

Where is this whole song???

[@sndmoore9010]

On the soundtrack!

[@blueribenaberry]

I think it’s “of my beloved machine” not mother loving lol

[@LionessDeWinter]

I love this song; it's so powerful! For years, I had a line of the lyrics wrong. I always heard: "Yes, I'm a rabbit, trapped in the wire" instead of "relic". It made it doubly scary, like a rabbit in a snare.

[@jasminepitts3979]

Favorite scene from favorite movie!!

[@thewunder-lusters9644]

One of her best performances. 😊

[@RavynArcadia]

One of my two favorite songs from this movie.

[@cindyroller1]

Love this movie, especially this scene! I’d absolutely watch this Play if it were real lol. Love it

[@margueritehudsell4454]

This was one of my favorite scenes.

[@williamhaggard451]

R I P John Heard who also has done Law & Order SVU & Home Alone Seventh Sign as well great actor and Emily Proctor's father CSI Miami

[@danielleking262]

And in Big with Tom Hanks!!!

[@SRX2004]

And in "Deceived" with Goldie Hawn. Great and creepy performance in that.

[@animationfanatic2133]

He also had a brief but excellent stint on the Sopranos as corrupt cop Vin Mackesian

[@preciouspayne723]

What happened to him

[@shaylah2725]

always loved this part especially when she turns around at the end 💙

[@MauriceRivers415]

Everyone always wonders how she got the mask on her face without lifting a hand. Movie magic! 👌🏿

[@KRistyrose978]

I loved these crazy musicals she was in, id watch them for real

[@DesertNebula]

This was such an amazing scene

[@anezartz2048]

Love this song

[@honeylarue1]

One of my favorite scenes in the movie. Thanks for uploading!

[@RosieG1986]

I absolutely love this song, but this scene scared the shit out of me when I was a kid and still does at 38 years old 😅

[@anthony20cali]

what ever will become of meeeeeeee.......... that part gets me

[@cha_hoe]

i remember this scene scaring me shitless as a kid

[@dgurl88]

Same since when they took their masks off and they didn't have a face 😂

[@Itsmyturn-notpickme]

The turns that the peasants did were amazing.

[@yvzSeph]

I had this song on cassette i loved it so much

[@tseawright8771]

Excellent Song an Video/Senior frm NJ

[@Abergavenny4Ever]

This was my favourite part in the movie. 😁

[@gillianmoss5262]

"See what I leave behind..."

[@kimmyfreak200]

i love her outfit at the beginning of the scene in the office..especially the belt

[@jonathonbaker-guntang4163]

I have nothing but respect for Bette Midler and would love to meet her in person one day, what an honor.

[@TainaDelamar711]

I met her at my job around 10 years ago. My coworker asked her on her way out, "Can I just tell you that I LOVE you?!" Bette's reply. "You can!" & she flashed that smile. Unforgettable.

[@daenitarthtag6409]

Bette is EVERYTHING!! so much talent!!!! This movie was played on repeat in my house for years!

[@byunniq9060]

This scene always scared me as a kid but i lovedddd this movie😅

[@sandraalphonse3925]

That was a great movie

[@sarahhobson4036]

This is my song love it sing it out loud ❤❤❤❤ costumes are fantastic 👌 👏 🙌

[@kathieprater2431]

Love her voice!

[@missdiscoverme]

Love this classic from my a time favorite movie like ever!!!

[@TheRickbeni82]

I feel like Lady Gaga should do this song and complete the play that Beaches teased us with.

[@Gemmarose9012]

Noooo Keep Gaga AWAY from Bette’s stuff!

[@sndmoore9010]

Yes please!!!!!!!

[@erinjohnson1124]

Absolutely. You can tell some of the songs that Gaga sings have a Bette influence in the voice. She’d kill this.

[@alombb]

@@Gemmarose9012are you joking, other than Adele, gaga is the best artist to pay tribute to Bette in any way (regardless of their one and only interaction being slightly tense)! I see so much bette in gaga tbh.

[@thelonelyghosts9004]

It’s kind of like it’s own movie…within one. Anyone else remember the scenes from Home Alone and Home Alone 2 with the guy shooting people with his Tommygun? Random as fuck but left you feeling like you wanted to the entire actual thing lol

[@ardellblueshield2437]

I like this song

[@honeys_wildhairvibes]

Set it on fireeeeeee

[@pattibrooks1907]

Bette is a awesome amazing lady funny gifted talented and a very kind warm lady who helps others and is there for them !

[@davi318]

Also, I was so little when this movie came out and watched it a million times and always fast forwarded through this part. Partly because it scared me and partly because it bored me as a child. But when I watched it again as a teenager maybe 18 I finally watched it and saw and heard something totally different to my ears than I remember as a child. It is amazing how taste buds change and so does our taste in music and art and lyrics. I love this scene now. It’s a great song.

[@Tapanga620]

2024 and I do a search for this scene. THANK YOU KZbin

[@angelagillett1033]

To this day, I still cry at this movie.

[@CowboyHatsAndKuchen]

Terrifying memory from my childhood 😮

[@Choices2aa]

You know this song was great and I have Beaches the soundtrack of Bette Milder's best hits and Wind Beneath My Wings. Good song.

[@davidfarley3023]

I remember watching this as a kid and coming back piss drunk after at LEAST 10 beers

[@kaylaireland3494]

I adore Bette. Always have always will

[@MauriceRivers415]

This is my favorite part of the movie, and I love that 30+ years later, many people have different interpretations of the song's meaning. I always got two different takes: for starters, the music is obviously evocative of a major industrial plant (very probably a steelworks), as evidenced by some of the lyrics and the fire in the stage play's background. The lyrics are from the point-of-view of the industrialist (seemingly an 1860-1900 robber baron) who created the plant, calling it his "shrine", "manor", and "wife". It seems he's likely at the end of his career/life and looking back on his legacy (mostly with sadness/regret) for causing pollution, pain, hunger, and his lack of faith, charity, etc. He's beginning to realize what his greed has done to the world around him. His company is still going strong , but the wind, the sky, the rivers, and the cities are polluted or in ruins. Now what will happen to him? What was it all worth in the end? It could be based on Andrew Carnegie, who built a steel empire, then sold it off and spent the rest of his life on philanthropy. Or it could also be Henry Clay Frick, chairman of Carnegie Steel and the "most hated man in America", due to his breaking the strikes of steel workers. Charles Schwab is another candidate, involved in the WWI effort, accused of profiteering, later squandered his huge fortune and died impoverished. My second take: she was singing about the Hollywood/entertainment industry. How someone who's reigned supreme over Hollywood for so long, is now having their downfall, whether it be because of age, illness, changing tastes or even death. I always felt like it was about the legacy they left behind, and wondering if it was really worth anything in the end. That artful, sudden self-awareness once our life's work is complete. Will I be forgotten? What's it all worth? I did what I thought was right, and maybe still do, as part of the larger machine. And how when you're just at the top, you'll eventually fall down.

[@kristye.6225]

I love this take on the song! Have you heard the full version from the soundtrack?

[@frankiebowie6174]

Her nod to her husband’s career. I would not be surprised to learn that he produced this number for the film.

[@callherfoofoo]

Goosebumps❤

[@cc-qg9sq]

And here we have the Faustian bargain

[@tahuaroa]

“Certainly not… THE HAND WALKING QUEER!!!” 😂👎👏

[@LaDon08]

this song would fit perfectly into Hadestown

[@laffytiffy4730]

Watching this scene as a child was terrifying lol. It was the masks. 😂😬 #LoveThisMovie

[@asiaparks7158]

My favorite part it use to scare the shit outta me and amaze me at the same time

[@Daniel-xg3ul]

This is the song I need to do in drag.

[@twelve11]

Its unfortunate when you know this song so well from the movie and then listen to the actual studio version and it pales in comparison. I wish there was a decent edit of this version of the song.

[@KKMDStyle]

The film version is worked great for movie because it was chopped into segments long enough to fit the scene. It’s great to have the full length song for a deeper experience.

[@BenHelweg]

The mixing in the film version is much better

[@davi318]

I have no clue why this came on recommended to me lol. But I’ve been watching Hocus Pocus 2 a lot so maybe that’s why. And also I have never cried harder than when she sings The Wind Beneath My Wings as it shows the little girl at the funeral and it is raining and she’s crying on her bed and asked if she can bring her cat to live with her omg the entire montage of scenes put together during that song was absolute perfection if the idea was to rip your heart out.

[@kellysavalas5937]

Loved the movie and the song...still one of the creepiest looking videos lol

[@eyeland68]

Beaches is on for free you guys! KZbin put it on for us 😍😍 go watch now before ita gone!!

[@benignomendez4803]

FABULOSA Miss Betty i love her.

[@GetRekt-bw6pu]

Her name ain't Betty, it's bette

[@MaryMary-of2um]

Whenever I see new apartments building and mom and pop stores closing I think of this song

[@shannon275]

This soundtrack reminds me of me friend Tiffany 😢

[@dublinfitzpatrick7838]

Great song! Applicable 👍🎵😎❤️✌️

[@serrot1]

1:50 That chinese violin and beat box was over the top lol

[@kyliebriggs5132]

love this song from the movie

[@RedefiningBodybuilding]

Still scares me... And I'm a whole grown adult now lmao.

[@grillandy]

Best part of the movie

[@cya2139]

So, was that supposed to be her character becoming a ghost in the industrial machine? The masked suits being the ones who came before her?

[@stelladallasAlabama]

Scene outstanding

[@jordanodwyer6552]

Woah I think I just re discovered the root of my phobia of featureless faces 😵‍💫

[@sturycroft]

So is it about the industrial revolution and destruction of the environment? Not sure even to do this day lol

[@lanitana100]

Apparently about machines replacing people for jobs.

[@rebekahbarry3013]

Amazes me how John could evdn notice Hillary with CC right there....

[@jackceli1684]

The sad part is that we're still talking about the same issues in their world today

[@margueritehudsell4454]

Oh Industry. My family is oblivious to the entire message.

[@castielmaverickwentworth82074]

Part of the song in the scene it's just creepy but catchy.

[@MGMVE]

I was about 5 years old when mom had this playing, watching the whole thing. Them taking their masks off freaked me out as I never saw any eyes, noses, mouth, the beauty of full lycra full suits. Good choice! The song is a good one though!

[@RagamuffinBabyDoll]

Looks like a Julie Taymor production

[@Amyvisitsyoutube]

I'm going to need the ultra magnetic scan

[@danaterrell3099]

The best movie ever!!! dana t.

[@ProjectCreativityGuy96]

Did Lady GaGa travel back in time!

[@lulubell31]

Such a great song but those masks scared the shit outta me when I was a kid!

[@mallyndab]

I never understood why they said The Handwalking Queer got the lead.

[@KRistyrose978]

“Certainly not the hand walking queer!” it refers to the time when they first met as children, Cici had an audition and lost the part to a girl with no other talent than walking on her hands, because the directors just thought she was “a beautiful child” ignoring Cici’s obvious and tremendous talent. Cici was distraught and Hilary said “honestly I think walking on your hands is kind of creepy” which made cici feel better and first cemented their unlikely friendship.

[@Finsirith]

It looks kinda steampunk to me.