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

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

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!!!

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

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

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

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.

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.

I love this scene

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

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!

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

My favorite scene🥰🥰

This song is so fucking good

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.

RIP John Heard😇💖

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

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!

This was my first look at steam punk

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

Favorite scene from favorite movie!!

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.

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!

This was such an amazing scene

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

This was one of my favorite scenes.

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

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.

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

I had this song on cassette i loved it so much

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

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

Love this song

i remember this scene scaring me shitless as a kid

One of my two favorite songs from this movie.

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

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

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

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

Excellent Song an Video/Senior frm NJ

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.

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 😅

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

This was my favourite part in the movie. 😁

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

I like this song

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

Set it on fireeeeeee

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

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

The turns that the peasants did were amazing.

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.

Love her voice!

That was a great movie

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.

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

"See what I leave behind..."

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

Goosebumps❤

Great song! Applicable 👍🎵😎❤️✌️

Terrifying memory from my childhood 😮

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.

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

To this day, I still cry at this movie.

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

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

love this song from the movie

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.

Scene outstanding

I adore Bette. Always have always will

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

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

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

And here we have the Faustian bargain

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

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

FABULOSA Miss Betty i love her.

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

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

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

This is the song I need to do in drag.

this song would fit perfectly into Hadestown

This soundtrack reminds me of me friend Tiffany 😢

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?

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

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

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

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!

Best part of the movie

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

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

I'm going to need the ultra magnetic scan

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

👍🎵👍😎

Did Lady GaGa travel back in time!

Looks like a Julie Taymor production

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

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

What was this play supposed to be about?

I am the captain , sing the song bette