from depression, and they use their battles as jokes that hide their true emotions behind laughter. The movie The Graduate directed by Mike Nichols, is intended to be a comedy. It portrays a young man named Benjamin who is returning from college and received a highly prestigious award. Not only did he win an award, but he graduated before he turned 21. The average age of a college graduate is 22, therefore, Ben graduated 2 years early with a special recognition, and he does not acknowledge it. Ben does
The Graduate is a coming of age story focused on the confusion and fear that many young adults feel as they try to strike out and make a life for their own. The film focuses on Ben Braddock as he tries to figure out what do with his life, which is further complicated by an unfortunate love triangle involving Ben and two women who happen to be mother and daughter. The opening scenes of the film serve to introduce the audience to Ben and the hopelessness, emptiness, and angst that he feels as he struggles
The Graduate is a story about a 21-year-old Benjamin Braddock, a recent college graduate with no well-defined aim in life, who is seduced by an older woman, Mrs. Robinson, and then proceeds to fall in love with her daughter Elaine. He discovers that he and Mrs. Robinson have nothing to talk about. However, after Benjamin pressure Mrs. Robinson to talk she reveals that she entered into a loveless marriage when she accidentally became pregnant with Elaine. Both Mr. Robinson and Benjamin’s parents encourage
The Graduate is a great example of a film where lens and camera choices were used effectively to convey the director’s point of view. It seemed like every choice made by the director Mike Nichols director and the director of cinematography Bob Surtees was justified. The outcome of each shot played an important role in shaping the message of the film. The cinematography of Bob Surtees is very complicated and thoughtful but at the same time seems poetic and spontaneous. All of Mrs. Robinson and
The Graduate is a 1967 film starring Dustin Hoffman as Benjamin Braddock, Anne Bancroft as Mrs. Robinson, and Katharine Ross as Elaine Robinson. The film follows Benjamin Braddock, a recent college graduate, who has an affair with a friend of his parents, but ends up falling in love with her daughter. The Graduate starts with Ben in an airport. The whole sequence is melancholy because the sound overlays “The Sound of Silence” with an airport employee over the intercom. This scene is very melancholy
finger tips The Graduate is an overall great movie and it is still able to compete with movies from today with its humor from the view point of a graduated college student in a love triangle with a mother and daughter. However, The Graduate is a satisfying movie considering how relatable the main character is and how the humor is different from all the humor in today’s movies. Benjamin Braddock is a normal guy that just graduated from college and has no idea what to do with
Congratulating The Graduate Mike Nichols’s 1967 film, The Graduate, which is based on Charles Webb’s 1963 novel of the same name, focuses on the conflicts, both internally and externally, of a young college graduate who seems to have no clear purpose in life. The struggles this young protagonist faces in the film and how he deals with them, reflect a time when there was great change in the minds of the younger generation, which was of course, the sixties. During this era, these young individuals
In the movie the graduate there is glass throughout the movie and places for reasons the viewer must way. in the case when he goes to call Ms. Robinson because he is not sure what to do after the little incident at her house after the party. He is doubt thought out the movie, but he does the affair with her because he doesn't know what to do and that is they only thing that he can think of. Another incident is when Ben starts dating the Ms. Robinson daughter Elaine after she told him “Don't you ever
The movie “The Graduate” defines the main character Benjamin in a very well way. In the beginning of the movie you see the camera focused on Benjamin. He looks as if he is unhappy or bored with life. The camera zooms outs showing that Benjamin isn’t alone, he is actually in a plane full of others. To me this scene is showing that Benjamin feels alone even when he is surrounded by others. Next scene shows Benjamin sitting in his room near his fish tank. His father then interrupts his time alone with
emotion; the shot unnaturally zooms out and establishes that our protagonist is on a crowded airplane. Director Mike Nichols uses natural lighting, placing little emphasis on Ben. Typically, films accentuate their protagonists through lighting; The Graduate — in addition to pairing a monotone airline voice with his close-up — abstains from drawing attention to Ben in order to imply that he lives a drab life. When on the moving walkway he remains expressionless, almost inanimate. His lack of vitality