The Graduate

The Graduate is a 1967 film directed by Mike Nichols and starring Anne Bancroft and Dustin Hoffman. The film is based on the novel by Charles Webb from 1963.

The Graduate meant the breakthrough of Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft earned a Oscar nomination. the film also owes its fame to the music of Simon and Garfunkel. The song Mrs. Robinson became a hit after the release of the film. In 1996, The Graduate selected to be preserved in the U.S. National Film Registry. The film is on the 19th place of movies with the most revenue in the u.s. and Canada.



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[hide] *1 Story  ==Story[ Edit] == Benjamin Braddock is still just under 21, just graduated and are about to withdraw the world of adulthood. His proud parents give a graduation party that mainly is visited by their friends. Benjamin is crazy by all the questions about his future plans. He feels very uncomfortable on his own party and is therefore pleased with Mrs Robinson, a friend of his parents, asks if he wants to bring her home. Once home trying to seduce, but Mrs Robinson to Benjamin that attempt fails as her husband comes home. Not long after met Benjamin Mrs Robinson in a hotel and begins a relationship with her. Benjamin soon discovers that the relationship very empty. Are having sex is only interested in sex and wants to talk about it anywhere. As Benjamin later the daughter of the Robinsons, Elaine, meets, he is in love. But her mother is all the Devils and warns Benjamin that he should stay away from her daughter. But Benjamin is not deterred, he confesses his affair to Elaine in the hope that they will see it through the fingers. However, Elaine is furious and flight back to her University. If Benjamin is going to organize a meeting and know her, bites Elaine him that she does not want to deal with the rapist of her mother. As Benjamin denies him, not initially believe Elaine. Later she goes to Benjamin and the two find solace together. As Benjamin proposes to marry, says Elaine that she also has had a proposal of her fellow student Carl. The case comes in gaining momentum as the father of Elaine behind the relationship between Benjamin and his wife comes. He starts a divorce procedure and threatens Benjamin. Elaine who is afraid of the anger of her father flight to Carl. Benjamin learns that Elaine and Carl are getting married in Santa Barbara. He interrupts the wedding ceremony and runs away with Elaine. The pair manages to escape to by on the bus steps. The film ends with Elaine and Benjamin in the back seat, unsure of each other wegkijkend. ==Division Of Roles[ Edit] == ==Background[ Edit] == The theme of the movie is ' mature '. Benjamin Braddock is still just under 21, so not yet mature. He acts like a child by days around the swimming pool. Not for nothing has the film a lot of references to the uterus.As the aforementioned swimming pool, a close-up of the hips of the girlfriend of Elaine and, of course, the sexual relationship with the mother figure, Mrs. Robinson. Mrs. Robinson also stands for the emptiness of Baby life. She wants to talk about it anywhere, just admit to sex. Only when Benjamin discovers that there is more to life than the pursuit of brainless fun he is mature and he can marry Elaine. Director Mike Nichols underlines this by a number of camera techniques. In the scene where Benjamin to Elaine holt, films he Dustin Hoffman as that of a certain distance right to the camera runs out. This has the effect as if the character seemingly aimlessly moving. In another scene Benjamin runs from right to left on the screen. This is against the prevailing code. In other Hollywood movies the actors move from left to right. By Benjamin is right-to-left move suggests that he goes the wrong way and again aimlessly is. ==Scenario<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The screenplay for the film based on the novel by Charles Webb from 1963. Webb wrote the book shortly after earning his final exam on Williams College. Mike Nichols asked Calder Willingham to write a scenario.Willingham wrote a draft which Nichols left a rewrite. In the end it was Buck Henry as a fourth screenwriter who wrote the final screenplay. Initially, Willingham not included as co-scriptwriter and the writer protested at his Union. His claim was assigned because both writers had contributed considerable parts of the dialogue. ==Actors<span class="mw-editsection" len="326" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The Graduate is forever linked with Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft. However, were both actors decided not the first choice for the role. Director Mike Nichols had first the French actress Jeanne Moreau for eyes.In his view it was normal in France that older women younger men deflower. The producer Joseph e. Levine and Lawrence Turman spoke, however, a veto. Nichols now had to look for another candidate. Ava Gardner, Susan Hayward and Grayson Hall were not interested. Judy Garland was considered but found wanting, after which the producers approached Doris Day . Turman sent a copy of the book to Day, however, turned down the role. She found the idea to be able to lie in bed with a much younger man too ridiculous for words. Patricia Nealwas the next candidate. Neal, however, was recovering from a stroke and could work yet, and the role went to Anne Bancroft.
 * 2 Cast
 * Background 3
 * Scenario 4
 * 5 Actors
 * 6 Production
 * 6.1 Recordings
 * 6.2 Locations
 * Film Music 7
 * 8 Quotes
 * 9 Prices
 * 10 external link

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The role of Benjamin took even more headaches. Warren Beatty and Robert Redford did audition but were rebuffed. Nichols was looking for not a type, but rather a jongsachtig seducers and clumsy type. When Redford asked why he was rejected, said Nichols: ' aren't you ever rejected by a girl? ". The surprised Redford replied, "rejected? What do you mean? ". The search went on. Jack Nicholson was considered but fell off, as well as Lee Stanley. Charles Grodin received the role almost, but everything ran mass at his salary demands. Burt Ward refused the role because he was going to play Robin in the new Batmanserie. Also Hoffman actually had other movie plans. He was by the guy from Anne Bancroft chosen for the Mel Brooks film The Producers. Hoffman asked Brooks permission to audition anyway. Brooks knew that the scenario somewhat through his wife was convinced that Hoffman never would get the role and gave permission. Nichols, however, was delighted by the occurrence of Hoffman. Although Hoffman for almost thirty, he saw out as eighteen (Anne Bancroft was in reality only eight years older). He was about to klunzen during the audition and annoyed Katharine Ross by clumsy her buttocks to grope. It was precisely the clumsiness combined with his youthful looks that was.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The role of Elaine had less feet into the Earth. Patte Duke and Nathalie Wood refused for various reasons, Sally Field and Candice Bergen were rejected. Gene Hackman who still had shared a room with Hoffman in their student days, got the role of Mr. Robinson, but was fired after a few weeks. ==Production<span class="mw-editsection" len="328" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Recordings<span class="mw-editsection" len="326" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">During the shooting was quite improvised. Dustin Hoffman decided to enliven the first sex scene in the hotel by a hold into the breasts of Anne Bancroft. He still remembered how he as a schoolboy with his boyfriends just did or he then went forth to his jacket on casual way girls breasts to grope. Neither Bancroft, nor Director Mike Nichols knew what Hoffman was going to do. When Hoffman ran his idea startled the total surprised Bancroft erupted in laughter so much that the Director. Hoffman agreed and could no longer stop. He turned away from the camera and slammed his head against the wall to stop laughing. Nichols liked the result so much that he left it in the film. Another ' "Improv" originated in the final scene of the movie. Director Nichols remained against Hoffman and Katharine Ross yelling that they had to laugh during the bus scene. The duo laughed during the recording, but was so scared by the screaming stopped, that they are right in assuming that the recordings were finished. Then they looked both what shy away from the camera. Nichols retained this unintentional improvisation in the Assembly. ===Locations<span class="mw-editsection" len="327" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The recordings on the University was created on the campus of the USC in Los Angeles and the campus of UC Berkeley. Other parts was filmed on the UCLA University in Los Angeles. Were also recordings made in Berkeley on Durant Avenue and Telgraph Avenue. The hotel scenes were filmed at the Ambassador Hotel, while United Methodist Church in LaVerne model stood in front of the Church for the wedding between Carl and Elaine. The House of the Robinson family was a House on North Palm Drive in Beverley Hills. ==Film Music<span class="mw-editsection" len="329" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Director Mike Nichols insisted that the duo Simon & Garfunkel would make the music for the film. Producer Lawrence Turman closed a contract with Paul Simon for three new songs for the film. However, Simon had little time. He was constantly on tour with Art Garfunkel and when the film was almost finished, he had just written a song. Two songs that had previously put forward Simon punky's Dilemma and A Hazy Shade of Winter by Nichols were rejected. Nichols begged Simon to an extra song for the movie. To accommodate a song that Simon Nichols played him the last week played by the head. The song had the working title "Mrs. Roosevelt" and went about Eleanor Roosevelt. Simon mumbled something about Joe DiMaggio and heard Nichols suddenly call that he had to change the title in Mrs. Robinson. In the film Simon and Garfunkel sing only the chorus. The music of the film was very popular and drove out even the White Album by The Beatles of the the first place. ==Quotes<span class="mw-editsection" len="327" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The film has two famous quotes: "Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. Aren't you? "number 63 on the American Film Institute movie quotes list and" plastics "number 42 on the same list. ==Prices<span class="mw-editsection" len="327" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Mike Nichols won a best Director Oscar in the category. The film received a BAFTA Award for best film and best editing (Sam O'Steen).