The Graduate
THE GRADUATE is
a 1967 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Mike Nichols and written by Buck Henry and Calder Willingham, based on the1963 book if the same name by Charles Webb, who wrote it shortly
after graduating from Williams College. The film tells the story of 21-year-old
Benjamin Braddock(Dustin Hoffman), a recent college
graduate with no well-defined aim in life, who is seduced by an older woman,
Mrs. Robinson( Anne Bancroft), and then falls in love
with her daughter Elaine( Katharine Ross).
The
movie won the Academy Award for Best Director and was nominated in six other categories. In
1996, The Graduate was
selected for preservation in the U.S. National Film Registry as being
"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." Initially,
the film was placed at No.7 on AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies list
in 1998. When AFI revised the list in 2007.. the film was moved to No.17.
An Added Note:
Many of
the exterior university campus shots of Berkeley were actually filmed on the
brick campus of USC in Los Angeles.
The
film boosted the profile of Simon & Garfunkel. Originally, Nichols and
O'Steen used their existing songs like "The Sound of Silence" merely as a pacing
device for the editing until Nichols decided that substituting original music
would not be effective and decided to include them on the soundtrack, an
unusual move at that time.
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