@@countalucard4226 There music was ineligible for an Oscar as it had not been written exclusively for the film. Talk to the animals from Dr. Doolittle was the eventual winner.
1:28 that glance when beautiful girl passes by,shows even if he is vulnerable,there is still desire in him. Brilliant direction,brilliant acting and amazing cinematography.🙌🙌
Great observation. It was intentional. In a sea of people he notices no one. But there is a young girl and he does notice her to look her way. It’s what he is craving at this lost time in his life. He’s being moved by other forces on the conveyor belt like an object. Just like his luggage. Beautifully opening scene that says so much without any words (aside from the music). This drowning man suffocated by pressures when he has no idea what to do with himself. Brilliant directing, acting and agreed amazing cinematography.
The “do they match?” sign is a brilliant metaphor for Benjamin’s conflicts. He and his parents’ lifestyle don’t match, he and Mrs. Robinson appear to match at first but actually don’t … and then he and Elaine perfectly match.
One of the best opening scenes for movies. You get the feeling of the tension and stress in his life while rolling on the people mover. With out the sound track to this movie it would have been just ok and forgotten.
seaturtledog That is not true. Simon and Garfunkel were super in Portland to the movie. But the cinematography, direction and acting should not be forgotten.
What a classic opening sequence to an amazing film. Simon and Garfunkel's song just gets me every time I hear it. Dustin Hoffman and the entire cast did a wonderful job too. ✌️😎❤️
Simon & Garfunkel - The sound of silence ... this tune is the Soul of this wonderful unforgetable movie ! True classic since 1967 ! Those Samsonite travel cases became so popular back then ...
Ties in smartly with Hoffman’s Oscar winning roles in Kramer Vs Kramer and Rain Man - the guy who had a routine, who knew what to do and where to be suddenly finds himself unexpectedly thrown into turmoil by (a) the end of college, (b) his wife leaving him and (c) a selfish, opportunistic brother who didn’t even know he existed. Each film, strangely, is a gradual improvement on the last.
It was one of those movies that I did not like when I first saw it, but did like when I saw it for the second and third times. I think one would have to have grown up in that era to really appreciate this movie and the character played by Hoffman.
I saw it in its entirety when I was 18 years old in 1987 (outside the era) and totally identified with Benjamin. I don't think this movie is tied to the 60s at all and it cuts across generational differences.
I saw it when I was in high school, in the 1980s. The first time a film made me cry... at the end. The amazing bit was that I didn’t know if it was because I was sad or happy. I just cried.
No really. Great films resonates well with every generation because of recurring themes every generation goes through. You've done what you thought you are supposed to do. Then you dread the inevitable, the beginning of your adult life without a clue what to do because youve been told what to do your whole life. Not everyone expierence this but its an ageless dilemma. He wasnt the first to expierence this and wont be the last. Plus the 60s looks awsome here
Showing Ben moving right to left may indicate he is going backwards, instead of going forward into the future. Maybe also foreshadowing that he will experience a setback in his life after all those achievements in college.
0:09 Pilot says "We are about to begin our descent into Los Angeles." Maybe this is a harbinger that Ben's life is going to take a downward trajectory or a descent into hell.
If anyone ever tells you that The Graduate is their favorite movie, or that they think it's one of the greatest American films ever made, and you wonder why, just remember this: you don't get it, that's all.
I think the film could’ve been one of the best. I was thinking once the affair was discovered the film was just about to end and was like well that was amazing, although they should’ve added more to the relationship between Dustin Hoffman and Elaine. But than the film keeps going and it just made Dustin Hoffman seem like a creepy stalker. Elaine’s character seemed like an idiot, forgiving him just like that even after being led to believe that Hoffman raped her mother. And than she decided a to get married to this random chad-bro just out of the blue. The only thing that final act did for me was have an absolutely beautiful final shot, showing Dustin Hoffman being incredibly happy for a few seconds before coming to the realization of, I’ve finally got what I wanted, now what.
Absolutely! They are both submerged and drowning in the pressures surrounding them. Very cool they have this same submerged diver that he will later become in the shot. It really is brilliant! I finally saw this movie for the first time recently. At the last shot I said, “Perfect!”
Xpander I never interpreted the diving suit scene that way. I thought that he felt that he was the plastic diver in his aquarium. He can see a world beyond his but is unable to reach it because of barriers. I like your interpretation, though.
I remember this first being shown on BBC television in the run up to Christmas in the 1970s. Long before I became a Simon and Garfunkel fan I was struck by the dreamy music. My Dad described the film as "very Jewish".
Your father was right. This film is a very hostile portayal of Gentiles. Once you recognise the tropes you see them recurring again and again in Hollywood movies.
I don't care too much for the movie itself mainly because of the ending, but I LOVE the soundtrack as well as the opening credits. Though I was born in '72, to me, it sounds SO mod, so 60's :-)
It was the first Hollywood movie I saw without a fairy tale ending. In The Graduate, the ending appears rather ludicrous at first, but then we think 'Why not'. It was about time Hollywood started ending movies in a more European fashion. Good for Mike Nichols.
I like the soundtrack too but I've always been a little confused as to the relevance of the different songs' lyrics to what's actually happening onscreen. Yeah, there's a song "Mrs. Robinson," but that song is so dissimilar to the character that it can only be either irony or coincidence.
That song was originally titled "Mrs. Roosevelt" or something like that. But Paul Simon was running behind on the soundtrack for this movie and was basically told "That song? Mrs. Robinson now"
Mrs. Robinson, unfortunately, wasn't written for the film, and was originally going to be "Mrs. Roosevelt." What lyrics were changed, besides the words "Mrs. Robinson," who knows? But it is a shame it wasn't more thoroughly re-written.
I’d say the lesson to learn from this is that any married woman you talk to, make damn sure you have an escape plan! If she’s a desperate housewife best you assume she’s coming onto you. I admit, I had and still have the hots for a married woman 20 years older, no joke! She’s a prude and a Karen if you get the idea but I think she just needs a good boffing to uninhibit and that must be why I have these internal bodily urges when I feel the need to let them out. Still though, that can never happen and probably for the better but I do have control over the younger women I’m friends with. A few are married but I always remember to not let any indication show, if there were any slight of feeling but they’re not as strong as the latter and I feel I have absolute control. After getting over sexualizing females I learned you can be much happier cause I’d rather a woman, namely a human being, hold me in good regard. A meaningless explosion doesn’t compare.
@@AA-sn9lz Oh, so only because one movie was published 30 years before the other can't be a ripoff? Don't you dare to diminish my outrage with your little facts and logic wizardry.
I was 16 when I saw this. I'm now 67. I died when he ran off with Elaine. One is a girl... the other is a WOMAN. No contest. Mrs Robinson was utterly beautiful. But yes, she was married.
SPOILER ALERT: Well, it doesn't tell me much, where Hoffman and Katherine Ross are fleeing the wedding Anne Bancroft had set up for Ross, it just shows the two of them not looking into one another, scowling and staring off into space. I really don't know for the life of me what I said that was so terribly wrong in my last post.
graduation exam coming to earth. stay and keep on your RIGHT, otherwise left earth upon graduation. sep 10, 2023. approximately 5,000 earth systems for homo sapiens, and about 10,000 systems for new earth as human in 2025. the game of schooling is much tougher. Lyrics: Hello darkness, my old friend I've come to talk with you again Because a vision softly creeping Left its seeds while I was sleeping And the vision that was planted in my brain Still remains Within the sound of silence In restless dreams, I walked alone Narrow streets of cobblestone 'Neath the halo of a streetlamp I turned my collar to the cold and damp When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light That split the night And touched the sound of silence And in the naked light, I saw Ten thousand people, maybe more People talking without speaking People hearing without listening People writing songs that voices never shared No one dared Disturb the sound of silence "Fools", said I, "You do not know Silence like a cancer grows Hear my words that I might teach you Take my arms that I might reach you" But my words like silent raindrops fell And echoed in the wells of silence And the people bowed and prayed To the neon god they made And the sign flashed out its warning In the words that it was forming And the sign said, "The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls In tenement halls" And whispered in the sounds of silence
that dread, that stillness, that quiet desperation. everything about this opening works.
What I love about this sequence is the subtext of Benjamin being ordered various directions to go.
Very perceptive.
I'm graduating from college and I have no idea what I'm going to do with my life.
john ricciardelli Worry about paying them AWESOME STUDENT LOANS??...KICK YOURSELF AFTER REALIZING THAT YOUR DEGREE IN BS IS WORTHLESS???
communistjesus Gee, talk about support...
don't worry, everything will be ok.
john ricciardelli we will figure out day by day! Everything’s going to be okay :)
non diegetic music
Smartest thing Director Mike Nichols did was contracting Simon and Garfunkel for this film.
JAMES KNAPKE Are you sure. If that was the case it would have certainly won Oscars. Best song, best music
Mike made a lot of smart decisions with this film hence why it won him his Academy Award 🏆
@@countalucard4226 There music was ineligible for an Oscar as it had not been written exclusively for the film. Talk to the animals from Dr. Doolittle was the eventual winner.
@@bengaljam4550 thanks for that.
@@countalucard4226 wait, so you believe the Oscars always go to the most deserving? Ha!
1:28 that glance when beautiful girl passes by,shows even if he is vulnerable,there is still desire in him.
Brilliant direction,brilliant acting and amazing cinematography.🙌🙌
Great observation. It was intentional. In a sea of people he notices no one. But there is a young girl and he does notice her to look her way. It’s what he is craving at this lost time in his life. He’s being moved by other forces on the conveyor belt like an object. Just like his luggage. Beautifully opening scene that says so much without any words (aside from the music). This drowning man suffocated by pressures when he has no idea what to do with himself. Brilliant directing, acting and agreed amazing cinematography.
30 years later, across the 110th street...
Immediately thought of the graduate when i first watched Jackie brown. Great homage i thought
Exactly!
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I was just thinking that.
Tarantino gave great homage
Intros like these really set the tone for the movie and gets you real hooked to it. Now that's something clearly lacking in most of today's films.
The “do they match?” sign is a brilliant metaphor for Benjamin’s conflicts. He and his parents’ lifestyle don’t match, he and Mrs. Robinson appear to match at first but actually don’t … and then he and Elaine perfectly match.
Easily the best opening sequence of any movie
One of the best opening scenes for movies. You get the feeling of the tension and stress in his life while rolling on the people mover. With out the sound track to this movie it would have been just ok and forgotten.
seaturtledog That is not true. Simon and Garfunkel were super in Portland to the movie. But the cinematography, direction and acting should not be forgotten.
What a classic opening sequence to an amazing film. Simon and Garfunkel's song just gets me every time I hear it. Dustin Hoffman and the entire cast did a wonderful job too. ✌️😎❤️
One of the most iconic movie openings ever...
I don't know why, but I wanted to watch this movie because I was curious about what college was like in the 1960s.
Probably best opening ever..the whole movie is a masterpiece.
Nominated for seven Oscars, but won just one...director Mike Nichols!
"Dad, how did you and mom meet?"
"Now that's a story..."
Been saving this all time classic for when I'm graduating from college. So excited to finally watch it now!
1:55 The cut from Ben exiting the screen to the left and his luggage appearing from the right side was genius. The same left to right movement.
one of the few perfect pictures
I couldn’t believe this had 3 stars on Netflix! Crazy
@Dirk the Daring, it's because some people don't know good entertainment, even if it slaps them in the face.
Simon & Garfunkel - The sound of silence ... this tune is the Soul of this wonderful unforgetable movie ! True classic since 1967 ! Those Samsonite travel cases became so popular back then ...
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Iconic title sequence.
This song plays in my head whenever I’m on the people mover in an airport by myself.
Ties in smartly with Hoffman’s Oscar winning roles in Kramer Vs Kramer and Rain Man - the guy who had a routine, who knew what to do and where to be suddenly finds himself unexpectedly thrown into turmoil by (a) the end of college, (b) his wife leaving him and (c) a selfish, opportunistic brother who didn’t even know he existed. Each film, strangely, is a gradual improvement on the last.
Interesting and very perceptive point.
Tarantino definitely took notes of the conveyor belt shot.
It was one of those movies that I did not like when I first saw it, but did like when I saw it for the second and third times. I think one would have to have grown up in that era to really appreciate this movie and the character played by Hoffman.
I saw it in its entirety when I was 18 years old in 1987 (outside the era) and totally identified with Benjamin. I don't think this movie is tied to the 60s at all and it cuts across generational differences.
I sympathise with Benjamin a lot more than I do with most film characters and I’m 18 now. So I don’t think it matters when you’re born.
I saw it when I was in high school, in the 1980s.
The first time a film made me cry... at the end.
The amazing bit was that I didn’t know if it was because I was sad or happy. I just cried.
No really. Great films resonates well with every generation because of recurring themes every generation goes through. You've done what you thought you are supposed to do. Then you dread the inevitable, the beginning of your adult life without a clue what to do because youve been told what to do your whole life. Not everyone expierence this but its an ageless dilemma. He wasnt the first to expierence this and wont be the last. Plus the 60s looks awsome here
Just saw the film in my Intro to Film class a couple days ago, and I didn't really like it. Looks like I gotta give it a rewatch.
One of my all time favorite movies. I’d forgotten how good the opening sequence was.
Ben is standing still while time and space move him relentlessly forward.
I think Benjamin could've just as easily been a high school grad. I think both high school and college grads tend to be lost and aimless.
Love this song sound of silence my mom is now 57 back when she was 14 she played this song in her jazz band team
Showing Ben moving right to left may indicate he is going backwards, instead of going forward into the future. Maybe also foreshadowing that he will experience a setback in his life after all those achievements in college.
0:09 Pilot says "We are about to begin our descent into Los Angeles." Maybe this is a harbinger that Ben's life is going to take a downward trajectory or a descent into hell.
If anyone ever tells you that The Graduate is their favorite movie, or that they think it's one of the greatest American films ever made, and you wonder why, just remember this: you don't get it, that's all.
Gotta love condescending comments like these.
Well this is a hilariously daft comment. It's a very good film and has fantastic moments but it's nowhere near the best
@@saoirsedeltufo7436 It's one of them!
@@ObscuredByTime Whatever you say, if it makes you feel better
I think the film could’ve been one of the best. I was thinking once the affair was discovered the film was just about to end and was like well that was amazing, although they should’ve added more to the relationship between Dustin Hoffman and Elaine. But than the film keeps going and it just made Dustin Hoffman seem like a creepy stalker. Elaine’s character seemed like an idiot, forgiving him just like that even after being led to believe that Hoffman raped her mother. And than she decided a to get married to this random chad-bro just out of the blue. The only thing that final act did for me was have an absolutely beautiful final shot, showing Dustin Hoffman being incredibly happy for a few seconds before coming to the realization of, I’ve finally got what I wanted, now what.
such an amazing film, made on a small budget and grossed millions, wouldn't be made today
Is that so from japan
I find it quite interesting how they have a diver losing air behind ben in the fish tank and we see him later on in a diving suit isolated
Absolutely! They are both submerged and drowning in the pressures surrounding them. Very cool they have this same submerged diver that he will later become in the shot. It really is brilliant! I finally saw this movie for the first time recently. At the last shot I said, “Perfect!”
Xpander I never interpreted the diving suit scene that way. I thought that he felt that he was the plastic diver in his aquarium. He can see a world beyond his but is unable to reach it because of barriers. I like your interpretation, though.
Wow Alex, good catch sir. I have to go back and check that out.
I love this movie so much.
This remind me the intro from Jackie Brown, and know I understand all😅
lol... I saw a reddit comment saying the Jackie Brown opening was like this movie... didn't expect the sounds of silence to play!
I first saw this movie when I was 16. Two months later, I got a shiny red sports car. Anyway, it was a good movie.
Immense masterpiece
Se llama hacer cine completamente impresionante
Es un clásico
Where would this movie be without the Simon and Garfunkel soundtrack which is as famous as the movie.
me encanta esta canción desde que era niña, como decir ayer.
I remember this first being shown on BBC television in the run up to Christmas in the 1970s. Long before I became a Simon and Garfunkel fan I was struck by the dreamy music. My Dad described the film as "very Jewish".
Your father was right. This film is a very hostile portayal of Gentiles. Once you recognise the tropes you see them recurring again and again in Hollywood movies.
I was sent to med school so i had clear direction but this scene very good relatable good song
Amazing work!!!
Jackie Brown's intro is inspired by this one
I can tell
This movie made me paranoid before graduating LOL
2:34 "Please do not leave your car unattended." That's just what he does at the end with his Alfa!
Cool font!
I literally had no clue what to do with my life until I was 27 🤷🏼♀️
I'm 69 and still have no clue
Tarantino knows what's up, ain't that right Jackie?
I'm sure Tarantino was so impressed with The Graduate's opening sequence that he did a similar thing in Jackie Brown.
Jackie Brown title sequence brought me here
Don't have an affair
I don't care too much for the movie itself mainly because of the ending, but I LOVE the soundtrack as well as the opening credits. Though I was born in '72, to me, it sounds SO mod, so 60's :-)
If you don't like the ending, you honestly missed the entire theme of the film. Everything was always leading to that ending.
He could have used a tour of Da Nang
Safe to say Tarantino was inspired by this
0:51 "If you wish to pass please do so on the right".
Why don't like the ending ? I personaly completly loved it, so I'd like to have an opposite opinion.
It was the first Hollywood movie I saw without a fairy tale ending. In The Graduate, the ending appears rather ludicrous at first, but then we think 'Why not'. It was about time Hollywood started ending movies in a more European fashion. Good for Mike Nichols.
Do They Match?
I like the soundtrack too but I've always been a little confused as to the relevance of the different songs' lyrics to what's actually happening onscreen. Yeah, there's a song "Mrs. Robinson," but that song is so dissimilar to the character that it can only be either irony or coincidence.
That song was originally titled "Mrs. Roosevelt" or something like that. But Paul Simon was running behind on the soundtrack for this movie and was basically told "That song? Mrs. Robinson now"
Mrs. Robinson, unfortunately, wasn't written for the film, and was originally going to be "Mrs. Roosevelt." What lyrics were changed, besides the words "Mrs. Robinson," who knows? But it is a shame it wasn't more thoroughly re-written.
This makes me see now how Tarantino steals from other movies. Jackie Browns opening credits took from this. Or at least was majorly inspired by it.
It was also used in Mad Men when Don arrives in LA.
Nice tank. Ditch the freakin frogman
soy ese
Ben and Elaine, do they match?
that face
I’d say the lesson to learn from this is that any married woman you talk to, make damn sure you have an escape plan! If she’s a desperate housewife best you assume she’s coming onto you. I admit, I had and still have the hots for a married woman 20 years older, no joke! She’s a prude and a Karen if you get the idea but I think she just needs a good boffing to uninhibit and that must be why I have these internal bodily urges when I feel the need to let them out. Still though, that can never happen and probably for the better but I do have control over the younger women I’m friends with. A few are married but I always remember to not let any indication show, if there were any slight of feeling but they’re not as strong as the latter and I feel I have absolute control. After getting over sexualizing females I learned you can be much happier cause I’d rather a woman, namely a human being, hold me in good regard. A meaningless explosion doesn’t compare.
This is a ripoff of Jackie Brown. Mike Nichols should be ashamed and apologize to Quentin Tarantino.
This came out in 1967 before that movie in 94
Manny Garcia You don't say!
@@CrazyPlatinum92 r/woosh
@@AA-sn9lz Oh, so only because one movie was published 30 years before the other can't be a ripoff? Don't you dare to diminish my outrage with your little facts and logic wizardry.
@@AA-sn9lz Wow do you know what a joke is?
2:30 " use other door"
I was 16 when I saw this. I'm now 67. I died when he ran off with Elaine. One is a girl... the other is a WOMAN.
No contest. Mrs Robinson was utterly beautiful. But yes, she was married.
SPOILER ALERT:
Well, it doesn't tell me much, where Hoffman and Katherine Ross are fleeing the wedding Anne Bancroft had set up for Ross, it just shows the two of them not looking into one another, scowling and staring off into space. I really don't know for the life of me what I said that was so terribly wrong in my last post.
Jackie Brown....
one long ass escalator...
TheClassicrocker67 haha. Good one
It's a moving sidewalk......
110th street intensifies
One word... plastics
🤣
Is that Nicole Kidman sitting in front of Ben?
0:20 Val Kilmer bottom left
Nicole Kidman was born in 1967...the movie was made in 1967...
graduation exam coming to earth. stay and keep on your RIGHT, otherwise left earth upon graduation. sep 10, 2023.
approximately 5,000 earth systems for homo sapiens, and about 10,000 systems for new earth as human in 2025. the game of schooling is much tougher.
Lyrics:
Hello darkness, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence
In restless dreams, I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone
'Neath the halo of a streetlamp
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence
And in the naked light, I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never shared
No one dared
Disturb the sound of silence
"Fools", said I, "You do not know
Silence like a cancer grows
Hear my words that I might teach you
Take my arms that I might reach you"
But my words like silent raindrops fell
And echoed in the wells of silence
And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made
And the sign flashed out its warning
In the words that it was forming
And the sign said, "The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls
In tenement halls"
And whispered in the sounds of silence
Canción judía para un actor judío
PLASTICS ! This movie kills Greta Thunberg !😁😁😁😁
Jackie Brown did it better
Love :)