This movie got mentioned on "All in the Family" when Archie Bunker called it a degenerate film. Edith liked it. Mike Nichols also directed "Catch-22" and "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" which are both so great, and are too clever and require an educated audience and corporate and social media has intentionally dumbed down the entire country within 2 generations that it's jaw-dropping. Glad to see you like it. Jack Nicholson always looked a generic 35-ish age except when he was in the really early films, like the ones he did with Boris Karloff....
With Nichols' film 'The Graduate' people often loose sight of just how broken the male lead Ben was. He seemed to have been born broken and raised broken and entered his college years broken. Nichols' film 'Catch-22', more broken or amoral men. Its part of the zeitgeist of the time.
That's our feeling about The Graduate too (in reference to our full audio episode)... I don't think either of us see The Graduate or this film to be "romantic"... they're more cynical in their message. We have definitely found more daring in movie making in this era as far as difficult conversations go.
See "King of Marvin Gardens" and "Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice" and "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore" to get a feel for the grownups of the day. A linguist? You mean, a cunning linguist?
An interesting point they bring up is the idea that this is an "adult movie." I couldn't agree more. More often today, dramas that are made for adults, also have potential "kids in the room" mentality in mind, and shy away from more daring content. So while you have many movies designed for adults, they are not willing to showcase how adults actually speak or act, and instead show a kid-friendly version of a movie made for adults.
This movie got mentioned on "All in the Family" when Archie Bunker called it a degenerate film. Edith liked it.
Mike Nichols also directed "Catch-22" and "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" which are both so great, and are too clever and require an educated audience and corporate and social media has intentionally dumbed down the entire country within 2 generations that it's jaw-dropping.
Glad to see you like it.
Jack Nicholson always looked a generic 35-ish age except when he was in the really early films, like the ones he did with Boris Karloff....
With Nichols' film 'The Graduate' people often loose sight of just how broken the male lead Ben was. He seemed to have been born broken and raised broken and entered his college years broken. Nichols' film 'Catch-22', more broken or amoral men. Its part of the zeitgeist of the time.
That's our feeling about The Graduate too (in reference to our full audio episode)... I don't think either of us see The Graduate or this film to be "romantic"... they're more cynical in their message. We have definitely found more daring in movie making in this era as far as difficult conversations go.
See "King of Marvin Gardens" and "Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice" and "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore" to get a feel for the grownups of the day.
A linguist? You mean, a cunning linguist?
An interesting point they bring up is the idea that this is an "adult movie." I couldn't agree more. More often today, dramas that are made for adults, also have potential "kids in the room" mentality in mind, and shy away from more daring content. So while you have many movies designed for adults, they are not willing to showcase how adults actually speak or act, and instead show a kid-friendly version of a movie made for adults.