Analyzing The Film 'The Graduate'

The theme is that people should never give up hope. Cam was scared about Ben, but he never gave up on him. He never gave up on the unlikely task of riding Ugly, all for the sake of Ben.

The 1972 film The Candidate is a satirical piece focused on the campaign process in the U.S. The campaign which is analyzed is the race for California’s senator. The protagonist of the story is Bill McKay, a man who has a disdain for politics due to his father’s involvement as a state senator years before. However, when a campaign manager Marvin Lucas shows up on his door step asking him to run against the fifteen-year incumbent,Crocker Jarmon, Bill’s preconceived notions of becoming a politician are shaken. Lucas convinces McKay that if he campaigns, his platform will be centered on bringing awareness to issues that he cares about (should I insert specifics?) not necessarily winning. Mckay’s campaign would then function similarly to that of a third party; calling attention to difficult issues current politicians tended to avoid. Lucas was so confident in the idea that McKay will not win that he writes “You lose.” in a matchbox and gives it to McKay.

In normal Hollywood style, the montage functions as a way of condensing the plot of the film while giving the minimum amount of detail as possible. An exemplar of the Hollywood montage is the Rocky (dir. John G. Avildsen, 1976). The film show the titular character’s training sequence condensed to a fast-paced action scene. However, the Drifting scene in The Graduate (dir. Mike Nichols, 1967) takes a more unconventional approach to the montage, as it use unconventional editing such as graphic match and impossible match on action to assist in confusing the audience, mirroring the confusion and listlessness Ben (Dustin Hoffman) feel towards his current affair with Mrs. Robinson (Anne Bancroft).

Even though the book and the movie have the same ending, they both have completely different endings. The movie ends with a flashback and the book ends with dialogue. In the flashback, you can see George and Lennie loading hay onto the back of a truck. They then turn to each other and Lennie smiles at George. George smiles back and they turn and walk away from the truck. The scene then fades to black as they walk farther away. I believe that this flashback leaves the audience feelings mournful and gloomy. After witnessing George shoot Lennie, the audience is already very emotional and upset about the fact that Lennie is now dead so seeing the flashback of Lennie and George together again makes the audience even more upset. The audience has

The “trap” represents how Ben feels trapped in his everyday life with no clear reason to exist or benefit he provides for society. With

The iconic film The Graduate, directed by Mike Nichols shows the common struggle of a quarter-life crisis that most graduates face. Even though this film was released in 1967, its message is still very relevant today and revolutionary for its time. This Drama/Romance film was groundbreaking due to its use of sex and coming-of-age politics. The film won an Academy Award for best director and A Golden Globe for best director, best motion picture and best actress. All these awards were made possible due to the film's choice of screenplay, editing/ cinematographic choices, and secondary narrative.

Not one single person will experience the same event in the exact way someone else may have. It is evident that Ben did not realize the life he could have had until his perception was changed by the angel. Even though Ben is still the same person throughout the movie, he has to be able to take on a different perception from when he is the minister to when he is the big businessman with his life in order. Judi Brownell states in the textbook that “Each of us has a unique framework for viewing the world and a special set of crayons to color our visions,” (Brownell, 43). Ben thought that he had his life in order when really he had no idea what he was truly missing since he decided to take the path that did not leave him truly happy with life. In this movie, Ben is not listening to the angel in order to realize that he cannot have his old life back while he is experiencing the life he could have had. He perceives that since he still has the same body, that he can do whatever he wants. He is not listening to the angel who warns him not to try and go back to experience his old

Ben’s affair sends him into an intense bout of alienation, making him easily irritable and distant from his parents. When he does interact with them, he faces their poking and prodding to figure out if he is going to continue his education by enrolling in graduate school. With

The first challenge that Ben faced was the leaving of his father when he was 8. Ben was really close to him, many afternoons he will look at the clock and wait to see his father, “I’d rush outside to wait for him. I’d watch until I saw him walking down our alley, “Daddy!” “Daddy!” I’d yell”, Pg 10 -Carson. When his mother told him that his father wasn’t coming back, “Those words broke my heart”, -Carson. Ben was really sad and questioning. Even though he was broken, he figured out that it was better without his father, “No more silence, no more fear why my parents wouldn’t talk” Pg 12 -Carson. He later on learned how to handle deep hurt by forgetting, “And not knowing the recollection beyond his mitial leaving”, Pg 12 -Carson. Ben’s father's leaving was one of the first challenge he faced,

Gradually, Ben overall becomes sensitive to the environment. The sadness has overwhelmed him and left him a primitive form. He becomes impaired in the way that he relies on a caretaker and is unable to recapture the memories of himself after he’s gone. Once Ben becomes missing, people don’t search for him but instead call to ask where he has been. After about a week everyone in his life ceases to call or look. Annie is the only one to evoke the memories of Ben, the disabled man who became primitive

This film is what we would classify as a “lesson movie.” Ben’s character is confronted in the very beginning with divorce papers he won’t sign. However as the audience we know that by the end of the film his character will develop to a place where he is

I'm sure we've all been there before. An attractive younger lady lusts after you, but it's wrong cause she is so young. I've had my fair share of beautiful and unobtainable women lusting after me... Haha, who am I kidding. The events of The Crush are so far away from anything I've ever experienced as a grown male, this movie could be science ficition in my case. As for The Crush, it's a tale we've seen in several other movies before, but with the help of Alicia Silverstone in her feature film debut, the film rises above those other attempts. Her performance as the girl with a few screws loose is a slam dunk in my opinion. Scream Factory is releasing The Crush on Blu-ray, with a few special features, but with a lack of interviews with the leading actors, it's a hard sell for anyone that buys Blu-rays for the features alone. Read on to see if you agree...

After a very short instrumental introduction, the first verse opens with “Feeling my way through the darkness/Guided by a beating heart”. This idea of darkness first introduces a very key and constant idea for understanding the work. This time in a young person’s life—roughly and generally between the ages of 18 and 25—is often very confusing and unsure. This unsureness is symbolized by the darkness. To get through this darkness, the song’s protagonist—who can be labeled as Avicii, although the protagonist is really meant to represent all members of this unsure generation—is following his heart: he is allowing his emotions to lead him through life. Avicii is suggesting that his fellow emerging adults

When the audience first encounters Ben (Miller 44), he represents the success that Willy is striving for.  Before the audience learns of the success that Ben encountered in Africa, they see him on the stage accompanied by an idyllic musical motif

The movie, “A Beautiful Mind,” by Ron Howard, is a movie that one could learn from and use in the future. The movie starts off with John Nash in college and being the antisocial guy he is, he got bullied and made fun of. After a few days of being made fun of, he becomes delusional and sees a guy named Charles, who soon becomes his friend. John most likely created that character because he was bullied and so he made a friend to help ease the pain of not being liked. He soon develops schizophrenia, which is where you can see a person which others can not see, and you also tend to hear voices in your head that no one else can hear. He develops this disease when he went to the pentagon to solve a case, and made him believe that he worked for the FBI. In the movie, Nash states, “I don't much like people and they don't much like me,” Which refers to how his co workers act towards him and how people act on the streets towards him. He is also an intensely unsociable person so he thinks that people don't like him that much. In the movie he meets alicia at his work, a student who caught his eye and same with alicia. They both fell for eachother when they saw each other. Soon they marry, and alicia notices patterns in how john acts. One night, John was out late and he was “pulled in a car by william parcher”, and was involved in a “car chase” involving gunshots. Someone could tell that he was imagining this because it is without a doubt that this couldn't have possibly happened to a