The Graduate

The 1967 film by Mike Nicoles “The Graduate” is about Benjamin Braddock, a recent college graduate, who is at a crossroads in his life. He is caught between adolescence and adulthood searching for the meaning of his upper middle class suburban world of his parents. He then began a sexual relationship with the wife of his father’s business partner, Mrs. Robinson. Uncomfortable with his sexuality, Benjamin and Mrs. Robinson continue an affair during which she asked him to stay away from her daughter, Elaine. Things became complicated when Benjamin was pushed to go out with Elaine and he falls in love with her. Mrs. Robinson sabotaged the relationship and eventually the affair between Mrs. Robinson and

the lovers eventually come to a point where they can no longer be without one another.

Often times, when one has feelings for another person, they try to profess their love to them. In the play and movie, Much Ado About Nothing, by William Shakespeare and Joss Whedon, respectively, the idea of love for Benedick and Beatrice is unthinkable. Joss Whedon accurately emphasizes how Shakespeare describes Benedick’s conflict with being in love through the application of perspective. In Act 2 Scene 3, there are a variety of perspective shots as Benedick purposefully overhears the conversation between Leonato, Don Pedro, and Claudio as they converse about Beatrice’s affection for him, exhibiting his interest in the conversation. In the close-up shots, there are many indications that he is shocked, anxious and pleasured as he hears from Don Pedro that Beatrice is in love with him.

"The sub-plot is that of Benedick and Beatrice, Hero's cousin . . ." (Halliday, 427). She is the one who has told everyone that she will always be a spinster, confirmed. Beatrice and Benedick are at loggerheads with each other and always have bad words to share with each other.. "Although obviously destined to come together, they are seemingly too independent and skeptical of convention to be tolerant and accepting in love" (Bevington, 216). Their attraction towards one another is very evident, and although they both reveal how they feel, they are not quick to act upon their feelings. Beatrice is not fond of the idea of giving herself to a man, and she jokes about her believing that she will never find the perfect man.

Gee’s theory of Discourse is that mushfaking can never be successful without already being native within that Discourse or learning the Discourse early on through apprenticeship. The movie Mean Girls is an example to confirm Gee’s claims, but also the claim of constant resistance and reform to mushfake a dominant Discourse well, needs to be included. If the claim is not included, values will conflict between primary and secondary Discourses. The conflict of values in Mean Girls demonstrates the dangers of mushfaking a dominant Discourse and proves that mushfaking itself is not enough to become successful without resistance and reform efforts, which in consequence, will

Mike Nichols delivered a memorable piece through his film, “The Graduate.” A mildly comedic-drama about a young man, Benjammin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman), lost in sense of “direction” and found his path through the seduction of an older woman, Mrs. Robinson, (Anne Bancroft). We saw all sorts of visual and verbal dramatic scenes to depict Braddock’s lack of experience tackling the world after submerging himself in school.

THE GRADUATE – (1967) is an American classic movie, directed by the very talented Mike Nichols, present the viewer with a precise philosophical drama. This movie presents us, the viewer, with a whole life story condensed with in the time length of the film.

Barnes and Ashley are tormented by their love for one another, longing to be to be together, yet saddened that they cannot. Their deep love for one another, yet their inability to be together, makes for a

The relevance of love has been a forever topic to discuss in Literature pieces. William Shakespeare is a fan of the love theme. In his comedy Much About Nothing, he illustrates two couples- Claudio&Hero and Benedick&Beatrice- which conduct two attributes of romantic love and marriage that are entirely different from each other. If Claudio and Hero are more to an arranged marriage(They know merely about each other before the wedding) as most of the couples in Elizabeth era are, Benedick and Beatrice fall in love first then decide to marry like people do today. Today, few have submitted to arranged marriages; more people, like Benedick and Beatrice, get to choose their spouse based on love. While Claudio and Hero are more about the duty of getting married, the marriage between Benedick and Beatrice is more about love; they represent two views of love and marriage in Shakespeare's era.

How does editing, mis en scene, sound and cinematography in the opening sequence of Requiem for a dream represent the effects of drug abuse on the main characters?

The Graduate consists of a young, rich, and Caucasian white male, being introduced to older mature situations such as the sexual relationship he had with the older woman. Risky Business, Tom Cruise’s character has not left from under his house yet; however he gets introduced to sex and drugs a little earlier. Both films present an heterosexual romance but there are boundaries that block each character from being together happily. In the Graduate, not only is the woman he is dealing with much older than him, she is also married and a friend of the families. In Risky Business, the main character falls in love with his opposite who is a

There is a scene of the affair between Mrs. Robinson and Benjamin captured in the musically backed montage which is a discontinuity style segment that uses rapid editing and special effects. During the montage, the scene is edited to show that Benjamin is drifting between his parents’ house and the hotel room. And in a disorientating match-cut, Benjamin is climbing up onto the swimming pool raft and landing on top of Mrs. Robinson in the hotel bed.

Romantic Comedy has been around for many generations enticing the public with ideas of love and romance in a humorous way. According to Dictionary.com Romantic Comedy is defined as, “a movie or play that deals with love in a light, humorous way.” For all romantic comedies to make this happen, they follow three simple rules. Boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl back. As Brian Finnigan from The Five Golden Rules of Romantic Comedy says, “Different but the same, He wants She Wants, turmoil, and learning curves”. Although these technical terms are different, they mean the same thing. Today that may look a little different but this is a staple part of romantic comedy that makes it different

Margin Call depicts a realistic take on what happens inside a Wall Street firm. It is about a company that is downsizing their workers because of a firm’s crisis. One of the victims, Eric Dale, was working on a major analysis when he was laid off. He hands his coworker Peter Sullivan his USB, which contains the major analysis. Peter stays late and cracks the issues and calls his coworkers and bosses in about the financial disaster he had discovered. He had discovered that the company is about the crash. He tries to get ahold of Eric, no luck. He then calls his coworkers Seth Bregman and Will Emerson, who are at a bar and tells them that they need to come back to the office for an emergency situation. After showing the

The negative and positive impacts of love are explored using various main characters in the play ‘Much ado About Nothing’. The play was written by Shakespeare in the Elizabethan era and therefore love was portrayed in a very different way, they would have seen a woman as less important in a relationship; in this era however we have very different views and see both genders as equal. Consequently as the play progresses the Elizabethan audience would relate a lot more to the courtly love that Hero and Claudio comprise. The more unconventional relationship between Beatrice and Benedick may relate more to the relationships in this day and age. The strongest bond of love is between Beatrice and Benedick due to their cerebral relationship, a