The Graduate Film Essay

2006764 Ms. Szymski Composition & Media 5th March, 2015 Best Picture Analysis #1 – The Graduate Criteria: 1. The movie should have more to it than just pure entertainment. It should have a deeper message that will impact me in one way or another. 2.

What were Edwin S. Porter's significant contributions to the development of early narrative film? In what sense did Porter build upon the innovations of contemporaneous filmmakers, and for what purposes?

Benjamin learns a great deal about life and society through the story. Such as learning to deal with judgement and comments from society and also learning more about himself as a person. This made me realise that I should also focus less about what others judge me on and focus more on how I can challenge myself and grow bigger as a person.

In the early times of narrative cinema there was litter pressure on the filmmakers for the evolution of film forms before nickelodeons (Salt, 31) as cinema had not become a mass cultural product and film was still just a novelty expected to die out like rock n roll. And so the demand was low and so the supply could remain unoriginal. Mary Jane's Mishap was made in 1903 when ‘multi-scene films were becoming popular’ (Salt, 32). Mary Jane's Mishap is notable for its use of experimental and inventive shot transitions. It used a vertical wipe to instead of ‘separate successive scenes’ (Salt, 32) (as it cuts to a shot width a wider frame of the same locale) but to change the zoom level. This frame is essentially an insert and borderline

“The Graduate” is a coming of age story as the film attempts to relay a message of an innocent boy being pushed in an unwanted direction through a society filled with expectations. It focuses on the development and the maturing of the young college graduate and his journey from being in the world of a child to adult. It captures what it is to be young, restless, skeptical and confused. It is reflective of a time when no one has any idea what the future has in store. It is Benjamin’s notion of the uncertainty of reaching adulthood, he struggles to accept this transformation and the idea of how frightening the future really is.

In “The King’s Speech” and “A Beautiful Mind” the contrast between the characters whom I will be discussing is evident. “The King’s Speech” and “A Beautiful Mind” are both highly recommended films. The director makes use of film techniques such as mise-en-scene and cinematography as well as the use of subtle but effective imagery that reflect the emotions that the characters are feeling at a certain point in the film.

Identity typically changes with age, however he changes very little because he does not have full awareness of his identity. “Age identity refers to the inner most experience of a person’s age and aging process” (Jose 2017). Fitzgerald emphasizes Benjamin’s loss of consciousness more in the novel than Fincher does in the film. At a certain point, Benjamin stops struggling to determine who he is and just essentially waits for time to run out. He would play simply games with his grandson when they are both around the age of children beginning kindergarten. Benjamin and his grandson would continue this until he passed away. In contrast, it seems that Benjamin and his wife fight further to the end in the film, and he passes away with her by his side. The relationship between Benjamin and Daisy was stronger in the film than in the novel. His identity is very important to him in the middle of his life when he wants to go to college and enroll in the war, but towards the end he loses awareness of any self-perception he had built and slips into

This quote is used as a means to characterize Benjamin, and to discuss that After Benjamin is taken from his home with Felia, and exposed to white people for the first time, he expierences racial issues on a new level. The theme of race is reoccurring throughout the novel, and significant in the development of Benjamin

Of the many symbolic details the first two we encounter at the very beginning of the film are cluing us in on the character of Dustin Hoffman who is known as Benjamin Braddock. The two details happen almost simultaneously, one being the song “The Sound of Silence” by Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel and the other is the symbolic action of him sliding across the screen on an airport conveyor belt. The first detail, the song, suggests that the character Benjamin or Ben is lost in the world. He has no idea where to go from this point in his life forward. He is lost in the “darkness of life” and is directionless. The second detail is the conveyor belt which forcibly moving him along. This conveys the fact that throughout

In an industry that’s been around for over one hundred thirty years and grosses over ten billion dollars a year, there’s got to be an interesting history to go with it (Film). Let me take you back to a time before seven dollar popcorn, before blu ray, and before

Analyse how conflict (either internal or external) was used in a film you have studied to help us better understand a main character.

In the intersecting film adaptation of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, by David Fincher, the moral and setting differs from the original version that appears in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “Tales of the Jazz Age.” However, both stories share the tale of a man aging backwards and his life until his time expires. Fitzgerald’s illustration of the story was a first person narrative that shows us, with a refreshing twist, that death

It's too early for this, this smell, this man, any of it. I can't deal

In the midst of dealing with his father’s illness, Ben is forced upon a journey of self discovery, including being alone for the first time in his life, seeing the corrupt morals of corporations, letting go of childhood dreams, not looking back on his path to adult life, unspoken white privilege, microaggressions, and escaping to nature.

Ben, the main character, has recently graduated and is facing the great unknown of life after college. Ben is an extremely relatable character, especially to people with introverted tendencies, right off the bat. His avoidance of extravagant parties and attention is comical, at least to me, because of how true it is in my own life. He has an endearing awkwardness to him, but it can also feel quite uncomfortable to watch him struggle through social interaction if one suffers from secondhand embarrassment. The crippling uncertainty about what he wants to do with his life causes Ben to spend his summer laying in the pool, drinking heavily, and engaging in an affair with the wife of his father’s business partner Mrs. Robinson.