Mrs. Robinson

"just one word...Plastics."  Mr. McQuire sums up this entire movie when he tells Ben that there is "a great future in plastics."  In this film the relationships, except the one between Ben and Elaine, are like plastic because they are not real, they are molded, and they are artificial.    The relationship between Mr. and Mrs. Robinson is shaky at best.  There is no love in their marriage; in fact, the only reason there is a

studies at university. At his graduation party, Benjamin is bombarded by family and friends with questions concerning his future. Eventually, he retreats to his room for a moment’s silence. Mrs. Robinson then makes an introduction, and asks Benjamin to drive her home. When they arrive at the Robinson’s, Mrs. Robinson invites Benjamin inside and begins to seduce him. This scene sets up the framework for the first act of the film; eventually Benjamin

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 Graduate is a 1967 film starring Dustin Hoffman as Benjamin Braddock, Anne Bancroft as Mrs. Robinson, and Katharine Ross as Elaine Robinson. The film follows Benjamin Braddock, a recent college graduate, who has an affair with a friend of his parents, but ends up falling in love with her daughter. The Graduate starts with Ben in an airport. The whole sequence is melancholy because the sound overlays “The Sound of Silence” with an airport employee over the intercom. This scene is very melancholy

seduced by an older woman, Mrs. Robinson, and then proceeds to fall in love with her daughter Elaine. He discovers that he and Mrs. Robinson have nothing to talk about. However, after Benjamin pressure Mrs. Robinson to talk she reveals that she entered into a loveless marriage when she accidentally became pregnant with Elaine. Both Mr. Robinson and Benjamin’s parents encourage him to call on Elaine, although Mrs. Robinson makes her disapproval clear. A furious Mrs. Robinson, who threatens to tell Elaine

voice and stand up for himself as his parent and others influence him to choose a certain life plan, is conveyed through Nichols’s composition of scenes, dialogue, and symbolism. Benjamin is continually influenced by someone whether his parents or Mrs. Robinson (portrayed by Anne Bancroft), and tries to learn how to make his own decisions outside

Jessica Burns 309164 Jmbf6b@mail.missouri.edu Film Studies 1800 Sequence Analysis/ Assignment No. 2 American Beauty -From when Carolyn arrives home until the end of the scene with Lester in their living room (Chapter 19: 1:14:35–1:17:40) The movie “American Beauty” literally is trying to express how much beauty there is in America but it is not always so easy to see. Often in the film objects normally thought of as ordinary are magnified to express deeper meaning and

scenes. Benjamin doesn’t want anyone to see him there. The director conveys this message with a shot that puts the large podium between the clerk and Benjamin; an “over-the-podium” shot.      After the first affair with Mrs. Robinson. Nichols uses bright light on Benjamin and puts him in a bright white shirt to symbolize a “new man” that now has something to look forward to. The affair seems to consume his thoughts, as seen in the shot where he flings himself onto the raft

"Mrs. Robinson, you are trying to seduce me," says Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman). The Graduate, directed by Mike Nichols in 1967 is an influential satire/comedy film about a recent East Coast college graduated who finds himself alienated and aimless in the changing, social and sexual general public of the 1960s, and questioning the values of society. The theme of the film is of an innocent and confused youth who is exploited, mis-directed, seduced (literally and figuratively) and betrayed

graduate is a 1967 classic comedy-drama Hollywood film directed by Mike Nichols. Starring Dustin Hoffman, the film tells the story of a recent college graduate (Benjamin) with no established aim in life. Benjamin is seduced by a much older woman, Mrs. Robinson, but ends up falling in love with her daughter Elaine. The director of the film uses various cinematographic elements to depict the theme which is coming of age/loss of innocence/ growing awareness. From the distinct transitions, to the extremely