How The Graduate’s Quarter-Life Crisis Inspired Girls, Frances Ha and More
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ส.ค. 2024
- The Graduate didn’t invent the quarter-life crisis, but it might have been the first movie to really dramatize it. This 1967 classic, directed by Mike Nichols and starring Dustin Hoffman as directionless college graduate Benjamin Braddock, remains surprisingly relevant in its depiction of twenty-something alienation. It was one of the first big hit American movies to admit that the post-college years might involve some kind of uncertainty, rather than a path straight into stable adulthood. It also feels predictive of quarter life-crisis movies and shows that we’ve seen in the decades since.
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CHAPTERS
00:00 All the quarter-life crisis stories The Graduate inspired
01:14 The Graduate's major Hollywood impact
07:04 Same story, new decade
CREDITS
Executive Producers: Debra Minoff & Susannah McCullough
Chief Creative Director: Susannah McCullough
Associate Producer: Tyler Allen
Writer: Jesse Hassenger
Narrator: Jessica Babineaux
Video Editor: Tyler Allen - บันเทิง
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I graduated from college this year of class 2023 and I feel like I have no idea what I’m post to do but yet scared that I won’t want to be failure or settle for something I don’t want
I feel that so much. Personally, it helps me to not view these choices as ultimate or final. Even if you commit to one path at first most of the time you can still decide to change direction later on.
same
@@lurix1170 this is really helpful thanks
Same
Don’t put too much pressure on yourself. And don’t define yourself by your career. I know it’s cliche to say it but find something you love. Find something connected to your purpose. There’s a profit somewhere behind it also.
My early 20s were so tumultuous. I feel like movies and tv are starting to get real about what is actually a challenging period of life for so many people. To the 20 somethings who are struggling to figure a lot of stuff out, hang in there. Trust me, it gets better.😊
thank you its so comforting to hear that
The Graduate was the first movie I’ve seen where the protagonist had no idea what he wanted to do with his life. I can’t imagine how comforting it was to kids like Benjamin Braddock in the 1960s, and especially during an era when it was pretty much unacceptable to not have an idea of what you want to do with your life.
I find it a bit funny that Dustin was 30, playing a college graduate in his early 20s, yet Anne Bancroft, as the supposedly older Mrs Robinson, was only six years his senior. Even better, Katharine Ross was playing Bancroft's daughter, yet was about eight years younger.
Actually he was 29
That's Hollywood for ya
5:25 I enjoyed college but my major beef with the system is that professors and curriculum seem to tell you what you're supposed to do but often won't tell you how to do it. It's like, if you don't already know how to do this, we're not going to tell you. This video is right: there are steps missing. No wonder many graduates feel at loose ends.
Wow. This video came out at the perfect time for me. This morning I woke up from a dream where I messed up bad at (part-time) work and was anticipating getting fired, and lately I've been feeling really lost about what other work I should be doing. Great video.
Always refreshing to see stuff like this about early adulthood, considering I’m in my early 20s.
Agreed, many of us are in this crossroads in our lives, not sure of where to go next. It's very relatable.
@@trinaq
And even more relatable is our family’s expectation of us.
@@abigailaceves9230 The very best of luck, I hope that you find your chosen path.
21 year old? Dustin was a 45 year old looking graduate. 😂
Still relevant today. We’re going through it now (Gen Z), Gen X went through it in the 90s (Singles, reality bites)
I graduated in 2020 and I’ve done pretty much nothing since then
Can’t even get a minimum wage job if I try
That said I don’t really regret going to college because at least I studied something I cared about and now I have a bunch of valuable knowledge at least
SAME HEREEE!!! Are you me?😅 I've been making some money through teaching English online, but it's not really a job. I left jobs after 10 and 5 days of joining. Because of the politics or too much stress or too little or feeling claustrophobic having to sit at a desk all day. Idk what's going to happen for me from now on. And all my friends already have careers.
I just graduated from university a month ago and I think the universe knows how I am feeling. 😔
Oh man, I love Reality Bites! I bet I watched it 100 times as a teenager though my post college days came way after that, I still fell in love with the characters
Same. It came at the right time of my life and it still feels relevant today.
"27 is old though"
Me at 41: 🤨😑
The major way the film has not aged well is how the Quarter Life Crisis has gone from naval gazing to desperate survival as there is no longer a choice between your dream and a career. It is about choosing between survival and no survival.
I’m 24 and about to finish school and I’ve had this sense of uncertainty since I was 19. I used to call it the “pre-quarter life crisis” 😂😂 The quarter life crisis is very real!!! 😩😩
Wow this video really hit close to home for me lol 😂 😭 Been out of college for 3 years now, working at Walmart, still live at home with my parents, and the kicker I may or may not be dating an older man who’s 8 years older than me (I’ll be 27 next month while he’s 35) Wow….life 😅😐
The graduate is my favourite movie of all time and I am absolutely thrilled that it has made its way to the movie essay genre 🙏
I have been telling people to watch this movie since I first saw this movie in the 8th grade.
Society hasn’t changed since the graduate premiered. We’re still facing political and economical turmoil. The 2000s/2010s saw a bigger political shift
Benjamin loves the daughter for her youth, whereas he loves Mrs Robinson for her experience, class and confidence
I remember the first time I watched The Graduate and it struck a cord with a me and my post-graduate situation. Brilliant film!
I first watched the graduate when i was 18 years old and it literally altered my brain chemistry
Advice to everyone…hit the gym and make actions…it’s easy to sit there and think about everything…but you need to take action you need to move and keep moving
Can y’all do Harold and Maude
Thanks for this analysis. I had been waiting for it for a long time. I love this movie. I went through the same thing as Benjamin ten years ago.
Wow my daughter is about to go into her senior year of high school so she's not there yet but I will show her this video
now that i am suffering from this as freshly graduated from college, i hope my life get back in track the way i wish so soon
Just graduated this year and this video might hit too hard. Coming back to this when not in an existential crisis.
In 1967, I was in high school, making me about 5 years younger than Benjamin. I think this reaction was probably more of an upper middle class thing. Less well off young people had to come to grips with life a little faster because we didn’t have the safety net of generational wealth. But there were a lot of challenges for girls, as we had options due to birth control and changing gender roles that our mothers didn’t have. And one more thing about us baby boomers: our parents grew up in war time, or in a lot of cases, actually served in the armed forces. It was usually a dead end trying to talk to them about our questioning life. They either fought or worked stateside supporting the war effort and were of the knuckle down and do it “greatest generation “.
I graduated from grad school the today so this feels very creepily timely
The Graduate is a great film ❤.
I’m 26 and so feeling so under pressure that I should have a house, a car and financial stability 😰😰😰
The Graduate is a good reminder that movies can be relatable irregardless of ethnic makeup and identity politics.
The opposite is also true 😊
Can someone list down all the movies mentioned in this video.
The Graduate,Reality Bites,Say Anything,Cha Cha Real Smooth
No st Elmo’s fire? 😕
Second 🥈
Hello grandpa my old friend. The tales you tell are so boring.
Do you know where America is mentioned in the Bible ??????? Shepherd's Chapel Network !!!!!!!
Why would you use Brando as an example of looking older than his years, he had extensive makeup and fake teeth. Research better, sheesh