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@3:02 Mrs. Robinson is NOT his former teacher. She's the wife of Benjamin's father's business partner. That's what makes the risk so high, and that's why Benjamin's parents are so eager for Benjamin to date Elaine later in the film.
I have worked as a wedding photographer since the early '60s. One wedding I still remember, it was the end of the reception and the bride was getting ready to drive off with the groom. I actually saw the excitement adrenaline drain from her face to be replaced with the expression of "Oh hell... what have I done?" I heard that she left him a few years later with a child to raise on his own. Terry Thomas... the photographer Atlanta, Georgia USA
This film and the powerful ending continues to evolve with every revisit. Watching as a college students (in film class at that), it make me fear of what's to come. Will I be able to find my own path and not feel locked up by society? Watching after working for 5 years, I realized I'm even more lost. But everyone else is too. It's still scary to think that many people my age has already surpassed me on so many things. Still, very few can say that they are fully satisfied with where they are in life. Now, I'm still unhappy with where I stand and having no purpose sucks, but I do enjoy my life moment to moment. That's just enough for now.
"Everyone kept saying 'The generation gap! It's about the generation gap!' Not at all. I was trying to tell a story about materialism. About a guy who literally is drowning in objects, in things." "My subconscious directed that sequence. I had no idea consciously why I was doing it." - Nichols
The time I watched this movie for the first time it was 2am and I couldn't sleep. So stepped on one those channel that only old people watch. I recognized the soundtrack and decided to watch it. By the end I was crying rivers because this film showed how I felt right after my graduation
A masterpiece highlighting the emptiness of living in a society focused on wealth and materiality, including empty sex, and not real, inner happiness. As for me, I identified with the quest for the beloved as he drove up to Berkeley to win Elaine. What is now called stalking was then considered simply romance. I don't think the current label takes the heart's passions and desperations into full account.
The long melancholy ending on the bus was an accident because the director forgot to say cut. The shot looks genius as if the reality sets in of what they've done. But the reality is that the actors were just waiting to hear "cut!"
@@jennymcginley9679 I've heard Mike Nichols, the director, wasn't even there, when that particular scene was filmed. The assistant director, who was supposed to direct that scene, messed up and accidently caught lightning in a bottle.
@@benfisher1376 Sigh... No, not at all. I think they accidently caught lightning in a bottle with that scene and that they left it in intentionally. My guess is, that Mike Nichols liked what he saw, when he went over the dailies that were shot on that particular day and decided to include it in the final cut of the movie.
This movie was a seminal touchstone for that generation, with it's beautiful music man, so iconic and classic and what a touch of genius to use Simon and Garfunkel the tone of melancholy is Soo good. It was such a huge movie when it came out oh how it must've spoke to all the people the characters age feeling the same ways be did an they're being displayed long film realistically like never before and everyone shouting and laughter with applauds and standing ovations that is what the parentals told me it was like ok this was art made for it's time and of it's time to make such an impact through line as all art does, it first perfectly into that specific period to take the word stage.
Sound of Silence also plays when Ben is drifting in the pool after idling for weeks and having an affair with mrs. Robinson. I believe the song is indeed tied with his feeling of lost and emptiness and made into a symbol of it. First after graduating, then after losing his virginity and finally after getting married with a girl he thinks he loves. The inner confusion won't solve itself by external achievements.
I just watched the film and wow, the cinematography was ahead of its time. I wonder if a movie like this could be made today with how sensitive people are these days. It limits creativity. Especially about certain topics and age gaps. (Despite all the progress women have made since then and how popular it is for guys to be attracted to older women to this day.) Granted, Mrs. Robinson didn't traditionally seduce as much as she sorta kidnapped Benjamin in a comedic way at first, but they did develop some sort of bond as the months went on. And such clever use of motifs. Having some sort of jungle motif, windows, and having her wearing animal print. As if he was her prey in a jungle. Every single shot is so deliberate. The soundtrack is amazing.
Hi my name is Brian and I am an upcoming filmaker mostly a director and also an editor I have to admit if it we're no for studio binder I could not be where I am right now and by that I mean the wide knowledge I have In cinema .If it we're not for resources I could have made a film and acknowledge you guys ..Thanks
You are mistaken about the lingering final shot. I watched a documentary about the film years ago. Mike Nichols let the camera continue to roll and Dustin Hoffman and Kathryn Ross did not know what Nichols wanted hence the bewildered look on their faces. But the editing uses it perfectly to imply a possible mutual thought: We have our freedom from conformity but now what do we do? One reviewer noted the bus full of people resembling their parents is heading toward the suburbs.
Wonderful analysis. Unfortunately, the link to "The Graduate" story board isn't working, please check it out and maybe leave a working link in the comment section? plz Already wen't to the site and searched it in the search bad but nothing came up, hmm! Also can you guys do a review on "Rosemary's baby" please. 🥰🥰💞💞🤔🤔
Is there other example where the movie starts and ends with the same song, but slightly different versions? It doesn't necessarily need to open with it, the song could be heard any time throughout but a later use shows a deeper meaning to it. Just more "for instance". Thanks in advance! Off the top of my head, I could think of 'A Star is Born', 'GotG Vol. 2', 'Thor 3'...
Benjamin had been manipulated by others his entire life to fit into place in society, not so much for his benefit, but for those by whom he had been manipulated and he performed well, very well, but when all that was done, the only one who was still unfulfilled was Benjamin, who had no interest in the options that were being offered to him, left and right. He had no passion. He had no direction, until he met Elaine and she was perfect in the moment--young, beautiful, and the daughter of the one who manipulated him, so that he'd be ineligible to take the hand of the one he eventually came to desire. In the last scene Benjamin was essentially where he was in the beginning of the film. The battle was over and the prize was won, but what happens next? I think just a replay of the themes of the film, just with new characters and different settings and always a new beginning with plenty of self-doubt.
its all because the stand-in director forgot to yell cut, so the actors are wondering what is going on, thats why the ending is so great. its the actors going from playing their roles to wondering when he this new stand in director going to yell CUT
Benjamin saved Elaine and Mrs. Robinson at the same time. Benjamin saved Elaine from a unhappy married, as Mrs. Robinson suffered. I think is ironic that he saved Elaine and Mrs. Robinson both , Elaine from an unhappy marriage and Mrs. Robinson for seeing her only daughter getting in a wrong marriage as herself.
I saw the movie and it sucks. Whatever you said was absolutely correct, but I couldn't find all that on my own. Which means that the director definitely failed 🙏
Read "The Graduate" Script ►► bit.ly/tg-scr
Chapters:
00:00 What Makes a Timeless Ending
01:28 The Story Beats
05:17 Exercise - The Graduate Ending Explained
09:37 Get The Graduate Script & Storyboards
@3:02 Mrs. Robinson is NOT his former teacher. She's the wife of Benjamin's father's business partner. That's what makes the risk so high, and that's why Benjamin's parents are so eager for Benjamin to date Elaine later in the film.
I have worked as a wedding photographer since the early '60s. One wedding I still remember, it was the end of the reception and the bride was getting ready to drive off with the groom. I actually saw the excitement adrenaline drain from her face to be replaced with the expression of "Oh hell... what have I done?"
I heard that she left him a few years later with a child to raise on his own.
Terry Thomas...
the photographer
Atlanta, Georgia USA
That is a movie scene in itself
This film and the powerful ending continues to evolve with every revisit.
Watching as a college students (in film class at that), it make me fear of what's to come. Will I be able to find my own path and not feel locked up by society?
Watching after working for 5 years, I realized I'm even more lost. But everyone else is too. It's still scary to think that many people my age has already surpassed me on so many things. Still, very few can say that they are fully satisfied with where they are in life. Now, I'm still unhappy with where I stand and having no purpose sucks, but I do enjoy my life moment to moment. That's just enough for now.
Best of luck on your future endeavors!
Benjamin followed a patch that was chosen for him. I think it’s natural to feel lost
Undoubtedly, one of the best films ever... From beginning to the end.
Decades later, still fresh 👌
lmao no
Let's not forget the inspired casting choices - how could you possibly recast the movie? Hello Benjamin!
It was the perfect cast 💯
"Everyone kept saying 'The generation gap! It's about the generation gap!' Not at all. I was trying to tell a story about materialism. About a guy who literally is drowning in objects, in things."
"My subconscious directed that sequence. I had no idea consciously why I was doing it." - Nichols
Great quote!
The time I watched this movie for the first time it was 2am and I couldn't sleep. So stepped on one those channel that only old people watch. I recognized the soundtrack and decided to watch it. By the end I was crying rivers because this film showed how I felt right after my graduation
Masterful breakdown of a Masterpiece. Just epic... ✍️
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A masterpiece highlighting the emptiness of living in a society focused on wealth and materiality, including empty sex, and not real, inner happiness. As for me, I identified with the quest for the beloved as he drove up to Berkeley to win Elaine. What is now called stalking was then considered simply romance. I don't think the current label takes the heart's passions and desperations into full account.
I don't think what Benjamin did would be considered stalking today 😅
The long melancholy ending on the bus was an accident because the director forgot to say cut. The shot looks genius as if the reality sets in of what they've done. But the reality is that the actors were just waiting to hear "cut!"
Make sense
Yeah I’ve heard this too except I heard the director intentionally didn’t say cut to get the look on the actor’s faces. So it was done intentionally
@@jennymcginley9679 I've heard Mike Nichols, the director, wasn't even there, when that particular scene was filmed. The assistant director, who was supposed to direct that scene, messed up and accidently caught lightning in a bottle.
Oh, come on, you honestly think the director left it in if it was a massive mistake?? That's what editors are for lol
@@benfisher1376 Sigh... No, not at all. I think they accidently caught lightning in a bottle with that scene and that they left it in intentionally. My guess is, that Mike Nichols liked what he saw, when he went over the dailies that were shot on that particular day and decided to include it in the final cut of the movie.
@3:00 Mrs Robinson is not Benjamin's former teacher. She is the wife of his father's partner. Wondering where that came from?
Good catch, minor error 🙏
@@StudioBinder Major error . . .
Yes, indeed Leaves me wondering about the reviewers ability to
One of my favorite movies of all time ❤
With good reason!
This movie was a seminal touchstone for that generation, with it's beautiful music man, so iconic and classic and what a touch of genius to use Simon and Garfunkel the tone of melancholy is Soo good. It was such a huge movie when it came out oh how it must've spoke to all the people the characters age feeling the same ways be did an they're being displayed long film realistically like never before and everyone shouting and laughter with applauds and standing ovations that is what the parentals told me it was like ok this was art made for it's time and of it's time to make such an impact through line as all art does, it first perfectly into that specific period to take the word stage.
Masterful, beginning with the script by Buck Henry, the casting,, use of music, and the brilliant direction. Great post!
I watched this movie for the first time just a few days ago. Good timing
What'd you think?
Sound of Silence also plays when Ben is drifting in the pool after idling for weeks and having an affair with mrs. Robinson. I believe the song is indeed tied with his feeling of lost and emptiness and made into a symbol of it. First after graduating, then after losing his virginity and finally after getting married with a girl he thinks he loves. The inner confusion won't solve itself by external achievements.
Clear influence for Wes Anderson too, especially Rushmore
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Now, this movie is what you call a masterpiece, an actual masterpiece. Not just a great movie that you call a “masterpiece” for fun.
We're all fortunate to have them to watch!
Can you also make a video on acting and acting breakdown pls.btw nice video.
Thanks for the suggestion!
All these years and I never got the references from ‘Wayne’s World 2’, and what a great job they did.
Wayne's World is awesome haha
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I loved it! thanks for this video
Glad you liked it :)
Amazing.
Thanks for watching!
Please make director's chair on Satyajit Ray
Thanks for the suggestion!
Didnt know this movie. Thanks for bringing up these classics not only featuring whats hot on social Media.
We'll do what's hot and the classics!
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wow thanks for for breakdown
Hope you like it!
I always see a “now what” expression on the couples face at the end of scene.
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Amazing breakdown as per usual. Also this film's composition, in my opinion, was heavily influenced by Antonioni
Interesting, what makes you think so?
@@StudioBinder Well the empty spaces and its use of blocking to show the emptiness, loneliness and alienation of Benjamin
You guys should do a Sidney Lumet, David Lean and Coppola directors playbook!
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I just watched the film and wow, the cinematography was ahead of its time. I wonder if a movie like this could be made today with how sensitive people are these days. It limits creativity. Especially about certain topics and age gaps.
(Despite all the progress women have made since then and how popular it is for guys to be attracted to older women to this day.)
Granted, Mrs. Robinson didn't traditionally seduce as much as she sorta kidnapped Benjamin in a comedic way at first, but they did develop some sort of bond as the months went on. And such clever use of motifs. Having some sort of jungle motif, windows, and having her wearing animal print. As if he was her prey in a jungle. Every single shot is so deliberate. The soundtrack is amazing.
This film still holds up today
wow thank you.
Thanks for watching!
Good explain
Glad you liked it!
I was waited Last seven years, for this video
Dang, hope it was worth the wait!
Hi my name is Brian and I am an upcoming filmaker mostly a director and also an editor I have to admit if it we're no for studio binder I could not be where I am right now and by that I mean the wide knowledge I have In cinema .If it we're not for resources I could have made a film and acknowledge you guys ..Thanks
That's our goal, educate and entertain!
I'm making a suspenseful film right now. Please do some videos about Hitchcock. I need him. We need him!
Good luck filming! We have him in mind 😉
Can u make a video about Alejandro jodorowsky movies and his making style🙏🙏🙏🙏
Please ❤️
You are mistaken about the lingering final shot. I watched a documentary about the film years ago. Mike Nichols let the camera continue to roll and Dustin Hoffman and Kathryn Ross did not know what Nichols wanted hence the bewildered look on their faces. But the editing uses it perfectly to imply a possible mutual thought: We have our freedom from conformity but now what do we do? One reviewer noted the bus full of people resembling their parents is heading toward the suburbs.
What version did you use for these clips? Film looks super crisp
Interestingly I dint had any notification
That is interesting, thanks for the heads up!
Superb
Cheers!
Explain Kenneth Branagh/Satyajit Ray films style.
Thanks for the suggestion!
He was right that there’s a good future in plastics. Look at the Kardashians.
Mrs. Robinson is not his former teacher.
She is the wife of Benjamin's father's business partner.
Wonderful analysis. Unfortunately, the link to "The Graduate" story board isn't working, please check it out and maybe leave a working link in the comment section? plz Already wen't to the site and searched it in the search bad but nothing came up, hmm! Also can you guys do a review on "Rosemary's baby" please. 🥰🥰💞💞🤔🤔
Is there other example where the movie starts and ends with the same song, but slightly different versions? It doesn't necessarily need to open with it, the song could be heard any time throughout but a later use shows a deeper meaning to it. Just more "for instance". Thanks in advance! Off the top of my head, I could think of 'A Star is Born', 'GotG Vol. 2', 'Thor 3'...
Coco?
Please add subtitles
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Nice :)
Great!
@@StudioBinder You guys are generous with your contents & comments :) Have a great week :)
anne Bancroft is my first "woman" fantasy
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Is it possible to put the subtitles ?
Subtitles are in! 👍
Benjamin had been manipulated by others his entire life to fit into place in society, not so much for his benefit, but for those by whom he had been manipulated and he performed well, very well, but when all that was done, the only one who was still unfulfilled was Benjamin, who had no interest in the options that were being offered to him, left and right. He had no passion. He had no direction, until he met Elaine and she was perfect in the moment--young, beautiful, and the daughter of the one who manipulated him, so that he'd be ineligible to take the hand of the one he eventually came to desire. In the last scene Benjamin was essentially where he was in the beginning of the film. The battle was over and the prize was won, but what happens next? I think just a replay of the themes of the film, just with new characters and different settings and always a new beginning with plenty of self-doubt.
its all because the stand-in director forgot to yell cut, so the actors are wondering what is going on, thats why the ending is so great. its the actors going from playing their roles to wondering when he this new stand in director going to yell CUT
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There is no better movie than this
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The story cried out for a sequel but I'm glad none was made.
They knew there was no way it could be topped. They caught lightning in a jar.
Should I need go to a film school after my studies😌 Need an honest answer
Get a camera and start working. Film school is good but too expensive and not really worth the money and time.
It can be beneficial, but you don't need to
Watch Good Will Hunting and you will find the answer 😅
@@CutTheBeardToWatch I haven't seen... Now will 😘, was on my list
I've always struggled to understand this film, I was born in 2000 and to me the cultural language is just so different
It’s as if reviewers project their own feelings on the final scene. I prefer to see calm resolve replacing excitement
Benjamin saved Elaine and Mrs. Robinson at the same time.
Benjamin saved Elaine from a unhappy married, as Mrs. Robinson suffered.
I think is ironic that he saved Elaine and Mrs. Robinson both , Elaine from an unhappy marriage and Mrs. Robinson for seeing her only daughter getting in a wrong marriage as herself.
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN DIRECTING STYLE
Everybody knows that pair are not going to last from that final shot. Not that Elaine's "arranged" marriage would have either.
Former teacher? Wasn't it the lady nextdoor?
Shying away from thr nipple I see... 👀
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Mrs. Robinson wasn't Ben's teacher...watch the movie before analysing it...
I saw the movie and it sucks. Whatever you said was absolutely correct, but I couldn't find all that on my own. Which means that the director definitely failed 🙏
legendary 😂
Did you know where to look? You sound like a 12 year old. Are you 12?
I bought a book of Dante Alighieri but I couldn’t understand it. So the writer must be a moron 😂
I admire your work @StudioBinder
Please add subtitles
Thanks for the suggestion!