.1. The Graduate was an incredible motion picture that was released in 1967. The film was directed by a formal aspiring actor named Mike Nichols. Nichols earliest achievements began as a New York Broadway director, than after he moved on to directing movies. The Graduate was a very popular film during this specific era. In fact Nichols won an Academy award for “Best Director”. The wonderful, exciting, and youthful film successfully earned top ratings on the box office. The textbook Flashback describes The Graduate “a Box office champion of the decade”. The younger demographic audience truly enjoyed watching this partial film because they could relate to the starring role as a college graduate Benjamin Braddock.
The article I
have chosen was titled “The Graduate” by author Roger Ebert. He described the
all time favorite American movie has being the greatest film for that partial
decade. Ebert said The Graduate was also “the funniest American comedy of the
year”. The young British director had an amazing way to illustrate the free
spirited era through the characters of the film like “Mrs. Robinson”. Ebert
goes on by saying the storyline of the film was also wonderful and entertaining.
The film was so fresh, youthful, and creative; the comedy in this film came so
natural as well. The youthful audience could not resist from laughing. The Music
also plays a tremendous deal in the film as well. The Director used popular
tunes to simulate the audience as well. The film was a great combination of
comedy and creativity.
3.Roger Ebert article related to the screening very well. He
first starts off by appreciating the film’s creativity and entertaining story plot
and comical scenes as being “The funniest American comedy of the year”. Ebert
article points out how truly popular this film was because of its generation.
In class we learned that many of the younger demographic loved this film so
much because most of them well college graduates themselves and could relate to
the characters. The film was released during the late 1960’s, where the
American Culture was becoming more youth oriented. So you can see where the
theme of this film came to play.
4. This film was absolutely amazing to watch. I can truly agree with Roger Ebert, when he mentioned the screening being the funniest movie of it time. The film had a unique way of surprising the audience, including myself. The characters in the film was incredible. My personal Favorite was Mr. Robinson, i truly loved the woman she played. Also what i really enjoyed about this film's use of music. The music also added a sense of funny and laughter to the scenes. The movie was so great and i would watch it again.
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