There’s no way to describe it. Levine, who is the president of Embassy Pictures, and who was in a large financial hole before “The Graduate” started paying off, marvelled, too, in a press release of this spring: “It’s absolutely incredible. He was marvelling at the success of “The Graduate.” Joseph E.
“The Graduate” has broken house records in about forty per cent of its engagements. I haven’t seen anything like this in all the years I’ve been in the business. . . .” So far, “The Graduate” has been shown in some nine hundred and fifty theatres, in almost as many cities of the United States and Canada, and from early figures the experts can now accurately project the degree of a movie’s long-term success. And people have been coming back two and three times to see it again. Wherever we’ve played it, whatever the weather, it’s a sell-out attraction. The business just grows and grows and grows.
Whereas most films taper off after an initial spurt, its business continues to swell, just as Mr. In its first six months, it grossed more than thirty-five million dollars in the nine hundred and fifty theatres—more than two million of it in New York. In its sixth and seventh weeks, it broke both records again.
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A milestone in American film history.” It was included in the Ten Best lists of Newsweek, the Saturday Review, Cue, the National Board of Review, and a score of newspapers, including the Times. Stanley Kauffmann wrote in the New Republic, “ ‘The Graduate’ gives some substance to the contention that American films are coming of age—of our age. . . . Critically, it hasn’t been a controversial movie—like, say, “Bonnie and Clyde.” Two or three reviewers greeted it with mild enthusiasm the rest, even hard-to-please critics, were wild about it. Like the Beatles, “The Graduate” has met with favor from every level of brow. For projects that have C++ code, you will find a Source.Of course, box-office isn’t the only measure of a motion picture’s success. In Unity, you are accustomed to placing C source files in your assets folder.
“The Graduate” seems to have, in the Embassy official’s words, “a very special appeal, on both sides of the generation gap.” Indeed, it seems to have become something of a cultural phenomenon—a nearly mandatory movie experience, which can be discussed in gatherings that cross the boundaries of age and class. And, as Variety says, the word-of-mouth is fabulous. Robinson,” by Simon and Garfunkel—reached No. It was the subject of an essay question, on pre-marital sex, in a final exam at an Eastern women’s college.
To some people, this statement will sound absurdly hyperbolic (after all, why set out to go on so about a film comedy?), but my feeling is that we are living in a time when the uses of a Brillo box can be as telling as a State of the Union Message, and that a uniquely celebrated movie may be worth a pretty close look.I like reading both about movies I’ve seen and about movies I haven’t seen, but I often find myself irritated in the first case by superfluous chunks of expository briefing sprinkled through a text and in the second case by having to pick out and piece together the rudiments of the plot from clues, usually nonsequential, that are buried here and there amid the writer’s own reflections. Whatever is authentic or meretricious in “The Graduate” must reflect what is authentic or meretricious in our sentiment about its themes, and perhaps even in America’s current conceptions of itself. Due weight having been given to such factors as economic achievement, popularity at different age and social levels, and critical reception by mass and élite media, it is clearly the biggest success in the history of the movies. “The Graduate” seems to be telling us that the public has been underrated. Filmmakers of lofty aspirations have long protested that enormous production expenses make it impossible to finance “really good, strong stuff,” because it won’t appeal to enough people to pay for itself. Its sensational profits suggest that Hollywood can have both its cake and its art.
She inveigles him up to her absent daughter’s bedroom, where she takes off her clothes and makes him a standing offer of herself. Robinson (Anne Bancroft), the wife of his father’s partner, eventually corners him, and tricks and bullies him into driving her home, escorting her inside, having a drink, and engaging in a disconcertingly intimate conversation. Wishing to be left alone with his confusion, Benjamin tries to hide out in his room, away from the verbal cheek-pinching. The evening after evening Benjamin’s arrival, his wealthy parents throw a party for their friends, more or less in his honor.
In a spirit of defensive anger, he comes across.For the next few weeks, Benjamin hangs around his house by day—sunning, floating on an air mattress in the back-yard pool, avoiding his father’s questions about plans—and, by night, meets Mrs. Goads him on by suggesting that he is a virgin and is sexually inadequate. Benjamin tries to back out at the last minute. When she arrives, obviously intent upon getting down to business without amenities.
Benjamin catches up to her, explains that the date was his parents’ idea, and apologizes. After trying to be pleasant for both of them, Elaine rushes out in tears. Benjamin, consummately rude, takes her to a cheap strip joint for a drink. Elaine appears: the classy embodiment of a college man’s most extravagant fantasies. After Elaine arrives on vacation, however, parental pressure for a friendly date increases, and at last, in order to avoid a threatened Braddock-Robinson soirée, Benjamin does ask her out.
Hops into his car and orders him to drive around the block. He acknowledges an involvement with a married woman (“with a son”) but says it is decidedly a thing of the past.The next day, Benjamin drives up to the Robinsons’ house in the rain to pick up Elaine, as they had arranged, but Mrs. Back in the car, Elaine asks him if he is having an affair with someone. R., and he becomes flustered into a hasty exit when various attendants greet him as Mr. The only place around that is still open turns out to be the hotel that Benjamin has been using for his assignations with Mrs. When he drives her home, much later than he had expected to, neither wants to end the evening.
One day, he announces to his parents that he has decided to marry Elaine, and drives up to Berkeley, where he takes a furnished room and continues to shadow her. Elaine gets the picture and shrieks at him to get out.Benjamin keeps an eye on her from a distance until she goes back to school, then stews around home for a couple of weeks longer. Robinson, drenched and haggard-looking, appears in the doorway behind him. He runs up the stairs and barges into Elaine’s bedroom, and as he begins to tell her how that married woman he’d been having an affair with wasn’t just any married woman, Mrs. Benjamin stops the car and races back to the Robinsons’ through driving rain.
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