3 *'s means This movie was okay..
I would give " The Graduate" 4 *'s out of 5 *'s.
Producer: Calder Willingham
Main actors:
Anne Bancroft as Mrs. Robinson
Dustin Hoffman as Ben Braddock
Katharin Ross as Elaine Robinson
This movie is an american Comedy-drama and It ranked as the seventh greatest film of all time on AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies, and placed #18 on the list of highest-grossing films in the United States and Canada, adjusted for inflation.
This film was about a young graduate, Ben Braddock, who does not really know what to do with his future. But not enough of that, a woman, Mrs. Robinson, some friends of his parents starts to flirt with him all the time. After a while, he realizes, that she is trying to seduce him!! He totally freaks out, first, because she is married and second, because she is way too old for him. Eventhough he is very ancious and shy in the beginning, he still decides to sleep with her, way more than once.
After some time, it just gets routine, that they meet in like a hotel room.
But then there is another problem, Ben falls in love with Mrs. Robinsons daughter, Elaine. But Mrs. Robinson does not want them to see each other, that is what she was trying to avoid the whole time. But Ben and Elaine don't want to listen to what she says, so they just meet each other secretly... But after Elaine finds out what Ben did with her own mother, she is very disappointed and mad and she goes away to marry another man. Mrs. Robinson is happy about it, very happy. Is Ben going to get Elaine back??
I thought this movie was hilarious. Very good actors, especially Ben, he was so clumsy and just funny the whole time. The beginning was a little boring, because nothing happened. But I sometimes I thought it was kind of really gross, because she seduced him and she is sooo much older. I really don't like it if older women do something with young men.
I don't really know if I liked the ending, it was weird. Because Ben and Elaine just ran away, they were sitting on this bus, and they looked very, very sad. It seemed like they have nothing to talk about. And that was kind of an open ending, too, and I really don't like open ending. :)
Mrs. Robinson was just really entertaining, too. She knew exactly how to handle little Ben, she knew what to say, so that he was speechless and helpless. I think she knew exactly what she was doing throughout the whole movie. It seemed like it was all planned by her.
I also thought it was mean, how she did all this with Ben and then she would not let him see her. It is not even her decision who her daughter marries or goes out with. I don't think that was right what she did, because she hurt her own daughter with that, too.
All in all, I really, really liked that movie. And it is definitly not a waste of time to watch it.
Good quotes:
Elaine: Good night.
Benjamin: Are we getting married tomorrow?
Elaine: No...
Benjamin: Day after tomorrow?
Elaine: I don't know. Maybe we are, and maybe we're not.
Room Clerk: Are you here for an affair, sir?
Benjamin: What?
Room Clerk: The Singleman party, sir?
Benjamin: Ah, yes, the Singleman party.
Sources:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061722/quotes
RUMOR HAS IT
This movie also gets 4 *'s out of 5 *'s from me.
Director: Rob Reiner
Writer: Ted Griffin
Main Actors:
Jennifer Anniston as Sarah Huttinger
Kevin Costner as Beau Burroughs
Shirley MacLaine as Katharine Richelieu
Mark Buffalo as Jeff Daly
This movie was kind of a following of " The Graduate". Like the second generation.
In this movie, the Graduate was actually a movie, that you could watch in theatres, too.
In the movie, Rumor has it, The Graduate is kind of a representation of the life of a specific family, which is Sarah Huttingers family in Rumor Has it. Her mother was Elaine, they just used different names and characters. Elaine died, when Sarah was little. In the beginning Sarah does not know that, the movie The Graduate is actually her family's life.. When she finds out, she really wants to find Ben, who in this movie is called Beau. She wants to know if he is her dad and she thinks it is really weird that this man slept with her mother AND Grandmother.
But then she also ends up sleeping with him, which she really regrets, because he could be her father. But is he really, or did Elaine marry somebody else in the end?
I thought this movie was pretty cool, too. It was kind of cool, how they used it for the second generation from " The Graduate". I thought Mrs. Robinson in this movie, was just hilarious, her attitude and funny quotes were really entertaining.
I don't really know what to think of Sarah, when she slept with Beau, although he could be her dad. That was kind of reaaaaalllyyyyyy disgusting. And then with that she also cheated on her fiancee. Soo mean. But it was so nice from him, that he forgave her for that in the end. She should really appreciate that, but I think she did.
I really enjoyed watching this movie, it was fun to see how it was connected to The Graduate, but kind of confusing, too, because the characters were different and the names, too.
And after I watched it, The Graduate did not seem real to me anymore. It seemed like, it was really just a movie with actors. ( which it really was, but I'm talking from the view of Rumor Has It) All in all: Good Movie!! Watch it :)
Memorable quotes:
Annie: I'm the most screwed-up person in the world!
Sarah: You're not even the most screwed-up person in this room!
Jeff: So you're gonna just walk up to him and ask him point-blank?
Sarah: Well, I guess I could walk in and yell "Hey, Dad", and see if he turns around.
Sources:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0398375/quotes
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0398375/
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