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The Graduate (1967)

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Lorene Scafaria Interview, Nick ...
by SpoutBlog in SpoutBlog on spout.com

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"From left to right, Diablo Cody, Dana Fox, and Lorene Scafaria. Or, the “Femmepire” as they call it, a triumvirate of female screenwriters. Lorene Scafaria has been toiling as a screenwriter for awhile, although her first produced film, Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, is actually an adaptation of a novel by the same name. However, it manages to nail the “teen voice” without slapping a message all over it, and it should open up a few more doors for Lorene. Not that she needs them, since she’s already recorded an album of her own music, and has her next project already in the works. Read on to find out how she tried to capture the New York City feeling in this " [More]

Pineapple Express and A Brief H ...
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"This is it, the day we’ve been waiting for two full decades (or, at least, since we first heard it was happening back in December): the Huey Lewis plot song written specifically for the David Gordon Green-driected, Judd Apatow-produced stoner comedy Pineapple Express has hit the web! The Playlist first posted a clip of the song last night; today, Whitney at Pop Candy points to the full thing, available for streaming or download on MySpace. It’s very much in classic Huey Lewis plot song mode, complete with gratuitous hand claps and sax solo. It’s not as directly narrative as, say, “Back in Time” (above), but it’s slightly more literally connected to the film than, like, “The Power of Love.” A sample from the chorus: “How did we get into this mess? Pineapple Express! Can’t deal wit " [More]

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Revisiting The Graduate for the ...
by pippin06 in Reel Thoughts

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"What's the AFI Project, you ask? For more information, or if you just enjoy my bemused ramblings, read here: http://www.spout.com/blogs/pip pin06/archive/2008/3/1/25756.a spx The Graduate is on the following AFI lists: The Original Top 100 (#7)100 Funniest Films (#9)100 Years...100 Passions (#52)100 Greatest Film Songs (#6 - "Mrs. Robinson")100 Movie Quotes (#42 - A Braddock family friend: "Plastics;" #63 -Benjamin Braddock: "Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. Aren't you?")The Revised Top 100 (#17) I was happy to revisit The Graduate because I think the first and only time I watched it was around the time I graduated from high school because a friend thought watching it would be a clever way to spend an afternoon in celebratory anticipation of our pending commencement. Personally, I don't think this film is truly relatable to any teenager in or around their high school years. I think underlying messages, what exists of them, are more universal for the twenty-something s ... " [More]

10 Movie Romances That Probably ...
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"It took me awhile, but last week I finally saw Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. And to agree with many others, I think it features a few too many ludicrous moments. Yet the most outlandish, in my opinion, is the scene in which Indy and Marion seem to reenact His Girl Friday in about four seconds while riding in the back of a truck. I know it’d been awhile, both for them and for us, but I prefer a little more bickering, a little more holding back in comedy of remarriage plots. Anyway, we knew a long time ago, thanks to Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, that Indy and Marion didn’t last long together after the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark. So, I didn’t really care if they ended up together at the end of Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, either. It’s probable they still wouldn’t last. And I think the same often with other unlikely movie couples at the end of their respective films. Fortunately, a number of sequels tell us outright that the romance of the first film f ... " [More]

5 Favorite Graduates on Film
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"As you read this post, I am sitting on a college campus wearing a maroon cap and gown as I attend my graduation commencement. Yes, 13 years after I first went off to film school, 11 years after I dropped out, and 2 years after I returned to finally finish my undergrad, I’m getting my bachelor’s in film studies. So, to celebrate the occasion, I figured I’d take a look at some of the film characters who are in my mind as I walk toward the stage to pick up my diploma. Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman) in The Graduate - This one’s obvious, so let me start with him and get it over with. I do wonder, though: if he were just graduating today, what would be the substitute for that famous one word of advice, “plastics”? Would it be “blogging”? It sure wouldn’t be “film criticism.” And not just because that’s actually two words. Thornton Mellon (Rodney Dangerfield) in [More]

NOT OVERRATED!
by JakeStevens in JakeStevens Blog

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"It's really sad to me when a person dismisses a film as "overrated" and doesn't take into consideration the age and era of a film. I honestly don't see how ANYONE couldn't at least appreciate, let alone love, this film in how it was so key in changing the style of cinema for the 1970's. It's also obviously a matter of youthful discontent, as evidenced by Roger Ebert's two polemic reviews of this film. When he first saw it in 1967, he loved it - he could relate to the flawed young man's discontentment of upper-middle class hypocrisy and could feel the alienation of his generation from their parents. 30 years later, Ebert is old, set in his ways - he IS the upper-middle class that he so rallied against, and his review of The Graduate is disparaging and devoid of any understanding of the film's emotional core. Well I, for one, found the film to be dated, true, but its message is still the same and can be felt by just as many people of this ... " [More]

The Graduate
by konec in konec Blog

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"Saw this today for the third time. The first time I was 14 and didn't like it at all -found it neither funny nor involving, I straight up didn't get it. The second time I was 18 and loved it. As I write this I am 20 and will be 21 in a week, which is as it turns out exactly how old Benjamin Braddock is at the start of the movie. I haven't graduated yet, but then I got held back in kindergarten for reasons which remain hazy to me. I still love it. Paul Simon's lyrics having nothing to do with anything (well, besides a few lines out of "Sound of Silence"), and that's kind of irritating, and I guess some of the symbolism is pretty heavy handed (though I find it effective nonetheless), but it really does capture beautifully the experience of being boring and indecisive and inarticulate, as Ben is and as I at times am/fear myself to be. And it's very, very funny. " [More]

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