Watched another movie from "The Book", what, what?! Yea that's right. I'm up to 70 now! Only 931 more movies to go... (ok, that is depressing. I thought 70 was impressive but not when you look at the other side of things...)
Well anyways, I guess y'all want to know what the movie is right? And whether or not you should watch it right? Ok(: I'll tell you then, you don't have to beg or anything...
The Graduate was considered extremely scandalous to the standards of movies in 1967, but to us here in 2012 it probably wouldn't have even been rated R. But the scandal and sexual tension of the movie is what credited The Graduate as a movie you must see before you die!
However, it wasn't a highly entertaining movie... When you look at it from the perspective of how many barriers it broke down in the film industry then it's amazing, but the movie just wasn't very interesting. Honestly, it was a big old ball of AWKWARD...
The main character, Ben, is played by Dustin Hoffman, an absolutely amazing actor. I think his acting in this move was WONDERFUL! The first half of the movie, he's a very awkward inexperienced college graduate looking to take the next step in his life, whatever that may be. Then Mrs. Robinson comes into the picture. Played by Anne Bancroft - quite spectacularly if I might add - Mrs. Robinson is an alcoholic who just really wants to get in bed with young Ben. Now comes the awkward part. Ben doesn't really know what to do with himself around Mrs. Robinson. Obviously he is very attracted to her, but he knows that their affair is wrong on so many levels, not to mention that her husband is business partner's with Ben's dad!!! Yet they continue the twisted affair for almost three months meeting every night in some old hotel.
Then the second half of the movie, things start to change. Mrs. Robinson's daughter comes into town and Ben falls in love with her. Mrs. Robinson does not like that of course... Then there is this big old hot mess and basically Ben turns into a psycho stalker creep and follows the daughter around every where until he can convince her to marry him. Then there's this really weird kind of depressing but sort of happy ending. I wasn't really sure what to make of it honestly.
And BONUS!!! Mr. Feeny from Boy Meets World plays Ben's dad! Yea!!! But he's really skinny and really young and has a super high voice so it's kind of... Awkward. Just like the rest of the movie!!!
Most awkward scene award: Dustin Hoffman jumping into the backyard pool in full scuba gear. The perspective is from the mask on Ben's face but all you can hear is Ben breathing. You can see everyone at the party shouting stuff and pushing him in the pool but you have no idea what they're saying. Then, there's a virtual tour of the pool underwater, score! AWKWARD!
That is all.
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