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The Graduate
Posted on 8/25/19 at 8:54 pm
Posted on 8/25/19 at 8:54 pm
This movie came out when I was 9 or 10 so I didn't see it till 8 or 10 years after it came out. I have seen it a couple of more times and then watched it again tonight on TCM.
My impression now are much different--
1) Ann Bancroft was really hot in the movie
2) They had Kamando grills at the pool party (this was 1967)
3) Hoffman is really a great talent
4) Why was Simon and Garfunkel so popular! I remember having their Bridge Over Troubled Water album and we all loved it but many of their songs were really strange. What is "Are You Going to Scarborough Fair" about? The lyrics to "Sound of Silence" are pretty strange too although that is one of my favorite S&G songs. On and on.
My impression now are much different--
1) Ann Bancroft was really hot in the movie
2) They had Kamando grills at the pool party (this was 1967)
3) Hoffman is really a great talent
4) Why was Simon and Garfunkel so popular! I remember having their Bridge Over Troubled Water album and we all loved it but many of their songs were really strange. What is "Are You Going to Scarborough Fair" about? The lyrics to "Sound of Silence" are pretty strange too although that is one of my favorite S&G songs. On and on.
This post was edited on 8/25/19 at 10:08 pm
Posted on 8/25/19 at 9:05 pm to I B Freeman
1) oh yeah
2) cool
3) no doubt
4) Are You Nuts? Paul Simon is one of the top lyricists of all time. That soundtrack is top 10.
2) cool
3) no doubt
4) Are You Nuts? Paul Simon is one of the top lyricists of all time. That soundtrack is top 10.
Posted on 8/25/19 at 9:20 pm to Jimbeaux
Have you tried to listen to them much now that you are older? I find myself singing to myself the chorus of Homeward Bound sometimes so I remember the songs and how popular they were and then Paul Simon had his own career. It is very hard to imagine what the appeal was now.
quote:
Are you going to Scarborough Fair?
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
Remember me to one who lives there
For once she was a true love of mine
Have her make me a cambric shirt
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
Without no seam nor fine needle work
And then she'll be a true love of mine
Tell her to weave it in a sycamore wood lane
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
And gather it all with a basket of flowers
And then she'll be a true love of mine
Have her wash it in yonder dry well
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
where water ne'er sprung nor drop of rain fell
And then she'll be a true love of mine
Have her find me an acre of land
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
Between the sea foam and over the sand
And then she'll be a true love of mine
Plow the land with the horn of a lamb
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
Then sow some seeds from north of the dam
And then she'll be a true love of mine
Tell her to reap it with a sickle of leather
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
And gather it all in a bunch of heather
And then she'll be a true love of mine
If she tells me she can't, I'll reply
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
Let me know that at least she will try
And then she'll be a true love of mine
Love imposes impossible tasks
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
Though not more than any heart asks
And I must know she's a true love of mine
Dear, when thou has finished thy task
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
Come to me, my hand for to ask
For thou then art a true love of mine
Posted on 8/25/19 at 9:24 pm to I B Freeman
The original dramedy...well one of them.
You couldn't tell if it was a comedy or a drama.
There's a sequence in The Graduate that they teach in film school...the seamless transitions between him in the pool and boinking Bancroft with Simon and Garfunkel playing in the background.
Plus Mr. Gladstone.
You couldn't tell if it was a comedy or a drama.
There's a sequence in The Graduate that they teach in film school...the seamless transitions between him in the pool and boinking Bancroft with Simon and Garfunkel playing in the background.
Plus Mr. Gladstone.
Posted on 8/26/19 at 12:06 am to I B Freeman
Well, first of all, Simon didn’t write that song. It’s an old folk song.
Secondly, I think the song is amazing
quote:
Scarborough Fair" is a traditional English ballad (existing in more than one version) that hangs, in some versions at least, upon a possible visit by an unidentified person (the "third party") to the Yorkshire town of Scarborough. The song implies the tale of a man who instructs the third party to tell his former love, who lives in said fair town, to perform for him a series of impossible tasks, such as making for him a shirt without a seam and no needlework and then washing it in a dry empty well, adding that if she were to complete these tasks he would take her back into his affections. Often the song is sung as a duet, with the woman then giving her sometime lover a series of equally impossible tasks, promising to give him his seamless shirt and her heart once he has finished. As the versions of the ballad known under the title "Scarborough Fair" are usually limited to the exchange of these impossible tasks, many suggestions concerning the plot have been proposed, including the hypothesis that it is about the Great Plague of the late Middle Ages.
Secondly, I think the song is amazing
Posted on 8/26/19 at 9:04 am to Jimbeaux
The Boxer is one of the best songs I've ever heard.
In clearing stand a boxer
And a fighter by his trade
And he carries the reminders
Of every glove that laid him down
Or cut him till he cried out
In his anger and his shame
"I am leaving, I am leaving"
But the fighter still remains
This is one of the best stanza's I've ever heard.
In clearing stand a boxer
And a fighter by his trade
And he carries the reminders
Of every glove that laid him down
Or cut him till he cried out
In his anger and his shame
"I am leaving, I am leaving"
But the fighter still remains
This is one of the best stanza's I've ever heard.
This post was edited on 8/26/19 at 9:08 am
Posted on 8/26/19 at 9:46 am to I B Freeman
1) Ann Bancroft was really hot in the movie
Yes
2) They had Kamando grills at the pool party (this was 1967)
Yes
3) Hoffman is really a great talent
Yes
4) Why was Simon and Garfunkel so popular!
They were great.
Yes
2) They had Kamando grills at the pool party (this was 1967)
Yes
3) Hoffman is really a great talent
Yes
4) Why was Simon and Garfunkel so popular!
They were great.
Posted on 8/26/19 at 9:52 am to hogcard1964
Side note.
Gene Hackman was originally cast as Benjamin's father.
Hackman always looked older than he actually was, but he was still a bit too young looking for the part. Other considered... Marlon Brando, Brian Keith, George Peppard, Jack Palance, Frank Sinatra, Walter Matthau and Gregory Peck.
Gene Hackman was originally cast as Benjamin's father.
Hackman always looked older than he actually was, but he was still a bit too young looking for the part. Other considered... Marlon Brando, Brian Keith, George Peppard, Jack Palance, Frank Sinatra, Walter Matthau and Gregory Peck.
Posted on 8/26/19 at 10:39 am to I B Freeman
About 18-19 when The Graduate came out. Neighbor girl 2 years my junior had a mad crush on me because Dustin Hoffman and I sort of resembled each other, and she was hot for him.
Posted on 8/26/19 at 10:50 am to I B Freeman
quote:
) They had Kamando grills at the pool party (this was 1967)
it is kamado and where do you think Big Green Eggs came from
I have an Imperial Kamado brought over in the 60's that I have restored and smoke something weekly on it.
Posted on 8/26/19 at 10:53 am to I B Freeman
quote:
4) Why was Simon and Garfunkel so popular! I remember having their Bridge Over Troubled Water album and we all loved it but many of their songs were really strange. What is "Are You Going to Scarborough Fair" about? The lyrics to "Sound of Silence" are pretty strange too although that is one of my favorite S&G songs. On and on.
One of the inherent struggles of watching an older classic movie is not understanding the context of certain scenes or artistic choices
In a lot of cases, you’ve grown up and seen the parody and homage of those things so many times that when you watch the source material, it can come off cliche or tired, when in fact it was groundbreaking or fresh when the movie was released
Posted on 8/26/19 at 2:45 pm to I B Freeman
I always confuse Anne Bancroft with Anne Baxter.
Anne Baxter, and look closely. Pretty risque for 1956. I'm surprised this made it past the censors.
Anne Baxter, and look closely. Pretty risque for 1956. I'm surprised this made it past the censors.
This post was edited on 8/26/19 at 2:46 pm
Posted on 8/26/19 at 5:13 pm to Tchefuncte Tiger
Anne Bancroft is down right sultry in this film - such a sexy smoker
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