The background of "The Graduate"

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1967 American film.
The United States in the 1960s, the anti-war trend, the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War.
In a turbulent society, there must be confusion and confusion.

Adolescence is actually a long war.

From a graduate who is at the mercy of his parents and overwhelmed, to a private meeting with a half-old milf; from an incestuous fall to his obsession with true love; from a boy who is still timid and reserved with excellent grades, to pulling A man who almost became his wife's girl running on the road.
From shrinking head to tail, to no scruples.
From bewilderment to certainty.
This is how our graduates grow.


The Beat Generation: The literary genre that prevailed in the United States after World War II. The writers of this genre are all young men and women with rough and unrestrained personalities. They live a simple and unscrupulous life. They like to wear fancy clothes. All secular stereotypes and monopoly capital rule, resist foreign aggression and racial segregation, hate machine civilization, they always seek new stimulation, seek absolute freedom, indulge in lust, drug addiction, and indulge in order to challenge the decent traditional value standards, so they are called Be the beat generation. Representative writers include Ginsberg and his work "Howl".

The Lost Generation, also known as the Lost Generation.
A type of Western modernist literature.
A literary genre that emerged in the United States after the First World War.
In the early 1920s, Ger Stein, an American writer living in Paris, said to Hemingway: "You are all a lost generation." Hemingway took this sentence as the inscription of his first novel "The Sun Also Rises", "The Lost Generation. "The Generation" has since become the title of this group of writers who have no program or organization but have the same creative tendencies.
Writers belonging to this genre include Hemingway, Faulkner, Passos (1896-1970) and Cummings (1894-1962). All kinds of suffering, deeply deceived by the slogans of "democracy", "glory" and "sacrifice", and greatly disappointed with the society and life, so through writing novels to describe the cruelty of war to them, showing a feeling of confusion, hesitation and disappointment .

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The Graduate quotes

  • Mrs. Robinson: [gets into Benjamin's car] Drive down the block.

    Benjamin: Mrs. Robinson, Elaine and I have a date, we're going for a drive.

    Mrs. Robinson: [angrily] Do exactly as I say!

    Benjamin: [Ben drives down the block] Now, it seems to me...

    Mrs. Robinson: Listen very carefully to me, Benjamin: You are not to see Elaine again, ever! Those are my orders, is that clear?

    Benjamin: Mrs. Robinson, do you think...

    Mrs. Robinson: I can make things quite unpleasant.

    Benjamin: How?

    Mrs. Robinson: In order to keep Elaine away from you, I'm prepared to tell her everything.

    Benjamin: [Ben stops the car] I don't believe you.

    Mrs. Robinson: [threateningly] Then you better start believing me.

    Benjamin: I just don't believe you would do that.

    Mrs. Robinson: Try me.

    [Ben gets out of the car]

  • Benjamin Braddock: [runs into the Robinson's house, up the stairs to Elaine's bedroom] Elaine! Elaine!

    Elaine Robinson: Benjamin?

    Benjamin Braddock: I'm coming up!

    Elaine Robinson: I'm not dressed yet!

    Elaine Robinson: [Ben barges through her bedroom door] Benjamin, I said I wasn't dressed.

    Benjamin Braddock: You've got to go over the back fence, and I'll meet you in the courtyard.

    Elaine Robinson: What's the matter?

    Benjamin Braddock: Hurry, put your shoes on.

    Elaine Robinson: [hysterically] Benjamin, Benjamin!

    Benjamin Braddock: Elaine.

    Elaine Robinson: What are you doing?

    Benjamin Braddock: Elaine, I have to tell you something.

    Elaine Robinson: What is it?

    Benjamin Braddock: That woman...

    Elaine Robinson: What?

    Benjamin Braddock: That woman - that older woman that I told you about?

    Elaine Robinson: You mean that one?

    Benjamin Braddock: Yes, the married woman; that wasn't just some woman.

    Elaine Robinson: What are you telling me? Benjamin, will you just tell me what this is all about?

    [Elaine turns around, and sees her mother, Mrs. Robinson standing in the bedroom doorway; her expression turns to shock]

    Elaine Robinson: Oh, no.

    Benjamin Braddock: Elaine...

    Elaine Robinson: Oh my God.

    Benjamin Braddock: Please.

    Elaine Robinson: Get out of here.

    Benjamin Braddock: Don't cry.

    Elaine Robinson: [screams] Get out! Get out, out! Get out!

    Mrs. Robinson: Goodbye, Benjamin.