The Graduate

OK old-timers, is "Scarborough Fair" supposed to make any sense to sober people?

 

If you were an 18-year-old college freshman when The Graduate came out -- as I was -- it was absolutely the greatest movie ever made. Everything about it in 1967 was perfect.

I went to see it three times in a month during my freshman year in college and will still watch it any chance I get (missed last night, however).
It ranks behind only Godfather 1 & 2 on my all-time favorites list.

 

Yes, Buck Henry was effective this way, but I really wanted to beat the crap out of him, I was that angry while watching him communicate early in the movie.

It's funny that this movie won all sorts of acclaim yet Coppola's "You're A Big Boy Now" (made in '66 or '65 when he was doing his thesis at UCLA) is never mentioned. Don't mind the less-than-stellar reviews (;D) because people have no clue what they're talking about. I've seen it a hundred times or so. To me it's like Rocky Horror and never gets boring. It's my all-time favorite movie on a list of 15-20 favorites. Unfortunately the VHS version I owned is no longer with me and I doubt they'd ever make it on DVD. Rip Torn is outstanding.

 

Interestingly, Anne Bancroft was only six years older than Dustin Hoffman. Cigarettes will age you like that.

If I ever build a time machine I will go back and marry Katherine Ross.

 

Saw it in my first year of university at least six times.

"Plastics".

 

Katherine Ross lived in a neighboring town in the early 80s. I had no idea who she was, but I remember that she was really beautiful and that when I would see her in local stores, the men would all stare at her. She drove a white BMW.

 

It's an old English folk song. Suitors asking one another to perform impossible tasks to demonstrate the power of one's ardor was a standard motif in myth-influenced love songs of the era. Just about all Simon and Garfunkel sounds much better when the listener is high, though.

 

Katherine Ross was also outstanding in a '70s classic -- The Stepford Wives.

 

I saw it for the first time when I was about 12. I was spending the night at my sister's house (she's 11 years older) and I remember her and my brother-in-law were going to call my parents to make sure it was OK for me to see it. I remember I instantly fell in love with Katherine Ross.

 

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Yes, Buck Henry was effective this way, but I really wanted to beat the crap out of him, I was that angry while watching him communicate early in the movie.
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With all due respect to Mr. Henry, one of the comedic greats of our time, he adapted the screenplay. Charles Webb wrote the book.

 

Hey, stick that in your pantry with your cupcakes!

 

I had a 'Graduate' moment at a party some years ago. An older gentleman was chatting with me and a college chum about our careers. Then he leaned in and said, "I have two words for you: Food....and beverage."

He was right.

So we went for dinner.