Review of The Graduate (1967) by Gordon T — 29 Sep 2012

Reminds me of Less Than Zero and vice versa . . .

Aimless youth (both Less than Zero and the Graduate have Simon and Garfunkel tunes over main credits).

Disaffected parents . . .

A lot of cinematography techniques in The Graduate appear in other films . . . the camera-mounted-behind-the-mask is used in HALLOWEEN and THE FINAL OPTION.

The scene where Elaine turns to Benjamin at the end is used when Lisa turns to Matthias in THE OMEGA MAN.

The Graduate is SUPERB IN ALL ASPECTS.

Richard Dryfuss appears behind the guy who later played Mr. Roper on Three's Company.

Includes my favorite song ever, Scarborough Fair.

Are you goin' to Scarborough Fair? Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme.

Remember me to one who lives there, she once was a true love of mine.

Tell her to make me a cambric shirt (On the side of a hill in the deep forest green).

Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme (Tracing a sparrow on snow-crested ground).

Without no seams nor needlework (Blankets and bedclothes the child of the mountain).

Then she'll be a true love of mine (Sleeps unaware of the clarion call).

Tell her to find me an acre of land (On the side of a hill, a sprinkling of leaves).

Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme (Washes the grave with silvery tears).

Between salt water and the sea strands (A soldier cleans and polishes a gun).

Then she'll be a true love of mine.

Tell her to reap it in a sickle of leather (War bellows, blazing in scarlet battalions).

Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme (Generals order their soldiers to kill).

And gather it all in a bunch of heather (And to fight for a cause they've long ago forgotten).

Then she'll be a true love of mine.

Are you going to Scarborough Fair? Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme.

Remember me to one who lives there, she once was a true love of mine.