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RE: The Graduate: 1967, A Movie for Its Time
I saw the movie many times because was often on the TV when I was a kid, along with some other great movies that will appear regularly almost every year, like Taxi driver, 2001 space odyssey ... and more ... and I remember enjoying this adult oriented stuff a lot ... I saw them in later years again ... great, great movies ... beside the quality of acting and various aspects of movie making ... there is also a clear uniqueness in those movies, there are not only great but also one of a kind ...
Thank you very much for stopping by and commenting. I see you were an observer, of life and human nature, from an early age. Maybe we have some of that movie-watching to thank for your very unique insight:)
I agree about the great movies--so rich in ideas and technique that every viewing is a rewarding experience.
A personal aside about TV: When I was very young, there was no TV (ha!). Then there were just a couple of channels to choose from. Eventually, we did have a TV with some variety, but my mother limited access. And then (this was great for the imagination) we had a broken TV. Sound and no picture. Interesting exercise, making our own pictures in our heads. Once we moved in with my uncle (long story) there was a huge TV. That's when I fell in love with movies--an afternoon show called, Million Dollar Movie. All the classics (mostly from the 40s and early 50s) were shown over and over again.
...Back to the present :) Looking forward to seeing what you bring to us this winter through your camera lens .
:) Great personal story about the TV, this short passage looks like entire post to me, and a very interesting one ... when I imagine people around the broken TV - is a great scene :) whatever the context, surely captures the attention and imagination and looks like a metaphor for something ... is interesting to compare it with my TV history from the 80' in another part of the world with a very different political and economic system, we had a small black and white TV until the mid eighties, I remember watching all movies and documentaries in monochrome and often not knowing which ones were originally in color ... I remember once, visiting my Dad's friend from work in the city, and there was a normal TV :) that looked huge to me, and on the program was '' The thief of Baghdad" movie - it looked fantastic, and that moment is still very vivid in memory ... we had officially only two programs to chose from, but here where I live, near Italy, we can see the Italian programs too, although often the signal was pretty bad, depending on of the weather conditions, sometimes, when something good was on some Italian program, my father will go on the roof turning the antenna, and I was watching the TV and yelling - good, when the image started to look better or stopped moving up and down ... on our Yugoslavian TV , beside the tons of domestic movies about Partisans that gave me the feeling that the WW2 was over only a few months ago and ready to explode again, there was also, somehow, place and time for a lot of good foreign classic movies, not only Hollywood, but also French, Italian and Russian classics, I think that the explanation of the so many movies in program is that there was no Reality shows :) no political debate programs, and just one daily news report in 19 :30 h
What an amazing image I get of your father standing on the roof and trying to adjust the antenna. Great comedy routine could be (and probably has been) made of just such as scene.
As for WWII movies--I used to have nightmares as a child about being strafed through my bedroom window by aerial bombers. I was born in 1947, so the war truly was close, even though it had not been fought on U.S. territory. Interesting how the cinema can eclipse time so that you and I had the same experience, decades apart.
Thank you for that glimpse into your experience. It is quite rich and you know I am easily impressed, so I found it very enjoyable.