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Dustin Hoffman was a new kind of movie star. He wasn't much to look at, but with great movie star charisma. He needed a good film to follow 'The Graduate', and he got one with 'Midnight Cowboy', which also made a great impact. Plus it showed Dustin's range as an actor. He made a couple of turkey's, before starring in 'Little Big Man.' For me, his 70s films are a mixed bunch, but he was always very watchable. He came again strong in the 80s with 'Tootsie', which is a great movie, and star performance. He should have made more films..... he has been a star for going on 50 years. There should have been more movies in his younger years.
There was "Marathon Man". That was an amazing film, very dramatic! I don't know when it came out; I saw it by chance on TV about 20 years ago.
There are so many movies pre-2000 that I can watch over and over. The acting and quality of scripts were amazing. Im not even sure Ive even watched a movie that was made post-2000. May have started out watching one, but never finished due to boredom. They are crap.
Why do you find it funny ? at the time young people thought it was social commentary on the older generation and their corruption
Do you find corruption comical?
My parents had at least one S&G 8-track tape, maybe the soundtrack to the movie - I definitely remember hearing those songs as a little kid!
I'm convinced the devil plays "Scarborough Fair" by Simon & Garfunkel in Hell, just to make the damned souls scream, "Can we please turn up the fire? I can still hear the music!"
I'm convinced the devil plays "Scarborough Fair" by Simon & Garfunkel in Hell, just to make the damned souls scream, "Can we please turn up the fire? I can still hear the music!"
I don't know who you think you're entertaining with bizarre comments like this.
Scarborough Fair is a beautiful song. And, for those of us coming of age at the time of The Graduate's release, the Simon & Garfunkel soundtrack was a profoundly positive addition. It was also something of a novel idea at the time and the concept quickly became hugely successful in countless other films as well.
I don't know who you think you're entertaining with bizarre comments like this.
Mostly myself. But if you don't like it, no one is forcing you to read. Move along....
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Scarborough Fair is a beautiful song.
It makes my ears vomit. Even Barry Manilow says, "That song is just way too white."
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And, for those of us coming of age at the time of The Graduate's release, the Simon & Garfunkel soundtrack was a profoundly positive addition.
I think that says more about the Baby Boomers than it does THE GRADUATE. And nothing good.
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It was also something of a novel idea at the time and the concept quickly became hugely successful in countless other films as well.
It was. THE GRADUATE may have even been the first movie that started this modern trend. It just wasn't done well in THE GRADUATE. Playing the same song over and over and over and over just spoiled it. If you want to see this "novel concept" done well, check out MEAN STREETS. Or pretty much any Martin Scorsese movie for that matter.
Even BILLY JACK used the music of its day to greater effect than THE GRADUATE.
No one's forcing you to watch it. Just move along.
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