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The Graduate Movie Analysis
The Graduate is a comedy-drama based in the 1960’s, which follows the story of a struggling college graduate who is seduced by an older woman and ends up falling in love with her daughter. Directed by Mike Nichols, The Graduate ‘captured the spirit of the times’. The 1960’s marked a change in film scoring, instead of the well-established orchestral ‘Hollywood sound’ the industry demanded a more modern approach thus marked integration of popular music. Nichols approached Simon and Garfunkel a raising folk-rock duo to contribute to the composition of the score. Simon was hesitant at first been quite underwhelmed by the book, ‘I didn't like anything about the film at first…. I was only impressed with Mike Nichols who asked us to do it’. Convinced
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