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* CrankyLandlord: Mr. [=McCleery=] who runs the boarding house like a tight ship, has no tolerance for agitators. After Elaine is shocked by the rumors that Ben raped Mrs. Robinson and faints, [=McCleery=] gives Ben his only warning, stating that he doesn't like him. Later, when a hostile Mr. Robinson warns Ben to stay away from Elaine and he considers Benjamin scum, [=McCleery=] evicts Ben from the boarding house.
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* EndsWithASmile: Subverted by the LeaveTheCameraRunning nature of the ending. The movie seems like it's going to end when Elaine and Benjamin jump on the bus together, beaming. As the shot goes on, both of their smiles fade to more contemplative and uncertain expressions before the movie (actually) ends.
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* StalkingIsLove: Ben watches Elaine leave for Berkeley behind the bushes, then goes to Berkley to be near her, then chases a bus to bug her as she's on her way to a date with another guy, despite the fact that this entire time she kind of hates him. Eventually he succeeds in convincing her to like him again.
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* StalkingIsLove: Ben watches Elaine leave for Berkeley behind the bushes, then goes to Berkley to be near her, then chases a bus to bug her as she's on her way to a date with another guy, despite the fact that this entire time she kind of hates him. Eventually he succeeds in convincing her to like him again. again, and [[spoiler:they ultimately flee together.]]
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Also in the cast are Creator/WilliamDaniels and Elizabeth Wilson as Ben's parents and Murray Hamilton as the unsuspecting Mr. Robinson. Creator/RichardDreyfuss briefly appears in one of his first film roles; he has one line.
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Also in the cast are Creator/WilliamDaniels and Elizabeth Wilson Creator/ElizabethWilson as Ben's parents and Murray Hamilton as the unsuspecting Mr. Robinson. Creator/RichardDreyfuss briefly appears in one of his first film roles; he has one line.
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* SadTimesMontage: Set to Simon and Garfunkel, of course. Features mostly clips of Ben floating around in a pool and jumping into bed repeatedly with MILF Mrs. Robinson, one might think that this should be a GoodTimesMontage. However, the music is sad, Ben's facial expression almost never changes from one of lost boredom, and the general idea conveyed is that he's just drifting with no idea what to do with himself or his life, lost in a sea of easy-on-the-ears folk rock angst. (Another, even sadder one comes after Elaine discovers Ben's affair with her mother and leaves for Berkeley.)
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** One such montage (set to Simon and Garfunkel, ofcourse. Features course) features mostly clips of Ben floating around in a pool and jumping into bed repeatedly with MILF Mrs. Robinson, one Robinson. One might think that this should be a GoodTimesMontage. However, GoodTimesMontage; however, the music is sad, Ben's facial expression almost never changes from one of lost boredom, and the general idea conveyed is that he's just drifting with no idea what to do with himself or his life, lost in a sea of easy-on-the-ears folk rock angst. (Another, angst.
** Another even sadderone montage comes after Elaine discovers Ben's affair with her mother and leaves for Berkeley.)
** One such montage (set to Simon and Garfunkel, of
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** In another sequence when, at yet another party thrown by his parents, Ben is forced to display the scuba gear he recently received, despite his overall unwillingness to be there. The scene is shot from Ben's perspective inside the suit, making the voices and sight of the guests distorted and distant until Ben finally gets to the pool and is able to submerge himself, when it all goes silent, symbolising the disconnect he feels from his parents social environment and lifestyle, and his subtle wish to escape it all.
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** In another sequence when, at yet another party thrown by his parents, Ben is forced to display the scuba gear he recently received, despite his overall unwillingness to be there. The scene is shot from Ben's perspective inside the suit, making the voices and sight of the guests distorted and distant until Ben finally gets to the pool and is able to submerge himself, when it all goes silent, symbolising the disconnect he feels from his parents parents' social environment and lifestyle, and his subtle wish to escape it all.
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** Mrs. Robinson's first name is never revealed. FridgeBrilliance when you realize that she ''really is nothing more than Mr. Robinson's wife''.
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** Mrs. Robinson's first name is never revealed. FridgeBrilliance when you realize that revealed, although the book gives "G.L." as her first and middle initials. After all, she ''really is nothing more than Mr. Robinson's wife''.
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** In the book, Benjamin has already slept with so many prostitutes he's lost count.
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** In The scene plays differently between the book, Benjamin movie (which heavily implies that Ben really is a virgin) and the book (in which he has already previously confessed to his father that he's slept with so many prostitutes hookers that he's lost count.count).
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** In the book, Benjamin has already slept with so many prostitutes he's lost count.
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** In the book, Mr. Robinson when Ben breaks into his house.
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* BookEnds: Begins and ends with "The Sound of Silence".
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* BookEnds: Begins and ends with "The Sound of Silence".Silence" and Ben staring straight ahead while being transported by machinery.
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* EstablishingCharacterMusic: Benjamin is introduced making his way through the Los Angeles airport after coming back home from college, to the strains of Music/SimonAndGarfunkel's "The Sounds of Silence" and Ben staring straight ahead while being transported by machinery.
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* EstablishingCharacterMusic: Benjamin is introduced making his way through the Los Angeles airport after coming back home from college, to the strains of Music/SimonAndGarfunkel's "The Sounds Sound of Silence" and Ben staring straight ahead while being transported by machinery.Silence."
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* EstablishingCharacterMusic: Benjamin is introduced making his way through the Los Angeles airport after coming back home from college, to the strains of Music/SimonAndGarfunkel's "The Sounds of Silence".
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* EstablishingCharacterMusic: Benjamin is introduced making his way through the Los Angeles airport after coming back home from college, to the strains of Music/SimonAndGarfunkel's "The Sounds of Silence".Silence" and Ben staring straight ahead while being transported by machinery.
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** The book is even more ambiguous: Elaine turns to Ben and addresses him by name, Ben replies, "What?", and the bus drives away.
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* AdaptationalUgliness: In the novel, Ben is quite handsome, which makes Mrs. Robinson seem a good deal less desperate. In fact, movie-Ben's awkwardness in general is artistic license by Nichols and Hoffman; Ben's character in the book is a prototypical WASP golden-boy athlete brimming with confidence and charisma (Creator/RobertRedford was the original choice to play the role, only to be turned down because he was so successful with ladies, he had no idea what it was like to strike out with a girl). Dustin Hoffman's short stature, darker features, awkward clumsiness and insecurity (of which the affair with Mrs. Robinson is the chief catalyst in ridding him) are not present in the book.
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