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* AwardSnub: The film received seven UsefulNotes/AcademyAward nominations, with Creator/MikeNichols winning Best Director, but none of the Music/SimonAndGarfunkel songs were nominated.
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* DesignatedHero: Much of Creator/RogerEbert's re-review is about feeling 30 years later that there's absolutely nothing good or admirable about Ben.
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* WTHCastingAgency: Dustin Hoffman was completely wrong for the role of Benjamin as described in the book; Book!Benjamin was a handsome, blond jock who was confident and on track for success in love and life, while Dustin Hoffman was small and rather unattractive. When Hoffman was cast at the last minute, Nichols and Hoffman rolled with it and made him insecure and socially-awkward, and the rest was history.
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* WTHCastingAgency: Dustin Hoffman Creator/DustinHoffman was completely wrong for the role of Benjamin as described in the book; Book!Benjamin was a handsome, blond jock who was confident and on track for success in love and life, while Dustin Hoffman was small and rather unattractive. When Hoffman was cast at the last minute, Nichols and Hoffman rolled with it and made him insecure and socially-awkward, and the rest was history.
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* ValuesDissonance: The climax of Ben crashing Elaine's wedding before running off with her on a bus would be seen nowadays as a form of psychological abuse, not helped at all by Ben's early attempts to make out with Elaine only for him to continually be rebuffed.
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* ValuesDissonance: The climax of Ben crashing Elaine's wedding before running off with her on a bus would be is today seen nowadays as a form of psychological abuse, not helped at all by Ben's early attempts to make out with Elaine only for him to continually be rebuffed.
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*** The whole "Ben follows Elaine around even though she keeps rebuffing him to the point of crashing her wedding and them happily running off together" sequence hasn't aged well in the [=#MeToo=] era.
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* AwardCategoryFraud: A few people have claimed that Creator/AnneBancroft should've been nominated in supporting rather than lead, as Creator/DustinHoffman is clearly the much larger role, and Bancroft takes more of a backseat to both him and Creator/KatharineRoss in the second half.
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** A young Mike Farrell (aka [[Series/{{MASH}} B.J. Hunnicutt]]) can be briefly glimpsed as one of the hotel staff greeting "Mr. Gladstone" when Ben takes Elaine there for a drink.
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** A young Mike Farrell Creator/MikeFarrell (aka [[Series/{{MASH}} B.J. Hunnicutt]]) can be briefly glimpsed as one of the hotel staff greeting "Mr. Gladstone" when Ben takes Elaine there for a drink.
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* AwardCategoryFraud: A few people have claimed that Creator/AnneBancroft should've been nominated in supporting rather than lead, as Creator/DustinHoffman is clearly the much larger role, and Bancroft takes more of a backseat to both him and Creator/KatherineRoss in the second half.
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* AwardCategoryFraud: A few people have claimed that Creator/AnneBancroft should've been nominated in supporting rather than lead, as Creator/DustinHoffman is clearly the much larger role, and Bancroft takes more of a backseat to both him and Creator/KatherineRoss Creator/KatharineRoss in the second half.
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** Both [[Series/{{Bewitched}} Aunt Clara and Esmerelda]] are on the receiving line for the Singleman party at the hotel.
** [[Series/ThreesCompany Mr. Roper]] is Ben's landlord in Berkeley.
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** Both [[Series/{{Bewitched}} Marion Lorne and Creator/AliceGhostley ([[Series/{{Bewitched}} Aunt Clara and Esmerelda]] Esmerelda]], respectively) are on in the receiving line for the Singleman party at the hotel.
**[[Series/ThreesCompany Norman Fell ([[Series/ThreesCompany Mr. Roper]] Roper]]) is Ben's landlord in Berkeley.
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* SignatureSong:
** "The Sound of Silence"
** "Mrs. Robinson"
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** "Mrs. Robinson"
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** The runner up for this title would go to "Plastics". Strangely enough, on AFI's list of the top 100 movie quotes, this line actually placed higher than the more iconic one above.
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* OneSceneWonder: Walter Brooke as the avuncular Mr. [=McGuire=], who buttonholes Ben at his graduation party. He's onscreen for all of about forty seconds and has just a few lines, but the single word of advice he offers Ben -- "Plastics" -- is one of the best-remembered things about the entire movie.
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* OneSceneWonder: Walter Brooke as the avuncular Mr. [=McGuire=], who buttonholes Ben at his graduation party. He's onscreen for all of about forty seconds and has just a few lines, but the single word of advice he offers to Ben -- "Plastics" -- is one of the best-remembered things about the entire movie.
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* OneSceneWonder: Walter Brooke as the avuncular Mr. [=McGuire=], who buttonholes Ben at his graduation party. He's onscreen for all of about forty seconds and has just a few lines, but the single word of advice he offers to Ben -- "Plastics" -- is one of the best-remembered things about the entire movie.
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* OneSceneWonder: Walter Brooke as the avuncular Mr. [=McGuire=], who buttonholes Ben at his graduation party. He's onscreen for all of about forty seconds and has just a few lines, but the (literal) single word of advice he offers to Ben -- "Plastics" -- is one of the best-remembered things about the entire movie.
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* OneSceneWonder: Walter Brooke as the avuncular Mr. [=McGuire=], who buttonholes Ben at his graduation party. He's onscreen for all of about forty seconds and has just a handful of few lines, but the (literal) word of advice he offers to Ben -- "Plastics" -- is one of the best-remembered things about the entire movie.
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* TheWoobie: Elaine, considering the fact that her mother is a total bitch to her- First her mother commits adultery with Ben (in her own bedroom), then takes her out of college (to keep her away from Ben), forces her into an unhappy marriage, then finally slaps her hard across the head when she chooses to run off with Ben.
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* TheWoobie: Elaine, considering the fact that her mother is a total bitch to her- Elaine. First her mother commits adultery with Ben (in her own bedroom), then takes her out of college (to keep her away from Ben), forces her into an unhappy marriage, then finally slaps her hard across the head when she chooses to run off with Ben.
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* MisaimedFandom: Kids in the 1960s cheered for Ben. Twenty years later, many of the same people found themselves cheering for Mrs. Robinson after realizing WhatAnIdiot Ben was. (Creator/RogerEbert notes this in his re-review.) A more modern perspective, and presumably closest to the original vision of the film, is that they're ''all'' messed up and not terribly likable.
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* MisaimedFandom: Kids in the 1960s cheered for Ben. Twenty years A couple decades later, many of the same people found themselves cheering for sympathizing more with Mrs. Robinson after realizing WhatAnIdiot Ben was. (Creator/RogerEbert notes this in his re-review.) A more modern perspective, and presumably closest to the original vision of the film, is that they're ''all'' messed up and not terribly likable.
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* MisaimedFandom: Kids from in the 1960s cheered for Ben. Twenty years later, many of the same people cheered found themselves cheering for Mrs. Robinson, when they realized Robinson after realizing WhatAnIdiot Ben was. (Creator/RogerEbert notes this in his re-review.) A more modern perspective, and presumably closest to the original vision of the film, is that they're ''all'' messed up and not terribly likable.
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* MisaimedFandom: Kids from the 1960's 1960s cheered for Ben. Twenty years later, the same people cheered for Mrs. Robinson, when they realized WhatAnIdiot Ben was. (Creator/RogerEbert notes this in his re-review.) A more modern perspective, and presumably closest to the original vision of the film, is that they're ''all'' messed up and not terribly likable.
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* OneSceneWonder: Walter Brooke as the avuncular Mr. [=McGuire=], who buttonholes Ben at his graduation party. He's onscreen for all of about forty seconds and has just a handful of lines, but the literal (literal) word of advice he offers to Ben -- "Plastics" -- became is one of the best-remembered things about the entire movie.
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** Not to mention the realization that Creator/WilliamDaniels played Ben's father, at least for those who grew up watching him as [[Series/BoyMeetsWorld Mr. Feeny]] or [[Series/KnightRider KITT]] or [[Series/StElsewhere Dr.Craig]] or [[Theatre/SeventeenSeventySix John Adams]] first.
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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Music/SimonAndGarfunkel breaths life into this film, including FolkRock tracks such as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7XqimTfEKo Mrs. Robinson]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLAqx8JxLFA&list=PLF0B8E08A26922C98&index=4 Scarborough Fair]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8khnmDCws4k The Sound ]][[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqHr_m4gBfk of silence]].
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