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Showing posts with label the graduate. Show all posts

8/25/14

Fall fashions in classic movies

 This is something genius, photographer Bobby Doherty has included this season's runway items into some classic movies' stills and the contrast is really great.

From Oz's red shoes turning into Saint Laurent boots or Marie Anoitnette dressing Dior, these pictures are really fantastic and proving that fashion is ageless and iconic movies can follow today's trends. I've posted a few below but be sure to check out many more at the source.

 Bette Davis and Joan Crawford in 'What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?' in Erdem and Givenchy.

 Diane Keaton in 'Annie Hall' in Saint Laurent.

 Kirsten Dunst in 'Marie Antoinette' dressing Dior.

 Faye Dunaway in 'Bonnie & Clyde' in Miu Miu.

 Meryl Streep in 'Kramer vs. Kramer' in Burberry Prorsum.

 Gwyneth Paltrow in 'The Royal Tenembaums' in a Valentino coat & Hermès bag.

 Brigitte Bardot in 'Comptent' in Chanel.

Anne Bancroft in 'The Graduate' in Brian Atwood heels.

sources: nymag

10/3/12

'The Graduate' (1967)






Sometimes it's the little things and details that happen during filming that make it onto the movie giving it a whole new meaning than the originally intended. This is the case of the most remembered scene of 'The Graduate' and also one of the most memorable endings in cinema, when Benjamin finally runs away with Elaine to start a new life away from the pressure and the directions of their parents. It is flawless because at first they're laughing in the bus, feeling all the joy and excitement of the moment, but all of a sudden they stop smiling and remain silent and pensive, as if they were considering what the hell they have just done. Well, that may be what you can take out of that scene but according to director Mike Nichols (who also directed the flawless 'Closer'), this was a result of something else:

Director Mike Nichols claims that the final "sobering"emotion that Benjamin and Elaine go through was due to the fact that he had just been shouting at the two of them to laugh in the scene. The actors were so scared that after laughing they stopped, scared. Nichols liked it so much, he kept it.

I'll be posting more trivia like this, because it really makes you look at scenes in a different way, for some these type of things might be a downer, but i think it's part of the beauty of cinema, that even the unexpected things that occur out of the script can turn out to be great moments in cinema history.