... founding fathers. As you all know Benjamin died one month ago at the age of 84. I would like to share with you some moments from my amazing interview with him. Ben as he told me to call him came into my office like an ordinary American. You could have never guessed that he was the Benjamin Franklin who had such a great ... for blacks and Indians, I also started a hospital. "so in your early thirties you were a assembly clerk, postmaster, and sponsor of libraries, hospitals, academies and a college?" Correct Tell me more about Ben the scientist. "Well, at the age of 42 I decided to retir...

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... character to the film; she represents a world away from the adults of Benjamin's life, from whom he desperately wants to separate. Elaine, just like Ben, has recently been through college, and "coming of age."" She is unlike Mrs. Robinson, and this is what Benjamin wants. Personally I didn't find ... forgiven or understood Benjamin. She obviously thought he was a cut above of her parents' rampant mouths, or else she wouldn't have left with Ben. The films main social criticism was clearly parents, adults' ignorance of youth and their desire to mold their children into something of their o...

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... parents know what is best for their kids is continually shot down throughout the film, for example when his parents through him the graduation party when Ben clearly doesn't want it then in the party he feels awkward and out of place. Another example is when his parents through him a birthday ... out of touch parents who were from a different era. The young people of the time were starting to think philosophically so they could relate to Ben steering clear on the materialism that enveloped all those around him. The movie also struck a chord with young people especially males because of th...

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... attention to Mrs. Robinson very quickly. The speed then changes from a steady speed to a faster pace of editing. This again represents what is going through Ben's mind, for example, seeing Mrs. Robinson naked. He doesn't know where to look, and he panics, and the jump cuts show this. The mise- ... at her. He starts to sweat, stumbles on his words and bites his lip. Mrs. Robinson's" facial expressions and body language are a lot different to Ben's. They more or less say the same throughout the whole scene. She comes across as very confident. She holds her cigarette very woman like; this d...

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... , but his parents forced him to join the party. As he reluctantly entered the downstairs, he was stopped by his parents' friends. They asked Ben several questions of what he wanted to do with his future, and he informed them that he had no clue what the future would bring for ... him. Although he tried to escape and avoid the situation, people kept stopping Ben, inquisitive about his future. Escaping from the uncomfortable situation, Benjamin snuck back upstairs to his room when Mrs. Robinson, the wife of his father's business ... in the hall standing by Elaine's room. Elaine turned and ...

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... graduating from Holden Caulfieldish College. His parents, an upper-middle-class Southern Californian family, seem to have organized everything for their son. However, Ben doesn't seem to have his future clear. He hangs around the swimming pool, sensing a general repugnance for the lifestyle that surrounds him though ... and courage to break away from it. Mrs. Robinson (Bancroft), a family friend, who seemed to be a frustrated wife, saw in Ben the opportunity of breaking through the miserable and boring life she was experiencing. The timid young man was seduced and started a long-term aff...

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... neither quixotic nor sentimental. The relationship itself serves as a caustic satire of modern society (although the movie was filmed in the sixties, the message is still just as applicable), and Ben's mentality throughout the affair is so similar to Holden Caulfield's that what humor can be found in his situation and in the film's dialogue is overshadowed. Benjamin's relationship with Elaine ... happily ever after, and the audience is not left with that "all is right with the world- feeling that one comes to expect at the end of a Romantic Comedy. Instead, Ben's restless, unsettled moo...

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... 't be described by any word other than dysfunctional. Benjamin Hood and his wife Elena have a fairly poor relationship and hardly ever talk to their children, Paul and Wendy. One night Ben and Elena go to the Carver's for dinner. During dinner at the Carver's house, we are introduced to Janey Carver, her constantly traveling husband Jim, and their two sons, Mikey ... immediately begins to mop it up. Here we get our first glimpse of the attraction between Janey Carver and Benjamin Hood. A few scenes later we find out that Janey and Ben are in fact having an affair, the first indication th...

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... she received. Once Benjamin received the position of one of three commissioners to France, he saw this as an awesome opportunity for William's son Temple, to become an honest republican. Ben's reputation as a scientist and political philosopher got him to France, where he received an upper class role in their society. William was released in October of 1778; Elizabeth had already ... ...

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