Worn out and a drunk, possessing everything but feeling almost nothing, her only source of satisfaction is her daughter. But Elaine is also her darkest secret: conceived not in holy matrimony, but rather in the backseat of a Ford. Perhaps most wickedly, Mrs. Robinson is not content to wallow alone in her misery. Instead, she's driven to corrupt the young Benjamin, a confused but idealistic year-old. Yet as much as this film celebrates the comparative purity of the young, the future these kids envision is pretty conventional.
Once Benjamin comes out of his fog, all he can think about is getting married. He doesn't want to run off to a commune or shack up with Elaine in some hippie love den. He wants to get married. Within his fairy-tale planning, he even builds in time to get blood tests.
Paul Simon's song makes only a limited appearance in the film. The version of "Mrs. Robinson" that was released as a single and included on Simon and Garfunkel's album Bookends told us much more about the musical Mrs. Robinson than we learned in the movie. For example, the Mrs. Robinson of song spent some time in an asylum or rehab, but a verse at the center of the track speaks to the hypocrisy that sits at the core of Mrs. Robinson's film-and-song existence:.
Hide it in a hiding place where no one ever goes. Put it in your pantry with your cupcakes. It's a little secret, just the Robinsons' affair. Most of all you've got to hide it from the kids. It's not completely clear to which secret the song refers. It could be the fact that Mrs. Robinson is an alcoholic and stuck in an empty marriage. Or maybe the lines refer to the premarital conception of her daughter.
Perhaps drugs as well as alcohol are stashed in her pantry. Robinson , out on a date. Ben and Elaine hit it off and are clearly at ease with one another, being much closer in age, but Mrs.
Robinson threatens to reveal their affair to Elaine unless he breaks off the relationship. In an effort to redeem himself with Elaine, Ben attempts to be open with her about his previous rendezvous with her mother, but she rejects him after hearing Mrs. Robinson tell her side of the story, claiming Ben raped her while she was drunk, knowing that no one will believe she actually played a more predatory role in their affair. She reveals to Ben that she feels neglected by her husband, and only married him because she was pregnant with Elaine.
She studied art in college and had many other interests in her youth aside from marriage and motherhood, but chose to accept the disruption of pregnancy as an excuse to enter into a marriage of security and wealth.
Robinson appears to regret this decision and the empty life she ended up with at many points, making her character complex and sympathetic. A number of references to Mrs.
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Art Garfunkel and Alan Arkin in 'Catch Robinson" and the soundtrack of The Graduate. After the mutual success, Nichols decided to take the relationship further, casting both musicians in his next movie, the adaptation of Joseph Heller's Catch It seemed like a fine plan -- until Nichols cut Paul Simon out of the movie.
Garfunkel, who had always harbored acting ambitions, stayed on, and had a significant role as the airman Nately. Simon was disappointed at his partner's lack of solidarity.
The duo split up later in Simon's song "The Only Living Boy In New York" is said to be based on the time he spent waiting for Garfunkel to return from Rome so that they could get on with recording the album. Toggle navigation.
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