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Musical Style In Mike Nichols's 'The Graduate'

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Mike Nichols’s uses music to help generate an emotional response from the audience by using music to shape Benjamin Braddock's (Dustin Hoffman) character who is a coming of age and who is an apathetic graduate student returning home to take his place in the world. The musical score for The Graduate is not an original written score but the music of Simon and Garfunkel which happens to be Mike Nichol’s favorite musical team. With that in mind, Nichol’s also uses Simon and Garfunkel’s music to shape the Southern Californian musical style with Southern Californian setting, to distinguish and show the emotions of Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman) towards life, his inability to communicate with his parents, and finally going after the love of his
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