Mrs. Robinson

Mrs. Robinson did exactly what she wanted to do. Any reasonably attractive woman can find a man to fuck her. She chose a teenage boy. Neither seemed to have a problem with it until he fell for her daughter

Well, the teenage "boy" was only 5 years younger.

She had fabulous taste in animal print lingerie, that's one good thing about her.

She had great style.

I wanted to see "The Graduate Part 2" with Mrs. Robinson "A stroke victim" as pitched by Buck Henry in Robert Altman's film "The Player".

@r2, Bancroft was 5 years older than Hoffman, but the character Mrs. Robinson had a daughter the same age as Benjamin. She was 40-ish and he was 20-ish

She fucked her college boyfriend, got knocked up, married a man she did not love, became a raging alcoholic and was surround by “friends” she did not want to see. She became a sex addict, cougared her husband’s best friend’s son and then discovered he was in love with her own daughter. Cut her some slack.

Mrs. Robinson's leg in the movie poster belonged to Linda Gray.

I think Bancroft had rather fat legs.

Anne was far to hot to be seducing a dweeb like Dusty

^ Really? She always reminded me of my mom's friends 😬

Iconic role in a great film. She was a creature of her time- a middle aged woman locked in a loveless marriage without the umph to leave her traditional role who ends up defending the facade of her life albeit enraged by jealousy of her own daughter. Not hard to see the real source of her anger- and her eventual pathetic cowardice. Bancroft is perfect.

Many women of her time I’m certain could identify although they probably did not take such risk. But they were just as angry and frustrated. I’m pretty sure my Mom fits the bill. Perfect beautiful corporate wife nanaging multiple homes, raising millions for her causes, too afraid to become a professional in the non profit world, and mad as hell at herself for her devotion to the posh status quo of her life and the male world keeping her there.

I liked her make up.

Benjamin had just graduated from college, so he would have been around 22 years old. Elaine (Robinsons' daughter) was around Hoffman's character's age, so, also around 22 years old. Mrs. Bancroft would've been maybe 46?

[quote] enraged by jealousy of her own daughter

IMO, she wasn't jealous of her own daughter. Mrs. Robinson did care about her daughter and did not want her daughter's life "ruined."

Mrs. Robinson had a low opinion of herself (alcoholic, miserable life, and she was aware of it). When she fucked Benjamin, that brought Benjamin down to her level. He's soiled, befouled by association. If Benjamin then associates with Elaine, then Elaine is also soiled and befouled.

As someone who regularly wears animal prints to seduce the sons of my neighbors, she’s my role model.

Mrs Robinson was lucky to get that hawt 22 Jewish dick.

She was a bitch who seduced her daughter's boyfriend out of boredom and to get an ego boost. She didn't care about the consequences. At the end, she slaps her own daughter for disobeying her by walking away from the hunk at the altar.

She liked anal. But Benji thought it was too gay.

Mrs. Mel Brooks

She was a fun real life character, OP. Don’t over think.

They cut the shots of her using a silver spoon to cup his sperm out of her cunt and then feeding it back to him.

Unfortunate loss for the OP's full understanding.

She always looked 50-ish to me.

Mrs. Robbin some cradle

Before I condemn her, I'd like to know how many of her daughter's friends her husband had fucked.

I can't remember, was she married to the plastics guy?

Coo, coo, ca-choo……..

[quote] She was a bitch who seduced her daughter's boyfriend out of boredom and to get an ego boost.

IIRC, Benjamin wasn't dating Eileen until after his affair w/Mrs. Robinson.

Her delivery was so great

"Do you know I'm an alcoholic?"

"...because I'm a neurotic."

Love her so much.

This film is pretty wonderful, for a lot of reasons, but the second half—when Benjamin becomes fixated on Elaine for no discernible reason—is so depressing. The same S&G song plays over and over…

All the scenes with Bancroft are fantastic. I still feel sad about her death.

She was so complicated. Went from seductive to hateful

God bless you, please, Mrs. Robinson at R25.

Hay fever?

The thing is, Mrs. Robinson is right to be upset that Benjamin is mooning after her daughter, for Elaine's sake. She knows Benjamin is in a funk and has no plans for the future, he's just chasing after her out of boredom, horniness, and because chasing a girl gives him something to do with himself. And Elaine only responds because she doesn't really want to settle down yet - both Benjamin and Elaine see each other as a distraction, a way out of the horrors of adulthood. They don't love each other, and as long as they're together they're going to avoid growing up and taking responsibility for anything.

They won't be together for long, and before long Mrs. Robinson is going to have to deal with Elaine coming home and being a pain in the ass after the breakup, and Benjamin will still be around because he'll still be living in his childhood bedroom down the street. And all the money that was spent on the big wedding will be gone.

All correct, R31.

Mrs. Robinson is the only sensible person in the film, aside from maybe Benjamin’s mother.

Enjoy!

[quote] This film is pretty wonderful, for a lot of reasons, but the second half—when Benjamin becomes fixated on Elaine for no discernible reason—is so depressing. The same S&G song plays over and over…

Yeah, agree (depressing), and I think that was supposed to be a happy ending: love wins!

Also, yeah, that same song, over and over and over. Enough!

My favorite film. I fell in love with the soundtrack and Mrs Robinson

[quote]Mrs. Robinson is the only sensible person in the film, aside from maybe Benjamin’s mother.

Benjamin's mother, who screamed (literally) with joy when her layabout 20-year-old son announced he was going to marry? Who or what was going to pay for their lifestyle? Plastics?

^ The parents were all well-connected Benjamin would have landed a good job, the parents would have given him money for a house and they all lived happily ever after

Coo coo ka chu

The opening scene was like a Kodachrome ad (yes I’m old) come to life.

Jesus loves her more than she will know.

Dustanne Hoffer was such an ugly fucking dog. My dogness the standards were low in the 1950s for male beauty.

The opening science was a literal flashback for anyone from sixties/seventies L.A., right down to using the real voice of LAX for announcements: the white zone is for loading and unloading of passengers only!

[quote]What your angle on Mrs. Robinson?

I found that she generally preferred it hard up and slightly to the left.

R31 was watching some other movie…he missed the “generation gap” satire, and he failed to understanding the source of Mrs. Robinson’s anger—she was self-loathing—it had nothing to do whatsoever with Ben’s prospects.

Meh! I liked Joanne in Company better. She befriended the bisexual/possibly gay men.

R41 Hoffman was an unknown teen in the 50s.

R34 happy ending?! Huh?

The ending was deliberately ambiguous.

R24 not even close. Her husband Murray Hamilton was William Daniels’ law partner.

This movie was comedy gold—perfect satire.

We could have gotten a version starring Joan Crawford and Harrison Ford.

I was watching clips on YT last night. When Ben goes to the reception to get a room for the first time - it's so incredibly well choreographed. Isn't there a French word for that kind of comedy...when they sort of dance around and don't say anything?

go to 03:40 >

Dustanne Hoffer was a fucking dog in any decade.

To each his own, I found Hoffman sexy here. Dark brown and big nose do it for me.

R53 I guess Dusty is less attractive when you read what a jerk he was to some of his co-stars, like grabbing Meryl's tit or being a control freak

Angela Lansbury wanted the role

He became cuter as the film went on - all tanned and laid back and sexually confident. They're pretty careful not to photograph him in full profile.

Here he is being interviewed about the film in later years and in it he looks quite good looking.

Mrs Robinson was a stylishly frustrated, young looking for her age, alcoholic getting some 20 year old dick. She should be one of the patrons saints of datalounge

You'd think they'd have chosen a more discreet hotel. Instead they meet at a very lively and fashionable 5 star hotel near to where the Robinsons live.

Isn’t this your favorite scene?

R58 is nuts. They shot at the Ambassador Hotel (ever heard of it?). In the novel, they live in Pasadena, IIRC. In the movie, the house is in Beverly Hills.

R59 one of them, yes.

The Singleman Party Foxtrot! …it’s on the soundtrack, not credited to S&G ;)

[quote][R58] is nuts. They shot at the Ambassador Hotel (ever heard of it?)

Yes, I was there before they destroyed it.

How does that make me nuts?

The Ambassador Hotel in 1967 would never be described as a lively and fashionable 5 star hotel near to where the Robinsons live, except by nutty ol’ you.

^ You're starting to annoy me, actually.

And she had really bad taste! Didn't her son have any handsome well built horny studly dumb and full of cum friends to seduce and screw??!!...

Yea if you're going to seduce a young man, at least make him comely!

😏^

My freshman dorm was across the street from the Theta Delt house, where Ben goes to find out about the wedding location. Mike Nichols was refused permission to shoot on-campus, so all of the actual Berkeley footage was shot off-campus or surreptitiously just by Sproul Plaza. He was left with no choice but to film the on-campus scenes between Elaine and Ben at USC (which campus looks nothing like Berkeley’s).

In the late 70s and in the 80s, watching this movie was part of the freshman orientation program.

R69 did you get much cock in college back in the day?

You're a whore, Darling.

And so's your daughter.

^nit sure how that fits into this thread, but you asked: I could still draw you a map, by memory, of all the best glory holes and crushing spots on campus. And Steamworks bathhouse was a 20 min bus and walk from my fraternity house. And all of the SF sex clubs were just 30-40 min away by BART.

*cruising

…sorry

R73 were you a right dirty slapper?

I think Dustin has to be bi!

r69 at least through the 90s, was still shown graduation week at Stanford

R75 Dustin is, and always was, about as hot as an Eskimo's fart

The Mrs. Robinson role was offered to Doris Day and Susan Hayward. Doris would’ve brought an ironic quality to it. She turned it down.

Susan Hayward would’ve been excellent, but she didn’t like the semi-nude scenes. Mike Nicholas seriously considered her. Susan would’ve been a “cougar” in it.

Doris turned it down as she didn't want to get her baps out

^ Doris was also "America's Virgin" and didn't want to tarnish that image

R76 Stanford—always pulling up the rear behind Berkeley.

R 20-ish isn't a teenager

Doris only did love scenes with gay actors. Unless Doris saw Dustin going into Everhard Baths, she wasn’t about to get her baps out for some Method Actor.

"[R31] was watching some other movie…he missed the “generation gap” satire,"

No, I was just looking at it through my modern eyes. and experience with people.

And today all that "Generation Gap" stuff looks pretty silly, as silly as Helicopter Parenting will look 50 years from now.

^ 20-ish = 19-21. Stop nitpicking 😠

Her baps 😂

Doris had nothing to be shy about

Benjamin probably wasn't first young man Mrs. Robinson seduced and or bedded. She was a bored, unhappy and slightly neurotic woman trapped in a doll's house she herself built.

On another note William Daniels for a man born and raised in Brooklyn, NY nails old patrician WASP male once again. He did same in Saint Elsewhere and other roles.

Dustin Hoffman was born in 1937 and William Daniels in 1927 making only ten years difference between "father and son".

Still cringe every time seen this scene. Brings back too many memories of parties at my folks house or at their club. Either way all one could think about is how to make a quick exit without appearing rude.

As for the "plastics" remark, it was spot on.

ABS was patented in 1948 and introduced to commercial markets by the Borg-Warner Corporation in 1954. Ten years later and onwards plastics were replacing metals and other things such as porcelain enamel coated steel.

If you bought a refrigerator or freezer in 1960's it still likely had either aluminum or porcelain enamel on steel interior. By 1970's you saw more and more units with ABS interiors.

Most of you on DL likely remember your mother's other household appliances were likely mostly metal such as vacuum cleaners, they're all largely plastic today.

Beautiful Berkley! Natives know something is amiss with this scene!

Anne Bancroft's death anniversary is coming up soon.

[quote] Most of you on DL likely remember your mother's other household appliances were likely mostly metal

I remember the changeover with ice trays. You would freeze your hands trying to get ice out of the metal ones.

R91 that one hit me hard - loved her.

I love Mrs. Robinson's house! The exterior white.stucco. And inside, especially the bar with the zebra awnings and the "bar" light.

Another bar pic

I love the greenery through the window lit up at night. I wonder if the interiors were a real house.

The exterior of the Robinson home was 607 Palm Drive, 90210.

Fun fact: the back yard of the Palm Drive house doubled as the yard/pool of the Braddock home.

In 1967 the brick was painted white…it was not actually stucco/faux adobe.

R90 please fix your post. TIA

We could have gotten Joan Crawford, Rita Hayworth, Judy Garland, or Susan Hayward as Mrs. Robinson.

Correction: the fun fact is in dispute, sorry. But 607 North Palm is absolutely the Robinson home.

R100. No we could not have had any them, because Mike Nichols chose Ms. Italiano-Brooks and none of those others.

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Oh that’s what you call it

^^Judy Garland was a drugged out skeleton when the Graduate was being filmed. Nobody would want to have sex with her.

Judy should have played Mrs. Robinson and Liza should have played her daughter.

Mama should have been Misshes Robinschen!!

I would have loved to see Miss Sunshine and Cream Cheese, Doris Day, snake a 20 year old college boy 😂

🎵 Qué será, será 🎵

Well, how's your bird, Mrs. Robinson?

The endless Doris Day references have almost ruined this thread.

Liza should do a remake of The Graduate starring herself as Mrs. Zobinson with a Z.

@r110, The endless whining about Doris Day references is ruining this thread 🙄

Richard Dreyfus is in this movie.

We know dear…he’s one of Mr. Roper’s other boarders, but he’s not an agitator.

I bet that’s how Norman Fell got his role on 3’sC. It was all Mike Nichol’s fault. 🫨

whore. friend son fucker.

Our Joan should have played Mrs. Robinson to Robert Redford's Benjamin. It was the least Anne Bancroft could do after Joan was humble enough to collect an Oscar on her behalf.

R80 fuck that bitch. I'm America's Virgin!!! ME, I, MYSELF! Ask any lazy MAGA bitch that sits at home all day!

Mrs Robinson seemed rapey.

the hip factor this film had was unbelievable.......

My memory is one day the theaters were filled with Doris Day/ Rock Hudson comedies, and then came Easy Rider, ............ and it all changed overnight.

[quote] sixties/seventies L.A., right down to using the real voice of LAX for announcements: the white zone is for loading and unloading of passengers only!

Female announcer: The white zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in the red zone

Male announcer: Listen Betty, don't start up with your white zone shit again.

Male announcer: There's just no stopping in a white zone.

Female announcer: Oh really, Vernon? Why pretend, we both know perfectly well what this is about. You want me to have an abortion.

[quote]r6 a raging alcoholic

She seemed quite composed to me.

Was Kathleen Turner any good in the stage version?

Kathleen bared her tits & minge for the stage version and terrified rows 1 through to 13. No cock from her Benjamin whoever he was

No

Metaphorically, not literally. If you can’t see that from her (sort of controlled) reaction’s to Ben’s relationship with Elaine…we’ll then maybe you didn’t have a raging alcoholic parent.🤷🏻‍♂️

^ I hate autocorrected —or miscorrected—apostrophes in this blue box of Muriel’s!!

Elizabeth Montgomery would have been interesting as "Mrs. Robinson." When Ben shows up at Elaine's wedding, Mrs. Robinson could have "twitched" him away.

We'd like to know a little bit about you for our files. We'd like to help you learn to help yourself.

Look around you, all you see are sympathetic eyes. Stroll around the grounds until you feel at home

Nichols also chose the music by Simon and Garfunkel. When Paul Simon was taking too long to write new songs for the film, he used existing songs, originally planning to replace them with newly written ones. In the end only one new song was available, and Nichols used the existing previously released songs. At one point, when Nichols heard Paul Simon's song, "Mrs. Roosevelt", he suggested to Simon that he change it to "Mrs. Robinson". The song won a Grammy after the film was released and became America's number 1 pop song. Nichols selected all the numerous songs for the film and chose which scenes they would be used in. The placement and selection of songs would affect the way audiences understood the film. Even actor William Daniels, who played Hoffman's father, remembers that after first hearing the songs, especially "The Sound of Silence", he thought, "Oh, wait a minute. That changed the whole idea of the picture for me," suddenly realizing the film would not be a typical comedy.

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