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...lack of available equipment, funding, and Freshman Council support will force the Herman J. Mankiewicz Film Society to temporarily stop showing films at the end of next week, and could cause the freshman film society to permanently lose its affiliation with the Freshman Council...
HARVARD UNION, HERMAN J. MANKIEWICZ PICTURES. The Graduate...
HARVARD UNION. HERMAN J. MANKIEWICZ PICTURES, The Graduate, directed by Mike Nichols, March...
...MANKIEWICZ FEARED audience boredom because so few characters are ever seen at one time, so he introduced lots of unusual props--mainly complicated automated toys from the Victoria Museum of Childhood. He thought they would be interesting in themselves, making another character and providing relief from the constant dialogue. He was wrong, as many critics have been quick to point out. But his idea is still effective, to my mind, not because it makes an extra person but because the living room filled with lively figures extends Wyke's character into the complex fantasy of his fiction. Like Wyke...
Sometimes Mankiewicz's emphasis on the figures is unnecessary, but the best shots in the film depend on it. A long track around the living room, accompanied by Porter's "You Do Something to Me" sums up the mood of Act Two, and these final scenes conclude with a chattering montage, as all the automata go berserk...