ENGB76H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: It Happened One Night, Claudette Colbert, Dustin Hoffman
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Clark gable encounters claudette colbert on the train (2) self-transformation through negotiation (3) misunderstanding (4) mutual reciprocity (commitment, trust and intimacy) Sound of silence key theme throughout the film. That talking isn"t necessary the only way of communication. Emoted through the song performed by simon & garfunkel. No one is speaking through the airline flight. Key motif of benjamin (dustin hoffman) being locked in by a wall of silence. Romanticism allows for personal growth and change and to emancipate from emotional shackles created by others. The graduate was at the time of the sexual revolution. The graduate in a sense is the opposite to it happened one night. Romance isn"t about physical intimacy but emotional intimacy. Mrs. robinson is destroying the very thought of love for benjamin. She became married out of convenience, because she became pregnant pre-marital which is why she could never experience true love then marriage.
