THE GRADUATE movie｢卒 業｣ in Berkeley (UC & Telegraph Ave) v4

[@12classics39]

The instrumental of “Scarborough Fair” over this scene is absolutely stunning.

[@barefooboy17]

I sat at this table many times in the 80's and even today

[@httm241]

Still running to catch the 51B

[@chenzenzo]

Damn straight!

[@azthangle]

They don’t make love story movie like this any more. Fell in love with UC Berkeley because of this movie and Simon Garfunkel music.

[@jamesgarrett3766]

I’d hope not. It’s not a love story at all 😅

[@12classics39]

@@jamesgarrett3766 well that’s part of the beautiful ambiguity of the story. You can view it as a love story or a non-love story, and both interpretations have a lot of merit, considering the many layers to the writing.

[@jamesgarrett3766]

@@12classics39 although I want to agree with your point. I just can’t see how it is a love story. He takes her on one date, treats her horrendously, then she finds he’s been with her mother moves to Berkeley then he just follows her there. My interpretation would be that them running away together is just them rebelling against the system of marrying almost immediately pre sexual revolution, as opposed to them genuinely being in love. Great book/ film and I am open to your interpretations

[@benfisher1376]

​@jamesgarrett3766 I agree. Him taking her to the strip joint was just part if his rebellious insticts to his borgoius environment. He immediately regrets this and apologises. Later they have a talk and he explains his feelings since graduation, and she seems to understand. I think from then on they kind of see eachother as an escape route. He can't let her go because he's scared, she's the only person who seems to be on his wavelength, and he hers. She says she doesn't want to see him at the college, but still comes back to him, until her dad discovers the affair, and reverts back to the "suitable" guy. But she still wants, or thinks she does, to escape the stifling middle class life.

[@FreshRose-z3s]

Hard to believe both are now in their eighties.

[@videochannel389]

One of the best movies…ever. That’s it…

[@jormamaattanen3048]

Some 30 years ago I saw The Graduate near by in a grind house theatre, on The University Av. After the show walked to The Mediterranean and had a cup of coffee at that very same table. Oh man was I thrilled! Saw the movie the first time back in 1969, in Helsinki, Finland.

[@zeppo2240]

Simply needed this to exist so I can play the Scarborough Fair instrumental on loop. Bless you

[@joaomendonca4789]

Thanks for this testimony, I love this movie and I could be there in 2020, in the Moe's book and other movie's places, while researching in the UCB

[@psifla99]

01:16 - 01:19 She knows it’s Ben, and is sighing quietly as if to say, “I’m going to have to talk to him”. Ben was never the most subtle at expressing himself, and she knows it.

[@jimw.4161]

I was a student at Berkeley during the early 70s and remember Moe's Books on Telegraph Avenue with great fondness. The same for Larry Blake's and Cody's. I can still taste those great French dip sandwiches and those salads with great dressing in the Rathskeller between classes and protests. Man, those were the days! Free love was in the air along with the pungent odor of marijuana. ✌

[@robbiereilly]

Watching this clip in Tokyo after seeing a red Alfa Romeo just like Benjamins. ;)

[@SCHRUBBE1966]

My dad used to drive those old buses

[@alexbowman7582]

But they weren’t old then.

[@alvaradoslab343]

I sat for 3 months from 8 am to 4 pm at that same table in the Spring of '83 writing my Ph.D thesis. Didn't even occur to me until I watched the Graduate for probably the 4th time on TV a few weeks back. In his comment below, Mr. Brenner is way off base.

[@MrDanty64]

Alvarado's Lab Care to clarify what or where I'm wrong on?

[@larry930legend]

The Blues Project with The Greatest Society,lights and sound by Tony Martin. April 22,23 9:00 at the Avalon Ballroom,San Francisco poster.

[@Sequitorian]

Carl is correct. I sat at that very table many times.

[@SCHRUBBE1966]

I used to ride those old buses for fun. Those days you could still talk to people. No mobile phones .

[@chenzenzo]

That's the number 51 Bus.

[@thebossman60]

Damn she is beautiful.

[@jormamaattanen3048]

​​@Jason Sure, but still I'd prefer the embrace of her experienced, husky voiced mother.

[@Sara-hz9zk]

Blonde woman is like “sweeeeeetie stop”

[@annecohen8927]

I’m thinking that Ben became jealous when Elaine mentioned her new fiancé.

[@JoeDoe2]

She walked to her seat without paying the fare.

[@12classics39]

She went out of view of the camera when she boarded the bus. She probably paid offscreen.

[@bcs1793]

Berkeley students don't need to pay for the bus today, I wouldn't be surprised if the same was true back in the day

[@alexbowman7582]

Oedipus wrecks.

[@JoeDoe2]

Creepy stalker Ben. She's so adorable, how could he look twice at her mother?

[@jayakrishnan26]

That was before he saw her..he didn't know about mrs Robinson's daughter initially

[@lg5627]

@@jayakrishnan26 didn’t Mrs Robinson show Ben that painting of Elaine in Elaine’s room while trying to seduce him?

[@MrDanty64]

RE: Bus location and UC/Caffe Med: no, its not. More than likely its probably equivalent to a street in SF like O'Farrell or Geary that would be running East-West. You could take a stab and say its going through Union Square. I have a flier from a Ford Mustang Group that has all the filming errors of either The Graduate or maybe even Bullitt (e.g. the shots of Hoffman/Alfa on the Bay Bridge ARE NOT going towards Berkeley/East Bay).

[@bengaljam4550]

Telegraph Ave in Berkeley

[@MrDanty64]

@@bengaljam4550 1:25-127 There is a segment of Geary Street in SF right near Larkin that has those same bushes even today

[@bengaljam4550]

@@MrDanty64 Moes books is in Berkley. I used to work there.

[@MrDanty64]

@@bengaljam4550 bengalijam That's not what this is about! It's about the street he"s running on to catch the bus. The bushes on that same exact segment are still there!

[@jamestiscareno4387]

It's Moe's Books on Telegraph Ave. Berkeley very close to Cal campus BUT when he's running alongside the bus and see the hedges in the background I immediately noticed that could no longer be Telegraph Ave.. Also, the foot traffic in front of Moe's Books is always heavy like that.

[@MichaelSmith-ym2rz]

Hamn's beer truck

[@Sharperthanu1]

This is very misleading.Guys never care that much about ANY woman to chase them like that.

[@MrDanty64]

RIP Café Med, as of 11/30/16, RIP. 4real. NOT F'n funny what Tele has be cum. (Not funny either). Next time ya see a gray-haired OLD HipPY TELL EHIM Donald's A WAITTIN

[@chenzenzo]

The hell you mean Don's waiting? Waiting on who? I heard he got into catering.