In The Graduate and Groundhog Day, we get to see two similar, but slightly different ways for a comedy film to reach the audience. In The Graduate, the director does this by developing empathy for Ben. In turn, this makes the audience want to root...

The Graduate and Sunset Boulevard are two films that follow young men who, though clearly talented and intelligent, cannot seem to succeed in the way they wish they could. In The Graduate, Benjamin Braddock, an accomplished twenty-one year old...

The technical innovations of Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane range from the depth of focus to his lightning mix. He utilized graphic and acoustic matches to depict the narrative of a man’s meteoric rise to power and his painful slip into oblivion....

One scene that rewards extended analysis is the “reveal” scene from Mike Nichols’ The Graduate. This scene can represent the rising action in the narrative of the film and it perfectly shows off the usage of the rack focus shot. The scene also...