The Graduate (1967) falls into the most common category of the three styles of film, classicism. Classicism is normally a fictional film that evades the distant factors of the realism films and the formalist films. In The Graduate, the director, Mike Nichols, focuses on the mystifying tone of the film with his exploitation of lighting, camera angles, and shadows. This utilization allowed Nichols to deviate away from Classical Hollywood focus on norms and societal issues of before compared to the…
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