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Benjamin’s Renewal------Comment on The Graduate Abstract: The Graduate is one of the most charming films of 17th century. Many factors, such as the exquisite and circuitous clue, the actors’ wonderful performance, the fantastic music, contribute to its success. This paper aims to analyze the changeable characteristics of Benjamin to reveal the meaningful information and give some comments on film’s music、directorial art from the professional aspect of film—making. Key words: Benjamin music art comedy profundity I. Introduction The Graduate, which has been cherished and praised widely by many people since it appeared, is an excellent representative of the anti—culture works at that time in America. Because of the depression in America after the Second World War, the new generation started to be suspicious of the ancient tradition and rule of capitalistic. Benjamin is one of the confused generations. This film shows the audience the intricate story happened after his graduation to provide us some important points, which I would mention in the following part. What’s more, while appreciating The Graduate, we can benefit a lot from the film. II．The star--Benjamin in this film has a complicated character. The first part of the body aims to analyze Benjamin’s characteristics according to the order of the development of the plots to reveal some meaningful information the film conveys.. Blue Benjamin What can we realize from the beginning of this film is that the innocence and confused look that Benjamin possessed even after completing four years of college. From the later part we can learn that Benjamin is an excellent graduate, he ought to be confident and optimistic but why he is so blue? Is it because of his worries about his future? The face filled with melancholy、puzzle and hesitation appeared in this film for many times .As a son of a well—off family， together with his distinguished perform in college, his future must be quite a suc