Traditional vs Nontraditional Relationships in Movies

For this assignment I viewed two very different movies from different time periods and explored the portrayal of traditional (heterosexual, similar age etc.) vs nontraditional (nonheterosexuality, age differences etc.). The first film was The Graduate which was released in 1967. My second movie choice was Being John Malkovich (BJM) which was released in 1999. Both…

Breathless and The Graduate – a new take on Romance

“Breathless” and “The Graduate” at first glance appear so drastically different from one another. Made ten years apart from one another, in different countries, and one in black and white, one in color, there could really be no similarity between the two, right? The reality is that both of these films are still today looked…