Costa-Gavras - O Quarto Poder

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Mad City, 1997 - Um repórter de televisão que está em baixa, mas já foi um profissional respeitado de uma grande rede, está fazendo uma cobertura sem importância em um museu de história natural quando testemunha um segurança demitido pedir seu emprego de volta e, não sendo atendido, ameaçar a diretora da instituição com uma espingarda. Ele nada faz com ela, mas acidentalmente fere com um disparo acidental um antigo colega de trabalho. De dentro do museu, o repórter consegue se comunicar com uma estagiária que está em uma caminhonete nas proximidades, antes de ser descoberto pelo ex-segurança, que agora fez vários reféns, inclusive um grupo de crianças que visitavam o museu. Em pouco tempo um pedido de emprego e um tiro acidental se propagam de forma geométrica, atraindo a atenção de todo o país. O repórter convence ao segurança que este lhe dê uma matéria exclusiva e promete em troca comover a opinião pública com a triste história do guarda desempregado. É a sua chance de se projetar e voltar para Nova York, mas nem tudo acontece como o planejado.

Franklin J. Schaffner - Papillon

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TOOTSIE - HQ Trailer ( 1982 )

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WorleyClarence | 15 de Junho de 2008

Trailer for Sydney Pollack's film

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 Movie mistakes: "Tootsie" (USA, 1982)  

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enterfilm1 | 19 de Julho de 2009

Michael Dorsey is an unemployed actor with an impossible reputation. In order to find work and fund his friend's play he dresses as a woman, Dorothy Michaels, and lands the part in a daytime drama. Dorsey loses himself in this woman role and essentially becomes Dorothy Michaels, captivating women all around the city and inspiring them to break free from the control of men and become more like Dorsey's initial identity. This newfound role, however, lands Dorsey in a hot spot between a female friend/'lover,' a female co-star he falls in love with, that co-star's father who falls in love with him, and a male co-star who yearns for his affection.

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dcdsjgmb | 29 de Maio de 2008

Michael Dorsey's agent meets "Dorothy Michaels" for the first time, at the Russian Tea Room.

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fayearn2046 | 10 de Março de 2009

This is my all time favourite love song. Unfortunately there ain't any official music video for this song therefore i decide to make one for it.

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Dustin Hoffman boicota festival de cinema de Jerusalém

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Vermelho - 9 de Julho de 2010 - 15h36

Dustin Hoffman, o anti-herói mais atraente da história do cinema americano, é uma das personalidades que boicota o festival internacional de cinema que abriu as suas portas nesta quinta-feira (8) em Jerusalém.

Em declaração ao Jerusalem Post, o chefe da mostra internacional, Molad Hayo, indica que a atriz americana Meg Ryan, outra estrela de Hollywood, também não se deslocará até Israel.

O príncipe Albert de Mónaco, convidado no âmbito de uma homenagem do festival à sua mãe, a falecida Grace Kelly – que, seja dito de passagem, teve gestos de solidariedade para com os combatentes da independência argelina, no final dos anos 1950 – também desistiu.

"Nenhuma dessas personalidades nos deu oficialmente motivos para esses cancelamentos. Mas fomos avisados logo no dia a seguir ao ataque contra a flotilha e é evidente que existe uma relação de causa a efeito entre esses acontecimentos", comentou Hayo.

Molad Hayo queixa-se. Argumenta a favor da sua actividade "que tem o mérito de ter posto em contato desde há vários anos cineastas palestinos e israelenses". Mas é no entanto obrigado a constatar que o mundo cultural israelense, a partir do momento em que se coloca sob a alçada do Estado de Israel – o que é evidentemente o caso do festival –, não se pode alhear dos crimes do seu governo.

A não ser demarcando-se abertamente, o que fazem vários intelectuais israelenses corajosos, mas não Hayo.

Com 73 anos de idade, Dustin Hoffman ganhou a partir de 1970 uma popularidade imensa por interpretar na telona personagens antípodas do herói de Hollywood tradicional, que são os cowboys musculosos a matar índios "peles-vermelhas" ou soldados valentes triunfando sobre astuciosos homenzinhos amarelos com cabeça de macaco que eram os japoneses.

De "Little Big Man" a "Tootsie", passando por "Macadam cow-boy" ou "Rain Man", Dustin Hoffman tornou-se assim, aos olhos de milhões de espectadores, o mais glorioso dos perdedores da sociedade: Índios sobreviventes do genocídio, sem-teto, doentes, desempregados, etc.

Dustin Hoffman é de origem judaica e em entrevistas recentes declarou que com a idade, a sua prática da religião se fazia mais assídua. Isso não impedirá muitos de o tratarem de antisemita, como o "são" todos os que criticam a política israelense.
Artigo traduzido pelo Comitê de Solidariedade com a Palestina, no Esquerda.net.

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The Graduate (A Primeira Noite)

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smwScott — 18 de Setembro de 2006 — The original trailer for the Graduate.
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The Graduate (1967) - "Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. Aren't you?"
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The Graduate

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

For other uses, see The Graduate (disambiguation).

The Graduate
Promotional film poster
Directed by	Mike Nichols
Produced by	Joseph E. Levine Lawrence Turman
Written by	Screenplay: Calder Willingham Buck Henry Novel: Charles Webb
Starring	Anne Bancroft Dustin Hoffman Katharine Ross William Daniels Murray Hamilton
Music by	Score: Dave Grusin Songs: Paul Simon
Cinematography	Robert Surtees
Editing by	Sam O'Steen
Distributed by	Embassy Pictures (US) United Artists (non-US)
Release date(s)	December 21, 1967 (1967-12-21)
Running time	105 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$3 million (est.)
Gross revenue	$104,397,102

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The Graduate is a 1967 American comedy-drama film directed by Mike Nichols, based on the 1963 novel The Graduate by Charles Webb, who wrote it shortly after graduating from Williams College. The screenplay was by Calder Willingham and Buck Henry, who makes a cameo appearance as the hotel clerk. The film tells the story of Benjamin Braddock (played by Dustin Hoffman), a recent university graduate with no well-defined aim in life, who is seduced by an older woman, Mrs. Robinson (Anne Bancroft), and then proceeds to fall in love with her daughter Elaine (Katharine Ross).

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In 1996, The Graduate was selected for preservation in the U.S. National Film Registry as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". It ranked as the seventh greatest film of all time on AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies.

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Adjusted for inflation, the film is #19 on the list of highest-grossing films in the United States and Canada.

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Embassy Pictures distributed in North America, while United Artists handled the initial international release.

Contents   1 Plot summary 2 Cast 3 Production 3.1 Filming locations 3.2 Music 4 Reception 5 Awards and honors 6 Stage adaptation 7 Possibility of sequel 8 Notes 9 External links

Plot summary

The soon-to-be 21 Benjamin Braddock flies back to his parents' house in Pasadena, California for his graduation party. At the party, all his parents' friends want to know about what he is going to do next, something Benjamin is clearly uncomfortable and anxious about. His parents ignore this and are only interested in talking up his academic and track successes and their plans for him to go to grad school.

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Mrs. Robinson, the wife of his father's business partner, asks him for a ride home from the party. She invites the nervous Benjamin in and attempts to seduce him, removing her clothing. Mr. Robinson arrives home but does not see or suspect anything. A few days later Benjamin contacts her and clumsily organizes a tryst at a hotel beginning their affair. A now confident and relaxed Benjamin spends the summer drifting around in the pool by day and seeing Mrs. Robinson at the hotel by night. Benjamin discovers that they have nothing to talk about but he does learn that Mrs. Robinson was forced to give up college and marry someone she didn't love when she became pregnant with Elaine.

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Mr. Robinson tells Benjamin he should relax and enjoy himself while he is young. Benjamin's parents however are keen for him to get on with his life. Both they and Mr. Robinson keep trying to set Benjamin up with Elaine, while Mrs. Robinson makes it clear that she wants him to stay away from Elaine. Benjamin eventually gives into the pressure from his parents and takes Elaine out but is intentionally mean to her. After making her cry he relents and explains he was mean only because his parents forced him to ask her out. He awkwardly kisses her to try and cheer her up and they go and get a burger at a drive-in. Benjamin discovers that Elaine is someone he is comfortable with and that he can talk to her about his worries.

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Mrs. Robinson threatens to reveal their affair to destroy any chance Benjamin has with Elaine so Benjamin rashly decides he has to tell Elaine first. Upset Elaine returns to Berkeley refusing to speak with Benjamin. Benjamin decides he is going to marry Elaine and goes to Berkeley and stalks her. He contrives a meeting on a bus while she is on her way to a date with her classmate Carl. An angry Elaine later demands to know what he is doing in Berkeley after he raped her mother by taking advantage of her while she was drunk. Benjamin tells her it was her mother who seduced him, something Elaine doesn't want to hear, so Benjamin says he will go somewhere else. Elaine tells Benjamin not to leave until he has a definite plan. The next day Elaine comes into Ben's apartment in the middle of the night and asks him to kiss her. The two hang out in Berkeley while Benjamin keeps pressing her to get blood tests so that they can get married. Elaine is unsure about this and says she had told Carl she might marry him.

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Mr. Robinson, who has found out everything about Benjamin and his wife's affair, goes to Ben's apartment in Berkeley where he threatens Benjamin and forces Elaine to drop out of school and takes her away to marry Carl. Benjamin is left with just a note from Elaine saying that she loves him but that her father is really angry and it can never work out. Benjamin races back to Pasadena looking for Elaine but finds Mrs. Robinson instead. She tells him he won't be able stop the wedding and calls the police. Benjamin heads back to Berkeley and finds out from Carl's Delta Chi Fraternity brothers that the wedding is in Santa Barbara. He then speeds off towards Santa Barbara, stopping only at a gas station for directions to the church. Benjamin is in such a hurry that he rushes off without refueling.

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Consequently Ben runs out of gas and must sprint the last few blocks. He arrives at the church just as the bride and groom are about to kiss. Thinking he is too late he bangs on the glass at the back of the church and screams out "Elaine!" repeatedly. Elaine turns around, hesitates, but then screams out "Ben!" and starts towards him. A brawl breaks out as everyone tries to stop her and Benjamin leaving. Elaine breaks free from her mother yelling, "It's not too late for me!" Benjamin holds everybody off by swinging a cross ripped from the wall, then using it to jam the outside door while the pair escape. They run down the road and flag down a bus. The elated and smiling couple take the back seat. But Benjamin's smile gradually fades to an enigmatic, neutral expression as he gazes forward down the bus, not looking at Elaine. Elaine seems unsure, looks lovingly across at Ben but notices his expression and turns away with a similar expression as the bus drives away.

Cast

Dustin Hoffman as Benjamin Braddock Anne Bancroft as Mrs. Robinson Katharine Ross as Elaine Robinson William Daniels as Mr. Braddock Murray Hamilton as Mr. Robinson Elizabeth Wilson as Mrs. Braddock Buck Henry as Room Clerk Brian Avery as Carl Smith Norman Fell as Mr. McCleery Marion Lorne as Singleman party guest Alice Ghostly as Singleman party guest

Uncredited: Mike Farrell as a bellhop at the hotel Richard Dreyfuss as Boarding House Resident Ben Murphy as the shaving student in the fraternity house Kevin Tighe as Carter, Carl Smith's fraternity brother

Production

Filming locations

Many of the exterior shots of Benjamin on the campus were actually filmed on the brick campus of USC in Los Angeles, as the UC Berkeley campus features buildings with gray granite exteriors. Other scenes were filmed on the Berkeley campus, on Durant Avenue in Berkeley, and on Telegraph Avenue.

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The Taft Hotel scenes were filmed at Ambassador Hotel.

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The church used for the wedding scene is actually the United Methodist Church in LaVerne. In a commentary audio released with the 40th anniversary DVD, Hoffman revealed that he was uneasy about the scene in which he pounds on the church window, as the owner of the church had been watching the filming disapprovingly. The residence used for the Robinsons' house was located on North Palm Drive in Beverly Hills.

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The scenes of Benjamin driving to Berkeley on the San Francisco Bay Bridge were filmed on the top level of the bridge - leading into San Francisco - the opposite direction of Berkeley.

Music

The Graduate Original Soundtrack album cover.

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See also: The Graduate (soundtrack)

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The film boosted the profile of folk-rock duo Simon & Garfunkel, whose soundtrack album The Graduate, on the strength of the hit single "Mrs. Robinson", rose to the top of the charts in 1968 (knocking off The Beatles' White Album). However, the version that appears in the film is markedly different from the hit single version, which would not be issued until Simon and Garfunkel's next album, Bookends. The actual film version of "Mrs. Robinson" does appear on The Graduate soundtrack LP.

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According to a Variety article by Peter Bart in the 15 May 2005 issue, Nichols had become obsessed with Simon & Garfunkel's music while shooting the film. Lawrence Turman, his producer, made a deal for Simon to write three new songs for the movie. By the time they were nearly finished editing the film, Simon had only written one new song. Nichols begged him for more but Simon, who was touring constantly, told him he didn't have the time. He did play him a few notes of a new song he had been working on; "It's not for the movie... it's a song about times past — about Mrs. Roosevelt and Joe DiMaggio and stuff." Nichols advised Simon, "It's now about Mrs. Robinson, not Mrs. Roosevelt."^{[citation needed]}

Reception

A.D. Murphy of Variety and Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times praised the film upon its release with Murphy describing it as a "delightful satirical comedy-drama"^[1] and Ebert claiming it was the "funniest American comedy of the year".^[2]

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For the film's thirtieth anniversary reissue, Roger Ebert retracted some of his previous praise for the film.^[3] He, along with Gene Siskel, gave the film a mediocre review on the television program Siskel & Ebert.^[4]

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Benjamin's 1966 Alfa Romeo Spider, a graduation present from his parents, becomes a plot device as the film progresses, and also gave the vehicle widespread popularity.

 Awards and honors

Dustin Hoffman earned an Oscar nomination for his performance as did Bancroft and Ross.

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Along with the acting nominations, the film received nominations for Best Cinematography, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Picture. Mike Nichols won the Academy Award for Best Director.

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The film won the BAFTA Award for Best Film, as well as the BAFTA Award for Best Editing (to Sam O'Steen).

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In 1996, The Graduate was selected for preservation in the U.S. National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant", and placed #19 on the list of highest-grossing films in the United States and Canada, adjusted for inflation.

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American Film Institute recognition

• 1998: AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies #7
• 2000: AFI's 100 Years... 100 Laughs #9
• 2002: AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions #52
• 2004: AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs:
  
  • "Mrs. Robinson" #6
• 2005: AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes:
  
  • "Plastics." #42
  • "Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. Aren't you?" #63
• 2007: AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) #17

The movie is listed in the 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die book^[5].

The movie is ranked #159 in IMDB top 250^[6]

Stage adaptation

John Reid produced a play in 2000, adapted from the movie, which was a hit both in London's West End and on Broadway and has toured the United States. There is a Brazilian version adapted by Miguel Falabella. Several actresses have starred as Mrs. Robinson, including Kathleen Turner, Lorraine Bracco, Jerry Hall, Amanda Donohoe, Morgan Fairchild, Anne Archer, Vera Fischer and Linda Gray. The Broadway production in 2002 starred Kathleen Turner, Jason Biggs, and Alicia Silverstone.

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The stage production restores the section of the novel where Benjamin hitchhikes across America, not included in the original film. It also uses songs by Simon & Garfunkel not used in the film, such as "Baby Driver" as well as music from other popular musicians from the era such as The Byrds and The Beach Boys.

Possibility of sequel

Charles Webb has written a sequel to his original novel titled Home School, but initially refused to publish it in its entirety because of a contract he signed in the 1960s. When he sold film rights to The Graduate, he surrendered the rights to any sequels. If he were to publish Home School, Canal+, the French media company that owns the rights to The Graduate, would be able to adapt it for the screen without his permission.^[7] Extracts of Home School were printed in The Times on May 2, 2006.^[8] Webb also told the newspaper that there was a possibility he would find a publisher for the full text, provided he could retrieve the film rights using French copyright law.^[9] On 30 May 2006 The Times reported that Webb had signed a publishing deal for Home School with Random House which he hoped would enable him to instruct the French lawyers to attempt to retrieve his rights. The novel was published in Britain in 2007.^[10]

Notes

1. ^ [1] - A.D. Murphy, Variety review, December 18, 1967.
2. ^ [2] - Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times, December 26, 1967.
3. ^ [3] - Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times, March 28, 1997.
4. ^ [4] - Siskel & Ebert review, 1997.
5. ^ http://1001beforeyoudie.com/
6. ^ http://www.imdb.com/chart/top
7. ^ http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,1446288,00.html Retrieved on 2007-10-12.
8. ^ http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7-2160200,00.html Retrieved on 2007-10-12.
9. ^ http://timesnews.typepad.com/news/2006/05/stuck_in_a_lega.html Retrieved on 2007-10-12.
10. ^ Jack Malvern [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2202109,00.html "At last, Mrs. Robinson is getting her groove back", The Times, 30 May 2006Retrieved on 2007-10-12.

External links

Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: The Graduate

• Official website
• The Graduate at the Internet Movie Database
• The Graduate at Rotten Tomatoes
• The Graduate at Box Office Mojo
• Making of article in Vanity Fair magazine

Awards and achievements
Preceded by A Man for All Seasons	BAFTA Award for Best Film 1968	Succeeded by Midnight Cowboy

[show] v • d • e Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy West Side Story/A Majority of One (1961) · The Music Man/That Touch of Mink (1962) · Tom Jones (1963) · My Fair Lady (1964) · The Sound of Music (1965) · The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming (1966) · The Graduate (1967) · Oliver! (1968) · The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1969) · MASH (1970) · Fiddler on the Roof (1971) · Cabaret (1972) · American Graffiti (1973) · The Longest Yard (1974) · The Sunshine Boys (1975) · A Star Is Born (1976) · The Goodbye Girl (1977) · Heaven Can Wait (1978) · Breaking Away (1979) · Coal Miner's Daughter (1980) Complete List · (1951–1960) · (1961–1980) · (1981–2000) · (2001–present)

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The Graduate Intro - Simon & Garfunkel -The Sounds of Silence

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AdsNTrailers — 29 de Outubro de 2009 — This is the introduction to the classic motion picture that is "The Graduate". It's known for featuring the Simon & Garfunkel song, Sound of Silence.

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Sound o0f silence lyrics
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Hello darkness, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence

In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone
'Neath the halo of a street lamp
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence

And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one dared
Disturb the sound of silence

"Fools", said I, "You do not know
Silence like a cancer grows
Hear my words that I might teach you
Take my arms that I might reach you"
But my words, like silent raindrops fell
And echoed
In the wells of silence

And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made
And the sign flashed out its warning
In the words that it was forming
And the sign said, "The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls"
And whispered in the sounds of silence
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The Sounds of Silence

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"The Sounds of Silence"
Single by Simon and Garfunkel
from the album Sounds of Silence
Released	September 1965
Format	7" single
Recorded	March 10, 1964 (main track); June 15, 1965 (overdub)
Genre	Folk rock
Length	3:05
Label	Columbia Records
Writer(s)	Paul Simon
Producer	Tom Wilson
Simon and Garfunkel singles chronology
"I'm Lonesome" (1963) "The Sounds of Silence" (1965) "Homeward Bound" (1966)
Music sample "The Sounds of Silence"

"The Sounds of Silence" is the song that propelled the 1960s folk music duo Simon and Garfunkel to popularity. It was written in February 1964 by Paul Simon in the aftermath of the November 22, 1963 assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy.^[1]

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The song features Simon on acoustic guitar and both Simon and Garfunkel singing. It was originally recorded as an acoustic piece for their first album Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. but on the initiative of the record company was later overdubbed with electric instruments and rereleased as a single in September 1965. The single reached number one on New Year's Day 1966 and was included in the 1966 album Sounds of Silence.

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The song was originally called "The Sounds of Silence" and is titled that way on the early albums in which it appeared and on the single. In later compilations it was retitled "The Sound of Silence". Both the singular and the plural form of the word appear in the lyrics. In his book Lyrics 1964–2008 Simon has the title in the singular.

Contents    1 History 2 Single 3 Use in feature films 4 Cover performances 5 See also 6 References 7 External Links

 History

Simon began working on the song sometime after the Kennedy assassination. He had made progress on the music but had yet to get down the lyrics. On 19 February 1964 the lyrics apparently coalesced, as Simon recalled:

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The main thing about playing the guitar, though, was that I was able to sit by myself and play and dream. And I was always happy doing that. I used to go off in the bathroom, because the bathroom had tiles, so it was a slight echo chamber. I'd turn on the faucet so that water would run — I like that sound, it's very soothing to me — and I'd play. In the dark. 'Hello darkness, my old friend / I've come to talk with you again'.[2]

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Simon showed the new composition to Garfunkel the same day, and shortly afterward, the duo began to perform it at folk clubs in New York. In the liner notes of their debut album, Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M., Garfunkel claims:

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In the meantime, Simon and Garfunkel's producer at Columbia Records in New York, Tom Wilson, had learned that the song had begun to receive airplay on radio stations in Boston, Massachusetts and around Gainesville and Cocoa Beach, Florida.

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On June 15, 1965, immediately after the recording session of Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone," Wilson took the original track of Simon & Garfunkel, and overdubbed the recording with electric guitar (played by Al Gorgoni), electric bass (Bob Bushnell), and drums (Bobby Gregg), and released it as a single without even consulting Simon or Garfunkel.^[5] For the B-Side Wilson used an unreleased track he cut with the duo a few months earlier on which they had tried out a more "contemporary" sound. "Sounds of Silence"/"We've Got a Groovey Thing Going" entered the U.S. pop charts in September 1965 and slowly began its ascent.

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Simon learned that it had entered the charts minutes before he went on stage to perform at a club in Copenhagen, Denmark, and in the later fall of 1965 he returned to the United States. By the end of 1965 and the first few weeks of 1966, the song reached number one on the U.S. charts. Simon and Garfunkel then reunited as a musical act, and included the song as the title track of their next album, Sounds of Silence, hastily recorded in December 1965 and released in January 1966 to capitalize on their success. The song propelled them to stardom and, together with two other top-five (in the U.S.) hits in the summer of 1966, "I Am a Rock" and "Homeward Bound," ensured the duo's fame. In 1999, BMI named "The Sounds of Silence" as the 18th-most performed song of the 20th century.^[6] In 2004 it was ranked #156 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, one of the duo's three songs on the list.

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The original acoustic stereo mix of the song had the duo's vocals on separate channels, spotlighting the delicate harmonies. When the 'rock' version was mixed to stereo, Wilson mixed the vocals in the middle, which is not as clear sounding as the original acoustic version.

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On the duo's 1968 album Bookends, the track "Save the Life of My Child" features a distorted sample of Art Garfunkel's "Hello darkness my old friend, I've come to talk with you" line from the original recording of "The Sounds Of Silence"). At 2:16 in the song somebody says "echo me"

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In 2009, the song was released (along with "I Am a Rock") as a downloadable track for rhythm video game Rock Band 2

Single

"The Sounds of Silence" was released on Columbia Records as 45 rpm catalog number #4-43396. The single has several variations:

• One variation was a promotional release on red vinyl. This copy was unique in that it featured the original acoustic version found on Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. on one side and the electric overdubbed version later featured on Sounds of Silence on the other. This release was mainly distributed to radio stations and carries a white label. This version is hard to find today, and quite valuable to collectors.

• The standard version of the single was released on black vinyl, with a red label, the same Columbia catalog number, and backed with "We've Got a Groovey Thing Goin'." The now-passé adjective is normally spelled "Groovy," as it would be on their later issue, "The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)."

• "The Sounds of Silence" was later released in the 1970s on the Columbia "Hall of Fame" series, catalog number 13-3396, which featured back-to-back hits of a group on 45. This time the song was backed by "Homeward Bound."

Use in feature films

The song was used three times in the film The Graduate, played during the opening credits and the closing footage. Its use in "The Graduate" was parodied in the comedy film Old School, when Will Ferrell gets shot with a tranquilizer dart and falls into the pool going into a dream daze and also in Kingpin, when it was played following sexual activity between protagonist Roy Munson and his landlady. In the film Bobby it is played during Robert Kennedy's victory speech at the Ambassador Hotel, just before his assassination. It can also be heard in the last episodes of the Japanese dorama Taiyo to Umi no Kyoshitsu. In the film More American Graffiti, the 1966 recording is heard playing after a rather large bar fight. In 2009's Watchmen the song is featured on the soundtrack for the film and used during The Comedian's funeral.

Cover performances

• Dutch folk duo Nick & Simon have covered this song (in English) in various performances throughout the Netherlands in 2009 and have made their own recording of this cover under their artist name.
• NWOBHM outfit Bitches Sin issued a cover version of this track as a single in October 2009.
• New Zealand singer/song-writer Brooke Fraser covered this song live for her Albertine tour and is available in the Deluxe Edition of her studio album of the same name.
• The Smashing Pumpkins have performed a heavy, extended cover of the song on their 20th anniversary tour, which varies greatly in sound from the original.
• The heavy metal band Nevermore include a cover of the song on their album Dead Heart in a Dead World.
• U.K. girl group Bananarama covered the song as a bonus download only from their 2009 album Viva.
• The Coolies released a punk rock version on their album Take That You Bastards.
• The progressive metal band Heir Apparent recorded their version of the song and included it on the album Triad. It can be freely downloaded from the Heir Apparent webpage (http://www.heirapparent.com).
• The Smashing Pumpkins also released a cover of the song in their Live Smashing Pumpkins album series.
• The Dickies perform a fast paced version of the song.
• All Angels performed the song on their sophomore album.
• The German Death Metal band Atrocity covered the song on its Gemini album.
• The German musical project Gregorian covered the song on its album Masters of Chant.
• Emilíana Torrini covered the song on the compilation album Stone Free.
• Ascension of the Watchers covered the song on their album Numinosum.
• In the 1966 Carlo Rossi translate the song in Italian, with title La tua immagine; this version was recorded by Mike Liddell e gli Atomi (1966), Luisa Casali (1967) e Dino (1968)
• The Stanford Harmonics recorded a rock arrangement of the song with four soloists for their 2008 album Escape Velocity.
• Shaw Blades covered both The Sound of Silence and I Am a Rock on their 2007 album Influence.
• In 2010, the song was parodied by The Fringemunks to recap Fringe episode 2.16, "Olivia. In the Lab. With the Revolver."^[7]

See also

• List of best-selling singles in Japan

References

1. ^ Victoria Kingston, Simon and Garfunkel : the definitive biography, London, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1995
2. ^ Schwartz, Tony. "Playboy Interview", Playboy, February 1984, Vol. 31, No. 384, Iss. 2, pp. 49–51 & 162–176
3. ^ Simon and Garfunkel quotes
4. ^ Patrick Humphries, Paul Simon: Still Crazy After All These Years (New York: Doubleday, 1989). ISBN 038524908X.
5. ^ Paul Simon Discography - Simon & Garfunkel - 1964 to 1971
6. ^ http://www.bmi.com/awards/1999/top100.txt (archive.org copy)
7. ^ Fringemunks Web site

 External Links

• Biography Paul Simon and Garfunkel

Preceded by "Over and Over" by The Dave Clark Five

Billboard Hot 100 number-one single January 1, 1966 January 22, 1966

Succeeded by "We Can Work It Out" by The Beatles

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