Film: The Graduate Vs. Risky Business

Similarities and difference with The Graduate vs. Risky Business I viewed two films and I intend to show you how these films have more similarities than differences. In the film The Graduate directed by Mike Nichols starring Dustin Hoffman, Anne Brancroft, and Kathreine Moss (1967) and Risky Business directed by Paul Brinkman starring Tom Cruise, Rebecca De Mornay and Joe Pantoliano (1983) both of which are comedy, drama, romance genre. I will explore and show you that there are more similarities than differences. The first similarity is the leading roles are young adolescent men who are either are just graduating high school and or college who are confused, have a loss of innocence, some crazy unique sexual fantasies while both main characters are inexperienced about sex. The second similarity is how the directors used music, lighting and the use of objects in both films which are key components that helps to complement certain plots or visual aspects to make an impact. Lastly in The Graduate and Risky Business the final scenes are memorable and both about breaking the chains of society or their parents rules in

The Graduate the main character after graduating college is at odds of what his next steps are when he gets seduced by an older woman who he eventually has sex with, but then falls head over heels for the woman’s daughter causing havoc. Whereas in Risky business the main character is just graduating high school and unsure of where his life is going has a sexual encounter with a prostitute and later falls in love with her causing trouble. Both of these forbidden relationships puts the young adolescent men on a wild spree of lust, fantasies, sex, freedom and trouble which turns their life’s spinning out of control but then back into to focus toward the