Dustin Hoffman, upon reading Charles
Webb’s first novel, came away convinced that its hero was a sun-kissed
California preppy: tall, blond, and good-looking. He was certain that
somewhere in the pages of The Graduate he had found precisely
this description. That’s why he told director Mike Nichols that the role
of Benjamin Braddock was not one he felt equipped to play.
Hoffman, it turns out, was quite wrong, in more ways than one. Author
Charles Webb never provides the slightest physical description of
Benjamin Braddock. In Webb’s spare, stripped-down novel, we come to know
Ben—as he beds a middle-aged matron and then runs off with her
beautiful daughter—solely through his words and deeds.... [mehr] http://lithub.com/the-origin-story-of-an-iconic-adaptation-the-graduate/
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