The Graduate (1967)
Katharine Ross: Elaine Robinson
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Quotes
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Elaine : Benjamin, I would like to know what you're doing here.
Benjamin : Here? In Berkeley?
Elaine : Yes.
Benjamin : Well, I have this very pleasant room on Carter Street, and I've been getting to some classes.
Elaine : But you're not enrolled.
Benjamin : No, I just sit in. They don't seem to mind. They've been very congenial about it.
Elaine : [annoyed] Benjamin, you're... I don't know what to say.
Benjamin : [nonchalantly] Maybe we can get together sometime and talk about it.
Elaine : [exasperated] Really incredible.
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Mrs. Robinson : Benjamin, I thought I made myself perfectly clear about this...
Benjamin : Look, I have no intention of taking your precious daughter out again in her life, so don't get upset about it!
Mrs. Robinson : I am. I'm *extremely* upset about it, Benjamin.
Elaine : [Mr. Robinson comes in with Elaine next to him] Hello.
Benjamin : Hello.
Mr. Robinson : [playfully giving advice to Elaine about Benjamin] Well, I want you to keep your wits about you tonight. You never know what *tricks* Ben picked up back there in the east. Heh heh...
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Benjamin Braddock : [runs into the Robinson's house, up the stairs to Elaine's bedroom] Elaine! Elaine!
Elaine Robinson : Benjamin?
Benjamin Braddock : I'm coming up!
Elaine Robinson : I'm not dressed yet!
Elaine Robinson : [Ben barges through her bedroom door] Benjamin, I said I wasn't dressed.
Benjamin Braddock : You've got to go over the back fence, and I'll meet you in the courtyard.
Elaine Robinson : What's the matter?
Benjamin Braddock : Hurry, put your shoes on.
Elaine Robinson : [hysterically] Benjamin, Benjamin!
Benjamin Braddock : Elaine.
Elaine Robinson : What are you doing?
Benjamin Braddock : Elaine, I have to tell you something.
Elaine Robinson : What is it?
Benjamin Braddock : That woman...
Elaine Robinson : What?
Benjamin Braddock : That woman - that older woman that I told you about?
Elaine Robinson : You mean that one?
Benjamin Braddock : Yes, the married woman; that wasn't just some woman.
Elaine Robinson : What are you telling me? Benjamin, will you just tell me what this is all about?
[Elaine turns around, and sees her mother, Mrs. Robinson standing in the bedroom doorway; her expression turns to shock]
Elaine Robinson : Oh, no.
Benjamin Braddock : Elaine...
Elaine Robinson : Oh my God.
Benjamin Braddock : Please.
Elaine Robinson : Get out of here.
Benjamin Braddock : Don't cry.
Elaine Robinson : [screams] Get out! Get out, out! Get out!
Mrs. Robinson : Goodbye, Benjamin.
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Benjamin : [a knock on the apartment door as Ben's shaving] Who is it?
Elaine : [Elaine enters the room] I want to ask you a question, and then I'm going!
Benjamin : Come in.
Elaine : No. I want to know why you're here in Berkeley.
Benjamin : Because... I am.
Elaine : Is it because I'm here?
Benjamin : What do you think?
Elaine : I think it is. I said, "I think it is!"
Benjamin : All right, then yes.
Elaine : Well, I want you to leave.
Benjamin : Well, look, I love you!
Elaine : How could you do that, Benjamin? Do you just hate everything? How could you possibly rape my mother?
Benjamin : What?
Elaine : I don't understand. I don't understand how you...
Benjamin : Did you say "rape her"?
Elaine : How you or anyone could do a thing like that!
Benjamin : What did she say? You've got to tell me what she said!
Elaine : Why?
Benjamin : Because it isn't true! Tell me!
Elaine : She said that she was having a drink at the hotel with a friend, and that you... waited for her in the parking lot, and told her that she was too drunk to drive home, and that you would get her a room for the night.
Benjamin : Oh, then what?
Elaine : Then you took her upstairs, and you raped her.
Benjamin : Oh, no no, that's not what happened. What happened was that there was this party at my parents, I drove your mother home...
Elaine : I don't want to hear this!
Benjamin : Then we went upstairs to see your portrait...
Elaine : No, I don't!
Benjamin : When we got up in the room, she started taking her clothes off...
Elaine : This is my mother, Benjamin!
Benjamin : And suddenly, there she was without any clothes on, I mean, reallly naked!
Elaine : Okay!
[Elaine screams hysterically, lying face down on Ben's bed, crying]
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Elaine : I'm sorry I screamed.
[pauses]
Elaine : Benjamin, when you came up here, what did you think was going to happen between us?
Benjamin : Elaine, right now, I don't feel like talking much. I'm sorry about everything, but I think I'll just do this now.
[he opens the cupboard door and started getting his stuff and closes the door]
Elaine : Can I just sit here while you're packing?
Benjamin : If you want.
[Elaine was still waiting for his stuff to be packed up]
Elaine : What are you going to do now?
Benjamin : I don't know.
Elaine : Are you going home?
Benjamin : No.
Elaine : Well, where are you going?
Benjamin : Elaine, you're gonna have to stop asking me that.
[she nods at him and starts opening the door]
Elaine : I don't want you to leave tomorrow.
Benjamin : [looks at Elaine] I don't understand.
Elaine : I don't want you to go anywhere...
Elaine : [looks at Benjamin sternly] ... until you have a definite plan.
Elaine : Goodbye.
[she leaves her room leaving him behind]
