There is a reason, my friends, and the reason is...

Oh my god Mrs Robinson...

EXT. AMPHITHEATRE - SHOT OF PODIUM - DAY BEN

- and today it is right that we should ask ourselves the one most important question: What is the purpose of these years, the purpose for all this demanding work, the purpose for the sacrifices made those who love us? Were there NOT a purpose, then all of these past years of struggle, of fierce competition and of uncom- promising ambition would be mean- ingless. But, of course, there is a purpose and I must tell it to you. I ask you to remember this purpose always and I pledge that I shall endeavor to carry it with me forever.

SHOT - AMPHITHEATRE AUDIENCE - DAY staring at him impassively.

INTERCUT BETWEEN SHOTS of impassive students, seated, watching; of Ben standing alone on the huge amphitheatre stage; of CLOSEUPS of Ben speaking; of loudspeakers; of wind-blown papers on the podium.

EXT. PODIUM OF AMPHITHEATRE - DAY BEN (continuing)
The purpose, my fellow graduates - the purpose is - He stops, trying to think of the word.

CLOSEUP - BEN He begins to sweat.

SHOT - AMPHITHEATRE AUDIENCE watching.

SHOT - PODIUM of AMPHITHEATRE Ben's hands searching through the pages of his speech. The pages begin to blow away in the wind.

SHOT - AMPHITHEATRE AUDIENCE - DAY staring.

SHOT - PODIUM OF AMPHITHEATRE - DAY BEN
- there is a reason, my friends, and the reason is -

CLOSEUP - BEN He is in a panic. He looks up from his papers at the audience.

SHOT - AMPHITHEATRE - DAY The audience is gone.

SHOT - PODIUM OF AMPHITHEATRE - DAY BEN - the reason is - the purpose is -

SOUND of the WIND becoming the ROAR of an AIRCRAFT coming at us through the air.

SHOT - AMPHITHEATRE - DAY Huge and empty. SOUND of AIRCRAFT.
Buck Henry, The Graduate