DEAD POETS SOCIETY
DEAD POETS SOCIETY
Review of Trailer of " DEAD POETS SOCIETY"
It tells the story of an English teacher who inspires his students through his teaching of poetry.
Dead Poets Society explores the conflict between realism and romanticism as these contrasting
In 1959, the welton academy is a somewhat old fashioned but well respective prep school .
Education is understood to be rigorous academic learning program combined with the shaping of the student's characters.
The film begins with the processional march of the students into the main auditorium of the school,where teachers and parents are awaiting
the address of the Headmaster Mr. Nolsan, who inagurates the new school high sucess rate in sending its gratitude .
The film Dead Poets -
Society is a film that explores the idea of "Carpe Diem" (seize the day) from the viewpoint of a classroom of young men at an all boys boarding school. Their teacher Mr. Keating (played by Robin Williams)helps them stretch their minds, and exercise their right to defiant acts of love for and poetry, rebuttlng society. The director Peter Weir treats you with eye candy by using various camera shots of beautiful scenary, and neat techniques. Weir takes you on a roller coaster that leaves you gripping your seat, enjoying life, and thinking "Carpe Diem" in your own life. There are some very depressing scenes, but they are very artful, and teach you of appreciation for those brave members of society that dare stand up for their beliefs, and rights to wrestling around with life. I thought Ethan Hawke (Todd Anderson) gave a true life twist to the film, Robin Williams (Mr. Keating or also known as Captain my captain) added an element of excitement, and Robert Sean Leonard (Neil Perry)added passion that leaves you mesmerized. I just saw this film in English class, but I immediatly fell in love with it, as I know you will.When the students come into Mr. Keating’s class for the first time, they are met with a strange lesson where they tear introduction pages out of their poetry textbooks books for Keating’s distance for the bland words. This is among a few odd lessons which describe Keating’s teaching. Keating had much influence on the students outside of the classroom, where he told them of his days in the Dead Poets Society, a society of students who would sneak off to a cave outside of campus and bask in the poetry of great authors and past “dead poets.” Over the course of the book, the cave and society develope a small culture with cave god, being a candle, and a special care for the preservation of the society in the students that makes them continue meeting after a suspicion of the meetings by the school. The Dead Poets Society and Keating’s influence gives the students a poetic aspect to all of their personalities that change their characters towards the end of the book.As the plot of the book developes, the main characters, Todd, Neil, Knox, and Charlie become more dramatic as they become filled with poetry. Todd Anderson struggles with his self esteem and speaking amongst crowds. Neil finds a deep passion in acting and pursues it despite his fathers deep disapproval. He performs in the play towards the end of the book and is roughly taken home by his angered father who describes to Neil his deep disapproval and disliking of Neil’s creativity such as acting and going behind his fathers back. After his father tells Neil he will be taken out of Welton and sent to military school for doing what he loved, Neil committed suicide with his fathers revolver. While Neil was pursuing his love of theater, Knox pursued his love of Chris, a family friend’s beautiful daughter who went to a nearby school and was dating a football player. Knox was awestruck by Chris’s beauty at the beginning of the story when seeing her at her fathers house and developed a deep obsession over her. He gets a call from Chris one night after a society meeting and gets invited to her boyfriend’s party. After stressing over her and the party, Knox goes to the party full of drunk teens making out on couches. He is offered glasses of bourbon when he comes quickly becomes drunk to a point where his conscious is greatly blurred. He finds Chris, and under pressure from her beauty and shifted judgement from the alcohol, he molests her breasts which leads to a prompt beating from her boyfriend. Time passes after this event he feels terrible about and he spontaneously appears at her school, reads her poetry, and leaves at the beginning of her class to make up for his actions. When Neil’s performance comes, he meets Chris, who’s sister is in the play, and he sits with her to prove himself to her and by the end of the night, he is successful to where she follows him to the cave. On Charlie’s end of dramatizing the story, he invited two beautiful twenty year old women there last meeting before Neils performance. His character was not known to be so spontaneous and to add to it he gave himself the nickname Nuwanda. Nuwanda serenades these two women any then makes the rest of the society’s leave while he puts “the moves” on Gloria which sadly ends in rejection. These are key events of Dead Poets Society that give the dramatic aspects of the main characters.
ZHowever, a downfall of this teaching is the way many students misunderstood the idea of the end of the road. They believe that a meaningless life is one without creativity when they are supposed to believe that a meaningless life is one where they aren’t able to pursue their passions. Neil Perry, one of the main characters in the movie, dreams of becoming an actor but is oppressed by his father to go to Harvard and become a doctor. Neil takes his teacher’s advice, to seize the day, to heart and takes up the role of Puck in the school play. However, when Mr. Perry finds out that his son had been neglecting his studies for some theater bogus, he furiously pulls Neil out from the play and threatens to send the latter to Braden Military School. This is where Neil makes the mistake of twisting Keaton’s words – while Keating says “live life to the fullest because we will all die”, Neil hears “we should die if we can’t live life to the fullest”.
Review of Trailer of " DEAD POETS SOCIETY"
It tells the story of an English teacher who inspires his students through his teaching of poetry.
Dead Poets Society explores the conflict between realism and romanticism as these contrasting
In 1959, the welton academy is a somewhat old fashioned but well respective prep school .
Education is understood to be rigorous academic learning program combined with the shaping of the student's characters.The film begins with the processional march of the students into the main auditorium of the school,where teachers and parents are awaiting
the address of the Headmaster Mr. Nolsan, who inagurates the new school high sucess rate in sending its gratitude .
The film Dead Poets -
Society is a film that explores the idea of "Carpe Diem" (seize the day) from the viewpoint of a classroom of young men at an all boys boarding school. Their teacher Mr. Keating (played by Robin Williams)helps them stretch their minds, and exercise their right to defiant acts of love for and poetry, rebuttlng society. The director Peter Weir treats you with eye candy by using various camera shots of beautiful scenary, and neat techniques. Weir takes you on a roller coaster that leaves you gripping your seat, enjoying life, and thinking "Carpe Diem" in your own life. There are some very depressing scenes, but they are very artful, and teach you of appreciation for those brave members of society that dare stand up for their beliefs, and rights to wrestling around with life. I thought Ethan Hawke (Todd Anderson) gave a true life twist to the film, Robin Williams (Mr. Keating or also known as Captain my captain) added an element of excitement, and Robert Sean Leonard (Neil Perry)added passion that leaves you mesmerized. I just saw this film in English class, but I immediatly fell in love with it, as I know you will.When the students come into Mr. Keating’s class for the first time, they are met with a strange lesson where they tear introduction pages out of their poetry textbooks books for Keating’s distance for the bland words. This is among a few odd lessons which describe Keating’s teaching. Keating had much influence on the students outside of the classroom, where he told them of his days in the Dead Poets Society, a society of students who would sneak off to a cave outside of campus and bask in the poetry of great authors and past “dead poets.” Over the course of the book, the cave and society develope a small culture with cave god, being a candle, and a special care for the preservation of the society in the students that makes them continue meeting after a suspicion of the meetings by the school. The Dead Poets Society and Keating’s influence gives the students a poetic aspect to all of their personalities that change their characters towards the end of the book.As the plot of the book developes, the main characters, Todd, Neil, Knox, and Charlie become more dramatic as they become filled with poetry. Todd Anderson struggles with his self esteem and speaking amongst crowds. Neil finds a deep passion in acting and pursues it despite his fathers deep disapproval. He performs in the play towards the end of the book and is roughly taken home by his angered father who describes to Neil his deep disapproval and disliking of Neil’s creativity such as acting and going behind his fathers back. After his father tells Neil he will be taken out of Welton and sent to military school for doing what he loved, Neil committed suicide with his fathers revolver. While Neil was pursuing his love of theater, Knox pursued his love of Chris, a family friend’s beautiful daughter who went to a nearby school and was dating a football player. Knox was awestruck by Chris’s beauty at the beginning of the story when seeing her at her fathers house and developed a deep obsession over her. He gets a call from Chris one night after a society meeting and gets invited to her boyfriend’s party. After stressing over her and the party, Knox goes to the party full of drunk teens making out on couches. He is offered glasses of bourbon when he comes quickly becomes drunk to a point where his conscious is greatly blurred. He finds Chris, and under pressure from her beauty and shifted judgement from the alcohol, he molests her breasts which leads to a prompt beating from her boyfriend. Time passes after this event he feels terrible about and he spontaneously appears at her school, reads her poetry, and leaves at the beginning of her class to make up for his actions. When Neil’s performance comes, he meets Chris, who’s sister is in the play, and he sits with her to prove himself to her and by the end of the night, he is successful to where she follows him to the cave. On Charlie’s end of dramatizing the story, he invited two beautiful twenty year old women there last meeting before Neils performance. His character was not known to be so spontaneous and to add to it he gave himself the nickname Nuwanda. Nuwanda serenades these two women any then makes the rest of the society’s leave while he puts “the moves” on Gloria which sadly ends in rejection. These are key events of Dead Poets Society that give the dramatic aspects of the main characters.
The final event of the book: Neil commits suicide and Keating is blamed for influencing this. Neil ends his life that he is so displeased with and this puts pressure on the members of the Dead Poets Society, who are known by the school and are closely tied to Neil’s emotional side. Cameron, realizing that Neil’s emotional side can be said to be influenced more by Mr. Keating, blames Mr. Keating for Neil’s suicide to take any thoughts to blame the members of the society away. This quickly leads to the dean, Mr. Nolan, firing Mr. Keating. When Charlie hears of Cameron’s betrayal of Mr. Keating, he beats Cameron in the face, getting himself expelled from Welton. In the last pages of Dead Poets Society, while Keating is gathering his things and leaving Welton during a poetry class being now lead by dean Nolan, Todd, in the midst of all that has happened and is happening to his environment at Welton, Stands and Salutes Keating with “Oh captain my.” standing on his chair and is followed by his classmates. These dramatic events created by young students in a preparatory school in Vermont meeting poetry, the feeling of being in a secretive society, and the stressful personal affairs mixing into their lives are what make Dead Poets Society by N.H. Kleinbaum a great and mesmerizing story.
This is probably one of the most famous quotes from the movie. Professor Keating says this to his students on the first day of school at Welton Academy. This quote leaves the students, as well as the audience, in awe; Keating’s beliefs are exactly the unorthodox approaches to education that neither Welton nor the students’ parents support. Yet, it is this quote that rings true to his students.
SUMMARY
At Welton, the students are programmed into following the same, old, boring, and predictable lifestyle that their fathers, their father’s fathers have lived. Therefore, Keating’s way of life immediately shoots down the “one size fits all” belief that is held at the academy. We are all going to die, no matter what kind of person we become. Because of that, we should live life to its fullest. While Welton sees sameness as what is needed to sustain life, Keating sees it as what is needed to die. Through this, we are able to see Keating’s aspiration as an educator: to inspire his students to follow their dreams and think for themselves.
ZHowever, a downfall of this teaching is the way many students misunderstood the idea of the end of the road. They believe that a meaningless life is one without creativity when they are supposed to believe that a meaningless life is one where they aren’t able to pursue their passions. Neil Perry, one of the main characters in the movie, dreams of becoming an actor but is oppressed by his father to go to Harvard and become a doctor. Neil takes his teacher’s advice, to seize the day, to heart and takes up the role of Puck in the school play. However, when Mr. Perry finds out that his son had been neglecting his studies for some theater bogus, he furiously pulls Neil out from the play and threatens to send the latter to Braden Military School. This is where Neil makes the mistake of twisting Keaton’s words – while Keating says “live life to the fullest because we will all die”, Neil hears “we should die if we can’t live life to the fullest”.
