Come on! John Keating doesn't follow the curriculum at all. This is not a film for teenagers, it's a film for doe-eyed English teachers.
Any teacher who shows this film to teens is kidding themselves! How does Keating mark? How does he follow school systems?
These kids are going to fail their exams, especially because he doesn't teach anything else but fucking poetry!
There's no way teens would actually react well to Keating's teaching style in the classroom. Keating is a terrible teacher and I will die on this hill.
Highly recommend checking this group out, most Musey songs for me are .haunted. (Falling Away With You) and .intoodeep. (similar notes used in MOTP) off their most recent album. Been craving an interesting sound like this since anything post-BHAR.
Someone summed them up elsewhere - like Nothing But Thieves, but on steroids. I think the singer is better in this group personally, and I've been choking on some heavy riffage for a long time.
Enjoy!
One of my all time favorite movies. But isn't it just a little true that Mr. Keating is some what responsible for Neil's death? He encouraged the kid to go against his father's wishes and be all rebellious and shit. Maybe if Mr Keating never got involved Neil would have just had a few more boring depressing years, graduated, went to college and come out of the closet. I don't mean for this to be a cynical take because like I said, I love the movie. But if I were in a court of law I couldn't say Mr Keating was totally innocent
The impact that film had on me is astonishing. It made me want to learn more about poetry and just read more overall, but I'm not sure about what to read next. I'm open to any kind of suggestions.
Hi all! I just rewatched this movie, which is one of my favorites. However, it always puts me in a bit of a slump, and I really want to read something with a similar aesthetic. Any recommendations? The aspects I really love are the autumn aesthetic, the friendship between the boys, and the boarding school setting.
For reference, I have already read A SEPARATE PEACE, THE SECRET HISTORY, and THE RAVEN CYCLE.
It's a fun movie when you're a teenager in high school. It's when you grow up you start to see that the dean Nolan dude had a point. John Keating (haha, nice word play on John Keats there...) was a good teacher but his iconoclast ideas have very little logic in them.
When you work real hard on every single p-set in college and still don't do well on the final despite doing the best you could, when people fall in love and it goes disastrously, when you've planned to get something complete in perfection by the end of the day and you really can't because of your own laziness or exhaustion or both, "But poetry, music, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for" isn't something you're going to care much for.
High school is nothing like life after. High school. It's the easiest life is ever going to be. Things after require a dramatically greater amount of effort. You've got to spend all your time studying/working and planning what you want to do. High school has a path that's preset. College doesn't.
Being a rebel in high school is easy. Courageous are those who take the road less traveled after high school with little to fall back on.
I think Scent of a Woman that stars Al Pacino and released around the same time does a much better job of talking about freedom and courage and what they mean to different people.
PS: The scene that I like most from Dead Poets Society is when Keating eggs the nervous kid to drop his inhibitions and recite a poem in class.
Finally saw dead poets society tonight. I liked the film however i found the suicide scene and plot point strange. To me it seemed like quite a jump for the character. I understand films have these moments for dramatic affect however I feel as though the film could have been just as good or better without the suicide and another issue leading to the teachers sacking.
Had the boy showed any real sign of depression? He had one of the best nights of his life up until his dad showed up, and the stuff about being pulled out of school and going to an army school seemed like something he maybe could have worked out with his dad over a little bit of time.
It just didn’t seem that organic to me, did anyone else have this feeling or was it just me? Good film aside from that anyway however something about that plot point irked me.
The report is a work assigned to deal with the reflection of the movie “Dead Poet’s Society”. These couples of pages are based on the organizational culture and different groupings of the boarding school in this movie. Finally evaluate culture of the school and identified group which influence each other and linked to each other.
This film can be either criticizing the education system, Or encouraging it, Or anything. Doesn't matter. Coming of age films in this category. About teenagers or young adults finding and shaping their identities and values and finding meaning in their existence, With a lot of studying involved, Are gonna be dope. Thanks in advance!
I don't really know how to explain this, these movies have little to do with each other but they have a similar "vibe".
Anyone know movies with the same feel? All i know is School Ties.
and now I'm obsessed with mohabbatein's songs and am wondering should I take my chances
Does anyone know where I can find the script for the stage adaptation of Dead Poets Society? It was on off Broadway in 2016 and I’m trying to find the stage script but I can only find the movie version. Any help would be appreciated.
Two shirts for sale in a timeless shop,
And sorry I could not possess both
and have one aesthetic, long I stopped
to try one on for I’m a milksop
and to blind-buy I would be loath.
Then took the other, more grey than white,
And having perhaps the better hue,
Because it is silken and shining bright;
Though as for that the store’s ring light
Does tint them really about the same,
But since my boyfie’s stipend was late
I found my card was simply maxed.
Oh, I left the first for another day!
Yet knowing that on me this would weigh
I still hope to find it at T.J. Maxx.
I shall be giving you this advice
When I’m ancient (30) in age:
Two shirts for sale in a shop, and I—
I chose the style that would abide
In short suck it up buy the greige.
I'd love to see a fic that continues the story of the Dead Poet Society after the end of the original movie. I didn't really like that end and I'd like to see it continue.
If nothing exists, oh well.
I was at my Mom's last night watching TV, and on comes Dead Poets Society. I must have seen that movie 3 or 4 times already, but whatever. My mom likes it, we watch it.
Now If you're anything like me (I guess you are) you probably hate Mr. Keating and what he stands for. It's a Hollywood teacher that makes non-teachers go "Wooow why isn't every HS teacher like that?".
We the real teachers of course now very well that a teaching method like that would never work in real life. Not only is it literally impossible, I'd say he's actually a pretty crappy teacher all things considered. He's not teaching his kids a darn thing except to sEiZe tHe DaY and be rebellious yadda yadda yadda.
But I won't linger too much on how Mr. Keating is a bad teacher. We all know that. What I realized last night is how much I like another character: Mr. McAllister, the Latin teacher.
Keating is a fool, the principal is a jerk and a control freak, and of course the kids are... kids.
But Mr. McAllister is my favorite character in the movie. He actually does his job, teaching Latin, as we see in the movie. It's implied that he's pretty strict, although that doesn't necessarily mean he's an asshole like the principal. When he hears about Keating's revolutionary teaching method, he tries to warn him about his future, and of course, turns out he was right.
He is a good teacher who's actually educating his students and being a good role model for them. He is a wise man, so wise he can't help but be a little cynical. I like Mr. McAllister.
You are emotionally tied to no characters and then out of no where, one of them commits suicide to move the plot forward. I do not understand the draw to this movie except that Robin Williams is in it.
I fucking love it so much, what’s your favorite poem and/or quote from it?
