WEBVTT FILE 2 00:00:42.315 --> 00:00:45.767 Now remember keep your shoulders back. 3 00:00:54.786 --> 00:00:57.403 Okay put your arm around your brother. That's it. 4 00:00:57.497 --> 00:00:59.457 That's it. Right and breathe in. 5 00:01:01.209 --> 00:01:03.117 Okay one more. 6 00:01:07.632 --> 00:01:09.707 Now just to review 7 00:01:09.801 --> 00:01:12.210 you're going to follow along the procession... 8 00:01:12.303 --> 00:01:15.223 until you get to the headmaster. 9 00:01:15.306 --> 00:01:17.882 At that point he will indicate to you... 10 00:01:17.976 --> 00:01:20.051 to light the candles of the boys. 11 00:01:20.145 --> 00:01:22.720 All right boys let's settle down. 12 00:01:29.320 --> 00:01:32.105 Banners up! 13 00:02:22.791 --> 00:02:26.868 Ladies and gentlemen boys... 14 00:02:26.961 --> 00:02:28.870 the Light of Knowledge. 15 00:02:43.478 --> 00:02:48.900 One hundred years ago in 1859 16 00:02:48.983 --> 00:02:52.727 41 boys sat in this room... 17 00:02:52.821 --> 00:02:55.313 and were asked the same question... 18 00:02:55.407 --> 00:02:58.576 that now greets you at the start of each semester. 19 00:02:58.660 --> 00:03:02.487 Gentlemen what are the Four Pillars? 20 00:03:04.958 --> 00:03:09.744 Tradition. Honour. Discipline. Excellence. 21 00:03:11.131 --> 00:03:13.091 In her first year 22 00:03:13.174 --> 00:03:17.251 Welton Academy graduated five students. 23 00:03:17.345 --> 00:03:20.265 Last year we graduated 51. 24 00:03:20.348 --> 00:03:23.382 And more than 75 percent of those... 25 00:03:23.476 --> 00:03:26.229 went on to the Ivy League. 26 00:03:26.312 --> 00:03:31.057 This- This kind of accomplishment... 27 00:03:31.151 --> 00:03:33.111 is the result... 28 00:03:33.194 --> 00:03:38.106 of fervent dedication to the principles taught here. 29 00:03:38.199 --> 00:03:41.609 This is why you parents have been sending us your sons. 30 00:03:41.703 --> 00:03:44.737 This is why we are the best... 31 00:03:44.831 --> 00:03:47.865 preparatory school in the United States. 32 00:03:56.134 --> 00:03:58.543 As you know 33 00:03:58.636 --> 00:04:03.673 our beloved Mr Portius of the English Department retired last term. 34 00:04:03.767 --> 00:04:07.635 You will have the opportunity later to meet his replacement Mr John Keating 35 00:04:09.105 --> 00:04:12.640 himself an honours graduate of this school. 36 00:04:12.734 --> 00:04:15.309 And who for the past several years has been teaching... 37 00:04:15.403 --> 00:04:17.645 at the highly regarded Chester School in London. 38 00:04:23.536 --> 00:04:25.445 Richard you forgot your bag! 39 00:04:25.538 --> 00:04:27.697 Hi Johnny! Hey how you doin'? 40 00:04:27.791 --> 00:04:30.543 Don't worry. I got your room assignment. 41 00:04:41.971 --> 00:04:44.891 They haven't moved the dining area. 42 00:04:44.974 --> 00:04:46.883 Glad you could come by. 43 00:04:46.976 --> 00:04:50.011 - Thrilling ceremony as usual Dr Nolan. - You've been away too long. 44 00:04:50.105 --> 00:04:52.013 - Hello Dr Nolan. - Good to have you back. 45 00:04:52.107 --> 00:04:54.265 - This is our youngest Todd. - Mr Anderson. 46 00:04:54.359 --> 00:04:57.977 You have some big shoes to fill. Your brother was one of our finest. 47 00:04:58.071 --> 00:05:01.105 Thank you. 48 00:05:01.199 --> 00:05:04.150 - Lovely ceremony. - Thank you. Glad you liked it. 49 00:05:04.244 --> 00:05:06.152 - Gale. - Tom. 50 00:05:06.246 --> 00:05:08.154 - Good to see you again. - Hello Mr Nolan. 51 00:05:08.248 --> 00:05:11.418 - We expect great things from you this year. - Thank you sir. 52 00:05:11.501 --> 00:05:13.409 Well he won't disappoint us. Right Neil? 53 00:05:13.503 --> 00:05:15.787 I'll do my best sir. 54 00:05:15.880 --> 00:05:17.841 Hey come on son. 55 00:05:17.924 --> 00:05:19.165 - Chin up. - Okay. 56 00:05:19.259 --> 00:05:20.635 - No tears now. - Chin up. 57 00:05:20.719 --> 00:05:22.679 - I don't want to go here. - Honey I love you. 58 00:05:22.762 --> 00:05:26.714 - I'll walk you over. - You be a good boy. Do your lessons. 59 00:05:31.521 --> 00:05:34.013 Hey! I hear we're gonna be roommates. 60 00:05:34.107 --> 00:05:36.682 - I'm Neil Perry. - I'm Todd Anderson. 61 00:05:36.776 --> 00:05:38.851 Why'd you leave Balincrest? 62 00:05:38.945 --> 00:05:40.853 My brother went here. 63 00:05:40.947 --> 00:05:42.907 Oh so you're that Anderson. 64 00:05:42.991 --> 00:05:45.191 - This is for his sinuses. - Yes. I see. 65 00:05:45.285 --> 00:05:48.538 Oh and if he can't swallow you give him one of these. 66 00:05:48.621 --> 00:05:51.541 And if he has trouble breathing you can give him some of those. 67 00:05:51.624 --> 00:05:54.992 - Did you remember your vaporizer? - Yes I put it in my room. 68 00:06:00.633 --> 00:06:02.625 - Hey how's it going Neil? - Hey Knox. 69 00:06:02.719 --> 00:06:05.472 Neil study group tonight? 70 00:06:05.555 --> 00:06:08.131 - Yeah sure. - Business as usual huh? 71 00:06:08.224 --> 00:06:10.977 Hey I heard you got the new kid. Looks like a stiff! 72 00:06:11.061 --> 00:06:13.897 Oops. 73 00:06:16.566 --> 00:06:18.641 Listen don't mind Cameron. 74 00:06:18.735 --> 00:06:23.312 He was born with his foot in his mouth. You know what I mean? 75 00:06:25.742 --> 00:06:29.110 Rumour has it... you did summer school. 76 00:06:29.204 --> 00:06:32.321 Yep. Chemistry. My father thought I should get ahead. 77 00:06:32.415 --> 00:06:34.323 How was your summer slick? 78 00:06:34.417 --> 00:06:36.242 Keen. 79 00:06:37.921 --> 00:06:39.954 Meeks. Door. Closed. 80 00:06:40.048 --> 00:06:42.206 Yes sir. 81 00:06:42.300 --> 00:06:44.500 Gentlemen what are the Four Pillars? 82 00:06:44.594 --> 00:06:49.338 Travesty. Horror. Decadence. Excrement. 83 00:06:49.432 --> 00:06:52.185 Okay. Study group. 84 00:06:52.268 --> 00:06:55.188 Meeks aced Latin. I didn't quite flunk English. 85 00:06:55.271 --> 00:06:57.680 - If you want we got our study group. - Sure. 86 00:06:57.774 --> 00:07:00.016 Cameron asked me too. Anyone mind including him? 87 00:07:00.110 --> 00:07:02.643 Hmm what's his specialty? Bootlicking? 88 00:07:02.737 --> 00:07:04.896 - Come on he's your roommate. - That's not my fault. 89 00:07:04.989 --> 00:07:09.484 I'm sorry. My name is Stephen Meeks. 90 00:07:09.577 --> 00:07:11.652 Oh! This is Todd Anderson. 91 00:07:11.746 --> 00:07:13.654 - Nice to meet you. - Nice to meet you. 92 00:07:13.748 --> 00:07:16.157 Charlie Dalton. 93 00:07:16.251 --> 00:07:18.701 Knox Overstreet. 94 00:07:18.795 --> 00:07:20.703 Todd's brother was Jeffrey Anderson. 95 00:07:20.797 --> 00:07:22.997 - Oh yeah sure. - What do you know? 96 00:07:23.091 --> 00:07:26.959 - Valedictorian. National Merit Scholar. - Oh well... 97 00:07:27.053 --> 00:07:29.170 welcome to Hell- ton. 98 00:07:29.264 --> 00:07:33.309 It's every bit as tough as they say unless you're a genius like Meeks. 99 00:07:33.393 --> 00:07:35.843 He flatters me. That's why I help him with Latin. 100 00:07:35.937 --> 00:07:38.857 And English. And trig. 101 00:07:38.940 --> 00:07:41.974 It's open. 102 00:07:45.280 --> 00:07:47.355 Father I thought you'd gone. 103 00:07:47.449 --> 00:07:50.149 - Mr Perry. - Keep your seats fellows. 104 00:07:50.243 --> 00:07:54.028 Neil I've just spoken to Mr Nolan. 105 00:07:54.122 --> 00:07:57.375 You're taking too many extracurricular activities this semester 106 00:07:57.459 --> 00:08:00.326 and I've decided that you should drop the school annual. 107 00:08:00.420 --> 00:08:02.245 But I'm the assistant editor this year. 108 00:08:02.339 --> 00:08:05.998 - Well I'm sorry Neil. - But Father I can't. 109 00:08:06.092 --> 00:08:10.002 - It wouldn't be fair. - Would you excuse us for a moment? 110 00:08:21.107 --> 00:08:24.142 Don't you ever dispute me in public. Do you understand? 111 00:08:24.235 --> 00:08:26.644 - Father I wasn't disputing- - - After you've finished medical school... 112 00:08:26.738 --> 00:08:28.813 and you're on your own then you can do as you damn well please. 113 00:08:28.907 --> 00:08:32.160 But until then you do as I tell you. Is that clear? 114 00:08:32.243 --> 00:08:34.819 Yes sir. I'm sorry. 115 00:08:37.082 --> 00:08:39.042 You know how much this means to your mother don't you? 116 00:08:39.125 --> 00:08:41.325 Yes sir. 117 00:08:41.419 --> 00:08:45.496 You know me: always taking on too much. 118 00:08:45.590 --> 00:08:48.166 Well that's my boy. 119 00:08:48.259 --> 00:08:52.170 - You need anything you let us know. - Yes sir. 120 00:09:00.438 --> 00:09:04.223 Why doesn't he let you do what you want? 121 00:09:04.317 --> 00:09:07.602 Yeah Neil. Tell him off. Couldn't get any worse. 122 00:09:07.696 --> 00:09:09.604 Oh that's rich. Like you guys tell your parents off? 123 00:09:09.698 --> 00:09:11.606 Mr Future Lawyer and Mr Future Banker? 124 00:09:11.700 --> 00:09:14.275 Okay so I don't like it any more than you do. 125 00:09:14.369 --> 00:09:16.486 Well just don't tell me how to talk to my father. 126 00:09:16.579 --> 00:09:19.499 - You guys are the same way. - All right all right.Jesus. 127 00:09:19.582 --> 00:09:21.699 - So what are you gonna do then? - What I have to do. 128 00:09:21.793 --> 00:09:25.286 - Drop the annual. - I wouldn't lose much sleep over it. 129 00:09:25.380 --> 00:09:27.872 It's just a bunch of jerks trying to impress Nolan. 130 00:09:27.966 --> 00:09:31.000 I don't care. I don't give a damn about any of it. 131 00:09:31.094 --> 00:09:34.837 - Well uh... Latin 8:00 in my room? - Yes. 132 00:09:34.931 --> 00:09:37.965 - That sounds okay. - Todd you're welcome to join us. 133 00:09:38.059 --> 00:09:40.510 - Yeah come along pal. - Thanks. 134 00:10:18.308 --> 00:10:20.883 Slow down boys! 135 00:10:20.977 --> 00:10:25.388 Slow down you horrible phalanx of pubescence! 136 00:10:25.482 --> 00:10:29.392 Pick three laboratory experiments from the project list... 137 00:10:29.486 --> 00:10:33.229 and report on them every five weeks. 138 00:10:33.323 --> 00:10:37.733 The first 20 questions at the end of chapter one are due tomorrow. 139 00:10:39.954 --> 00:10:41.863 - Agricolam. - Agricolam. 140 00:10:41.956 --> 00:10:43.865 - Agricola. - Agricola. 141 00:10:43.958 --> 00:10:46.242 - Agricolae. - Agricolae. 142 00:10:46.336 --> 00:10:49.089 - Agricolarum. - Agricolarum. 143 00:10:49.172 --> 00:10:51.414 - Agricolis. - Agricolis. 144 00:10:51.508 --> 00:10:53.583 - Agricolas. - Agricolas. 145 00:10:53.677 --> 00:10:55.918 - Agricolis. - Agricolis. 146 00:10:56.012 --> 00:10:58.880 - Again please. Agricola. - Agricola. 147 00:10:58.973 --> 00:11:04.729 Your study of trigonometry requires absolute precision. 148 00:11:04.813 --> 00:11:09.557 Anyone failing to turn in any homework assignment... 149 00:11:09.651 --> 00:11:14.729 will be penalized one point off their final grade. 150 00:11:14.823 --> 00:11:18.691 Let me urge you now not to test me on this point. 151 00:11:30.171 --> 00:11:32.413 Hey Spaz. Spaz. 152 00:11:32.507 --> 00:11:35.082 Brain damage! 153 00:11:35.176 --> 00:11:38.753 - Shh! 154 00:11:56.197 --> 00:11:59.117 Well come on. 155 00:12:06.458 --> 00:12:09.544 - Let's go. - Let's go guys. 156 00:12:09.627 --> 00:12:14.914 Let's go. 157 00:12:34.319 --> 00:12:37.895 "O Captain my Captain." 158 00:12:37.989 --> 00:12:41.159 Who knows where that comes from? 159 00:12:41.242 --> 00:12:42.900 Anybody? 160 00:12:47.165 --> 00:12:49.407 Not a clue? 161 00:12:49.501 --> 00:12:53.411 It's from a poem by Walt Whitman about Mr Abraham Lincoln. 162 00:12:53.505 --> 00:12:56.591 Now in this class you can either call me Mr Keating... 163 00:12:56.675 --> 00:13:00.668 or if you're slightly more daring "O Captain my Captain." 164 00:13:04.432 --> 00:13:07.519 Now let me dispel a few rumours so they don't fester into facts. 165 00:13:07.602 --> 00:13:11.345 Yes I too attended Hell- ton and survived. 166 00:13:11.439 --> 00:13:15.516 And no at that time I was not the mental giant you see before you. 167 00:13:15.610 --> 00:13:19.187 I was the intellectual equivalent of a 98- pound weakling. 168 00:13:19.280 --> 00:13:23.191 I would go to the beach and people would kick copies of Byron in my face. 169 00:13:26.621 --> 00:13:32.043 Now... Mr Pitts? 170 00:13:32.127 --> 00:13:34.202 That's a rather unfortunate name. 171 00:13:34.295 --> 00:13:37.705 Mr Pitts where are you? 172 00:13:37.799 --> 00:13:42.210 Mr Pitts would you open your hymnal to page 542. 173 00:13:42.303 --> 00:13:45.390 Read the first stanza of the poem you find there. 174 00:13:47.976 --> 00:13:50.551 "To the Virgins to Make Much of Time"? 175 00:13:50.645 --> 00:13:53.846 Yes that's the one. 176 00:13:53.940 --> 00:13:56.724 Somewhat appropriate isn't it? 177 00:13:56.818 --> 00:13:59.393 "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may. 178 00:13:59.487 --> 00:14:01.395 "Old Time is still a- flying. 179 00:14:01.489 --> 00:14:04.899 And this same flower that smiles today tomorrow will be dying." 180 00:14:04.993 --> 00:14:08.027 Thank you Mr Pitts. 181 00:14:08.121 --> 00:14:11.207 "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may." 182 00:14:11.291 --> 00:14:15.034 The Latin term for that sentiment is "Carpe diem. " 183 00:14:15.128 --> 00:14:17.411 Now who knows what that means? 184 00:14:18.840 --> 00:14:21.249 Carpe diem. That's "Seize the day." 185 00:14:21.343 --> 00:14:23.251 - Very good Mister- - - Meeks. 186 00:14:23.345 --> 00:14:26.598 Meeks. Another unusual name. 187 00:14:26.681 --> 00:14:28.881 Seize the day. 188 00:14:28.975 --> 00:14:32.552 "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may." 189 00:14:32.645 --> 00:14:34.929 Why does the writer use these lines? 190 00:14:35.023 --> 00:14:37.859 - Because he's in a hurry. - No! Ding! 191 00:14:37.942 --> 00:14:40.184 Thank you for playing anyway. 192 00:14:42.155 --> 00:14:45.731 Because we are food for worms lads. 193 00:14:45.825 --> 00:14:48.609 Because believe it or not each and every one of us in this room... 194 00:14:48.703 --> 00:14:54.125 is one day going to stop breathing turn cold and die. 195 00:14:56.002 --> 00:14:58.578 I would like you to step forward over here... 196 00:14:58.672 --> 00:15:01.247 and peruse some of the faces from the past. 197 00:15:01.341 --> 00:15:05.668 You've walked past them many times. I don't think you've really looked at them. 198 00:15:11.393 --> 00:15:14.062 They're not that different from you are they? 199 00:15:14.145 --> 00:15:16.815 Same haircuts. 200 00:15:16.898 --> 00:15:20.016 Full of hormones just like you. 201 00:15:20.110 --> 00:15:25.532 Invincible just like you feel. The world is their oyster. 202 00:15:25.615 --> 00:15:28.733 They believe they're destined for great things just like many of you. 203 00:15:28.827 --> 00:15:31.068 Their eyes are full of hope just like you. 204 00:15:31.162 --> 00:15:33.832 Did they wait until it was too late... 205 00:15:33.915 --> 00:15:37.366 to make from their lives even one iota of what they were capable? 206 00:15:37.460 --> 00:15:42.538 Because you see gentlemen these boys are now fertilizing daffodils. 207 00:15:44.259 --> 00:15:47.178 But if you listen real close... 208 00:15:47.262 --> 00:15:50.181 you can hear them whisper their legacy to you. 209 00:15:50.265 --> 00:15:52.173 Go on lean in. 210 00:15:52.267 --> 00:15:57.887 Listen. Do you hear it? 211 00:16:04.279 --> 00:16:06.521 Carpe. 212 00:16:09.034 --> 00:16:11.870 Hear it? 213 00:16:11.953 --> 00:16:17.292 Carpe. 214 00:16:17.375 --> 00:16:22.714 Carpe diem. 215 00:16:22.797 --> 00:16:27.542 Seize the day boys. 216 00:16:27.635 --> 00:16:33.141 Make your lives extraordinary. 217 00:16:46.488 --> 00:16:49.240 - That was weird. - But different. 218 00:16:49.324 --> 00:16:51.899 Spooky if you ask me. 219 00:16:51.993 --> 00:16:54.068 Think he'll test us on that stuff? 220 00:16:54.162 --> 00:16:57.248 Oh come on Cameron. Don't you get anything? 221 00:16:57.332 --> 00:16:59.407 What? What? 222 00:17:01.670 --> 00:17:05.496 Let's go boys. Hustle up in here. That means you Dalton! 223 00:17:05.590 --> 00:17:07.832 Who's up for a quick study group tonight guys? 224 00:17:07.926 --> 00:17:10.001 - Me. - What? 225 00:17:10.095 --> 00:17:13.504 I can't make it guys. I have to have dinner at the Danburrys' house tonight. 226 00:17:13.598 --> 00:17:15.506 The Danburrys? Who are the Danburrys? 227 00:17:15.600 --> 00:17:17.508 Big alums. How'd you swing that? 228 00:17:17.602 --> 00:17:20.011 Friends of my dad's. They're probably in their nineties or something. 229 00:17:20.105 --> 00:17:21.512 Ooh! 230 00:17:21.606 --> 00:17:24.015 Anything's better than Hell- ton hash Knox. 231 00:17:24.109 --> 00:17:26.684 - I'll second that. - Yeah we'll see. 232 00:17:26.778 --> 00:17:30.521 You coming to the study group tonight? 233 00:17:30.615 --> 00:17:34.525 Uh... no. No I- - Uh I've got some history I wanna do. 234 00:17:34.619 --> 00:17:37.372 Suit yourself. 235 00:18:10.405 --> 00:18:12.313 Ready Overstreet? 236 00:18:14.409 --> 00:18:16.692 Ready to go sir. 237 00:18:41.603 --> 00:18:44.011 Chet can you get that? 238 00:18:44.105 --> 00:18:46.180 - I can't Mom. - I'll get it! 239 00:18:51.571 --> 00:18:54.188 Can I help you? 240 00:18:54.282 --> 00:18:57.859 Hi. Knox Overstreet. 241 00:18:57.952 --> 00:19:01.696 - Uh Dr Hager. - Hi. 242 00:19:01.790 --> 00:19:03.666 This is the Danburrys' right? 243 00:19:03.750 --> 00:19:07.034 - Are you here to see Chet? - Mrs Danburry? 244 00:19:07.128 --> 00:19:11.205 - No. - Sorry. Thank you. I'm Mrs Danburry. 245 00:19:11.299 --> 00:19:13.207 - You must be Knox. - Yes. 246 00:19:13.301 --> 00:19:16.054 Back by 9:00? Please come on in. 247 00:19:16.137 --> 00:19:18.045 - Chris come on! - Chet I'm coming. 248 00:19:18.139 --> 00:19:20.506 Knox. How are you? Joe Danburry. 249 00:19:20.600 --> 00:19:23.353 - Nice to meet you sir. - He's the spitting image of his father. 250 00:19:23.436 --> 00:19:25.344 - How is he? Come on in. - Chris! 251 00:19:25.438 --> 00:19:28.014 - Great. He just did a big case for G.M. - I know where you're headed. 252 00:19:28.108 --> 00:19:30.433 - I'm coming. - Like father like son huh? 253 00:19:32.112 --> 00:19:34.072 Ooh! Psycho! 254 00:19:34.155 --> 00:19:36.647 - Yes! - To Queen- Six. 255 00:19:36.741 --> 00:19:39.358 - Another game? - What do you mean? - Duh! 256 00:19:39.452 --> 00:19:42.706 just replace these numbers here with 'x "for 'x"and 'y. " 257 00:19:42.789 --> 00:19:45.323 - Of course. - Of course. So what's the problem? 258 00:19:45.417 --> 00:19:48.086 You think I can get in there? You've been hogging it all day. 259 00:19:48.169 --> 00:19:50.244 - Wait. No. - How was dinner? 260 00:19:50.338 --> 00:19:52.371 Huh? 261 00:19:52.465 --> 00:19:56.125 - How was dinner? - Terrible. 262 00:19:57.512 --> 00:20:01.214 - Awful. - Why? What happened? 263 00:20:04.144 --> 00:20:08.721 Tonight I met the most beautiful girl... 264 00:20:08.815 --> 00:20:11.224 I have ever seen in my entire life. 265 00:20:11.317 --> 00:20:14.018 Are you crazy? What's wrong with that? 266 00:20:14.112 --> 00:20:18.241 She's practically engaged to Chet Danburry. 267 00:20:18.324 --> 00:20:19.951 That guy could eat a football. 268 00:20:20.035 --> 00:20:22.110 - Too bad. - "Too bad"? 269 00:20:22.203 --> 00:20:24.737 It's worse than "too bad" Pittsie. It's a tragedy. 270 00:20:24.831 --> 00:20:27.584 A girl this beautiful in love with such a jerk. 271 00:20:27.667 --> 00:20:30.118 All the good ones go for jerks. You know that. 272 00:20:30.211 --> 00:20:32.745 Yeah forget her. Open your trig book and try and figure out problem five. 273 00:20:32.839 --> 00:20:35.248 I can't just forget her Cameron. 274 00:20:35.342 --> 00:20:38.209 And I certainly can't think about trig. 275 00:20:38.303 --> 00:20:40.461 We got it! 276 00:20:40.555 --> 00:20:43.308 All right gentlemen. Five minutes. 277 00:20:43.391 --> 00:20:45.800 Let's go. 278 00:20:45.894 --> 00:20:49.595 - Did you see her naked? - Very funny Dalton. 279 00:20:49.689 --> 00:20:52.640 That wouldn't be a radio in your lap 280 00:20:52.734 --> 00:20:57.145 - would it Mr Pitts? - No sir. Science experiment. 281 00:20:57.238 --> 00:20:59.313 Radar. 282 00:21:03.912 --> 00:21:08.698 Gentlemen open your text to page 21 of the introduction. 283 00:21:08.792 --> 00:21:12.201 Mr Perry will you read the opening paragraph of the preface 284 00:21:12.295 --> 00:21:14.454 entitled "Understanding Poetry." 285 00:21:15.799 --> 00:21:20.543 "'Understand Poetry' by Dr J. Evans Pritchard Ph.D. 286 00:21:20.637 --> 00:21:23.390 "To fully understand poetry we must first be fluent... 287 00:21:23.473 --> 00:21:26.393 "with its metre rhyme and figures of speech. 288 00:21:26.476 --> 00:21:28.384 "Then ask two questions. 289 00:21:28.478 --> 00:21:30.720 "One.: How artfully has the objective of the poem been rendered? 290 00:21:30.814 --> 00:21:34.307 'And two.: How important is that objective? 291 00:21:34.401 --> 00:21:36.309 "Question one rates the poem's perfection. 292 00:21:36.403 --> 00:21:38.394 "Question two rates its importance. 293 00:21:38.488 --> 00:21:40.897 'And once these questions have been answered... 294 00:21:40.990 --> 00:21:44.400 "determining a poem's greatness becomes a relatively simple matter. 295 00:21:44.494 --> 00:21:47.069 "If the poem's score for perfection is plotted... 296 00:21:47.163 --> 00:21:49.238 "on the horizontal of a graph... 297 00:21:49.332 --> 00:21:52.742 "and its importance is plotted on the vertical 298 00:21:52.836 --> 00:21:56.089 "then calculating the total area of the poem... 299 00:21:56.172 --> 00:21:58.873 "yields the measure of its greatness. 300 00:22:01.469 --> 00:22:06.714 "A sonnet by Byron might score high on the vertical 301 00:22:06.808 --> 00:22:09.728 "but only average on the horizontal. 302 00:22:09.811 --> 00:22:13.012 'A Shakespearean sonnet on the other hand 303 00:22:13.106 --> 00:22:16.443 "would score high both horizontally and vertically 304 00:22:16.526 --> 00:22:18.434 'yielding a massive total area;: 305 00:22:18.528 --> 00:22:21.865 "thereby revealing the poem to be truly great. 306 00:22:21.948 --> 00:22:26.734 'As you proceed through the poetry in this book practise this rating method. 307 00:22:26.828 --> 00:22:29.529 'As your ability to evaluate poems in this manner grows 308 00:22:29.622 --> 00:22:35.409 so will- - so will your enjoyment and understanding of poetry." 309 00:22:39.841 --> 00:22:41.749 Excrement. 310 00:22:44.179 --> 00:22:46.546 That's what I think of Mr J. Evans Pritchard. 311 00:22:46.639 --> 00:22:49.757 We're not laying pipe. We're talking about poetry. 312 00:22:49.851 --> 00:22:53.104 I mean how can you describe poetry like American Bandstand? 313 00:22:53.188 --> 00:22:58.057 "I like Byron. I give him a 42. But I can't dance to it." 314 00:22:58.151 --> 00:23:01.237 Now I want you to rip out that page. 315 00:23:01.321 --> 00:23:04.689 Go on. Rip out the entire page. 316 00:23:07.327 --> 00:23:09.902 You heard me. Rip it out. 317 00:23:09.996 --> 00:23:12.447 Rip it out! 318 00:23:12.540 --> 00:23:14.657 Go on. Rip it out. 319 00:23:16.044 --> 00:23:18.453 Thank you Mr Dalton. 320 00:23:18.546 --> 00:23:20.538 Gentlemen tell you what. Don't just tear out that page. 321 00:23:20.632 --> 00:23:25.460 Tear out the entire introduction. I want it gone history. Leave nothing. 322 00:23:25.553 --> 00:23:29.849 Rip it out! Rip! Be gone J. Evans Pritchard Ph.D.! 323 00:23:29.933 --> 00:23:32.383 Rip! Shred! Tear! 324 00:23:32.477 --> 00:23:35.480 Rip it out! I want to hear nothing but ripping of Mr Pritchard! 325 00:23:35.563 --> 00:23:38.316 We'll perforate it put it on a roll! 326 00:23:38.400 --> 00:23:40.808 It's not the Bible. You're not gonna go to hell for this. 327 00:23:43.363 --> 00:23:46.814 Go on. Make a clean tear. I want nothing left of it. 328 00:23:46.908 --> 00:23:49.275 We shouldn't be doing this. 329 00:23:49.369 --> 00:23:51.819 Rip! Rip! Rip! 330 00:23:51.913 --> 00:23:53.821 Rip it out! Rip! 331 00:23:58.128 --> 00:24:02.121 Rip it! Yeah! Rip it out! 332 00:24:05.719 --> 00:24:08.722 - Rip it! - What the hell is going on here? 333 00:24:10.098 --> 00:24:13.674 - I don't hear enough rips. - Mr Keating. 334 00:24:13.768 --> 00:24:16.135 Mr McAllister. 335 00:24:16.229 --> 00:24:20.723 I'm sorry I- - I didn't know you were here. 336 00:24:20.817 --> 00:24:26.687 - I am. - Ah. So you are. 337 00:24:26.781 --> 00:24:28.856 Excuse me. 338 00:24:30.618 --> 00:24:32.902 Keep ripping gentlemen. 339 00:24:32.996 --> 00:24:35.696 This is a battle a war. 340 00:24:35.790 --> 00:24:37.865 And the casualties could be your hearts and souls. 341 00:24:37.959 --> 00:24:39.867 Thank you Mr Dalton. 342 00:24:39.961 --> 00:24:43.048 Armies of academics going forward measuring poetry. 343 00:24:43.131 --> 00:24:45.039 No! We will not have that here. 344 00:24:45.133 --> 00:24:47.041 No more of MrJ. Evans Pritchard. 345 00:24:47.135 --> 00:24:50.388 Now my class you will learn to think for yourselves again. 346 00:24:50.472 --> 00:24:54.006 You will learn to savour words and language. 347 00:24:54.100 --> 00:24:56.384 No matter what anybody tells you 348 00:24:56.478 --> 00:25:00.221 words and ideas can change the world. 349 00:25:00.315 --> 00:25:02.682 I see that look in Mr Pitts' eye... 350 00:25:02.776 --> 00:25:05.017 like 19th century literature has nothing to do... 351 00:25:05.111 --> 00:25:07.019 with going to business school or medical school. 352 00:25:07.113 --> 00:25:09.021 Right? Maybe. 353 00:25:09.115 --> 00:25:11.190 Mr Hopkins you may agree with him thinking 354 00:25:11.284 --> 00:25:14.537 "Yes we should simply study our Mr Pritchard... 355 00:25:14.621 --> 00:25:17.540 "and learn our rhyme and metre and go quietly about the business... 356 00:25:17.624 --> 00:25:20.710 of achieving other ambitions." 357 00:25:20.794 --> 00:25:23.713 I have a little secret for you. Huddle up. 358 00:25:23.797 --> 00:25:25.705 Huddle up! 359 00:25:33.640 --> 00:25:37.049 We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. 360 00:25:37.143 --> 00:25:41.888 We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. 361 00:25:41.981 --> 00:25:46.726 And the human race is filled with passion. 362 00:25:46.820 --> 00:25:49.395 Medicine law business engineering: 363 00:25:49.489 --> 00:25:52.659 these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. 364 00:25:52.742 --> 00:25:55.234 But poetry 365 00:25:55.328 --> 00:25:59.405 beauty romance love- - 366 00:25:59.499 --> 00:26:02.074 these are what we stay alive for. 367 00:26:02.168 --> 00:26:05.005 To quote from Whitman.: 368 00:26:05.088 --> 00:26:09.134 "O me O life of the questions of these recurring. 369 00:26:09.217 --> 00:26:12.303 "Of the endless trains of the faithless. 370 00:26:12.387 --> 00:26:15.306 "Of cities filled with the foolish. 371 00:26:15.390 --> 00:26:18.674 "What good amid these O me O life? 372 00:26:18.768 --> 00:26:22.678 "Answer: That you are here. 373 00:26:22.772 --> 00:26:26.849 "That life exists and identity. 374 00:26:26.943 --> 00:26:29.352 "That the powerful play goes on 375 00:26:29.446 --> 00:26:32.021 and you may contribute a verse." 376 00:26:34.117 --> 00:26:36.786 "That the powerful play goes on 377 00:26:36.870 --> 00:26:40.696 and you may contribute a verse. " 378 00:26:44.294 --> 00:26:46.410 What will your verse be? 379 00:26:50.425 --> 00:26:53.209 For what we are about to receive 380 00:26:53.303 --> 00:26:56.389 may the Lord make us truly grateful. 381 00:26:56.473 --> 00:26:58.381 Amen. 382 00:27:10.111 --> 00:27:12.864 Quite an interesting class you gave today Mr Keating. 383 00:27:12.947 --> 00:27:15.867 - Sorry if I shocked you Mr McAllister. - There's no need to apologise. 384 00:27:15.950 --> 00:27:19.037 It was very fascinating misguided though it was. 385 00:27:19.120 --> 00:27:21.028 You think so? 386 00:27:21.122 --> 00:27:24.376 You take a big risk by encouraging them to become artistsJohn. 387 00:27:24.459 --> 00:27:28.202 When they realize that they're not Rembrandts Shakespeares or Mozarts 388 00:27:28.296 --> 00:27:29.871 they'll hate you for it. 389 00:27:29.964 --> 00:27:33.374 We're not talking artists George. We're talking freethinkers. 390 00:27:33.468 --> 00:27:35.877 Freethinkers at 17? 391 00:27:35.970 --> 00:27:37.879 Funny I never pegged you as a cynic. 392 00:27:40.308 --> 00:27:43.009 Not a cynic. 393 00:27:43.103 --> 00:27:45.063 A realist. 394 00:27:45.146 --> 00:27:49.223 "Show me the heart unfettered by foolish dreams 395 00:27:49.317 --> 00:27:51.517 and I'll show you a happy man." 396 00:27:51.611 --> 00:27:55.229 "But only in their dreams can men be truly free. 397 00:27:55.323 --> 00:27:58.274 'Twas always thus and always thus will be." 398 00:27:58.368 --> 00:28:00.401 Tennyson? 399 00:28:00.495 --> 00:28:02.653 No. Keating. 400 00:28:07.502 --> 00:28:10.077 Hey I found his senior annual in the library. 401 00:28:10.171 --> 00:28:13.206 Listen to this. Captain of the soccer team. 402 00:28:13.299 --> 00:28:16.219 Editor of the school annual. Cambridge bound. 403 00:28:16.302 --> 00:28:19.472 Thigh man and the Dead Poets Society. 404 00:28:19.556 --> 00:28:22.256 "Man Most Likely To Do Anything." 405 00:28:22.350 --> 00:28:25.718 Thigh man? Mr "K" was a hell- raiser. 406 00:28:25.812 --> 00:28:28.513 What's the Dead Poets Society? 407 00:28:28.606 --> 00:28:30.515 - I don't know. - Is there a picture in the annual? 408 00:28:30.608 --> 00:28:32.517 - Nothing. No other mention of it. - That boy there 409 00:28:32.610 --> 00:28:34.519 see me after lunch. 410 00:28:38.116 --> 00:28:40.024 Mr Keating? 411 00:28:40.118 --> 00:28:42.819 Mr Keating? 412 00:28:42.912 --> 00:28:45.446 Sir? 413 00:28:45.540 --> 00:28:48.293 - Say something. - O Captain my Captain? 414 00:28:48.376 --> 00:28:50.868 Gentlemen. 415 00:28:50.962 --> 00:28:54.539 We were just looking in your old annual. 416 00:28:54.632 --> 00:28:56.916 Oh my God. 417 00:28:57.010 --> 00:29:00.378 No that's not me. 418 00:29:00.472 --> 00:29:03.423 Stanley "The Tool" Wilson. 419 00:29:05.935 --> 00:29:09.595 - God. - What was the Dead Poets Society? 420 00:29:13.943 --> 00:29:17.478 I doubt the present administration would look too favourably upon that. 421 00:29:17.572 --> 00:29:20.241 Why? What was it? 422 00:29:23.078 --> 00:29:27.290 - Gentlemen can you keep a secret? - Sure. 423 00:29:29.584 --> 00:29:35.173 The Dead Poets were dedicated to sucking the marrow out of life. 424 00:29:35.256 --> 00:29:38.510 That's a phrase from Thoreau we'd invoke at the beginning of every meeting. 425 00:29:38.593 --> 00:29:41.169 You see we would gather at the old Indian cave... 426 00:29:41.262 --> 00:29:45.809 and take turns reading from Thoreau Whitman Shelley- - the biggies. 427 00:29:45.892 --> 00:29:47.686 Even some of our own verse. 428 00:29:47.769 --> 00:29:51.387 And in the enchantment of the moment we'd let poetry work its magic. 429 00:29:51.481 --> 00:29:54.682 You mean it was a bunch of guys sitting around reading poetry? 430 00:29:54.776 --> 00:29:57.696 No Mr Overstreet. It wasn't just guys. 431 00:29:57.779 --> 00:30:01.032 We weren't a Greek organization. We were romantics. 432 00:30:01.116 --> 00:30:06.152 We didn't just read poetry we let it drip from our tongues like honey. 433 00:30:06.246 --> 00:30:10.875 Spirits soared women swooned and gods were created gentlemen. 434 00:30:10.959 --> 00:30:13.409 Not a bad way to spend an evening eh? 435 00:30:13.503 --> 00:30:14.827 Hmm. 436 00:30:14.921 --> 00:30:17.705 Thank you Mr Perry for this stroll down amnesia lane. 437 00:30:17.799 --> 00:30:19.832 Burn that. 438 00:30:19.926 --> 00:30:22.710 Especially my picture. 439 00:30:22.804 --> 00:30:28.226 Dead Poets Society. 440 00:30:28.309 --> 00:30:30.270 What? 441 00:30:34.149 --> 00:30:36.390 - I say we go tonight. - Tonight? 442 00:30:36.484 --> 00:30:38.559 - Wait a minute. - Everybody in? 443 00:30:38.653 --> 00:30:40.728 - Where's this cave he's talking about? - It's beyond the stream. 444 00:30:40.822 --> 00:30:43.231 - I know where it is. - That's miles. 445 00:30:43.324 --> 00:30:46.526 - Sounds boring to me. - Don't go. 446 00:30:46.619 --> 00:30:49.070 - You know how many demerits we're talking? - So don't come. Please. 447 00:30:49.164 --> 00:30:51.572 Look all I'm saying is that we have to be careful. 448 00:30:51.666 --> 00:30:54.784 - We can't get caught. - No shit Sherlock. 449 00:30:54.878 --> 00:30:57.745 You boys there! Hurry up! 450 00:30:57.839 --> 00:31:00.925 - All right who's in? - Aw come on Neil. Hager's- - 451 00:31:01.009 --> 00:31:04.377 Forget Hager! No! Who's in? 452 00:31:04.471 --> 00:31:06.295 I'm in. 453 00:31:07.474 --> 00:31:10.091 I'm warning you! Move! 454 00:31:10.185 --> 00:31:11.300 Me too. 455 00:31:11.394 --> 00:31:13.761 - I don't know Neil. - What? Pitts! 456 00:31:13.855 --> 00:31:15.763 - Pittsie come on. - His grades are hurting. 457 00:31:15.857 --> 00:31:18.558 - You can help him Meeks. - What is this a midnight study group? 458 00:31:18.651 --> 00:31:21.404 Forget it Pitts. You're coming. Meeks your grades hurting too? 459 00:31:21.488 --> 00:31:23.813 - I'll try anything once. - Except sex. 460 00:31:23.907 --> 00:31:26.232 - Ha ha ha. - I'm in as long as we're careful. 461 00:31:26.326 --> 00:31:28.901 - What about you Knox? - I don't know Charlie. 462 00:31:28.995 --> 00:31:31.070 Come on Knox. It'll help you get Chris. 463 00:31:31.164 --> 00:31:33.072 Yeah? How? 464 00:31:33.166 --> 00:31:36.909 - Women swoon. - But why do they swoon? 465 00:31:37.003 --> 00:31:40.455 Charlie tell me why they swoon! Charlie! 466 00:31:43.009 --> 00:31:45.460 Okay follow the stream to the waterfall. 467 00:31:45.553 --> 00:31:47.462 It's right there. It's got to be on the banks. 468 00:31:47.555 --> 00:31:49.464 I don't know. This is starting to sound dangerous. 469 00:31:49.557 --> 00:31:52.967 - Oh well why don't you stay home? - Hey you're crazy. 470 00:31:53.061 --> 00:31:56.929 For God's sake stop chattering and sit down. 471 00:32:03.947 --> 00:32:06.647 - Todd are you coming tonight? - No. 472 00:32:06.741 --> 00:32:08.816 Why not? God you were there. You heard Keating. 473 00:32:08.910 --> 00:32:11.277 - Don't you want to do something about that? - Yes. 474 00:32:11.371 --> 00:32:15.667 - But- - - But? But what? 475 00:32:17.460 --> 00:32:21.204 Keating said that everybody took turns reading 476 00:32:21.297 --> 00:32:24.050 and I don't want to do that. 477 00:32:24.134 --> 00:32:26.292 Gosh you really have a problem with that don't you? 478 00:32:28.471 --> 00:32:30.880 N- No I don't have a problem. 479 00:32:30.974 --> 00:32:34.310 Neil I just- - I don't want to do it okay? 480 00:32:34.394 --> 00:32:36.886 All right. 481 00:32:36.980 --> 00:32:40.556 What if you didn't have to read? What if you just came and listened? 482 00:32:40.650 --> 00:32:43.737 - That's not how it works. - Well forget how it works. 483 00:32:43.820 --> 00:32:47.730 What if- - What if they said it was okay? 484 00:32:47.824 --> 00:32:50.691 What- - What are you gonna go up and ask them? 485 00:32:50.785 --> 00:32:53.538 No. No Neil. 486 00:32:53.621 --> 00:32:55.822 - I'll be right back. - Neil. Neil! 487 00:32:58.585 --> 00:33:01.921 Oh shut up will you? 488 00:33:04.007 --> 00:33:06.040 That's for my asthma okay? 489 00:33:06.134 --> 00:33:08.709 Could you give that back please? 490 00:33:08.803 --> 00:33:10.711 What's the matter? Don't you like snakes? 491 00:33:10.805 --> 00:33:12.880 - You're in. - Get away from me okay? 492 00:33:12.974 --> 00:33:16.384 - Why don't you check your pocket huh? 493 00:33:16.478 --> 00:33:20.221 - Come on. I have to brush my teeth. - Get a- - Get off. 494 00:33:20.315 --> 00:33:24.225 - Cut out that racket in there! 495 00:34:26.131 --> 00:34:30.708 Go. Go. 496 00:36:04.104 --> 00:36:06.596 - I'm a dead poet! - Aw shit Charlie. 497 00:36:06.690 --> 00:36:10.558 - Guys! Over here! - Funny. You're real funny. 498 00:36:10.652 --> 00:36:12.685 It's too wet. 499 00:36:12.779 --> 00:36:14.687 God are you trying to smoke us out of here? 500 00:36:14.781 --> 00:36:16.856 No no. The smoke's going right up this opening. 501 00:36:19.994 --> 00:36:22.695 You okay? 502 00:36:22.789 --> 00:36:25.198 Oh God. Clowns. 503 00:36:25.291 --> 00:36:27.867 All right forget the fire. 504 00:36:27.961 --> 00:36:31.047 Let's go gentlemen. 505 00:36:31.131 --> 00:36:35.176 - I hereby reconvene the Dead Poets Society 506 00:36:35.260 --> 00:36:37.543 Welton Chapter. 507 00:36:37.637 --> 00:36:39.545 The meetings will be conducted by myself... 508 00:36:39.639 --> 00:36:41.714 and the other new initiates now present. 509 00:36:41.808 --> 00:36:43.841 Todd Anderson because he prefers not to read 510 00:36:43.935 --> 00:36:46.427 will keep minutes of the meetings. 511 00:36:46.521 --> 00:36:49.555 I'll now read the traditional opening message... 512 00:36:49.649 --> 00:36:51.557 by Society member Henry David Thoreau. 513 00:36:51.651 --> 00:36:54.571 "I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. 514 00:36:54.654 --> 00:36:57.323 I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life." 515 00:36:57.407 --> 00:36:58.981 I'll second that. 516 00:36:59.075 --> 00:37:01.567 "To put to rout all that was not life. 517 00:37:01.661 --> 00:37:03.486 "And not when I had come to die 518 00:37:03.580 --> 00:37:05.947 discover that I had not lived." 519 00:37:09.544 --> 00:37:12.630 - Keating's marked a bunch of other pages. - All right intermission! 520 00:37:12.714 --> 00:37:14.831 Dig deep. Right here. Right here lay it down. 521 00:37:14.924 --> 00:37:16.999 On the mud? We're gonna put our food on the mud? 522 00:37:17.093 --> 00:37:19.335 Meeks put your coat down. Picnic blanket. 523 00:37:19.429 --> 00:37:22.349 Use Meeks' coat. 524 00:37:22.432 --> 00:37:24.340 Don't keep anything back either. 525 00:37:24.434 --> 00:37:27.187 - You guys are always bumming my smokes. - Raisins? 526 00:37:27.270 --> 00:37:29.178 - Yuck. - Wait a minute! 527 00:37:29.272 --> 00:37:32.359 - Who gave us half a roll? - I'm eating the other half. 528 00:37:32.442 --> 00:37:35.226 - Come on! - What you want me to put it back? 529 00:37:35.320 --> 00:37:38.354 It was a dark and rainy night and this old lady 530 00:37:38.448 --> 00:37:40.690 who had a passion for jigsaw puzzles 531 00:37:40.784 --> 00:37:45.330 sat by herself in her house at her table to complete a new jigsaw puzzle. 532 00:37:45.413 --> 00:37:48.197 But as she pieced the puzzle together 533 00:37:48.291 --> 00:37:50.199 she realized to her astonishment 534 00:37:50.293 --> 00:37:53.703 that the image that was formed was her very own room. 535 00:37:53.797 --> 00:37:56.038 And the figure in the centre of the puzzle 536 00:37:56.132 --> 00:37:58.708 as she completed it was herself. 537 00:37:58.802 --> 00:38:02.847 And with trembling hands she placed the last four pieces... 538 00:38:02.931 --> 00:38:08.009 and stared in horror at the face of a demented madman at the window. 539 00:38:08.103 --> 00:38:12.013 The last thing that this old lady ever heard... 540 00:38:12.107 --> 00:38:14.859 - was the sound of breaking glass. - No she didn't. 541 00:38:14.943 --> 00:38:17.696 Yes this is true. This is true. 542 00:38:17.779 --> 00:38:20.354 I've got one that's better than that. 543 00:38:20.448 --> 00:38:22.774 I do. There's a young married couple 544 00:38:22.867 --> 00:38:25.359 and they're driving through the forest at night on a long trip. 545 00:38:25.453 --> 00:38:28.029 And they run out of gas and there's a madman on the- - 546 00:38:28.123 --> 00:38:29.530 The thing with the hand? 547 00:38:29.624 --> 00:38:31.532 I love that story! 548 00:38:31.626 --> 00:38:33.534 - I told you that one. - You did not. 549 00:38:33.628 --> 00:38:35.703 - I got that in camp in sixth grade. - Last year? 550 00:38:35.797 --> 00:38:37.872 "In a mean abode in the Shanking Road 551 00:38:37.966 --> 00:38:39.874 "lived a man named William Bloat. 552 00:38:39.968 --> 00:38:42.043 "Now he had a wife the plague of his life 553 00:38:42.137 --> 00:38:44.212 "who continually got his goat. 554 00:38:44.305 --> 00:38:46.714 "And one day at dawn with her nightshift on 555 00:38:46.808 --> 00:38:49.050 he slit her bloody throat." 556 00:38:49.144 --> 00:38:50.885 Oh and it gets worse. 557 00:38:50.979 --> 00:38:53.221 You want to hear a real poem? 558 00:38:53.314 --> 00:38:55.389 - You want this? - No I don't need- - Get this outta here. 559 00:38:55.483 --> 00:38:57.391 - What did you bring one? - You memorized a poem? 560 00:38:57.485 --> 00:39:00.238 You memorized a poem? 561 00:39:00.321 --> 00:39:02.647 - An original piece by Charlie Dalton. - An original piece. 562 00:39:02.741 --> 00:39:05.108 - Take centre stage. - You know this is history right? 563 00:39:13.043 --> 00:39:15.618 Wow. Whoa. 564 00:39:15.712 --> 00:39:17.912 Where did you get that? 565 00:39:18.006 --> 00:39:19.288 Where did you- - 566 00:39:19.382 --> 00:39:22.333 - Whoa. - "Teach me to love? 567 00:39:22.427 --> 00:39:25.347 "Go teach thyself more wit. 568 00:39:25.430 --> 00:39:27.672 "I chief professor am of it. 569 00:39:27.766 --> 00:39:31.509 "The god of love if such a thing there be 570 00:39:31.603 --> 00:39:33.678 may learn to love from me." 571 00:39:33.772 --> 00:39:35.763 Wow. Did you write that? 572 00:39:40.945 --> 00:39:43.104 Abraham Cowley. 573 00:39:43.198 --> 00:39:45.106 Okay. Who's next? 574 00:39:45.200 --> 00:39:47.525 Alfred Lord Tennyson. 575 00:39:47.619 --> 00:39:49.694 "Come my friends. 576 00:39:49.788 --> 00:39:52.707 "'Tis not too late to seek a newer world. 577 00:39:52.791 --> 00:39:56.367 "For my purpose holds to sail beyond the sunset. 578 00:39:56.461 --> 00:39:58.703 "And though we are not now that strength... 579 00:39:58.797 --> 00:40:02.540 "which in old days moved Earth and heaven. 580 00:40:02.634 --> 00:40:04.876 "That which we are we are: 581 00:40:04.969 --> 00:40:09.046 "one equal temper of heroic hearts... 582 00:40:09.140 --> 00:40:13.050 "made weak by time and fate but strong in will... 583 00:40:13.144 --> 00:40:18.222 "to strive to seek to find 584 00:40:18.316 --> 00:40:20.725 and not to yield." 585 00:40:21.903 --> 00:40:24.572 "Then I had religion then I had a vision. 586 00:40:24.656 --> 00:40:27.064 "I could not turn from their revel in derision. 587 00:40:27.158 --> 00:40:29.734 "Then I saw the Congo creeping through the black 588 00:40:29.828 --> 00:40:32.664 cutting through the forest with a golden track." 589 00:40:32.747 --> 00:40:35.417 - Then I saw the Congo creeping through the black - Meeks. Meeks. 590 00:40:35.500 --> 00:40:37.909 cutting through the forest with a golden track. 591 00:40:38.003 --> 00:40:40.411 Then I saw the Congo creeping through the black 592 00:40:40.505 --> 00:40:43.174 - cutting through the forest with a golden track. 593 00:40:43.258 --> 00:40:45.583 Then I saw the Congo creeping through the black 594 00:40:45.677 --> 00:40:48.086 - cutting through the forest with a golden track! 595 00:40:48.179 --> 00:40:50.588 Then I saw the Congo creeping through the black 596 00:40:50.682 --> 00:40:53.518 cutting through the forest with a golden track! 597 00:40:53.601 --> 00:40:55.760 Then I saw the Congo creeping through the black 598 00:40:55.854 --> 00:40:58.096 cutting through the forest with a golden track! 599 00:40:58.189 --> 00:41:00.598 Then I saw the Congo creeping through the black 600 00:41:00.692 --> 00:41:03.184 - cutting through the forest with a golden track! 601 00:41:03.278 --> 00:41:05.520 Then I saw the Congo creeping through the black 602 00:41:05.613 --> 00:41:07.855 cutting through the forest with a golden track! 603 00:41:10.618 --> 00:41:12.860 Cutting through the forest with a golden track! 604 00:41:12.954 --> 00:41:15.874 Then I saw the Congo creeping through the black- - 605 00:41:24.507 --> 00:41:27.208 A man is not "very tired. " He is "exhausted. " 606 00:41:27.302 --> 00:41:29.210 And don't use "very sad." Use- - 607 00:41:29.304 --> 00:41:31.546 Come on Mr Overstreet you twerp. 608 00:41:31.639 --> 00:41:35.049 - "Morose"? - Exactly! Morose! 609 00:41:35.143 --> 00:41:38.970 Language was developed for one endeavour and that is- - Mr Anderson? 610 00:41:39.064 --> 00:41:42.233 Come on are you a man or an amoeba? 611 00:41:44.736 --> 00:41:46.727 Mr Perry? 612 00:41:48.990 --> 00:41:51.659 Uh... to communicate. 613 00:41:51.743 --> 00:41:54.579 No! To woo women. 614 00:41:54.662 --> 00:41:57.071 Today we're going to be talking... 615 00:41:57.165 --> 00:41:59.918 - about William Shakespeare. - Oh God. 616 00:42:00.001 --> 00:42:01.909 I know. A lot of you look forward to this... 617 00:42:02.003 --> 00:42:04.370 about as much as you look forward to root canal work. 618 00:42:04.464 --> 00:42:06.456 We're gonna talk about Shakespeare... 619 00:42:06.549 --> 00:42:09.167 as someone who writes something very interesting. 620 00:42:09.260 --> 00:42:12.879 Now many of you have seen Shakespeare done very much like this: 621 00:42:12.972 --> 00:42:16.226 "O Titus bring your friend hither." 622 00:42:16.309 --> 00:42:19.229 But if any of you have seen Mr Marlon Brando 623 00:42:19.312 --> 00:42:21.387 you know that Shakespeare can be different. 624 00:42:21.481 --> 00:42:25.558 "Friends Romans countrymen lend me your ears." 625 00:42:28.321 --> 00:42:30.897 You can also imagine maybe John Wayne as Macbeth going... 626 00:42:30.990 --> 00:42:34.942 "Well is this a dagger I see before me?" 627 00:42:37.205 --> 00:42:40.990 "Dogs sir? Oh not just now. 628 00:42:41.084 --> 00:42:45.244 "I do enjoy a good dog once in a while sir. 629 00:42:45.338 --> 00:42:48.748 "You can have yourself a three- course meal from one dog. 630 00:42:48.842 --> 00:42:52.971 "Start with a canine croquette. 631 00:42:53.054 --> 00:42:54.962 "Go to your Fido Flambe for main course. 632 00:42:55.056 --> 00:42:57.924 'And for dessert a Pekingese parfait. 633 00:42:58.018 --> 00:43:00.134 And you can pick your teeth with the little paw. " 634 00:43:02.772 --> 00:43:04.806 Why do I stand up here? 635 00:43:04.899 --> 00:43:07.350 - Anybody? - To feel taller. 636 00:43:07.444 --> 00:43:09.352 No! Thank you for playing. 637 00:43:09.446 --> 00:43:11.979 I stand upon my desk... 638 00:43:12.073 --> 00:43:17.193 to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way. 639 00:43:22.292 --> 00:43:24.534 See the world looks very different from up here. 640 00:43:24.627 --> 00:43:26.661 You don't believe me? 641 00:43:26.755 --> 00:43:30.206 Come see for yourselves. Come on. 642 00:43:30.300 --> 00:43:33.709 Come on. Just when you think you know something 643 00:43:33.803 --> 00:43:35.711 you have to look at it in another way. 644 00:43:35.805 --> 00:43:38.558 Even though it may seem silly or wrong 645 00:43:38.641 --> 00:43:40.550 you must try. 646 00:43:40.643 --> 00:43:43.010 Now when you read don't just consider what the author thinks. 647 00:43:43.104 --> 00:43:47.014 Consider what you think. 648 00:43:47.108 --> 00:43:50.560 Boys you must strive to find your own voice. 649 00:43:50.653 --> 00:43:52.562 Because the longer you wait to begin 650 00:43:52.655 --> 00:43:55.022 the less likely you are to find it at all. 651 00:43:55.116 --> 00:43:58.401 Thoreau said "Most men lead lives of quiet desperation." 652 00:43:58.495 --> 00:44:02.029 Don't be resigned to that. Break out. 653 00:44:02.123 --> 00:44:05.408 Don't just walk off the edge like lemmings. Look around you. 654 00:44:05.502 --> 00:44:08.202 There you go Mr Priske. Thank you! 655 00:44:08.296 --> 00:44:10.371 Yes! 656 00:44:10.465 --> 00:44:14.709 Dare to strike out and find new ground. 657 00:44:14.803 --> 00:44:17.378 Now in addition to your essays 658 00:44:17.472 --> 00:44:20.923 I would like you to compose a poem of your own an original work. 659 00:44:21.017 --> 00:44:25.563 Ooh! 660 00:44:25.647 --> 00:44:27.722 That's right. 661 00:44:27.816 --> 00:44:31.642 You have to deliver it aloud in front of the class on Monday. 662 00:44:31.736 --> 00:44:33.644 Bon chance gentlemen. 663 00:44:35.365 --> 00:44:37.732 Mr Anderson. 664 00:44:37.826 --> 00:44:42.904 Don't think I don't know this assignment scares the hell out of you you mole. 665 00:44:56.511 --> 00:44:58.878 Take a power train in two! 666 00:45:00.682 --> 00:45:03.852 - Three keep your eyes in the boat! - Stroke! Stroke! 667 00:45:03.935 --> 00:45:06.260 Stroke! Stroke! 668 00:45:06.354 --> 00:45:10.515 - We got it Pittsie. 669 00:45:10.608 --> 00:45:13.976 Radio Free America! 670 00:45:14.070 --> 00:45:17.021 Some people like to rock Some people like to roll 671 00:45:17.115 --> 00:45:20.285 But movin'and a- groovin' is gonna satisfy my soul 672 00:45:20.368 --> 00:45:22.527 Let's have a party Oooh 673 00:45:22.620 --> 00:45:25.373 Let's have a party 674 00:45:25.457 --> 00:45:28.543 Let's spin it to the soul Let's rock and roll 675 00:45:28.626 --> 00:45:31.379 Let's have a party tonight 676 00:45:31.463 --> 00:45:34.215 I never kissed a bear I never kissed a goose 677 00:45:34.299 --> 00:45:36.374 But I can shake a chicken in the middle of the room 678 00:45:36.468 --> 00:45:38.376 - Let's have a party 679 00:45:41.139 --> 00:45:43.714 - I found it. - You found what? 680 00:45:43.808 --> 00:45:47.062 What I want to do right now. What's really really inside of me. 681 00:45:47.145 --> 00:45:49.387 - "A Midsummer Night's Dream." - This is it. 682 00:45:49.481 --> 00:45:52.348 - What is that? - It's a play dummy. 683 00:45:52.442 --> 00:45:54.976 I know that. Wh- What does it have to do with you? 684 00:45:55.070 --> 00:45:57.061 All right they're putting it on at Henley Hall. 685 00:45:57.155 --> 00:45:59.480 Open tryouts. Open tryouts! 686 00:45:59.574 --> 00:46:01.482 - Yeah so? - So! 687 00:46:01.576 --> 00:46:05.486 I'm gonna act. 688 00:46:05.580 --> 00:46:08.666 Yes! Yes! I'm gonna be an actor! 689 00:46:08.750 --> 00:46:10.825 Ever since I can remember I've wanted to try this! 690 00:46:10.919 --> 00:46:12.827 I even tried to go to summer stock auditions last year 691 00:46:12.921 --> 00:46:14.996 but of course my father wouldn't let me. 692 00:46:15.090 --> 00:46:18.499 For the first time in my whole life I know what I want to do. 693 00:46:18.593 --> 00:46:21.169 And for the first time I'm gonna do it... 694 00:46:21.262 --> 00:46:23.171 whether my father wants me to or not! 695 00:46:23.264 --> 00:46:26.518 - Carpe diem! - Neil Neil hold it. 696 00:46:26.601 --> 00:46:30.052 How are you gonna be in a play if your father won't let you? 697 00:46:30.146 --> 00:46:32.847 First I gotta get the part then I can worry about that. 698 00:46:32.941 --> 00:46:35.349 But won't he kill you if he finds out you went to an audition and didn't tell him? 699 00:46:35.443 --> 00:46:38.394 No no no. As far as I'm concerned he won't have to know about any of this. 700 00:46:38.488 --> 00:46:41.939 - Well that's impossible. - Bullshit. Nothing's impossible. 701 00:46:42.033 --> 00:46:44.703 Well why don't you just call him and ask him and m- maybe he'll say yes. 702 00:46:44.786 --> 00:46:47.361 That's a laugh. 703 00:46:47.455 --> 00:46:50.709 If I don't ask him at least I won't be disobeying him. 704 00:46:50.792 --> 00:46:53.576 - Yeah but if he said no before- - - Jesus Todd whose side are you on? 705 00:47:04.764 --> 00:47:08.018 I mean I haven't even gotten the part yet. 706 00:47:08.101 --> 00:47:12.147 Can't I even enjoy the idea for a little while? 707 00:47:21.448 --> 00:47:25.858 - You're coming to the meeting? - I don't know. Maybe. 708 00:47:25.952 --> 00:47:30.363 Nothing Mr Keating has to say means shit to you does it Todd? 709 00:47:30.457 --> 00:47:32.698 - Wh- What is that supposed to mean? - You're in the club! 710 00:47:32.792 --> 00:47:35.159 Being in the club means being stirred up by things. 711 00:47:35.253 --> 00:47:37.161 You look about as stirred up as a cesspool. 712 00:47:37.255 --> 00:47:40.706 - So you want me out? - No I want you in! 713 00:47:40.800 --> 00:47:43.668 But being in means you gotta do something not just say you're in. 714 00:47:43.762 --> 00:47:46.879 Listen Neil I mean I appreciate this concern 715 00:47:46.973 --> 00:47:49.382 but I'm not like you all right? 716 00:47:49.476 --> 00:47:52.729 You- - You- You say things and people listen. 717 00:47:52.812 --> 00:47:54.773 I- - I- I'm not like that. 718 00:47:54.856 --> 00:47:56.931 - Don't you think you could be? - No. 719 00:47:57.025 --> 00:47:59.944 I- - I- I don't know but that's not the point. 720 00:48:00.028 --> 00:48:04.324 The point is there's nothing you can do about it so you can just butt out. 721 00:48:04.407 --> 00:48:06.774 I can take care of myself just fine. 722 00:48:06.868 --> 00:48:08.985 All right? 723 00:48:11.081 --> 00:48:12.989 No. 724 00:48:15.919 --> 00:48:17.879 What do you mean "no"? 725 00:48:19.089 --> 00:48:21.289 No. 726 00:48:21.383 --> 00:48:23.458 Give me that! Neil! 727 00:48:23.551 --> 00:48:25.668 - Neil give that back! - "We are dreaming of a tomorrow- - " 728 00:48:25.762 --> 00:48:27.670 - It's poetry! - Neil! 729 00:48:27.764 --> 00:48:30.173 I'm being chased by Walt Whitman! 730 00:48:30.266 --> 00:48:32.341 Okay! Okay! 731 00:48:32.435 --> 00:48:35.188 What are you guys doing? I'm trying- - You see this chemistry- - 732 00:48:35.271 --> 00:48:37.680 Hey. Give me- - Neil give me- - 733 00:48:37.774 --> 00:48:39.682 Don't be immature. Come on! 734 00:48:39.776 --> 00:48:42.351 - I need my- - - Give it to me! 735 00:48:42.445 --> 00:48:44.687 Charlie! 736 00:48:44.781 --> 00:48:47.356 Let me have my book. I need my- - 737 00:50:16.164 --> 00:50:20.575 Okay everybody on the bus. 738 00:50:20.669 --> 00:50:24.078 Let's go boys. 739 00:50:24.172 --> 00:50:26.330 Come on. Let's go. On the bus boys. 740 00:50:26.424 --> 00:50:29.260 Now! 741 00:50:30.512 --> 00:50:32.253 Now devotees may argue... 742 00:50:32.347 --> 00:50:35.923 that one sport or game is inherently better than another. 743 00:50:36.017 --> 00:50:38.770 For me sport is actually a chance... 744 00:50:38.853 --> 00:50:42.346 for us to have other human beings push us to excel. 745 00:50:42.440 --> 00:50:46.017 I want you all to come over here and take a slip of paper... 746 00:50:46.111 --> 00:50:48.947 and line up single file. 747 00:50:49.030 --> 00:50:51.105 Mr Meeks time to inherit the Earth. 748 00:50:51.199 --> 00:50:55.109 Mr Pitts... rise above your name. 749 00:50:55.203 --> 00:50:59.332 I want you to hand these out to the boys one apiece. 750 00:50:59.416 --> 00:51:03.034 You know what to do Pitts! 751 00:51:03.128 --> 00:51:06.381 "Oh to struggle against great odds to meet enemies undaunted." 752 00:51:06.464 --> 00:51:09.551 Sounds like you're daunted. Say it again like you're undaunted. 753 00:51:09.634 --> 00:51:12.721 "Oh to struggle against great odds to meet enemies undaunted"! 754 00:51:12.804 --> 00:51:15.129 Now go on! 755 00:51:15.223 --> 00:51:17.381 Yes! Next! 756 00:51:17.475 --> 00:51:22.720 "To be a sailor of the world bound for all ports." 757 00:51:22.814 --> 00:51:25.223 Next. Louder! 758 00:51:25.316 --> 00:51:29.362 "Oh I live to be the ruler of life not a slave." 759 00:51:29.446 --> 00:51:31.354 "To mount the scaffolds. 760 00:51:31.448 --> 00:51:34.649 To advance to the muzzles of guns with perfect nonchalance. " 761 00:51:39.831 --> 00:51:42.156 Come on Meeks! Listen to the music! 762 00:51:42.250 --> 00:51:46.244 "To dance clap hands exalt shout skip 763 00:51:46.338 --> 00:51:49.997 - roll on float on!" - Yes! 764 00:51:51.384 --> 00:51:54.502 "Oh to have life henceforth the poem of new joys." 765 00:51:56.598 --> 00:51:58.923 Boo! 766 00:51:59.017 --> 00:52:01.384 Come on Charlie let it fill your soul. 767 00:52:01.478 --> 00:52:03.845 "To indeed be a god!" 768 00:52:05.857 --> 00:52:08.349 Charlie I got the part! 769 00:52:08.443 --> 00:52:10.351 I'm gonna play Puck! 770 00:52:10.445 --> 00:52:12.353 - I'm gonna play Puck! - What did he say? 771 00:52:12.447 --> 00:52:14.355 - Puck you! - The main part! 772 00:52:14.449 --> 00:52:16.357 - Great Neil! - Charlie I got it! 773 00:52:16.451 --> 00:52:19.204 - Congratulations. - Good for you! Good for you! 774 00:52:19.287 --> 00:52:22.540 Okay okay okay okay. 775 00:52:22.624 --> 00:52:25.199 Neil how are you gonna do this? 776 00:52:25.293 --> 00:52:29.203 They need a letter of permission from my father and Mr Nolan. 777 00:52:29.297 --> 00:52:31.873 - You're not gonna write it. - Oh yes I am. 778 00:52:31.966 --> 00:52:35.220 Oh Neil- - Neil you're crazy. 779 00:52:35.303 --> 00:52:37.462 Okay. 780 00:52:37.555 --> 00:52:41.215 I am writing to you... 781 00:52:41.309 --> 00:52:44.396 on behalf of... 782 00:52:44.479 --> 00:52:47.232 my son... 783 00:52:47.315 --> 00:52:50.235 Neil Perry. 784 00:52:50.318 --> 00:52:54.270 This is great! 785 00:53:44.258 --> 00:53:48.043 "To Chris." 786 00:53:48.136 --> 00:53:50.628 Who's Chris? Mmm Chris. 787 00:53:50.722 --> 00:53:53.757 "I see a sweetness in her smile. 788 00:53:53.850 --> 00:53:56.176 "Bright light shines from her eyes. 789 00:53:58.188 --> 00:54:01.890 "But life is complete contentment is mine... 790 00:54:01.984 --> 00:54:05.570 "just knowing that- - 791 00:54:05.654 --> 00:54:09.105 "Just knowing that... 792 00:54:09.199 --> 00:54:10.993 she's alive." 793 00:54:11.076 --> 00:54:14.194 - I'm sorry Captain. It's stupid. - No. No it's not stupid. 794 00:54:14.288 --> 00:54:18.208 It's a good effort. It touched on one of the major themes: love. 795 00:54:18.292 --> 00:54:21.326 A major theme not only in poetry but life. 796 00:54:21.420 --> 00:54:26.216 Mr Hopkins you were laughing. You're up. 797 00:54:35.392 --> 00:54:39.177 "The cat sat on the mat." 798 00:54:44.943 --> 00:54:46.518 Congratulations Mr Hopkins. 799 00:54:46.612 --> 00:54:49.239 Yours is the first poem to ever have a negative score on the Pritchard scale. 800 00:54:49.323 --> 00:54:52.857 We're not laughing at you we're laughing near you. 801 00:54:52.951 --> 00:54:55.527 I don't mind that your poem had a simple theme. 802 00:54:55.621 --> 00:54:57.862 Sometimes the most beautiful poetry can be about simple things 803 00:54:57.956 --> 00:55:00.990 like a cat or a flower or rain. 804 00:55:01.084 --> 00:55:04.285 You see poetry can come from anything with the stuff of revelation in it. 805 00:55:04.379 --> 00:55:06.538 Just don't let your poems be ordinary. 806 00:55:08.634 --> 00:55:11.345 Now who's next? 807 00:55:12.596 --> 00:55:16.381 Mr Anderson I see you sitting there in agony. 808 00:55:16.475 --> 00:55:19.509 Come on Todd step up. Let's put you out of your misery. 809 00:55:22.356 --> 00:55:24.431 I- I didn't do it. I didn't write a poem. 810 00:55:28.320 --> 00:55:33.200 Mr Anderson thinks everything inside of him is worthless and embarrassing. 811 00:55:33.283 --> 00:55:37.861 Isn't that right Todd? Isn't that your worst fear? 812 00:55:37.955 --> 00:55:40.530 Well I think you're wrong. I think you have something inside of you... 813 00:55:40.624 --> 00:55:43.627 that is worth a great deal. 814 00:55:43.710 --> 00:55:47.245 "I sound... 815 00:55:47.339 --> 00:55:52.636 "my barbaric... 816 00:55:53.720 --> 00:55:55.628 "yawp... 817 00:55:58.433 --> 00:56:00.675 "over the rooftops... 818 00:56:00.769 --> 00:56:03.230 of the world. " 819 00:56:05.524 --> 00:56:09.278 W.W. Uncle Walt again. 820 00:56:09.361 --> 00:56:13.855 Now for those of you who don't know a yawp is a loud cry or yell. 821 00:56:13.949 --> 00:56:18.245 Now Todd I would like you to give us a demonstration of a barbaric yawp. 822 00:56:18.328 --> 00:56:21.613 Come on you can't yawp sitting down. 823 00:56:21.707 --> 00:56:23.917 Let's go. Come on up. 824 00:56:24.001 --> 00:56:28.005 Got to get in yawping stance. 825 00:56:28.088 --> 00:56:31.790 - A- Ayawp? - Not just a yawp. A barbaric yawp. 826 00:56:31.883 --> 00:56:36.378 - Right. Yawp. - Come on. Louder. 827 00:56:36.471 --> 00:56:38.515 - Yawp. - That's a mouse. Come on louder! 828 00:56:38.599 --> 00:56:40.507 - Yawp. - Oh good God boy yell like a man! 829 00:56:40.601 --> 00:56:42.008 - Yawp! - There it is. 830 00:56:42.102 --> 00:56:44.594 You see you have a barbarian in you after all. 831 00:56:44.688 --> 00:56:47.149 You don't get away that easy. There's a picture of Uncle Walt up there. 832 00:56:47.232 --> 00:56:51.153 What does he remind you of? Don't think answer. Go on. 833 00:56:51.236 --> 00:56:53.478 - A m- m- m- madman. - What kind of madman? 834 00:56:53.572 --> 00:56:55.480 - Don't think about it just answer. - A cr- crazy madman. 835 00:56:55.574 --> 00:56:58.358 No you can do better than that. Free up your mind. Use your imagination. 836 00:56:58.452 --> 00:57:00.996 Say the first thing that pops into your head even if it's total gibberish. 837 00:57:01.079 --> 00:57:03.154 A- A- A sweaty- toothed madman. 838 00:57:03.248 --> 00:57:05.876 Good God boy there's a poet in you after all! 839 00:57:05.959 --> 00:57:08.743 There. Close your eyes. Close your eyes. Close them. 840 00:57:08.837 --> 00:57:10.912 Now describe what you see. 841 00:57:11.006 --> 00:57:13.717 - Uh I- I close my eyes... - Yes? 842 00:57:13.800 --> 00:57:17.471 - uh and his image floats beside me. - A sweaty- toothed madman. 843 00:57:17.554 --> 00:57:20.265 A sweaty- toothed madman with a stare that pounds my brain. 844 00:57:20.349 --> 00:57:21.756 Oh that's excellent! 845 00:57:21.850 --> 00:57:23.758 Now give him action make him do something. 846 00:57:23.852 --> 00:57:26.313 - H- His hands reach out and choke me. - That's it. Wonderful. Wonderful. 847 00:57:26.396 --> 00:57:28.304 - And all the time he's mumbling. - What's he mumbling? 848 00:57:28.398 --> 00:57:30.306 - Mumbling truth. - Yes. 849 00:57:30.400 --> 00:57:33.820 - Truth is like a blanket that always leaves your feet cold. 850 00:57:33.904 --> 00:57:36.855 Forget them. Forget them. Stay with the blanket. Tell me about that blanket. 851 00:57:36.949 --> 00:57:40.369 Y- Y- You push it stretch it it'll never be enough. 852 00:57:40.452 --> 00:57:42.527 You kick at it beat it it'll never cover any of us. 853 00:57:42.621 --> 00:57:45.958 From the moment we enter crying to the moment we leave dying 854 00:57:46.041 --> 00:57:50.952 it'll just cover your face as you wail and cry and scream. 855 00:57:59.471 --> 00:58:02.339 Don't you forget this. 856 00:59:03.577 --> 00:59:05.954 That a boy Pittsie. 857 00:59:06.038 --> 00:59:08.279 - Inhale deeply. - My dad collects pipes. 858 00:59:08.373 --> 00:59:10.615 - Really? - He must have 30. 859 00:59:10.709 --> 00:59:13.378 Your parents collect pipes? Oh that's interesting. 860 00:59:13.462 --> 00:59:17.622 - Come on Knox. Join in. - Yeah Knox we're from the government. 861 00:59:17.716 --> 00:59:19.624 We're here to help. What's wrong? 862 00:59:19.718 --> 00:59:23.003 - It's Chris! - Here's a picture of Chris for you! 863 00:59:23.096 --> 00:59:25.005 - Put that in your pipe and smoke it. - It's not funny. 864 00:59:25.098 --> 00:59:28.518 Knock it off. Smoke your pipes. 865 00:59:28.602 --> 00:59:33.315 - Neil. - Friends scholars Welton men. 866 00:59:33.398 --> 00:59:35.609 What is that Neil? 867 00:59:35.692 --> 00:59:40.822 - Duh it's a lamp Meeks. - No this is the god of the cave. 868 00:59:40.906 --> 00:59:42.313 The god of the cave. 869 00:59:44.576 --> 00:59:47.829 - Charlie what are you doing? - What do you say we start this meeting? 870 00:59:47.913 --> 00:59:51.031 - I need a light. Who's got a light? - Anybody bring earplugs? 871 00:59:51.124 --> 00:59:54.409 Gentlemen. 872 00:59:54.503 --> 00:59:59.132 "Poetrusic" by Charles Dalton. 873 00:59:59.216 --> 01:00:02.834 Oh man. 874 01:00:02.928 --> 01:00:05.597 Laughing crying tumbling mumbling. 875 01:00:05.681 --> 01:00:07.724 Gotta do more gotta be more. 876 01:00:09.935 --> 01:00:12.719 Pitts. 877 01:00:12.813 --> 01:00:16.566 Chaos screaming chaos dreaming. Gotta do more gotta be more! 878 01:00:48.473 --> 01:00:52.008 - Wow. Nice. - That was great. 879 01:00:52.102 --> 01:00:54.010 Where did you learn to play like that? 880 01:00:54.104 --> 01:00:56.732 My parents made me take the clarinet for years! 881 01:00:56.815 --> 01:00:59.224 - I love the clarinet. - I hated it. 882 01:01:01.320 --> 01:01:06.398 The saxophone. The saxophone is more... sonorous. 883 01:01:06.491 --> 01:01:09.119 Ooh more sonorous. Vocabulary. 884 01:01:09.202 --> 01:01:12.789 I can't take it any more. If I don't have Chris 885 01:01:12.873 --> 01:01:16.074 - I'm gonna kill myself. - Knoxious calm down. 886 01:01:16.168 --> 01:01:20.172 No Charlie! That's just my problem. 887 01:01:20.255 --> 01:01:23.926 I've been calm all my life. I'm gonna do something about that. 888 01:01:24.009 --> 01:01:26.553 Where are you going? What are you gonna do? 889 01:01:26.637 --> 01:01:28.795 I'm gonna call her. 890 01:01:28.889 --> 01:01:32.966 - He's gonna call her! - Wait for me! 891 01:01:35.062 --> 01:01:36.970 Hello? 892 01:01:37.064 --> 01:01:39.816 She's gonna hate me. 893 01:01:42.027 --> 01:01:43.852 The Danburrys will hate me. 894 01:01:43.946 --> 01:01:47.147 My parents will kill me. 895 01:01:51.536 --> 01:01:53.664 All right goddam it. 896 01:01:53.747 --> 01:01:57.365 You're right. Carpe diem. 897 01:01:57.459 --> 01:01:59.784 Even if it kills me. 898 01:02:07.886 --> 01:02:09.794 - Hello? - Hello Chris? 899 01:02:09.888 --> 01:02:12.808 - Yes. - Hi. This is Knox Overstreet. 900 01:02:12.891 --> 01:02:16.478 Oh yes. Knox. 901 01:02:16.561 --> 01:02:19.481 - I'm glad you called. - She's glad I called. 902 01:02:19.564 --> 01:02:21.692 Listen Chet's parents are going out of town this weekend 903 01:02:21.775 --> 01:02:23.683 and he's having a party. 904 01:02:23.777 --> 01:02:25.821 - Would you like to come? - Would I like to come to a party? 905 01:02:25.904 --> 01:02:28.824 - Yes. Say yes. - It's Friday. - Well sure. 906 01:02:28.907 --> 01:02:30.732 - About 7.:00. - Great. I'll be there Chris. 907 01:02:30.826 --> 01:02:33.662 - Okay. - Friday night at the Danburrys'. Okay. 908 01:02:33.745 --> 01:02:35.987 - Okay. Bye. - Thank you. I'll see you. Bye. 909 01:02:36.081 --> 01:02:38.406 Yawp! 910 01:02:40.586 --> 01:02:42.494 Can you believe it? 911 01:02:42.588 --> 01:02:45.299 She was gonna call me. 912 01:02:45.382 --> 01:02:47.843 She invited me to a party with her. 913 01:02:47.926 --> 01:02:50.637 - At Chet Danburry's house. - Yeah. 914 01:02:50.721 --> 01:02:53.296 - Well? - So? 915 01:02:53.390 --> 01:02:57.967 So you don't really think she means you're going with her? 916 01:02:58.061 --> 01:03:01.481 Well of course not Charlie. But that's not the point. 917 01:03:01.565 --> 01:03:05.809 - That's not the point at all. - What is the point? 918 01:03:05.902 --> 01:03:11.147 - The point Charlie... - Uh- huh? 919 01:03:11.241 --> 01:03:14.995 - is... - Yeah? 920 01:03:15.078 --> 01:03:18.697 that she was thinking about me. 921 01:03:18.790 --> 01:03:21.543 I've only met her once and already... 922 01:03:21.627 --> 01:03:23.670 she's thinking about me. 923 01:03:23.754 --> 01:03:26.329 Damn it it's gonna happen guys. 924 01:03:26.423 --> 01:03:28.634 I feel it. 925 01:03:28.717 --> 01:03:31.835 She is going to be mine. 926 01:03:34.765 --> 01:03:39.227 Carpe! Carpe! 927 01:03:39.478 --> 01:03:43.555 No grades at stake gentlemen. Just take a stroll. 928 01:03:50.656 --> 01:03:55.233 There it is. 929 01:04:01.833 --> 01:04:05.337 - I don't know but I've been told. - I don't know but I've been told. 930 01:04:05.420 --> 01:04:08.090 Doing poetry is cold. 931 01:04:08.173 --> 01:04:12.250 - Doing poetry is cold. - Left. Left. Left right left. 932 01:04:12.344 --> 01:04:15.628 Left. Left. Left right left. 933 01:04:15.722 --> 01:04:17.630 Left. Halt! 934 01:04:17.724 --> 01:04:21.311 Thank you gentlemen. 935 01:04:21.395 --> 01:04:25.399 If you noticed everyone started off with their own stride their own pace. 936 01:04:25.482 --> 01:04:29.434 Mr Pitts taking his time. He knew he'll get there one day. 937 01:04:29.528 --> 01:04:32.281 Mr Cameron. You could see him thinking "Is this right? It might be right. 938 01:04:32.364 --> 01:04:35.200 It might be right. I know that- - Maybe not. I don't know." 939 01:04:35.284 --> 01:04:40.622 Mr Overstreet driven by a deeper force. Yes. 940 01:04:40.706 --> 01:04:43.709 We know that. All right. Now I didn't bring them up here to ridicule them. 941 01:04:43.792 --> 01:04:46.503 I brought them up here to illustrate the point of conformity. 942 01:04:46.587 --> 01:04:50.205 The difficulty in maintaining your own beliefs in the face of others. 943 01:04:50.299 --> 01:04:54.678 Now I see the look in your eyes like "I would have walked differently." 944 01:04:54.761 --> 01:04:57.514 Well ask yourselves why you were clapping. 945 01:04:57.598 --> 01:05:00.632 Now we all have a great need for acceptance. 946 01:05:00.726 --> 01:05:03.812 But you must trust that your beliefs are unique your own. 947 01:05:03.895 --> 01:05:06.304 Even though others may think them odd or unpopular. 948 01:05:06.398 --> 01:05:09.026 Even though the herd may go "That's ba- a- a- a- ad." 949 01:05:09.109 --> 01:05:11.653 Robert Frost said 950 01:05:11.737 --> 01:05:17.190 "Two roads diverged in the wood and I I took the one less traveled by. 951 01:05:17.284 --> 01:05:19.192 And that has made all the difference." 952 01:05:19.286 --> 01:05:21.663 I want you to find your own walk right now 953 01:05:21.747 --> 01:05:24.614 your own way of striding pacing any direction. 954 01:05:24.708 --> 01:05:28.211 Anything you want whether it's proud whether it's silly anything. 955 01:05:28.295 --> 01:05:32.841 Gentlemen the courtyard is yours. 956 01:05:32.925 --> 01:05:37.585 You don't have to perform just make it for yourself. 957 01:05:37.679 --> 01:05:42.007 Mr Dalton will you be joining us? 958 01:05:42.100 --> 01:05:44.342 Exercising the right not to walk. 959 01:05:44.436 --> 01:05:48.732 Thank you Mr Dalton. Just illustrated the point. 960 01:05:48.815 --> 01:05:52.684 Swim against the stream. 961 01:06:02.245 --> 01:06:04.154 Todd? 962 01:06:06.124 --> 01:06:08.033 - Hey. - Hey. 963 01:06:08.126 --> 01:06:11.046 - What's going on? - Nothing. 964 01:06:13.298 --> 01:06:16.301 - Today's my birthday. - Is today your birthday? 965 01:06:16.385 --> 01:06:18.095 - Happy birthday. - Thanks. 966 01:06:18.178 --> 01:06:22.255 - What did you get? - My parents just gave me this. 967 01:06:22.349 --> 01:06:23.548 Isn't this the same desk set- - 968 01:06:23.642 --> 01:06:26.561 Yeah yeah they gave me the same thing as last year. 969 01:06:29.147 --> 01:06:31.056 - Oh. - Oh. 970 01:06:32.734 --> 01:06:34.642 Maybe they thought you needed another one. 971 01:06:34.736 --> 01:06:38.188 Maybe they weren't thinking about anything at all. 972 01:06:40.742 --> 01:06:45.737 The funny thing is about this is I didn't even like it the first time. 973 01:06:48.208 --> 01:06:51.878 Todd I think you're underestimating the value of this desk set. 974 01:06:54.006 --> 01:06:59.167 I mean who would want a football or a baseball- - 975 01:06:59.261 --> 01:07:01.252 - Or a car. - Mm- hmm or a car- - 976 01:07:01.346 --> 01:07:03.974 if they could have a desk set as wonderful as this one. 977 01:07:04.057 --> 01:07:08.186 I mean if I were ever going to buy a desk set... twice 978 01:07:08.270 --> 01:07:11.940 I would probably buy this one... both times. 979 01:07:14.067 --> 01:07:18.395 In fact its... shape is- - 980 01:07:18.488 --> 01:07:21.272 It's rather aerodynamic isn't it? 981 01:07:21.366 --> 01:07:24.703 You can feel it. 982 01:07:24.786 --> 01:07:29.864 This desk set wants to fly. 983 01:07:32.544 --> 01:07:34.536 Todd... 984 01:07:34.630 --> 01:07:38.790 the world's first unmanned flying desk set. 985 01:07:43.847 --> 01:07:48.393 Oh my! Well I wouldn't worry. 986 01:07:48.477 --> 01:07:51.813 You'll get another one next year. 987 01:07:51.897 --> 01:07:54.900 "To live deep and suck out all the marrow of life. 988 01:07:54.983 --> 01:07:58.820 - To put to rout all that was not life- - " 989 01:07:58.904 --> 01:08:01.396 My God. 990 01:08:01.490 --> 01:08:05.358 - Is this it? - Yeah this is it. 991 01:08:05.452 --> 01:08:09.154 Go ahead. Go on in. It's my cave. Watch your step. 992 01:08:09.247 --> 01:08:10.655 Uh- oh. 993 01:08:10.749 --> 01:08:13.324 Hi. 994 01:08:13.418 --> 01:08:14.909 - Hello. - Hi. 995 01:08:15.003 --> 01:08:19.967 Hi guys. Meet uh Gloria and- - 996 01:08:20.050 --> 01:08:22.010 - Tina. - Tina. 997 01:08:22.094 --> 01:08:25.847 - This is the pledge class of the Dead Poets Society. - Hello. 998 01:08:25.931 --> 01:08:28.006 - How do you do? - Hello. - Hi. 999 01:08:28.100 --> 01:08:31.885 Guys move. Move! Come on folks it's Friday night. 1000 01:08:31.979 --> 01:08:36.275 Let's get on with the meeting. Guys I have an announcement to make. 1001 01:08:36.358 --> 01:08:40.112 In keeping with the spirit of passionate experimentation of the Dead Poets 1002 01:08:40.195 --> 01:08:42.406 I'm giving up the name Charles Dalton. 1003 01:08:42.489 --> 01:08:45.065 From now on call me Nuwanda. 1004 01:08:45.158 --> 01:08:47.703 Nuwanda? 1005 01:09:00.048 --> 01:09:01.623 Hello? Hello Chris? 1006 01:09:01.717 --> 01:09:05.001 I crashed in thejungle while trying to keep a date 1007 01:09:05.095 --> 01:09:08.181 With my little girl who was back in the States 1008 01:09:08.265 --> 01:09:10.173 - I was stranded in thejungle- - Knox! 1009 01:09:10.267 --> 01:09:12.342 - Hi. - You made it! Great. 1010 01:09:12.436 --> 01:09:14.344 - Did you bring anybody? - No. 1011 01:09:14.438 --> 01:09:18.191 No? Ginny Danburry's here. Look I have to go find Chet. 1012 01:09:18.275 --> 01:09:21.028 - Why don't you go downstairs? That's where everybody is. - Yeah but Chris I've- - 1013 01:09:21.111 --> 01:09:24.229 - Make yourself at home. - But I've- - 1014 01:09:27.451 --> 01:09:31.663 Baby baby let's make romance 1015 01:09:33.457 --> 01:09:37.534 You know your old- time lover hasn't got a chance 1016 01:09:37.628 --> 01:09:41.381 - Hi guys. 1017 01:09:45.010 --> 01:09:48.096 Hey you Mutt Sanders' brother? 1018 01:09:48.180 --> 01:09:51.548 Bubba this guy look like Mutt Sanders to you or what? 1019 01:09:51.642 --> 01:09:55.427 - You're his brother? - No relation. 1020 01:09:55.520 --> 01:09:58.148 - Never heard of him. Sorry guys. - Where's our manners Steve? 1021 01:09:58.231 --> 01:10:00.359 Here's Mutt Sanders' brother and we don't even offer him a drink. 1022 01:10:00.442 --> 01:10:03.195 - Here you go. Have some whisky pal. - Yeah. 1023 01:10:03.278 --> 01:10:05.489 I uh I don't really drink whisky. 1024 01:10:05.572 --> 01:10:08.773 - To Mutt. - To Mutt. 1025 01:10:08.867 --> 01:10:10.942 To Mutt. 1026 01:10:13.205 --> 01:10:17.615 - How the hell is old Mutt anyway? - Yeah what's old Mutter been up to? 1027 01:10:17.709 --> 01:10:19.951 I don't really know Mutt. 1028 01:10:20.045 --> 01:10:22.537 To the Mighty Mutt. 1029 01:10:22.631 --> 01:10:25.884 - To Mighty Mutt. - To Mighty Mutt. 1030 01:10:29.221 --> 01:10:33.684 Listen I gotta go find Patsy. 1031 01:10:33.767 --> 01:10:37.719 - Say hello to Mutt for me okay? - Will do. 1032 01:10:37.813 --> 01:10:41.973 Hell of a guy your brother Mutt. 1033 01:10:42.067 --> 01:10:44.642 We gonna have a meeting or what? 1034 01:10:44.736 --> 01:10:46.644 Yeah if you guys don't have a meeting 1035 01:10:46.738 --> 01:10:48.646 how do we know if we want to join? 1036 01:10:48.740 --> 01:10:51.743 "Join"? 1037 01:10:51.827 --> 01:10:54.538 "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? 1038 01:10:54.621 --> 01:10:57.030 Thou art more lovely and more temperate." 1039 01:10:57.124 --> 01:10:58.782 That's so sweet. 1040 01:10:58.875 --> 01:11:03.672 - I made that up just for you. - You did? 1041 01:11:03.755 --> 01:11:06.758 I'll write one for you too Gloria. 1042 01:11:09.177 --> 01:11:12.431 "She walks in beauty like the night. 1043 01:11:13.932 --> 01:11:16.935 "She walks in beauty like the night... 1044 01:11:17.019 --> 01:11:22.180 "of cloudless climes and starry skies. 1045 01:11:22.274 --> 01:11:24.182 "All that's best dark and bright 1046 01:11:24.276 --> 01:11:28.520 - meet in her aspect and her eyes." - That's beautiful. 1047 01:11:29.948 --> 01:11:32.524 There's plenty more where that came from. 1048 01:11:48.133 --> 01:11:52.596 She sure looks fine to me What's her name 1049 01:11:52.679 --> 01:11:55.223 Look out Let me call her one time 1050 01:12:06.735 --> 01:12:09.655 Hey little girl 1051 01:12:09.738 --> 01:12:13.606 Gee you sure look fine 1052 01:12:15.953 --> 01:12:17.861 God help me. 1053 01:12:17.955 --> 01:12:22.032 Ooh baby you're not mine 1054 01:12:25.045 --> 01:12:30.206 Hey little girl How's about a date 1055 01:12:32.010 --> 01:12:35.264 - Carpe diem. - Hey little girl 1056 01:12:35.347 --> 01:12:39.268 How's about a date 1057 01:12:40.769 --> 01:12:43.887 You know I'll come get you early baby 1058 01:12:43.981 --> 01:12:46.817 Won't keep you out too late 1059 01:12:50.070 --> 01:12:52.562 Say little girl 1060 01:12:52.656 --> 01:12:55.033 Now how's about a kiss 1061 01:12:57.869 --> 01:13:00.904 Yeah say little girl 1062 01:13:00.998 --> 01:13:04.668 How's about a kiss 1063 01:13:04.751 --> 01:13:08.672 - You don't remember? - Well if you don't kiss me baby 1064 01:13:08.755 --> 01:13:13.500 - Chet. Chet. Look. - What? 1065 01:13:13.594 --> 01:13:16.628 - It's Mutt Sanders' brother. - Huh? 1066 01:13:16.722 --> 01:13:18.463 - Knox what- - - And he's feeling up your girl! 1067 01:13:18.557 --> 01:13:20.799 What are you doing? 1068 01:13:20.892 --> 01:13:23.385 - What the hell are you doing? - Chet. Chet don't! 1069 01:13:23.478 --> 01:13:26.648 - Now Chet I know this looks bad- - - Leave him alone. 1070 01:13:26.732 --> 01:13:28.973 Chet no! You'll hurt him! 1071 01:13:29.067 --> 01:13:32.352 - Chet stop it! Leave him alone! - Damn! 1072 01:13:32.446 --> 01:13:34.521 - Chet stop it! - Bastard! 1073 01:13:34.615 --> 01:13:36.658 Knox are you all right? 1074 01:13:36.742 --> 01:13:38.619 Chris get the hell away from him! 1075 01:13:38.702 --> 01:13:39.953 - Chet you hurt him! - Good! 1076 01:13:40.037 --> 01:13:43.405 - I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. - It's okay. It's- It's okay. 1077 01:13:43.498 --> 01:13:45.407 Next time I see you you die. 1078 01:13:47.878 --> 01:13:51.496 Go ahead. Pass it around. 1079 01:13:59.848 --> 01:14:03.383 Me and Pitts are working on a hi- fi system. 1080 01:14:03.477 --> 01:14:07.262 It shouldn't be that hard to uh to put together. 1081 01:14:07.356 --> 01:14:10.692 Yeah. Uh I might be going to Yale. 1082 01:14:10.776 --> 01:14:13.695 Uh but I- I might not. 1083 01:14:13.779 --> 01:14:15.854 Don't you guys miss having girls around here? 1084 01:14:15.948 --> 01:14:17.522 - Yeah. - Yeah. 1085 01:14:17.616 --> 01:14:20.191 That's part of what this club is about. 1086 01:14:20.285 --> 01:14:22.412 In fact I'd like to announce... 1087 01:14:22.496 --> 01:14:25.780 I published an article in the school paper in the name of the Dead Poets 1088 01:14:25.874 --> 01:14:29.294 - What? - demanding girls be admitted to Welton... 1089 01:14:29.378 --> 01:14:32.047 - You didn't. - so we can all stop beating off. 1090 01:14:32.130 --> 01:14:33.788 - How did you do that? - I'm one of the proofers. 1091 01:14:33.882 --> 01:14:36.885 - I slipped the article in. - It's- It's over now. 1092 01:14:36.969 --> 01:14:38.543 Why? Nobody knows who we are. 1093 01:14:38.637 --> 01:14:40.879 Well don't you think they're gonna figure out who wrote it? 1094 01:14:40.973 --> 01:14:44.591 They're gonna come to you and ask to know what the Dead Poets Society is. 1095 01:14:44.685 --> 01:14:47.229 Charlie you had no right to do something like that. 1096 01:14:47.312 --> 01:14:49.554 It's Nuwanda Cameron. 1097 01:14:49.648 --> 01:14:52.484 That's right. It's Nuwanda. 1098 01:14:52.567 --> 01:14:55.654 Are we just playing around out here or do we mean what we say? 1099 01:14:55.737 --> 01:14:58.573 If all we do is come together and read a bunch of poems to each other 1100 01:14:58.657 --> 01:15:00.565 - what the hell are we doing? - All right. 1101 01:15:00.659 --> 01:15:02.703 But you still shouldn't have done it Charlie. 1102 01:15:02.786 --> 01:15:05.247 This could mean trouble. You don't speak for the club. 1103 01:15:05.330 --> 01:15:07.906 Hey would you not worry about your precious little neck? 1104 01:15:08.000 --> 01:15:11.336 If they catch me I'll tell them I made it up. 1105 01:15:25.434 --> 01:15:27.842 Fine. 1106 01:15:37.946 --> 01:15:39.854 Sit. 1107 01:15:45.078 --> 01:15:46.986 In this week's issue of Welton Honor 1108 01:15:47.080 --> 01:15:50.918 there appeared a profane and unauthorized article. 1109 01:15:51.001 --> 01:15:56.590 Rather than spend my valuable time ferreting out the guilty persons- - 1110 01:15:56.673 --> 01:15:58.915 and let me assure you I will find them- - 1111 01:15:59.009 --> 01:16:02.460 I'm asking any and all students who know anything about this article... 1112 01:16:02.554 --> 01:16:06.391 to make themselves known here and now. 1113 01:16:08.226 --> 01:16:10.687 Whoever the guilty persons are 1114 01:16:10.771 --> 01:16:14.931 this is your only chance to avoid expulsion from this school. 1115 01:16:20.072 --> 01:16:22.115 Welton Academy. Hello. 1116 01:16:22.199 --> 01:16:24.743 Yes he is. just a moment. 1117 01:16:24.826 --> 01:16:27.861 Mr Nolan it's for you. 1118 01:16:27.955 --> 01:16:29.915 It's God! 1119 01:16:29.998 --> 01:16:31.959 He says we should have girls at Welton. 1120 01:16:47.766 --> 01:16:49.893 Wipe that smirk off your face. 1121 01:16:49.977 --> 01:16:52.980 If you think Mr Dalton 1122 01:16:53.063 --> 01:16:56.014 that you're the first to try to get thrown out of this school think again. 1123 01:16:56.108 --> 01:17:00.185 Others have had similar notions and have failed just as surely as you will fail. 1124 01:17:00.279 --> 01:17:03.646 Assume the position. 1125 01:17:14.960 --> 01:17:17.369 Count aloud Mr Dalton. 1126 01:17:20.799 --> 01:17:22.791 One. 1127 01:17:24.970 --> 01:17:27.045 Two. 1128 01:17:31.143 --> 01:17:33.770 Three. 1129 01:17:33.854 --> 01:17:37.441 Four. 1130 01:17:37.524 --> 01:17:39.901 Five. 1131 01:17:39.985 --> 01:17:42.696 What is this Dead Poets Society? I want names. 1132 01:18:11.934 --> 01:18:14.175 - You kicked out? - No. 1133 01:18:14.269 --> 01:18:17.022 So what happened? 1134 01:18:19.107 --> 01:18:22.694 I'm to turn everybody in apologise to the school 1135 01:18:22.778 --> 01:18:24.853 and all will be forgiven. 1136 01:18:24.947 --> 01:18:27.157 So what are you gonna do? 1137 01:18:27.240 --> 01:18:30.525 - Charlie- - - Damn it Neil 1138 01:18:30.619 --> 01:18:33.570 the name is Nuwanda. 1139 01:18:39.127 --> 01:18:42.547 Excuse me. May we have a word Mr Keating? 1140 01:18:42.631 --> 01:18:44.622 Certainly. 1141 01:18:50.055 --> 01:18:54.132 This was my first classroomJohn. Did you know that? 1142 01:18:54.226 --> 01:18:56.468 My first desk. 1143 01:18:56.561 --> 01:18:58.970 I didn't know you taught Mr Nolan. 1144 01:18:59.064 --> 01:19:03.475 English. Long before your time. 1145 01:19:03.568 --> 01:19:06.989 It was hard giving it up I can tell you. 1146 01:19:10.242 --> 01:19:15.320 I'm hearing rumours about some unorthodox teaching methods in your classroom. 1147 01:19:15.414 --> 01:19:19.657 I'm not saying they've had anything to do with the Dalton boy's outburst 1148 01:19:19.751 --> 01:19:24.496 but I don't think I have to warn you boys his age are very impressionable. 1149 01:19:24.590 --> 01:19:27.843 Well your reprimand made quite an impression I'm sure. 1150 01:19:30.596 --> 01:19:34.673 - What was going on in the courtyard the other day? - Courtyard? 1151 01:19:34.766 --> 01:19:37.853 - Boys marching clapping in unison. - Oh that. 1152 01:19:37.936 --> 01:19:41.054 That was an exercise to prove a point: dangers of conformity. 1153 01:19:41.148 --> 01:19:43.984 WellJohn the curriculum here is set. It's proven. It works. 1154 01:19:44.067 --> 01:19:46.643 If you question it what's to prevent them from doing the same? 1155 01:19:46.737 --> 01:19:49.145 I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself. 1156 01:19:49.239 --> 01:19:51.867 At these boys' age? Not on your life! 1157 01:19:51.950 --> 01:19:55.996 TraditionJohn. Discipline. 1158 01:19:56.079 --> 01:20:00.490 Prepare them for college and the rest will take care of itself. 1159 01:20:04.504 --> 01:20:07.841 Creak. 1160 01:20:07.925 --> 01:20:10.844 He starts walking around towards my left. 1161 01:20:10.928 --> 01:20:14.264 Creak. Creak. 1162 01:20:14.348 --> 01:20:17.966 'Assume the position Mr Dalton " which means- - 1163 01:20:18.060 --> 01:20:20.187 All right gentlemen. 1164 01:20:20.270 --> 01:20:23.357 - Mr Keating. - Mr Dalton. 1165 01:20:23.440 --> 01:20:25.682 That was a pretty lame stunt you pulled today. 1166 01:20:25.776 --> 01:20:27.684 You're siding with Mr Nolan? 1167 01:20:27.778 --> 01:20:29.686 What about carpe diem and sucking all the marrow... 1168 01:20:29.780 --> 01:20:31.521 - out of life and all that? - Sucking the marrow out of life... 1169 01:20:31.615 --> 01:20:34.618 doesn't mean choking on the bone. 1170 01:20:34.701 --> 01:20:39.029 There is a time for daring and there is a time for caution. 1171 01:20:39.122 --> 01:20:41.531 And a wise man understands which is called for. 1172 01:20:41.625 --> 01:20:43.835 But I thought you'd like that. 1173 01:20:43.919 --> 01:20:45.827 No. 1174 01:20:45.921 --> 01:20:48.872 You being expelled from school is not daring to me. It's stupid. 1175 01:20:48.966 --> 01:20:51.426 'Cause you'll miss some golden opportunities. 1176 01:20:51.510 --> 01:20:52.970 Yeah? Like what? 1177 01:20:53.053 --> 01:20:57.099 Like if nothing else the opportunity to attend my classes. 1178 01:20:59.017 --> 01:21:01.395 Got it ace? 1179 01:21:01.478 --> 01:21:04.231 Aye aye Captain. 1180 01:21:04.314 --> 01:21:06.775 Keep your head about you. 1181 01:21:06.858 --> 01:21:09.642 That goes for the lot of you. 1182 01:21:09.736 --> 01:21:12.656 - Yes Captain. - Yes Captain. 1183 01:21:12.739 --> 01:21:14.731 Phone call from God. 1184 01:21:16.702 --> 01:21:20.070 If it'd been collect it would have been daring. 1185 01:21:22.249 --> 01:21:25.617 - All right. Go on boy. - No. 1186 01:21:35.512 --> 01:21:38.181 - We're trying to rehearse okay? Go. 1187 01:21:38.265 --> 01:21:40.340 A good persuasion therefore hear me Hermia. 1188 01:21:40.434 --> 01:21:44.302 Wait wait. The excitement. I don't hear any excitement about this play. 1189 01:21:44.396 --> 01:21:48.807 Now take her hand bring her downstage... 1190 01:21:48.900 --> 01:21:50.892 and stop and "Fair gentle Hermia." 1191 01:21:50.986 --> 01:21:53.113 Okay? Try again. 1192 01:21:53.196 --> 01:21:55.105 What's for dinner? 1193 01:21:55.198 --> 01:21:56.940 - Spaghetti and meatballs! - Food! 1194 01:21:59.578 --> 01:22:01.653 Save some for me. 1195 01:22:03.415 --> 01:22:06.752 "But room fairy! Here comes Oberon." 1196 01:22:09.254 --> 01:22:13.008 - Father. - Neil. 1197 01:22:13.091 --> 01:22:15.250 Wait a minute. Before you say anything 1198 01:22:15.344 --> 01:22:18.513 - please let me ex- - - Don't you dare talk back to me. 1199 01:22:20.182 --> 01:22:23.352 It's bad enough that you've wasted your time... 1200 01:22:23.435 --> 01:22:26.886 with this this absurd acting business 1201 01:22:26.980 --> 01:22:30.181 but you deliberately deceived me. 1202 01:22:30.275 --> 01:22:33.810 How- How- How did you expect to get away with this? 1203 01:22:35.948 --> 01:22:38.023 Answer me. 1204 01:22:38.116 --> 01:22:40.160 Who put you up to it? 1205 01:22:40.243 --> 01:22:43.497 - Was it this new man? Keating? - No. 1206 01:22:43.580 --> 01:22:47.584 Nobody p- - I thought I'd surprise you. I've gotten all A's in every class. 1207 01:22:47.668 --> 01:22:50.921 Did you really think I wasn't going to find out? 1208 01:22:51.004 --> 01:22:54.956 "Oh my niece is in a play with your son" says Mrs Marks. 1209 01:22:55.050 --> 01:22:58.887 "No no no" I say. "You must be mistaken. My son's not in a play." 1210 01:22:58.971 --> 01:23:00.879 You made a liar out of me Neil! 1211 01:23:04.977 --> 01:23:09.439 Now tomorrow you go to them and you tell them that you're quitting. 1212 01:23:09.523 --> 01:23:11.431 No I can't. 1213 01:23:11.525 --> 01:23:13.652 I have the main part. The performance is tomorrow night! 1214 01:23:13.735 --> 01:23:15.727 I don't care if the world comes to an end tomorrow night 1215 01:23:15.821 --> 01:23:18.991 you are through with that play! 1216 01:23:19.074 --> 01:23:20.982 Is that clear? 1217 01:23:21.076 --> 01:23:23.620 Is that clear? 1218 01:23:24.496 --> 01:23:27.249 Yes sir. 1219 01:23:34.464 --> 01:23:38.135 I made a great many sacrifices to get you here Neil 1220 01:23:38.218 --> 01:23:42.431 and you will not let me down. 1221 01:23:42.514 --> 01:23:44.923 No sir. 1222 01:24:05.037 --> 01:24:07.706 It's open. 1223 01:24:18.717 --> 01:24:20.625 Neil what's up? 1224 01:24:20.719 --> 01:24:23.388 - Can I speak to you a minute? - Certainly. Sit down. 1225 01:24:24.222 --> 01:24:26.464 Oh. 1226 01:24:26.558 --> 01:24:29.050 - I'm sorry. Here. - Excuse me. 1227 01:24:31.271 --> 01:24:35.817 - Get you some tea? - Tea? Sure. 1228 01:24:35.901 --> 01:24:39.237 - Want some milk or sugar in that? - No thanks. 1229 01:24:39.321 --> 01:24:41.479 Gosh they don't give you much room around here. 1230 01:24:41.573 --> 01:24:43.398 It's part of the monastic oath. 1231 01:24:43.492 --> 01:24:46.995 They don't want worldly things distracting me from my teaching. 1232 01:24:49.915 --> 01:24:51.823 - She's pretty. - She's also in London. 1233 01:24:51.917 --> 01:24:55.003 Makes it a little difficult. 1234 01:24:55.087 --> 01:24:58.090 - How do you stand it? - Stand what? 1235 01:24:58.173 --> 01:25:00.498 You can go anywhere. You can do anything. How can you stand being here? 1236 01:25:00.592 --> 01:25:04.513 Because I love teaching. I don't want to be anywhere else. 1237 01:25:08.058 --> 01:25:12.062 - What's up? - I just talked to my father. 1238 01:25:12.145 --> 01:25:14.773 He's making me quit the play at Henley Hall. 1239 01:25:16.650 --> 01:25:19.820 But acting is everything to me. 1240 01:25:19.903 --> 01:25:23.021 I mean- - But he doesn't know. He- - 1241 01:25:23.115 --> 01:25:28.109 I can see his point. We're not a rich family like Charlie's. I mean- - 1242 01:25:28.203 --> 01:25:31.290 But he's planning the rest of my life for me. 1243 01:25:31.373 --> 01:25:33.782 And he- he's never asked me what I want. 1244 01:25:33.875 --> 01:25:36.743 Have you ever told your father what you just told me? 1245 01:25:36.837 --> 01:25:39.548 About your passion for acting? Have you showed him that? 1246 01:25:39.631 --> 01:25:42.718 - I can't. - Why not? 1247 01:25:42.801 --> 01:25:44.709 I can't talk to him this way. 1248 01:25:44.803 --> 01:25:47.472 Then you're acting for him too. 1249 01:25:47.556 --> 01:25:50.757 You're playing the part of the dutiful son. 1250 01:25:50.851 --> 01:25:52.759 I know this sounds impossible but you have to talk to him. 1251 01:25:52.853 --> 01:25:55.564 You have to show him who you are what your heart is. 1252 01:25:55.647 --> 01:25:58.139 I know what he'll say. 1253 01:25:58.233 --> 01:26:00.725 He'll tell me that acting's a whim and I should forget it. 1254 01:26:00.819 --> 01:26:03.311 They're counting on me. 1255 01:26:03.405 --> 01:26:06.742 He'll just tell me to put it out of my mind for my own good. 1256 01:26:06.825 --> 01:26:08.650 You are not an indentured servant. 1257 01:26:08.744 --> 01:26:13.457 It's not a whim for you. You prove it to him by your conviction and your passion. 1258 01:26:13.540 --> 01:26:15.949 You show him that and if he still doesn't believe you- - 1259 01:26:16.043 --> 01:26:19.077 Well by then you'll be out of school and you can do anything you want. 1260 01:26:21.298 --> 01:26:25.375 No. 1261 01:26:25.469 --> 01:26:27.627 What about the play? The show's tomorrow night. 1262 01:26:27.721 --> 01:26:30.839 Then you have to talk to him before tomorrow night. 1263 01:26:33.352 --> 01:26:35.312 I- - 1264 01:26:35.395 --> 01:26:37.606 - Isn't there an easier way? - No. 1265 01:26:41.735 --> 01:26:45.572 I'm trapped. 1266 01:26:45.656 --> 01:26:48.148 No you're not. 1267 01:27:11.223 --> 01:27:13.131 Chris! 1268 01:27:14.893 --> 01:27:17.562 Chris! Chris Noel. Do you know where she is? 1269 01:27:17.646 --> 01:27:20.190 - Um I think she's in Room 111. - Thanks. 1270 01:27:23.527 --> 01:27:25.435 I know. 1271 01:27:31.410 --> 01:27:33.370 Excuse me. Chris- - 1272 01:27:33.453 --> 01:27:35.330 Knox what are you doing here? 1273 01:27:35.414 --> 01:27:37.322 I came to apologize for the other night. 1274 01:27:37.416 --> 01:27:39.459 I brought you these and a poem I wrote for you. 1275 01:27:43.088 --> 01:27:45.716 Knox don't you know that if Chet finds you here he'll kill you? 1276 01:27:45.799 --> 01:27:49.668 - I don't care. I love you Chris. - Knox you're crazy. 1277 01:27:49.761 --> 01:27:52.389 Look I acted like a jerk and I know it. 1278 01:27:52.472 --> 01:27:56.174 - Please accept these. Please. - No. No I- I can't. 1279 01:27:56.268 --> 01:27:58.395 Just forget it. 1280 01:28:13.827 --> 01:28:16.913 - Knox I don't believe this. - All I'm asking you to do is listen. 1281 01:28:18.582 --> 01:28:22.961 "The heavens made a girl named Chris... 1282 01:28:23.045 --> 01:28:24.953 "with hair and skin of gold. 1283 01:28:25.047 --> 01:28:27.007 "To touch her... 1284 01:28:27.090 --> 01:28:30.344 would be paradise. " 1285 01:28:47.277 --> 01:28:49.738 Get out of here. Cameron you fool. 1286 01:28:49.821 --> 01:28:52.908 Hey how'd it go? Did you read it to her? 1287 01:28:52.991 --> 01:28:57.235 - Yeah. - Wow. What'd she say? 1288 01:28:57.329 --> 01:29:00.415 - Nothing. - What do you mean nothing? 1289 01:29:00.499 --> 01:29:03.867 Nothing. But I did it. 1290 01:29:03.961 --> 01:29:07.631 Well what did she say? She had to say something! 1291 01:29:07.714 --> 01:29:10.801 - Hey Knox! - Seize the day! 1292 01:29:20.060 --> 01:29:23.094 - Did you talk to your father? - Uh yeah. 1293 01:29:23.188 --> 01:29:26.806 He didn't like it one bit but at least he's letting me stay in the play. 1294 01:29:26.900 --> 01:29:31.144 He won't be able to m- make it. He's in Chicago. 1295 01:29:31.238 --> 01:29:34.241 But uh I think he's gonna let me stay with acting. 1296 01:29:34.324 --> 01:29:38.568 Really? You told him what you told me? 1297 01:29:38.662 --> 01:29:41.415 Yeah. 1298 01:29:41.498 --> 01:29:43.458 He wasn't happy. 1299 01:29:43.542 --> 01:29:47.754 But he'll be gone at least four days. 1300 01:29:47.838 --> 01:29:52.301 I don't think he'll make the show but... 1301 01:29:52.384 --> 01:29:54.542 I think he'll let me stay with it. 1302 01:29:54.636 --> 01:29:56.544 "Keep up the schoolwork." 1303 01:29:59.850 --> 01:30:04.980 Thanks. 1304 01:30:06.148 --> 01:30:09.151 - Oh baby. - Beautiful baby. 1305 01:30:09.234 --> 01:30:11.142 - I am- - - Excuse me. 1306 01:30:11.236 --> 01:30:14.823 - Just a moment. Yes. You're so good. 1307 01:30:14.906 --> 01:30:16.815 Come on Todd. I'm trying to fix this. 1308 01:30:16.908 --> 01:30:19.202 Come on Nuwanda we're going to miss Neil's entrance. 1309 01:30:19.286 --> 01:30:21.997 He said something about getting red before we left. 1310 01:30:22.080 --> 01:30:25.281 - "Getting red"? What does that mean? - I- - You know Charlie. 1311 01:30:28.754 --> 01:30:31.840 So Charlie what's this 'getting red"bit? 1312 01:30:33.592 --> 01:30:36.084 - Ooh. - Ooh. 1313 01:30:36.178 --> 01:30:38.336 W- What is that? 1314 01:30:38.430 --> 01:30:42.048 It's an Indian warrior symbol for virility. 1315 01:30:42.142 --> 01:30:45.760 Makes me feel potent like I can drive girls crazy. 1316 01:30:45.854 --> 01:30:48.263 Oh come on Charlie. The girls are waiting. 1317 01:30:50.776 --> 01:30:52.767 Whoa. 1318 01:30:56.949 --> 01:31:00.118 Chris. 1319 01:31:01.703 --> 01:31:03.111 What are you doing here? 1320 01:31:03.205 --> 01:31:06.541 - Gentlemen let's go! - Go ahead guys. I'll catch up. 1321 01:31:06.625 --> 01:31:09.086 Yeah. Come on guys. 1322 01:31:09.169 --> 01:31:11.077 Chris you can't be in here. 1323 01:31:11.171 --> 01:31:13.163 - If they catch you we're both gonna be in big trouble. - Come on. 1324 01:31:13.257 --> 01:31:15.749 - Oh but it's fine if- - - Shh shh. Chris. 1325 01:31:17.970 --> 01:31:21.755 It's fine for you to come barging into my school and make a fool out of me? 1326 01:31:21.848 --> 01:31:23.757 I didn't mean to make a fool out of you. 1327 01:31:23.850 --> 01:31:26.228 Well you did. Chet found out. 1328 01:31:26.311 --> 01:31:30.472 It took everything I could do to keep him from coming here and killing you. 1329 01:31:30.565 --> 01:31:35.143 - Knox you have got to stop this stuff. - I can't Chris. I love you. 1330 01:31:35.237 --> 01:31:38.407 Knox you say that over and over. 1331 01:31:38.490 --> 01:31:40.398 You don't- - You don't even know me. 1332 01:31:40.492 --> 01:31:42.703 Will you bejoining us Mr Overstreet? 1333 01:31:42.786 --> 01:31:44.611 Go ahead Captain. I'll walk. 1334 01:31:44.705 --> 01:31:47.958 Knox. Knox i- it just so happens... 1335 01:31:48.041 --> 01:31:51.576 that I could care less about you. 1336 01:31:54.548 --> 01:31:57.332 Then you wouldn't be here warning me about Chet. 1337 01:32:01.847 --> 01:32:04.600 I have to go. I'm gonna be late for the play. 1338 01:32:04.683 --> 01:32:07.717 - Are you going with him? - Chet? To a play? 1339 01:32:07.811 --> 01:32:09.719 - Are you kidding? - Then come with me. 1340 01:32:09.813 --> 01:32:11.773 Knox you are so infuriating! 1341 01:32:11.857 --> 01:32:14.265 Come on Chris just give me one chance. 1342 01:32:14.359 --> 01:32:17.112 If you don't like me after tonight I'll stay away forever. 1343 01:32:17.195 --> 01:32:20.313 - Uh- huh. - I promise. Dead Poets honour. 1344 01:32:20.407 --> 01:32:21.950 You come with me tonight 1345 01:32:22.034 --> 01:32:24.494 and then if you don't want to see me again I swear I'll bow out. 1346 01:32:24.578 --> 01:32:29.041 - What would happen if Chet found out? - He won't know anything. 1347 01:32:29.124 --> 01:32:32.242 We'll sit in the back and sneak away as soon as it's over. 1348 01:32:32.336 --> 01:32:35.954 And I suppose you would promise that this would be the end of it? 1349 01:32:36.048 --> 01:32:39.134 - Dead Poets honour. - What is that? 1350 01:32:41.511 --> 01:32:44.765 - My word. - Hmm. 1351 01:32:55.233 --> 01:32:58.236 You are so infuriating. 1352 01:33:19.800 --> 01:33:22.010 Hey there he is! Hey hey hey hey! 1353 01:33:22.094 --> 01:33:25.097 Shh boys. 1354 01:33:31.687 --> 01:33:36.014 Either I mistake your shape and making quite... 1355 01:33:36.108 --> 01:33:41.446 or else you are that shrewd and knavish sprite called Robin Goodfellow! 1356 01:33:41.530 --> 01:33:43.438 Thou speak'st aright. 1357 01:33:43.532 --> 01:33:45.690 I am that merry wanderer of the night. 1358 01:33:45.784 --> 01:33:48.620 I jest to Oberon and make him smile... 1359 01:33:48.704 --> 01:33:52.405 when I a fat and bean- fed horse beguile. 1360 01:33:52.499 --> 01:33:55.586 Neighing in the likeness of a filly foal. 1361 01:33:55.669 --> 01:33:58.338 Sometime lurk I in a gossip's bowl... 1362 01:33:58.422 --> 01:34:01.049 in very likeness of a roasted crab. 1363 01:34:01.133 --> 01:34:04.136 And when she drink against her lips I bob... 1364 01:34:04.219 --> 01:34:06.795 and on her withered dewlap pour the ale. 1365 01:34:06.888 --> 01:34:08.963 - The wisest aunt telling the saddest tale. - He's good. He's really good. 1366 01:34:09.057 --> 01:34:12.728 Sometime for three- foot stool mistaketh me. 1367 01:34:12.811 --> 01:34:16.481 Then slip I from her bum down topples she and "Tailor" cries... 1368 01:34:16.565 --> 01:34:18.473 and falls into a cough. 1369 01:34:18.567 --> 01:34:21.403 And then the whole quire hold their hips and laugh... 1370 01:34:21.486 --> 01:34:23.728 and waxen in their mirth nee- e- e- eze... 1371 01:34:23.822 --> 01:34:25.866 and swear. 1372 01:34:25.949 --> 01:34:29.067 A merrier hour was never wasted there. 1373 01:34:29.161 --> 01:34:31.403 But room fairy. 1374 01:34:31.496 --> 01:34:35.740 - Here comes Oberon. - And here my mistress. Would that he were gone. 1375 01:34:40.422 --> 01:34:42.747 Then by your side no bed- room me deny. 1376 01:34:42.841 --> 01:34:45.844 For lying so Hermia I do not lie. 1377 01:34:45.928 --> 01:34:49.973 Lysander riddles very prettily. Much beshrew my manners... 1378 01:34:50.057 --> 01:34:53.174 and my pride if Hermia meant to say Lysander lied. 1379 01:34:53.268 --> 01:34:56.302 But gentle friend for love and courtesy... 1380 01:34:56.396 --> 01:34:59.514 lie further off in human modesty 1381 01:34:59.608 --> 01:35:02.976 such separation as may well be said becomes a virtuous bachelor and maid. 1382 01:35:03.070 --> 01:35:07.147 Good night sweet friend. Thy love ne'er alter 'til thy sweet life end. 1383 01:35:07.240 --> 01:35:11.026 Amen. Amen to that fair prayer say I. 1384 01:35:11.119 --> 01:35:13.611 - And then end life when I end loyalty. - Neil. That's your cue Neil. 1385 01:35:13.705 --> 01:35:16.875 Come on Neil. Here's your crown. Let's go. 1386 01:36:22.816 --> 01:36:25.308 If we shadows have offended... 1387 01:36:26.987 --> 01:36:29.531 think but this and all is mended. 1388 01:36:29.615 --> 01:36:33.316 That you have but slumber'd here while these visions did appear. 1389 01:36:33.410 --> 01:36:37.706 And this weak and idle theme no more yielding but a dream. 1390 01:36:38.915 --> 01:36:41.627 Gentles do not reprehend. 1391 01:36:41.710 --> 01:36:44.880 If you pardon we will mend. 1392 01:36:44.963 --> 01:36:48.581 And as I am an honest Puck if we have unearned luck 1393 01:36:48.675 --> 01:36:51.053 now to 'scape the serpent's tongue 1394 01:36:51.136 --> 01:36:55.630 we will make amends ere long; else the Puck a liar call. 1395 01:36:59.092 --> 01:37:00.552 So good night unto you all. 1396 01:37:00.635 --> 01:37:03.805 Give me your hands if we be friends 1397 01:37:03.888 --> 01:37:07.799 and Robin shall restore amends. 1398 01:37:40.800 --> 01:37:43.334 Yawp! Carpe diem! 1399 01:38:04.449 --> 01:38:06.774 That was great! 1400 01:38:06.868 --> 01:38:10.445 Excuse me. I'm Neil's father. I'd like to see him please. 1401 01:38:14.501 --> 01:38:18.744 Neil your father. 1402 01:38:18.838 --> 01:38:24.709 - What did you think? - You were all just wonderful! 1403 01:38:37.649 --> 01:38:39.557 Excuse me please. 1404 01:38:39.651 --> 01:38:43.478 - Excuse me. Excuse me. - Neil! Back here! Neil! 1405 01:38:43.571 --> 01:38:46.606 Neil Neil you were great! Come back Neil. 1406 01:38:46.700 --> 01:38:48.608 - I can't guys. - Neil. 1407 01:38:48.702 --> 01:38:50.610 Excuse me. 1408 01:38:51.788 --> 01:38:55.041 Neil. Neil. You have the gift. 1409 01:38:55.125 --> 01:38:57.492 What a performance. You left even me speechless. 1410 01:38:57.585 --> 01:38:59.869 - You have to stay with- - - Get in the car. 1411 01:38:59.963 --> 01:39:03.581 Keating you stay away from my son. 1412 01:39:03.675 --> 01:39:07.668 Neil! Neil! Mr Perry come on! 1413 01:39:07.762 --> 01:39:10.515 Don't make it any worse than it is. 1414 01:39:10.598 --> 01:39:14.383 Do you want to take the other car? 1415 01:39:23.028 --> 01:39:25.353 Is it okay if we walk back? 1416 01:39:25.447 --> 01:39:28.366 Captain? 1417 01:39:31.119 --> 01:39:33.528 - Knox? - What? 1418 01:39:33.621 --> 01:39:36.197 We'll be home about 11:30. 1419 01:40:13.912 --> 01:40:16.612 We're trying very hard... 1420 01:40:16.706 --> 01:40:21.200 to understand why it is that you insist on defying us. 1421 01:40:21.294 --> 01:40:26.747 But whatever the reason we're not gonna let you ruin your life. 1422 01:40:26.841 --> 01:40:30.543 I'm withdrawing you from Welton and enrolling you in Braden Military School. 1423 01:40:30.637 --> 01:40:33.755 You're going to Harvard and you're gonna be a doctor. 1424 01:40:36.851 --> 01:40:38.760 But that's ten more years. 1425 01:40:38.853 --> 01:40:40.887 - Father that's a lifetime! - Oh stop it! 1426 01:40:40.980 --> 01:40:45.141 Don't be so dramatic. You make it sound like a prison term. 1427 01:40:46.361 --> 01:40:48.269 You don't understand Neil. 1428 01:40:48.363 --> 01:40:51.282 You have opportunities that I never even dreamt of! 1429 01:40:51.366 --> 01:40:54.369 - I am not going to let you waste them! - I've got to tell you what I feel. 1430 01:40:54.452 --> 01:40:57.539 - We've been so worried about- - - What? What? Tell me what you feel! 1431 01:40:59.791 --> 01:41:01.699 What is it? 1432 01:41:10.510 --> 01:41:14.462 Is it more of this- this acting business? 1433 01:41:14.556 --> 01:41:18.049 Because you can forget that. 1434 01:41:18.143 --> 01:41:20.635 What? 1435 01:41:25.358 --> 01:41:27.975 Nothing. 1436 01:41:39.330 --> 01:41:43.157 Nothing? 1437 01:41:45.545 --> 01:41:47.995 Well then let's go to bed. 1438 01:42:01.478 --> 01:42:07.067 I was good. I was really good. 1439 01:42:11.446 --> 01:42:13.855 Go on get some sleep. 1440 01:42:45.397 --> 01:42:50.026 It's going to be all right. 1441 01:46:02.260 --> 01:46:05.461 What was that? 1442 01:46:05.555 --> 01:46:08.423 What? 1443 01:46:08.516 --> 01:46:12.468 - That sound. - What sound? 1444 01:46:18.985 --> 01:46:20.893 Tom? 1445 01:46:24.532 --> 01:46:26.441 What is it? 1446 01:46:27.952 --> 01:46:29.861 What's wrong? 1447 01:46:39.756 --> 01:46:42.081 Neil? 1448 01:46:47.681 --> 01:46:50.965 Tom what is it? 1449 01:46:51.059 --> 01:46:53.468 What's wrong? 1450 01:46:55.647 --> 01:46:57.722 Neil? 1451 01:47:02.821 --> 01:47:06.814 - Neil? - I'll look outside. 1452 01:47:06.908 --> 01:47:08.816 Neil? 1453 01:47:26.594 --> 01:47:31.089 No! 1454 01:47:31.182 --> 01:47:35.510 - Oh Neil! Oh my God! - Oh my God. Oh no no. 1455 01:47:35.603 --> 01:47:38.356 - Oh my son! My son! My poor son! - He's all right. 1456 01:47:38.440 --> 01:47:42.986 He's all right! - Stop it. Stop it. Stop it. 1457 01:47:43.069 --> 01:47:48.825 Stop it! Stop it. 1458 01:47:53.288 --> 01:47:57.073 Todd. Todd. 1459 01:47:57.167 --> 01:48:00.034 Oh Charlie. 1460 01:48:06.051 --> 01:48:09.544 What is it? 1461 01:48:16.770 --> 01:48:19.345 Neil's dead. 1462 01:48:57.164 --> 01:48:59.156 It's so beautiful. 1463 01:49:10.261 --> 01:49:12.836 Todd! 1464 01:49:12.930 --> 01:49:14.473 - It's okay Todd. - Calm down. 1465 01:49:14.557 --> 01:49:16.465 It's all right Todd. 1466 01:49:16.559 --> 01:49:18.467 - Todd it's okay. - It's okay Todd. 1467 01:49:18.561 --> 01:49:22.262 It's all right. It's all right. 1468 01:49:22.356 --> 01:49:24.149 - He wouldn't have done it. - You can't explain it Todd. 1469 01:49:24.233 --> 01:49:25.390 - It was his father! - No! 1470 01:49:25.484 --> 01:49:28.268 He wouldn't have left us. It's because he- - 1471 01:49:28.362 --> 01:49:29.905 He wouldn't have. 1472 01:49:29.989 --> 01:49:31.313 - His dad was- - - Todd. 1473 01:49:31.407 --> 01:49:33.482 His- His father did it. His father killed him. 1474 01:49:33.576 --> 01:49:35.484 He made him do it. 1475 01:49:36.620 --> 01:49:38.612 Todd! 1476 01:49:38.706 --> 01:49:41.073 Leave him be. 1477 01:51:40.202 --> 01:51:42.486 ...All my life 1478 01:51:42.580 --> 01:51:45.155 Shall surely 1479 01:51:45.249 --> 01:51:50.494 Follow me 1480 01:51:50.588 --> 01:51:54.998 And in God's house 1481 01:51:55.092 --> 01:51:59.169 Forevermore 1482 01:51:59.263 --> 01:52:03.674 My dwelling place 1483 01:52:03.767 --> 01:52:08.011 Shall be 1484 01:52:08.105 --> 01:52:13.861 Amen 1485 01:52:20.075 --> 01:52:22.828 The death of Neil Perry is a tragedy. 1486 01:52:26.415 --> 01:52:30.002 He was a fine student 1487 01:52:30.085 --> 01:52:33.996 one of Welton's best. 1488 01:52:34.089 --> 01:52:36.842 And he will be missed. 1489 01:52:40.596 --> 01:52:45.340 We've contacted each of your parents to explain the situation. 1490 01:52:45.434 --> 01:52:48.854 Naturally they're all quite concerned. 1491 01:52:53.943 --> 01:52:57.196 At the request of Neil's family 1492 01:52:57.279 --> 01:53:02.868 I intend to conduct a thorough inquiry into this matter. 1493 01:53:04.286 --> 01:53:08.447 Your complete cooperation is expected. 1494 01:53:17.633 --> 01:53:20.803 - You told him about this meeting? - Twice. 1495 01:53:20.886 --> 01:53:23.128 That's it guys. We're all fried. 1496 01:53:23.222 --> 01:53:26.141 - How do you mean? - Cameron's a fink. 1497 01:53:26.225 --> 01:53:29.509 - He's in Nolan's office now finking. - About what? 1498 01:53:29.603 --> 01:53:32.638 The club Pittsie. Think about it. 1499 01:53:32.731 --> 01:53:36.475 The board of directors the trustees and Mr Nolan. 1500 01:53:36.569 --> 01:53:40.155 Do you think for one moment they're gonna let this thing just blow over? 1501 01:53:40.239 --> 01:53:44.900 Schools go down because of things like this. They need a scapegoat. 1502 01:54:00.259 --> 01:54:02.417 What's going on guys? 1503 01:54:03.762 --> 01:54:06.046 You finked didn't you Cameron? 1504 01:54:06.140 --> 01:54:08.267 "Finked"? I don't know what the hell you're talking about. 1505 01:54:08.350 --> 01:54:11.604 You told Nolan everything about the club is what I'm talking about. 1506 01:54:11.687 --> 01:54:13.595 Look in case you hadn't heard Dalton there's something... 1507 01:54:13.689 --> 01:54:16.181 called an honour code at this school all right? 1508 01:54:16.275 --> 01:54:19.935 If a teacher asks you a question you tell the truth or you're expelled. 1509 01:54:20.029 --> 01:54:21.687 - You- - - Charlie! 1510 01:54:21.780 --> 01:54:26.108 He's a rat! He's in it up to his eyes so he ratted to save himself! 1511 01:54:26.202 --> 01:54:28.610 - Don't touch him Charlie. You do and you're out. - I'm out anyway! 1512 01:54:28.704 --> 01:54:31.624 - You don't know that. Not yet! - He's right there Charlie. 1513 01:54:31.707 --> 01:54:35.920 And if you guys are smart you will do exactly what I did and cooperate. 1514 01:54:36.003 --> 01:54:40.831 They're not after us. We're the victims. 1515 01:54:40.925 --> 01:54:43.594 Us and Neil. 1516 01:54:43.677 --> 01:54:46.003 What's that mean? Who are they after? 1517 01:54:46.096 --> 01:54:49.464 Why Mr Keating of course. The "Captain" himself! 1518 01:54:49.558 --> 01:54:53.302 You guys didn't really think he could avoid responsibility did you? 1519 01:54:53.395 --> 01:54:57.139 Mr Keating responsible for Neil? Is that what they're saying? 1520 01:54:57.233 --> 01:55:01.977 Well who else do you think dumb ass? The administration? Mr Perry? 1521 01:55:02.071 --> 01:55:04.771 Mr Keating put us up to all this crap didn't he? 1522 01:55:04.865 --> 01:55:07.399 If it wasn't for Mr Keating Neil would be... 1523 01:55:07.493 --> 01:55:09.860 cozied up in his room right now studying his chemistry... 1524 01:55:09.954 --> 01:55:12.029 - and dreaming of being called "Doctor"! - That is not true Cameron! 1525 01:55:12.122 --> 01:55:14.656 You know that! He didn't put us up to anything. 1526 01:55:14.750 --> 01:55:17.242 - Neil loved acting. - Believe what you want 1527 01:55:17.336 --> 01:55:20.005 but I say let Keating fry. 1528 01:55:20.089 --> 01:55:23.707 I mean why ruin our lives? 1529 01:55:33.060 --> 01:55:36.313 You just signed your expulsion papers Nuwanda. 1530 01:55:39.066 --> 01:55:43.362 And if the rest of you are smart you'll do exactly what I did! 1531 01:55:44.738 --> 01:55:47.741 They know everything anyway. 1532 01:55:47.825 --> 01:55:51.526 You can't save Keating 1533 01:55:53.122 --> 01:55:55.280 but you can save yourselves. 1534 01:56:28.365 --> 01:56:30.941 Knox Overstreet. 1535 01:56:57.394 --> 01:57:00.564 - Meeks. - Go away. I have to study. 1536 01:57:02.233 --> 01:57:04.474 What happened to Nuwanda? 1537 01:57:04.568 --> 01:57:06.476 Expelled. 1538 01:57:09.240 --> 01:57:11.315 What'd you tell 'em? 1539 01:57:11.408 --> 01:57:14.328 Nothing they didn't already know. 1540 01:57:15.913 --> 01:57:18.363 Todd Anderson. 1541 01:57:39.562 --> 01:57:42.565 - Hello son. - Hello darling. 1542 01:57:44.233 --> 01:57:46.141 Mom. 1543 01:57:51.740 --> 01:57:54.149 Have a seat Mr Anderson. 1544 01:58:00.249 --> 01:58:03.836 Mr Anderson I think we've pretty well put together what's happened here. 1545 01:58:03.919 --> 01:58:08.830 You do admit to being a part of this Dead Poets Society? 1546 01:58:11.927 --> 01:58:14.795 Answer him Todd. 1547 01:58:16.265 --> 01:58:18.173 Yes sir. 1548 01:58:19.768 --> 01:58:22.855 I have here a detailed description... 1549 01:58:22.938 --> 01:58:25.347 of what occurred at your meetings. 1550 01:58:25.441 --> 01:58:27.349 It describes how your teacher Mr Keating 1551 01:58:27.443 --> 01:58:29.351 encouraged you boys to organize this club... 1552 01:58:29.445 --> 01:58:32.698 and to use it as a source of inspiration... 1553 01:58:32.781 --> 01:58:35.357 for reckless and self- indulgent behaviour. 1554 01:58:35.451 --> 01:58:40.445 It describes how Mr Keating both in and out of the classroom 1555 01:58:40.539 --> 01:58:44.533 encouraged Neil Perry to follow his obsession with acting... 1556 01:58:44.627 --> 01:58:47.494 when he knew all along it was against the explicit orders... 1557 01:58:47.588 --> 01:58:50.080 of Neil's parents. 1558 01:58:50.174 --> 01:58:54.084 It was Mr Keating's blatant abuse of his position as teacher... 1559 01:58:54.178 --> 01:58:57.379 that led directly to Neil Perry's death. 1560 01:59:07.816 --> 01:59:10.058 Read that document carefully Todd. 1561 01:59:11.987 --> 01:59:14.479 Very carefully. 1562 01:59:20.079 --> 01:59:23.249 If you've nothing to add or amend sign it. 1563 01:59:23.332 --> 01:59:26.001 What's gonna happen to Mr Keating? 1564 01:59:26.085 --> 01:59:30.662 I've had enough. Sign the paper Todd! 1565 01:59:34.927 --> 01:59:39.171 Grass is gramen or herba. 1566 01:59:39.265 --> 01:59:41.475 Lapis is stone. 1567 01:59:41.559 --> 01:59:45.688 The entire building is aedificium. 1568 02:00:22.057 --> 02:00:24.299 Sit. 1569 02:00:25.561 --> 02:00:27.636 I'll be teaching this class through exams. 1570 02:00:27.730 --> 02:00:31.473 We'll find a permanent English teacher during the break. 1571 02:00:33.235 --> 02:00:37.479 Who will tell me where you are in the Pritchard textbook? 1572 02:00:42.411 --> 02:00:44.403 Mr Anderson? 1573 02:00:46.749 --> 02:00:49.835 - Uh in the in the Prit- - - I can't hear you Mr Anderson. 1574 02:00:49.919 --> 02:00:53.537 In the in the in the Pritchard- - 1575 02:00:53.631 --> 02:00:56.331 Kindly inform me Mr Cameron. 1576 02:00:56.425 --> 02:00:58.333 We skipped around a lot sir. 1577 02:00:58.427 --> 02:01:02.421 We covered the romantics and some of the chapters on post- Civil War literature. 1578 02:01:02.515 --> 02:01:07.884 - What about the realists? - We skipped most of that sir. 1579 02:01:07.978 --> 02:01:10.762 All right then we'll start over. 1580 02:01:12.983 --> 02:01:16.184 What is poetry? 1581 02:01:18.113 --> 02:01:21.648 Come! 1582 02:01:24.411 --> 02:01:28.280 Excuse me. 1583 02:01:28.374 --> 02:01:30.991 I came for my personals. 1584 02:01:31.085 --> 02:01:33.327 Should I come back after class? 1585 02:01:33.420 --> 02:01:35.495 Get them now Mr Keating. 1586 02:01:37.883 --> 02:01:41.835 Gentlemen turn to page 21 of the introduction. 1587 02:01:41.929 --> 02:01:44.546 Mr Cameron 1588 02:01:44.640 --> 02:01:49.979 read aloud the excellent essay by Dr Pritchard... 1589 02:01:50.062 --> 02:01:52.554 on "Understanding Poetry. " 1590 02:01:54.275 --> 02:01:56.433 That page has been ripped out sir. 1591 02:01:56.527 --> 02:01:58.810 Well borrow somebody else's book. 1592 02:01:58.904 --> 02:02:00.896 They're all ripped out sir. 1593 02:02:00.990 --> 02:02:04.358 What do you mean "They're all ripped out"? 1594 02:02:04.451 --> 02:02:07.872 - Sir we- - Ac- - - Never mind. 1595 02:02:11.458 --> 02:02:13.419 Read. 1596 02:02:16.672 --> 02:02:20.968 "'Understanding Poetry' by DrJ. Evans Pritchard Ph.D. 1597 02:02:21.051 --> 02:02:23.126 "To fully understand poetry we must first be fluent... 1598 02:02:23.220 --> 02:02:25.796 "with its metre rhyme and figures of speech. 1599 02:02:25.890 --> 02:02:27.798 "Then ask two questions. One: 1600 02:02:27.892 --> 02:02:31.426 "How artfully has the objective of the poem been rendered? 1601 02:02:31.520 --> 02:02:33.731 "And two: 1602 02:02:33.814 --> 02:02:37.474 "How important is that objective? 1603 02:02:37.568 --> 02:02:39.142 "Question one rates the poem's perfection. 1604 02:02:39.236 --> 02:02:41.144 "Question two rates its importance. 1605 02:02:41.238 --> 02:02:43.146 'And once these questions have been answered 1606 02:02:43.240 --> 02:02:46.827 "determining a poem's greatness becomes a relatively simple matter. 1607 02:02:46.911 --> 02:02:49.997 If the poem's score for perfection is plotted on the horizontal of a graph- - " 1608 02:02:50.080 --> 02:02:52.364 - Mr Keating! They made everybody sign it. - Quiet Mr Anderson! 1609 02:02:52.458 --> 02:02:54.908 - You've got to believe me. It's true. - I do believe you Todd. 1610 02:02:55.002 --> 02:02:56.994 - Leave Mr Keating. - But it wasn't his fault! 1611 02:02:57.087 --> 02:03:00.831 Sit down Mr Anderson! One more outburst from you or anyone else 1612 02:03:00.925 --> 02:03:02.833 and you're out of this school! 1613 02:03:02.927 --> 02:03:04.835 Leave Mr Keating. 1614 02:03:06.347 --> 02:03:09.631 I said "Leave Mr Keating." 1615 02:03:24.823 --> 02:03:29.318 - O Captain my Captain. - Sit down Mr Anderson. 1616 02:03:31.288 --> 02:03:33.780 Do you hear me? Sit down! 1617 02:03:33.874 --> 02:03:36.575 Sit down! 1618 02:03:38.128 --> 02:03:41.663 This is your final warning Anderson. 1619 02:03:41.757 --> 02:03:46.001 How dare you. Do you hear me? 1620 02:03:46.095 --> 02:03:48.545 O Captain my Captain. 1621 02:03:49.974 --> 02:03:51.433 Mr Overstreet I warn you! 1622 02:03:51.517 --> 02:03:53.508 Sit down! 1623 02:03:55.771 --> 02:03:58.180 Sit down! 1624 02:03:58.274 --> 02:04:01.861 Sit down! All of you! I want you seated! 1625 02:04:01.944 --> 02:04:05.030 Sit down! Leave Mr Keating. 1626 02:04:13.455 --> 02:04:16.073 All of you down! I want you seated! 1627 02:04:16.166 --> 02:04:19.993 Do you hear me? 1628 02:04:23.716 --> 02:04:26.833 Sit down! 1629 02:05:06.926 --> 02:05:10.043 Thank you boys.