"[ Low Murmuring ]" "keep your shoulders back." "put your arm around your brother." "That's it." "and breathe in." "one more." "[ People Chattering ] you're going to follow along the procession... until you get to the headmaster." "he will indicate to you... to light the candles of the boys." "let's settle down." "Banners up!" "### [ Bagpipes ]" "boys... the Light of Knowledge." "### [ Organ ]" "### [ Continues ]" "[ Crowd Applauding ]" "41 boys sat in this room... and were asked the same question... that now greets you at the start of each semester." "what are the Four Pillars?" "Tradition." "Honour." "Discipline." "Excellence." "Welton Academy graduated five students." "Last year we graduated 5 1." "And more than 7 5 percent of those... went on to the Ivy League." "This-This kind of accomplishment... is the result... of fervent dedication to the principles taught here." "This is why you parents have been sending us your sons." "This is why we are the best... preparatory school in the United States." "[ Applause Continues ]" "our beloved Mr Portius of the English Department retired last term. himself an honours graduate of this school." "has been teaching... at the highly regarded Chester School in London." "[ Applause ] you forgot your bag!" "how you doin'?" "[ Man ] Don't worry." "I got your room assignment." "[ Crowd Continues Chattering ]" "[ Continues Honking ]" "[ Chattering Continues ]" "They haven't moved the dining area." "Glad you could come by." "Dr Nolan." " You've been away too long." "Dr Nolan." " Good to have you back." "Todd." " Mr Anderson." "You have some big shoes to fill." "Your brother was one of our finest." "Thank you." " Lovely ceremony." " Thank you." "Glad you liked it." " Gale." " Tom." "Mr Nolan." "sir." "Neil?" "sir." "son." " Chin up." " Okay." " No tears now." " Chin up." "I love you." " [ Father ] I'll walk you over." " You be a good boy." "Do your lessons." "[ Tolling Continues ]" "Hey!" "I hear we're gonna be roommates." " I'm Neil Perry." " I'm Todd Anderson." "Why'd you leave Balincrest?" "My brother went here." "so you're that Anderson." " This is for his sinuses." " Yes." "I see." "you give him one of these." "you can give him some of those." "I put it in my room." "Chattering ]" "Knox." "study group tonight?" "huh?" "I heard you got the new kid." "Looks like a stiff!" "Stops ] Oops." "don't mind Cameron." "He was born with his foot in his mouth." "You know what I mean?" "Rumour has it..." "you did summer school." "Yep." "Chemistry." "My father thought I should get ahead." "slick?" " Keen." " [ Laughs ]" "Meeks." "Door." "Closed." "sir." "what are the Four Pillars?" "[ Hushed ] Travesty." "Horror." "Decadence." "Excrement." " [ Meeks Cheering ]" " Okay." "Study group." "Meeks aced Latin." "I didn't quite flunk English." "we got our study group." " Sure." "Cameron asked me too." "Anyone mind including him?" "what's his specialty?" "Bootlicking?" "he's your roommate." " That's not my fault." " [ Boys Chuckling ]" " I'm sorry." "My name is Stephen Meeks." "Oh!" "This is Todd Anderson." " [ Meeks ] Nice to meet you." " Nice to meet you." "Charlie Dalton." "Knox Overstreet." "Todd's brother was Jeffrey Anderson." "sure." " What do you know?" "well... welcome to Hell-ton." "It's every bit as tough as they say unless you're a genius like Meeks." "He flatters me." "That's why I help him with Latin." " And English." "And trig." " [ Coughing ]" " [ Knocking ]" " It's open." "I thought you'd gone." "fellows." "I've just spoken to Mr Nolan. and I've decided that you should drop the school annual." "But I'm the assistant editor this year." "I can't." " It wouldn't be fair." " Would you excuse us for a moment?" "Don't you ever dispute me in public." "Do you understand?" "I wasn't disputing" "After you've finished medical school... then you can do as you damn well please." "you do as I tell you." "Is that clear?" "sir." "I'm sorry." "[ Clears Throat ] don't you?" "sir." "You know me:" "always taking on too much." "that's my boy." "sir." "[ Charlie ] Why doesn't he let you do what you want?" "Neil." "Tell him off." "Couldn't get any worse." "that's rich." "Like you guys tell your parents off?" "Mr Future Lawyer and Mr Future Banker?" "so I don't like it any more than you do." "just don't tell me how to talk to my father." "all right.Jesus." " So what are you gonna do then?" " [ Neil ] What I have to do." " Drop the annual." " I wouldn't lose much sleep over it." "It's just a bunch of jerks trying to impress Nolan." "I don't care." "I don't give a damn about any of it." "8:00 in my room?" " Yes." "you're welcome to join us." "pal." " Thanks." "### [ Bells Chiming ]" "### [ Chiming Continues ]" "[ Bell Tolling ]" "[ Birds Squawking ]" "[ Tolling Continues ]" "[ Squawking Continues ]" "[ Chattering ]" "[ Chattering Continues ] boys!" "you horrible phalanx of pubescence!" "Pick three laboratory experiments from the project list... and report on them every five weeks." "The first 20 questions at the end of chapter one are due tomorrow." "[ Boys Groaning ]" "Agricolam." " [ Class Repeating ] Agricolam." "Agricola." " Agricola." "Agricolae." " Agricolae." "Agricolarum." " Agricolarum." "Agricolis." " Agricolis." "Agricolas." " Agricolas." "Agricolis." " Agricolis." "please." "Agricola." " Agricola." "Your study of trigonometry requires absolute precision." "Anyone failing to turn in any homework assignment... will be penalized one point off their final grade." "Let me urge you now not to test me on this point." "[ Chattering ]" "[ Chattering Continues ]" "Spaz." "Spaz." " [ Laughing ] - [ Cameron ] Brain damage!" " ## [ Whistling 1 8 1 2 Overture ]" " Shh!" "## [ Continues Whistling ]" "come on." "[ Boys Murmuring ] guys." " Let's go." " [ Boys Chattering ]" "## [ Whistling ]" "Chattering ]" "## [ Continues ]" "my Captain."" "Who knows where that comes from?" "Anybody?" "Blowing Nose ]" "Not a clue?" "It's from a poem by Walt Whitman about Mr Abraham Lincoln." "Now in this class you can either call me Mr Keating... my Captain."" "[ Scattered Snickering ] let me dispel a few rumours so they don't fester into facts." "attended Hell-ton and survived." "I was not the mental giant you see before you." "I was the intellectual equivalent of a 98-pound weakling." "and people would kick copies of Byron in my face." "[ Chuckling ]" "Now..." "Mr Pitts?" "That's a rather unfortunate name." "where are you?" " [ Boys Snickering ] would you open your hymnal to page 542." "Read the first stanza of the poem you find there." "[ Spaz Coughs ]" ""To the Virgins to Make Much of Time"?" "that's the one." "isn't it?" " [ Boys Chuckling ]" "[ Pitts ] "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may." ""Old Time is still a-flying." "tomorrow will be dying."" "Mr Pitts." ""Gather ye rosebuds while ye may."" "The Latin term for that sentiment is "Carpe diem. "" "who knows what that means?" "Carpe diem." "That's "Seize the day."" "Mister" " Meeks." "Meeks." "Another unusual name." "Seize the day." ""Gather ye rosebuds while ye may."" "Why does the writer use these lines?" " Because he's in a hurry." " No!" "Ding!" "Thank you for playing anyway." "lads." "each and every one of us in this room... turn cold and die." "I would like you to step forward over here... and peruse some of the faces from the past." "You've walked past them many times." "I don't think you've really looked at them." "are they?" "Same haircuts." "just like you." "just like you feel." "The world is their oyster." "just like many of you." "just like you." "Did they wait until it was too late... to make from their lives even one iota of what they were capable?" "these boys are now fertilizing daffodils." "But if you listen real close... you can hear them whisper their legacy to you." "lean in." "Listen." "Do you hear it?" "[ Keating Whispering ] Carpe." "Hear it?" "[ Whispering ] Carpe." "[ Continues Whispering ] Carpe diem." "boys." "Make your lives extraordinary." "[ Chattering ]" " That was weird." " But different." "if you ask me." "Think he'll test us on that stuff?" "Cameron." "Don't you get anything?" "What?" "What?" "[ Charlie Scoffs ]" "Dalton!" "guys?" "Pitts ] Me." " What?" "guys." "I have to have dinner at the Danburrys' house tonight." "[ Pitts ] The Danburrys?" "Who are the Danburrys?" "[ Cameron ] Big alums." "How'd you swing that?" "Friends of my dad's." "They're probably in their nineties or something." "Ooh!" "Knox." "we'll see." " You coming to the study group tonight?" " [ Others Chattering ]" "I've got some history I wanna do." " Suit yourself." " [ Laughing ]" "Overstreet?" "sir." "can you get that?" "Mom." " [ Girl ] I'll get it!" "Can I help you?" "Hi." "Knox Overstreet." "Dr Hager." " [ Girl ] Hi." "right?" " Are you here to see Chet?" " Mrs Danburry?" " [ Laughing ] No." " Sorry." "Thank you." "I'm Mrs Danburry." " You must be Knox." " Yes." "come on in." "I'm coming." "Knox." "How are you?" "Joe Danburry." "sir." " He's the spitting image of his father." " [ Chuckling ] How is he?" "Come on in." " [ Chet ] Chris!" " Great." "He just did a big case for G.M." " I know where you're headed." "huh?" "[ Boy ] Ooh!" "Psycho!" " Yes!" " To Queen-Six." "Another game?" " What do you mean?" " Duh!" ""for 'x"and 'y. "" " Of course." " Of course." "So what's the problem?" "[ Boy ] You think I can get in there?" "You've been hogging it all day." " Wait." "No." " How was dinner?" "Huh?" " How was dinner?" " Terrible." " Awful." " Why?" "What happened?" "[ Sighs ]" "I met the most beautiful girl..." "I have ever seen in my entire life." "Are you crazy?" "What's wrong with that?" "She's practically engaged to Chet Danburry." " [ Groans ]" " That guy could eat a football." " Too bad." " [ Knox ] "Too bad"?" "" Pittsie." "It's a tragedy." "A girl this beautiful in love with such a jerk." "All the good ones go for jerks." "You know that." "forget her." "Open your trig book and try and figure out problem five." "Cameron." "And I certainly can't think about trig." " [ Radio Humming ]" " We got it!" "gentlemen." "Five minutes." " [ Radio Continues Humming ]" " Let's go." "Dalton." "sir." "Science experiment." "Radar." "[ Radio Continues Humming ] open your text to page 2 1 of the introduction. entitled "Understanding Poetry."" "Ph.D." "we must first be fluent... rhyme and figures of speech." ""Then ask two questions." ""One.:" "How artfully has the objective of the poem been rendered?" "two.:" "How important is that objective?" ""Question one rates the poem's perfection." ""Question two rates its importance." "'And once these questions have been answered..." ""determining a poem's greatness becomes a relatively simple matter." ""If the poem's score for perfection is plotted..." ""on the horizontal of a graph..." ""then calculating the total area of the poem..." ""yields the measure of its greatness. "but only average on the horizontal." "'yielding a massive total area;:" ""thereby revealing the poem to be truly great." "practise this rating method." "so will-- so will your enjoyment and understanding of poetry."" "Excrement." "That's what I think of Mr J. Evans Pritchard." "We're not laying pipe." "We're talking about poetry." "how can you describe poetry like American Bandstand?" ""I like Byron." "I give him a 42." "But I can't dance to it."" "I want you to rip out that page." "Go on." "Rip out the entire page." "You heard me." "Rip it out." "Rip it out!" "Go on." "Rip it out." "Mr Dalton." "tell you what." "Don't just tear out that page." "history." "Leave nothing." "Ph.D.!" "Rip!" "Shred!" "Tear!" "Rip it out!" "I want to hear nothing but ripping of Mr Pritchard!" "put it on a roll!" " [ Boys Chuckling ]" "It's not the Bible." "You're not gonna go to hell for this." " [ Boys Chuckling ] - [ Mumbling ]" "Go on." "Make a clean tear." "I want nothing left of it." " [ Boys Chattering ]" " We shouldn't be doing this." "Rip!" "Rip!" "Rip!" "[ Keating ] Rip it out!" "Rip!" "Pages Ripping ]" "[ Boys Laughing ] Rip it!" "Yeah!" "Rip it out!" "Laughing ]" " [ Boy ] Rip it!" " What the hell is going on here?" " I don't hear enough rips." " Mr Keating." "Mr McAllister." "I-- I didn't know you were here." " I am." " Ah." "So you are." "Excuse me." "gentlemen." "a war." "And the casualties could be your hearts and souls." "Mr Dalton." "Armies of academics going forward measuring poetry." "No!" "We will not have that here." "No more of MrJ." "Evans Pritchard." "you will learn to think for yourselves again." "You will learn to savour words and language. words and ideas can change the world." "I see that look in Mr Pitts' eye... like 1 9th century literature has nothing to do... with going to business school or medical school." "Right?" "Maybe. we should simply study our Mr Pritchard..." ""and learn our rhyme and metre and go quietly about the business... of achieving other ambitions."" "I have a little secret for you." "Huddle up." "Huddle up!" "We don't read and write poetry because it's cute." "We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race." "And the human race is filled with passion." "engineering:" "these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. love-- these are what we stay alive for." "To quote from Whitman.:" "O life of the questions of these recurring." ""Of the endless trains of the faithless." ""Of cities filled with the foolish." "O life?" ""Answer:" "That you are here." ""That life exists and identity. and you may contribute a verse." and you may contribute a verse. "" "What will your verse be? may the Lord make us truly grateful." "Amen." "Mr Keating." "Mr McAllister." " There's no need to apologise." "misguided though it was." "You think so?" "John. they'll hate you for it." "George." "We're talking freethinkers." "Freethinkers at 1 7?" "I never pegged you as a cynic." "Not a cynic." "A realist. and I'll show you a happy man."" ""But only in their dreams can men be truly free." "and always thus will be."" "Tennyson?" "No." "Keating." "[ Chuckling ]" "I found his senior annual in the library." "Listen to this." "Captain of the soccer team." "Editor of the school annual." "Cambridge bound." "Thigh man and the Dead Poets Society." ""Man Most Likely To Do Anything."" "Thigh man?" "Mr "K" was a hell-raiser." " [ Chuckling ]" " What's the Dead Poets Society?" " I don't know." " Is there a picture in the annual?" "see me after lunch." "## [ Whistling 1 8 1 2 Overture ]" "[ Neil ] Mr Keating?" " ## [ Continues Whistling ]" " Mr Keating?" " ## [ Continues ]" " Sir?" "my Captain?" " Gentlemen." " [ Boys Laugh ]" "We were just looking in your old annual." "my God. [ Laughs ] - [ Laughing ] that's not me." " [ Boys Laugh ]" "Stanley "The Tool" Wilson." "[ Chuckling ]" " [ Chuckling ] God." " What was the Dead Poets Society?" "I doubt the present administration would look too favourably upon that." "Why?" "What was it?" "can you keep a secret?" " Sure." "The Dead Poets were dedicated to sucking the marrow out of life." "That's a phrase from Thoreau we'd invoke at the beginning of every meeting." "we would gather at the old Indian cave..." "Shelley-- the biggies." "Even some of our own verse." "we'd let poetry work its magic." "reading poetry?" "Mr Overstreet." "It wasn't just guys." "We weren't a Greek organization." "We were romantics." "like honey." "gentlemen." "eh?" "Hmm." "for this stroll down amnesia lane." "Burn that." " Especially my picture." " [ Boys Chuckle ]" " ## [ Resumes Whistling ]" " Dead Poets Society." "[ Cameron ] What?" "[ Bell Ringing ]" " I say we go tonight." " Tonight?" " Wait a minute." " Everybody in?" " Where's this cave he's talking about?" " It's beyond the stream." " I know where it is." " [ Pitts ] That's miles." " Sounds boring to me." " [ Charlie ] Don't go." " You know how many demerits we're talking?" " So don't come." "Please." "all I'm saying is that we have to be careful." "Sherlock." "You boys there!" "Hurry up!" "Neil." "Hager's" "Forget Hager!" "No!" "Who's in?" "I'm in." "[ Hager Clapping ] I'm warning you!" "Move!" "Me too." "Neil." " What?" "Pitts!" "come on." " [ Meeks ] His grades are hurting." "a midnight study group?" "your grades hurting too?" " I'll try anything once." " [ Charlie ] Except sex." "ha." " I'm in as long as we're careful." "Charlie." "Knox." "It'll help you get Chris." "Yeah?" "How?" " Women swoon. [ Laughing ]" " But why do they swoon?" "tell me why they swoon!" "Charlie!" "[ Boys Whispering ] follow the stream to the waterfall." "It's right there." "It's got to be on the banks." "I don't know." "This is starting to sound dangerous." "you're crazy." "stop chattering and sit down." "are you coming tonight?" " No." "you were there." "You heard Keating." " Don't you want to do something about that?" " Yes." " But" " But?" "But what? and I don't want to do that." "don't you?" "I don't have a problem." "okay?" "All right." "What if you didn't have to read?" "What if you just came and listened?" "forget how it works." "What if-- What if they said it was okay?" "are you gonna go up and ask them?" "Neil." " I'll be right back." " Neil." "Neil!" "will you?" "okay?" "please?" "[ Boy ] What's the matter?" "Don't you like snakes?" "okay?" "huh?" "#### [ Continues ]" " Come on." "I have to brush my teeth." " [ Spaz ] Get a" " Get off." " Cut out that racket in there!" "#### [ Rude Squeak ]" "[ Door Opens ]" "[ Dog Barks ]" "[ Boys Whispering ]" "Footsteps ]" " [ Whispering Continues ]" " Go." "Go." "[ Owl Hooting ]" "[ Hooting Continues ]" "[ Wings Flapping ]" "[ Owl Hooting ]" "Charlie." " [ Neil ] Guys!" "Over here!" " [ Meeks ] Funny." "You're real funny." "Laughing ] - [ Meeks ] It's too wet." "are you trying to smoke us out of here?" "no." "The smoke's going right up this opening." " [ Pitts Yells ] - [ Others Laughing ]" " [ Neil ] You okay?" " [ Pitts Groaning ]" "God." "Clowns." " [ Continues Groaning ] forget the fire." " [ Chattering ]" "Chuckling ]" " [ Cheering ]" "Welton Chapter." "The meetings will be conducted by myself... and the other new initiates now present. will keep minutes of the meetings." "I'll now read the traditional opening message... by Society member Henry David Thoreau." ""I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately." "I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life."" "I'll second that." "[ Laughs ]" ""To put to rout all that was not life. discover that I had not lived."" "[ Whistles ] intermission!" "lay it down." "On the mud?" "We're gonna put our food on the mud?" "put your coat down." "Picnic blanket." " [ Boys Chattering ]" " Use Meeks' coat." "[ Charlie ] Don't keep anything back either." " You guys are always bumming my smokes." " [ Meeks ] Raisins?" " [ Knox ] Yuck." " [ Charlie ] Wait a minute!" " Who gave us half a roll?" " [ Pitts ] I'm eating the other half." "you want me to put it back? sat by herself in her house at her table to complete a new jigsaw puzzle. that the image that was formed was her very own room. was herself." "she placed the last four pieces... and stared in horror at the face of a demented madman at the window." "The last thing that this old lady ever heard... she didn't." "this is true." "This is true." " I've got one that's better than that." " [ Charlie Laughs ] and they're driving through the forest at night on a long trip." "and there's a madman on the" "The thing with the hand?" " [ All Chattering ]" " I love that story!" " [ Charlie ] I told you that one." " You did not." " I got that in camp in sixth grade." " Last year? "lived a man named William Bloat. "who continually got his goat. he slit her bloody throat."" "and it gets worse." "You want to hear a real poem?" "I don't need" " Get this outta here." "did you bring one?" " You memorized a poem?" " [ Mumbling ]" " You memorized a poem?" " An original piece by Charlie Dalton." " An original piece." "right?" " [ Laughing ] - [ Clears Throat ]" "[ Boys Gasp ] Wow." "Whoa." " Where did you get that?" " [ Laughing ]" "[ Cameron ] Where did you" " Whoa." " "Teach me to love?" ""Go teach thyself more wit." ""I chief professor am of it. may learn to love from me."" "[ Neil ] Wow." "Did you write that?" "Cheering ]" "Abraham Cowley." "Okay." "Who's next?" "Alfred Lord Tennyson." "my friends." ""'Tis not too late to seek a newer world." ""For my purpose holds to sail beyond the sunset." ""And though we are not now that strength..." ""which in old days moved Earth and heaven." "we are:" ""one equal temper of heroic hearts... but strong in will... and not to yield."" "then I had a vision." ""I could not turn from their revel in derision. cutting through the forest with a golden track."" " [ Chanting ] Meeks." "Meeks." "cutting through the forest with a golden track. - cutting through the forest with a golden track." " ## [ Drumming ] - cutting through the forest with a golden track!" " ## [ Mouth Harp ] cutting through the forest with a golden track!" "cutting through the forest with a golden track! - cutting through the forest with a golden track!" " [ Whoops ] cutting through the forest with a golden track!" "Whooping ]" "Cutting through the forest with a golden track!" "Then I saw the Congo creeping through the black" "[ Bell Tolls 2.:00 ]" "A man is not "very tired. " He is "exhausted. "" "And don't use "very sad." Use-- you twerp." " [ Knox ] "Morose"?" " Exactly!" "Morose!" "and that is" " Mr Anderson?" "are you a man or an amoeba?" "[ Boy Chuckles ]" "Mr Perry?" "Uh... to communicate." "No!" "To woo women." " [ Laughing ]" " Today we're going to be talking..." "God." "I know." "A lot of you look forward to this... about as much as you look forward to root canal work." "We're gonna talk about Shakespeare... as someone who writes something very interesting." "many of you have seen Shakespeare done very much like this:" "bring your friend hither." [ Imitating Brando ] you know that Shakespeare can be different." "lend me your ears."" "[ Boys Laughing ]" "You can also imagine maybe John Wayne as Macbeth going... is this a dagger I see before me?"" "[ Laughing ] not just now." "sir." ""You can have yourself a three-course meal from one dog." ""Start with a canine croquette." ""Go to your Fido Flambe for main course." "a Pekingese parfait." "And you can pick your teeth with the little paw. "" "Why do I stand up here?" "Anybody?" " To feel taller." " No!" "Thank you for playing." " [ Rings Bell ]" " [ Laughing ]" " I stand upon my desk... to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way." "the world looks very different from up here." "You don't believe me?" "Come see for yourselves." "Come on. you have to look at it in another way. you must try." "don't just consider what the author thinks." " Consider what you think." " [ Jumps Down ] you must strive to find your own voice. the less likely you are to find it at all." ""Most men lead lives of quiet desperation."" "Don't be resigned to that." "Break out." "Don't just walk off the edge like lemmings." "Look around you." "Mr Priske." "Thank you!" "Yes!" "Dare to strike out and find new ground." "an original work." " [ Boys Groaning ]" " Ooh!" "## [ Hums Ominous Tune ]" "That's right." "in front of the class on Monday." "gentlemen." "Mr Anderson." "you mole." "[ Boys Laughing ]" "[ Jumps Down ]" "Take a power train in two!" "keep your eyes in the boat!" " Stroke!" "Stroke!" " Stroke!" "Stroke!" " [ Nolan Continues Shouting ]" "Pittsie." "Radio Free America!" "# Some people like to rock Some people like to roll ##" "# But moving'and a-groovin' is gonna satisfy my soul ##" "# Let's have a party Oooh ##" "# Let's have a party ##" "# Let's spin it to the soul Let's rock and roll ##" "# Let's have a party tonight ##" "# I never kissed a bear I never kissed a goose ##" "# But I can shake a chicken in the middle of the room ##" "## Let's have a party #### - [ Door Opens ]" "[ Laughing ]" " I found it." " You found what?" "really inside of me." " "A Midsummer Night's Dream." - [ Neil ] This is it." "dummy." "I know that." "Wh-What does it have to do with you?" "they're putting it on at Henley Hall." "Open tryouts." "Open tryouts!" "so?" " So!" "I'm gonna act." "[ Shouts ]" "Yes!" "Yes!" "I'm gonna be an actor!" "I've wanted to try this! my father wouldn't let me." "I know what I want to do." "I'm gonna do it... whether my father wants me to or not!" "hold it." "How are you gonna be in a play if your father won't let you?" "then I can worry about that." "But won't he kill you if he finds out you went to an audition and didn't tell him?" "he won't have to know about any of this." "that's impossible." " Bullshit." "Nothing's impossible." "why don't you just call him and ask him and m-maybe he'll say yes." "That's a laugh." "at least I won't be disobeying him." "whose side are you on?" "[ Grabs Flyer ]" "I haven't even gotten the part yet." "Can't I even enjoy the idea for a little while?" " You're coming to the meeting?" " I don't know." "Maybe." "Todd?" " Wh-What is that supposed to mean?" " You're in the club!" "Being in the club means being stirred up by things." "You look about as stirred up as a cesspool." "I want you in!" "not just say you're in. all right?" "You" " You-You say things and people listen." "I" " I-I'm not like that." " Don't you think you could be?" " No." "but that's not the point." "so you can just butt out." "I can take care of myself just fine." "All right?" "No." ""no"?" "No." "Give me that!" "Neil!" "give that back!" " "We are dreaming of a tomorrow--"" " It's poetry!" " Neil!" "I'm being chased by Walt Whitman!" "[ Laughing ]" "Okay!" "Okay!" "What are you guys doing?" "I'm trying" " You see this chemistry-- give me-- - [ Laughing ]" " Don't be immature." "Come on!" " [ Laughing Continues ]" " I need my-- - [ Charlie Shouts ] Give it to me!" "Laughing ]" "[ Cameron ] Let me have my book." "I need my" "Laughing ]" "Hooting ]" "[ Shouting ]" "[ Continues Shouting ]" "[ Birds Squawking ]" "## [ Trumpet Playing "Charge" ]" "## [ Horns Blaring ]" " [ Crowd Cheering ] - ## [ Continues ]" "[ Cheering Continues ]" "### [ Funky Drum Cadence ]" "Hooting ]" "[ Cheering Continues ]" "everybody on the bus." "boys." "[ Blowing Whistle ] boys." " [ Car Engines Revving ]" "Crowd Cheering ] devotees may argue... that one sport or game is inherently better than another." "sport is actually a chance... for us to have other human beings push us to excel." "I want you all to come over here and take a slip of paper... and line up single file." "time to inherit the Earth." "Mr Pitts..." "rise above your name." "one apiece." "Pitts!" "to meet enemies undaunted."" "[ Keating ] Sounds like you're daunted." "Say it again like you're undaunted." "to meet enemies undaunted"!" "[ Keating ] Now go on!" "Yes!" "Next!" ""To be a sailor of the world bound for all ports."" "Next." "Louder!" "not a slave." [ Kicks Ball ]" ""To mount the scaffolds." "To advance to the muzzles of guns with perfect nonchalance. "" " [ Kicks Ball ] -#### [ Classical ]" "Meeks!" "Listen to the music! float on!" - [ Keating ] Yes!" "the poem of new joys."" "[ Kicks Ball Weakly ]" "Blows Raspberry ] Boo!" "let it fill your soul." ""To indeed be a god!"" "I got the part!" "[ Shouts ] I'm gonna play Puck!" " I'm gonna play Puck!" " What did he say?" " Puck you!" " The main part!" "I got it!" " Congratulations." " Good for you!" "Good for you!" "okay." "how are you gonna do this?" "They need a letter of permission from my father and Mr Nolan." "I am." "Squawks ]" " [ Laughs ]" " Okay." "I am writing to you... on behalf of... my son..." "Neil Perry." "Stamping Feet ] This is great!" "### [ Bagpipes ]" "### [ Continues ]" "### [ Bagpipes Continue ]" "[ Rips Paper ]" ""To Chris."" "Chris." ""I see a sweetness in her smile." ""Bright light shines from her eyes." "contentment is mine..." " "just knowing that-- - [ Snickering ]" " "Just knowing that... [ Sighs ] - [ Laughing ] she's alive."" "it's not stupid." "It's a good effort." "It touched on one of the major themes:" "love." "A major theme not only in poetry but life." "you were laughing." "You're up." "[ Boys Snickering ]" ""The cat sat on the mat."" "[ Boys Laughing ]" "Mr Hopkins." "Yours is the first poem to ever have a negative score on the Pritchard scale." "we're laughing near you." "I don't mind that your poem had a simple theme. like a cat or a flower or rain." "poetry can come from anything with the stuff of revelation in it." "Just don't let your poems be ordinary." "who's next?" "I see you sitting there in agony." "step up." "Let's put you out of your misery." "I-I didn't do it." "I didn't write a poem." "Mr Anderson thinks everything inside of him is worthless and embarrassing." "Todd?" "Isn't that your worst fear?" "I think you're wrong." "I think you have something inside of you... that is worth a great deal." ""I sound..." ""my barbaric..." ""yawp..." "[ Continues Writing ] "over the rooftops... of the world. "" "again." "a yawp is a loud cry or yell." "I would like you to give us a demonstration of a barbaric yawp." "you can't yawp sitting down." "up." " Got to get in yawping stance." " [ Boys Laughing ]" " A-Ayawp?" " Not just a yawp." "A barbaric yawp." " Right." "Yawp." " Come on." "Louder." "louder!" "yell like a man!" " Yawp!" " There it is." "you have a barbarian in you after all." "You don't get away that easy." "There's a picture of Uncle Walt up there." "answer." "Go on." " A m-m-m-madman." " [ Keating ] What kind of madman?" "just answer." " A cr-crazy madman." "you can do better than that." "Free up your mind." "Use your imagination." "even if it's total gibberish." "A-A-A sweaty-toothed madman." "there's a poet in you after all!" "There." "Close your eyes." "Close your eyes." "Close them." "describe what you see." "I-I close my eyes..." " Yes?" "and his image floats beside me." " A sweaty-toothed madman." "A sweaty-toothed madman with a stare that pounds my brain." "that's excellent!" "make him do something." " H-His hands reach out and choke me." " That's it." "Wonderful." "Wonderful." " And all the time he's mumbling." " What's he mumbling?" " Mumbling truth." " Yes." " Truth is like a blanket that always leaves your feet cold." " [ Boys Laughing ]" "Forget them." "Forget them." "Stay with the blanket." "Tell me about that blanket." "it'll never be enough." "it'll never cover any of us." "it'll just cover your face as you wail and cry and scream." "Applauding ]" "Applause Continue ] - [ Softly ] Don't you forget this." "Coughs ]" "Pittsie." "deeply." " [ Meeks ] My dad collects pipes." " [ Pitts ] Really?" " [ Meeks ] He must have 30." "that's interesting. [ Laughing ] we're from the government." "We're here to help." "What's wrong?" " [ Boys Taunting ] It's Chris!" " Here's a picture of Chris for you!" " Put that in your pipe and smoke it." " It's not funny." "Knock it off." "Smoke your pipes." "Welton men." "Neil?" "this is the god of the cave." " The god of the cave." " ## [ Saxophone ]" "## [ Blaring ] what are you doing?" " What do you say we start this meeting?" " I need a light." "Who's got a light?" " Anybody bring earplugs?" "[ Clears Throat ] Gentlemen." " "Poetrusic" by Charles Dalton." " [ Boys Murmuring ] man." "mumbling." "gotta be more." "Random Notes ]" " [ Groans ] - [ Boy Laughs ] Pitts." "gotta be more!" "Sweet Melody ]" "### [ Sweet Melody Continues ]" " Wow." "Nice." " That was great." "Where did you learn to play like that?" "My parents made me take the clarinet for years!" " I love the clarinet." " I hated it." "[ Boys Laughing ]" "The saxophone." "The saxophone is more... sonorous." "more sonorous." "Vocabulary. calm down." "Charlie!" "That's just my problem." "I've been calm all my life." "I'm gonna do something about that." "Where are you going?" "What are you gonna do?" "I'm gonna call her." "[ Dastardly Chuckling ]" " He's gonna call her!" " Wait for me!" " ## [ Wildly ]" "[ Line Ringing ]" "[ Chris ] Hello?" " [ Coins Drop ]" " She's gonna hate me." "The Danburrys will hate me." "My parents will kill me." "goddam it." "You're right." "Carpe diem." "Dials ] Even if it kills me." "[ All Chuckling ]" "[ Line Ringing ]" "Chris?" " Yes." " Hi." "This is Knox Overstreet." "yes." "Knox." " I'm glad you called." " [ Whispers ] She's glad I called." "and he's having a party." " Would you like to come?" " Would I like to come to a party?" "sure." "Chris." " Okay." " Friday night at the Danburrys'." "Okay." " Okay." "Bye." " Thank you." "I'll see you." "Bye." " [ Coins Drop ]" " Yawp!" "[ Chuckling ]" "Can you believe it?" "She was gonna call me." "She invited me to a party with her." " At Chet Danburry's house." " Yeah." " Well?" " So?" "So you don't really think she means you're going with her?" "Charlie." "But that's not the point." " That's not the point at all." " What is the point?" "Charlie..." " Uh-huh?" " is..." " Yeah?" "that she was thinking about me." "and already... she's thinking about me." "guys." " [ Others Chuckling ]" "I feel it." "She is going to be mine." " [ Laughs ] - ## [ Humming ]" " Carpe!" "Carpe!" " ## [ Continues Humming ] gentlemen." "Just take a stroll." " There it is." " [ Boys Clapping In Time To Steps ]" "but I've been told." "[ Keating ] Doing poetry is cold." "left." "left." "Left." "Halt!" "gentlemen." "their own pace." "Mr Pitts taking his time." "He knew he'll get there one day." ""Is this right?" "It might be right." "It might be right." "I know that-- Maybe not." "I don't know."" "driven by a deeper force." "Yes." "I didn't bring them up here to ridicule them." "I brought them up here to illustrate the point of conformity." "The difficulty in maintaining your own beliefs in the face of others." ""I would have walked differently."" "ask yourselves why you were clapping." "Now we all have a great need for acceptance." "your own." "Even though others may think them odd or unpopular." ""That's ba-a-a-a-ad."" "I took the one less traveled by." "And that has made all the difference." pacing any direction." "anything." "Chuckling ] just make it for yourself." "will you be joining us?" "Exercising the right not to walk." "Mr Dalton." "Just illustrated the point." " Swim against the stream." " [ Boys Chattering ]" "Todd?" " Hey." " Hey." " What's going on?" " Nothing." " Today's my birthday." " Is today your birthday?" " Happy birthday." " Thanks." " What did you get?" " My parents just gave me this." "Isn't this the same desk set-- they gave me the same thing as last year." " Oh." " Oh." "Maybe they thought you needed another one. [ Laughs ]" "[ Laughs ] Maybe they weren't thinking about anything at all." "is I didn't even like it the first time." " [ Laughs ] - [ Laughs ]" "I think you're underestimating the value of this desk set." "who would want a football or a baseball-- or a car-- if they could have a desk set as wonderful as this one." "I would probably buy this one... both times." "[ Laughing ] its... shape is-- isn't it?" "You can feel it." "[ Exhales ] This desk set wants to fly." "Todd... the world's first unmanned flying desk set." "[ Yells ]" "Desk Supplies Clattering ]" "I wouldn't worry." " You'll get another one next year." " [ Laughing ]" "[ Boys ] "To live deep and suck out all the marrow of life." "To put to rout all that was not life--" - [ Girls Laughing ]" " [ Laughing Continues ]" " My God." "this is it." "Go ahead." "Go on in." "It's my cave." "Watch your step." "[ Girls Giggling ] Uh-oh." "[ Giggling ] Hi." " [ Meeks ] Hello." " [ Girl ] Hi." "Gloria and-- [ Snaps Fingers ]" " Tina." " Tina." " This is the pledge class of the Dead Poets Society." " [ Boys ] Hello." " How do you do?" " Hello." " Hi." "it's Friday night." "I have an announcement to make." "I'm giving up the name Charles Dalton." "call me Nuwanda." "[ Boys Laughing ] Nuwanda?" "[ Giggling ]" "Chattering ]" "[ Indian War Whooping ]" "Chris?" "# I crashed in thejungle while trying to keep a date ##" "# With my little girl who was back in the States ##" "## I was stranded in thejungle--#### - [ Chris ] Knox!" " Hi." " You made it!" "Great." " Did you bring anybody?" " No." "I have to go find Chet." "I've" " Make yourself at home." " But I've" "baby let's make romance ##" "# You know your old-time lover hasn't got a chance ## guys." "[ Pouring Beer ] you Mutt Sanders' brother?" "or what?" " You're his brother?" " [ Chuckles ] No relation." "Steve?" "Here's Mutt Sanders' brother and we don't even offer him a drink." "pal." " Yeah." "I don't really drink whisky." " To Mutt." " To Mutt." " To Mutt." " [ Sighs ] what's old Mutter been up to?" "[ Coughing ] I don't really know Mutt." "[ Sighs ] To the Mighty Mutt." " To Mighty Mutt." " To Mighty Mutt." "I gotta go find Patsy." "okay?" " Will do." "your brother Mutt." " [ Sighs ] or what? how do we know if we want to join?" ""Join"?" ""Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" "Thou art more lovely and more temperate."" "That's so sweet." " I made that up just for you." " You did?" "Gloria." "[ Sighs ]" ""She walks in beauty like the night." ""of cloudless climes and starry skies. - meet in her aspect and her eyes."" " That's beautiful." "There's plenty more where that came from." "[ Crowd Chattering ]" "[ Belches ]" "[ Growling ]" "# She sure looks fine to me What's her name ##" "# Look out Let me call her one time ##" "### [ Continues ]" "[ Both Moaning ] little girl ## you sure look fine ##" "### [ Continues ] help me." "baby you're not mine ## little girl How's about a date ##" "little girl ##" "# How's about a date ## baby ##" "# Won't keep you out too late ##" "little girl ##" "# Now how's about a kiss ## little girl ##" "# How's about a kiss ## baby ####" " [ Bubba ] Chet." "Chet." "Look." " [ Chet ] What?" " It's Mutt Sanders' brother." " [ Chet ] Huh?" "what" "And he's feeling up your girl!" "[ Chris ] What are you doing?" "don't!" "I know this looks bad" " Leave him alone." "no!" "You'll hurt him!" "stop it!" "Leave him alone!" " Damn!" "stop it!" " Bastard!" "are you all right?" "get the hell away from him!" "you hurt him!" " Good!" " I'm sorry." "I'm so sorry." " It's okay." "It's-It's okay." "you die." "[ Guests Chattering ]" "Go ahead." "Pass it around." "Me and Pitts are working on a hi-fi system." "to put together." "I might be going to Yale." "but I-I might not." "Don't you guys miss having girls around here?" " [ Chuckles ] Yeah." " [ Chuckles ] Yeah." "[ Charlie ] That's part of what this club is about." "I'd like to announce..." " What?" " demanding girls be admitted to Welton..." " You didn't." " so we can all stop beating off." " How did you do that?" " [ Charlie ] I'm one of the proofers." " I slipped the article in." " It's-It's over now." "Why?" "Nobody knows who we are." "don't you think they're gonna figure out who wrote it?" "They're gonna come to you and ask to know what the Dead Poets Society is." "you had no right to do something like that." "Cameron." "[ Gloria ] That's right." "It's Nuwanda." "or do we mean what we say? - what the hell are we doing?" " [ Neil ] All right." "Charlie." "This could mean trouble." "You don't speak for the club." "would you not worry about your precious little neck?" "I'll tell them I made it up." " [ Whispering ]" " Fine." "Sit." "there appeared a profane and unauthorized article." "Rather than spend my valuable time ferreting out the guilty persons-- and let me assure you I will find them" "I'm asking any and all students who know anything about this article... to make themselves known here and now. this is your only chance to avoid expulsion from this school." "Teachers Murmuring ]" "Welton Academy." "Hello." "he is." "just a moment." "it's for you." "It's God!" "He says we should have girls at Welton." "[ Boys Laughing ]" "Wipe that smirk off your face. think again." "Others have had similar notions and have failed just as surely as you will fail." " Assume the position." " [ Sighs ]" "Mr Dalton." "[ Paddle Strikes ]" "One." "[ Strikes Dalton ]" "Two." "[ Strikes Dalton ]" "Three." " [ Strikes Dalton ]" " Four. [ Stifles Groan ]" " [ Paddle Strikes ]" " Five." "What is this Dead Poets Society?" "I want names." "[ Low Murmuring ]" " [ Neil ] You kicked out?" " No." " [ Neil ] So what happened?" " [ Sighs ] and all will be forgiven." "So what are you gonna do? the name is Nuwanda." "[ Door Closes ]" "[ Both Chuckling ]" "Mr Keating?" "Certainly." "John." "Did you know that?" "My first desk." "Mr Nolan." "English." "Long before your time." "I can tell you." "I'm hearing rumours about some unorthodox teaching methods in your classroom. but I don't think I have to warn you boys his age are very impressionable." "I'm sure." " What was going on in the courtyard the other day?" " Courtyard?" "that." "That was an exercise to prove a point:" "dangers of conformity." "the curriculum here is set." "It's proven." "It works." "what's to prevent them from doing the same?" "I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself." "At these boys' age?" "Not on your life!" "John." "Discipline." "and the rest will take care of itself." "[ Footsteps Departing ]" " Creak. [ Hits Bongo Drum ] - [ Chuckling ]" "He starts walking around towards my left." "Creak." "Creak." "[ Hitting Bongo Drum ]" "" which means-- gentlemen." " Mr Keating." " Mr Dalton." "That was a pretty lame stunt you pulled today." "You're siding with Mr Nolan?" "What about carpe diem and sucking all the marrow..." " out of life and all that?" " Sucking the marrow out of life... doesn't mean choking on the bone." "and there is a time for caution." "And a wise man understands which is called for." "But I thought you'd like that." "No." "You being expelled from school is not daring to me." "It's stupid." "'Cause you'll miss some golden opportunities." "Yeah?" "Like what?" "the opportunity to attend my classes." "ace?" "Captain." "Keep your head about you." "That goes for the lot of you." "Captain." "Phone call from God." "it would have been daring." "[ Door Closes ] boy." " No." "[ Bell Tolling ]" "okay?" "Go." "#### [ Flute ]" "Hermia." "wait." "The excitement." "I don't hear any excitement about this play." "bring her downstage... gentle Hermia."" "Okay?" "Try again." " [ Bell Ringing ] - [ Pitts ] What's for dinner?" " Spaghetti and meatballs!" " Food!" "[ Boys Chattering ]" "Save some for me." "fairy!" "Here comes Oberon."" " Father." " Neil. -please let me ex" " Don't you dare talk back to me." "It's bad enough that you've wasted your time... but you deliberately deceived me." "How-How-How did you expect to get away with this?" "Answer me." "Who put you up to it?" " Was it this new man?" "Keating?" " No." "Nobody p" " I thought I'd surprise you." "I've gotten all A's in every class." "Did you really think I wasn't going to find out?" "" says Mrs Marks." "" I say. "You must be mistaken." "My son's not in a play."" "Neil!" "you go to them and you tell them that you're quitting." "I can't." "I have the main part." "The performance is tomorrow night! you are through with that play!" "Is that clear?" "[ Louder ] Is that clear?" "sir. and you will not let me down." "sir." " [ Knocking ]" " It's open." "[ Closes Door ] what's up?" " Can I speak to you a minute?" " Certainly." "Sit down." "Oh." " I'm sorry." "Here." " Excuse me." " Get you some tea?" " Tea?" "Sure." "thanks." "they don't give you much room around here." "It's part of the monastic oath." "They don't want worldly things distracting me from my teaching." " She's pretty." " She's also in London." " [ Laughs ]" " Makes it a little difficult." " How do you stand it?" " Stand what?" "You can go anywhere." "You can do anything." "How can you stand being here?" "Because I love teaching." "I don't want to be anywhere else." " What's up?" " I just talked to my father." "He's making me quit the play at Henley Hall." "But acting is everything to me." "I mean-- But he doesn't know." "He" "I can see his point." "We're not a rich family like Charlie's." "I mean" "But he's planning the rest of my life for me." "And he-he's never asked me what I want." "Have you ever told your father what you just told me?" "About your passion for acting?" "Have you showed him that?" " I can't." " Why not?" "I can't talk to him this way." "Then you're acting for him too." "You're playing the part of the dutiful son." "but you have to talk to him." "what your heart is." "I know what he'll say." "He'll tell me that acting's a whim and I should forget it." "[ Sniffling ] They're counting on me." "He'll just tell me to put it out of my mind for my own good." "You are not an indentured servant." "It's not a whim for you." "You prove it to him by your conviction and your passion." "and if he still doesn't believe you-- and you can do anything you want." "No." "[ Sniffling ]" "What about the play?" "The show's tomorrow night." "Then you have to talk to him before tomorrow night." "I-- [ Sighs ]" " Isn't there an easier way?" " No." "[ Chuckles ] I'm trapped." "you're not." "[ All Chattering ]" "[ Chattering Continues ]" "Chris!" "Chris!" "Chris Noel." "Do you know where she is?" "I think she's in Room 1 1 1 ." " Thanks." "I know." "Excuse me." "Chris-- what are you doing here?" "I came to apologize for the other night." "I brought you these and a poem I wrote for you." "he'll kill you?" "you're crazy." "and I know it." "I-I can't." "Just forget it." "[ Bell Rings ]" "Closes ]" "[ All Chattering ]" "I don't believe this." " All I'm asking you to do is listen." "[ Knox Reading ] "The heavens made a girl named Chris..." ""with hair and skin of gold." " [ Chattering Stops ] - [ Knox ] "To touch her..." " [ Boy Snickers ] - [ Sighs ] - would be paradise. "" " [ Bell Ringing ] - [ Boys Chattering ]" "[ Belch ] you fool." "how'd it go?" "Did you read it to her?" " Yeah." " [ Laughing ] Wow." "What'd she say?" "nothing?" "Nothing." "But I did it." "what did she say?" "She had to say something!" "Knox!" " [ Knox Whooping ] Seize the day!" "yeah." "but at least he's letting me stay in the play." "He won't be able to m-make it." "He's in Chicago." "I think he's gonna let me stay with acting." "Really?" "You told him what you told me?" "Yeah." "[ Chuckles ]" "He wasn't happy." "But he'll be gone at least four days." "but..." "I think he'll let me stay with it." ""Keep up the schoolwork." [ Chuckles ]" "Exits ] baby." " Beautiful baby." " I am" " Excuse me." "Just a moment." "Yes." "You're so good." " [ Laughing ]" "Todd." "I'm trying to fix this." "we're going to miss Neil's entrance." "He said something about getting red before we left." " "Getting red"?" "What does that mean?" " I" " You know Charlie." "what's this 'getting red"bit?" " Ooh. [ Laughs ]" " Ooh. [ Laughs ]" "[ Laughing ] W-What is that?" "It's an Indian warrior symbol for virility." "like I can drive girls crazy." "Charlie." "The girls are waiting." "Whistling ]" "Whoa." "## [ Whistling ]" "### [ Wolf Whistle ]" "Chris." "What are you doing here?" "guys." "I'll catch up." "guys." "you can't be in here." "we're both gonna be in big trouble." " Come on." "shh." "Chris." "It's fine for you to come barging into my school and make a fool out of me?" "I didn't mean to make a fool out of you." "you did." "Chet found out." "It took everything I could do to keep him from coming here and killing you." "Chris." "I love you." "you say that over and over." "You don't-- You don't even know me." "Mr Overstreet?" "Captain." "I'll walk." " [ Starts Engine ] i-it just so happens... that I could care less about you." "Then you wouldn't be here warning me about Chet." "I have to go." "I'm gonna be late for the play." " Are you going with him?" " [ Laughs ] Chet?" "To a play?" " Are you kidding?" " Then come with me." "you are so infuriating!" "just give me one chance." "I'll stay away forever." " Uh-huh." " I promise." "Dead Poets honour." "I swear I'll bow out." " What would happen if Chet found out?" " He won't know anything." "We'll sit in the back and sneak away as soon as it's over." "And I suppose you would promise that this would be the end of it?" " Dead Poets honour." " What is that?" " My word." " Hmm." "You are so infuriating." "[ Laughing ]" "hey!" "boys." "Either I mistake your shape and making quite... or else you are that shrewd and knavish sprite called Robin Goodfellow!" "Thou speak'st aright." "I am that merry wanderer of the night." "I jest to Oberon and make him smile... when I a fat and bean-fed horse beguile. [ Snorts ]" "[ Whinnies ] Neighing in the likeness of a filly foal." "Sometime lurk I in a gossip's bowl... in very likeness of a roasted crab." "against her lips I bob... and on her withered dewlap pour the ale." " The wisest aunt telling the saddest tale." " He's good." "He's really good." "Sometime for three-foot stool mistaketh me." "down topples she and "Tailor" cries... and falls into a cough." "And then the whole quire hold their hips and laugh... and waxen in their mirth nee-e-e-eze..." " [ All Laughing ] - and swear." "A merrier hour was never wasted there." "fairy." "my mistress." "Would that he were gone." "no bed-room me deny." "I do not lie." "[ Hermia ] Lysander riddles very prettily." "Much beshrew my manners... and my pride if Hermia meant to say Lysander lied." "for love and courtesy... such separation as may well be said becomes a virtuous bachelor and maid." "sweet friend." "Thy love ne'er alter 'til thy sweet life end." "say I." "Neil." "Neil." "Here's your crown." "Let's go." "If we shadows have offended... think but this and all is mended." "That you have but slumber'd here while these visions did appear." "no more yielding but a dream." "do not reprehend." "we will mend. we will make amends ere long;" "else the Puck a liar call." "good night unto you all. and Robin shall restore amends." " [ Audience Applauding ] - [ Chattering ]" "[ Applause Continues ]" "Cheering ]" "[ Audience Continues Cheering ]" "Louder ]" "[ Welton Boys ] Yawp!" "Carpe diem!" "Laughs ]" "[ Yelling ]" "[ Actors Chattering ]" "[ Whooping ]" " [ Crowd Chattering ] - [ Girl ] That was great!" "please." "[ All Chattering ] your father." " [ Chattering Continues ]" " [ Boy ] What did you think?" " You were all just wonderful!" "Laughing ]" "Laughing Continues ]" "please." " Excuse me." "Excuse me." " [ Boys ] Neil!" "Back here!" "Neil!" "Neil." "guys." " Neil." "[ Mr Perry ] Excuse me." "Neil." "Neil." "You have the gift." "What a performance." "You left even me speechless." " You have to stay with" " Get in the car." "you stay away from my son." "come on!" "[ Keating ] Don't make it any worse than it is." "[ Woman Chattering ] Do you want to take the other car?" "[ Chattering Continues ]" "[ Car Departs ]" "[ Chattering Continues ]" "Is it okay if we walk back?" "Captain?" " [ Charlie ] Knox?" " What?" "We'll be home about 1 1.:30." "Closes ]" "[ Clears Throat ] We're trying very hard... to understand why it is that you insist on defying us." "we're not gonna let you ruin your life." "I'm withdrawing you from Welton and enrolling you in Braden Military School." "and you're gonna be a doctor." "But that's ten more years." "stop it!" "Don't be so dramatic." "You make it sound like a prison term." "Neil." "You have opportunities that I never even dreamt of!" " I am not going to let you waste them!" " I've got to tell you what I feel." " We've been so worried about" " What?" "What?" "Tell me what you feel!" "What is it?" "Is it more of this-this acting business?" "Because you can forget that." "What?" "Nothing." "[ Sighs ] Nothing?" "let's go to bed." "[ Softly ] I was good." "I was really good." "get some sleep." " [ Mrs Perry Sobbing ]" " It's going to be all right." "[ Gasping ] What was that?" "[ Mrs Perry ] What?" " That sound." " What sound?" "Tom?" "What is it?" "What's wrong?" "Neil?" "what is it?" "What's wrong?" "Neil?" " Neil?" " [ Mrs Perry ] I'll look outside." "Neil?" "[ Sniffs ]" "No!" "no." "my son!" "My son!" "My poor son!" " He's all right." "Hysterically ] He's all right!" " Stop it." "Stop it." "Stop it." " Stop it!" "Stop it." " [ Sobbing ]" "Todd." "Todd." "Charlie." "What is it?" "[ Softly ] Neil's dead." "It's so beautiful." " [ Todd Vomiting ]" " Todd!" "Todd." " [ Pitts ] Calm down." "Todd." " [ Sobbing ]" "Todd." " [ Continues Sobbing ]" " It's all right." "It's all right." "Todd." " [ Todd ] It was his father!" " No!" "He wouldn't have left us." "It's because he" "He wouldn't have." "[ Sobbing ]" " His dad was" " Todd." "His-His father did it." "His father killed him." "[ Blubbering ] He made him do it." " [ Continues Sobbing ]" " Todd!" "Leave him be." "[ Screams ]" "[ Crying ]" "Sighs ]" "[ Boys Singing ] #..." "All my life ##" "# Shall surely #" "# Follow me #" "# And in God's house #" "# Forevermore #" "# My dwelling place #" "# Shall be #" "# Amen ##" "[ Nolan ] The death of Neil Perry is a tragedy. one of Welton's best." "And he will be missed." "We've contacted each of your parents to explain the situation." "they're all quite concerned." "I intend to conduct a thorough inquiry into this matter." "Your complete cooperation is expected." "Closes Lighter ]" " You told him about this meeting?" " Twice." "guys." "We're all fried." " [ Pitts ] How do you mean?" " Cameron's a fink." "finking." " About what?" "Pittsie." "Think about it." "the trustees and Mr Nolan." "Do you think for one moment they're gonna let this thing just blow over?" "Schools go down because of things like this." "They need a scapegoat." "[ Door Opening ]" "Footsteps Approaching ]" "[ Footsteps Continue ] guys?" "Cameron?" ""Finked"?" "I don't know what the hell you're talking about." "You told Nolan everything about the club is what I'm talking about." "there's something... all right?" "you tell the truth or you're expelled." " You" " Charlie!" "so he ratted to save himself!" "Charlie." "You do and you're out." " I'm out anyway!" "Charlie." "you will do exactly what I did and cooperate." "They're not after us." "We're the victims." "Us and Neil." "What's that mean?" "Who are they after?" "of course." "The "Captain" himself!" "did you?" "Mr Keating responsible for Neil?" "Is that what they're saying?" "dumb ass?" "The administration?" "Mr Perry?" "didn't he?" "Neil would be... studying his chemistry..." "Cameron!" "You know that!" "He didn't put us up to anything." "but I say let Keating fry." "why ruin our lives?" " [ Cameron Grunts ] - [ Knox Muttering ]" "[ Panting ]" "Nuwanda." "you'll do exactly what I did!" "They know everything anyway. but you can save yourselves." "[ Footsteps Departing ]" "Closes ]" "[ Hager ] Knox Overstreet." " Meeks." " Go away." "I have to study." "What happened to Nuwanda?" "Expelled." "What'd you tell 'em?" "Nothing they didn't already know." "[ Hager ] Todd Anderson." "darling." "[ Softly ] Mom." "Mr Anderson." "I think we've pretty well put together what's happened here." "You do admit to being a part of this Dead Poets Society?" "Todd." "sir." "I have here a detailed description... of what occurred at your meetings. encouraged you boys to organize this club... and to use it as a source of inspiration... for reckless and self-indulgent behaviour." "encouraged Neil Perry to follow his obsession with acting... when he knew all along it was against the explicit orders... of Neil's parents." "It was Mr Keating's blatant abuse of his position as teacher... that led directly to Neil Perry's death." "Todd." "Very carefully." "sign it." "What's gonna happen to Mr Keating?" "Todd!" "[ McAllister ] Grass is gramen or herba." "Lapis is stone." "The entire building is aedificium." "[ Chuckles Softly ]" "Closes ]" "Sit." "I'll be teaching this class through exams." "We'll find a permanent English teacher during the break." "Who will tell me where you are in the Pritchard textbook?" "Mr Anderson?" "Mr Anderson." "in the Pritchard" "Mr Cameron." "sir." "We covered the romantics and some of the chapters on post-Civil War literature." "sir." "we'll start over." "What is poetry?" " [ Knocking ]" " Come!" "Excuse me." "[ Closes Door ]" "I came for my personals." "Should I come back after class?" "Mr Keating." "turn to page 2 1 of the introduction." "read aloud the excellent essay by Dr Pritchard... on "Understanding Poetry. "" "sir." "borrow somebody else's book." "sir." ""They're all ripped out"?" "we" " Ac-- - [ Nolan ] Never mind." "[ Slaps Book ] Read." "Ph.D." "we must first be fluent... rhyme and figures of speech." ""Then ask two questions." "One:" ""How artfully has the objective of the poem been rendered?" "two:" ""How important is that objective?" ""Question one rates the poem's perfection." ""Question two rates its importance." ""determining a poem's greatness becomes a relatively simple matter." "If the poem's score for perfection is plotted on the horizontal of a graph--"" "Mr Anderson!" "Todd." "Mr Keating." " But it wasn't his fault! and you're out of this school!" "Mr Keating." "Mr Anderson." "Do you hear me?" "Sit down!" "Sit down!" "Anderson." "How dare you." "Do you hear me?" "my Captain." "I warn you!" "Sit down!" "Sit down!" "Sit down!" "All of you!" "I want you seated!" "Mr Keating." "down!" "I want you seated!" "Do you hear me?" "Sit down!" "boys." "Thank you." "### [ Bagpipes ]" "### [ Continues ]"