< link rel =" stylesheet " href =" http : / / editor . daum . net / services / blog / css / contents 4 view . css ? ver = 1 . 1 . 114 " type =" text / css "/>< link rel =" stylesheet " href =" http : / / editor . daum . net / services / blog / css / theme 4 view . css ? ver = 1 . 1 . 114 " type =" text / css "/> DEAD POETS SOCIETYDirected by Peter Wyre # 1 MOT : Remember , shoulders back . FAT : Put your arm around your brother . One more . MAN : Just to review . You ' re going to follow with the procession until you get to the headmaster . At that point he ' ll indicate to you light the candles of the boys . MAN : Boys settle down . Banners up . NOL : Ladies and gentlemen , boys , the light or knowledge . 100 years ago in 1859 , 41 boys sat in this room and they were asked the same question that now greets you at the start of each semester . Gentlemen , what are the four pillors ? STU : Tradition , honor , discipline , excellence . NOL : In her first year , Welton Academy graduated 5 students . Last year we graduated 51 , and more than 75 % of those went on the Ivy League . 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 prepatory school in the United States . As you know , our beloved Mr . Portius the English Department retired last term . You will have the opportunity later to meet his replace - ment , Mr . John Keating , himself an honors graduated of this school , and who for the past several years has been teaching at the highly regarded Chester School in London . BOY : You forgot your bag . BOY : Hi , Johnny , how ya doin ? NOL : Glad you could come by . AND : Thrilling ceremony as usual . NOL : You ' ve been away too long . AND : Hello , Dr . Nolan . This is our youngest , Todd . NOL : Mr . Anderson , you have some big shoes to fill , young man . Your brother was one of our finest . TOD : Thank you . WOM : Lovely ceremony . NOL : Glad you liked it . PER : Gale , good to see you again . NOL : Tom . NEI : Hello , Dr . Nolan . NOL : Neil , we expect great things from you this year . NEI : Thank you , sir . PER : He won ' t disappoint us . Right Neil ? NEL : I ' ll do my best sir . FAT : Come on son . MOT : Chin up . FAT : No tears . BOY : I don ' t want to go here . MOT : There , therem do your lessons . # 2 NEI : Hey , I hear we ' re going to be roommates . I ' m Neil Perry . TOD : I ' m Todd Anderson . NEI : Why ' d you leave Balincrest ? TOD : My brother went here . NEI : Oh , so you ' re that Anderson . FAT : This is for his sinuses . If he can ' t swallow , give him one of these . If he has trouble breathing . .. TEA : Fine . FAT : Did you remember your vaporizer ? SPZ : Yes . BOY : How ' s it going Neil ? NEI : Hi . CAM : Neil , study group tonight ? NEI : Sure . CAM : Business as usual . Heard you got a new kid . Looks like a stiff . Oops ! NEI : Listen , don ' t mind Cameron . He was born with his foot in his mouth . Know what I mean ? CHA : Rumor has it , you did summer school . NEI : Yep , chemistry . My father thought I should get ahead . How was your summer , slick ? CHA : Keen . Meeks , door closed . MEE : Yes sir . NEI : Gentlemen , what are the four pillars ? EVE : Travesty , horror , decadence , excrement . CHA : Okay , good study group . Meeks aced Latin . I didn ' t quite flunk English . So , if you want , we got our study group . NEI : Sure , Cameron asked me , too . Anyone mind including him . CHA : What ' s his specialty , bootlicking ? NEI : He ' s your roommate . CHA : That ' s not my fault . MEE : I ' m sorry . My name is Stephen Meeks . NEI : This is Todd Anderson . TOD : Nice to meet you . CHA : Charlie Dalton . KNX : Knox Overstreet . NEI : Todd ' s brother was Jeffrey Anderson . CHA : Oh , yeah . Valedictorian . National Merit Scholar . MEE : Oh , well . Welcome to Hell - Ton . CHA : It ' s every bit as tough as they say , unless you ' re a genius like Meeks . MEE : He flatters me . That ' s why I help him with his Latin . CHA : And English , and Trig . NEI : It ' s open . Father , I thought you ' d gone . CHA : Mr . Perry . PER : Keep your seats , fellows . Keep your seats . Neil , I ' ve just spoken to Mr . Nolan . I think that you ' re taking too many extracurricular activities this semester and I ' ve decided that you should drop school annual . NEI : But I ' m the assistant editor this year . PER : I ' m sorry Neil . NEI : But Father , I can ' t . It would ' t be fair . PER : Fellows would you excuse us for a moment ? Don ' t you ever dispute me in public . Do you understand ? NEI : Father . .. PER : After you finish medical school , then you ' re on your own . Then you can do as you damn well please . But until then , you do as I tell you . Is that clear ? NEI : Yes sir , I ' n sorry . PER : You know how much this means to your mother , don ' t you ? NEI : Yes sir , I ' m always taking on too much . PER : Well , that ' s my boy . Listen , you need anything , you let us know . NWI : Yes sir . CHA : Why doesn ' t he let you do what you want ? KNX : Yeah , Neil . Tell him off . It couldn ' t get any worse . NEI : That ' s rich . Like you guys tell your parents off , Mr . Future Lawyer and Mr . Future Banker . CHA : Okay , so I don ' t like it any more than you do . NEI : Just don ' t tell me how to talk to my father . You guys are the same way . KNX : All right . Jesus . So what are you going to do ? NEI : Well , I have to drop the annual . CHA : Well , I wouldn ' t lose too much sleep over it . It ' s just a bunch of jerks trying to impress Nolan . NEI : I don ' t give a damn about any of it . MEE : Well , Latin ? 8 : 00 in my room ? NEI : Yes . MEE : Todd , you are welcome to join us . KNX : Yeh , come along pal . TOD : Thanks . McA : Slow down boys , Slowdown , you horrible phalanx of pubescense . TEA : Pick three laboratory experiments from the project list and report on them every 5 weeks . The first twenty questions at the end of chapter one are due tomorrow . McA : Agricolam . .... etc . STU : Agricolam . .... etc . HAG : Your study of trigonometry requires absolute precision . Anyone failing to turn in any homework assignment will be penalizedon point off their final grade . Let me urge you now not to test me on this point . CHA : Hey Spaz . JOH : Well , come on . CAM : Let ' s go . MEE : Where ? JOH : Oh Captain , my captain . Who knows where that came from ? Anybody ? Not a clue ? It ' s from a poem by Walt Whitman about Mr . Abraham Lincoln . Now , in this class , you can call me either Mr . Keating or if you ' re slightly more daring , Oh Captian , my Captain . Now let me dispel a few rumors so they don ' t fester into facts . Yes , I too attended ' Hell - ton ' and survived . And no , at that time I was not the mental giant you see before you . I was the intellectual eqivalent of a 98 pound weakling . I would go to the beach and people would kick copies of Byron in my face . Now Mr . Pitts . That ' s a rather unfortunate name . Mr . Pitts , where are you ? Mr . Pitts , you will open your ' Hymal ' to page 542 ? Read the first stanza of the poem you find there . PIT : " To the Virgins to Make Much of Time . " JOH : Yes , that ' s the one . Somewhat appropriate , isn ' t it ? PIT : " Gather ye rosebuds while ye may , Old time is still a - flying , And this same flower that smiles today , Tomorrow will be die . " JOH : Thank you , Mr . Pitts . " gather ye rosebuds while ye may , " The Latin term for that sentiment is Carpe Diem . Who knows what that means ? MEE : Carpe Diem . That ' s seize the day ". JOH : Very good , Mr . ... MEE : Meeks . JOH : Meeks . Another unusual name . " Seize the day . " " Gather ye rosebud while ye may . " Why does the writer use these lines ? CHA : Because he ' s in a hurry . JOH : No . Ding . Thanks for playing anyway . Because we are food for worm lads . Because , believe it or not , each of us in this room is one day going to stop breathing , turn cold , and die . I would like you to step forward over here and persue some faces from the past . You ' ve walked past them many times , but I don ' t think you ' ve really looked at them . They ' re not taht different from you , are they ? Same haircuts , full of hormones , just like you . Invincible , just like you feel . The world is their oyster . They believe they ' re destined for great things just like many of you . Their eyes are full of hope , just like you . Did they wait until it was too late to make from their live even one iota of what they were capable ? Because gentlemen , those boys are fertilizing daffodils . If you listen real close , you can hear them whisper their legacy to you . Go on , lean in . Listen . You hear it ? Carpe , Carpe . Carpe Diem . Seize the day boys . Make your lives extraordinary . # 3 KNX : That was weird . NEI : But different . KNX : Spooky if you ask me . CAM : Think he ' ll test us on that stuff ? CHA : Oh come on , Cameron . Don ' t you get anything ? CAM : What , What ? COA : Let ' s go boys . Hustle up in here . That means you Dalton . MEE : Who ' s up for trig study group ? CHA : Sure . KNX : I can ' t make it guys . I have to have dinner at the Danbury ' s house tonight . CHA : Who are the Danburys ? NEI : Big alums . How ' d you swing that ? KNX : Friend of my dad . They ' re probably ninety . NEI : Anything ' s better than Hell - ton hash , Knox . KNX : I ' ll second that . NEI : Hey . Want to come to the study group tonight ? TOD : No . I ' ve got some history I want to do . NEI : Suit yourself . HAG : Ready Overstreet ? KNX : Ready to go sir . DAN : Chet , can you get that ? CHR : I ' ll get it . Can I help you ? KNX : Hi , Knox Overstreet . Dr . Hager . CHR : Hi . KNX : This is the Danbury ' s right ? CHR : Are you here to see Chet ? KNX : Mrs . Danbury ? CHR : No . DAN : Thank you Chris . I ' m Mrs . Danbury . You must be Knox . KNX : Yes . DAN : Back by 9 : 00 ? Please come on in . CHT : Chris , come on . What are you doing ? CHR : Chet , I ' m going . DAN : Knox , how are you ? Joe Danbury . KNX : Please to meet you sir . DAN : Well , he ' s the spitting image of his father , isn ' t he ? How is he ? Come on in . KNX : He ' s great . He just did a big case for G . M . DAN : I know you ' re headed . Like father , like son , huh . CAM : Replace there for X and Y . NEI : Of course . CAM : Of course ? So what ' s the problem ? CHA : How was dinner ? KNX : Terrible , awful . CHA : What happened ? KNX : Tonight I met the most beautiful girl I have ever seen in my entire life . NEI : Are you crazy ? What ' s wrong with that ? KNX : She ' s practically engaged , to Chet Danbury . CHA : He could eat a football . PIT : Too bad . KNX : It ' s worse than too bad Pitts . It ' s a tragedy . A girl this beautiful in love with such a jerk . PIT : All the good ones go for jerks . You know that . CAM : Yeah , forget her . Open your trig book and try to figure out problem 5 . KNX : I can ' t just forget her , Cameron . I certainly can ' t think about trig . PIT : We got it . HAG : Gentlemen , five minutes . Let ' s go . CHA : Did you see her naked ? KNX : Very funny Dalton . HAG : That wouldn ' t be a radio in your lap , would it , Mr . Pitts ? PIT : No sir . A science experiment . Radar . # 4 JOH : Gentlemen , open your texts to page 21 of the introduction . Mr . Perry , read the opening paragraph of the preface , entitled " Understanding Poetry . " NEI : " Understanding Poetry ", by Dr . J . Evans Prichard , PHD . " To fully understand poetry , we must first be fluent with it ' s meter , rhyme , and figures of speech . Then ask two questions : One , how artfully has the objective of the poem been rendered ? And Two , how important is objective ? Once these questions have been answered , determining the poems greatness becomes relatively simple matter . If the poems score for perfection is plotted on the horizontal of a graph , and it ' s importance is plotted on the vertical , then calculating the total area of the poem yields the measure of it ' s greatness . A sonnet by Byron might score high on the vertical , but only arrange on the horizontal . A Shakespearean sonnet , on the other hand , would score high both horizontally and vertically , yielding a massive total area , thereby revealing the poem to be truely great . As you proceed through the poetry in this book , practice this rating method . As your ability to eval ! uate poems in this manner grows , so will your enjoyment and understanding of poetry . " JOH : 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 Amerian Bandstand ? " Oh , I like Byron . I give him a 42 , but I can ' t dance to it . " Now I want you to rip out that page . Go on . Rip it out . Thank you Mr . Dalton . Gentlemen , I ' ll tell you what , not just that page , but the entire introduction . I want it gone , history . Leave nothing of it . Rip it out , rip ! Be gone J . Evans Pritchard , PHD . Rip . Shred . Tear . I want to hear nothing but the ripping of Mr . Pritchard . We ' ll perforate it , put it on a roll . It ' s not the Bible . You ' re not going to hell for this . Make a clean tear . I want nothing left of it . CAM : We shouldn ' t be doing this . NEI : Rip . Rip . JOH : Rip , rip it out . Rip . McA : What the hell is going on here ? JOH : I didn ' t hear enough rip . McA : Mr . Keating . JOH : Mr . McAllister . McA : I ' m sorry . I didn ' t know you were here . JOH : I am . McA : So you are . Excuse me . JOH : Keep ripping , gentlemen . This is a battle , a war . And the casualties could be your hearts and souls . Thank you Mr . Dalton . Armies of acedemics going forward , measuing poetry . No . We ' ll not have any more J . Evans Pritchard . Now in my class you ' ll learn to think for yourselves again . You will learn to savor words and language . No matter what anybody tells you , words and ideas can change the world . I see that look in Mr . Pitts ' eye , that 19 th century literature has nothing to do with business school or medical school . Right ? Maybe . Mr . Hopkins , you may agree with him , thinking yes , we should study our Mr . Pritchard , and learn our rhyme and meter 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 poetry because we are members of the human race . The human race is filled with passion . Medicine , law , business , engineering , these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life . But poetry , beauty , romance , love , these are what we stay alive for . To quote from Whitman : " O me . O life . Of the questions of these recurring , Of the endless trains of the faithless , Of cities filled with the foolish . What good amid these o me , o life ? The answer , that you are here . That life exists and identity . That the powerful play goes on . and you may contribute a verse . " What will be your verse ? EVE : For what we are about to receive , may the lord make us truly grateful . Amen . # 5 McA : Quite an interesting class you gave today , Mr . Keating . JOH : Sorry if I shocked you , Mr . McAllister . McA : No need to apologize . It was very fascinating , misguided though it was . JOH : You think so ? McA : You take a big risk by encouraging them to become artists , John . When they realize they ' re not Rhembrandts , Shakespeares , or Mozarts , they ' ll hate you for it . JOH : We ' re not talking artists , George . We ' re talking free thinkers . McA : Freethinkers at seventeen ? JOH : Funny , I never pegged you as a cynic . McA : Not a cynic , a realist . Show me the heart unfettered by foolish dreams and I ' ll show you a happt man . JOH : But only in their dreams can men be truly free . Twas always thus and always thus will be . McA : Tennyson ? JOH : No , Keating . NEI : Hey , I found this senior annual in the library . Listen to this , " Captian of the soccer team , Editor of the annual , Cambridge bound , ' thigh man ', and the Dead Poets Society , " CAM : " Man most likely to do anything " CHA : " Thigh man ". Mr . Keating was a hell - raiser . MEE : What ' s the Dead poets society ? NEI : I don ' t know . CHA : Is there a picture ? NEI : Nothing . No other mention of it . HAG : That boy there , see me after lunch . NEI : Mr . Keating ? Mr . Keating . Sir . CHA : Say something . NEI : Oh Captain , my captain . JOH : Gentlemen . NEI : We were just looking at your old annual . JOH : Oh my god . No , it ' s not me . Stanley " the tool " Wilson . NEI : What was the Dead Poets Society ? JOH : I doubt the present administration would look favourably upon that . NEI : Why , what was it ? JOH : Gentlemen , can you keep a secret ? NEI : Sure . JOH : The Dead Poets were dedicated to " sucking the marrow out of life " That ' s a phrase from Thoureau we would invoke ay the beginning of every meeting . We gather at the old Indian Cave and take turns reading from Thoureau , Whitman , Sheely , the bigges . Even some of our own verse . In the enchantment of the moment we ' d let poetry work it ' s magic . KNX : You mean it was a bunch of guys sitting around reading poetry ? JOH : No . Mr . Overstreet . We were romantists . We didn ' t just read poetry . We let it drip from our tongues like honey . Spirits soared , women swooned , and gods were created , gentlemen . Not a bad way to spend an evening . Thank you , Mr . Perry , for this stroll down Amnesia Lane . Burn that , espesially my picture . NEI : Dead Poets Society . CAM : What ? NEI : I say we go tonight . CHA : Tonight ? CAM : Wait a minute . NEI : Everybody in ? PIT : Where ' s the cave he ' s talking about ? NEI : It ' s beyond the stream . I know where it is . PIT : That ' s miles . CAM : Sounds boring to me . NEI : Don ' t go . CAM : You know how many demerits we ' re talking about , Dalton ? CHA : So don ' t come . CAM : All I ' m saying is that we have to be careful . We can ' t get caught . CHA : No shit , Sherlock . HAG : You boys there , hurry up . NEI : All right , who ' s in ? CAM : Aw , come on Neil . Hagers . ... NEI : Forget Hager . Who ' s in ? CHA : I ' m in . HAG : I ' m warning you , move . CAM : Me , too . PIT : I don ' t know , Neil . NEI : What , Pitts ? CHA : Pittsie , come on . MEE : His grades are hurting Charlie . NEI : You can help him Meeks . PIT : What is this ? A midnight study group ? NEI : Forget it Pitts . You ' re coming . Meeks , your grades hurting too ? MEE : I ' ll try anything , once . CHA : Except sex . CAM : If we ' re careful . .. CHA : What about you Knox ? KNX : I don ' t know Charlie . CHA : Come on Knox , it ' ll help you get Chris . KNX : Yeah , how ? CHA : Women swoon . KNX : Why do they swon ? Charlie , tell me why do they swoon ? NEI : You ' re not listening . Any questions ? Follow the stream to the waterfall . CAM : It ' s starting to sound dangerous . CHA : Why don ' t you just stay home ? McA : For god sake , stop chattering and sit down . NEI : Todd , are you coming tonight ? TOD : No . NEI : Why not ? You were there . You heard Keating . Don ' t you want to do something about that ? TOD : Yes , but . .. TOD : Keating said that everybody took turns reading . I don ' t want to do that . NEI : Gosh , if you really have a problem with that , don ' t you ? TOD : No , I don ' t have a problem . Neil , I just don ' t want to do it , okay ? NEI : All right . What if you don ' t have to read ? What if you just come and listened ? TOD : That ' s not how it works . NEI : Forget how it works . What if they said it was O . K . ? TOD : Are you going to go up and ask them if . .. no , no . NEI : I ' ll be right back . TOD : Neil . McA : Oh , shut up , will you ? SPZ : That ' s for my asthma . Give that back to me . Will you give that back ? NEI : You ' re in . SPZ : Get away from me . STU : Spz , check your pockets . Spz , I have to brush my teeth . HAG : Cut out that racket in there . # 6 CHA : I ' m a dead poet . Guys , over . MEE : It ' s too wet . CHA : You trying to smoke us out ? MEE : The smoke ' s going right up this opening . NEI : You okay ? CAM : Oh , god , clowns . NEI : All right . Forget the fire . Let ' s go gentlemen . I hereby reconvene the Dead Poets Society . NEI : Welton Chapter . The meetings will be conducted by myself and the other new intiates now present . Todd Anderson , because he prefers not to read , will keep minutes of the meeting . I ' ll now read the traditional opening message by society 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 . " CHA : I ' ll second that . NEI : " To put to rout all that was not life . And not , when I had come to die , discover that I had not lived . " And Keatings marked a bunch of other pages . CHA : All right . Inthermission . Dig deep . Right here . Right here , lay it down . MEE : We ' re going to put our food in the mud ? CHA : Meeks , put your coat down , picnic blanket . MEE : Use Meeks ' coat . CHA : Don ' t keep anything back , either . You guys are always bumming my smokes . MEE : Raisins ? NEI : Yeah . CHA : Wait a minute , who gave us half a roll . MEE : I ' m eating the other half . Want me to put it back ? NEI : It was a dark and rainy night . This old lady , who had a passion for jisaw puzzles , sat by herself in her house at her table to complete her new jisaw puzzles . As she pieced the puzzle together , she realized to her astonishment the image that was formed was her very own room . And the figure at the center of the puzzle as she completed it was herself . With trembling hands , 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 was the sound of breaking glass . Yes , this is true . CAM : I ' ve got one that is even better than that . I do . There ' s this young married couple , and they ' re driving through the forest at night on a long trip . They run out of gas and there ' s a madman , .... EVE : With the hand . .... CAM : I love that story . PIT : I told you that one . CAM : I got that in camp in 6 th grade . PIT : " In a mean abode on the Shankhill Road , Lived a man named William Bloat . Now he had a wife , the plague of his life , Who continually got his goat . And one day at dawn with her nightshift on , He slit her bloody throat . " CAM : It get ' s worse . CHA : Want to hear a real poem ? No , I don ' t need it . NEI : You memorized a poem ? CHA : I didn ' t memorized a poem . MEE : An original piece by Charlie Dalton . PIT : Take center stage . CAM : Do you know this is history , right ? CHA : " Teach me to love ? Go teach thyself more wit . I chief thyself more wit . The god of love , If such a thing there be , May learn to love from me . " NEI : Wow , did you write that ? CHA : Abraham Cowley . Okay , who ' s next ? NEI : Alfred , Lord Tennyson . " Come 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 , That which we are , we are . One equal temper of heroic hearts Made weak by time and fate , but strong in will . To strive , to seek , to find , and not to yield . " MEE : " Then I had religion . Then I had a vision . I could not turn from their revel in derision . Then I saw the Congo creeping through the black , Cutting through the forest with the golden track . " etc . ........... # 7 JOH : A man is not " very tired ". He is exhausted . Don ' t use " very sad . " Use , come on Mr . Overstreet , you twerp . KNX : Morose ? JOH : Exactly . " Morose . " Language was developed for one endeavor , and that is , Mr . Anderson . Come on , are you a man or an amoeba ? Mr . Perry . NEI : Uh , to communicate ? JOH : No . To woo women . Today we ' re going to talk about William Shakespeare . I know a lot of you look forward to this about as much as you look forward to root canal work . We ' re going to talk about Shakespeare as someone who writes something very interesting . Many of you have seen Shakespeare done very much like this : " O Titus , bring your friend hither . " But if you ' ve seen Mr . Brando , you know Shakespeare can be different : " Friends , Romans , and Coutrymen , lend me your ears . " You can also imagine maybe John Wayne as Macbeth going " Well , is this dagger I see before me ? " Or : " Dogs , sir ? " " Oh not just now . " " I do enjoy a good dog once and a while sir . You can have a three course meal from one dog . Start with the canine crudite . Go to your Fido flambe for main course , and for dessert a Pekingese parfait , and you can pick your teeth with a little . " Why do I stand up here ? Anybody ? CHA : To feel taller ? JOH : No . Thank you for playing , Mr . Dalton . I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way . You see , the world looks different from up here . You don ' t believe me ? Come see for yourseves . Come on . JOH : Just when you think you know something , you have to look at it in another way . Even though it may seem silly or wrong , you must try . Now when you read , don ' t just consider what the author thinks . Consider what you think . Boys , you must strive to find your own voice . The longer wait to begin , the less likely you ' ll find it at all . Thoreau said , " Most men live lives of quiet desperation . " Don ' t be resigned to that . Break out . Don ' t just walk off the edge like lemmings . Look arounds you . There you go , Mr . Priske . Thank you . Yes . Dare to strike out and find new ground . Now in addition to your essays , I would like you to compose a poem of your own . An origional work . That ' s right . You have to deliver it aloud in front of the class on Monday . Bonne chance , gentlemen . Mr . Anderson , don ' t think that I don ' t know that this assignment scares the hell out of you , you mole . # 8 MEE : We got it Pittsie . Radio free America . NEI : Ha , I found it . TOD : You find what ? NEI : What I really want to do , right now . What ' s really inside of me . TOD : A Midsummer Nights Dream ? What is that ? NEI : It ' s a playing , dummy . TOD : I know that . What does it have to do with you ? NEI : They ' re putting it on at Henley Hall . Open tryouts . Open tryouts . TOD : Yes , so ? NEI : So , I ' m gonna act . Yes , I ' m going to be an actor . Ever since I can remember , I ' ve wanted to try this . I even tried to go to summer stock last year , but of course my father wouldn ' t let me . For the first time in my whole life , I know what I want to do , and for the first time I ' m going to do it whether my father wants me to or not . Carpe Diem . TOD : Neil , how are you going to be in a play if your father won ' t let you ? NEI : First I ' ve to get the part , then I can worry about that . TOD : Won ' t he kill you if finds out you went to an audition and didn ' t even tell him . NEI : No . As far as I ' m concerned , he won ' t have to know about any of this . TOD : TOD : That ' s impossible . NEI : Bullshit . Nothing ' s impossible . TOD : Why don ' t you just call him and ask him and maybe he ' ll say yes . NEI : That ' s a laugh . If I don ' t ask him , at least I won ' t be disobeying him . TOD : Yeah . NEI : Jesus Todd , who ' s side are you on . I mean I haven ' t even got the part yet . Can ' t I even enjoy the idea for a little while ? You ' re coming to the meeting this afternoon ? TOD : I don ' t know . Maybe . NEI : Nothing Mr . Keating has to say means shit to you , does it ? You ' re in the club . Being in the club means being stirred up by things . You look about as stirred up as a cesspool . TOD : You want me out ? NEI : I want you in . But being in means you got to do something , not just say you ' re in . TOD : Listen , Neil . I appreciate this corcern , but I ' m not like you . You say things and people listen . I ' m not like that . NEI : Don ' t you think you could be ? TOD : No . I don ' t know . That ' s not the point . The point is there ' s nothing you can do about it . So you can just butt out . I can take care of myself just fine . All right ? NEI : No . TOD : What do you mean ? NEI : No . TOD : Give me that Neil . Give that back . NEI : " We are dreaming of . ..." Poetry . I ' m being chased by Walt Whitman . Okay . Okay . CAM : What are you guys doing ? You see chemistry . .. Hey give me . ... TOD : Neil . Don ' t be immature . Come on . CHA : I need my . ... JOH : Now devotees may argue that one sport or game is inherently better than an other . For me , sport is 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 . Mr . Meeks , time to inherit the earth . Mr . Pitts , rise above your name . Hand these to the boys , one apiece . You know what to do , Pitts . PIT : " O to struggle against great odds , to meet enemies undaunted . " JOH : Sounds to me like you ' re daunted . Say it again like you ' re undaunted . PIT : " O to struggle against great odds , to meet enemies undaunted . " JOH : Go on next . STU : " To be a sailor of the world . Bound for all parts . " JOH : Louder . STU : " Oh to live to be the ruler of life , not a slave . To mount the scaffold . To advance to the muzzles of guns with perfect nonchalance . " JOH : Come on Meeks , listen to the music . MEE : " To dance , clap hands , exult , shout , skip , rool on , float on . " JOH : Yes . STU : " Oh to have life henceforth the poem of new joys . " JOH : Aw boo . Come on Charlie , let it fill your soul . CHA : " To indeed be a God . " # 9 NEI : Charlie , I got the part . I ' m going to play Puck . I ' m going to play Puck . PIT : What did he say ? NEI : I got the main part . Charlie I got it . CHA : Congratulations . TOD : Good for you Neil . NEI : Okay . TOD : Neil , how are you gonna do thia ? NEI : I need a letter of permission from my father and Dr . Nolan . TOD : You ' re not going to write it ? NEI : Yes I am . TOD : Neil , you ' re crazy . NEI : " I am wring to you on behalf of my son , Neil Perry . " This is great . KNX : I see a sweetness in her smile Bright light shines from her eyes Life is complete , contentment is mine Just knowing that she ' s alive Sorry my Captain , it ' s stupid . JOH : No . It ' s a good effort . It touched on one of the major themes , love . A major theme not only in poetry but life . Mr . Hopkins . You were laughing , you ' re up . HOP : " The cat , sat on the mat . " JOH : Congratulations , Mr . Hopkins , yours is the first poem to have a negative score on the Pritchard scale . We ' re not laughing at you . We ' re laughing near you . I don ' t mind that your poem had a simple theme . Sometimes the most beautiful poetry can be about simple things , 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 . Now who ' s next ? Mr . Anderson , you ' re sitting their in agony . Come on , Todd , step up and let ' s put you out of your misery . TOD : I didn ' t do it . I didn ' t write a poem . JOH : Mr . Anderson thinks that everything inside of him is worthless and embarrassing . Isn ' t that right Todd ? Isn ' t that your worst fear ? I think you ' re wrong . I think you have something inside og you that is worth a great deal . " I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world . W . W . " Uncle Walt again . For those of you who don ' t know , a yawp is a loud cry or yell . Come on , you can ' t yawp sitting down . Let ' s go . Up . You got to get in yawping stance . TOD : A yawp ? JOH : Not just a yawp , a barbaric yawp . TOD : Yawp . JOH : Come on louder . TOD : Yawp . JOH : That ' s a mouse . Come on louder . TOD : Yawp . JOH : Good go . yell like a man . TOD : Yawp . JOH : There it is . You see . You have a barbarian in you after all . You don ' t get away that easy . That picture of Uncle Walt up there , what does he remind you of ? Don ' t think , answer . TOD : A madman . JOH : What kind of madman ? Don ' t think about it , just answer . TOD : A crazy madman . JOH : You can do better than that . Clear up your mind . Use your imagination . Say the first thing that pops into your head , even if it ' s total gibberish . TOD : A sweaty toothed madman . JOH : Good boy . There ' s a poet in you after all . Close your eyes . Close ' em . Now describe what you see . TOD : Close my eyes ? JOH : Yes . TOD : And this image floats beside me . JOH : A sweaty toothed nadman ? TOD : A sweaty toothed madman with a stare that pounds my brain . JOH : That ' s excellent . Now give him action . Make him do something . TOD : His hands reach out and choke me . JOH : Wonderful . TOD : All the time , he ' s mumbling . JOH : What ' s he mumbling ? TOD : Mumbling " Truth is like a blanket that always leaves your feet cold . " JOH : Forget them . Stay with thye blanket . Tell me about the blanket . TOD : You push it , stretch it , it ' ll never be enough . Kick at it , beat it , it ' ll never cover any of us . From the moment we enter crying , to the moment we leave dying , it ' ll just cover your face as you wail and cry and scream . JOH : Don ' t you forget this . CHA : That ' s a boy Pittsie . Inhale deeply . CAM : My dad collects pipes . PIT : Your parents collect pipes ? Oh , that ' s really interesting . CHA : Come on Knox , join in . PIT : Yeah we ' re from the government . We ' re here to help . STU : It ' s Chris . PIT : Here ' s a picture of Chris for you . KNX : That ' s not funny . CHA : SmokeMEE : Neil ? NEI : Friends , scholars , Welton men . MEE : What is that , Neil ? PIT : It ' s a lamp , Meeks . NEI : No , this is the God of the cave . MEE : The God of the cave ? STU : Charlie . CHA : What do you say we start this meeting ? PIT : I need a light . CHA : Did you bring earplugs ? Gentlemen , " Poetrusic " by Charlie Dalton . " Laughing , crying , tumbling , mumbling . Got to do more . Got to be more . Chaos sceaming . Chaos dreaming . Got to do more . Got to be more . " PIT : Wow , that was nice . That was great . Where did you learn to play like that ? CHA : My parents made me take the clarinet for years . CAM : I love the clarinet . CHA : I hate it . The saxophone , the saxophone is more sonorous . CAM : Woo , sonorous . Vocabulary words . KNX : I can ' t take it anymore . If I don ' t have Chris I ' m going to kill myself . CHA : Knoxious , you got to calm down . KNX : No , Charlie . That ' s just my problem . I ' ve been calm all my life . I ' m going to do something about that . NEI : Where are you going ? What are you going to do ? KNX : I ' m going to call . # 10 CHR : Hello . KNX : She ' s going to hate me . The Danburrys will hate me . My parents will kill me . All right , god damn it . You ' re right . Carpe Diem . Even if it kills me . CHR : Hello ? KNX : Hello , Chris ? CHR : Yes ? KNX : Hi . This is Knox Overstreet . She ' s glad I called . CHR : Listen , Chet ' s parents are going out of town this weekend . He ' s having a party . Like to come ? KNX : Would I like to come to the party ? CHR : Friday night . KNX : Well , sure . CHR : Around seven . KNX : O . K . Great , I ' ll be there Chris . Friday night , at the Danburrys . Okay . Thank you . I ' ll see you . Bye . Yawp . Can you believe it ? She was going to call me . She invited me to a party with her . CHA : At Chet Danburry ' s house . KNX : Yeah . CHA : Well ? KNX : So ? CHA : You don ' t really think she means you ' re going with her ? KNX : Of course not , Charlie . That ' s not the point . That ' s not the point at all . CHA : What ' s the point ? KNX : The point is . .... CHA : Yeah ? KNX : That she was thinking about me . I ' ve only met her once and already she ' s thinking about me . Damn it , it ' s going to guys . I feel it . She ' s going to be mine . STU : Carpe Diem . JOH : No grades at stake gentlemen . Just take a stroll . There it is . " I don ' t know what I ' ve been told . Doin ' poetry is pretty cold . Left , right , left right left . Left , right , left right left . Left , halt . " Thank you gentlemen . Notice that everyone started at their own stride , at their own pace . Mr . Pitts is taking his time . He knew he ' d get there one day . Mr . Cameron was thinking , " Is this right ? It might be right , maybe not . I don ' t know . " Mr . Overstreet is driven by a deeper force . Yes , we all know that . All right . I didn ' t bring them up here to ridicule them . I brought them up here to illustrate the point of conformity . The difficulty of maintaining your own beliefs in the face of others . There are those of you , I see a look in your eyes like " I would have walked differently . " Well , ask yourselves why you were clapping . Now we all have a great need for acceptance , but you must trust that your beliefs are unique , your own , even though others may think them odd or unpopluar . Even though the heard may go " That ' s bad . " Robert Frost said , " Two diverged in a yellow wood and I , I took the one less travelled by , and that has made all the difference . " I want you to find your own walk right now , your own way of striding , pacing : any diection , anything you want . Whether it ' s proud or silly . Anything . Gentlemen , the courtyard is yours . You don ' t have to perform . Just make it for yourself . Mr . Dalton , will you be joining us ? CHA : Excercising the right not to walk . JOH : Thank you , Mr . Dalton . You just illustrated the point . Swim against the stream . NEI : Todd ? Hey ? TOD : Hey . NEI : What ' s going on ? TOD : Nothing . Today is my birthday . NEI : Is today your birthday ? Happy birthday . What did you get ? TOD : My parents gave me this . NEI : Isn ' t this the same desk set . .... TOD : Yeah , they gave me the same things as last year . NEI : Oh . TOD : Oh . NEI : Maybe they thought you needed another one . TOD : Maybe they weren ' t thinking about anything at all . The funny thing about this is I didn ' t even like it the first time . NEI : Todd , I think you ' re underestimating the value of this desk set . I mean who would want a football or a baseball ? TOD : Or a car ? NEI : Or a car , if they could have a desk set as wonderful or this one ? If I were ever going to buy a desk set , twice , I would probably buy this one , both times . In fact , it ' s shape is rather aerodynamic , isn ' t it ? You can feel it . This desk set wants to fly . Todd , the world first undamned flying desk set . TOD : Teah . NEI : Woo , Oh my . I wouldn ' t worry . You ' ll get another one next year . STU : " To live deep and the marrow of life . To put to rout all that was not life . " CAM : My God . Tin : Is this it ? CHA : Yeah , this is it . Go on in . It ' s my cave . Watch your step . GLO : Hi . PIT : Oh . CHA : Guys , meet Gloria and . .. TIN : Tina . CHA : Tina , this is the pledge class of the Dead Poets Society . GLO : Hello , how do you do ? TIN : Hi , how are you ? CHA : Guys , move . Come on olks , it ' s Friday night . Let ' s get on with the meeting Guys I have an announcement to make in keeping with the spirit of passionate experimentation of the Dead Poets . I ' m giving up the name Charlie Dalton . From now on , call me Nuwanda . # 11 KNX : Hello ? Hello ? Chris ? CHR : Knox ? KNX : Hi . CHR : You made it . Bring anybody ? KNX : No . CHR : No ? Ginny Danburry ' s here . But I have to go find Chet . Why don ' t you go downstairs , that ' s where everybody is . KNX : But Chris . ... CHR : Make yourself at home . KNX : Hi guys . STU : Hey , aren ' t you Mutt Sanders ' brother ? Bubba , does this guy look like Mutt Sanders to you , or what ? BUB : You ' re his brother ? KNX : No relation . Never heard of him . Sorry guys . BUB : Where ' s our manners ? Mutt Sanders ' brother and we don ' t even offer him a drink . Have some whiskey pal . KNX : I don ' t really drink whiskey . BUB : To Mutt . STU : To Mutt . KNX : To Mutt . BUB : How the hell is old Mutt anyway ? STU : What ' s old Mutter been up to ? KNX : You see , I don ' t really know Mutt . BUB : To the mighty Mutt . STU : To mighty Mutt . KNX : To mighty Mutt . BUB : Well , I got to go find Patsy . Say hello to Mutt for me , okay ? KNX : Will do . STU : Hell of a guy , your brother Mutt . CHA : We going to have a meeting , or what ? GLO : Yeah , if you guy ' s don ' t have a meeting , how do we know if we want to join ? NEI : Join ? CHA : " Shall I compare thee to a summer ' s day ? Thou art more lovely and more temparate . " TIN : That ' s so sweet . CHA : I made that up just for you . TIN : You did ? CHA : I ' ll write one for you too , Gloria . " She walks in beauty like the night . She walks in beauty like the night . Of cloudless climes and starry skies . All that ' s best , dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes . " GLO : That ' s beautiful . CHA : There ' s plenty more where that came from . KNX : God help me . Carpe Diem . BUB : Chet . Look . CHT : What ? BUB : It ' s Mutt Sanders ' brother . KNX : Huh . BUB : He ' s feeling your girl . CHR : Knox , What are you doing ? CHT : What the hell are you doing ? CHR : Chet , don ' t . I know this looks bad . Chet , no , you ' ll hurt him . Stop it . Leave him slone . Chet , stop it . CHT : Bastard . CHR : Knox , are you all right ? CHT : Get the hell away from him . CHR : Chet , you hurt him . CHT : Good . KNX : I ' m sorry . I ' m sorry . CHR : It ' s okay . It ' s okay . CHT : Next time I see you , you die . TIN : Go ahead , pass it around . MEE : Me and Pitts are working on a hi - fi system . It shouldn ' t be that hard to put together . PIT : Yeah , I might be going to Yale , but I might not . GLO : Don ' t you guys miss having girls around here ? CHA : That ' s part of what this club is about . In fact , I ' d like to announce I published an article in the school paper in the name of the Dead Poets . CAM : What ? CHA : Demanding girls be admitted to Welton , so we can all stop beating off . NEI : How did you do that ? CHA : I ' m one of the proofers . I slipped the article in . NEI : It ' s over now . CHA : Why , nobody knows who we are . CAM : Don ' t you think they ' re going to figure out who wrote it ? They ' re going to come and ask to know what the Dead Poets Society is . Charlie , you had no right to do something like that . CHA : It ' s Nuwanda , Cameron . GLO : That ' s right , it ' s Nuwanda . CHA : Are we just playing around out here , or do we mean what we say ? If all we do is come together and read a bunch of poem to each other what the hell are we doing ? NEI : All right , but you still shouldn ' t have done it , Charlie . This could mean in trouble . You don ' t speak for the club . CHA : Hey , would you not worry about your precious little neck . If they catch me , I ' ll tell them I made it up . NOL : Fine . Sit . In this week ' s issue of Welton Honor , There appeard a profane and unauthorized article . Rather than spend my valuable time ferreting out the guilty persons , and let me assure you I ' ll find them , I ' m asking any and all students who know anything about this article to make themselves known here and now . Whoever the guilty persons are , this is your only chance to avoid expulsion from this school . CHA : Welton Academy . Hello ? Yes he is . Just a moment . Mr . Nolan , it ' s for you . It ' s God . He says we should have girls at Welton . NOL : Wipe that smirk off your face . If you think , Mr . Dalton , that you ' re the first to try to get thrown out of this school , think again . Others have had similar notions and have failed just as surely as you will fail . Assume the position . Count aloud Mr . Dalton . CHA : One , two . ... NOL : What ' s the Dead Poets Society ? I want names . NEI : You get kicked out ? CHA : No . NEI : So what happened ? CHA : I ' m to turn everybody in , apologize to the school , and all will be forgiven . NEI : So what are you going to do ? Charlie ? CHA : Damnir Neil , the name is Nuwanda . # 12 NOL : Excuse me . May we have a word , Mr . Keating ? JOH : Certainly . NOL : This was my first classroom John . Did you know that ? My first desk . JOH : Didn ' t know you taught , Dr . Nolan . NOL : English . Long before your time . It was hard giving it up , I can tell you . I ' m hearing rumors , John , about some unorthodox teaching methods in your classroom . I ' m not saying they ' ve had anything to do with the Dalton boys ' outburst but I don ' t think I have to warn you , boys of his age are very impressionable . JOH : Your reprimand made quite an impression , I ' m sure . NOL : What was going on in the courtyard the other day ? JOH : Courtyard ? NOL : Boys marching , crapping in union . JOH : Oh , that . That was an exercise to prove a point , dangerous of conformity . NOL : John , the curriculum here as set has proven it works . If you question it what ' s to prevent them from doing the same ? JOH : I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself . NOL : At these boy ' s age , not on your life . Tradition , John . Discilpine . Prepare them for college and the rest will take care of itself . CHA : He starts walking around towards my left . " Assume the position , Mr . Dalton " JOH : It ' s alright , gentlemen . CHA : Mr . Keating . JOH : Mr . Dalton . That was a pretty lame stunt you pulled today . CHA : You ' re siding with Mr . Nolan ? What about carpe diem and " Sucking all the marrow ? " JOH : " Sucking all the marrow out of life " doesn ' t mean choking on the bone . There ' s a time for daring and there is a time for caution , and a wise man understands which is called for . CHA : But I tuought you ' d like that . JOH : No . You being expelled from school is not daring to me , it ' s stupid . Because you ' ll miss some golden opportunities . CHA : Like what ? JOH : Like , if nothing else , the opportunity to attend my classes . Got it ace ? CHA : Aye , aye captain . JOH : Keep your head about you . That goes for the lot of you . STU : Yes captain . JOH : A phone call from God . If it ' d been collect , that would have been daring . # 13 NEI : Father . MRP : Neil . NEI : Before you say anything , please let me explain . .... MRP : Don ' t you dare talk back to me . It ' s bad enough that you ' re wasted your time with this absurd acting business , but you deliberately deceined me . How did you expect to get away with this ? Answer me . Who put you up to this ? Was it that new man , this Mr . Keating ? NEI : No . Nobody , I thought I ' d surprise you . I ' ve gotten all A ' s . .. MRP : Did you think I wouldn ' t find out ? " My niece is in a play with your son , " says Mrs . Marks . " No , " I say . " No you must be mistaken . My son ' s not in a play . " You made a liar out of me Neil . Now tomorrow you go to them and you tell that your quitting . NEI : No I can ' t . I have the main part . The performance is tomorrow night . MRP : I don ' t care if the world come to an end tomorrow night , you ' re through with that play . Is that clear ? Is that clear ? NEI : Yes sir . MRP : I made a great many sacrifices to get you here , Neil , and you will not let me down . NEI : No sir . JOH : It ' s open . Neil , what ' s up ? NEI : Can I speak to you a minute ? JOH : Certainly . Sit down . I ' m sorry . Get you some tea ? NEI : Tea ? Sure . JOH : Like some milk or sugar in that ? NEI : No thanks . Gosh , they don ' t give you much room around here . JOH : That ' s part of the monastic oath . They don ' t want wordly things distracting me from my teaching . NEI : She ' s pretty . JOH : She ' s also in London . Makes it a little difficult . NEI : How do you stand it ? JOH : Stand what ? NEI : You can go anywhere . You can do anything . How can you stand being here ? JOH : Because I love teaching . I don ' t want to be anywhere else . What ' s up . NEI : I just talked to my father . He ' s making me quit the play at Henley Hall . Acting is everything to me . But he doesn ' t know . I can see his point . We ' re not rich family like Charlie ' s . He ' s planning the rest of my life for me and he ' s never asked me what I want . JOH : Have you ever told your father about what you just told me ? About your passion for acting ? Have you ever showed him that ? NEI : I can ' t . JOH : Why not ? NEI : I can ' t talk to him this way . JOH : Then you ' re acting for him too . You ' re playing the part of the dutiful son . I know this sounds impossible , but you have to talk to him , you have to show him who you are , what your heart is . NEI : I know what he ' ll say . That they ' re counting on me . He ' ll just tell me to put it out of my mind for my own good . JOH : You are not an indentured servant . It ' s not whim for you . You prove it to him by your conviction and your passion . You show him that and if he still doesn ' t believe you , then you ' ll be out of school and you can do anything you want . NEI : No . What about the play ? The show is tomorrow night . JOH : Then you have to talk to him before tomorrow night . NEI : Isn ' t therer an easier way ? JOH : No . NEI : I ' m trapped . JOH : No , you ' re not . KNX : Chris . Chris Noel . Do you know whereshe is ? STU : I think she ' s in room 111 . KNX : Thanks . Excuse me . Chris . CHR : Knox . What are you doing here ? KNX : I came to apologize for the other night . I brought these and a poem I wrote for you . CHR : Knox , don ' t you know that is Chet finds you here , he ' ll kill you . KNX : I don ' t care . I love you Chris . CHR : Knox , you ' re crazy . KNX : Look , I acted like a jerk and I know it . Please accept these . CHR : No . I can ' t . Just forget it . Knox , I don ' t believe this . KNX : All I ' m asking you to do is listen . " The heavens made a girl named Chris , with hair and skin of gold . To touch her would be Paradise . " CHA : Cameron you fool . Did you read it to her ? KNX : Yeah . PIT : What ' d she say ? KNX : Nothing . CHA : What do you mean nothing ? KNX : Nothing . But I did it . CHA : What did she saying . She had to say something . KNX : Seize the day . JOH : Did you talk to your father ? NEI : Yeah . He didn ' t like it one bit , but at least he ' s letting me stay in the play . He won ' t ba able to make it . He ' s in Chicago . But I think he ' s going to let me stay with acting . JOH : Really ? You told him what you told me . NEI : Yeah . He wasn ' t happy . But he ' ll be gone for at least four days . I don ' t think he ' ll make the show . But I think he ' ll let me stay with it . " Keep up the school work . " Thanks . # 14 PIT : Baby . MEE : Henley Hall , here I come . CAM : Excuse m just a moment . Todd , I ' m trying to fix this . MEE : Come on Nuwanda , we ' ll miss Neil ' s entrance . PIT : He said something about " getting red " before we left . CAM : " Getting red "? What does that mean ? MEE : You know Charlie . So , Charlie , what ' s this " getting red " bit ? TOD : What is that ? CHA : It ' s an Indian warrior symbol for virility . Makes me feel potent , like I can drive girls crazy . TOD : Come on , Charlie . The girls are waiting . CAM : Whoa . KNX : Chris , what are you doing here ? JOH : Gentlemen , let ' s go . KNX : Go ahead guys . I ' ll catch up . CHA : Yeah , come on guys . KNX : Chris , you can ' t be in here . If they catch you , we ' re both going to be in big trouble . CHR : But it ' s fine . ...... KNX : Shhhh . CHR : It ' s fine for you to come barging into my school and make a complete fool out of me . KNX : I didn ' t mean to make a fool out of you . CHR : Well , you did . And Chet , it took everything I could do to keep him from coming here and killing you . Knox , you ' ve got to stop this stuff . KNX : I can ' t , Chris . I love you . CHR : Knox , you say that over and over , and you don ' t even know me . JOH : Will you be joining us , Mr . Overstreet ? KNX : Go ahead Captain , I ' ll walk . CHR : Knox , it just so happens that I could careless about you . KNX : Then you wouldn ' t be here warning me about Chet . CHR : I have to go . I ' m going to be late for the play . KNX : Are you going with him ? CHR : Chet ? To a play ? Are you kidding ? KNX : Then come with me . CHR : Knox you are so infuriating . KNX : Come on , Chris . Just give me one chance . If you don ' t like me after tonight , I ' ll stay away forever . CHR : Uh , huh . KNX : I promise . Dead Poets honor . You come with me tonight and then if if you don ' t want to see me again , I swear I ' ll bow out . CHR : You know what would happen if Chet found out ? KNX : He won ' t know anything . We ' ll sit in the back and sneak away as soon as it ' s over . CHR : I suppose you would promise that this would be end of it . KNX : Dead Poets honor . CHR : What is it ? KNX : My word . CHR : You ' re so infuriating . BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH , Shakespeare . WOM : Really , you were wonderful . MRP : Excuse me , excuse me . BOY : Neil , you were great . Neil ? NEI : I can ' t guys . JOH : Neil ? Neil , you have the gift . What a performance . You left even me speechless . You have to saty with . .. MRP : Get in the car . Keating , you stay away from my son . CHA : Neil ? Neil ? Mr . Perry , come on . JOH : Don ' t make it any worse than it is . CHA : Is it okay if we walk back ? Captain ? MRP : We ' re trying very hard to understand why it is you insist on defying us . Whatever the reason , we ' re not going to let you ruin your life . Tomorrow I ' m withdrawing you from Welton and enrolling you in Braden Military School . You ' re going to Harvard and you ' re going to be a doctor . NEI : That ' s ten more years . Father , that ' s a lifetime . MRP : Stop it . Don ' t be so dramatic . You make it sound like a prision term . You don ' t understand , Neil . You have opportunities that I never even dreamt of . And I ' m not going to let you . ... NEI : I ' ve got to tell you what I feel . MRP : Tell me what you feel ? What is it ? Is it more of this , this acting business ? Because you can forget that . What ? NEI : Nothing . MRP : Nothing ? Well , then let ' s go to bed . NEI : I was good . I was really good . MRS : Go and get some sleep . MRP : It ' s going to be all right . What was that ? MRS : What ? MRP : That sound . MRS : Waht sound ? Tom , what is it ? What ' s wrong ? MRP : Neil ? MRS : I ' ll look outside , Neil ? MRP : Oh , Neil . Oh my God . Oh my God . My poor son . MRS : He ' s all right . He ' s all right . MRP : Stop it . Stop it . CHA : Todd . Todd . TOD : Charlie , what is it ? CHA : Neil was dead . TOD : It ' s so beautiful . CHA : Todd . KNX : It ' s okay , Todd . PIT : It ' s all right . It ' s okay , Todd . CHA : Shh . It ' s all fight . TOD : He wouldn ' t have . .... MEE : You can ' t explain it . TOD : It was his father . PIT : No . TOD : He wouldn ' t have left us . His father did it . His father killed him . MEE : Todd . CHA : Leave him be . NOL : The death of Neil Perry is a tragedy . He was a fine student , one of Welton ' s best . And he will be missed . We ' ve contacted each of your parents to explain the situation . Naturally , they ' re all quite concerned . At the request of Neil ' s family , I intend to conduct a thorough inquiry into this matter . your complete cooperation is expected . CHA : You told him about this meeting ? MEE : Twice . CHA : That ' s it guys . We ' re all fried . PIT : What do you mean ? CHA : Cameron ' s fink . He ' s in Nolan ' s office right now finking . PIT : About what ? CHA : The club , Pittsie . Think about it . The Board of Directors , the Trustees , and Mr . Nolan . Do you think for one moment they ' re going to let this thing just blow over ? Schools go down because of things like this . They need a scapegoat . CAM : What ' s going on , guys . CHA : You finked , didn ' t you ? CAM : Finked ? I don ' t know what the hell you ' re talking about ? CHA : You told Nolan everythingabout the club , is what I ' m talking about . CAM : Look , in case you haven ' t heard , Dalton , there ' s something called an honor code at this school , all right ? If the teacher asks you a question , you tell the truth or you ' re expelled . KNX : Charlie . CHA : He ' s a rat . He ' s in up to his eyes , so he ratted to save himself . KNX : Don ' t touch him Charlie . You do and you ' re out . CHA : I ' m out anyway . KNX : You don ' t know that , not yet . CAM : He ' s right there Charile . And if you guys are smart , you will do exactly what I did and cooperate . They ' re not after us . We ' re victim . Us and Neil . CHA : What ' s that mean ? Who are they after ? CAM : Mr . Keating , of course . The Captain himself . I mean you guys didn ' t think he could avoid responsibility , did you ? CHA : Mr . Keating responsible for Neil ? Is that what they ' re saying ? CAM : Who else do you think , dumb ass ? The Administration ? Mr . Perry ? Mr . Keating put us up to all this crap , didn ' t he ? If it wasn ' t for Mr . Keating , Neil would be cozied up in his room right now studying chemistry and dreaming of being called doctor . TOD : That ' s not true Cameron . And you know that . He didn ' t put us up to anything . Neil loved acting . CAM : Believe what you want , but I say let Keating fry . Why ruin our lives ? He just signed your expulsion papers , Nuwanda . And if the rest of you are smart , you ' ll do exactly what I did . They know everything anyway . You can ' t save Keating , but you can save yourselves . HAG : Knox Overstreet . TOD : Meeks . MEE : Go away , I have to study . TOD : What happened to Nuwanda ? MEE : Expelled . TOD : What ' d you tell them ? MEE : Nothing they didn ' t already know . HAG : Todd Anderson . DAD : Hello son . MOM : Hello darling . NOL : Have a seat Mr . Anderson . I think we ' re pretty well put together what ' s happened here . You do admit to being a part of this Dead Poets Society ? DAD : Anser him , Todd . TOD : Yes sir . NOL : I have here a detailed description of what occurred at your meetings . I describe how your teacher Mr . Keating encouraged you boys to organize this club and to use it as a source of inspiration for reckless and self - indulgent behavior . It describes how Mr . Keating , both in and out of the classroom 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 . Read that document carefully Todd . Very carefully . If you ' ve nothing to add or amend sign it . TOD : What ' s going to happen Mr . Keating ? DAD : I ' ve had enough . Sign the paper Todd . # 15 NOL : Sit . I will 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 . TOD : Uh , in the . .. NOL : I can ' t hear you Mr . Anderson . TOD : In the Pritchard . .. NOL : Kindly inform me , Mr . Cameron . CAM : We skipped around alot , sir . We covered the Romantics and some of the chapters on post - civil war literature . NOL : What about the realists ? CAM : I believe we skipped most of that , sir . NOL : All right , then . We start over . What is poetry ? JOH : Excuse me . I came for my personals . Should I come back after class ? NOL : Get them now Mr . Keating . Gentlemen , turn to page 21 of the Introduction . Mr . Cameron , read aloud the excellent essay by Dr . Pritchard on " Understanding Poetry . " CAM : That page has been ripped out , sir . NOL : Well borrow somebody else ' s book . CAM : They ' re all ripped out sir . NOL : What do you mean " they ' re all ripped out " ? CAM : Sir we . .. NOL : Never mind . Read . CAM : " Understanding Poetry , " by J . Evans Pritchard , PHD . " To fully understand poetry , we first be fluent with it ' s meter , rhyme , and figures of speech . Then ask two questions : one , how artfully has the objective of the poem been rendered ? And two , how important is that objective ? Question one rates the poem ' s perfection . Question two rates it ' s importance . And once these question have been ansered , determining the poems greatness becomes a relatively simple matter . If the poems score for perfection is plotted on the . ............... TOD : Mr . Keating ? They made everybody sign it . NOL : Quiet , Mr . Anderson . TOD : You ' ve got to believe me . It ' s true . JOH : I do believe you Todd . NOL : Leave Mr . Keating . TOD : But it wasn ' t his fault . NOL : Sit down Mr . Anderson . One more outburst from you or anybody else and and you ' re out of this school . Leave Mr . Keating . I said leave Mr . KeatingTOD : Oh Captian , my captian . NOL : Mr . Overstreet . I warn you . Sit down . Sit down . Sit down , all of you . I want you seated . Sit down . Leave Mr . Keating . All off you . I warn you seated . Do you hear me ? JOH : Thank you boys . Thank you . **** THE END **** 사업자 정보 표시 | | | 사업자 등록 번호 : -- | TEL : -- | 사이버 몰의 이용 약관 바로 가 기