Stays with you. | Dead Poets Society (Special Edition) | Robin Williams, Robert Sean Leonard

Moving Inspiration | Dead Poets Society (Special Edition) | Robin Williams, Robert Sean Leonard

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	• Dead Poets Society (Special Edition) Robin Williams, Robert Sean Leonard Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Touchstone, 2006 average customer review:based on 342 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

On my all time top 10 movie list

I have seen this movie so many times I think I have everyone of Robin William's lines memorized. Everytime I watch this movie I wish I had been a teacher. The cast of teeneage boys are tremendous in their rolls and Robin Williams is electrifying as the off beat instructor who dares to challenge the rules in the traditional school where he was once a student. Part coming of age part tragedy the story is filled with drama and sprinkled with humor but more than anything always makes me want to do more with my own life.

If you have never seen this movie rent it or buy it now.

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Stays with you.

Dead Poets Society is a heartbreaking but memorable film. Robin Williams is perfection in his role as a literary professor looking to inspire his wayward students. The ending is sad but profound. Robert Sean Leonard and a young Ethan Hawke also star. I highly recommend it!

Moving Inspiration

I first saw this movie in my 11th grade english class and I didn't get to see all of it so I bought it for myself. I have to say, it is a moving piece of art and is a movie that everyone should watch regardless if they are familiar with Whitman, Thoreau or Emmerson.

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The tragedy of the rigorous and mindless enforcement of conformity

This is one of the most inspiring and saddest movies ever made. Robin Williams stars as John Keating, an inspirational and unconventional English teacher in an atmosphere of strict conformity. The school is one that rigid, simplistic parents send their young men to, and they expect the education to be formal, complete and without deviation from the prescribed path.
Williams arrives at the school and teaches the boys the joy of breaking with the mass lockstep and thinking for themselves. A group re-forms the Dead Poets Society, where they sneak out of their dorm rooms and meet in an Indian cave and read classical poetry. It is a club like those formed by young men since they first existed, a chance for them to rebel against their restrictions and branch out into new and forbidden areas.
However, when one of the boys chooses to act in violation of his father's edicts, the father responds with an ultimatum. When the boy chooses suicide over giving up acting, a scapegoat must be found and Keating is the "logical" choice. The boys are forced to sign statements blaming Keating for the death of their friend, with some being completely shameless about it. In a touching scene at the end, the most rebellious of the boys stands on his desk and says to Keating, "Oh Captain! My Captain!", from a poem of the same name penned by Walt Whitman and dedicated to the memory of the assassinated Abraham Lincoln. Others follow his lead and only the most heartless of us can watch that scene and not generate a teardrop.
In my opinion, this is the best movie Williams has ever done; his character is forceful, imaginative, and creative and pays dearly for his excellence. As an educator operating at the college level, I know that situations like this happen more often than non-educators realize.

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READING, WRITING AND DEATH

Some of you may remember John Houseman's portrayal as the legendary Professor Kingsfield in "The Paper Chase". It's said that Arthur Miller of "Miller's Court" was a copy of this stern teacher who taught effectively using the Socratic method of instruction for 40 plus years. In the present film, English teacher Williams uses completely different modes of instruction to help turn his students' intellectual "mush" into true lovers of poetry. He urges his students to reach for higher vistas; to learn to make their own decisions about their future plans and vocations. Enter an irate parent who has his son's life planned for him. Father and son squabble, son decides to declare his independence, father withdraws son and enrolls son in a military school, son commits suiicide, Williams is blamed as the "fall guy" and is fired. Williams leaves campus to a rousing ovation from his students. For those interested in such things, play Kingsfield's game on this movie-Who hires, the role of tuition, student rights/teacher rights/parental control. What is truth and justice/ school reputation. Who fires? You may go on and on; just as Kingsfield would have wanted.

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In an age defined by crew cuts, sport coats, and cheerless conformity, he not only broke the mold ... he reinvented it. Academy Award(R) winner Robin Williams (Best Supporting Actor, GOOD WILL HUNTING, 1997) delivers an extraordinary performance in one of the most compelling motion pictures of all time. Williams stars as English professor John Keating, a passionate iconoclast who changes his students' lives forever when he challenges them to live life to the fullest and "Carpe Diem" -- seize the day! Keating's unconventional approach meets with irrepressible enthusiasm from his students, but the faculty at staid, exclusive Welton Academy prep school is, to put it mildly, not amused. Featuring a star-marking performance by Ethan Hawke and over three hours of never-before-seen bonus materials, this Special Edition of DEAD POETS SOCIETY will captivate and inspire you again and again.

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