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  @Bebosoda · 2 years ago

  "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. 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."... My favorite quote of Mr. Keating.

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• PE

  @peteblueeyes · 2 years ago

  An important scene, that I think get overlooked too often, is at the end when Mr. Keating is packing his things, he looks outside and sees the Latin teacher outside with his students teaching his students. So it's not only some the students that Mr Keating changed, he changed some of the staff as well.

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• NM

  @NmDPlm31 · 2 years ago

  Ethan Hawke did an interview not too terribly long ago and he talked about this movie. He said Robin was always on and spent his time trying to make everyone laugh. But Ethan refused to laugh. He wanted to prove to everyone he could be a real serious actor and didn’t want to be seen screwing around. After the film came out he received a phone call. It was Robin’s agent and he said he was calling because Robin had told him the kid was going to be something special and he signed Hawke as a client.

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• MJ

  @mj_SR22 · 2 years ago (edited)

  Proud to say I was fired by a school like this. I taught off the syllabus and encouraged them to disagree with me. The students made a petition to keep me. It's framed and means more to me than my degree. Now, as a therapist, it's both inspiring and heartbreaking to see how many of the students I see are living in fear of their parents' expectations yet still trying to be true to themselves. A parents' role is to set you on your way, to empower you to grow beyond them.

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• HU

  @hughblanc2105 · 2 years ago

  Peter Weir (the director) is an under-appreciated Master. The Truman Show, Master & Commander, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Witness, Year of Living Dangerously... all A+

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• TR

  @Trip_Fontaine · 2 years ago

  My mother was an English teacher, and one time a student of hers was watching this movie with his mother.  After the movie, the mother said something like "Wouldn't it be amazing to have a teacher like that?" and the student said he DID have a teacher like that and said it was my mother.  My mother considered that to be the greatest honor she ever received in her teaching career.

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• SN

  @snarkycynic6035 · 2 years ago

  Neil did finish medical school after all. And became Dr. Wilson.😅

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• LE

  @lesgrice4419 · 2 years ago

  Years later, Kurtwood Smith who played the repressive father recalled that he went to a viewing with a good friend of his who by chance had a relationship with his own son exactly like he portrayed in Dead Poeta, he loved his son but showed it in a controlling fearful way. The lights went down, the movie played and when they went back up his male friend was sobbing, he'd recognised his own relationship with his son in it. Kurtwood Smith said from that moment on he changed his relationship with his son and thats why I act, because it can and does change peoples lives.

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• BI

  @bigsarge8795 · 2 years ago

  &quot;O Captain - my captain&quot; <br><br><b>loses it</b>

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• MR

  @MrBluntDaily · 2 years ago

  &quot;Ethan Hatchling.&quot;<br><br>I tip my hat to you, sir.

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• M.

  @m.8765L · 2 years ago (edited)

  I love George&apos;s comments about Neil’s dad. He&apos;s the first reactor I&apos;ve ever seen that puts his reactions in the appropriate historical context. &nbsp;The dad&apos;s reaction makes perfect sense given the time in which he was born and raised. He’s almost certainly a WW2 veteran, and is old enough that he likely came of age during a time of extreme impoverishment—the Great Depression. He probably literally does think that his son being a doctor will keep him alive—he’ll always have work if another depression hits, and he’ll be out of the immediate line of fire if another war hits. He loves his son, it’s clear from his reaction to Neil’s death, but his idea of safety and protection has been altered by his experiences. He discounts what his son says not because he doesn’t care, but because of his greater awareness of life’s miseries. <br> <br>Teenagers and young adults often interpret events only through their own context. They assume that the pressures they were raised with are universal, but a lot can change in a generation. The tragedy of Neil’s suicide isn’t just that a promising kid died—it’s that it happened despite his father’s best efforts to protect him. The dad&apos;s incapable of seeing his own role in the matter, but the older I get the more I ache for both of them instead of just Neil.

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• DA

  @davidturner2974 · 2 years ago

  &quot;started out silly, but then it got real&quot; ...coulda been the tagline for this entire movie.

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