DEAD POETS SOCIETY (1989) FIRST TIME WATCHING - MOVIE REACTION - WOW!

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  @christinahilt2978 · 1 year ago

  Both Neil and Todd were examples of characters living lives of quiet desperation. It took Neil’s death for Todd to realize he needed to speak up.

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  @Tinker_LV426 · 1 year ago

  "Did he become an actual actor? "  two great things about Junior saying this. One is he was so engrossed in the movie he forgot he was watching actors. Also it made for a terrific moment between the two of you.❤❤❤

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• LA

  @laurenokeeffe4059 · 1 year ago

  His mother saying “he’s alright, he’s alright” actually kills me 😭😭

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  @majkus · 1 year ago

  The actor playing "Cameron" didn't stand because the actor himself felt it would be out of character.  Weir agreed.

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  @melaniejones1835 · 1 year ago (edited)

  Puck as a Shakespearean character is a fairy-imp, and he embodies freedom, play, and facilitating love between the main characters; he is the exact opposite of Neil&apos;s present and future.<br><br>The most tragic scene in this movie is when the father tells Neil to &quot;speak up,&quot; and Neil realizes that Mr. Keating is wrong -- his father will never understand, and will never let him live the life he wants, because his father will never <b>hear</b> what he says. He might as well stay silent, because no one will listen. Military school of that time would strip him of his soul, and college (if he was even allowed to go) would be paid for and so continually controlled by his dad. So Neil&apos;s future was not just not getting to be an actor, but being controlled financially well into adulthood with medical school, and/or being drafted into a war and potentially having to kill people. <br><br>Second you guys a million times: LISTEN TO YOUR KIDS.

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• CO

  @Coneman3 · 1 year ago

  What a great dad and son you are ❤

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• HU

  @Hugh-S · 1 year ago

  You know it&apos;s a heavy movie when even Jr says &quot;oh shit&quot; lol. Cried my damn eyes out the first time I watched this, was probably a couple of years older than Jr is here.

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  @benjaminroe311ify · 1 year ago

  I actually think this is one of the greatest movies ever made. Especially for young people to see during teenage years. But the messages SHOULD resonate with people of all ages.

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  @msdarby515 · 1 year ago (edited)

  Midsummer Night&apos;s Dream absolutely has a message in this movie. Its themes of imagination, fantasy, and the power of dreams are essentially Keating&apos;s message of &quot;seize the day&quot;. He encourages the boys to be themselves, to think for themselves, and his &quot;unorthodox&quot; teaching methods include those lessons. <br><br>Puck is a mischievous and free spirited, playfully deceptive character who represents freedom, creativity, and the pursuit of one&apos;s desires. Absolutely everything that Neil longs for. <br><br>He puts on pucks costume, I believe, before he kills himself to exert that characteristic and his choice to not live a life chosen for him. There is also the Christian aspect of wearing the thorn of crowns, possibly a representation of sacrificing himself for his love of art. Or maybe even more deeply, for the sins of his father.<br><br>An idea a friend shared with me is that Midsummer Night&apos;s Dream is a spring play and Puck simply couldn&apos;t survive in winter, and to Niel, life without his art was cold and dark. 😢

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• FI

  @firebird7479 · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9nLSlMBKuQ&amp;t=524">8:44</a> This shot and the dialogue foreshadow Neil&apos;s death.

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  @FilmBuff54 · 1 year ago (edited)

  Dead Poets Society is one of my favorite films of all times, and the ending always makes me cry. As much as I hate Neil’s father, it would be agony for he and his wife to lose their only child, and I understand why they would need somebody to blame. <br><br>This is also my favorite Robin Williams performance. <br><br>Norman Lloyd, who played the headmaster, was a remarkable person who lived to be 106 and acted for more than 75 years.<br><br>He was also a producer and director who worked on the Alfred Hitchcock Presents series.

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  @michaelw6222 · 1 year ago

  @<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9nLSlMBKuQ&amp;t=2918">48:38</a> &nbsp;cutest moment ever. &nbsp;In a round about way to answer you question about Neil becoming an actor, I saw the movie in the cinema when it was released. &nbsp; I was about the same age as the boys in the film and developed a &quot;crush&quot; on Neil. &nbsp;Fast forward three and a half decades and I&apos;m watching The Gilded Age, a series that aired on HBO, and there was an actor playing an &quot;older&quot; gentleman (yeah, I know, that makes me an &quot;older&quot; gentleman, too). &nbsp;There was something about his eyes that was so familiar. &nbsp;I couldn&apos;t get it out of my mind. &nbsp;I finally got around to googling the cast and the actor was Robert Sean Leonard... the actor that played Neil. &nbsp;Mind-boggling how time flies.

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