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Now, remember,
keep your shoulders back.

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Okay, put your arm around your brother.
That's it.

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Right, and freeze.

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Okay, one more.

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Now, just to review,

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you're going to follow along
the procession

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until you get to the headmaster.

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And at that point, he will indicate to you
to light the candles of the boys.

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- All right.
- All right, boys, let's settle down.

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Banners up.

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Ladies and gentlemen, boys,
the light of knowledge.

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One hundred years ago, in 1859,

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41 boys sat in this room
and were asked the same question

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that now greets you
at the start of each semester.

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Gentlemen, what are the four pillars?

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Tradition, honor,
discipline, excellence.

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In her first year,
Welton Academy graduated five students.

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Last year, we graduated 51.

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And more than 75 percent of those
went on to the Ivy League.

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This kind of accomplishment

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is the result of fervent dedication
to the principles taught here.

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This is why you parents
have been sending us your sons.

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This is why we are the best
preparatory school in the United States.

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As you know,

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our beloved Mr. Portius
of the English Department

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retired last term.

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You will have the opportunity later
to meet his replacement,

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Mr. John Keating,

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himself an honors graduate
of this school.

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And who, for the past several years,

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has been teaching at the highly regarded
Chester School in London.

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- Richard, you forgot your bag.
- Hi, Charlie. Hey, how you doing?

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Don't worry,
I've got your club assignment.

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I'm glad you could come by.

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- Thrilling ceremony as usual, Dr. Nolan.
- You've been away too long.

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- Hello, Dr. Nolan.
- How've you been?

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- This is our youngest, Todd.
- Mr. Anderson.

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You have some big shoes to fill,
young man.

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Your brother was one of our finest.

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Thank you.

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- Lovely ceremony.
- Thank you. I'm so glad you liked it.

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- Gale.
- John.

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Good to see you again.

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- Hello, Mr. Nolan.
- Neil.

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We expect great things from you
this year.

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- Thank you, sir.
- Well, he won't disappoint us.

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- Right, Neil?
- I'll do my best, sir.

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- Come on, son. No tears, now.
- Chin up. Chin up.

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- I don't want to go here.
- I love you.

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I'll walk you over.

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Do your lessons.

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Hey. I hear we're gonna be roommates.

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- I'm Neil Perry.
- I'm Todd Anderson.

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- Why'd you leave Balincrest?
- My brother went here.

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Oh, so you're that Anderson.

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Well, this is in case of his sinuses.

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And, oh, if he can't swallow,
you give him one of these.

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And if he has trouble breathing,
you can give him some of those.

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- Fine, yes.
- Ooh.

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- Did you remember your vaporizer?
- Yeah, it's in my room.

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- Hey, how's it going, Neil?
- Hey, Knox.

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- Neil. Study group tonight?
- Yeah, sure.

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Business as usual, huh?

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Hey, I heard you got the new kid.
Looks like a stiff. Ha, ha.

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Oops.

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Listen, don't mind Cameron.

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He's born with his foot in his mouth.
You know what I mean?

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Rumor has it you did summer school.

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Yep. Chemistry.
My father thought I should get ahead.

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- How was your summer, Slick?
- Keen.

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- Meeks, door, closed.
- Yes, sir.

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Gentlemen, what are the four pillars?

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Travesty, horror, decadence, excrement.

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Okay. Study group.

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Meeks aced Latin,
I didn't quite flunk English.

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So if you want, we got our study group.

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Sure, Cameron asked me too.
Anyone mind including him?

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What's his specialty, bootlicking?

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- He's your roommate.
- That's not my fault.

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- Uh, I'm sorry. My name is Steven Meeks.
- Oh, this is Todd Anderson.

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- Nice to meet you.
- Nice to meet you.

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Charlie Dalton.

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- I'm Knox Overstreet.
- Todd's brother was Jeffrey Anderson.

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- Oh, yeah, sure.
- Well.

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Valedictorian. National Merit scholar.

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Oh, well. Welcome to Hell-ton.

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It's every bit as tough as they say,
unless you're a genius like Meeks.

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He flatters me.
That's why I help him with Latin.

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And English, and trig.

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It's open.

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Father, I thought you'd gone.

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- Mr. Perry, sir.
- Keep your seats, fellas.

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Neil, I've just spoken to Mr. Nolan.

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I think that you're taking too many
extracurricular activities this semester,

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and I've decided
that you should drop the school annual.

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- But I'm the assistant editor this year.
- Well, I'm sorry, Neil.

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But, father, I can't. It wouldn't be fair.

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Fellas, could you excuse us
for a moment?

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- Don't you ever dispute me in public.
- Father, I wasn't...

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After you've finished medical school
and you're on your own,

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then you can do as you damn well please,
but until then, you do as I tell you.

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- That clear?
- Yes, sir, I'm sorry.

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Ahem. You know how much this means
to your mother, don't you?

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Yes, sir.

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You know me,
always taking on too much.

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Well, that's my boy.

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Now, listen, you need anything,
you let us know, huh?

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Yes, sir.

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Why doesn't he let you
do what you want?

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Yeah, Neil. Tell him off.
It couldn't get any worse.

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Oh, that's rich.
Like you guys tell your parents off?

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Mr. Future-Lawyer
and Mr. Future-Banker.

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Okay, so I don't like it
any more than you do.

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Don't tell me how to talk to my father.
You guys are the same.

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All right, all right. Jesus.

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- What are you gonna do?
- What I have to do.

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Drop the annual.

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I wouldn't lose too much sleep over it.

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It's just a bunch of jerks
trying to impress Nolan.

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I don't care.
I don't give a damn about any of it.

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Well, uh, Latin?
Eight o'clock in my room?

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- Yes.
- Sounds good.

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- Todd, you're welcome to join us.
- Yeah, come along, pal.

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Thanks.

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Slow down, boys.

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Slow down,
you horrible phalanx of pubescence.

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Pick three laboratory experiments
from the project list

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and report on them every five weeks.

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The first 20 questions
at the end of Chapter 1 are due tomorrow.

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Again, please.

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Your study of trigonometry
requires absolute precision.

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Anyone failing to turn in
any homework assignment

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will be penalized one point
off their final grade.

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Let me urge you now
not to test me on this point.

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Hey, Spaz. Spaz.

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- Brain damage.
- Shh.

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Well, come on.

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- Is he kidding?
- He's gotta be.

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- Let's go.
- Where?

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Let's go, guys.

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Okay, go.

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O Captain! my Captain!

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Who knows where that comes from?

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Anybody?

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Not a clue?

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It's from a poem by Walt Whitman
about Mr. Abraham Lincoln.

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Now, in this class,
you can either call me Mr. Keating,

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or if you're slightly more daring,
O Captain, My Captain.

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Now, let me dispel a few rumors
so they don't fester into facts.

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Yes, I too attended Hell-ton
and survived.

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And no, at that time, I was not
the mental giant you see before you.

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I was the intellectual equivalent
of a 98-pound weakling.

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I would go to the beach

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and people would kick
copies of Byron in my face.

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Now,

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Mr. Pitts.

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That's a rather unfortunate name.
Mr. Pitts, where are you?

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Mr. Pitts, will you open your hymnal
to page 542?

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Read the first stanza
of the poem you find there.

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"To the Virgins,
To Make Much of Time"?

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Yes, that's the one.

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Somewhat appropriate, isn't it?

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Gather ye rosebuds while ye may
Old time is still a-flying:

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And this same flower that smiles to-day
To-morrow will be dying.

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Thank you, Mr. Pitts.

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Gather ye rosebuds while ye may.

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The Latin term for that sentiment
is carpe diem.

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Now, who knows what that means?

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Carpe diem, that's "seize the day."

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- Very good, Mr...?
- Meeks.

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Meeks. Another unusual name.

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Seize the day.

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Gather ye rosebuds while ye may.

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- Why does the writer use these lines?
- Because he's in a hurry.

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No. Ding.

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Thanks for playing anyway.

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Because we are food for worms, lads.

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Because, believe it or not,
each and every one of us in this room

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is one day going to stop breathing,
turn cold and die.

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I would like you
to step forward over here

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and peruse some of the faces
from the past.

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You've walked past them many times,

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but I don't think
you've really looked at them.

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They're not that different from you,
are they?

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Same haircuts.

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Full of hormones, just like you.

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Invincible, just like you feel.

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The world is their oyster.

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They believe they're destined
for great things, just like many of you.

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Their eyes are full of hope, just like you.

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Did they wait until it was too late
to make from their lives

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even one iota
of what they were capable?

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Because, you see, gentlemen,
these boys are now fertilizing daffodils.

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But if you listen real close,

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you can hear them
whisper their legacy to you.

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Go on, lean in.

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Listen. You hear it?

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Carpe...

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Hear it?

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Carpe...

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Carpe diem.

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Seize the day, boys.

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Make your lives extraordinary.

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- That was weird.
- But different.

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Spooky, if you ask me.

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Think he'll test us on that stuff?

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Oh, come on, Cameron.
Don't you get anything?

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What? What?

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00:17:01,061 --> 00:17:04,564
Let's go, boys. Hustle up in here.
That means you, Dalton.

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Who's up for a trig study group tonight?

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- Sure.
- Me.

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00:17:07,818 --> 00:17:09,777
- What?
- I can't make it, guys.

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00:17:09,945 --> 00:17:12,697
I have to have dinner
at the Danburrys' house tonight.

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The Danburrys?
Who are the Danburrys?

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00:17:14,533 --> 00:17:16,367
Big alums. How'd you swing that?

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Friends of my dad's. They're
probably in their 90s or something.

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Sounds great, doesn't it?

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00:17:20,998 --> 00:17:22,874
Anything's better
than Hell-ton hash, Knox.

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- I'll second that.
- Yeah, we'll see.

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00:17:26,086 --> 00:17:29,422
Hey. Coming to the study group tonight?

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00:17:29,590 --> 00:17:33,551
Uh, no. No, I've got some history
I want to do.

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Suit yourself.

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00:18:09,963 --> 00:18:12,090
Ready, Overstreet?

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Ready to go, sir.

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Chet, can you get that?

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- Can't, Mom.
- I'll get it.

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Can I help you?

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00:18:53,966 --> 00:18:57,510
Hi. Knox Overstreet. Uh...

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- Dr. Hager.
- Hi.

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- This is the Danburrys', right?
- Are you here to see Chet?

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- Mrs. Danburry?
- No.

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Sorry. Thank you, Chris.
I'm Mrs. Danburry.

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- You must be Knox.
- Yes.

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Back by 9? Please, come on in.

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Chris, come on. What are you doing?

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- Chet, I'm coming.
- Knox.

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- How are you? Joe Danburry.
- Nice to meet you, sir.

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Well, he's the spitting image
of his father, isn't he?

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- How is he? Come on in.
- Chris.

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He's great.
He just did a big case for GM.

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00:19:26,123 --> 00:19:27,874
- I know where you're headed.
- I'm coming.

243
00:19:28,041 --> 00:19:29,292
Like father, like son, huh?

244
00:19:33,088 --> 00:19:34,255
- Yes.
- Bishop to queen six.

245
00:19:34,423 --> 00:19:37,133
- All right, I think that's good.
- Another game?

246
00:19:38,844 --> 00:19:41,304
Just replace these numbers here
with X... For X and Y.

247
00:19:41,471 --> 00:19:44,140
- Of course.
- Of course, so, what's the problem?

248
00:19:44,349 --> 00:19:47,685
Do you think I can get in there?
You've been hogging it all day.

249
00:19:48,312 --> 00:19:49,854
How was dinner?

250
00:19:50,022 --> 00:19:51,272
Huh?

251
00:19:51,732 --> 00:19:53,566
How was dinner?

252
00:19:54,318 --> 00:19:56,277
Terrible.

253
00:19:57,112 --> 00:20:00,031
- Awful.
- Why? What happened?

254
00:20:03,535 --> 00:20:10,041
Tonight I met the most beautiful girl
I have ever seen in my entire life.

255
00:20:10,250 --> 00:20:12,460
Are you crazy? What's wrong with that?

256
00:20:12,628 --> 00:20:14,587
She's practically engaged.

257
00:20:14,755 --> 00:20:17,673
To Chet Danburry.

258
00:20:17,841 --> 00:20:20,134
- The guy could eat a football.
- Too bad.

259
00:20:20,302 --> 00:20:23,763
Too bad? It's worse than too bad, Pitts,
it's a tragedy.

260
00:20:23,931 --> 00:20:26,390
A girl this beautiful
in love with such a jerk.

261
00:20:26,600 --> 00:20:28,976
All the good ones go for jerks,
you know that.

262
00:20:29,186 --> 00:20:32,271
Yeah, forget her. Open your trig book
and try and figure out Problem 5.

263
00:20:32,439 --> 00:20:36,067
I can't just forget her, Cameron.
And I certainly can't think about trig.

264
00:20:37,861 --> 00:20:39,695
- We got it.
- Turn that up.

265
00:20:39,863 --> 00:20:42,114
All right, gentlemen. Five minutes.

266
00:20:44,409 --> 00:20:46,953
- Let's go.
- Did you see her naked?

267
00:20:47,120 --> 00:20:48,412
Very funny, Dalton.

268
00:20:48,622 --> 00:20:53,125
That wouldn't be a radio in your lap,
would it, Mr. Pitts?

269
00:20:53,293 --> 00:20:55,962
No, sir. Science experiment.

270
00:20:57,422 --> 00:20:59,090
Radar.

271
00:21:03,512 --> 00:21:07,556
Gentlemen, open your texts
to Page 21 of the introduction.

272
00:21:07,724 --> 00:21:11,018
Mr. Perry, will you read
the opening paragraph of the preface,

273
00:21:11,186 --> 00:21:13,312
entitled "Understanding Poetry"?

274
00:21:14,690 --> 00:21:19,527
"Understanding Poetry,
by Dr. J. Evans Pritchard, Ph.D."

275
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To fully understand poetry,

276
00:21:21,196 --> 00:21:25,324
we must first be fluent with its meter,
rhyme and figures of speech,

277
00:21:25,492 --> 00:21:26,909
then ask two questions.

278
00:21:27,077 --> 00:21:29,704
How artfully has the objective
of the poem been rendered?

279
00:21:29,871 --> 00:21:32,373
How important is that objective?

280
00:21:32,541 --> 00:21:35,001
Question one rates
the poem's perfection.

281
00:21:35,168 --> 00:21:37,169
Question two rates its importance.

282
00:21:37,337 --> 00:21:39,547
And once these questions
have been answered,

283
00:21:39,715 --> 00:21:43,342
determining the poem's greatness
becomes a relatively simple matter.

284
00:21:43,510 --> 00:21:48,097
If the poem's score for perfection
is plotted on the horizontal of a graph,

285
00:21:48,265 --> 00:21:51,934
and its importance
is plotted on the vertical,

286
00:21:52,394 --> 00:21:55,646
then calculating
the total area of the poem

287
00:21:55,814 --> 00:21:57,732
yields the measure of its greatness.

288
00:22:01,278 --> 00:22:05,698
A sonnet by Byron
might score high on the vertical,

289
00:22:05,866 --> 00:22:08,784
but only average on the horizontal.

290
00:22:08,952 --> 00:22:10,828
A Shakespearean sonnet,
on the other hand,

291
00:22:10,996 --> 00:22:15,291
would score high
both horizontally and vertically,

292
00:22:15,500 --> 00:22:17,293
yielding a massive total area,

293
00:22:17,878 --> 00:22:20,671
thereby revealing the poem
to be truly great.

294
00:22:22,132 --> 00:22:25,551
As you proceed through the poetry
in this book, practice this rating method.

295
00:22:25,719 --> 00:22:29,305
As your ability to evaluate poems
in this manner grows,

296
00:22:29,473 --> 00:22:34,477
"so will your enjoyment
and understanding of poetry."

297
00:22:39,316 --> 00:22:40,608
Excrement.

298
00:22:43,153 --> 00:22:45,363
That's what I think
of Mr. J. Evans Pritchard.

299
00:22:46,073 --> 00:22:48,616
We're not laying pipe.
We're talking about poetry.

300
00:22:49,493 --> 00:22:51,952
How can you describe poetry
like American Bandstand?

301
00:22:52,120 --> 00:22:56,207
"I like Byron.
I give him a 42, but I can't dance to it."

302
00:22:56,375 --> 00:22:59,126
Now, I want you to rip out that page.

303
00:23:00,629 --> 00:23:03,547
Go on. Rip out the entire page.

304
00:23:06,259 --> 00:23:08,052
You heard me. Rip it out.

305
00:23:08,220 --> 00:23:10,805
Rip it out.

306
00:23:11,473 --> 00:23:13,516
Go on. Rip it out.

307
00:23:15,477 --> 00:23:17,311
Thank you, Mr. Dalton.

308
00:23:17,521 --> 00:23:21,148
Tell you what, don't just tear out that
page, tear out the entire introduction.

309
00:23:21,358 --> 00:23:24,276
I want it gone, history.
Leave nothing of it.

310
00:23:24,486 --> 00:23:25,986
Rip it out. Rip.

311
00:23:26,154 --> 00:23:28,697
Be gone, J. Evans Pritchard, Ph.D.

312
00:23:29,282 --> 00:23:31,951
Rip, shred, tear. Rip it out.

313
00:23:32,119 --> 00:23:35,037
I want to hear
nothing but ripping of Mr. Pritchard.

314
00:23:35,205 --> 00:23:37,164
We'll perforate it, put it on a roll.

315
00:23:37,666 --> 00:23:40,709
It's not the Bible.
You're not gonna go to hell for this.

316
00:23:41,211 --> 00:23:45,005
Go on. Make a clean tear.
I want nothing left of it.

317
00:23:46,967 --> 00:23:50,636
- We shouldn't be doing this.
- Rip, rip, rip.

318
00:23:50,846 --> 00:23:52,012
Rip it out. Rip.

319
00:23:54,766 --> 00:23:56,225
Rip, rip.

320
00:23:58,270 --> 00:24:00,020
Yeah.

321
00:24:00,230 --> 00:24:02,064
Rip it out.

322
00:24:05,610 --> 00:24:07,570
What the hell is going on here?

323
00:24:09,072 --> 00:24:10,156
I don't hear enough rips.

324
00:24:11,199 --> 00:24:14,493
- Mr. Keating.
- Mr. McAllister.

325
00:24:16,288 --> 00:24:19,582
I'm sorry. I didn't know you were here.

326
00:24:20,500 --> 00:24:21,584
I am.

327
00:24:22,335 --> 00:24:25,504
Ah. So you are.

328
00:24:26,423 --> 00:24:28,090
Excuse me.

329
00:24:29,593 --> 00:24:31,760
Keep ripping, gentlemen.

330
00:24:31,970 --> 00:24:34,555
This is a battle, a war.

331
00:24:34,764 --> 00:24:36,765
And the casualties
could be your hearts and souls.

332
00:24:36,933 --> 00:24:38,350
Thank you, Mr. Dalton.

333
00:24:38,518 --> 00:24:41,812
Armies of academics
going forward measuring poetry.

334
00:24:41,980 --> 00:24:45,483
No. We'll not have that here.
No more of Mr. J. Evans Pritchard.

335
00:24:45,650 --> 00:24:49,153
Now, in my class, you will learn
to think for yourselves again.

336
00:24:49,321 --> 00:24:52,823
You will learn to savor
words and language.

337
00:24:53,033 --> 00:24:59,371
No matter what anybody tells you,
words and ideas can change the world.

338
00:24:59,539 --> 00:25:02,917
Now, I see that look in Mr. Pitts' eye,
like 19th-century literature

339
00:25:03,084 --> 00:25:05,753
has nothing to do with going
to business school or medical school.

340
00:25:05,921 --> 00:25:08,255
Right? Maybe.

341
00:25:08,423 --> 00:25:10,257
Mr. Hopkins,
you may agree with him, thinking,

342
00:25:10,425 --> 00:25:13,469
"Yes, we should simply
study our Mr. Pritchard"

343
00:25:13,637 --> 00:25:14,803
and learn our rhyme and meter

344
00:25:14,971 --> 00:25:19,266
"and go quietly about the business
of achieving other ambitions."

345
00:25:20,018 --> 00:25:22,686
I have a little secret for you. Huddle up.

346
00:25:22,854 --> 00:25:24,647
Huddle up.

347
00:25:32,656 --> 00:25:36,158
We don't read and write poetry
because it's cute.

348
00:25:36,618 --> 00:25:40,746
We read and write poetry because
we are members of the human race.

349
00:25:40,914 --> 00:25:45,376
And the human race
is filled with passion.

350
00:25:46,002 --> 00:25:49,338
And medicine, law, business, engineering,
these are noble pursuits,

351
00:25:49,506 --> 00:25:51,507
and necessary to sustain life.

352
00:25:52,676 --> 00:25:58,347
But poetry, beauty, romance, love,

353
00:25:58,515 --> 00:26:00,891
these are what we stay alive for.

354
00:26:01,476 --> 00:26:03,561
To quote from Whitman:

355
00:26:04,062 --> 00:26:08,774
O me! O life!...
Of the questions of these recurring;

356
00:26:08,942 --> 00:26:11,110
Of the endless trains of the faithless...

357
00:26:11,653 --> 00:26:13,487
Of cities filled with the foolish;

358
00:26:13,655 --> 00:26:17,825
What good amid these, O me, O life?

359
00:26:17,993 --> 00:26:19,410
Answer.

360
00:26:19,578 --> 00:26:21,620
That you are here...

361
00:26:21,788 --> 00:26:25,958
That life exists, and identity;

362
00:26:26,459 --> 00:26:39,555
That the powerful play goes on
And you may contribute a verse.

363
00:26:43,768 --> 00:26:45,269
What will your verse be?

364
00:26:49,399 --> 00:26:55,195
For what we are about to receive,
may the Lord make us truly grateful.

365
00:26:55,363 --> 00:26:57,656
Amen.

366
00:27:09,252 --> 00:27:11,920
Quite an interesting class
you gave today, Mr. Keating.

367
00:27:12,088 --> 00:27:13,714
Sorry if I shocked you, Mr. McAllister.

368
00:27:13,882 --> 00:27:16,091
There's no need to apologize.
It was very fascinating.

369
00:27:16,259 --> 00:27:19,803
- Misguided though it was.
- You think so?

370
00:27:19,971 --> 00:27:23,223
You take a big risk by encouraging them
to become artists, John.

371
00:27:23,391 --> 00:27:27,144
When they realize that they're not
Rembrandts, Shakespeares or Mozarts,

372
00:27:27,312 --> 00:27:28,604
they'll hate you for it.

373
00:27:28,772 --> 00:27:32,107
We're not talking artists, George,
we're talking free thinkers.

374
00:27:32,275 --> 00:27:34,777
Free thinkers at 1 7?

375
00:27:35,111 --> 00:27:36,737
Funny, I never pegged you as a cynic.

376
00:27:39,407 --> 00:27:41,450
Not a cynic.

377
00:27:42,035 --> 00:27:43,869
A realist.

378
00:27:44,871 --> 00:27:48,290
Show me the heart
Unfettered by foolish dreams.

379
00:27:48,458 --> 00:27:50,334
And I'll show you a happy man.

380
00:27:51,419 --> 00:27:54,129
But only in their dreams
Can men be truly free.

381
00:27:54,297 --> 00:27:57,132
'Twas always thus
And always thus will be.

382
00:27:58,635 --> 00:28:02,179
- Tennyson?
- No, Keating.

383
00:28:06,935 --> 00:28:08,894
Hey, I found his senior annual
in the library.

384
00:28:10,271 --> 00:28:12,022
Captain of the soccer team,

385
00:28:12,232 --> 00:28:15,025
editor of the school annual,
Cambridge bound,

386
00:28:15,235 --> 00:28:18,320
thigh man, and the Dead Poets Society.

387
00:28:18,530 --> 00:28:21,115
"Man most likely to do anything."

388
00:28:21,616 --> 00:28:24,576
Thigh man. Mr. K was a hell-raiser.

389
00:28:26,329 --> 00:28:28,497
- What's the Dead Poets Society?
- Is there a picture?

390
00:28:28,665 --> 00:28:33,752
- Nothing, no other mention of it.
- That boy there, see me after lunch.

391
00:28:37,048 --> 00:28:38,757
Mr. Keating.

392
00:28:39,551 --> 00:28:41,135
Mr. Keating.

393
00:28:43,179 --> 00:28:44,304
Sir?

394
00:28:44,472 --> 00:28:45,681
Say something.

395
00:28:45,849 --> 00:28:47,099
O Captain, My Captain?

396
00:28:47,976 --> 00:28:49,017
Gentlemen.

397
00:28:50,395 --> 00:28:53,397
We were just looking in your old annual.

398
00:28:53,690 --> 00:28:55,733
Oh, my God.

399
00:28:56,443 --> 00:28:58,402
No, that's not me.

400
00:29:00,113 --> 00:29:02,239
Stanley "The Tool" Wilson.

401
00:29:06,202 --> 00:29:08,454
- God.
- What was the Dead Poets Society?

402
00:29:12,917 --> 00:29:16,295
I doubt the present administration
would look too favorably upon that.

403
00:29:16,838 --> 00:29:19,089
Why? What was it?

404
00:29:22,177 --> 00:29:24,803
Gentlemen, can you keep a secret?

405
00:29:25,305 --> 00:29:26,972
Sure.

406
00:29:28,808 --> 00:29:33,854
The Dead Poets were dedicated
to sucking the marrow out of life.

407
00:29:34,022 --> 00:29:37,566
That's a phrase from Thoreau we would
invoke at the beginning of every meeting.

408
00:29:37,734 --> 00:29:40,152
See, we would gather
at the old Indian cave

409
00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:44,615
and take turns reading from Thoreau,
Whitman, Shelley, the biggies.

410
00:29:45,325 --> 00:29:46,492
Even some of our own verse.

411
00:29:46,701 --> 00:29:50,245
And in the enchantment of the moment,
we'd let poetry work its magic.

412
00:29:50,455 --> 00:29:53,499
You mean it was a bunch of guys
sitting around reading poetry?

413
00:29:53,708 --> 00:29:56,919
No, Mr. Overstreet, it wasn't just guys.

414
00:29:57,086 --> 00:30:00,005
We weren't a Greek organization,
we were romantics.

415
00:30:00,173 --> 00:30:04,968
And we didn't just read poetry,
we let it drip from our tongues like honey.

416
00:30:05,637 --> 00:30:08,138
Spirits soared, women swooned,

417
00:30:08,306 --> 00:30:10,474
and gods were created, gentlemen.

418
00:30:10,642 --> 00:30:12,267
Not a bad way to spend an evening, eh?

419
00:30:14,229 --> 00:30:16,897
Thank you, Mr. Perry,
for this stroll down amnesia lane.

420
00:30:17,065 --> 00:30:20,484
Burn that. Especially my picture.

421
00:30:25,448 --> 00:30:29,117
- Dead Poets Society.
- What?

422
00:30:33,540 --> 00:30:34,832
I say we go tonight.

423
00:30:34,999 --> 00:30:36,083
- Tonight?
- Wait a minute.

424
00:30:36,251 --> 00:30:38,669
- Everybody in?
- Where's this cave he's talking about?

425
00:30:38,837 --> 00:30:40,587
It's beyond the stream.
I know where it is.

426
00:30:40,755 --> 00:30:42,381
That's miles.

427
00:30:42,549 --> 00:30:44,383
- Sounds boring to me.
- Don't go.

428
00:30:44,551 --> 00:30:46,218
You know how many demerits
we're talking?

429
00:30:46,386 --> 00:30:47,886
So don't come, please.

430
00:30:48,054 --> 00:30:50,597
Look, all I'm saying
is that we have to be careful.

431
00:30:50,765 --> 00:30:53,642
- We can't get caught.
- No shit, Sherlock.

432
00:30:53,852 --> 00:30:56,562
You boys there, hurry up.

433
00:30:56,729 --> 00:30:58,564
All right. Who's in?

434
00:30:58,773 --> 00:31:01,358
- Come on, Neil, Hager's there...
- Forget Hager. No.

435
00:31:01,526 --> 00:31:03,193
Who's in?

436
00:31:04,070 --> 00:31:05,153
I'm in.

437
00:31:05,738 --> 00:31:09,157
I'm warning you. Move.

438
00:31:09,325 --> 00:31:11,201
- Me too.
- I don't know, Neil.

439
00:31:11,369 --> 00:31:12,619
What? Pitts.

440
00:31:12,829 --> 00:31:14,663
- Pittsie, come on.
- His grades are hurting.

441
00:31:14,831 --> 00:31:17,666
- You can help him, Meeks.
- What is this, a midnight study group?

442
00:31:17,834 --> 00:31:20,168
Forget it, you're coming.
Meeks, your grades hurting too?

443
00:31:20,336 --> 00:31:22,671
- I'll try anything once.
- Except sex.

444
00:31:22,839 --> 00:31:25,173
I'm in as long as we're careful.

445
00:31:25,341 --> 00:31:27,634
- What about you, Knox?
- I don't know, Charlie.

446
00:31:27,802 --> 00:31:29,887
Come on, Knox. It'll help you get Chris.

447
00:31:30,054 --> 00:31:32,139
Yeah? How?

448
00:31:32,307 --> 00:31:35,684
- Women swoon. Ha, ha, ha.
- But why do they swoon?

449
00:31:35,852 --> 00:31:39,313
Charlie, tell me why they swoon.
Charlie.

450
00:31:40,106 --> 00:31:41,732
You're not listening.

451
00:31:41,900 --> 00:31:44,318
Look, you follow the stream
to the waterfall.

452
00:31:44,527 --> 00:31:46,111
It's right there. It's got to be like...

453
00:31:46,279 --> 00:31:48,447
I don't know, guys,
it's starting to sound dangerous.

454
00:31:48,615 --> 00:31:51,783
- Well, why don't you stay home?
- You're crazy.

455
00:31:52,368 --> 00:31:56,288
For God's sake,
stop chattering and sit down.

456
00:32:02,962 --> 00:32:05,464
- Todd, are you coming tonight?
- No.

457
00:32:06,049 --> 00:32:07,799
Why not? You were there.
You heard Keating.

458
00:32:07,967 --> 00:32:09,468
Don't you want to
do something about...?

459
00:32:09,636 --> 00:32:11,762
Yes, but, uh...

460
00:32:12,889 --> 00:32:14,514
But what?

461
00:32:16,768 --> 00:32:20,437
Keating said that
everybody took turns reading,

462
00:32:21,064 --> 00:32:23,065
and I don't want to do that.

463
00:32:23,232 --> 00:32:26,318
Gosh, you really have a problem
with that, don't you?

464
00:32:28,112 --> 00:32:31,657
No, I don't have a problem. Neil, I just...

465
00:32:31,824 --> 00:32:34,868
- I don't want to do it, okay?
- All right.

466
00:32:36,162 --> 00:32:39,456
What if you didn't have to read?
What if you just came and listened?

467
00:32:39,624 --> 00:32:42,542
- That's not how it works.
- Forget how it works.

468
00:32:42,710 --> 00:32:45,754
What if they said it was okay?

469
00:32:47,131 --> 00:32:49,508
What? What, are you gonna go up
and ask them if...?

470
00:32:50,843 --> 00:32:52,761
- No, no.
- I'll be right back.

471
00:32:52,929 --> 00:32:54,680
Neil. Neil.

472
00:32:58,893 --> 00:33:01,353
Oh, shut up, will you?

473
00:33:03,523 --> 00:33:06,191
That's for my asthma, okay?
Could you give that back, please?

474
00:33:06,359 --> 00:33:07,442
Could you give that back?

475
00:33:07,610 --> 00:33:09,820
What's the matter?
Don't you like snakes?

476
00:33:09,988 --> 00:33:11,655
- You're in.
- Get away from me, okay?

477
00:33:11,823 --> 00:33:14,366
Spaz,
why don't you check your pockets?

478
00:33:15,618 --> 00:33:17,244
Come on, Spaz.
I have to brush my teeth.

479
00:33:17,412 --> 00:33:19,121
Hurry up, get off.

480
00:33:19,288 --> 00:33:22,249
Cut out that racket in there.

481
00:34:05,376 --> 00:34:06,543
Let's go.

482
00:34:10,298 --> 00:34:13,175
Let's go, let's go, come on.

483
00:34:27,190 --> 00:34:30,817
- Let's get out of here.
- Go. Shh.

484
00:36:03,286 --> 00:36:05,495
- Yarr! I'm a dead poet.
- Jesus, Charlie.

485
00:36:05,663 --> 00:36:09,374
- Guys, over here. Ha, ha, ha.
- You're funny. You're real funny.

486
00:36:10,126 --> 00:36:11,877
It's too wet.

487
00:36:12,044 --> 00:36:13,837
God,
you trying to smoke us out of here?

488
00:36:14,005 --> 00:36:15,922
No, the smoke's
going right up this opening.

489
00:36:19,260 --> 00:36:21,344
- You okay?
- Arghh.

490
00:36:21,512 --> 00:36:23,805
- Oh, God.
- Clod.

491
00:36:23,973 --> 00:36:26,725
- All right, all right, forget the fire.
- Forget it, forget it.

492
00:36:26,893 --> 00:36:29,978
- Let's go, gentlemen.
- It's like trying to light a swamp.

493
00:36:30,396 --> 00:36:33,315
I hereby reconvene
the Dead Poets Society.

494
00:36:33,482 --> 00:36:35,233
Yay.

495
00:36:35,401 --> 00:36:36,484
Welton Chapter.

496
00:36:36,652 --> 00:36:38,361
The meetings will be conducted
by myself

497
00:36:38,529 --> 00:36:40,697
and the other new initiates now present.

498
00:36:40,865 --> 00:36:42,699
Todd Anderson,
because he prefers not to read,

499
00:36:42,909 --> 00:36:45,243
will keep minutes of the meetings.

500
00:36:45,453 --> 00:36:47,287
I'll now read
the traditional opening message

501
00:36:47,455 --> 00:36:50,373
by society member
Henry David Thoreau.

502
00:36:51,042 --> 00:36:53,543
"I went to the woods
because I wanted to live deliberately.

503
00:36:53,711 --> 00:36:56,171
I wanted to live deep
and suck out all the marrow of life."

504
00:36:56,380 --> 00:36:57,839
I'll second that.

505
00:36:58,466 --> 00:37:00,425
"To put to rout all that was not life,

506
00:37:00,593 --> 00:37:04,804
and not, when I had come to die,
discover that I had not lived."

507
00:37:07,391 --> 00:37:10,018
And Keating's marked
a bunch of other pages.

508
00:37:10,186 --> 00:37:11,436
All right, intermission.

509
00:37:11,646 --> 00:37:13,730
Dig deep, right here.
Right here, lay it down.

510
00:37:13,898 --> 00:37:15,857
On the mud?
We're gonna put our food on the mud?

511
00:37:16,067 --> 00:37:18,151
Meeks, put your coat down.
Picnic blanket.

512
00:37:18,361 --> 00:37:21,071
- Use Meeks' coat.
- "Use Meeks' coat."

513
00:37:21,239 --> 00:37:23,031
Don't keep anything back, either.

514
00:37:23,199 --> 00:37:25,158
You guys are always
bumming my smokes.

515
00:37:25,326 --> 00:37:26,910
- Raisins?
- Yeah.

516
00:37:27,078 --> 00:37:28,119
Wait a minute.

517
00:37:28,287 --> 00:37:31,081
- Who gave us half a roll?
- I'm eating the other half.

518
00:37:31,249 --> 00:37:34,084
- Come on.
- What, you want me to put it back?

519
00:37:34,293 --> 00:37:36,002
It was a dark and rainy night.

520
00:37:36,170 --> 00:37:39,547
And this old lady
who had a passion for jigsaw puzzles

521
00:37:39,715 --> 00:37:44,135
sat by herself in her house at her table
to complete a new jigsaw puzzle.

522
00:37:44,845 --> 00:37:49,015
As she pieced the puzzle together,
she realized to her astonishment

523
00:37:49,183 --> 00:37:52,644
that the image that was formed
was her very own room,

524
00:37:52,812 --> 00:37:56,356
and the figure in the center
of the puzzle, as she completed it,

525
00:37:56,524 --> 00:37:57,607
was herself.

526
00:37:57,817 --> 00:38:01,945
And with trembling hands,
she placed the last four pieces

527
00:38:02,113 --> 00:38:03,905
and stared in horror

528
00:38:04,073 --> 00:38:08,243
at the face of a demented madman
at the window.

529
00:38:08,411 --> 00:38:10,662
The last thing
that this old lady ever heard

530
00:38:10,830 --> 00:38:13,081
was the sound of breaking glass.

531
00:38:13,249 --> 00:38:14,708
- No shit.
- Yes.

532
00:38:14,875 --> 00:38:17,002
This is true. This is true.

533
00:38:17,169 --> 00:38:19,629
I've got one
that's even better than that.

534
00:38:19,797 --> 00:38:21,673
I do. There's a young married couple,

535
00:38:21,841 --> 00:38:24,509
and they're driving through the forest
at night from a long trip.

536
00:38:24,677 --> 00:38:26,428
They run out of gas,
and there's a madman...

537
00:38:26,595 --> 00:38:29,264
- That thing with the hands?
- And he cuts her husband's head off?

538
00:38:29,432 --> 00:38:31,349
- I love that story.
- I told you that one.

539
00:38:31,559 --> 00:38:34,060
You did not.
I got that in, uh, camp in sixth grade.

540
00:38:34,228 --> 00:38:38,690
In a mean abode in the Shanking road
Lived a man named William Bloat;

541
00:38:38,858 --> 00:38:41,026
Now, he had a wife
The plague of his life.

542
00:38:41,193 --> 00:38:43,153
Who continually got his goat.

543
00:38:43,321 --> 00:38:45,655
And one day at dawn
With her night shift on.

544
00:38:45,823 --> 00:38:47,866
He slit her bloody throat.

545
00:38:49,076 --> 00:38:52,037
- Oh, and it gets worse.
- You want to hear a real poem?

546
00:38:52,246 --> 00:38:54,581
- Want this?
- No, I don't need it. Get this out of here.

547
00:38:54,749 --> 00:38:56,499
- Did you bring one?
- You memorized a poem?

548
00:38:56,667 --> 00:38:58,960
I didn't memorize a poem. Move up.

549
00:38:59,128 --> 00:39:01,671
- An original piece by Charlie Dalton.
- An original piece.

550
00:39:01,839 --> 00:39:04,090
- Take center stage.
- You know this is history, right?

551
00:39:04,258 --> 00:39:05,467
This is history.

552
00:39:13,726 --> 00:39:15,477
Where did you get that?

553
00:39:19,106 --> 00:39:24,194
Teach me to love?
Go teach thy self more wit;

554
00:39:24,362 --> 00:39:26,446
I chief Professor am of it.

555
00:39:26,614 --> 00:39:30,325
The God of Love
If such a thing there be.

556
00:39:30,493 --> 00:39:32,952
May learn to love from me.

557
00:39:33,120 --> 00:39:35,872
Wow. Did you write that?

558
00:39:40,086 --> 00:39:41,961
Abraham Cowley.

559
00:39:42,171 --> 00:39:43,963
Okay, who's next?

560
00:39:44,173 --> 00:39:46,508
Alfred Lord Tennyson.

561
00:39:46,675 --> 00:39:48,885
Come, my friends.

562
00:39:49,053 --> 00:39:51,930
'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.

563
00:39:52,098 --> 00:39:55,433
For my purpose holds
To sail beyond the sunset.

564
00:39:55,601 --> 00:39:56,935
And though we are not now.

565
00:39:57,103 --> 00:40:01,564
That strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven;

566
00:40:01,732 --> 00:40:03,817
That which we are, we are.

567
00:40:03,984 --> 00:40:08,196
One equal temper of heroic hearts.

568
00:40:08,364 --> 00:40:12,033
Made weak by time and fate
But strong in will.

569
00:40:12,201 --> 00:40:16,454
To strive, to seek, to find.

570
00:40:17,456 --> 00:40:19,707
And not to yield.

571
00:40:20,876 --> 00:40:23,336
Then I had religion
And then I had a vision.

572
00:40:23,504 --> 00:40:25,880
I could not turn
From their revel in derision.

573
00:40:26,048 --> 00:40:28,633
Then I saw the Congo
Creeping through the black.

574
00:40:28,801 --> 00:40:31,469
Cutting through the forest
With a golden track.

575
00:40:31,679 --> 00:40:34,097
Then I saw the Congo
Creeping through the black.

576
00:40:34,265 --> 00:40:36,683
Cutting through the forest
With a golden track.

577
00:40:36,851 --> 00:40:39,310
Then I saw the Congo
Creeping through the black.

578
00:40:39,478 --> 00:40:41,980
Cutting through the forest
With a golden track.

579
00:40:42,189 --> 00:40:44,566
Then I saw the Congo
Creeping through the black.

580
00:40:44,733 --> 00:40:47,026
Cutting through the forest
With a golden track.

581
00:40:47,194 --> 00:40:49,612
Then I saw the Congo
Creeping through the black.

582
00:40:49,780 --> 00:40:52,365
Cutting through the forest
With a golden track.

583
00:40:52,575 --> 00:40:54,576
Then I saw the Congo
Creeping through the black.

584
00:40:54,743 --> 00:40:57,036
Cutting through the forest
With a golden track.

585
00:40:57,204 --> 00:40:59,414
Then I saw the Congo
Creeping through the black.

586
00:40:59,582 --> 00:41:01,916
Cutting through the forest
With a golden track.

587
00:41:02,084 --> 00:41:04,419
Then I saw the Congo
Creeping through the black.

588
00:41:04,587 --> 00:41:06,921
Cutting through the forest
With a golden track.

589
00:41:07,089 --> 00:41:09,382
Take it, Meeks. Take it away.

590
00:41:09,550 --> 00:41:11,843
Cutting through the forest
With a golden track.

591
00:41:12,011 --> 00:41:14,679
Then I saw the Congo
creeping through the black.

592
00:41:23,439 --> 00:41:26,107
A man is not very tired, he is exhausted.

593
00:41:26,275 --> 00:41:30,445
And don't use "very sad," use...
Come on, Mr. Overstreet, you twerp.

594
00:41:30,613 --> 00:41:34,115
- Morose?
- Exactly, morose.

595
00:41:34,283 --> 00:41:37,327
Now, language was developed
for one endeavor, and that is?

596
00:41:37,495 --> 00:41:41,080
Mr. Anderson? Come on,
are you a man or an amoeba?

597
00:41:45,002 --> 00:41:46,836
Mr. Perry?

598
00:41:49,298 --> 00:41:53,384
- To communicate.
- No. To woo women.

599
00:41:54,803 --> 00:41:57,055
Today we're gonna be talking
about William Shakespeare.

600
00:41:57,223 --> 00:41:59,641
- Oh, God.
- I know.

601
00:41:59,808 --> 00:42:01,142
A lot of you look forward to this

602
00:42:01,310 --> 00:42:03,770
about as much as you look forward
to root canal work.

603
00:42:03,938 --> 00:42:05,355
We're gonna talk about Shakespeare

604
00:42:05,523 --> 00:42:08,024
as someone who writes
something very interesting.

605
00:42:08,234 --> 00:42:11,778
Now, many of you have seen Shakespeare
done very much like this:

606
00:42:11,946 --> 00:42:15,281
O, Titus, bring your friend hither.

607
00:42:15,449 --> 00:42:18,076
But if any of you
have seen Mr. Marlon Brando,

608
00:42:18,244 --> 00:42:20,620
you know Shakespeare can be different.

609
00:42:20,788 --> 00:42:26,042
Friends, Romans, countrymen,
lend me your ears.

610
00:42:27,461 --> 00:42:30,213
You can also
imagine John Wayne as Macbeth going:

611
00:42:30,381 --> 00:42:33,841
"Well, is this a dagger I see before me?"

612
00:42:36,512 --> 00:42:38,429
"Dogs, sir?"

613
00:42:38,597 --> 00:42:39,847
"Oh, not just now."

614
00:42:41,392 --> 00:42:44,435
"I do enjoy a good dog
once in a while, sir."

615
00:42:44,603 --> 00:42:48,231
You can have yourself
a three-course meal from one dog.

616
00:42:48,399 --> 00:42:51,150
Start with your canine crudités,

617
00:42:51,318 --> 00:42:56,948
go to your Fido flambé for main course,
and for dessert, a Pekingese parfait.

618
00:42:57,116 --> 00:42:59,033
"And you can pick your teeth
with a little paw."

619
00:43:02,830 --> 00:43:04,706
Why do I stand up here? Anybody?

620
00:43:04,873 --> 00:43:06,207
- To feel taller.
- No.

621
00:43:07,293 --> 00:43:09,335
Thank you for playing, Mr. Dalton.

622
00:43:09,503 --> 00:43:11,796
I stand upon my desk to remind myself

623
00:43:11,964 --> 00:43:16,009
that we must constantly look at things
in a different way.

624
00:43:21,348 --> 00:43:24,267
You see, the world looks very different
from up here.

625
00:43:24,435 --> 00:43:25,518
You don't believe me?

626
00:43:26,103 --> 00:43:28,438
Come see for yourselves. Come on.

627
00:43:29,273 --> 00:43:30,607
Come on.

628
00:43:30,774 --> 00:43:32,692
Just when you think
you know something,

629
00:43:32,860 --> 00:43:34,444
you have to look at it in another way.

630
00:43:34,612 --> 00:43:39,157
Even though it may seem silly or wrong,
you must try.

631
00:43:39,325 --> 00:43:41,909
Now, when you read,
don't just consider what the author thinks.

632
00:43:42,077 --> 00:43:44,245
Consider what you think.

633
00:43:46,081 --> 00:43:49,500
Boys, you must strive
to find your own voice.

634
00:43:49,668 --> 00:43:53,838
Because the longer you wait to begin,
the less likely you are to find it at all.

635
00:43:54,048 --> 00:43:57,258
Thoreau said,
"Most men lead lives of quiet desperation."

636
00:43:57,426 --> 00:44:00,845
Don't be resigned to that. Break out.

637
00:44:01,472 --> 00:44:04,265
Don't just walk off the edge like lemmings,
look around you.

638
00:44:05,684 --> 00:44:08,853
There. There you go, Mr. Priske.
Thank you, yes.

639
00:44:10,105 --> 00:44:13,691
Dare to strike out and find new ground.

640
00:44:14,693 --> 00:44:16,152
Now, in addition to your essays,

641
00:44:16,320 --> 00:44:20,531
I would like you to compose a poem
of your own. An original work.

642
00:44:25,287 --> 00:44:26,579
That's right.

643
00:44:26,747 --> 00:44:31,167
You have to deliver it aloud
in front of the class on Monday.

644
00:44:31,335 --> 00:44:33,503
Bonne chance, gentlemen.

645
00:44:34,672 --> 00:44:36,547
Mr. Anderson?

646
00:44:37,257 --> 00:44:38,424
Don't think that I don't know

647
00:44:38,592 --> 00:44:41,719
that this assignment
scares the hell out of you, you mole.

648
00:44:55,859 --> 00:44:57,735
Take a power train in two.

649
00:44:59,530 --> 00:45:00,780
Three.

650
00:45:00,948 --> 00:45:03,783
- Keep your eyes in the boat.
- Stroke.

651
00:45:03,951 --> 00:45:05,118
- Quick, captain.
- Let's go.

652
00:45:05,828 --> 00:45:07,328
We got it, Pittsie, we got it.

653
00:45:10,165 --> 00:45:12,834
Radio Free America.

654
00:45:26,724 --> 00:45:28,891
Let's do it again.

655
00:45:40,946 --> 00:45:42,488
- I found it.
- You found what?

656
00:45:42,656 --> 00:45:45,908
What I want to do right now.
What's really, really inside of me.

657
00:45:46,118 --> 00:45:48,244
- "A Midsummer Night's Dream"?
- This is it.

658
00:45:48,412 --> 00:45:50,413
- What is that?
- It's a play, dummy.

659
00:45:50,581 --> 00:45:53,791
I know that.
What does it have to do with you?

660
00:45:54,001 --> 00:45:55,960
All right,
they're putting it on at Henley Hall.

661
00:45:56,128 --> 00:45:58,337
Open tryouts. Open tryouts.

662
00:45:58,547 --> 00:46:00,339
- Yes, so?
- So...

663
00:46:01,884 --> 00:46:02,967
I'm gonna act.

664
00:46:03,469 --> 00:46:04,927
Aha!

665
00:46:05,262 --> 00:46:07,430
Yes, yes, I'm gonna be an actor.

666
00:46:07,598 --> 00:46:09,682
Ever since I can remember,
I've wanted to try this.

667
00:46:09,850 --> 00:46:12,101
I even tried to go to summer stock
auditions last year,

668
00:46:12,269 --> 00:46:14,228
but, of course,
my father wouldn't let me.

669
00:46:14,396 --> 00:46:17,440
For the first time in my whole life,
I know what I want to do.

670
00:46:17,608 --> 00:46:20,026
And for the first time, I'm gonna do it!

671
00:46:20,235 --> 00:46:23,863
Whether my father wants me to or not.
Carpe diem!

672
00:46:24,072 --> 00:46:25,406
Neil, Neil, hold on.

673
00:46:25,574 --> 00:46:28,910
How are you gonna be in a play
if your father won't let you?

674
00:46:29,119 --> 00:46:31,704
First, I gotta get the part,
then I can worry about that.

675
00:46:31,872 --> 00:46:35,041
Won't he kill you if he finds out you
went to an audition and didn't tell him?

676
00:46:35,209 --> 00:46:38,044
No. As far as I'm concerned,
he won't have to know about any of this.

677
00:46:38,212 --> 00:46:40,838
- That's impossible.
- Bullshit, nothing's impossible.

678
00:46:41,006 --> 00:46:43,549
Why don't you just call him and ask him?
Maybe he'll say yes.

679
00:46:43,717 --> 00:46:45,134
That's a laugh.

680
00:46:47,721 --> 00:46:49,972
If I don't ask him,
at least I won't be disobeying him.

681
00:46:50,140 --> 00:46:53,684
- Yeah, but if he said no...
- Jesus, Todd, whose side are you on?

682
00:47:03,862 --> 00:47:06,614
I mean,
I haven't even gotten the part yet.

683
00:47:07,741 --> 00:47:10,993
Can't I even enjoy the idea
for a little while?

684
00:47:20,754 --> 00:47:22,547
You're coming to the meeting
this afternoon?

685
00:47:22,714 --> 00:47:24,882
I don't know. Maybe.

686
00:47:25,300 --> 00:47:29,136
Nothing Mr. Keating has to say
means shit to you, does it, Todd?

687
00:47:29,972 --> 00:47:31,764
- What does that mean?
- You're in the club.

688
00:47:31,932 --> 00:47:34,642
Being in the club means
being stirred up by things.

689
00:47:34,810 --> 00:47:36,644
You look about as stirred up
as a cesspool.

690
00:47:36,812 --> 00:47:39,313
- So you want me out?
- No, I want you in.

691
00:47:39,481 --> 00:47:41,274
But being in means
you gotta do something,

692
00:47:41,441 --> 00:47:42,525
not just say you're in.

693
00:47:43,068 --> 00:47:44,277
Well, listen, Neil.

694
00:47:44,444 --> 00:47:49,615
I appreciate this concern,
but I'm not like you, all right?

695
00:47:49,825 --> 00:47:52,410
You say things and people listen.

696
00:47:52,578 --> 00:47:55,162
- I'm not like that.
- Don't you think you could be?

697
00:47:55,330 --> 00:47:56,956
No. I...

698
00:47:57,416 --> 00:47:59,083
I don't know, but that's not the point.

699
00:47:59,251 --> 00:48:01,669
The point is that there's nothing
you can do about it.

700
00:48:01,837 --> 00:48:05,631
So you can just butt out.
I can take care of myself just fine.

701
00:48:05,841 --> 00:48:07,675
All right?

702
00:48:10,637 --> 00:48:11,846
No.

703
00:48:15,267 --> 00:48:16,726
What do you mean, no?

704
00:48:19,354 --> 00:48:20,897
No.

705
00:48:21,440 --> 00:48:24,442
- Give me... Neil, give that back.
- What is this? "We are dreaming of a..."

706
00:48:24,610 --> 00:48:27,445
What it this? Poetry.
I'm being chased by Walt Whitman.

707
00:48:28,989 --> 00:48:31,115
Okay, okay.

708
00:48:31,283 --> 00:48:34,118
What are you guys doing?
I'm trying... You see this chemistry...?

709
00:48:34,286 --> 00:48:37,413
Hey, give me... Neil, give me...
Don't be immature.

710
00:48:37,581 --> 00:48:39,498
Come on, I need my...

711
00:48:39,666 --> 00:48:41,167
Give it to me. Give it to me.

712
00:48:41,335 --> 00:48:43,586
Charlie, help me.

713
00:48:43,754 --> 00:48:45,880
Grab that book. I need...

714
00:48:49,134 --> 00:48:50,176
Whoo.

715
00:49:15,160 --> 00:49:17,036
Whoo!

716
00:50:17,222 --> 00:50:19,390
Okay, everybody on the bus.

717
00:50:19,599 --> 00:50:21,559
Let's go, boys.

718
00:50:22,519 --> 00:50:26,897
Come on, let's go.
On the bus, boys, now.

719
00:50:29,443 --> 00:50:32,445
Now, devotees may argue
that one sport or game

720
00:50:32,612 --> 00:50:35,281
is inherently better than another.

721
00:50:35,449 --> 00:50:37,950
For me,
sport is actually a chance for us

722
00:50:38,118 --> 00:50:41,203
to have other human beings
push us to excel.

723
00:50:41,872 --> 00:50:44,874
I want you all to come over here
and take a slip of paper

724
00:50:45,083 --> 00:50:47,418
and line up single file.

725
00:50:48,003 --> 00:50:50,379
Mr. Meeks, time to inherit the earth.

726
00:50:50,547 --> 00:50:53,841
Mr. Pitts, rise above your name.

727
00:50:54,009 --> 00:50:57,470
I want you to hand these out to the boys,
one apiece.

728
00:51:00,307 --> 00:51:01,974
You know what to do, Pitts.

729
00:51:02,142 --> 00:51:05,478
O to struggle against great odds
To meet enemies undaunted.

730
00:51:05,645 --> 00:51:08,481
Sounds to me like you're
daunted. Say it like you're undaunted.

731
00:51:08,648 --> 00:51:11,692
O to struggle against great odds
To meet enemies undaunted.

732
00:51:11,860 --> 00:51:13,694
Now, go on.

733
00:51:14,196 --> 00:51:16,405
Yes. Next.

734
00:51:17,199 --> 00:51:21,243
To be a sailor of the world
Bound for all ports.

735
00:51:21,995 --> 00:51:23,996
Next. Louder.

736
00:51:24,164 --> 00:51:27,875
O while I live to be the ruler of life
Not a slave.

737
00:51:29,127 --> 00:51:30,252
To mount the scaffolds.

738
00:51:30,420 --> 00:51:33,506
To advance to the muzzles of guns
With perfect nonchalance!

739
00:51:39,137 --> 00:51:40,971
Come on, Meeks. Listen to the music.

740
00:51:41,723 --> 00:51:47,061
To dance, clap hands, exult
Shout, skip, roll on, float on!

741
00:51:47,229 --> 00:51:48,854
Yes.

742
00:51:50,315 --> 00:51:55,027
O to have life henceforth
A poem of new joys.

743
00:51:55,695 --> 00:51:57,863
Aw, pbbt. Boo.

744
00:51:58,031 --> 00:52:00,241
Come on, Charlie, let it fill your soul.

745
00:52:00,867 --> 00:52:03,786
To indeed be a god.

746
00:52:04,996 --> 00:52:08,332
Charlie, I got the part. Rah!

747
00:52:08,500 --> 00:52:10,501
I'm gonna play Puck.
I'm gonna play Puck.

748
00:52:10,669 --> 00:52:12,086
- What did he say?
- Puck?

749
00:52:12,254 --> 00:52:13,546
- The main part.
- Great, Neil.

750
00:52:13,713 --> 00:52:14,755
Charlie, I got it.

751
00:52:14,923 --> 00:52:18,175
- Congratulations.
- Good for you, Neil. Good for you.

752
00:52:18,760 --> 00:52:21,262
Okay, okay, okay.

753
00:52:21,972 --> 00:52:24,223
Neil, how are you gonna do this?

754
00:52:24,391 --> 00:52:28,102
They need a letter of permission
from my father and Mr. Nolan.

755
00:52:28,270 --> 00:52:31,063
- You're not gonna write it.
- Oh, yes, I am.

756
00:52:31,231 --> 00:52:33,107
Oh, Neil, you're crazy.

757
00:52:35,318 --> 00:52:36,360
Okay.

758
00:52:36,528 --> 00:52:40,239
"I am writing to you"

759
00:52:40,407 --> 00:52:46,287
on behalf of my son,

760
00:52:46,454 --> 00:52:49,874
"Neil Perry."

761
00:52:51,710 --> 00:52:53,127
This is great.

762
00:53:43,428 --> 00:53:46,096
- "To Chris."
- Who's Chris?

763
00:53:46,264 --> 00:53:48,974
Mmm. Chris.

764
00:53:49,559 --> 00:53:52,353
I see a sweetness in her smile.

765
00:53:52,771 --> 00:53:55,648
Bright light shines from her eyes.

766
00:53:57,067 --> 00:54:00,778
But life is complete
Contentment is mine.

767
00:54:00,946 --> 00:54:02,238
Just knowing that...

768
00:54:04,908 --> 00:54:06,742
Just knowing that.

769
00:54:08,245 --> 00:54:10,079
She's alive.

770
00:54:10,247 --> 00:54:12,790
- Sorry, captain, it's stupid.
- No, no, it's not stupid.

771
00:54:12,958 --> 00:54:14,333
It's a good effort.

772
00:54:14,501 --> 00:54:17,002
It touched on love.

773
00:54:17,629 --> 00:54:20,130
A major theme not only in poetry,
but life.

774
00:54:20,840 --> 00:54:24,593
Mr. Hopkins, you were laughing.
You're up.

775
00:54:34,187 --> 00:54:37,940
The cat sat on the mat.

776
00:54:44,114 --> 00:54:45,364
Congratulations, Mr. Hopkins.

777
00:54:45,532 --> 00:54:48,784
You have the first poem to ever have
a negative score on the Pritchard scale.

778
00:54:50,328 --> 00:54:52,413
We're not laughing at you,
we're laughing near you.

779
00:54:52,664 --> 00:54:54,581
I don't mind that your poem
had a simple theme.

780
00:54:54,749 --> 00:54:56,875
The most beautiful poetry
can be about simple things

781
00:54:57,043 --> 00:54:59,712
like a cat, or a flower, or rain.

782
00:54:59,879 --> 00:55:03,048
You see, poetry can come from anything
with the stuff of revelation in it.

783
00:55:03,216 --> 00:55:05,384
Just don't let your poems be ordinary.

784
00:55:08,054 --> 00:55:10,514
Now, who's next?

785
00:55:11,474 --> 00:55:15,144
Mr. Anderson,
I see you sitting there in agony.

786
00:55:15,854 --> 00:55:18,314
Come on, Todd, step up.
Let's put you out of your misery.

787
00:55:21,276 --> 00:55:23,235
I didn't do it. I didn't write a poem.

788
00:55:27,157 --> 00:55:29,158
Mr. Anderson thinks
that everything inside of him

789
00:55:29,326 --> 00:55:31,952
is worthless and embarrassing.

790
00:55:32,120 --> 00:55:35,289
Isn't that right, Todd?
Isn't that your worst fear?

791
00:55:36,875 --> 00:55:38,125
Well, I think you're wrong.

792
00:55:38,293 --> 00:55:42,212
I think you have something inside of you
that is worth a great deal.

793
00:55:42,630 --> 00:55:45,215
"I sound"

794
00:55:46,176 --> 00:55:51,513
my barbaric

795
00:55:52,557 --> 00:55:54,224
yawp

796
00:55:57,354 --> 00:56:02,024
"over the rooftops of the world."

797
00:56:04,319 --> 00:56:07,946
W.W., Uncle Walt again.

798
00:56:08,114 --> 00:56:12,659
Now, for those of you who don't know,
a yawp is a loud cry or yell.

799
00:56:12,827 --> 00:56:17,081
Now, Todd, I would like you to give us
a demonstration of a barbaric yawp.

800
00:56:18,875 --> 00:56:22,920
Come on, you can't yawp sitting down.
Let's go. Come on, up.

801
00:56:23,088 --> 00:56:25,214
Gotta get in yawping stance.

802
00:56:27,384 --> 00:56:30,636
- A yawp.
- No, not just a yawp. A barbaric yawp.

803
00:56:30,804 --> 00:56:31,929
Yeah, yeah, right.

804
00:56:32,097 --> 00:56:35,099
- Yawp.
- Come on, louder.

805
00:56:35,266 --> 00:56:36,433
- Yawp.
- Oh, that's a mouse.

806
00:56:36,601 --> 00:56:38,477
- Come on, louder.
- Yawp.

807
00:56:38,645 --> 00:56:40,104
- God, boy, yell like a man.
- Yawp!

808
00:56:40,271 --> 00:56:43,357
There it is. You see,
you have a barbarian in you after all.

809
00:56:43,525 --> 00:56:46,860
Now, you don't get away that easy.
There's a picture of Uncle Walt up there.

810
00:56:47,028 --> 00:56:50,447
What does he remind you of?
Don't think, answer. Go on.

811
00:56:50,615 --> 00:56:52,157
- A madman.
- What kind of madman?

812
00:56:52,325 --> 00:56:54,576
- Don't think about it, answer again.
- A crazy madman.

813
00:56:54,744 --> 00:56:57,162
You can do better.
Free up your mind, use your imagination.

814
00:56:57,330 --> 00:57:00,165
Say the first thing that pops into
your head, even if it's gibberish.

815
00:57:00,333 --> 00:57:01,917
A sweaty-toothed madman.

816
00:57:02,085 --> 00:57:04,670
Good God, boy,
there's a poet in you after all.

817
00:57:04,838 --> 00:57:07,423
There, close your eyes.
Close your eyes, close them.

818
00:57:07,590 --> 00:57:10,384
Now describe what you see.

819
00:57:10,552 --> 00:57:13,512
- I close my eyes.
- Yes?

820
00:57:13,680 --> 00:57:16,432
- And this image floats beside me.
- A sweaty-toothed madman.

821
00:57:16,599 --> 00:57:19,560
A sweaty-toothed madman
with a stare that pounds my brain.

822
00:57:19,727 --> 00:57:22,396
Oh, that's excellent. Now give him action.
Make him do something.

823
00:57:22,564 --> 00:57:25,482
- His hands reach out and choke me.
- That's it, wonderful, wonderful.

824
00:57:25,650 --> 00:57:27,901
- And all the time he's mumbling.
- What's he mumbling?

825
00:57:28,069 --> 00:57:31,321
Mumbling truth. Truth, like a blanket
that always leaves your feet cold.

826
00:57:32,824 --> 00:57:34,783
Forget them, forget them.
Stay with the blanket.

827
00:57:34,951 --> 00:57:36,285
Tell me about that blanket.

828
00:57:36,453 --> 00:57:39,079
You can push it, stretch it,
it'll never be enough.

829
00:57:39,247 --> 00:57:41,790
You kick at it, beat it,
it'll never cover any of us.

830
00:57:41,958 --> 00:57:44,793
From the moment we enter crying
to the moment we leave dying,

831
00:57:44,961 --> 00:57:49,756
it'll just cover your face
as you wail and cry and scream.

832
00:57:56,681 --> 00:57:58,223
- Yeah.
- Yeah.

833
00:57:58,850 --> 00:58:01,143
Don't you forget this.

834
00:59:03,831 --> 00:59:07,042
- Atta boy, Pittsie, inhale deeply.
- My dad collects a lot of pipes.

835
00:59:07,252 --> 00:59:10,170
- Really? Mine's got 30.
- Your parents collect pipes?

836
00:59:10,338 --> 00:59:12,172
Oh, that's really interesting.

837
00:59:12,674 --> 00:59:15,342
Come on, Knox. Join in.

838
00:59:15,510 --> 00:59:17,344
We're from the government.
We're here to help.

839
00:59:17,512 --> 00:59:19,763
- What's wrong?
- It's Chris.

840
00:59:19,931 --> 00:59:23,642
- Here's a picture of Chris for you.
- Put that in your pipe and smoke it.

841
00:59:23,810 --> 00:59:25,602
- That's not funny.
- Knock it off.

842
00:59:25,770 --> 00:59:27,354
- Smoke your pipes.
- Okay.

843
00:59:27,522 --> 00:59:28,897
Neil.

844
00:59:29,065 --> 00:59:32,234
Friends, scholars, Welton men.

845
00:59:33,111 --> 00:59:35,696
- What is that, Neil?
- Duh. It's a lamp, Meeks.

846
00:59:35,863 --> 00:59:38,949
No, this is the god of the cave.

847
00:59:39,117 --> 00:59:40,200
The god of the cave?

848
00:59:43,663 --> 00:59:44,830
Charlie, what are you doing?

849
00:59:44,998 --> 00:59:46,623
What do you say we start this meeting?

850
00:59:46,791 --> 00:59:48,208
Yeah, just... I need a light.

851
00:59:48,376 --> 00:59:50,794
- Who's got a light?
- Did you bring the earplugs?

852
00:59:51,921 --> 00:59:55,799
Gentlemen, "Poetrusic,"
by Charles Dalton.

853
00:59:55,967 --> 00:59:57,759
- Oh, boy.
- He's gonna play.

854
00:59:59,971 --> 01:00:01,513
Oh, no.

855
01:00:01,681 --> 01:00:04,308
Laughing, crying, tumbling, mumbling.

856
01:00:04,475 --> 01:00:07,311
Gotta do more. Gotta be more.

857
01:00:11,816 --> 01:00:15,360
Chaos screaming, chaos dreaming
Gotta do more, gotta be more.

858
01:00:48,311 --> 01:00:49,353
Wow.

859
01:00:49,520 --> 01:00:50,896
- That was nice.
- That was great.

860
01:00:51,064 --> 01:00:52,689
Where did you learn to play like that?

861
01:00:52,857 --> 01:00:55,776
My parents made me take the clarinet
for years.

862
01:00:55,943 --> 01:00:58,028
- I love the clarinet.
- I hated it.

863
01:00:59,906 --> 01:01:01,281
The saxophone.

864
01:01:01,449 --> 01:01:05,202
The saxophone is more sonorous.

865
01:01:05,411 --> 01:01:06,662
Ooh.

866
01:01:06,829 --> 01:01:08,622
- Vocabulary.
- Look at him.

867
01:01:08,790 --> 01:01:12,918
I can't take it anymore.
If I don't have Chris, I'm gonna kill myself.

868
01:01:13,086 --> 01:01:14,878
Knoxious, you've gotta calm down.

869
01:01:15,046 --> 01:01:16,963
No, Charlie.

870
01:01:17,298 --> 01:01:21,301
That's just my problem.
I've been calm all my life.

871
01:01:21,469 --> 01:01:23,762
- I'm gonna do something about that.
- Where you going?

872
01:01:24,389 --> 01:01:27,599
- What are you gonna do?
- I'm gonna call her. Yeah.

873
01:01:33,773 --> 01:01:35,482
Hello?

874
01:01:37,527 --> 01:01:38,610
She's gonna hate me.

875
01:01:40,780 --> 01:01:42,656
The Danburrys will hate me.

876
01:01:42,865 --> 01:01:45,575
My parents will kill me.

877
01:01:50,164 --> 01:01:52,416
All right, goddamn it.

878
01:01:52,583 --> 01:01:56,169
You're right. Carpe diem.

879
01:01:56,379 --> 01:01:58,630
Even if it kills me.

880
01:02:07,140 --> 01:02:08,849
- Hello?
- Hello, Chris?

881
01:02:09,016 --> 01:02:12,644
- Yes?
- Hi, this is Knox Overstreet.

882
01:02:13,604 --> 01:02:16,982
Oh, yes, Knox. Glad you called.

883
01:02:17,150 --> 01:02:18,275
She's glad I called.

884
01:02:18,484 --> 01:02:20,944
Listen, Chet's parents
are going out of town this weekend

885
01:02:21,112 --> 01:02:22,279
and he's having a party.

886
01:02:22,447 --> 01:02:24,906
- Would you like to come?
- Would I like to come to a party?

887
01:02:25,074 --> 01:02:26,783
- Yes. Say yes.
- Friday?

888
01:02:26,951 --> 01:02:28,118
- Well, sure.
- About 7?

889
01:02:28,286 --> 01:02:30,120
- Okay, great. I'll be there, Chris.
- Okay.

890
01:02:30,288 --> 01:02:31,830
Friday night at the Danburrys.

891
01:02:31,998 --> 01:02:33,457
- Okay, thank you.
- Okay, bye.

892
01:02:33,624 --> 01:02:35,751
Thank you. I'll see you. Bye.

893
01:02:36,461 --> 01:02:39,296
Yawp!

894
01:02:39,922 --> 01:02:41,423
Can you believe it?

895
01:02:41,591 --> 01:02:44,259
She was gonna call me.

896
01:02:44,427 --> 01:02:46,762
She invited me to a party with her.

897
01:02:46,929 --> 01:02:49,639
- At Chet Danburry's house?
- Yeah.

898
01:02:49,807 --> 01:02:52,225
- Well?
- So?

899
01:02:52,393 --> 01:02:55,937
So you don't really think
she means you're going with her?

900
01:02:57,148 --> 01:03:00,442
Well, of course not, Charlie,
but that's not the point.

901
01:03:00,610 --> 01:03:04,321
- That's not the point at all.
- What is the point?

902
01:03:05,531 --> 01:03:09,242
The point, Charlie,

903
01:03:10,495 --> 01:03:12,412
is, uh...

904
01:03:13,498 --> 01:03:16,833
- Yeah?
- ...that she was thinking about me.

905
01:03:17,710 --> 01:03:22,464
I've only met her once, and already,
she's thinking about me.

906
01:03:22,632 --> 01:03:25,300
Damn it. It's gonna happen, guys.

907
01:03:25,468 --> 01:03:27,427
I feel it.

908
01:03:28,095 --> 01:03:32,265
She is going to be mine.

909
01:03:34,185 --> 01:03:37,062
Carpe. Carpe.

910
01:03:39,190 --> 01:03:43,026
No grades at stake, gentlemen.
Just take a stroll.

911
01:03:49,534 --> 01:03:51,409
There it is.

912
01:04:00,670 --> 01:04:02,337
I don't know, but I've been told

913
01:04:02,505 --> 01:04:04,256
I don't know, but I've been told.

914
01:04:04,423 --> 01:04:06,174
Doing poetry is old.

915
01:04:06,342 --> 01:04:07,634
Doing poetry is old.

916
01:04:07,802 --> 01:04:14,766
Left, left, left, right, left.

917
01:04:14,934 --> 01:04:16,434
Left, halt.

918
01:04:17,228 --> 01:04:19,145
Thank you, gentlemen.

919
01:04:20,273 --> 01:04:24,067
If you noticed, everyone started off
with their own stride, their own pace.

920
01:04:24,235 --> 01:04:26,528
Mr. Pitts, taking his time.

921
01:04:26,696 --> 01:04:28,488
He knew he'll get there one day.

922
01:04:28,656 --> 01:04:30,282
Mr. Cameron,
you could see him thinking,

923
01:04:30,449 --> 01:04:34,035
"Is this right? It might be right.
I know that... Maybe not. I don't know."

924
01:04:34,203 --> 01:04:37,622
Mr. Overstreet's, driven by deeper force.

925
01:04:37,790 --> 01:04:39,916
Yes, we know that.

926
01:04:40,084 --> 01:04:42,627
All right, now, I didn't bring them up here
to ridicule them.

927
01:04:42,795 --> 01:04:45,297
I brought them up here
to illustrate the point of conformity.

928
01:04:45,464 --> 01:04:48,925
The difficulty in maintaining
your own beliefs in the face of others.

929
01:04:49,093 --> 01:04:51,219
Now, those of you,
I see the look in your eyes like,

930
01:04:51,387 --> 01:04:53,471
"I would have walked differently."

931
01:04:53,639 --> 01:04:56,308
Well, ask yourselves
why you were clapping.

932
01:04:57,393 --> 01:04:59,603
Now, we all have a great need
for acceptance.

933
01:04:59,770 --> 01:05:02,564
But you must trust
that your beliefs are unique, your own.

934
01:05:02,732 --> 01:05:05,150
Even though others
may think them odd or unpopular.

935
01:05:05,318 --> 01:05:08,737
Even though the herd may go,
"That's baa-d."

936
01:05:09,906 --> 01:05:13,742
Robert Frost said,
"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,

937
01:05:13,910 --> 01:05:17,787
I took the one less travelled by,
and that has made all the difference."

938
01:05:17,955 --> 01:05:20,415
Now, I want you to find your own walk
right now.

939
01:05:20,583 --> 01:05:24,252
Your own way of striding, pacing.
Any direction, anything you want.

940
01:05:24,420 --> 01:05:27,005
Whether it's proud,
whether it's silly, anything.

941
01:05:27,214 --> 01:05:30,759
Gentlemen, the courtyard is yours.

942
01:05:33,012 --> 01:05:36,932
You don't have to perform,
just make it for yourself.

943
01:05:37,850 --> 01:05:40,810
Mr. Dalton, you be joining us?

944
01:05:40,978 --> 01:05:43,146
Exercising the right not to walk.

945
01:05:44,231 --> 01:05:47,567
Thank you, Mr. Dalton.
You just illustrated the point.

946
01:05:47,735 --> 01:05:50,111
Swim against the stream.

947
01:06:01,082 --> 01:06:02,832
Todd?

948
01:06:05,002 --> 01:06:06,753
- Hey.
- Hey.

949
01:06:06,921 --> 01:06:09,839
- What's going on?
- Nothing.

950
01:06:12,134 --> 01:06:15,095
- Today's my birthday.
- Is today your birthday?

951
01:06:15,304 --> 01:06:17,180
- Happy birthday.
- Thanks.

952
01:06:17,348 --> 01:06:20,058
- What'd you get?
- My parents gave me this.

953
01:06:21,143 --> 01:06:22,352
Isn't this the same desk...?

954
01:06:22,520 --> 01:06:25,563
Yeah, they gave me the same thing
as last year.

955
01:06:27,942 --> 01:06:30,235
- Oh.
- Oh.

956
01:06:31,612 --> 01:06:33,446
Maybe they thought
you needed another one.

957
01:06:35,032 --> 01:06:37,033
Maybe they weren't thinking
about anything at all.

958
01:06:40,830 --> 01:06:44,541
The funny thing is about this is,
I didn't even like it the first time.

959
01:06:47,086 --> 01:06:50,672
Todd, I think you're underestimating
the value of this desk set.

960
01:06:52,425 --> 01:06:57,971
I mean, who would want a football,
or a baseball, or...?

961
01:06:58,180 --> 01:06:59,305
Or a car?

962
01:06:59,473 --> 01:07:02,684
Or a car, if they could have a desk set
as wonderful as this one?

963
01:07:02,852 --> 01:07:06,813
I mean, if I were ever going to buy
a desk set twice,

964
01:07:06,981 --> 01:07:10,692
I would probably buy this one
both times.

965
01:07:12,445 --> 01:07:16,239
In fact, its shape is...

966
01:07:17,867 --> 01:07:20,076
It's rather aerodynamic, isn't it?

967
01:07:22,038 --> 01:07:23,496
I can feel it.

968
01:07:23,831 --> 01:07:25,290
Phew.

969
01:07:25,541 --> 01:07:28,626
This desk set wants to fly.

970
01:07:31,297 --> 01:07:32,881
Todd?

971
01:07:33,632 --> 01:07:37,552
The world's first unmanned
flying desk set.

972
01:07:40,431 --> 01:07:41,890
Whew. Ha, ha.

973
01:07:42,475 --> 01:07:44,517
Oh, my.

974
01:07:44,685 --> 01:07:47,187
Well, I wouldn't worry.

975
01:07:47,354 --> 01:07:48,688
You'll get another one next year.

976
01:07:50,816 --> 01:07:54,027
To live deep
And suck out all the marrow of life.

977
01:07:54,195 --> 01:07:55,904
To put to rout all that was not life.

978
01:07:58,699 --> 01:08:00,200
Oh, my God.

979
01:08:01,368 --> 01:08:04,204
- Is this it?
- Yeah, this is it.

980
01:08:04,371 --> 01:08:06,664
Go ahead, go on in. It's my cave.

981
01:08:06,832 --> 01:08:08,666
- Watch your step.
- We're not gonna slip, are we?

982
01:08:08,834 --> 01:08:10,210
Uh-oh.

983
01:08:11,087 --> 01:08:12,128
Hi.

984
01:08:12,588 --> 01:08:13,713
- Unh.
- Hello.

985
01:08:13,923 --> 01:08:15,924
- Hello.
- Hi, guys.

986
01:08:16,092 --> 01:08:19,010
Meet, uh, Gloria and...

987
01:08:19,178 --> 01:08:20,762
- Tina.
- Tina.

988
01:08:20,971 --> 01:08:23,848
This is the pledge class
of the Dead Poets Society.

989
01:08:24,016 --> 01:08:25,391
- Hello.
- Hey, how do you do?

990
01:08:25,559 --> 01:08:26,810
- Hello.
- Hi.

991
01:08:27,019 --> 01:08:28,728
Guys, move, move.

992
01:08:28,896 --> 01:08:31,689
Come on, folks, it's Friday night.
Let's get on with the meeting.

993
01:08:31,857 --> 01:08:32,899
Excuse me.

994
01:08:33,067 --> 01:08:34,901
Guys, I have an announcement to make.

995
01:08:35,069 --> 01:08:38,863
In keeping with the spirit of passionate
experimentation of the Dead Poets,

996
01:08:39,031 --> 01:08:41,157
I'm giving up the name Charles Dalton.

997
01:08:41,325 --> 01:08:43,868
From now on, call me Nuwanda.

998
01:08:44,078 --> 01:08:46,454
- Nuwanda?
- Nuwanda?

999
01:08:48,624 --> 01:08:50,500
Okay.

1000
01:08:58,884 --> 01:09:02,095
Hello? Hello, Chris?

1001
01:09:08,060 --> 01:09:09,185
- Knox.
- Hi.

1002
01:09:09,353 --> 01:09:11,271
You made it, great.

1003
01:09:11,438 --> 01:09:12,772
- Bring anybody?
- No.

1004
01:09:12,940 --> 01:09:15,692
No? Ginny Danburry's here.

1005
01:09:15,860 --> 01:09:17,026
Look, I have to go find Chet.

1006
01:09:17,194 --> 01:09:19,445
Why don't you go downstairs?
That's where everybody is.

1007
01:09:19,613 --> 01:09:21,197
- But, Chris...
- Make yourself at home.

1008
01:09:21,365 --> 01:09:22,782
But I...

1009
01:09:37,756 --> 01:09:39,340
Hey, guys.

1010
01:09:43,971 --> 01:09:47,182
Hey, you Mutt Sanders' brother?

1011
01:09:47,766 --> 01:09:50,351
Bubba, this guy look like
Mutt Sanders to you, or what?

1012
01:09:50,519 --> 01:09:52,520
You're his brother?

1013
01:09:53,480 --> 01:09:55,857
No relation. Never heard of him.
Sorry, guys.

1014
01:09:56,025 --> 01:09:57,066
Where's your manners?

1015
01:09:57,234 --> 01:09:59,819
There's Mutt Sanders' brother,
we don't even offer him a drink.

1016
01:09:59,987 --> 01:10:02,447
- Have some whisky, pal.
- Yeah.

1017
01:10:02,615 --> 01:10:04,157
I don't really drink...

1018
01:10:04,325 --> 01:10:07,118
- To Mutt.
- To Mutt.

1019
01:10:07,786 --> 01:10:09,370
To Mutt.

1020
01:10:12,416 --> 01:10:13,917
Now, how the hell is old Mutt anyway?

1021
01:10:14,084 --> 01:10:16,002
Yeah, what's old Mutter
been up to, huh?

1022
01:10:17,379 --> 01:10:19,380
I don't really know Mutt.

1023
01:10:19,882 --> 01:10:23,343
- To the Mighty Mutt.
- To Mighty Mutt.

1024
01:10:23,510 --> 01:10:25,553
To Mighty Mutt.

1025
01:10:29,975 --> 01:10:32,518
Well, listen, I gotta go find Patsy.

1026
01:10:32,686 --> 01:10:35,772
Say hello to Mutt for me, okay?

1027
01:10:35,940 --> 01:10:39,359
- Will do.
- Hell of a guy, your old brother, Mutt.

1028
01:10:40,986 --> 01:10:43,947
Are we gonna have a meeting, or what?

1029
01:10:44,114 --> 01:10:47,450
Yeah, if you guys don't have a meeting,
how do we know if we want to join?

1030
01:10:48,369 --> 01:10:50,078
Join?

1031
01:10:50,746 --> 01:10:53,331
Shall I compare thee
To a summer's day?

1032
01:10:53,499 --> 01:10:56,000
Thou art more lovely
And more temperate.

1033
01:10:56,168 --> 01:10:59,837
- That's so sweet.
- I made that up just for you.

1034
01:11:00,005 --> 01:11:01,798
You did?

1035
01:11:02,675 --> 01:11:05,009
I'll write one for you too, Gloria.

1036
01:11:08,055 --> 01:11:15,728
She walks in beauty like the night.

1037
01:11:15,938 --> 01:11:19,607
Of cloudless climes and starry skies.

1038
01:11:19,775 --> 01:11:22,902
All that's best of dark and bright.

1039
01:11:23,070 --> 01:11:25,780
Meet in her aspect and her eyes;

1040
01:11:25,948 --> 01:11:27,323
That's beautiful.

1041
01:11:28,659 --> 01:11:31,452
There's plenty more
where that came from.

1042
01:12:14,705 --> 01:12:16,831
God help me.

1043
01:12:30,804 --> 01:12:33,222
Carpe diem.

1044
01:13:03,670 --> 01:13:06,047
What, you don't remember?

1045
01:13:06,215 --> 01:13:07,465
What, are you kidding?

1046
01:13:07,674 --> 01:13:11,677
- Chet, Chet, look.
- What?

1047
01:13:12,513 --> 01:13:14,222
It's Mutt Sanders' brother.

1048
01:13:14,431 --> 01:13:15,598
Huh?

1049
01:13:15,766 --> 01:13:17,266
- Knox...?
- He's feeling up your girl.

1050
01:13:17,434 --> 01:13:19,560
What are you doing?

1051
01:13:20,104 --> 01:13:21,646
- What the hell are you doing?
- Chet.

1052
01:13:21,814 --> 01:13:24,607
- Chet, don't.
- Chet, I know this looks bad, but...

1053
01:13:24,775 --> 01:13:26,317
- Ahh!
- Chet, no, you'll hurt him.

1054
01:13:26,527 --> 01:13:28,361
No, Chet, stop it.

1055
01:13:28,529 --> 01:13:30,321
- Jesus.
- Leave him alone.

1056
01:13:30,489 --> 01:13:32,448
- Goddamn.
- Chet, stop it.

1057
01:13:32,616 --> 01:13:34,325
Bastard.

1058
01:13:34,535 --> 01:13:37,495
- Knox, are you all right?
- Chris, get the hell away from him.

1059
01:13:37,663 --> 01:13:38,871
- Chet, you hurt him.
- Good.

1060
01:13:39,039 --> 01:13:42,166
- I'm sorry. I'm so sorry.
- It's okay. It's okay.

1061
01:13:42,334 --> 01:13:44,210
Next time I see you, you die.

1062
01:13:47,339 --> 01:13:49,757
Go ahead, pass it around.

1063
01:13:58,642 --> 01:14:02,186
Me and Pitts
are working on a hi-fi system.

1064
01:14:02,980 --> 01:14:05,565
It shouldn't be that hard to put together.

1065
01:14:05,732 --> 01:14:09,485
Yeah, I might be going to Yale.

1066
01:14:09,987 --> 01:14:12,155
But I might not.

1067
01:14:12,614 --> 01:14:14,657
Don't you guys
miss having girls around here?

1068
01:14:15,200 --> 01:14:16,325
- Yeah.
- Yeah.

1069
01:14:16,535 --> 01:14:18,828
That's part of what this club is about.

1070
01:14:18,996 --> 01:14:21,164
In fact, I'd like to announce

1071
01:14:21,331 --> 01:14:24,584
I published an article in the school paper
in the name of the Dead Poets.

1072
01:14:25,085 --> 01:14:26,210
What?

1073
01:14:26,378 --> 01:14:28,754
- Demanding girls be admitted to Welton.
- You didn't.

1074
01:14:28,922 --> 01:14:31,841
- So we can all stop beating off.
- How did you do that?

1075
01:14:32,009 --> 01:14:34,010
I'm one of the proofers.
I slipped the article in.

1076
01:14:34,178 --> 01:14:37,305
- Look, it's over now.
- Why? Nobody knows who we are.

1077
01:14:37,514 --> 01:14:39,682
Don't you think
they're gonna figure out who wrote it?

1078
01:14:39,850 --> 01:14:43,352
They're gonna come to you and ask
to know what the Dead Poets Society is.

1079
01:14:43,520 --> 01:14:45,897
Charlie, you had no right
to do something like that.

1080
01:14:46,064 --> 01:14:48,357
It's Nuwanda, Cameron.

1081
01:14:48,567 --> 01:14:51,277
That's right, it's Nuwanda.

1082
01:14:51,487 --> 01:14:54,447
And are we just playing around out here,
or do we mean what we say?

1083
01:14:54,615 --> 01:14:57,575
If all we do is come together
and read a bunch of poems to each other,

1084
01:14:57,743 --> 01:14:58,868
what the hell are we doing?

1085
01:14:59,036 --> 01:15:01,496
All right, but you still
shouldn't have done it, Charlie.

1086
01:15:01,663 --> 01:15:04,040
This could mean trouble.
You don't speak for the club.

1087
01:15:04,208 --> 01:15:06,709
Hey, would you not worry
about your precious little neck?

1088
01:15:06,877 --> 01:15:10,129
If they catch me,
I'll tell them I made it up.

1089
01:15:24,895 --> 01:15:26,646
Fine.

1090
01:15:37,157 --> 01:15:38,783
Sit.

1091
01:15:44,540 --> 01:15:45,998
This week's issue of Welton Honor,

1092
01:15:46,166 --> 01:15:49,669
there appeared a profane
and unauthorized article.

1093
01:15:50,170 --> 01:15:54,966
Rather than spend my valuable time
ferreting out the guilty persons...

1094
01:15:55,759 --> 01:15:57,718
And let me assure you, I will find them.

1095
01:15:58,512 --> 01:16:01,847
I'm asking any and all students
who know anything about this article

1096
01:16:02,015 --> 01:16:05,184
to make themselves known
here and now.

1097
01:16:07,145 --> 01:16:09,438
Whoever the guilty persons are,

1098
01:16:09,606 --> 01:16:13,067
this is your only chance
to avoid expulsion from this school.

1099
01:16:19,491 --> 01:16:20,908
Welton Academy, hello?

1100
01:16:22,119 --> 01:16:23,536
Yes, he is. Just a moment.

1101
01:16:24,538 --> 01:16:26,664
Mr. Nolan, it's for you.

1102
01:16:27,499 --> 01:16:30,751
It's God.
He says we should have girls at Welton.

1103
01:16:47,019 --> 01:16:48,686
Wipe that smirk off your face.

1104
01:16:50,522 --> 01:16:52,565
If you think, Mr. Dalton,
that you're the first

1105
01:16:52,733 --> 01:16:55,026
to try to get thrown out of this school,
think again.

1106
01:16:55,193 --> 01:16:56,777
Others have had similar notions

1107
01:16:56,987 --> 01:16:59,405
and have failed
just as surely as you will fail.

1108
01:16:59,573 --> 01:17:00,781
Assume the position.

1109
01:17:14,546 --> 01:17:16,172
Count aloud, Mr. Dalton.

1110
01:17:20,677 --> 01:17:22,345
One.

1111
01:17:24,348 --> 01:17:25,890
Two.

1112
01:17:31,938 --> 01:17:33,648
Three.

1113
01:17:34,858 --> 01:17:36,233
Four.

1114
01:17:37,944 --> 01:17:38,986
Five.

1115
01:17:39,154 --> 01:17:41,489
What is this Dead Poets Society?
I want names.

1116
01:18:11,353 --> 01:18:12,978
- You kicked out?
- No.

1117
01:18:13,146 --> 01:18:15,147
So, what happened?

1118
01:18:18,527 --> 01:18:21,529
I'm to turn everybody in,
apologize to the school,

1119
01:18:21,697 --> 01:18:23,739
and all will be forgiven.

1120
01:18:23,907 --> 01:18:25,950
So, what are you gonna do?

1121
01:18:26,159 --> 01:18:29,412
- Charlie.
- Damn it, Neil.

1122
01:18:29,579 --> 01:18:32,081
The name is Nuwanda.

1123
01:18:38,088 --> 01:18:39,672
Excuse me.

1124
01:18:39,840 --> 01:18:43,050
- May we have a word, Mr. Keating?
- Certainly.

1125
01:18:49,599 --> 01:18:53,060
This was my first classroom, John.
Did you know that?

1126
01:18:54,146 --> 01:18:57,982
- My first desk.
- I didn't know you taught, Mr. Nolan.

1127
01:18:58,150 --> 01:18:59,984
English.

1128
01:19:00,152 --> 01:19:02,653
Long before your time.

1129
01:19:02,821 --> 01:19:05,448
It was hard giving it up, I can tell you.

1130
01:19:09,453 --> 01:19:11,162
I'm hearing rumors, John,

1131
01:19:11,329 --> 01:19:14,165
about some unorthodox teaching methods
in your classroom.

1132
01:19:14,332 --> 01:19:18,794
I'm not saying they've had anything to do
with the Dalton boy's outburst,

1133
01:19:18,962 --> 01:19:23,591
but I don't think I have to warn you,
boys his age are very impressionable.

1134
01:19:23,759 --> 01:19:27,094
Well, your reprimand
made quite an impression, I'm sure.

1135
01:19:30,015 --> 01:19:32,683
What was going on in the courtyard
the other day?

1136
01:19:32,851 --> 01:19:33,893
Courtyard?

1137
01:19:34,060 --> 01:19:35,853
Yeah, boys marching,
clapping in unison.

1138
01:19:36,021 --> 01:19:38,481
Oh, that.
That was an exercise to prove a point.

1139
01:19:38,648 --> 01:19:39,899
Dangers of conformity.

1140
01:19:40,066 --> 01:19:42,777
Well, John, the curriculum here is set.
It's proven, it works.

1141
01:19:42,944 --> 01:19:45,529
If you question it, what's to prevent them
from doing the same?

1142
01:19:45,697 --> 01:19:48,449
I thought the idea of education
was to learn to think for yourself.

1143
01:19:48,617 --> 01:19:50,659
At these boys' age? Not on your life.

1144
01:19:51,369 --> 01:19:55,122
Tradition, John. Discipline.

1145
01:19:55,499 --> 01:19:59,126
Prepare them for college
and the rest will take care of itself.

1146
01:20:04,049 --> 01:20:05,508
Creak.

1147
01:20:07,093 --> 01:20:10,763
He starts walking around
towards my left. Creak.

1148
01:20:11,890 --> 01:20:13,098
Creak.

1149
01:20:13,266 --> 01:20:16,769
"Assume the position, Mr. Dalton."

1150
01:20:17,646 --> 01:20:19,313
It's all right, gentlemen.

1151
01:20:19,481 --> 01:20:22,274
- Mr. Keating.
- Mr. Dalton.

1152
01:20:22,442 --> 01:20:24,735
That was a pretty lame stunt
you pulled today.

1153
01:20:24,903 --> 01:20:26,612
You're siding with Mr. Nolan?

1154
01:20:26,780 --> 01:20:29,240
What about carpe diem,
sucking all the marrow out of life...?

1155
01:20:29,407 --> 01:20:33,160
Sucking the marrow out of life
doesn't mean choking on the bone.

1156
01:20:34,538 --> 01:20:38,249
Sure, there's a time for daring,
and there's a time for caution.

1157
01:20:38,416 --> 01:20:40,334
And a wise man understands
which is called for.

1158
01:20:41,461 --> 01:20:44,713
- But I thought you'd like that.
- No.

1159
01:20:44,881 --> 01:20:47,675
You being expelled from school
is not daring to me, it's stupid.

1160
01:20:48,885 --> 01:20:50,719
Because you'll miss
some golden opportunities.

1161
01:20:50,887 --> 01:20:52,680
Yeah, like what?

1162
01:20:52,848 --> 01:20:55,933
Like if nothing else,
the opportunity to attend my classes.

1163
01:20:59,521 --> 01:21:01,313
Got it, Ace?

1164
01:21:01,898 --> 01:21:03,023
Aye, aye, captain.

1165
01:21:03,942 --> 01:21:05,568
Keep your head about you.

1166
01:21:07,195 --> 01:21:08,612
That goes for the lot of you.

1167
01:21:08,780 --> 01:21:11,657
- Yes, captain.
- Yes, captain.

1168
01:21:12,284 --> 01:21:13,534
Phone call from God.

1169
01:21:15,620 --> 01:21:18,163
If it had been collect,
it would have been daring.

1170
01:21:21,376 --> 01:21:24,044
All right. Go on, play.

1171
01:21:34,431 --> 01:21:36,891
We're trying to rehearse, okay?

1172
01:21:37,225 --> 01:21:39,226
A good persuasion.
Therefore, hear me, Hermia.

1173
01:21:39,394 --> 01:21:43,147
Wait, please. Excitement.
I don't hear any excitement about this play.

1174
01:21:43,315 --> 01:21:45,774
And take her hand.

1175
01:21:45,942 --> 01:21:51,906
Bring her down the stage and stop, and,
"There, gentle Hermia." Try again.

1176
01:21:53,283 --> 01:21:55,743
- What's for dinner?
- Spaghetti and meatballs.

1177
01:21:58,622 --> 01:22:00,956
Save some for me.

1178
01:22:02,584 --> 01:22:05,544
But, room, fairy! Here comes Oberon.

1179
01:22:08,548 --> 01:22:11,675
- Father.
- Neil.

1180
01:22:13,678 --> 01:22:17,681
- Before you say anything, please let me...
- Don't you dare talk back to me.

1181
01:22:19,684 --> 01:22:22,227
It's bad enough
that you've wasted your time

1182
01:22:22,395 --> 01:22:25,689
with this absurd acting business.

1183
01:22:26,608 --> 01:22:28,984
But you deliberately deceived me.

1184
01:22:30,278 --> 01:22:32,613
How did you expect
to get away with this?

1185
01:22:35,367 --> 01:22:37,076
Answer me.

1186
01:22:38,036 --> 01:22:41,580
Who put you up to it? Was it
this new man, this, uh, Mr. Keating?

1187
01:22:41,748 --> 01:22:44,500
No, nobody...

1188
01:22:44,668 --> 01:22:46,377
I thought I'd surprise you.

1189
01:22:46,586 --> 01:22:49,922
- I've gotten all A's in every class.
- So did you think I wasn't gonna find out?

1190
01:22:50,632 --> 01:22:53,759
"Oh, my niece is in a play with your son,"
says Mrs. Marks.

1191
01:22:53,927 --> 01:22:55,094
"No, no, no," I say.

1192
01:22:55,261 --> 01:22:58,222
"You must be mistaken.
My son's not in a play."

1193
01:22:58,390 --> 01:22:59,723
You made a liar out of me, Neil.

1194
01:23:03,728 --> 01:23:08,649
Now, tomorrow, you go to them
and you tell them that you're quitting.

1195
01:23:09,150 --> 01:23:12,444
No, I can't. I have the main part.
The performance is tomorrow night.

1196
01:23:12,654 --> 01:23:16,907
I don't care if the world comes to an end
tomorrow. You are through with that play.

1197
01:23:17,951 --> 01:23:22,454
Is that clear?

1198
01:23:23,289 --> 01:23:25,040
Yes, sir.

1199
01:23:33,341 --> 01:23:36,885
I made a great many sacrifices
to get you here, Neil.

1200
01:23:37,554 --> 01:23:39,930
And you will not let me down.

1201
01:23:41,349 --> 01:23:43,100
No, sir.

1202
01:24:05,623 --> 01:24:07,416
It's open.

1203
01:24:17,552 --> 01:24:19,261
Neil, what's up?

1204
01:24:19,429 --> 01:24:22,598
- Can I speak to you a minute?
- Certainly. Sit down.

1205
01:24:25,310 --> 01:24:28,353
- I'm sorry, here.
- Excuse me.

1206
01:24:30,273 --> 01:24:33,859
- Get you some tea?
- Tea, sure.

1207
01:24:34,736 --> 01:24:37,988
- Like some milk or sugar in that?
- No, thanks.

1208
01:24:38,364 --> 01:24:40,324
Gosh, they don't give you much room
around here.

1209
01:24:40,492 --> 01:24:42,242
No, it's part of the monastic oath.

1210
01:24:42,410 --> 01:24:45,913
They don't want worldly things
distracting me from my teaching.

1211
01:24:49,000 --> 01:24:51,543
- She's pretty.
- She's also in London.

1212
01:24:51,711 --> 01:24:53,712
Makes it a little difficult.

1213
01:24:53,880 --> 01:24:56,131
- How can you stand it?
- Stand what?

1214
01:24:56,299 --> 01:24:57,966
You can go anywhere.
You can do anything.

1215
01:24:58,134 --> 01:25:00,969
- How can you stand being here?
- Because I love teaching.

1216
01:25:01,137 --> 01:25:03,347
I don't want to be anywhere else.

1217
01:25:06,810 --> 01:25:08,477
What's up?

1218
01:25:08,937 --> 01:25:10,854
I just talked to my father.

1219
01:25:11,022 --> 01:25:13,565
He's making me quit the play
at Henley Hall.

1220
01:25:16,152 --> 01:25:20,114
Acting's everything to me. I...

1221
01:25:20,907 --> 01:25:22,574
But he doesn't know, he...

1222
01:25:22,742 --> 01:25:25,661
I can see his point.
We're not a rich family like Charlie's.

1223
01:25:25,829 --> 01:25:26,912
And we...

1224
01:25:27,997 --> 01:25:30,124
But he's planning the rest of my life
for me,

1225
01:25:30,291 --> 01:25:32,584
and he's never asked me what I want.

1226
01:25:33,294 --> 01:25:35,546
Have you ever told your father
what you just told me?

1227
01:25:35,755 --> 01:25:38,257
About your passion for acting.
You ever show him that?

1228
01:25:38,424 --> 01:25:40,843
- I can't.
- Why not?

1229
01:25:41,761 --> 01:25:46,390
- I can't talk to him this way.
- Then you're acting for him too.

1230
01:25:46,558 --> 01:25:48,475
You're playing the part of the dutiful son.

1231
01:25:49,811 --> 01:25:52,229
I know this sounds impossible,
but you have to talk to him.

1232
01:25:52,397 --> 01:25:54,356
Show him who you are,
what your heart is.

1233
01:25:54,566 --> 01:25:56,859
I know what he'll say.

1234
01:25:57,193 --> 01:26:00,237
He'll tell me that acting's a whim
and I should forget it.

1235
01:26:00,864 --> 01:26:02,698
That they're counting on me.

1236
01:26:02,866 --> 01:26:05,617
He'll just tell me to put it out of my mind
for my own good.

1237
01:26:05,785 --> 01:26:09,454
You are not an indentured servant.
If it's not a whim for you,

1238
01:26:09,622 --> 01:26:12,207
you prove it to him
by your conviction and your passion.

1239
01:26:12,375 --> 01:26:14,793
You show him that,
and if he still doesn't believe you,

1240
01:26:14,961 --> 01:26:17,921
well, by then, you'll be out of school
and you can do anything you want.

1241
01:26:20,091 --> 01:26:21,550
No.

1242
01:26:24,554 --> 01:26:26,471
What about the play?
The show's tomorrow night.

1243
01:26:26,639 --> 01:26:29,641
Then you have to talk to him
before tomorrow night.

1244
01:26:32,145 --> 01:26:33,770
I...

1245
01:26:34,272 --> 01:26:36,398
- Isn't there an easier way?
- No.

1246
01:26:41,905 --> 01:26:43,822
I'm trapped.

1247
01:26:44,407 --> 01:26:46,408
No, you're not.

1248
01:27:02,634 --> 01:27:04,801
I need my notebook.

1249
01:27:05,428 --> 01:27:07,554
I'll see you later, Brian.

1250
01:27:10,016 --> 01:27:11,683
Chris.

1251
01:27:13,561 --> 01:27:14,978
Hey, Chris.

1252
01:27:15,146 --> 01:27:18,065
- Chris Noel, do you know where she is?
- I think she's in Room 111.

1253
01:27:18,233 --> 01:27:19,858
Thanks.

1254
01:27:22,445 --> 01:27:24,238
I know.

1255
01:27:27,450 --> 01:27:28,533
Oh, no.

1256
01:27:30,662 --> 01:27:34,122
- Excuse me. Chris.
- Knox, what are you doing here?

1257
01:27:34,290 --> 01:27:36,124
I came to apologize for the other night.

1258
01:27:36,334 --> 01:27:38,252
I brought you these
and a poem I wrote for you.

1259
01:27:41,881 --> 01:27:44,549
Knox, don't you know that if Chet
finds you here, he'll kill you?

1260
01:27:44,717 --> 01:27:46,385
I don't care.

1261
01:27:46,552 --> 01:27:48,512
- I love you, Chris.
- Knox, you're crazy.

1262
01:27:48,680 --> 01:27:51,139
- Look, I acted like a jerk, and I know it.
- Hey.

1263
01:27:51,307 --> 01:27:54,977
- Please accept these. Please?
- No, I... I can't.

1264
01:27:55,144 --> 01:27:57,062
Just forget it.

1265
01:28:12,787 --> 01:28:15,706
- Knox, I don't believe this.
- All I'm asking you to do is listen.

1266
01:28:18,418 --> 01:28:20,168
The heavens made a girl named Chris.

1267
01:28:21,838 --> 01:28:23,755
With hair and skin of gold.

1268
01:28:24,966 --> 01:28:29,136
To touch her would be paradise.

1269
01:28:44,444 --> 01:28:46,987
- Uhh.
- Get out of here.

1270
01:28:47,155 --> 01:28:49,573
Cameron, you fool.

1271
01:28:49,741 --> 01:28:52,451
- Hey, how'd it go? Did you read it to her?
- Yeah.

1272
01:28:54,329 --> 01:28:57,372
- What'd she say?
- Nothing.

1273
01:28:57,540 --> 01:28:59,541
Nothing? What do you mean, nothing?

1274
01:28:59,709 --> 01:29:02,878
Nothing. But I did it.

1275
01:29:03,046 --> 01:29:06,548
What did she say?
She had to say something.

1276
01:29:06,716 --> 01:29:09,634
- Come here, Knox.
- Seize the day. Whoo-hoo-hoo.

1277
01:29:19,354 --> 01:29:21,730
- Did you talk to your father?
- Uh, yeah.

1278
01:29:21,898 --> 01:29:23,732
He didn't like it one bit,

1279
01:29:23,900 --> 01:29:26,443
but at least he's letting me
stay in the play.

1280
01:29:26,611 --> 01:29:29,696
He won't be able make it.
He's in Chicago.

1281
01:29:30,156 --> 01:29:33,033
But I think he's gonna let me stay
with acting.

1282
01:29:33,993 --> 01:29:37,371
Really? You told him what you told me?

1283
01:29:37,580 --> 01:29:39,539
Yeah.

1284
01:29:40,333 --> 01:29:42,209
He wasn't happy.

1285
01:29:42,377 --> 01:29:46,463
But he'll be gone at least four days.

1286
01:29:46,631 --> 01:29:48,757
I don't think he'll make the show,

1287
01:29:51,260 --> 01:29:53,845
but I think he'll let me stay with it.

1288
01:29:54,013 --> 01:29:55,347
Keep up the school work.

1289
01:29:59,185 --> 01:30:00,310
Thanks.

1290
01:30:05,066 --> 01:30:06,608
- Baby.
- Beautiful baby.

1291
01:30:06,776 --> 01:30:11,238
- Henley Hall, here I come.
- Excuse me, just a moment.

1292
01:30:11,406 --> 01:30:13,990
Yes, you.

1293
01:30:14,158 --> 01:30:15,742
Come on, Todd, I'm trying to fix this.

1294
01:30:15,910 --> 01:30:18,161
Come on, Nuwanda,
we're gonna miss Neil's entrance.

1295
01:30:18,329 --> 01:30:20,705
He said something about getting red
before we left.

1296
01:30:20,873 --> 01:30:22,916
Getting red? What does that mean?

1297
01:30:23,084 --> 01:30:25,961
I... Well, you know Charlie.

1298
01:30:27,630 --> 01:30:30,966
So, Charlie, what's this "getting red" bit?

1299
01:30:36,180 --> 01:30:37,973
What is that?

1300
01:30:38,141 --> 01:30:40,934
It's an Indian warrior symbol for virility.

1301
01:30:41,102 --> 01:30:44,604
Makes me feel potent.
Like it can drive girls crazy.

1302
01:30:44,772 --> 01:30:47,065
Oh, come on, Charlie.
The girls are waiting.

1303
01:30:48,025 --> 01:30:50,652
- Henley Hall.
- Whoa.

1304
01:30:56,826 --> 01:30:58,493
Chris.

1305
01:31:00,872 --> 01:31:03,790
- What are you doing here?
- Gentlemen, let's go.

1306
01:31:03,958 --> 01:31:07,586
- Go ahead, guys, I'll catch up.
- Yeah, come on, guys.

1307
01:31:08,588 --> 01:31:09,880
Chris, you can't be in here.

1308
01:31:10,047 --> 01:31:11,965
If they catch you,
we're gonna be in trouble.

1309
01:31:12,133 --> 01:31:13,425
- Come on.
- Oh, but it's fine...

1310
01:31:13,593 --> 01:31:14,968
Chris.

1311
01:31:16,888 --> 01:31:20,765
It's fine for you to come into my school
and make a complete fool out of me?

1312
01:31:20,933 --> 01:31:24,394
- I didn't mean to make a fool out of you.
- Well, you did.

1313
01:31:24,562 --> 01:31:26,563
Chet found out,
and it took everything I could do

1314
01:31:26,731 --> 01:31:29,274
to keep him from coming here
and killing you.

1315
01:31:29,442 --> 01:31:31,651
Knox, you have got to stop this stuff.

1316
01:31:31,819 --> 01:31:33,904
I can't, Chris. I love you.

1317
01:31:34,071 --> 01:31:37,199
Knox, you say that over and over.

1318
01:31:37,366 --> 01:31:39,743
You don't even know me.

1319
01:31:39,911 --> 01:31:41,870
Will you be joining us, Mr. Overstreet?

1320
01:31:42,038 --> 01:31:43,455
Go ahead, captain. I'll walk.

1321
01:31:43,623 --> 01:31:50,378
Knox. Knox, if it just so happens
that I could care less about you...

1322
01:31:53,508 --> 01:31:56,134
Then you wouldn't be here
warning me about Chet.

1323
01:32:00,640 --> 01:32:03,350
I have to go.
I'm gonna be late for the play.

1324
01:32:03,518 --> 01:32:07,646
- Are you going with him?
- Chet, to a play? Are you kidding?

1325
01:32:07,813 --> 01:32:10,315
- Then come with me.
- Knox, you are so infuriating.

1326
01:32:10,483 --> 01:32:13,068
Come on, Chris,
just give me one chance.

1327
01:32:13,236 --> 01:32:15,862
If you don't like me after tonight,
I'll stay away forever.

1328
01:32:16,030 --> 01:32:19,407
- Uh-huh.
- I promise. Dead Poets' honor.

1329
01:32:19,575 --> 01:32:20,659
You come with me tonight,

1330
01:32:20,826 --> 01:32:23,286
then if you don't want to see me again,
I swear, I'll bow out.

1331
01:32:23,496 --> 01:32:25,997
You know what would happen
if Chet found out?

1332
01:32:26,165 --> 01:32:27,791
He won't know anything.

1333
01:32:27,959 --> 01:32:30,961
We'll sit in the back and sneak away
as soon as it's over.

1334
01:32:31,128 --> 01:32:34,798
And I suppose you would promise
that this would be the end of it.

1335
01:32:34,966 --> 01:32:36,216
Dead Poets' honor.

1336
01:32:36,759 --> 01:32:37,968
What is that?

1337
01:32:40,388 --> 01:32:41,513
My word.

1338
01:32:54,068 --> 01:32:57,028
You are so infuriating.

1339
01:33:19,093 --> 01:33:20,844
- Hey, there he is.
- Hey, hey, hey.

1340
01:33:21,637 --> 01:33:23,471
Shh. Boys.

1341
01:33:30,563 --> 01:33:34,816
Either I mistake your shape
or making quite,

1342
01:33:34,984 --> 01:33:39,070
Or else you are that shrewd
and knavish sprite.

1343
01:33:39,238 --> 01:33:40,488
Called Robin Goodfellow.

1344
01:33:40,656 --> 01:33:44,451
Thou speak'st aright;
I am that merry wanderer of the night.

1345
01:33:44,619 --> 01:33:47,370
I jest to Oberon and make him smile.

1346
01:33:47,538 --> 01:33:51,207
When I a fat
and bean-fed horse, pbbt, beguile,

1347
01:33:51,417 --> 01:33:54,377
Neighing in likeness of a filly foal.

1348
01:33:54,587 --> 01:33:59,883
Sometime lurk I in a gossip's bowl,
In very likeness of a roasted crab,

1349
01:34:00,051 --> 01:34:02,844
And when she drink,
against her lips I bob.

1350
01:34:03,012 --> 01:34:05,597
And on her wither'd dewlap pour the ale.

1351
01:34:05,806 --> 01:34:07,766
He's good. He's really good.

1352
01:34:08,643 --> 01:34:11,478
Sometime for three-foot stool
mistaketh me;

1353
01:34:11,646 --> 01:34:14,272
Then slip I from her bum,
down topples she,

1354
01:34:14,440 --> 01:34:17,067
And 'tailor' cries, and falls into a cough;

1355
01:34:17,234 --> 01:34:20,111
And then the whole quire
hold their hips and laugh,

1356
01:34:20,279 --> 01:34:24,658
And waxen in their mirth
and neeze and swear.

1357
01:34:24,867 --> 01:34:27,911
A merrier hour was never wasted there.

1358
01:34:28,454 --> 01:34:31,331
But, room, fairy! here comes Oberon.

1359
01:34:31,499 --> 01:34:34,542
And here my mistress.
Would that he were gone!

1360
01:34:38,798 --> 01:34:41,549
Then by your side
no bed-room me deny;

1361
01:34:41,759 --> 01:34:44,636
For lying so, Hermia, I do not lie.

1362
01:34:47,640 --> 01:34:49,391
Now much beshrew
my manners and my pride,

1363
01:34:49,558 --> 01:34:52,102
If Hermia meant to say Lysander lied.

1364
01:34:52,269 --> 01:34:55,105
But, gentle friend, for love and courtesy.

1365
01:34:55,272 --> 01:34:57,649
Lie further off; in human modesty,

1366
01:34:57,817 --> 01:35:01,778
Such separation as may well be said
Becomes a virtuous bachelor and a maid,

1367
01:35:01,987 --> 01:35:03,780
and, good night, sweet friend:

1368
01:35:03,948 --> 01:35:06,157
Thy love ne'er alter
till thy sweet life end!

1369
01:35:06,325 --> 01:35:10,078
Amen, amen, to that fair prayer, say I;

1370
01:35:10,246 --> 01:35:12,372
Neil. That's your cue, Neil.

1371
01:35:12,540 --> 01:35:15,667
Come on, Neil.
Here's your crown. Let's go.

1372
01:36:21,650 --> 01:36:24,110
If we shadows have offended,

1373
01:36:25,905 --> 01:36:28,323
Think but this, and all is mended,

1374
01:36:28,491 --> 01:36:32,118
That you have but slumber' d here
While these visions did appear.

1375
01:36:32,912 --> 01:36:36,498
And this weak and idle theme,
No more yielding but a dream,

1376
01:36:43,881 --> 01:36:47,383
And, as I am an honest Puck,
If we have unearned luck.

1377
01:36:47,551 --> 01:36:52,388
Now to 'scape the serpent's tongue,
We will make amends ere long;

1378
01:36:52,973 --> 01:36:54,432
Else the Puck a liar call;

1379
01:36:58,479 --> 01:37:02,565
So, good night unto you all.
Give me your hands, if we be friends,

1380
01:37:03,192 --> 01:37:06,194
And Robin shall restore amends.

1381
01:37:39,645 --> 01:37:41,437
Yeah!

1382
01:37:41,647 --> 01:37:43,356
Yeah, Neil.

1383
01:37:54,326 --> 01:37:56,411
Great job, Neil.

1384
01:37:56,745 --> 01:37:58,872
Great show, everyone.

1385
01:38:05,462 --> 01:38:08,840
Excuse me, I'm Neil's father.
I need to see him.

1386
01:38:13,429 --> 01:38:16,264
Your father, he's...

1387
01:38:17,391 --> 01:38:18,558
What did you think of it?

1388
01:38:18,726 --> 01:38:23,521
Really, I thought
you were all just wonderful.

1389
01:38:36,577 --> 01:38:38,828
Excuse me, please. Excuse me.

1390
01:38:38,996 --> 01:38:42,332
- Excuse me, please.
- Neil. Neil.

1391
01:38:42,958 --> 01:38:45,293
- Neil.
- We love you, wait.

1392
01:38:45,878 --> 01:38:47,462
- I can't, guys.
- Neil.

1393
01:38:47,630 --> 01:38:49,839
- Neil.
- Excuse me.

1394
01:38:50,507 --> 01:38:53,843
Neil. Neil. You have the gift.

1395
01:38:54,053 --> 01:38:57,055
What a performance.
You left even me speechless.

1396
01:38:57,222 --> 01:38:58,723
- You have to stay...
- Get in the car.

1397
01:38:58,891 --> 01:39:02,018
Keating, you stay away from my son.

1398
01:39:02,519 --> 01:39:06,898
Neil. Neil. Mr. Perry, come on.

1399
01:39:07,066 --> 01:39:09,317
Don't make it any worse than it is.

1400
01:39:21,830 --> 01:39:23,957
Is it okay if we walk back?

1401
01:39:24,625 --> 01:39:26,167
Captain?

1402
01:39:29,922 --> 01:39:31,506
Knox.

1403
01:39:32,383 --> 01:39:36,260
- We'll be home about 11 :30 still.
- I know where he gets it.

1404
01:40:12,840 --> 01:40:19,262
Ahem. We're trying very hard to understand
why it is that you insist on defying us.

1405
01:40:20,681 --> 01:40:25,560
Whatever the reason,
we're not gonna let you ruin your life.

1406
01:40:25,769 --> 01:40:27,395
Tomorrow I'm withdrawing you
from Welton

1407
01:40:27,563 --> 01:40:29,355
and enrolling you
in Braden Military School.

1408
01:40:29,940 --> 01:40:32,567
You're going to Harvard
and you're gonna be a doctor.

1409
01:40:36,655 --> 01:40:37,905
But that's 10 more years.

1410
01:40:38,073 --> 01:40:40,158
- Father, that's a lifetime.
- Oh, stop it.

1411
01:40:40,325 --> 01:40:43,953
Don't be so dramatic.
You make it sound like a prison term.

1412
01:40:45,414 --> 01:40:47,498
You don't understand, Neil.

1413
01:40:47,666 --> 01:40:49,792
You have opportunities
that I never even dreamt of.

1414
01:40:49,960 --> 01:40:53,212
- I am not going to let you waste them.
- I've got to tell you what I feel.

1415
01:40:53,380 --> 01:40:56,591
- We've been so worried about...
- What? What? Tell me what you feel.

1416
01:40:59,094 --> 01:41:00,511
What is it?

1417
01:41:09,354 --> 01:41:12,732
Is it more of this...?
This acting business?

1418
01:41:13,567 --> 01:41:15,693
Because you can forget that.

1419
01:41:17,780 --> 01:41:19,113
What?

1420
01:41:24,203 --> 01:41:25,787
Nothing.

1421
01:41:39,635 --> 01:41:41,260
Nothing?

1422
01:41:45,182 --> 01:41:46,808
Well, then, let's go to bed.

1423
01:42:00,405 --> 01:42:02,281
I was good.

1424
01:42:03,242 --> 01:42:05,284
I was really good.

1425
01:42:10,290 --> 01:42:12,500
Go on, get some sleep.

1426
01:42:45,367 --> 01:42:48,369
It's all right. It's going to be all right.

1427
01:46:03,482 --> 01:46:05,775
- What was that?
- What?

1428
01:46:07,611 --> 01:46:10,863
- That sound.
- What sound?

1429
01:46:17,662 --> 01:46:19,205
Tom?

1430
01:46:23,335 --> 01:46:25,086
What is it?

1431
01:46:26,922 --> 01:46:28,672
What's wrong?

1432
01:46:38,683 --> 01:46:40,518
Neil?

1433
01:46:47,317 --> 01:46:49,235
Tom, what is it?

1434
01:46:50,362 --> 01:46:52,196
What's wrong?

1435
01:46:55,492 --> 01:46:56,575
Neil?

1436
01:47:01,706 --> 01:47:04,750
- Neil?
- I'll look outside.

1437
01:47:06,461 --> 01:47:07,670
Neil?

1438
01:47:25,897 --> 01:47:29,900
No!

1439
01:47:30,110 --> 01:47:31,527
Oh, Neil!

1440
01:47:31,695 --> 01:47:34,113
- Oh, my God!
- Oh, my God.

1441
01:47:34,281 --> 01:47:38,033
- No, no, no. He's all right.
- Oh, my son. My son, my poor son.

1442
01:47:38,201 --> 01:47:42,329
- He's all right. He's all right. He's all right.
- Stop it. Stop it. Stop it.

1443
01:47:43,790 --> 01:47:45,458
Stop it.

1444
01:47:52,841 --> 01:47:54,008
Todd?

1445
01:47:54,843 --> 01:47:58,471
- Todd.
- Oh, Charlie.

1446
01:48:05,687 --> 01:48:07,271
What is it?

1447
01:48:16,490 --> 01:48:18,657
Neil's dead.

1448
01:48:56,905 --> 01:48:57,988
It's so beautiful.

1449
01:49:10,961 --> 01:49:13,337
Todd. It's okay, Todd.

1450
01:49:13,505 --> 01:49:14,964
- Calm down.
- It's all right, Todd.

1451
01:49:16,341 --> 01:49:17,925
Todd, it's okay. It's okay, Todd.

1452
01:49:18,093 --> 01:49:19,927
It's all right.

1453
01:49:20,095 --> 01:49:21,845
- Now, listen.
- He wouldn't have done it.

1454
01:49:22,013 --> 01:49:23,806
- You can't explain it.
- It was his father.

1455
01:49:23,974 --> 01:49:26,642
- No.
- He wouldn't have left us.

1456
01:49:27,310 --> 01:49:30,020
He wouldn't have. His dad was...

1457
01:49:30,188 --> 01:49:31,605
- Todd.
- His father did it.

1458
01:49:31,773 --> 01:49:34,775
- His father killed him.
- You can't explain it, Todd.

1459
01:49:37,112 --> 01:49:39,905
- Todd.
- Leave him be.

1460
01:49:42,492 --> 01:49:44,994
Neil!

1461
01:52:19,357 --> 01:52:21,650
The death of Neil Perry is a tragedy.

1462
01:52:26,030 --> 01:52:28,031
He was a fine student.

1463
01:52:29,325 --> 01:52:31,702
One of Welton's best.

1464
01:52:33,705 --> 01:52:35,748
And he will be missed.

1465
01:52:39,836 --> 01:52:44,214
We've contacted each of your parents
to explain the situation.

1466
01:52:44,382 --> 01:52:47,134
Naturally, they're all quite concerned.

1467
01:52:53,099 --> 01:52:56,101
At the request of Neil's family,

1468
01:52:56,895 --> 01:53:01,565
I intend to conduct a thorough enquiry
into this matter.

1469
01:53:03,568 --> 01:53:07,279
Your complete cooperation is expected.

1470
01:53:17,582 --> 01:53:19,833
- You told him about this meeting?
- Twice.

1471
01:53:20,001 --> 01:53:22,252
That's it, guys. We're all fried.

1472
01:53:22,420 --> 01:53:25,047
- How do you mean?
- Cameron's a fink.

1473
01:53:25,215 --> 01:53:28,342
- He's in Nolan's office right now, finking.
- About what?

1474
01:53:28,551 --> 01:53:31,637
The club, Pittsie. Think about it.

1475
01:53:31,805 --> 01:53:35,516
The board of directors,
the trustees and Mr. Nolan.

1476
01:53:35,683 --> 01:53:39,311
Do you think for one moment they're
gonna let this thing just blow over?

1477
01:53:39,479 --> 01:53:42,397
Schools go down
because of things like this.

1478
01:53:42,565 --> 01:53:43,774
They need a scapegoat.

1479
01:53:59,958 --> 01:54:01,250
What's going on, guys?

1480
01:54:02,961 --> 01:54:04,878
You finked, didn't you, Cameron?

1481
01:54:05,213 --> 01:54:07,130
Finked? I don't know
what you're talking about.

1482
01:54:07,298 --> 01:54:10,050
You told Nolan everything about the club
is what I'm talking about.

1483
01:54:10,218 --> 01:54:11,844
Look, in case you hadn't heard, Dalton,

1484
01:54:12,011 --> 01:54:15,556
there's something called an honor code
at this school, all right?

1485
01:54:15,723 --> 01:54:18,767
If a teacher asks you a question,
you tell the truth or you're expelled.

1486
01:54:18,977 --> 01:54:20,519
- You little punk.
- Charlie.

1487
01:54:21,187 --> 01:54:24,690
He's a rat! He's in it up to his eyes,
so he ratted to save himself.

1488
01:54:24,858 --> 01:54:26,483
Don't touch him. You do and you're out.

1489
01:54:26,651 --> 01:54:28,652
- I'm out anyway.
- You don't know that, not yet.

1490
01:54:28,820 --> 01:54:30,821
He's right there, Charlie.

1491
01:54:30,989 --> 01:54:34,741
And if you guys are smart, you will do
exactly what I did and cooperate.

1492
01:54:35,827 --> 01:54:39,663
They're not after us. We're the victims.

1493
01:54:41,082 --> 01:54:42,416
Us and Neil.

1494
01:54:42,625 --> 01:54:44,835
What's that mean? Who are they after?

1495
01:54:45,044 --> 01:54:48,297
Why, Mr. Keating, of course.
The "captain" himself.

1496
01:54:49,257 --> 01:54:52,384
I mean, you guys didn't really think
he could avoid responsibility, did you?

1497
01:54:52,552 --> 01:54:54,678
Mr. Keating responsible for Neil?

1498
01:54:54,846 --> 01:54:58,140
- Is that what they're saying?
- Well, who else do you think, dumb-ass?

1499
01:54:58,308 --> 01:55:01,018
The administration? Mr. Perry?

1500
01:55:01,185 --> 01:55:03,604
Mr. Keating put us up to all this crap,
didn't he?

1501
01:55:04,731 --> 01:55:07,816
If it wasn't for Mr. Keating, Neil would be
cozied up in his room right now

1502
01:55:07,984 --> 01:55:09,818
studying his chemistry
and dreaming of being...

1503
01:55:09,986 --> 01:55:12,029
That is not true, Cameron.
You know that.

1504
01:55:12,196 --> 01:55:15,115
He didn't put us up to anything.
Neil loved acting.

1505
01:55:15,283 --> 01:55:18,827
Believe what you want,
but I say let Keating fry.

1506
01:55:19,454 --> 01:55:22,080
I mean, why ruin our lives?

1507
01:55:23,333 --> 01:55:24,917
Charlie.

1508
01:55:25,126 --> 01:55:26,460
- You dummy.
- Charlie.

1509
01:55:32,175 --> 01:55:35,135
You just signed your expulsion papers,
Nuwanda.

1510
01:55:38,973 --> 01:55:42,225
And if the rest of you are smart,
you'll do exactly what I did.

1511
01:55:43,895 --> 01:55:46,563
They know everything anyway.

1512
01:55:48,816 --> 01:55:51,276
You can't save Keating,

1513
01:55:52,236 --> 01:55:54,112
but you can save yourselves.

1514
01:56:27,563 --> 01:56:30,107
Knox Overstreet.

1515
01:56:56,884 --> 01:56:59,386
- Meeks.
- Go away, I have to study.

1516
01:57:01,681 --> 01:57:05,559
- What happened to Nuwanda?
- Expelled.

1517
01:57:08,354 --> 01:57:10,022
What'd you tell them?

1518
01:57:10,690 --> 01:57:13,191
Nothing they didn't already know.

1519
01:57:15,111 --> 01:57:17,195
Todd Anderson.

1520
01:57:38,885 --> 01:57:41,386
- Hello, son.
- Hello, darling.

1521
01:57:43,598 --> 01:57:45,223
Mom.

1522
01:57:51,105 --> 01:57:53,231
Have a seat, Mr. Anderson.

1523
01:57:59,447 --> 01:58:02,908
Mr. Anderson, I think we've pretty well
put together what's happened here.

1524
01:58:03,076 --> 01:58:08,246
You do admit to being a part
of this Dead Poets Society?

1525
01:58:11,167 --> 01:58:13,251
Answer him, Todd.

1526
01:58:15,546 --> 01:58:17,047
Yes, sir.

1527
01:58:19,008 --> 01:58:24,429
I have here a detailed description
of what occurred at your meetings.

1528
01:58:24,597 --> 01:58:26,348
It describes how your teacher,
Mr. Keating,

1529
01:58:26,516 --> 01:58:28,934
encouraged you boys
to organize this club

1530
01:58:29,102 --> 01:58:34,356
and to use it as a source of inspiration
for reckless and self-indulgent behavior.

1531
01:58:34,524 --> 01:58:38,777
It describes how Mr. Keating,
both in and out of the classroom,

1532
01:58:38,945 --> 01:58:43,073
encouraged Neil Perry
to follow his obsession with acting

1533
01:58:43,908 --> 01:58:48,912
when he knew all along it was against
the explicit orders of Neil's parents.

1534
01:58:49,455 --> 01:58:52,916
It was Mr. Keating's blatant abuse
of his position as teacher

1535
01:58:53,126 --> 01:58:56,169
that led directly to Neil Perry's death.

1536
01:59:06,722 --> 01:59:08,932
Read that document carefully, Todd.

1537
01:59:11,227 --> 01:59:13,311
Very carefully.

1538
01:59:19,318 --> 01:59:22,070
If you've nothing to add or amend,
sign it.

1539
01:59:23,406 --> 01:59:25,699
What's gonna happen to Mr. Keating?

1540
01:59:25,867 --> 01:59:30,036
I've had enough. Sign the paper, Todd.

1541
01:59:34,417 --> 01:59:38,336
Grass is garment or herbal.

1542
01:59:38,796 --> 01:59:41,089
Lapis is stone.

1543
01:59:41,257 --> 01:59:45,135
The entire building is aedificium.

1544
02:00:21,422 --> 02:00:22,881
Sit.

1545
02:00:24,717 --> 02:00:26,968
I'll be teaching this class
through exams.

1546
02:00:27,136 --> 02:00:30,347
We'll find a permanent English teacher
during the break.

1547
02:00:32,600 --> 02:00:35,727
Who will tell me where you are
in the Pritchard textbook?

1548
02:00:42,360 --> 02:00:44,027
Mr. Anderson.

1549
02:00:46,197 --> 02:00:49,115
- In the... In the Pr...
- I can't hear you, Mr. Anderson.

1550
02:00:49,283 --> 02:00:51,576
In the Pritchard?

1551
02:00:52,036 --> 02:00:53,870
Kindly inform me, Mr. Cameron.

1552
02:00:55,706 --> 02:00:58,375
We skipped around a lot, sir.
We covered the romantics

1553
02:00:58,542 --> 02:01:01,253
and some of the chapters
on post Civil War literature.

1554
02:01:01,921 --> 02:01:03,171
What about the realists?

1555
02:01:04,215 --> 02:01:06,716
I believe we skipped most of that, sir.

1556
02:01:07,927 --> 02:01:09,594
All right, then, we'll start over.

1557
02:01:13,057 --> 02:01:15,016
What is poetry?

1558
02:01:19,272 --> 02:01:20,855
Come.

1559
02:01:23,734 --> 02:01:25,318
Excuse me.

1560
02:01:27,613 --> 02:01:30,240
I came for my personals.

1561
02:01:30,700 --> 02:01:34,327
- Should I come back after class?
- Get them now, Mr. Keating.

1562
02:01:37,623 --> 02:01:40,667
Gentlemen, turn to page 21
of the introduction.

1563
02:01:42,211 --> 02:01:43,420
Mr. Cameron,

1564
02:01:44,547 --> 02:01:48,842
read aloud the excellent essay
by Dr. Pritchard

1565
02:01:49,010 --> 02:01:51,386
on "Understanding Poetry."

1566
02:01:53,514 --> 02:01:55,265
That page has been ripped out, sir.

1567
02:01:56,142 --> 02:01:59,728
- Well, borrow somebody else's book.
- They're all ripped out, sir.

1568
02:01:59,937 --> 02:02:01,855
What do you mean,
they're all ripped out?

1569
02:02:03,649 --> 02:02:06,693
- Sir, we...
- Never mind.

1570
02:02:11,365 --> 02:02:13,033
Read.

1571
02:02:15,661 --> 02:02:19,956
"Understanding Poetry,
by Dr. J. Evans Pritchard, Ph.D."

1572
02:02:20,124 --> 02:02:21,291
To fully understand poetry,

1573
02:02:21,459 --> 02:02:25,128
we must first be fluent with its meter,
rhyme and figures of speech,

1574
02:02:25,296 --> 02:02:26,588
then ask two questions.

1575
02:02:27,256 --> 02:02:30,258
How artfully has the objective
of the poem been rendered?

1576
02:02:30,468 --> 02:02:32,093
And two:

1577
02:02:33,637 --> 02:02:36,598
How important is that objective?

1578
02:02:36,766 --> 02:02:40,477
Question one rates the poem's perfection.
Question two rates its importance.

1579
02:02:40,644 --> 02:02:42,437
And once these questions
have been answered,

1580
02:02:42,605 --> 02:02:45,565
determining the poem's greatness
becomes a relatively simple matter.

1581
02:02:45,733 --> 02:02:48,902
"If the poem's score for perfection
is plotted on the horizontal of a graph..."

1582
02:02:49,070 --> 02:02:51,237
- Mr. Keating, they made everybody sign it.
- Quiet.

1583
02:02:51,405 --> 02:02:52,739
You gotta believe me, it's true.

1584
02:02:52,907 --> 02:02:54,908
- I do believe you, Todd.
- Leave, Mr. Keating.

1585
02:02:55,076 --> 02:02:56,826
- But it wasn't his fault.
- Sit down.

1586
02:02:57,036 --> 02:02:59,162
One more outburst from you
or anyone else,

1587
02:02:59,330 --> 02:03:01,623
and you're out of this school.

1588
02:03:01,791 --> 02:03:03,833
Leave, Mr. Keating.

1589
02:03:05,795 --> 02:03:08,463
I said leave, Mr. Keating.

1590
02:03:24,271 --> 02:03:25,355
O Captain! my Captain!

1591
02:03:25,564 --> 02:03:28,441
Sit down, Mr. Anderson.

1592
02:03:30,236 --> 02:03:32,612
Do you hear me? Sit down.

1593
02:03:33,322 --> 02:03:35,407
Sit down.

1594
02:03:37,284 --> 02:03:40,328
This is your final warning, Anderson.

1595
02:03:40,955 --> 02:03:42,997
How dare you?

1596
02:03:43,165 --> 02:03:45,500
Do you hear me?

1597
02:03:45,668 --> 02:03:47,377
O Captain! my Captain!

1598
02:03:49,004 --> 02:03:52,590
Mr. Overstreet, I warn you. Sit down.

1599
02:03:55,219 --> 02:03:57,011
Sit down.

1600
02:03:57,221 --> 02:03:58,888
Sit down. All of you.

1601
02:03:59,432 --> 02:04:02,308
I want you seated. Sit down.

1602
02:04:02,476 --> 02:04:03,893
Leave, Mr. Keating.

1603
02:04:12,403 --> 02:04:14,904
All of you, down. I want you seated.

1604
02:04:15,573 --> 02:04:17,615
Do you hear me?

1605
02:04:23,414 --> 02:04:25,665
Sit down.

1606
02:05:06,123 --> 02:05:07,957
Thank you, boys.

1607
02:05:10,002 --> 02:05:11,419
Thank you.