1 00:00:34,430 --> 00:00:36,510 [PEOPLE MURMURING] 2 00:00:41,850 --> 00:00:44,600 WOMAN: Now, remember, keep your shoulders back. 3 00:00:54,240 --> 00:00:56,240 Okay, put your arm around your brother. That's it. 4 00:00:57,070 --> 00:00:59,320 Right, and freeze. 5 00:01:00,660 --> 00:01:01,990 Okay, one more. 6 00:01:06,710 --> 00:01:08,750 MAN 1: Now, just to review, 7 00:01:08,920 --> 00:01:11,340 you're going to follow along the procession 8 00:01:11,500 --> 00:01:14,210 until you get to the headmaster. 9 00:01:14,380 --> 00:01:18,550 And at that point, he will indicate to you to light the candles of the boys. 10 00:01:18,720 --> 00:01:20,470 - All right. MAN 2: All right, boys, let's settle down. 11 00:01:29,860 --> 00:01:30,940 Banners up. 12 00:01:31,360 --> 00:01:33,440 [BAGPIPES PLAYING "SCOTLAND THE BRAVE"] 13 00:02:22,370 --> 00:02:27,750 Ladies and gentlemen, boys, the light of knowledge. 14 00:02:27,960 --> 00:02:30,040 [ORGAN PLAYING] 15 00:02:37,380 --> 00:02:39,470 [APPLAUSE] 16 00:02:43,260 --> 00:02:47,720 NOLAN: One hundred years ago, in 1 859, 17 00:02:48,890 --> 00:02:54,150 41 boys sat in this room and were asked the same question 18 00:02:54,360 --> 00:02:57,440 that now greets you at the start of each semester. 19 00:02:57,990 --> 00:03:01,360 Gentlemen, what are the four pillars? 20 00:03:03,990 --> 00:03:08,580 Tradition, honor, discipline, excellence. 21 00:03:10,790 --> 00:03:16,090 In her first year, Welton Academy graduated five students. 22 00:03:16,300 --> 00:03:19,090 Last year, we graduated 51. 23 00:03:19,300 --> 00:03:25,090 And more than 75 percent of those went on to the Ivy League. 24 00:03:27,350 --> 00:03:30,310 This kind of accomplishment 25 00:03:30,600 --> 00:03:36,270 is the result of fervent dedication to the principles taught here. 26 00:03:36,440 --> 00:03:40,490 This is why you parents have been sending us your sons. 27 00:03:41,450 --> 00:03:46,740 This is why we are the best preparatory school in the United States. 28 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:57,420 As you know, 29 00:03:58,090 --> 00:04:00,090 our beloved Mr. Portius of the English Department 30 00:04:00,260 --> 00:04:02,380 retired last term. 31 00:04:03,050 --> 00:04:05,510 You will have the opportunity later to meet his replacement, 32 00:04:05,680 --> 00:04:07,970 Mr. John Keating, 33 00:04:08,140 --> 00:04:10,720 himself an honors graduate of this school. 34 00:04:10,890 --> 00:04:12,980 And who, for the past several years, 35 00:04:13,190 --> 00:04:16,520 has been teaching at the highly regarded Chester School in London. 36 00:04:16,730 --> 00:04:18,820 [APPLAUSE] 37 00:04:22,490 --> 00:04:26,700 BOY 1: Richard, you forgot your bag. BOY 2: Hi, Charlie. Hey, how you doing? 38 00:04:26,870 --> 00:04:28,070 [CAR HORN HONKS] 39 00:04:28,240 --> 00:04:30,410 BOY 3: Don't worry, I've got your club assignment. 40 00:04:30,580 --> 00:04:32,660 [CHATTERING] 41 00:04:43,970 --> 00:04:45,760 NOLAN: I'm glad you could come by. 42 00:04:46,340 --> 00:04:49,180 - Thrilling ceremony as usual, Dr. Nolan. NOLAN: You've been away too long. 43 00:04:49,350 --> 00:04:50,850 - Hello, Dr. Nolan. NOLAN: How've you been? 44 00:04:51,020 --> 00:04:53,140 - This is our youngest, Todd. NOLAN: Mr. Anderson. 45 00:04:53,350 --> 00:04:55,230 You have some big shoes to fill, young man. 46 00:04:55,390 --> 00:04:56,850 Your brother was one of our finest. 47 00:04:57,600 --> 00:04:59,150 Thank you. 48 00:05:00,190 --> 00:05:03,110 WOMAN: Lovely ceremony. NOLAN: Thank you. I'm so glad you liked it. 49 00:05:03,280 --> 00:05:04,400 PERRY: Gale. - John. 50 00:05:04,570 --> 00:05:05,610 Good to see you again. 51 00:05:05,780 --> 00:05:07,530 - Hello, Mr. Nolan. - Neil. 52 00:05:07,700 --> 00:05:09,530 We expect great things from you this year. 53 00:05:09,700 --> 00:05:11,830 - Thank you, sir. - Well, he won't disappoint us. 54 00:05:11,990 --> 00:05:14,660 - Right, Neil? - I'll do my best, sir. 55 00:05:14,830 --> 00:05:16,040 [BELL TOLLING] 56 00:05:16,210 --> 00:05:19,540 MAN 1: Come on, son. No tears, now. WOMAN 1: Chin up. Chin up. 57 00:05:19,710 --> 00:05:21,460 - I don't want to go here. WOMAN 2: I love you. 58 00:05:21,630 --> 00:05:23,460 MAN 2: I'll walk you over. 59 00:05:24,420 --> 00:05:25,590 WOMAN 2: Do your lessons. 60 00:05:30,850 --> 00:05:32,850 Hey. I hear we're gonna be roommates. 61 00:05:33,020 --> 00:05:35,850 - I'm Neil Perry. - I'm Todd Anderson. 62 00:05:36,310 --> 00:05:39,650 - Why'd you leave Balincrest? TODD: My brother went here. 63 00:05:39,810 --> 00:05:41,770 Oh, so you're that Anderson. 64 00:05:41,980 --> 00:05:44,110 MAN: Well, this is in case of his sinuses. 65 00:05:44,280 --> 00:05:47,240 And, oh, if he can't swallow, you give him one of these. 66 00:05:47,400 --> 00:05:50,030 And if he has trouble breathing, you can give him some of those. 67 00:05:50,200 --> 00:05:51,240 - Fine, yes. - Ooh. 68 00:05:51,410 --> 00:05:53,870 - Did you remember your vaporizer? - Yeah, it's in my room. 69 00:05:54,080 --> 00:05:56,160 [CHATTERING] 70 00:05:59,880 --> 00:06:02,210 BOY 1: Hey, how's it going, Neil? BOY 2: Hey, Knox. 71 00:06:02,380 --> 00:06:05,670 CAMERON: Neil. Study group tonight? - Yeah, sure. 72 00:06:05,880 --> 00:06:07,220 Business as usual, huh? 73 00:06:07,380 --> 00:06:11,090 Hey, I heard you got the new kid. Looks like a stiff. Ha, ha. 74 00:06:11,760 --> 00:06:12,800 Oops. 75 00:06:15,970 --> 00:06:17,980 Listen, don't mind Cameron. 76 00:06:18,140 --> 00:06:21,770 He's born with his foot in his mouth. You know what I mean? 77 00:06:25,070 --> 00:06:27,990 Rumor has it you did summer school. 78 00:06:28,200 --> 00:06:31,910 Yep. Chemistry. My father thought I should get ahead. 79 00:06:32,070 --> 00:06:35,120 - How was your summer, Slick? - Keen. 80 00:06:37,450 --> 00:06:41,120 - Meeks, door, closed. - Yes, sir. 81 00:06:41,290 --> 00:06:43,540 Gentlemen, what are the four pillars? 82 00:06:43,710 --> 00:06:48,970 [IN UNISON] Travesty, horror, decadence, excrement. 83 00:06:49,430 --> 00:06:51,260 Okay. Study group. 84 00:06:51,430 --> 00:06:54,050 Meeks aced Latin, I didn't quite flunk English. 85 00:06:54,220 --> 00:06:56,430 So if you want, we got our study group. 86 00:06:56,600 --> 00:06:59,890 Sure, Cameron asked me too. Anyone mind including him? 87 00:07:00,060 --> 00:07:02,020 What's his specialty, bootlicking? 88 00:07:02,190 --> 00:07:05,360 - He's your roommate. - That's not my fault. 89 00:07:06,860 --> 00:07:10,650 - Uh, I'm sorry. My name is Steven Meeks. - Oh, this is Todd Anderson. 90 00:07:10,820 --> 00:07:12,410 MEEKS: Nice to meet you. - Nice to meet you. 91 00:07:12,570 --> 00:07:13,660 CHARLIE: Charlie Dalton. 92 00:07:16,370 --> 00:07:19,370 - I'm Knox Overstreet. - Todd's brother was Jeffrey Anderson. 93 00:07:19,540 --> 00:07:21,910 - Oh, yeah, sure. MEEKS: Well. 94 00:07:22,080 --> 00:07:24,460 Valedictorian. National Merit scholar. 95 00:07:24,630 --> 00:07:28,670 Oh, well. Welcome to Hell-ton. 96 00:07:28,840 --> 00:07:32,180 It's every bit as tough as they say, unless you're a genius like Meeks. 97 00:07:32,720 --> 00:07:34,970 He flatters me. That's why I help him with Latin. 98 00:07:35,140 --> 00:07:36,850 And English, and trig. 99 00:07:37,010 --> 00:07:38,060 [COUGHING] 100 00:07:38,220 --> 00:07:39,680 [KNOCKING ON DOOR] 101 00:07:40,350 --> 00:07:42,190 It's open. 102 00:07:44,230 --> 00:07:46,230 Father, I thought you'd gone. 103 00:07:46,400 --> 00:07:49,030 - Mr. Perry, sir. PERRY: Keep your seats, fellas. 104 00:07:50,440 --> 00:07:52,900 Neil, I've just spoken to Mr. Nolan. 105 00:07:53,070 --> 00:07:56,240 I think that you're taking too many extracurricular activities this semester, 106 00:07:56,410 --> 00:07:59,490 and I've decided that you should drop the school annual. 107 00:07:59,660 --> 00:08:03,000 - But I'm the assistant editor this year. - Well, I'm sorry, Neil. 108 00:08:03,210 --> 00:08:05,500 But, father, I can't. It wouldn't be fair. 109 00:08:05,670 --> 00:08:08,880 Fellas, could you excuse us for a moment? 110 00:08:21,310 --> 00:08:23,890 - Don't you ever dispute me in public. - Father, I wasn't-- 111 00:08:24,060 --> 00:08:26,520 After you've finished medical school and you're on your own, 112 00:08:26,690 --> 00:08:30,110 then you can do as you damn well please, but until then, you do as I tell you. 113 00:08:30,280 --> 00:08:33,400 - That clear? - Yes, sir, I'm sorry. 114 00:08:34,990 --> 00:08:38,070 Ahem. You know how much this means to your mother, don't you? 115 00:08:38,240 --> 00:08:39,700 Yes, sir. 116 00:08:41,160 --> 00:08:43,910 You know me, always taking on too much. 117 00:08:45,080 --> 00:08:47,040 Well, that's my boy. 118 00:08:47,580 --> 00:08:49,750 Now, listen, you need anything, you let us know, huh? 119 00:08:49,920 --> 00:08:51,380 Yes, sir. 120 00:08:59,930 --> 00:09:02,430 CHARLIE: Why doesn't he let you do what you want? 121 00:09:03,680 --> 00:09:06,520 Yeah, Neil. Tell him off. It couldn't get any worse. 122 00:09:06,690 --> 00:09:08,900 Oh, that's rich. Like you guys tell your parents off? 123 00:09:09,060 --> 00:09:11,020 Mr. Future-Lawyer and Mr. Future-Banker. 124 00:09:11,190 --> 00:09:13,190 Okay, so I don't like it any more than you do. 125 00:09:13,900 --> 00:09:16,490 Don't tell me how to talk to my father. You guys are the same. 126 00:09:16,660 --> 00:09:18,490 All right, all right. Jesus. 127 00:09:18,660 --> 00:09:20,530 - What are you gonna do? NEIL: What I have to do. 128 00:09:20,740 --> 00:09:22,370 Drop the annual. 129 00:09:22,540 --> 00:09:24,160 CHARLIE: I wouldn't lose too much sleep over it. 130 00:09:24,370 --> 00:09:26,710 It's just a bunch of jerks trying to impress Nolan. 131 00:09:26,920 --> 00:09:29,420 I don't care. I don't give a damn about any of it. 132 00:09:30,250 --> 00:09:32,840 Well, uh, Latin? Eight o'clock in my room? 133 00:09:33,010 --> 00:09:35,170 NEIL: Yes. - Sounds good. 134 00:09:35,340 --> 00:09:37,930 - Todd, you're welcome to join us. KNOX: Yeah, come along, pal. 135 00:09:38,090 --> 00:09:39,590 Thanks. 136 00:09:40,050 --> 00:09:41,390 [BELL TOLLING] 137 00:10:03,240 --> 00:10:05,330 [CHIRPING] 138 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:10,080 [CHATTERING] 139 00:10:17,550 --> 00:10:20,220 McAllister: Slow down, boys. 140 00:10:20,390 --> 00:10:23,890 Slow down, you horrible phalanx of pubescence. 141 00:10:24,060 --> 00:10:28,310 Pick three laboratory experiments from the project list 142 00:10:28,480 --> 00:10:32,190 and report on them every five weeks. 143 00:10:32,360 --> 00:10:37,230 The first 20 questions at the end of Chapter 1 are due tomorrow. 144 00:10:38,900 --> 00:10:40,990 [McAllister AND STUDENTS SPEAKING LATIN] 145 00:10:55,050 --> 00:10:56,090 Again, please. 146 00:10:56,250 --> 00:10:57,760 [CONTINUES SPEAKING LATIN] 147 00:10:57,920 --> 00:11:03,840 Your study of trigonometry requires absolute precision. 148 00:11:04,720 --> 00:11:08,810 Anyone failing to turn in any homework assignment 149 00:11:08,980 --> 00:11:14,020 will be penalized one point off their final grade. 150 00:11:14,190 --> 00:11:17,530 Let me urge you now not to test me on this point. 151 00:11:18,490 --> 00:11:20,570 [CHATTERING] 152 00:11:29,620 --> 00:11:31,290 KNOX: Hey, Spaz. Spaz. 153 00:11:33,170 --> 00:11:34,710 BOY 1: Brain damage. BOY 2: Shh. 154 00:11:34,880 --> 00:11:36,960 [WHISTLING] 155 00:11:55,900 --> 00:11:57,690 Well, come on. 156 00:11:59,440 --> 00:12:01,530 [MURMURING] 157 00:12:02,400 --> 00:12:04,660 BOY 3: Is he kidding? BOY 4: He's gotta be. 158 00:12:05,450 --> 00:12:06,490 NEIL: Let's go. KNOX: Where? 159 00:12:06,660 --> 00:12:08,280 Let's go, guys. 160 00:12:09,450 --> 00:12:11,620 Okay, go. 161 00:12:33,560 --> 00:12:36,650 O Captain! my Captain! 162 00:12:37,520 --> 00:12:39,610 Who knows where that comes from? 163 00:12:40,230 --> 00:12:41,730 Anybody? 164 00:12:46,450 --> 00:12:48,120 Not a clue? 165 00:12:48,620 --> 00:12:52,540 It's from a poem by Walt Whitman about Mr. Abraham Lincoln. 166 00:12:52,700 --> 00:12:55,540 Now, in this class, you can either call me Mr. Keating, 167 00:12:55,710 --> 00:12:59,500 or if you're slightly more daring, O Captain, My Captain. 168 00:13:03,760 --> 00:13:06,510 Now, let me dispel a few rumors so they don't fester into facts. 169 00:13:06,680 --> 00:13:10,260 Yes, I too attended Hell-ton and survived. 170 00:13:10,430 --> 00:13:14,640 And no, at that time, I was not the mental giant you see before you. 171 00:13:14,810 --> 00:13:18,270 I was the intellectual equivalent of a 98-pound weakling. 172 00:13:18,440 --> 00:13:19,480 I would go to the beach 173 00:13:19,650 --> 00:13:22,070 and people would kick copies of Byron in my face. 174 00:13:26,450 --> 00:13:27,530 Now, 175 00:13:28,370 --> 00:13:31,870 Mr. Pitts. 176 00:13:32,040 --> 00:13:36,540 That's a rather unfortunate name. Mr. Pitts, where are you? 177 00:13:37,750 --> 00:13:41,290 Mr. Pitts, will you open your hymnal to page 542? 178 00:13:41,460 --> 00:13:44,260 Read the first stanza of the poem you find there. 179 00:13:47,840 --> 00:13:49,470 "To the Virgins, To Make Much of Time"? 180 00:13:49,640 --> 00:13:51,140 KEATING: Yes, that's the one. 181 00:13:52,890 --> 00:13:54,810 Somewhat appropriate, isn't it? 182 00:13:56,270 --> 00:14:00,230 Gather ye rosebuds while ye may Old time is still a-flying: 183 00:14:00,400 --> 00:14:03,730 And this same flower that smiles to-day To-morrow will be dying. 184 00:14:04,650 --> 00:14:06,530 Thank you, Mr. Pitts. 185 00:14:07,320 --> 00:14:10,530 Gather ye rosebuds while ye may 186 00:14:10,700 --> 00:14:14,200 The Latin term for that sentiment is carpe diem. 187 00:14:14,370 --> 00:14:16,290 Now, who knows what that means? 188 00:14:18,160 --> 00:14:20,120 Carpe diem, that's "seize the day." 189 00:14:20,330 --> 00:14:22,000 - Very good, Mr...? MEEKS: Meeks. 190 00:14:22,170 --> 00:14:25,250 Meeks. Another unusual name. 191 00:14:25,630 --> 00:14:28,010 Seize the day. 192 00:14:28,170 --> 00:14:31,180 Gather ye rosebuds while ye may 193 00:14:32,260 --> 00:14:35,100 - Why does the writer use these lines? - Because he's in a hurry. 194 00:14:35,310 --> 00:14:36,680 No. Ding. 195 00:14:36,890 --> 00:14:39,060 Thanks for playing anyway. 196 00:14:41,400 --> 00:14:44,520 Because we are food for worms, lads. 197 00:14:45,190 --> 00:14:48,150 Because, believe it or not, each and every one of us in this room 198 00:14:48,320 --> 00:14:52,990 is one day going to stop breathing, turn cold and die. 199 00:14:55,240 --> 00:14:57,830 I would like you to step forward over here 200 00:14:58,000 --> 00:15:00,120 and peruse some of the faces from the past. 201 00:15:00,290 --> 00:15:01,960 You've walked past them many times, 202 00:15:02,130 --> 00:15:04,380 but I don't think you've really looked at them. 203 00:15:10,680 --> 00:15:12,890 They're not that different from you, are they? 204 00:15:14,050 --> 00:15:15,680 Same haircuts. 205 00:15:15,890 --> 00:15:18,850 Full of hormones, just like you. 206 00:15:19,310 --> 00:15:22,350 Invincible, just like you feel. 207 00:15:22,520 --> 00:15:24,480 The world is their oyster. 208 00:15:24,650 --> 00:15:27,570 They believe they're destined for great things, just like many of you. 209 00:15:27,780 --> 00:15:31,150 Their eyes are full of hope, just like you. 210 00:15:31,320 --> 00:15:33,780 Did they wait until it was too late to make from their lives 211 00:15:33,950 --> 00:15:36,200 even one iota of what they were capable? 212 00:15:36,370 --> 00:15:41,960 Because, you see, gentlemen, these boys are now fertilizing daffodils. 213 00:15:44,330 --> 00:15:46,710 But if you listen real close, 214 00:15:46,880 --> 00:15:49,550 you can hear them whisper their legacy to you. 215 00:15:50,170 --> 00:15:52,260 Go on, lean in. 216 00:15:52,430 --> 00:15:55,390 Listen. You hear it? 217 00:16:03,270 --> 00:16:05,400 [WHISPERING] Carpe... 218 00:16:08,270 --> 00:16:09,730 Hear it? 219 00:16:11,400 --> 00:16:15,570 Carpe... 220 00:16:17,240 --> 00:16:20,660 Carpe diem. 221 00:16:22,250 --> 00:16:26,420 Seize the day, boys. 222 00:16:27,130 --> 00:16:31,380 Make your lives extraordinary. 223 00:16:41,390 --> 00:16:43,480 [CHATTERING] 224 00:16:45,520 --> 00:16:48,150 - That was weird. - But different. 225 00:16:48,310 --> 00:16:51,030 Spooky, if you ask me. 226 00:16:51,190 --> 00:16:52,900 Think he'll test us on that stuff? 227 00:16:53,070 --> 00:16:56,280 Oh, come on, Cameron. Don't you get anything? 228 00:16:56,450 --> 00:16:59,160 What? What? 229 00:17:01,080 --> 00:17:04,580 Let's go, boys. Hustle up in here. That means you, Dalton. 230 00:17:04,750 --> 00:17:06,420 Who's up for a trig study group tonight? 231 00:17:06,580 --> 00:17:07,670 NEIL: Sure. CAMERON: Me. 232 00:17:07,830 --> 00:17:09,790 - What? - I can't make it, guys. 233 00:17:09,960 --> 00:17:12,710 I have to have dinner at the Danburrys' house tonight. 234 00:17:12,880 --> 00:17:14,380 PITTS: The Danburrys? Who are the Danburrys? 235 00:17:14,550 --> 00:17:16,380 CAMERON: Big alums. How'd you swing that? 236 00:17:16,550 --> 00:17:19,640 KNOX: Friends of my dad's. They're probably in their 90s or something. 237 00:17:19,800 --> 00:17:20,850 Sounds great, doesn't it? 238 00:17:21,010 --> 00:17:22,890 Anything's better than Hell-ton hash, Knox. 239 00:17:23,060 --> 00:17:25,930 CHARLIE: I'll second that. KNOX: Yeah, we'll see. 240 00:17:26,100 --> 00:17:29,440 Hey. Coming to the study group tonight? 241 00:17:29,610 --> 00:17:33,570 Uh, no. No, I've got some history I want to do. 242 00:17:33,740 --> 00:17:35,490 Suit yourself. 243 00:18:09,980 --> 00:18:12,110 Ready, Overstreet? 244 00:18:13,650 --> 00:18:15,570 Ready to go, sir. 245 00:18:40,550 --> 00:18:41,800 [DOORBELL RINGS] 246 00:18:41,970 --> 00:18:43,300 MRS. DANBURRY: Chet, can you get that? 247 00:18:43,470 --> 00:18:45,510 CHET: Can't, Mom. CHRIS: I'll get it. 248 00:18:51,940 --> 00:18:53,020 Can I help you? 249 00:18:53,980 --> 00:18:57,530 Hi. Knox Overstreet. Uh... 250 00:18:57,690 --> 00:19:00,400 - Dr. Hager. CHRIS: Hi. 251 00:19:01,070 --> 00:19:04,320 - This is the Danburrys', right? - Are you here to see Chet? 252 00:19:04,950 --> 00:19:07,080 - Mrs. Danburry? - No. 253 00:19:07,250 --> 00:19:10,040 Sorry. Thank you, Chris. I'm Mrs. Danburry. 254 00:19:10,250 --> 00:19:12,040 - You must be Knox. - Yes. 255 00:19:12,210 --> 00:19:14,210 MRS. DANBURRY: Back by 9? Please, come on in. 256 00:19:14,380 --> 00:19:15,880 CHET: Chris, come on. What are you doing? 257 00:19:16,050 --> 00:19:17,920 CHRIS: Chet, I'm coming. - Knox. 258 00:19:18,090 --> 00:19:20,260 - How are you? Joe Danburry. - Nice to meet you, sir. 259 00:19:20,430 --> 00:19:22,630 Well, he's the spitting image of his father, isn't he? 260 00:19:22,800 --> 00:19:24,140 - How is he? Come on in. CHET: Chris. 261 00:19:24,300 --> 00:19:25,970 He's great. He just did a big case for GM. 262 00:19:26,140 --> 00:19:27,890 - I know where you're headed. CHRIS: I'm coming. 263 00:19:28,060 --> 00:19:29,310 Like father, like son, huh? 264 00:19:33,100 --> 00:19:34,270 - Yes. - Bishop to queen six. 265 00:19:34,440 --> 00:19:37,150 BOY 1: All right, I think that's good. BOY 2: Another game? 266 00:19:38,860 --> 00:19:41,320 Just replace these numbers here with X-- For X and Y. 267 00:19:41,490 --> 00:19:44,160 - Of course. - Of course, so, what's the problem? 268 00:19:44,370 --> 00:19:47,700 BOY 3: Do you think I can get in there? You've been hogging it all day. 269 00:19:48,330 --> 00:19:49,870 How was dinner? 270 00:19:50,040 --> 00:19:51,290 Huh? 271 00:19:51,750 --> 00:19:53,580 CHARLIE: How was dinner? 272 00:19:54,330 --> 00:19:56,290 Terrible. 273 00:19:57,130 --> 00:20:00,050 - Awful. CHARLIE: Why? What happened? 274 00:20:03,550 --> 00:20:10,060 Tonight I met the most beautiful girl I have ever seen in my entire life. 275 00:20:10,270 --> 00:20:12,480 Are you crazy? What's wrong with that? 276 00:20:12,640 --> 00:20:14,600 KNOX: She's practically engaged. 277 00:20:14,770 --> 00:20:17,690 To Chet Danburry. 278 00:20:17,860 --> 00:20:20,150 - The guy could eat a football. - Too bad. 279 00:20:20,320 --> 00:20:23,780 Too bad? It's worse than too bad, Pitts, it's a tragedy. 280 00:20:23,950 --> 00:20:26,410 A girl this beautiful in love with such a jerk. 281 00:20:26,620 --> 00:20:28,990 All the good ones go for jerks, you know that. 282 00:20:29,200 --> 00:20:32,290 Yeah, forget her. Open your trig book and try and figure out Problem 5. 283 00:20:32,460 --> 00:20:36,080 I can't just forget her, Cameron. And I certainly can't think about trig. 284 00:20:36,670 --> 00:20:37,710 [RADIO SQUEALS] 285 00:20:37,880 --> 00:20:39,710 - We got it. BOY 4: Turn that up. 286 00:20:39,880 --> 00:20:42,130 All right, gentlemen. Five minutes. 287 00:20:42,340 --> 00:20:44,260 [SQUEALING AND BUZZING] 288 00:20:44,430 --> 00:20:46,970 - Let's go. - Did you see her naked? 289 00:20:47,140 --> 00:20:48,430 Very funny, Dalton. 290 00:20:48,640 --> 00:20:53,140 That wouldn't be a radio in your lap, would it, Mr. Pitts? 291 00:20:53,310 --> 00:20:55,980 No, sir. Science experiment. 292 00:20:57,440 --> 00:20:59,110 Radar. 293 00:21:03,530 --> 00:21:07,570 Gentlemen, open your texts to Page 21 of the introduction. 294 00:21:07,740 --> 00:21:11,030 Mr. Perry, will you read the opening paragraph of the preface, 295 00:21:11,200 --> 00:21:13,330 entitled "Understanding Poetry"? 296 00:21:14,710 --> 00:21:19,540 "Understanding Poetry, by Dr. J. Evans Pritchard, Ph.D. 297 00:21:19,710 --> 00:21:21,040 To fully understand poetry, 298 00:21:21,210 --> 00:21:25,340 we must first be fluent with its meter, rhyme and figures of speech, 299 00:21:25,510 --> 00:21:26,930 then ask two questions. 300 00:21:27,090 --> 00:21:29,720 One: How artfully has the objective of the poem been rendered? 301 00:21:29,890 --> 00:21:32,390 And two: How important is that objective? 302 00:21:32,560 --> 00:21:35,020 Question one rates the poem's perfection. 303 00:21:35,180 --> 00:21:37,190 Question two rates its importance. 304 00:21:37,350 --> 00:21:39,560 And once these questions have been answered, 305 00:21:39,730 --> 00:21:43,360 determining the poem's greatness becomes a relatively simple matter. 306 00:21:43,530 --> 00:21:48,110 If the poem's score for perfection is plotted on the horizontal of a graph, 307 00:21:48,280 --> 00:21:51,950 and its importance is plotted on the vertical, 308 00:21:52,410 --> 00:21:55,660 then calculating the total area of the poem 309 00:21:55,830 --> 00:21:57,750 yields the measure of its greatness. 310 00:22:01,290 --> 00:22:05,710 A sonnet by Byron might score high on the vertical, 311 00:22:05,880 --> 00:22:08,800 but only average on the horizontal. 312 00:22:08,970 --> 00:22:10,840 A Shakespearean sonnet, on the other hand, 313 00:22:11,010 --> 00:22:15,310 would score high both horizontally and vertically, 314 00:22:15,520 --> 00:22:17,310 yielding a massive total area, 315 00:22:17,890 --> 00:22:20,690 thereby revealing the poem to be truly great. 316 00:22:22,150 --> 00:22:25,570 As you proceed through the poetry in this book, practice this rating method. 317 00:22:25,740 --> 00:22:29,320 As your ability to evaluate poems in this manner grows, 318 00:22:29,490 --> 00:22:34,490 so will your enjoyment and understanding of poetry." 319 00:22:39,330 --> 00:22:40,620 Excrement. 320 00:22:43,170 --> 00:22:45,380 That's what I think of Mr. J. Evans Pritchard. 321 00:22:46,090 --> 00:22:48,630 We're not laying pipe. We're talking about poetry. 322 00:22:49,510 --> 00:22:51,970 How can you describe poetry like American Bandstand? 323 00:22:52,140 --> 00:22:56,220 "I like Byron. I give him a 42, but I can't dance to it." 324 00:22:56,390 --> 00:22:59,140 Now, I want you to rip out that page. 325 00:23:00,650 --> 00:23:03,560 Go on. Rip out the entire page. 326 00:23:06,280 --> 00:23:08,070 You heard me. Rip it out. 327 00:23:08,240 --> 00:23:10,820 Rip it out. 328 00:23:11,490 --> 00:23:13,530 Go on. Rip it out. 329 00:23:15,490 --> 00:23:17,330 Thank you, Mr. Dalton. 330 00:23:17,540 --> 00:23:21,160 Tell you what, don't just tear out that page, tear out the entire introduction. 331 00:23:21,370 --> 00:23:24,290 I want it gone, history. Leave nothing of it. 332 00:23:24,500 --> 00:23:26,000 Rip it out. Rip. 333 00:23:26,170 --> 00:23:28,710 Be gone, J. Evans Pritchard, Ph.D. 334 00:23:29,300 --> 00:23:31,970 Rip, shred, tear. Rip it out. 335 00:23:32,140 --> 00:23:35,050 I want to hear nothing but ripping of Mr. Pritchard. 336 00:23:35,220 --> 00:23:37,180 We'll perforate it, put it on a roll. 337 00:23:37,680 --> 00:23:40,730 It's not the Bible. You're not gonna go to hell for this. 338 00:23:41,230 --> 00:23:45,020 Go on. Make a clean tear. I want nothing left of it. 339 00:23:45,190 --> 00:23:46,820 [STUDENTS CHATTERING] 340 00:23:46,980 --> 00:23:50,650 - We shouldn't be doing this. - Rip, rip, rip. 341 00:23:50,860 --> 00:23:52,030 KEATING: Rip it out. Rip. 342 00:23:54,780 --> 00:23:56,240 BOY 1: Rip, rip. 343 00:23:58,290 --> 00:24:00,040 BOY 2: Yeah. 344 00:24:00,250 --> 00:24:02,080 BOY 3: Rip it out. 345 00:24:05,630 --> 00:24:07,590 What the hell is going on here? 346 00:24:09,090 --> 00:24:10,170 I don't hear enough rips. 347 00:24:11,220 --> 00:24:14,510 - Mr. Keating. - Mr. McAllister. 348 00:24:16,300 --> 00:24:19,600 I'm sorry. I didn't know you were here. 349 00:24:20,520 --> 00:24:21,600 I am. 350 00:24:22,350 --> 00:24:25,520 Ah. So you are. 351 00:24:26,440 --> 00:24:28,110 Excuse me. 352 00:24:29,610 --> 00:24:31,780 Keep ripping, gentlemen. 353 00:24:31,990 --> 00:24:34,570 This is a battle, a war. 354 00:24:34,780 --> 00:24:36,780 And the casualties could be your hearts and souls. 355 00:24:36,950 --> 00:24:38,370 Thank you, Mr. Dalton. 356 00:24:38,530 --> 00:24:41,830 Armies of academics going forward measuring poetry. 357 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:45,500 No. We'll not have that here. No more of Mr. J. Evans Pritchard. 358 00:24:45,670 --> 00:24:49,170 Now, in my class, you will learn to think for yourselves again. 359 00:24:49,340 --> 00:24:52,840 You will learn to savor words and language. 360 00:24:53,050 --> 00:24:59,390 No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world. 361 00:24:59,560 --> 00:25:02,930 Now, I see that look in Mr. Pitts' eye, like 1 9th-century literature 362 00:25:03,100 --> 00:25:05,770 has nothing to do with going to business school or medical school. 363 00:25:05,940 --> 00:25:08,270 Right? Maybe. 364 00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:10,270 Mr. Hopkins, you may agree with him, thinking, 365 00:25:10,440 --> 00:25:13,490 "Yes, we should simply study our Mr. Pritchard 366 00:25:13,650 --> 00:25:14,820 and learn our rhyme and meter 367 00:25:14,990 --> 00:25:19,280 and go quietly about the business of achieving other ambitions." 368 00:25:20,030 --> 00:25:22,700 I have a little secret for you. Huddle up. 369 00:25:22,870 --> 00:25:24,660 Huddle up. 370 00:25:32,670 --> 00:25:36,170 We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. 371 00:25:36,630 --> 00:25:40,760 We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. 372 00:25:40,930 --> 00:25:45,390 And the human race is filled with passion. 373 00:25:46,020 --> 00:25:49,350 And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits, 374 00:25:49,520 --> 00:25:51,520 and necessary to sustain life. 375 00:25:52,690 --> 00:25:58,360 But poetry, beauty, romance, love, 376 00:25:58,530 --> 00:26:00,910 these are what we stay alive for. 377 00:26:01,490 --> 00:26:03,580 To quote from Whitman: 378 00:26:04,080 --> 00:26:08,790 O me! O life!... Of the questions of these recurring; 379 00:26:08,960 --> 00:26:11,130 Of the endless trains of the faithless-- 380 00:26:11,670 --> 00:26:13,500 Of cities filled with the foolish; 381 00:26:13,670 --> 00:26:17,840 What good amid these, O me, O life? 382 00:26:18,010 --> 00:26:19,430 Answer. 383 00:26:19,590 --> 00:26:21,640 That you are here-- 384 00:26:21,800 --> 00:26:25,970 That life exists, and identity; 385 00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:31,400 That the powerful play goes on And you may contribute a verse. 386 00:26:33,230 --> 00:26:39,570 That the powerful play goes on And you may contribute a verse. 387 00:26:43,780 --> 00:26:45,290 What will your verse be? 388 00:26:49,420 --> 00:26:55,210 For what we are about to receive, may the Lord make us truly grateful. 389 00:26:55,380 --> 00:26:57,670 Amen. 390 00:27:01,970 --> 00:27:04,050 [PEOPLE CHATTERING] 391 00:27:09,270 --> 00:27:11,940 Quite an interesting class you gave today, Mr. Keating. 392 00:27:12,100 --> 00:27:13,730 Sorry if I shocked you, Mr. McAllister. 393 00:27:13,900 --> 00:27:16,110 There's no need to apologize. It was very fascinating. 394 00:27:16,280 --> 00:27:19,820 - Misguided though it was. - You think so? 395 00:27:19,990 --> 00:27:23,240 You take a big risk by encouraging them to become artists, John. 396 00:27:23,410 --> 00:27:27,160 When they realize that they're not Rembrandts, Shakespeares or Mozarts, 397 00:27:27,330 --> 00:27:28,620 they'll hate you for it. 398 00:27:28,790 --> 00:27:32,120 We're not talking artists, George, we're talking free thinkers. 399 00:27:32,290 --> 00:27:34,790 Free thinkers at 1 7? 400 00:27:35,130 --> 00:27:36,750 Funny, I never pegged you as a cynic. 401 00:27:39,420 --> 00:27:41,470 Not a cynic. 402 00:27:42,050 --> 00:27:43,890 A realist. 403 00:27:44,890 --> 00:27:48,310 Show me the heart Unfettered by foolish dreams 404 00:27:48,470 --> 00:27:50,350 And I'll show you a happy man. 405 00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:54,150 But only in their dreams Can men be truly free 406 00:27:54,310 --> 00:27:57,150 'Twas always thus And always thus will be. 407 00:27:58,650 --> 00:28:02,200 - Tennyson? - No, Keating. 408 00:28:03,610 --> 00:28:05,280 [CHUCKLING] 409 00:28:06,950 --> 00:28:08,910 Hey, I found his senior annual in the library. 410 00:28:10,290 --> 00:28:12,040 Listen to this: Captain of the soccer team, 411 00:28:12,250 --> 00:28:15,040 editor of the school annual, Cambridge bound, 412 00:28:15,250 --> 00:28:18,340 thigh man, and the Dead Poets Society. 413 00:28:18,550 --> 00:28:21,130 "Man most likely to do anything." 414 00:28:21,630 --> 00:28:24,590 Thigh man. Mr. K was a hell-raiser. 415 00:28:26,350 --> 00:28:28,510 - What's the Dead Poets Society? KNOX: Is there a picture? 416 00:28:28,680 --> 00:28:33,770 - Nothing, no other mention of it. NOLAN: That boy there, see me after lunch. 417 00:28:35,060 --> 00:28:36,900 [KEATING WHISTLING] 418 00:28:37,060 --> 00:28:38,770 NEIL: Mr. Keating. 419 00:28:39,570 --> 00:28:41,150 Mr. Keating. 420 00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:44,320 Sir? 421 00:28:44,490 --> 00:28:45,700 Say something. 422 00:28:45,870 --> 00:28:47,120 O Captain, My Captain? 423 00:28:47,990 --> 00:28:49,030 Gentlemen. 424 00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:50,240 [BOYS LAUGHING] 425 00:28:50,410 --> 00:28:53,410 NEIL: We were just looking in your old annual. 426 00:28:53,710 --> 00:28:55,750 Oh, my God. 427 00:28:56,460 --> 00:28:58,420 No, that's not me. 428 00:29:00,130 --> 00:29:02,260 Stanley "The Tool" Wilson. 429 00:29:04,220 --> 00:29:06,050 [CHUCKLING] 430 00:29:06,220 --> 00:29:08,470 - God. - What was the Dead Poets Society? 431 00:29:12,930 --> 00:29:16,310 I doubt the present administration would look too favorably upon that. 432 00:29:16,850 --> 00:29:19,110 Why? What was it? 433 00:29:22,190 --> 00:29:24,820 Gentlemen, can you keep a secret? 434 00:29:25,320 --> 00:29:26,990 Sure. 435 00:29:28,820 --> 00:29:33,870 The Dead Poets were dedicated to sucking the marrow out of life. 436 00:29:34,040 --> 00:29:37,580 That's a phrase from Thoreau we would invoke at the beginning of every meeting. 437 00:29:37,750 --> 00:29:40,170 See, we would gather at the old Indian cave 438 00:29:40,340 --> 00:29:44,630 and take turns reading from Thoreau, Whitman, Shelley, the biggies. 439 00:29:45,340 --> 00:29:46,510 Even some of our own verse. 440 00:29:46,720 --> 00:29:50,260 And in the enchantment of the moment, we'd let poetry work its magic. 441 00:29:50,470 --> 00:29:53,520 You mean it was a bunch of guys sitting around reading poetry? 442 00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:56,940 No, Mr. Overstreet, it wasn't just guys. 443 00:29:57,100 --> 00:30:00,020 We weren't a Greek organization, we were romantics. 444 00:30:00,190 --> 00:30:04,980 And we didn't just read poetry, we let it drip from our tongues like honey. 445 00:30:05,650 --> 00:30:08,150 Spirits soared, women swooned, 446 00:30:08,320 --> 00:30:10,490 and gods were created, gentlemen. 447 00:30:10,660 --> 00:30:12,280 Not a bad way to spend an evening, eh? 448 00:30:14,250 --> 00:30:16,910 Thank you, Mr. Perry, for this stroll down amnesia lane. 449 00:30:17,080 --> 00:30:20,500 Burn that. Especially my picture. 450 00:30:25,460 --> 00:30:29,130 - Dead Poets Society. CAMERON: What? 451 00:30:29,300 --> 00:30:31,390 [BELL RINGING] 452 00:30:33,560 --> 00:30:34,850 I say we go tonight. 453 00:30:35,020 --> 00:30:36,100 CHARLIE: Tonight? - Wait a minute. 454 00:30:36,270 --> 00:30:38,690 - Everybody in? - Where's this cave he's talking about? 455 00:30:38,850 --> 00:30:40,600 It's beyond the stream. I know where it is. 456 00:30:40,770 --> 00:30:42,400 That's miles. 457 00:30:42,570 --> 00:30:44,400 - Sounds boring to me. - Don't go. 458 00:30:44,570 --> 00:30:46,230 You know how many demerits we're talking? 459 00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:47,900 So don't come, please. 460 00:30:48,070 --> 00:30:50,610 Look, all I'm saying is that we have to be careful. 461 00:30:50,780 --> 00:30:53,660 - We can't get caught. - No shit, Sherlock. 462 00:30:53,870 --> 00:30:56,580 You boys there, hurry up. 463 00:30:56,750 --> 00:30:58,580 All right. Who's in? 464 00:30:58,790 --> 00:31:01,370 - Come on, Neil, Hager's there-- - Forget Hager. No. 465 00:31:01,540 --> 00:31:03,210 Who's in? 466 00:31:04,090 --> 00:31:05,170 I'm in. 467 00:31:05,750 --> 00:31:09,170 HAGER: I'm warning you. Move. 468 00:31:09,340 --> 00:31:11,220 - Me too. - I don't know, Neil. 469 00:31:11,390 --> 00:31:12,640 What? Pitts. 470 00:31:12,850 --> 00:31:14,680 CHARLIE: Pittsie, come on. MEEKS: His grades are hurting. 471 00:31:14,850 --> 00:31:17,680 - You can help him, Meeks. - What is this, a midnight study group? 472 00:31:17,850 --> 00:31:20,180 Forget it, you're coming. Meeks, your grades hurting too? 473 00:31:20,350 --> 00:31:22,690 - I'll try anything once. - Except sex. 474 00:31:22,860 --> 00:31:25,190 CAMERON: I'm in as long as we're careful. 475 00:31:25,360 --> 00:31:27,650 - What about you, Knox? KNOX: I don't know, Charlie. 476 00:31:27,820 --> 00:31:29,900 Come on, Knox. It'll help you get Chris. 477 00:31:30,070 --> 00:31:32,160 Yeah? How? 478 00:31:32,320 --> 00:31:35,700 - Women swoon. Ha, ha, ha. KNOX: But why do they swoon? 479 00:31:35,870 --> 00:31:39,330 Charlie, tell me why they swoon. Charlie. 480 00:31:40,120 --> 00:31:41,750 NEIL [WHISPERING]: You're not listening. 481 00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:44,330 Look, you follow the stream to the waterfall. 482 00:31:44,540 --> 00:31:46,130 It's right there. It's got to be like-- 483 00:31:46,300 --> 00:31:48,460 CAMERON: I don't know, guys, it's starting to sound dangerous. 484 00:31:48,630 --> 00:31:51,800 - Well, why don't you stay home? - You're crazy. 485 00:31:52,380 --> 00:31:56,300 For God's sake, stop chattering and sit down. 486 00:31:56,930 --> 00:31:59,020 [WHISPERING] 487 00:32:02,980 --> 00:32:05,480 NEIL: Todd, are you coming tonight? - No. 488 00:32:06,070 --> 00:32:07,820 Why not? You were there. You heard Keating. 489 00:32:07,980 --> 00:32:09,480 Don't you want to do something about--? 490 00:32:09,650 --> 00:32:11,780 Yes, but, uh... 491 00:32:12,910 --> 00:32:14,530 But what? 492 00:32:16,780 --> 00:32:20,450 Keating said that everybody took turns reading, 493 00:32:21,080 --> 00:32:23,080 and I don't want to do that. 494 00:32:23,250 --> 00:32:26,330 Gosh, you really have a problem with that, don't you? 495 00:32:28,130 --> 00:32:31,670 No, I don't have a problem. Neil, I just... 496 00:32:31,840 --> 00:32:34,880 - I don't want to do it, okay? - All right. 497 00:32:36,180 --> 00:32:39,470 What if you didn't have to read? What if you just came and listened? 498 00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:42,560 - That's not how it works. - Forget how it works. 499 00:32:42,730 --> 00:32:45,770 What if they said it was okay? 500 00:32:47,150 --> 00:32:49,520 What? What, are you gonna go up and ask them if...? 501 00:32:50,860 --> 00:32:52,780 - No, no. NEIL: I'll be right back. 502 00:32:52,950 --> 00:32:54,700 Neil. Neil. 503 00:32:58,910 --> 00:33:01,370 Oh, shut up, will you? 504 00:33:03,540 --> 00:33:06,210 SPAZ: That's for my asthma, okay? Could you give that back, please? 505 00:33:06,380 --> 00:33:07,460 Could you give that back? 506 00:33:07,630 --> 00:33:09,840 BOY 1: What's the matter? Don't you like snakes? 507 00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:11,670 - You're in. SPAZ: Get away from me, okay? 508 00:33:11,840 --> 00:33:14,380 BOY 2: Spaz, why don't you check your pockets? 509 00:33:15,630 --> 00:33:17,260 Come on, Spaz. I have to brush my teeth. 510 00:33:17,430 --> 00:33:19,140 SPAZ: Hurry up, get off. 511 00:33:19,300 --> 00:33:22,270 Cut out that racket in there. 512 00:34:05,390 --> 00:34:06,560 BOY 1 [WHISPERING]: Let's go. 513 00:34:06,730 --> 00:34:08,190 [DOG BARKING] 514 00:34:10,310 --> 00:34:13,190 BOY 2: Let's go, let's go, come on. 515 00:34:27,210 --> 00:34:30,830 BOY 3: Let's get out of here. BOY 4: Go. Shh. 516 00:35:05,990 --> 00:35:07,450 [WINGS RUSTLING] 517 00:35:56,210 --> 00:35:58,300 [OWL HOOTING] 518 00:36:03,300 --> 00:36:05,510 - Yarr! I'm a dead poet. MEEKS: Jesus, Charlie. 519 00:36:05,680 --> 00:36:09,390 CHARLIE: Guys, over here. Ha, ha, ha. MEEKS: You're funny. You're real funny. 520 00:36:10,140 --> 00:36:11,890 It's too wet. 521 00:36:12,060 --> 00:36:13,850 CHARLIE: God, you trying to smoke us out of here? 522 00:36:14,020 --> 00:36:15,940 MEEKS: No, the smoke's going right up this opening. 523 00:36:16,110 --> 00:36:18,020 [PITTS YELLS AND BOYS LAUGHING] 524 00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:21,360 NEIL: You okay? PITTS: Arghh. 525 00:36:21,530 --> 00:36:23,820 KNOX: Oh, God. MEEKS: Clod. 526 00:36:23,990 --> 00:36:26,740 NEIL: All right, all right, forget the fire. MEEKS: Forget it, forget it. 527 00:36:26,910 --> 00:36:29,990 NEIL: Let's go, gentlemen. MEEKS: It's like trying to light a swamp. 528 00:36:30,410 --> 00:36:33,330 I hereby reconvene the Dead Poets Society. 529 00:36:33,500 --> 00:36:35,250 BOYS: Yay. 530 00:36:35,420 --> 00:36:36,500 Welton Chapter. 531 00:36:36,670 --> 00:36:38,380 The meetings will be conducted by myself 532 00:36:38,550 --> 00:36:40,710 and the other new initiates now present. 533 00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:42,720 Todd Anderson, because he prefers not to read, 534 00:36:42,930 --> 00:36:45,260 will keep minutes of the meetings. 535 00:36:45,470 --> 00:36:47,300 I'll now read the traditional opening message 536 00:36:47,470 --> 00:36:50,390 by society member Henry David Thoreau. 537 00:36:51,060 --> 00:36:53,560 "I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. 538 00:36:53,730 --> 00:36:56,190 I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life." 539 00:36:56,400 --> 00:36:57,860 I'll second that. 540 00:36:58,480 --> 00:37:00,440 "To put to rout all that was not life, 541 00:37:00,610 --> 00:37:04,820 and not, when I had come to die, discover that I had not lived." 542 00:37:05,570 --> 00:37:07,030 [WHISTLES] 543 00:37:07,410 --> 00:37:10,030 And Keating's marked a bunch of other pages. 544 00:37:10,200 --> 00:37:11,450 CHARLIE: All right, intermission. 545 00:37:11,660 --> 00:37:13,750 Dig deep, right here. Right here, lay it down. 546 00:37:13,910 --> 00:37:15,870 KNOX: On the mud? We're gonna put our food on the mud? 547 00:37:16,080 --> 00:37:18,170 Meeks, put your coat down. Picnic blanket. 548 00:37:18,380 --> 00:37:21,090 PITTS: Use Meeks' coat. MEEKS: "Use Meeks' coat." 549 00:37:21,260 --> 00:37:23,050 CHARLIE: Don't keep anything back, either. 550 00:37:23,220 --> 00:37:25,170 You guys are always bumming my smokes. 551 00:37:25,340 --> 00:37:26,930 MEEKS: Raisins? PITTS: Yeah. 552 00:37:27,090 --> 00:37:28,140 CHARLIE: Wait a minute. 553 00:37:28,300 --> 00:37:31,100 - Who gave us half a roll? PITTS: I'm eating the other half. 554 00:37:31,270 --> 00:37:34,100 CHARLIE: Come on. PITTS: What, you want me to put it back? 555 00:37:34,310 --> 00:37:36,020 It was a dark and rainy night. 556 00:37:36,190 --> 00:37:39,560 And this old lady who had a passion for jigsaw puzzles 557 00:37:39,730 --> 00:37:44,150 sat by herself in her house at her table to complete a new jigsaw puzzle. 558 00:37:44,860 --> 00:37:49,030 As she pieced the puzzle together, she realized to her astonishment 559 00:37:49,200 --> 00:37:52,660 that the image that was formed was her very own room, 560 00:37:52,830 --> 00:37:56,370 and the figure in the center of the puzzle, as she completed it, 561 00:37:56,540 --> 00:37:57,620 was herself. 562 00:37:57,830 --> 00:38:01,960 And with trembling hands, she placed the last four pieces 563 00:38:02,130 --> 00:38:03,920 and stared in horror 564 00:38:04,090 --> 00:38:08,260 at the face of a demented madman at the window. 565 00:38:08,430 --> 00:38:10,680 The last thing that this old lady ever heard 566 00:38:10,850 --> 00:38:13,100 was the sound of breaking glass. 567 00:38:13,270 --> 00:38:14,720 - No shit. - Yes. 568 00:38:14,890 --> 00:38:17,020 This is true. This is true. 569 00:38:17,190 --> 00:38:19,650 I've got one that's even better than that. 570 00:38:19,810 --> 00:38:21,690 I do. There's a young married couple, 571 00:38:21,860 --> 00:38:24,530 and they're driving through the forest at night from a long trip. 572 00:38:24,690 --> 00:38:26,440 They run out of gas, and there's a madman-- 573 00:38:26,610 --> 00:38:29,280 - That thing with the hands? - And he cuts her husband's head off? 574 00:38:29,450 --> 00:38:31,370 - I love that story. CHARLIE: I told you that one. 575 00:38:31,580 --> 00:38:34,080 You did not. I got that in, uh, camp in sixth grade. 576 00:38:34,240 --> 00:38:38,710 In a mean abode in the Shanking road Lived a man named William Bloat; 577 00:38:38,870 --> 00:38:41,040 Now, he had a wife The plague of his life 578 00:38:41,210 --> 00:38:43,170 Who continually got his goat. 579 00:38:43,340 --> 00:38:45,670 And one day at dawn With her night shift on 580 00:38:45,840 --> 00:38:47,880 He slit her bloody throat. 581 00:38:49,090 --> 00:38:52,050 - Oh, and it gets worse. - You want to hear a real poem? 582 00:38:52,260 --> 00:38:54,600 PITTS: Want this? - No, I don't need it. Get this out of here. 583 00:38:54,770 --> 00:38:56,520 CAMERON: Did you bring one? NEIL: You memorized a poem? 584 00:38:56,680 --> 00:38:58,980 CHARLIE: I didn't memorize a poem. Move up. 585 00:38:59,140 --> 00:39:01,690 - An original piece by Charlie Dalton. CHARLIE: An original piece. 586 00:39:01,860 --> 00:39:04,110 - Take center stage. - You know this is history, right? 587 00:39:04,270 --> 00:39:05,480 This is history. 588 00:39:05,650 --> 00:39:07,110 [CLEARING THROAT] 589 00:39:13,740 --> 00:39:15,490 Where did you get that? 590 00:39:15,660 --> 00:39:17,750 [SNICKERING] 591 00:39:19,120 --> 00:39:24,210 Teach me to love? Go teach thy self more wit; 592 00:39:24,380 --> 00:39:26,460 I chief Professor am of it. 593 00:39:26,630 --> 00:39:30,340 The God of Love If such a thing there be 594 00:39:30,510 --> 00:39:32,970 May learn to love from me. 595 00:39:33,140 --> 00:39:35,890 NEIL: Wow. Did you write that? 596 00:39:40,100 --> 00:39:41,980 CHARLIE: Abraham Cowley. 597 00:39:42,190 --> 00:39:43,980 Okay, who's next? 598 00:39:44,190 --> 00:39:46,520 Alfred Lord Tennyson. 599 00:39:46,690 --> 00:39:48,900 Come, my friends 600 00:39:49,070 --> 00:39:51,950 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world. 601 00:39:52,110 --> 00:39:55,450 For my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset. 602 00:39:55,620 --> 00:39:56,950 And though we are not now 603 00:39:57,120 --> 00:40:01,580 That strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven; 604 00:40:01,750 --> 00:40:03,830 That which we are, we are 605 00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:08,210 One equal temper of heroic hearts 606 00:40:08,380 --> 00:40:12,050 Made weak by time and fate But strong in will 607 00:40:12,220 --> 00:40:16,470 To strive, to seek, to find 608 00:40:17,470 --> 00:40:19,720 And not to yield. 609 00:40:20,890 --> 00:40:23,350 Then I had religion And then I had a vision. 610 00:40:23,520 --> 00:40:25,900 I could not turn From their revel in derision. 611 00:40:26,060 --> 00:40:28,650 Then I saw the Congo Creeping through the black 612 00:40:28,820 --> 00:40:31,490 Cutting through the forest With a golden track. 613 00:40:31,700 --> 00:40:34,110 Then I saw the Congo Creeping through the black 614 00:40:34,280 --> 00:40:36,700 Cutting through the forest With a golden track. 615 00:40:36,870 --> 00:40:39,330 [CHANTING] Then I saw the Congo Creeping through the black 616 00:40:39,490 --> 00:40:42,000 Cutting through the forest With a golden track. 617 00:40:42,210 --> 00:40:44,580 Then I saw the Congo Creeping through the black 618 00:40:44,750 --> 00:40:47,040 Cutting through the forest With a golden track. 619 00:40:47,210 --> 00:40:49,630 Then I saw the Congo Creeping through the black 620 00:40:49,800 --> 00:40:52,380 Cutting through the forest With a golden track. 621 00:40:52,590 --> 00:40:54,590 Then I saw the Congo Creeping through the black 622 00:40:54,760 --> 00:40:57,050 Cutting through the forest With a golden track. 623 00:40:57,220 --> 00:40:59,430 Then I saw the Congo Creeping through the black 624 00:40:59,600 --> 00:41:01,930 Cutting through the forest With a golden track. 625 00:41:02,100 --> 00:41:04,440 Then I saw the Congo Creeping through the black 626 00:41:04,600 --> 00:41:06,940 Cutting through the forest With a golden track. 627 00:41:07,110 --> 00:41:09,400 NEIL: Take it, Meeks. Take it away. 628 00:41:09,570 --> 00:41:11,860 Cutting through the forest With a golden track. 629 00:41:12,030 --> 00:41:14,700 Then I saw the Congo creeping through the black 630 00:41:15,160 --> 00:41:17,240 [BELL TOLLING] 631 00:41:23,460 --> 00:41:26,120 A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. 632 00:41:26,290 --> 00:41:30,460 And don't use "very sad," use-- Come on, Mr. Overstreet, you twerp. 633 00:41:30,630 --> 00:41:34,130 KNOX: Morose? - Exactly, morose. 634 00:41:34,300 --> 00:41:37,340 Now, language was developed for one endeavor, and that is? 635 00:41:37,510 --> 00:41:41,100 Mr. Anderson? Come on, are you a man or an amoeba? 636 00:41:45,020 --> 00:41:46,850 Mr. Perry? 637 00:41:49,310 --> 00:41:53,400 - To communicate. - No. To woo women. 638 00:41:54,820 --> 00:41:57,070 Today we're gonna be talking about William Shakespeare. 639 00:41:57,240 --> 00:41:59,660 CHARLIE: Oh, God. - I know. 640 00:41:59,820 --> 00:42:01,160 A lot of you look forward to this 641 00:42:01,330 --> 00:42:03,790 about as much as you look forward to root canal work. 642 00:42:03,950 --> 00:42:05,370 We're gonna talk about Shakespeare 643 00:42:05,540 --> 00:42:08,040 as someone who writes something very interesting. 644 00:42:08,250 --> 00:42:11,790 Now, many of you have seen Shakespeare done very much like this: 645 00:42:11,960 --> 00:42:15,300 [IN NASAL VOICE] O, Titus, bring your friend hither. 646 00:42:15,470 --> 00:42:18,090 [IN NORMAL VOICE] But if any of you have seen Mr. Marlon Brando, 647 00:42:18,260 --> 00:42:20,640 [IMITATING MARLON BRANDO] you know Shakespeare can be different. 648 00:42:20,800 --> 00:42:26,060 Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears. 649 00:42:27,480 --> 00:42:30,230 [IN NORMAL VOICE] You can also imagine John Wayne as Macbeth going: 650 00:42:30,400 --> 00:42:33,860 [IMITATING JOHN WAYNE] "Well, is this a dagger I see before me?" 651 00:42:34,070 --> 00:42:35,990 [LAUGHING] 652 00:42:36,530 --> 00:42:38,450 [IN ENGLISH ACCENT] "Dogs, sir?" 653 00:42:38,610 --> 00:42:39,860 "Oh, not just now." 654 00:42:40,160 --> 00:42:41,240 [LAUGHING] 655 00:42:41,410 --> 00:42:44,450 "I do enjoy a good dog once in a while, sir. 656 00:42:44,620 --> 00:42:48,250 You can have yourself a three-course meal from one dog. 657 00:42:48,420 --> 00:42:51,170 Start with your canine crudités, 658 00:42:51,330 --> 00:42:56,960 go to your Fido flambé for main course, and for dessert, a Pekingese parfait. 659 00:42:57,130 --> 00:42:59,050 And you can pick your teeth with a little paw." 660 00:43:02,850 --> 00:43:04,720 [IN NORMAL VOICE] Why do I stand up here? Anybody? 661 00:43:04,890 --> 00:43:06,220 - To feel taller. KEATING: No. 662 00:43:07,310 --> 00:43:09,350 Thank you for playing, Mr. Dalton. 663 00:43:09,520 --> 00:43:11,810 I stand upon my desk to remind myself 664 00:43:11,980 --> 00:43:16,030 that we must constantly look at things in a different way. 665 00:43:21,360 --> 00:43:24,280 You see, the world looks very different from up here. 666 00:43:24,450 --> 00:43:25,530 You don't believe me? 667 00:43:26,120 --> 00:43:28,450 Come see for yourselves. Come on. 668 00:43:29,290 --> 00:43:30,620 Come on. 669 00:43:30,790 --> 00:43:32,710 Just when you think you know something, 670 00:43:32,880 --> 00:43:34,460 you have to look at it in another way. 671 00:43:34,630 --> 00:43:39,170 Even though it may seem silly or wrong, you must try. 672 00:43:39,340 --> 00:43:41,930 Now, when you read, don't just consider what the author thinks. 673 00:43:42,090 --> 00:43:44,260 Consider what you think. 674 00:43:46,100 --> 00:43:49,520 Boys, you must strive to find your own voice. 675 00:43:49,680 --> 00:43:53,850 Because the longer you wait to begin, the less likely you are to find it at all. 676 00:43:54,060 --> 00:43:57,270 Thoreau said, "Most men lead lives of quiet desperation." 677 00:43:57,440 --> 00:44:00,860 Don't be resigned to that. Break out. 678 00:44:01,490 --> 00:44:04,280 Don't just walk off the edge like lemmings, look around you. 679 00:44:04,490 --> 00:44:05,530 [BELL RINGING] 680 00:44:05,700 --> 00:44:08,870 There. There you go, Mr. Priske. Thank you, yes. 681 00:44:10,120 --> 00:44:13,710 Dare to strike out and find new ground. 682 00:44:14,710 --> 00:44:16,170 Now, in addition to your essays, 683 00:44:16,340 --> 00:44:20,550 I would like you to compose a poem of your own. An original work. 684 00:44:20,720 --> 00:44:22,680 [GROANING] 685 00:44:22,880 --> 00:44:24,470 [HUMMING] 686 00:44:25,300 --> 00:44:26,600 That's right. 687 00:44:26,760 --> 00:44:31,180 You have to deliver it aloud in front of the class on Monday. 688 00:44:31,350 --> 00:44:33,520 Bonne chance, gentlemen. 689 00:44:34,690 --> 00:44:36,560 Mr. Anderson? 690 00:44:37,270 --> 00:44:38,440 Don't think that I don't know 691 00:44:38,610 --> 00:44:41,740 that this assignment scares the hell out of you, you mole. 692 00:44:42,240 --> 00:44:44,320 [BOYS SNICKERING] 693 00:44:55,880 --> 00:44:57,750 Take a power train in two. 694 00:44:59,550 --> 00:45:00,800 Three. 695 00:45:00,960 --> 00:45:03,800 - Keep your eyes in the boat. BOY: Stroke. 696 00:45:03,970 --> 00:45:05,130 NOLAN: Quick, captain. BOY: Let's go. 697 00:45:05,840 --> 00:45:07,340 MEEKS: We got it, Pittsie, we got it. 698 00:45:07,510 --> 00:45:09,760 [WANDA JACKSON'S "LET'S HAVE A PARTY" PLAYING ON RADIO] 699 00:45:10,180 --> 00:45:12,850 Radio Free America. 700 00:45:13,060 --> 00:45:15,140 [GRUNTING] 701 00:45:26,740 --> 00:45:28,910 NOLAN: Let's do it again. 702 00:45:35,580 --> 00:45:37,040 [DOOR CLICKS] 703 00:45:40,960 --> 00:45:42,500 - I found it. - You found what? 704 00:45:42,670 --> 00:45:45,920 What I want to do right now. What's really, really inside of me. 705 00:45:46,130 --> 00:45:48,260 TODD: "A Midsummers Night's dream"? NEIL: This is it. 706 00:45:48,430 --> 00:45:50,430 TODD: What is that? NEIL: It's a play, dummy. 707 00:45:50,600 --> 00:45:53,810 I know that. What does it have to do with you? 708 00:45:54,020 --> 00:45:55,980 All right, they're putting it on at Henley Hall. 709 00:45:56,140 --> 00:45:58,350 Open tryouts. Open tryouts. 710 00:45:58,560 --> 00:46:00,360 - Yes, so? - So... 711 00:46:01,900 --> 00:46:02,980 I'm gonna act. 712 00:46:03,490 --> 00:46:04,940 Aha! 713 00:46:05,280 --> 00:46:07,450 Yes, yes, I'm gonna be an actor. 714 00:46:07,610 --> 00:46:09,700 Ever since I can remember, I've wanted to try this. 715 00:46:09,870 --> 00:46:12,120 I even tried to go to summer stock auditions last year, 716 00:46:12,290 --> 00:46:14,240 but, of course, my father wouldn't let me. 717 00:46:14,410 --> 00:46:17,460 For the first time in my whole life, I know what I want to do. 718 00:46:17,620 --> 00:46:20,040 And for the first time, I'm gonna do it! 719 00:46:20,250 --> 00:46:23,880 Whether my father wants me to or not. Carpe diem! 720 00:46:24,090 --> 00:46:25,420 Neil, Neil, hold on. 721 00:46:25,590 --> 00:46:28,930 How are you gonna be in a play if your father won't let you? 722 00:46:29,140 --> 00:46:31,720 First, I gotta get the part, then I can worry about that. 723 00:46:31,890 --> 00:46:35,060 Won't he kill you if he finds out you went to an audition and didn't tell him? 724 00:46:35,230 --> 00:46:38,060 No. As far as I'm concerned, he won't have to know about any of this. 725 00:46:38,230 --> 00:46:40,850 - That's impossible. - Bullshit, nothing's impossible. 726 00:46:41,020 --> 00:46:43,570 Why don't you just call him and ask him? Maybe he'll say yes. 727 00:46:43,730 --> 00:46:45,150 That's a laugh. 728 00:46:47,740 --> 00:46:49,990 If I don't ask him, at least I won't be disobeying him. 729 00:46:50,160 --> 00:46:53,700 -Yeah, but if he said no-- -Jesus, Todd, whose side are you on? 730 00:47:03,880 --> 00:47:06,630 I mean, I haven't even gotten the part yet. 731 00:47:07,760 --> 00:47:11,010 Can't I even enjoy the idea for a little while? 732 00:47:20,770 --> 00:47:22,560 You're coming to the meeting this afternoon? 733 00:47:22,730 --> 00:47:24,900 I don't know. Maybe. 734 00:47:25,320 --> 00:47:29,150 Nothing Mr. Keating has to say means shit to you, does it, Todd? 735 00:47:29,990 --> 00:47:31,780 - What does that mean? - You're in the club. 736 00:47:31,950 --> 00:47:34,660 Being in the club means being stirred up by things. 737 00:47:34,830 --> 00:47:36,660 You look about as stirred up as a cesspool. 738 00:47:36,830 --> 00:47:39,330 - So you want me out? - No, I want you in. 739 00:47:39,500 --> 00:47:41,290 But being in means you gotta do something, 740 00:47:41,460 --> 00:47:42,540 not just say you're in. 741 00:47:43,080 --> 00:47:44,290 Well, listen, Neil. 742 00:47:44,460 --> 00:47:49,630 I appreciate this concern, but I'm not like you, all right? 743 00:47:49,840 --> 00:47:52,430 You say things and people listen. 744 00:47:52,590 --> 00:47:55,180 - I'm not like that. - Don't you think you could be? 745 00:47:55,350 --> 00:47:56,970 No. I-- 746 00:47:57,430 --> 00:47:59,100 I don't know, but that's not the point. 747 00:47:59,270 --> 00:48:01,690 The point is that there's nothing you can do about it. 748 00:48:01,850 --> 00:48:05,650 So you can just butt out. I can take care of myself just fine. 749 00:48:05,860 --> 00:48:07,690 All right? 750 00:48:10,650 --> 00:48:11,860 No. 751 00:48:15,280 --> 00:48:16,740 What do you mean, no? 752 00:48:19,370 --> 00:48:20,910 No. 753 00:48:21,460 --> 00:48:24,460 - Give me-- Neil, give that back. - What is this? "We are dreaming of a--" 754 00:48:24,630 --> 00:48:27,460 What it this? Poetry. I'm being chased by Walt Whitman. 755 00:48:27,630 --> 00:48:28,840 [LAUGHING] 756 00:48:29,010 --> 00:48:31,130 Okay, okay. 757 00:48:31,300 --> 00:48:34,130 What are you guys doing? I'm trying-- You see this chemistry--? 758 00:48:34,300 --> 00:48:37,430 Hey, give me-- Neil, give me-- Don't be immature. 759 00:48:37,600 --> 00:48:39,510 Come on, I need my-- 760 00:48:39,680 --> 00:48:41,180 Give it to me. Give it to me. 761 00:48:41,350 --> 00:48:43,600 NEIL: Charlie, help me. 762 00:48:43,770 --> 00:48:45,900 MEEKS: Grab that book. I need-- 763 00:48:46,060 --> 00:48:48,110 [YELLING AND WHOOPING] 764 00:48:49,150 --> 00:48:50,190 Whoo. 765 00:48:50,360 --> 00:48:51,820 [FLUTE PLAYING] 766 00:49:15,180 --> 00:49:17,050 Whoo! 767 00:49:19,220 --> 00:49:21,310 [WHOOPING] 768 00:49:32,190 --> 00:49:34,280 [TRUMPETS PLAYING] 769 00:49:34,450 --> 00:49:36,530 [CHEERING] 770 00:49:47,580 --> 00:49:49,670 [MARCHING BAND PLAYING AND PEOPLE WHOOPING] 771 00:50:17,240 --> 00:50:19,410 COACH: Okay, everybody on the bus. 772 00:50:19,620 --> 00:50:21,580 Let's go, boys. 773 00:50:22,540 --> 00:50:26,910 Come on, let's go. On the bus, boys, now. 774 00:50:29,460 --> 00:50:32,460 Now, devotees may argue that one sport or game 775 00:50:32,630 --> 00:50:35,300 is inherently better than another. 776 00:50:35,470 --> 00:50:37,970 For me, sport is actually a chance for us 777 00:50:38,130 --> 00:50:41,220 to have other human beings push us to excel. 778 00:50:41,890 --> 00:50:44,890 I want you all to come over here and take a slip of paper 779 00:50:45,100 --> 00:50:47,430 and line up single file. 780 00:50:48,020 --> 00:50:50,400 Mr. Meeks, time to inherit the earth. 781 00:50:50,560 --> 00:50:53,860 Mr. Pitts, rise above your name. 782 00:50:54,030 --> 00:50:57,490 I want you to hand these out to the boys, one apiece. 783 00:50:59,070 --> 00:51:00,160 [WHISTLE BLOWS] 784 00:51:00,320 --> 00:51:01,990 You know what to do, Pitts. 785 00:51:02,160 --> 00:51:05,490 O to struggle against great odds To meet enemies undaunted. 786 00:51:05,660 --> 00:51:08,500 KEATING: Sounds to me like you're daunted. Say it like you're undaunted. 787 00:51:08,660 --> 00:51:11,710 O to struggle against great odds To meet enemies undaunted. 788 00:51:11,880 --> 00:51:13,710 KEATING: Now, go on. 789 00:51:14,210 --> 00:51:16,420 Yes. Next. 790 00:51:17,220 --> 00:51:21,260 To be a sailor of the world Bound for all ports. 791 00:51:22,010 --> 00:51:24,010 KEATING: Next. Louder. 792 00:51:24,180 --> 00:51:27,890 O while I live to be the ruler of life Not a slave. 793 00:51:29,140 --> 00:51:30,270 To mount the scaffolds 794 00:51:30,440 --> 00:51:33,520 To advance to the muzzles of guns With perfect nonchalance! 795 00:51:33,860 --> 00:51:35,940 [CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYING OVER PHONOGRAPH] 796 00:51:39,150 --> 00:51:40,990 Come on, Meeks. Listen to the music. 797 00:51:41,740 --> 00:51:47,080 To dance, clap hands, exult Shout, skip, roll on, float on! 798 00:51:47,250 --> 00:51:48,870 KEATING: Yes. 799 00:51:50,330 --> 00:51:55,040 O to have life henceforth A poem of new joys 800 00:51:55,710 --> 00:51:57,880 Aw, pbbt. Boo. 801 00:51:58,050 --> 00:52:00,260 Come on, Charlie, let it fill your soul. 802 00:52:00,880 --> 00:52:03,800 To indeed be a god. 803 00:52:05,010 --> 00:52:08,350 Charlie, I got the part. Rah! 804 00:52:08,520 --> 00:52:10,520 I'm gonna play Puck. I'm gonna play Puck. 805 00:52:10,690 --> 00:52:12,100 PITTS: What did he say? KNOX: Puck? 806 00:52:12,270 --> 00:52:13,560 - The main part. KNOX: Great, Neil. 807 00:52:13,730 --> 00:52:14,770 NEIL: Charlie, I got it. 808 00:52:14,940 --> 00:52:18,190 CAMERON: Congratulations. CHARLIE: Good for you, Neil. Good for you. 809 00:52:18,780 --> 00:52:21,280 Okay, okay, okay. 810 00:52:21,990 --> 00:52:24,240 Neil, how are you gonna do this? 811 00:52:24,410 --> 00:52:28,120 They need a letter of permission from my father and Mr. Nolan. 812 00:52:28,290 --> 00:52:31,080 - You're not gonna write it. - Oh, yes, I am. 813 00:52:31,250 --> 00:52:33,120 Oh, Neil, you're crazy. 814 00:52:33,290 --> 00:52:34,750 [SQUAWKS] 815 00:52:35,330 --> 00:52:36,380 Okay. 816 00:52:36,540 --> 00:52:40,260 "I am writing to you 817 00:52:40,420 --> 00:52:46,300 on behalf of my son, 818 00:52:46,470 --> 00:52:49,890 Neil Perry." 819 00:52:50,060 --> 00:52:51,560 [LAUGHING] 820 00:52:51,730 --> 00:52:53,140 This is great. 821 00:52:53,770 --> 00:52:55,850 [BAGPIPES PLAYING] 822 00:53:21,670 --> 00:53:23,760 [MOUTHING] 823 00:53:43,440 --> 00:53:46,110 - "To Chris." BOY: Who's Chris? 824 00:53:46,280 --> 00:53:48,990 CHARLIE: Mmm. Chris. 825 00:53:49,580 --> 00:53:52,370 I see a sweetness in her smile. 826 00:53:52,790 --> 00:53:55,660 Bright light shines from her eyes. 827 00:53:57,080 --> 00:54:00,790 But life is complete Contentment is mine 828 00:54:00,960 --> 00:54:02,250 Just knowing that... 829 00:54:02,420 --> 00:54:04,510 [BOYS SNORTING AND SNICKERING] 830 00:54:04,920 --> 00:54:06,760 Just knowing that 831 00:54:06,930 --> 00:54:08,090 [HOPKINS LAUGHING] 832 00:54:08,260 --> 00:54:10,100 She's alive. 833 00:54:10,260 --> 00:54:12,810 - Sorry, captain, it's stupid. - No, no, it's not stupid. 834 00:54:12,970 --> 00:54:14,350 It's a good effort. 835 00:54:14,520 --> 00:54:17,020 It touched on one of the major themes: love. 836 00:54:17,650 --> 00:54:20,150 A major theme not only in poetry, but life. 837 00:54:20,860 --> 00:54:24,610 Mr. Hopkins, you were laughing. You're up. 838 00:54:34,200 --> 00:54:37,960 The cat sat on the mat. 839 00:54:38,420 --> 00:54:40,500 [BOYS LAUGHING] 840 00:54:44,130 --> 00:54:45,380 KEATING: Congratulations, Mr. Hopkins. 841 00:54:45,550 --> 00:54:48,800 You have the first poem to ever have a negative score on the Pritchard scale. 842 00:54:48,970 --> 00:54:50,180 [BOYS LAUGHING] 843 00:54:50,340 --> 00:54:52,430 We're not laughing at you, we're laughing near you. 844 00:54:52,680 --> 00:54:54,600 I don't mind that your poem had a simple theme. 845 00:54:54,770 --> 00:54:56,890 The most beautiful poetry can be about simple things 846 00:54:57,060 --> 00:54:59,730 like a cat, or a flower, or rain. 847 00:54:59,900 --> 00:55:03,060 You see, poetry can come from anything with the stuff of revelation in it. 848 00:55:03,230 --> 00:55:05,400 Just don't let your poems be ordinary. 849 00:55:08,070 --> 00:55:10,530 Now, who's next? 850 00:55:11,490 --> 00:55:15,160 Mr. Anderson, I see you sitting there in agony. 851 00:55:15,870 --> 00:55:18,330 Come on, Todd, step up. Let's put you out of your misery. 852 00:55:21,290 --> 00:55:23,250 I didn't do it. I didn't write a poem. 853 00:55:27,170 --> 00:55:29,170 Mr. Anderson thinks that everything inside of him 854 00:55:29,340 --> 00:55:31,970 is worthless and embarrassing. 855 00:55:32,140 --> 00:55:35,310 Isn't that right, Todd? Isn't that your worst fear? 856 00:55:36,890 --> 00:55:38,140 Well, I think you're wrong. 857 00:55:38,310 --> 00:55:42,230 I think you have something inside of you that is worth a great deal. 858 00:55:42,650 --> 00:55:45,230 "I sound 859 00:55:46,190 --> 00:55:51,530 my barbaric 860 00:55:52,570 --> 00:55:54,240 yawp 861 00:55:57,370 --> 00:56:02,040 over the rooftops of the world." 862 00:56:04,340 --> 00:56:07,960 W.W., Uncle Walt again. 863 00:56:08,130 --> 00:56:12,680 Now, for those of you who don't know, a yawp is a loud cry or yell. 864 00:56:12,840 --> 00:56:17,100 Now, Todd, I would like you to give us a demonstration of a barbaric yawp. 865 00:56:18,890 --> 00:56:22,940 Come on, you can't yawp sitting down. Let's go. Come on, up. 866 00:56:23,100 --> 00:56:25,230 Gotta get in yawping stance. 867 00:56:25,400 --> 00:56:27,230 [BOYS LAUGHING] 868 00:56:27,400 --> 00:56:30,650 - A yawp. - No, not just a yawp. A barbaric yawp. 869 00:56:30,820 --> 00:56:31,950 Yeah, yeah, right. 870 00:56:32,110 --> 00:56:35,120 - Yawp. - Come on, louder. 871 00:56:35,280 --> 00:56:36,450 - Yawp. - Oh, that's a mouse. 872 00:56:36,620 --> 00:56:38,490 - Come on, louder. - Yawp. 873 00:56:38,660 --> 00:56:40,120 - God, boy, yell like a man. - Yawp! 874 00:56:40,290 --> 00:56:43,370 There it is. You see, you have a barbarian in you after all. 875 00:56:43,540 --> 00:56:46,880 Now, you don't get away that easy. There's a picture of Uncle Walt up there. 876 00:56:47,040 --> 00:56:50,460 What does he remind you of? Don't think, answer. Go on. 877 00:56:50,630 --> 00:56:52,170 - A madman. KEATING: What kind of madman? 878 00:56:52,340 --> 00:56:54,590 - Don't think about it, answer again. - A crazy madman. 879 00:56:54,760 --> 00:56:57,180 You can do better. Free up your mind, use your imagination. 880 00:56:57,350 --> 00:57:00,180 Say the first thing that pops into your head, even if it's gibberish. 881 00:57:00,350 --> 00:57:01,930 A sweaty-toothed madman. 882 00:57:02,100 --> 00:57:04,690 Good God, boy, there's a poet in you after all. 883 00:57:04,850 --> 00:57:07,440 There, close your eyes. Close your eyes, close them. 884 00:57:07,610 --> 00:57:10,400 Now describe what you see. 885 00:57:10,570 --> 00:57:13,530 - I close my eyes. KEATING: Yes? 886 00:57:13,700 --> 00:57:16,450 - And this image floats beside me. - A sweaty-toothed madman. 887 00:57:16,620 --> 00:57:19,580 A sweaty-toothed madman with a stare that pounds my brain. 888 00:57:19,740 --> 00:57:22,410 Oh, that's excellent. Now give him action. Make him do something. 889 00:57:22,580 --> 00:57:25,500 - His hands reach out and choke me. KEATING: That's it, wonderful, wonderful. 890 00:57:25,670 --> 00:57:27,920 - And all the time he's mumbling. - What's he mumbling? 891 00:57:28,090 --> 00:57:31,340 Mumbling truth. Truth, like a blanket that always leaves your feet cold. 892 00:57:31,510 --> 00:57:32,670 [BOYS LAUGHING] 893 00:57:32,840 --> 00:57:34,800 Forget them, forget them. Stay with the blanket. 894 00:57:34,970 --> 00:57:36,300 Tell me about that blanket. 895 00:57:36,470 --> 00:57:39,100 You can push it, stretch it, it'll never be enough. 896 00:57:39,260 --> 00:57:41,810 You kick at it, beat it, it'll never cover any of us. 897 00:57:41,970 --> 00:57:44,810 From the moment we enter crying to the moment we leave dying, 898 00:57:44,980 --> 00:57:49,770 it'll just cover your face as you wail and cry and scream. 899 00:57:55,490 --> 00:57:56,530 [BOYS CLAPPING] 900 00:57:56,700 --> 00:57:58,240 BOY 1: Yeah. BOY 2: Yeah. 901 00:57:58,870 --> 00:58:01,160 KEATING: Don't you forget this. 902 00:59:01,260 --> 00:59:03,350 [COUGHING AND LAUGHING] 903 00:59:03,850 --> 00:59:07,060 - Atta boy, Pittsie, inhale deeply. MEEKS: My dad collects a lot of pipes. 904 00:59:07,270 --> 00:59:10,190 CHARLIE: Really? Mine's got 30. PITTS: Your parents collect pipes? 905 00:59:10,350 --> 00:59:12,190 Oh, that's really interesting. 906 00:59:12,690 --> 00:59:15,360 Come on, Knox. Join in. 907 00:59:15,530 --> 00:59:17,360 We're from the government. We're here to help. 908 00:59:17,530 --> 00:59:19,780 - What's wrong? - It's Chris. 909 00:59:19,950 --> 00:59:23,660 - Here's a picture of Chris for you. - Put that in your pipe and smoke it. 910 00:59:23,830 --> 00:59:25,620 - That's not funny. CHARLIE: Knock it off. 911 00:59:25,790 --> 00:59:27,370 - Smoke your pipes. - Okay. 912 00:59:27,540 --> 00:59:28,910 MEEKS: Neil. 913 00:59:29,080 --> 00:59:32,250 Friends, scholars, Welton men. 914 00:59:33,130 --> 00:59:35,710 MEEKS: What is that, Neil? - Duh. It's a lamp, Meeks. 915 00:59:35,880 --> 00:59:38,970 No, this is the god of the cave. 916 00:59:39,130 --> 00:59:40,220 MEEKS: The god of the cave? 917 00:59:40,380 --> 00:59:41,880 [SAXOPHONE PLAYING LOW NOTE] 918 00:59:43,680 --> 00:59:44,850 Charlie, what are you doing? 919 00:59:45,010 --> 00:59:46,640 What do you say we start this meeting? 920 00:59:46,810 --> 00:59:48,220 Yeah, just-- I need a light. 921 00:59:48,390 --> 00:59:50,810 - Who's got a light? - Did you bring the earplugs? 922 00:59:51,940 --> 00:59:55,820 Gentlemen, "Poetrusic," by Charles Dalton. 923 00:59:55,980 --> 00:59:57,780 - Oh, boy. - He's gonna play. 924 00:59:58,030 --> 00:59:59,820 [SAXOPHONE PLAYING] 925 00:59:59,990 --> 01:00:01,530 Oh, no. 926 01:00:01,700 --> 01:00:04,320 CHARLIE: Laughing, crying, tumbling, mumbling. 927 01:00:04,490 --> 01:00:07,330 Gotta do more. Gotta be more. 928 01:00:08,750 --> 01:00:10,200 [GRUNTS] 929 01:00:11,830 --> 01:00:15,380 Chaos screaming, chaos dreaming Gotta do more, gotta be more. 930 01:00:16,420 --> 01:00:18,500 [PLAYING] 931 01:00:48,330 --> 01:00:49,370 Wow. 932 01:00:49,540 --> 01:00:50,910 - That was nice. - That was great. 933 01:00:51,080 --> 01:00:52,710 Where did you learn to play like that? 934 01:00:52,870 --> 01:00:55,790 My parents made me take the clarinet for years. 935 01:00:55,960 --> 01:00:58,040 - I love the clarinet. - I hated it. 936 01:00:58,340 --> 01:00:59,750 [LAUGHING] 937 01:00:59,920 --> 01:01:01,300 The saxophone. 938 01:01:01,470 --> 01:01:05,220 The saxophone is more sonorous. 939 01:01:05,430 --> 01:01:06,680 Ooh. 940 01:01:06,850 --> 01:01:08,640 - Vocabulary. - Look at him. 941 01:01:08,810 --> 01:01:12,930 I can't take it anymore. If I don't have Chris, I'm gonna kill myself. 942 01:01:13,100 --> 01:01:14,890 CHARLIE: Knoxious, you've gotta calm down. 943 01:01:15,060 --> 01:01:16,980 No, Charlie. 944 01:01:17,310 --> 01:01:21,320 That's just my problem. I've been calm all my life. 945 01:01:21,490 --> 01:01:23,780 - I'm gonna do something about that. - Where you going? 946 01:01:24,410 --> 01:01:27,620 - What are you gonna do? - I'm gonna call her. Yeah. 947 01:01:27,830 --> 01:01:29,910 [SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY] 948 01:01:32,160 --> 01:01:33,620 [LINE RINGING] 949 01:01:33,790 --> 01:01:35,500 CHRIS [ON PHONE]: Hello? 950 01:01:37,540 --> 01:01:38,630 She's gonna hate me. 951 01:01:40,800 --> 01:01:42,670 The Danburrys will hate me. 952 01:01:42,880 --> 01:01:45,590 My parents will kill me. 953 01:01:50,180 --> 01:01:52,430 All right, goddamn it. 954 01:01:52,600 --> 01:01:56,190 You're right. Carpe diem. 955 01:01:56,400 --> 01:01:58,650 Even if it kills me. 956 01:02:04,650 --> 01:02:06,740 [LINE RINGING] 957 01:02:07,160 --> 01:02:08,870 CHRIS [ON PHONE]: Hello? - Hello, Chris? 958 01:02:09,030 --> 01:02:12,660 - Yes? - Hi, this is Knox Overstreet. 959 01:02:13,620 --> 01:02:17,000 Oh, yes, Knox. Glad you called. 960 01:02:17,170 --> 01:02:18,290 [WHISPERING] She's glad I called. 961 01:02:18,500 --> 01:02:20,960 Listen, Chet's parents are going out of town this weekend 962 01:02:21,130 --> 01:02:22,300 and he's having a party. 963 01:02:22,460 --> 01:02:24,920 - Would you like to come? - Would I like to come to a party? 964 01:02:25,090 --> 01:02:26,800 - Yes. Say yes. CHRIS: Friday? 965 01:02:26,970 --> 01:02:28,130 - Well, sure. - About 7? 966 01:02:28,300 --> 01:02:30,140 - Okay, great. I'll be there, Chris. - Okay. 967 01:02:30,300 --> 01:02:31,850 Friday night at the Danburrys. 968 01:02:32,010 --> 01:02:33,470 - Okay, thank you. - Okay, bye. 969 01:02:33,640 --> 01:02:35,770 Thank you. I'll see you. Bye. 970 01:02:36,480 --> 01:02:39,310 Yawp! 971 01:02:39,940 --> 01:02:41,440 Can you believe it? 972 01:02:41,610 --> 01:02:44,280 She was gonna call me. 973 01:02:44,440 --> 01:02:46,780 She invited me to a party with her. 974 01:02:46,950 --> 01:02:49,660 - At Chet Danburry's house? - Yeah. 975 01:02:49,820 --> 01:02:52,240 - Well? - So? 976 01:02:52,410 --> 01:02:55,950 So you don't really think she means you're going with her? 977 01:02:57,160 --> 01:03:00,460 Well, of course not, Charlie, but that's not the point. 978 01:03:00,630 --> 01:03:04,340 - That's not the point at all. - What is the point? 979 01:03:05,550 --> 01:03:09,260 The point, Charlie, 980 01:03:10,510 --> 01:03:12,430 is, uh... 981 01:03:13,510 --> 01:03:16,850 - Yeah? -...that she was thinking about me. 982 01:03:17,730 --> 01:03:22,480 I've only met her once, and already, she's thinking about me. 983 01:03:22,650 --> 01:03:25,320 Damn it. It's gonna happen, guys. 984 01:03:25,480 --> 01:03:27,440 I feel it. 985 01:03:28,110 --> 01:03:32,280 She is going to be mine. 986 01:03:32,570 --> 01:03:34,030 [KNOX HUMMING] 987 01:03:34,200 --> 01:03:37,080 Carpe. Carpe. 988 01:03:39,210 --> 01:03:43,040 No grades at stake, gentlemen. Just take a stroll. 989 01:03:49,550 --> 01:03:51,430 There it is. 990 01:03:51,590 --> 01:03:53,680 [BOYS CLAPPING] 991 01:04:00,690 --> 01:04:02,350 KEATING [SINGING]: I don't know, but I've been told 992 01:04:02,520 --> 01:04:04,270 BOYS: I don't know, but I've been told 993 01:04:04,440 --> 01:04:06,190 KEATING: Doing poetry is old 994 01:04:06,360 --> 01:04:07,650 BOYS: Doing poetry is old 995 01:04:07,820 --> 01:04:11,150 Left, left, left, right, left. 996 01:04:11,320 --> 01:04:14,780 Left, left, left, right, left. 997 01:04:14,950 --> 01:04:16,450 Left, halt. 998 01:04:17,240 --> 01:04:19,160 Thank you, gentlemen. 999 01:04:20,290 --> 01:04:24,080 If you noticed, everyone started off with their own stride, their own pace. 1000 01:04:24,250 --> 01:04:26,540 Mr. Pitts, taking his time. 1001 01:04:26,710 --> 01:04:28,500 He knew he'll get there one day. 1002 01:04:28,670 --> 01:04:30,300 Mr. Cameron, you could see him thinking, 1003 01:04:30,470 --> 01:04:34,050 "Is this right? It might be right. I know that-- Maybe not. I don't know." 1004 01:04:34,220 --> 01:04:37,640 Mr. Overstreet's, driven by deeper force. 1005 01:04:37,810 --> 01:04:39,930 Yes, we know that. 1006 01:04:40,100 --> 01:04:42,640 All right, now, I didn't bring them up here to ridicule them. 1007 01:04:42,810 --> 01:04:45,310 I brought them up here to illustrate the point of conformity. 1008 01:04:45,480 --> 01:04:48,940 The difficulty in maintaining your own beliefs in the face of others. 1009 01:04:49,110 --> 01:04:51,240 Now, those of you, I see the look in your eyes like, 1010 01:04:51,400 --> 01:04:53,490 "I would have walked differently." 1011 01:04:53,660 --> 01:04:56,320 Well, ask yourselves why you were clapping. 1012 01:04:57,410 --> 01:04:59,620 Now, we all have a great need for acceptance. 1013 01:04:59,790 --> 01:05:02,580 But you must trust that your beliefs are unique, your own. 1014 01:05:02,750 --> 01:05:05,170 Even though others may think them odd or unpopular. 1015 01:05:05,330 --> 01:05:08,750 Even though the herd may go, "That's baa-d." 1016 01:05:09,920 --> 01:05:13,760 Robert Frost said, "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, 1017 01:05:13,930 --> 01:05:17,800 I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference." 1018 01:05:17,970 --> 01:05:20,430 Now, I want you to find your own walk right now. 1019 01:05:20,600 --> 01:05:24,270 Your own way of striding, pacing. Any direction, anything you want. 1020 01:05:24,440 --> 01:05:27,020 Whether it's proud, whether it's silly, anything. 1021 01:05:27,230 --> 01:05:30,780 Gentlemen, the courtyard is yours. 1022 01:05:33,030 --> 01:05:36,950 You don't have to perform, just make it for yourself. 1023 01:05:37,870 --> 01:05:40,830 Mr. Dalton, you be joining us? 1024 01:05:40,990 --> 01:05:43,160 Exercising the right not to walk. 1025 01:05:44,250 --> 01:05:47,580 Thank you, Mr. Dalton. You just illustrated the point. 1026 01:05:47,750 --> 01:05:50,130 Swim against the stream. 1027 01:06:01,100 --> 01:06:02,850 Todd? 1028 01:06:05,020 --> 01:06:06,770 - Hey. TODD: Hey. 1029 01:06:06,940 --> 01:06:09,860 - What's going on? - Nothing. 1030 01:06:12,150 --> 01:06:15,110 - Today's my birthday. - Is today your birthday? 1031 01:06:15,320 --> 01:06:17,200 - Happy birthday. - Thanks. 1032 01:06:17,360 --> 01:06:20,070 - What'd you get? - My parents gave me this. 1033 01:06:21,160 --> 01:06:22,370 Isn't this the same desk--? 1034 01:06:22,540 --> 01:06:25,580 Yeah, they gave me the same thing as last year. 1035 01:06:27,960 --> 01:06:30,250 - Oh. - Oh. 1036 01:06:31,630 --> 01:06:33,460 Maybe they thought you needed another one. 1037 01:06:35,050 --> 01:06:37,050 Maybe they weren't thinking about anything at all. 1038 01:06:40,850 --> 01:06:44,560 The funny thing is about this is, I didn't even like it the first time. 1039 01:06:47,100 --> 01:06:50,690 Todd, I think you're underestimating the value of this desk set. 1040 01:06:52,440 --> 01:06:57,990 I mean, who would want a football, or a baseball, or--? 1041 01:06:58,200 --> 01:06:59,320 Or a car? 1042 01:06:59,490 --> 01:07:02,700 Or a car, if they could have a desk set as wonderful as this one? 1043 01:07:02,870 --> 01:07:06,830 I mean, if I were ever going to buy a desk set twice, 1044 01:07:07,000 --> 01:07:10,710 I would probably buy this one both times. 1045 01:07:10,880 --> 01:07:12,290 [LAUGHING] 1046 01:07:12,460 --> 01:07:16,260 In fact, its shape is... 1047 01:07:17,880 --> 01:07:20,090 It's rather aerodynamic, isn't it? 1048 01:07:22,050 --> 01:07:23,510 I can feel it. 1049 01:07:23,850 --> 01:07:25,310 Phew. 1050 01:07:25,560 --> 01:07:28,640 This desk set wants to fly. 1051 01:07:31,310 --> 01:07:32,900 Todd? 1052 01:07:33,650 --> 01:07:37,570 The world's first unmanned flying desk set. 1053 01:07:37,740 --> 01:07:39,200 [GRUNTS] 1054 01:07:40,450 --> 01:07:41,910 Whew. Ha, ha. 1055 01:07:42,490 --> 01:07:44,530 Oh, my. 1056 01:07:44,700 --> 01:07:47,200 Well, I wouldn't worry. 1057 01:07:47,370 --> 01:07:48,700 You'll get another one next year. 1058 01:07:48,870 --> 01:07:50,660 [LAUGHING] 1059 01:07:50,830 --> 01:07:54,040 To live deep And suck out all the marrow of life. 1060 01:07:54,210 --> 01:07:55,920 To put to rout all that was not life. 1061 01:07:56,090 --> 01:07:57,550 [WOMEN LAUGHING] 1062 01:07:58,720 --> 01:08:00,220 Oh, my God. 1063 01:08:01,380 --> 01:08:04,220 GLORIA: Is this it? CHARLIE: Yeah, this is it. 1064 01:08:04,390 --> 01:08:06,680 Go ahead, go on in. It's my cave. 1065 01:08:06,850 --> 01:08:08,680 - Watch your step. TINA: We're not gonna slip, are we? 1066 01:08:08,850 --> 01:08:10,230 GLORIA: Uh-oh. 1067 01:08:11,100 --> 01:08:12,140 Hi. 1068 01:08:12,600 --> 01:08:13,730 - Unh. MEEKS: Hello. 1069 01:08:13,940 --> 01:08:15,940 - Hello. - Hi, guys. 1070 01:08:16,110 --> 01:08:19,030 Meet, uh, Gloria and... 1071 01:08:19,190 --> 01:08:20,780 - Tina. - Tina. 1072 01:08:20,990 --> 01:08:23,860 This is the pledge class of the Dead Poets Society. 1073 01:08:24,030 --> 01:08:25,410 - Hello. - Hey, how do you do? 1074 01:08:25,580 --> 01:08:26,830 - Hello. - Hi. 1075 01:08:27,040 --> 01:08:28,740 CHARLIE: Guys, move, move. 1076 01:08:28,910 --> 01:08:31,710 Come on, folks, it's Friday night. Let's get on with the meeting. 1077 01:08:31,870 --> 01:08:32,920 MEEKS: Excuse me. 1078 01:08:33,080 --> 01:08:34,920 CHARLIE: Guys, I have an announcement to make. 1079 01:08:35,090 --> 01:08:38,880 In keeping with the spirit of passionate experimentation of the Dead Poets, 1080 01:08:39,050 --> 01:08:41,170 I'm giving up the name Charles Dalton. 1081 01:08:41,340 --> 01:08:43,880 From now on, call me Nuwanda. 1082 01:08:44,090 --> 01:08:46,470 - Nuwanda? - Nuwanda? 1083 01:08:46,640 --> 01:08:48,470 [BOYS SNICKERING] 1084 01:08:48,640 --> 01:08:50,520 PITTS: Okay. 1085 01:08:50,680 --> 01:08:52,770 [BOYS WHOOPING AND CHATTERING] 1086 01:08:58,900 --> 01:09:02,110 Hello? Hello, Chris? 1087 01:09:02,320 --> 01:09:04,410 [PEOPLE CHATTERING AND LAUGHING] 1088 01:09:08,080 --> 01:09:09,200 CHRIS: Knox. KNOX: Hi. 1089 01:09:09,370 --> 01:09:11,290 You made it, great. 1090 01:09:11,450 --> 01:09:12,790 - Bring anybody? - No. 1091 01:09:12,960 --> 01:09:15,710 No? Ginny Danburry's here. 1092 01:09:15,880 --> 01:09:17,040 Look, I have to go find Chet. 1093 01:09:17,210 --> 01:09:19,460 Why don't you go downstairs? That's where everybody is. 1094 01:09:19,630 --> 01:09:21,210 - But, Chris-- CHRIS: Make yourself at home. 1095 01:09:21,380 --> 01:09:22,800 But I-- 1096 01:09:23,220 --> 01:09:25,300 [ROCK MUSIC PLAYING OVER SPEAKERS] 1097 01:09:37,770 --> 01:09:39,360 KNOX: Hey, guys. 1098 01:09:43,990 --> 01:09:47,200 STEVE: Hey, you Mutt Sanders' brother? 1099 01:09:47,780 --> 01:09:50,370 Bubba, this guy look like Mutt Sanders to you, or what? 1100 01:09:50,540 --> 01:09:52,540 You're his brother? 1101 01:09:53,500 --> 01:09:55,870 No relation. Never heard of him. Sorry, guys. 1102 01:09:56,040 --> 01:09:57,080 Where's your manners? 1103 01:09:57,250 --> 01:09:59,840 There's Mutt Sanders' brother, we don't even offer him a drink. 1104 01:10:00,000 --> 01:10:02,460 - Have some whisky, pal. - Yeah. 1105 01:10:02,630 --> 01:10:04,170 I don't really drink-- 1106 01:10:04,340 --> 01:10:07,130 - To Mutt. - To Mutt. 1107 01:10:07,800 --> 01:10:09,390 To Mutt. 1108 01:10:11,220 --> 01:10:12,260 [GROANS] 1109 01:10:12,430 --> 01:10:13,930 Now, how the hell is old Mutt anyway? 1110 01:10:14,100 --> 01:10:16,020 STEVE: Yeah, what's old Mutter been up to, huh? 1111 01:10:16,190 --> 01:10:17,230 [COUGHING] 1112 01:10:17,400 --> 01:10:19,400 I don't really know Mutt. 1113 01:10:19,900 --> 01:10:23,360 - To the Mighty Mutt. - To Mighty Mutt. 1114 01:10:23,530 --> 01:10:25,570 To Mighty Mutt. 1115 01:10:27,990 --> 01:10:29,030 [GASPS] 1116 01:10:29,990 --> 01:10:32,530 Well, listen, I gotta go find Patsy. 1117 01:10:32,700 --> 01:10:35,790 Say hello to Mutt for me, okay? 1118 01:10:35,960 --> 01:10:39,380 - Will do. STEVE: Hell of a guy, your old brother, Mutt. 1119 01:10:41,000 --> 01:10:43,960 Are we gonna have a meeting, or what? 1120 01:10:44,130 --> 01:10:47,470 Yeah, if you guys don't have a meeting, how do we know if we want to join? 1121 01:10:48,390 --> 01:10:50,090 Join? 1122 01:10:50,760 --> 01:10:53,350 Shall I compare thee To a summer's day? 1123 01:10:53,520 --> 01:10:56,020 Thou art more lovely And more temperate. 1124 01:10:56,180 --> 01:10:59,850 - That's so sweet. - I made that up just for you. 1125 01:11:00,020 --> 01:11:01,810 You did? 1126 01:11:02,690 --> 01:11:05,030 I'll write one for you too, Gloria. 1127 01:11:08,070 --> 01:11:11,120 She walks in beauty like the night 1128 01:11:13,290 --> 01:11:15,740 She walks in beauty like the night 1129 01:11:15,950 --> 01:11:19,620 Of cloudless climes and starry skies 1130 01:11:19,790 --> 01:11:22,920 All that's best of dark and bright 1131 01:11:23,090 --> 01:11:25,800 Meet in her aspect and her eyes; 1132 01:11:25,960 --> 01:11:27,340 GLORIA: That's beautiful. 1133 01:11:28,680 --> 01:11:31,470 There's plenty more where that came from. 1134 01:11:33,560 --> 01:11:35,640 [PROFESSOR LONGHAIR'S "HEY, LITTLE GIRL" PLAYING OVER SPEAKERS] 1135 01:11:38,890 --> 01:11:40,350 [BELCHES] 1136 01:11:42,690 --> 01:11:44,570 [GROWLING] 1137 01:11:45,280 --> 01:11:47,360 [MOANING] 1138 01:12:14,720 --> 01:12:16,850 God help me. 1139 01:12:30,820 --> 01:12:33,240 Carpe diem. 1140 01:13:03,690 --> 01:13:06,060 STEVE: What, you don't remember? 1141 01:13:06,230 --> 01:13:07,480 What, are you kidding? 1142 01:13:07,690 --> 01:13:11,690 BUBBA: Chet, Chet, look. CHET: What? 1143 01:13:12,530 --> 01:13:14,240 It's Mutt Sanders' brother. 1144 01:13:14,450 --> 01:13:15,610 CHET: Huh? 1145 01:13:15,780 --> 01:13:17,280 - Knox--? BUBBA: He's feeling up your girl. 1146 01:13:17,450 --> 01:13:19,580 CHRIS: What are you doing? 1147 01:13:20,120 --> 01:13:21,660 CHET: What the hell are you doing? CHRIS: Chet. 1148 01:13:21,830 --> 01:13:24,620 - Chet, don't. KNOX: Chet, I know this looks bad, but-- 1149 01:13:24,790 --> 01:13:26,330 GIRL: Ahh! CHRIS: Chet, no, you'll hurt him. 1150 01:13:26,540 --> 01:13:28,380 No, Chet, stop it. 1151 01:13:28,550 --> 01:13:30,340 CHET: Jesus. CHRIS: Leave him alone. 1152 01:13:30,510 --> 01:13:32,460 CHET: Goddamn. - Chet, stop it. 1153 01:13:32,630 --> 01:13:34,340 Bastard. 1154 01:13:34,550 --> 01:13:37,510 - Knox, are you all right? CHET: Chris, get the hell away from him. 1155 01:13:37,680 --> 01:13:38,890 - Chet, you hurt him. CHET: Good. 1156 01:13:39,060 --> 01:13:42,180 - I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. - It's okay. It's okay. 1157 01:13:42,350 --> 01:13:44,230 Next time I see you, you die. 1158 01:13:47,360 --> 01:13:49,770 Go ahead, pass it around. 1159 01:13:58,660 --> 01:14:02,200 Me and Pitts are working on a hi-fi system. 1160 01:14:03,000 --> 01:14:05,580 It shouldn't be that hard to put together. 1161 01:14:05,750 --> 01:14:09,500 Yeah, I might be going to Yale. 1162 01:14:10,000 --> 01:14:12,170 But I might not. 1163 01:14:12,630 --> 01:14:14,670 Don't you guys miss having girls around here? 1164 01:14:15,220 --> 01:14:16,340 - Yeah. - Yeah. 1165 01:14:16,550 --> 01:14:18,840 CHARLIE: That's part of what this club is about. 1166 01:14:19,010 --> 01:14:21,180 In fact, I'd like to announce 1167 01:14:21,350 --> 01:14:24,600 I published an article in the school paper in the name of the Dead Poets. 1168 01:14:25,100 --> 01:14:26,230 What? 1169 01:14:26,390 --> 01:14:28,770 - Demanding girls be admitted to Welton. SPAZ: You didn't. 1170 01:14:28,940 --> 01:14:31,860 - So we can all stop beating off. - How did you do that? 1171 01:14:32,030 --> 01:14:34,030 I'm one of the proofers. I slipped the article in. 1172 01:14:34,190 --> 01:14:37,320 SPAZ: Look, it's over now. - Why? Nobody knows who we are. 1173 01:14:37,530 --> 01:14:39,700 Don't you think they're gonna figure out who wrote it? 1174 01:14:39,870 --> 01:14:43,370 They're gonna come to you and ask to know what the Dead Poets Society is. 1175 01:14:43,540 --> 01:14:45,910 Charlie, you had no right to do something like that. 1176 01:14:46,080 --> 01:14:48,370 It's Nuwanda, Cameron. 1177 01:14:48,580 --> 01:14:51,290 GLORIA: That's right, it's Nuwanda. 1178 01:14:51,500 --> 01:14:54,460 And are we just playing around out here, or do we mean what we say? 1179 01:14:54,630 --> 01:14:57,590 If all we do is come together and read a bunch of poems to each other, 1180 01:14:57,760 --> 01:14:58,880 what the hell are we doing? 1181 01:14:59,050 --> 01:15:01,510 All right, but you still shouldn't have done it, Charlie. 1182 01:15:01,680 --> 01:15:04,060 This could mean trouble. You don't speak for the club. 1183 01:15:04,220 --> 01:15:06,730 Hey, would you not worry about your precious little neck? 1184 01:15:06,890 --> 01:15:10,150 If they catch me, I'll tell them I made it up. 1185 01:15:23,620 --> 01:15:24,740 [WHISPERING] 1186 01:15:24,910 --> 01:15:26,660 Fine. 1187 01:15:37,170 --> 01:15:38,800 Sit. 1188 01:15:44,560 --> 01:15:46,010 This week's issue of Welton Honor, 1189 01:15:46,180 --> 01:15:49,690 there appeared a profane and unauthorized article. 1190 01:15:50,190 --> 01:15:54,980 Rather than spend my valuable time ferreting out the guilty persons-- 1191 01:15:55,780 --> 01:15:57,730 And let me assure you, I will find them. 1192 01:15:58,530 --> 01:16:01,860 --I'm asking any and all students who know anything about this article 1193 01:16:02,030 --> 01:16:05,200 to make themselves known here and now. 1194 01:16:07,160 --> 01:16:09,450 Whoever the guilty persons are, 1195 01:16:09,620 --> 01:16:13,080 this is your only chance to avoid expulsion from this school. 1196 01:16:13,250 --> 01:16:15,340 [PHONE RINGING] 1197 01:16:16,000 --> 01:16:17,460 [MURMURING] 1198 01:16:19,510 --> 01:16:20,920 Welton Academy, hello? 1199 01:16:22,140 --> 01:16:23,550 Yes, he is. Just a moment. 1200 01:16:24,550 --> 01:16:26,680 Mr. Nolan, it's for you. 1201 01:16:27,520 --> 01:16:30,770 It's God. He says we should have girls at Welton. 1202 01:16:30,980 --> 01:16:32,440 [BOYS LAUGHING] 1203 01:16:47,040 --> 01:16:48,700 Wipe that smirk off your face. 1204 01:16:50,540 --> 01:16:52,580 If you think, Mr. Dalton, that you're the first 1205 01:16:52,750 --> 01:16:55,040 to try to get thrown out of this school, think again. 1206 01:16:55,210 --> 01:16:56,790 Others have had similar notions 1207 01:16:57,000 --> 01:16:59,420 and have failed just as surely as you will fail. 1208 01:16:59,590 --> 01:17:00,800 Assume the position. 1209 01:17:14,560 --> 01:17:16,190 Count aloud, Mr. Dalton. 1210 01:17:18,780 --> 01:17:20,230 [THUD] 1211 01:17:20,690 --> 01:17:22,360 One. 1212 01:17:24,360 --> 01:17:25,910 Two. 1213 01:17:31,950 --> 01:17:33,660 Three. 1214 01:17:34,870 --> 01:17:36,250 Four. 1215 01:17:37,960 --> 01:17:39,000 Five. 1216 01:17:39,170 --> 01:17:41,510 What is this Dead Poets Society? I want names. 1217 01:17:42,720 --> 01:17:44,800 [WHISPERING] 1218 01:18:11,370 --> 01:18:12,990 NEIL: You kicked out? CHARLIE: No. 1219 01:18:13,160 --> 01:18:15,160 NEIL: So, what happened? 1220 01:18:18,540 --> 01:18:21,550 I'm to turn everybody in, apologize to the school, 1221 01:18:21,710 --> 01:18:23,760 and all will be forgiven. 1222 01:18:23,920 --> 01:18:25,970 NEIL: So, what are you gonna do? 1223 01:18:26,180 --> 01:18:29,430 - Charlie. - Damn it, Neil. 1224 01:18:29,600 --> 01:18:32,100 The name is Nuwanda. 1225 01:18:35,690 --> 01:18:37,770 [CHUCKLING] 1226 01:18:38,100 --> 01:18:39,690 NOLAN: Excuse me. 1227 01:18:39,860 --> 01:18:43,070 - May we have a word, Mr. Keating? - Certainly. 1228 01:18:49,620 --> 01:18:53,080 This was my first classroom, John. Did you know that? 1229 01:18:54,160 --> 01:18:58,000 - My first desk. - I didn't know you taught, Mr. Nolan. 1230 01:18:58,170 --> 01:19:00,000 English. 1231 01:19:00,170 --> 01:19:02,670 Long before your time. 1232 01:19:02,840 --> 01:19:05,460 It was hard giving it up, I can tell you. 1233 01:19:09,470 --> 01:19:11,180 I'm hearing rumors, John, 1234 01:19:11,350 --> 01:19:14,180 about some unorthodox teaching methods in your classroom. 1235 01:19:14,350 --> 01:19:18,810 I'm not saying they've had anything to do with the Dalton boy's outburst, 1236 01:19:18,980 --> 01:19:23,610 but I don't think I have to warn you, boys his age are very impressionable. 1237 01:19:23,780 --> 01:19:27,110 Well, your reprimand made quite an impression, I'm sure. 1238 01:19:30,030 --> 01:19:32,700 What was going on in the courtyard the other day? 1239 01:19:32,870 --> 01:19:33,910 Courtyard? 1240 01:19:34,080 --> 01:19:35,870 Yeah, boys marching, clapping in unison. 1241 01:19:36,040 --> 01:19:38,500 Oh, that. That was an exercise to prove a point. 1242 01:19:38,660 --> 01:19:39,920 Dangers of conformity. 1243 01:19:40,080 --> 01:19:42,790 Well, John, the curriculum here is set. It's proven, it works. 1244 01:19:42,960 --> 01:19:45,550 If you question it, what's to prevent them from doing the same? 1245 01:19:45,710 --> 01:19:48,470 I thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself. 1246 01:19:48,630 --> 01:19:50,680 At these boys' age? Not on your life. 1247 01:19:51,390 --> 01:19:55,140 Tradition, John. Discipline. 1248 01:19:55,520 --> 01:19:59,140 Prepare them for college and the rest will take care of itself. 1249 01:20:04,070 --> 01:20:05,520 Creak. 1250 01:20:05,690 --> 01:20:06,940 [CHUCKLING] 1251 01:20:07,110 --> 01:20:10,780 He starts walking around towards my left. Creak. 1252 01:20:11,910 --> 01:20:13,110 Creak. 1253 01:20:13,280 --> 01:20:16,790 "Assume the position, Mr. Dalton." 1254 01:20:17,660 --> 01:20:19,330 KEATING: It's all right, gentlemen. 1255 01:20:19,500 --> 01:20:22,290 - Mr. Keating. KEATING: Mr. Dalton. 1256 01:20:22,460 --> 01:20:24,750 That was a pretty lame stunt you pulled today. 1257 01:20:24,920 --> 01:20:26,630 You're siding with Mr. Nolan? 1258 01:20:26,800 --> 01:20:29,260 What about carpe diem, sucking all the marrow out of life--? 1259 01:20:29,420 --> 01:20:33,180 Sucking the marrow out of life doesn't mean choking on the bone. 1260 01:20:34,550 --> 01:20:38,270 Sure, there's a time for daring, and there's a time for caution. 1261 01:20:38,430 --> 01:20:40,350 And a wise man understands which is called for. 1262 01:20:41,480 --> 01:20:44,730 - But I thought you'd like that. - No. 1263 01:20:44,900 --> 01:20:47,690 You being expelled from school is not daring to me, it's stupid. 1264 01:20:48,900 --> 01:20:50,740 Because you'll miss some golden opportunities. 1265 01:20:50,900 --> 01:20:52,700 Yeah, like what? 1266 01:20:52,860 --> 01:20:55,950 Like if nothing else, the opportunity to attend my classes. 1267 01:20:59,540 --> 01:21:01,330 Got it, Ace? 1268 01:21:01,910 --> 01:21:03,040 Aye, aye, captain. 1269 01:21:03,960 --> 01:21:05,580 Keep your head about you. 1270 01:21:07,210 --> 01:21:08,630 That goes for the lot of you. 1271 01:21:08,800 --> 01:21:11,670 - Yes, captain. - Yes, captain. 1272 01:21:12,300 --> 01:21:13,550 Phone call from God. 1273 01:21:15,640 --> 01:21:18,180 If it had been collect, it would have been daring. 1274 01:21:18,350 --> 01:21:19,930 [BOYS LAUGHING] 1275 01:21:20,140 --> 01:21:21,220 [DOOR CLICKS] 1276 01:21:21,390 --> 01:21:24,060 All right. Go on, play. 1277 01:21:34,450 --> 01:21:36,910 WOMAN: We're trying to rehearse, okay? 1278 01:21:37,240 --> 01:21:39,240 MAN: A good persuasion. Therefore, hear me, Hermia. 1279 01:21:39,410 --> 01:21:43,160 WOMAN: Wait, please. Excitement. I don't hear any excitement about this play. 1280 01:21:43,330 --> 01:21:45,790 And take her hand. 1281 01:21:45,960 --> 01:21:51,920 Bring her down the stage and stop, and, "There, gentle Hermia." Try again. 1282 01:21:52,090 --> 01:21:53,130 [BELL RINGING] 1283 01:21:53,300 --> 01:21:55,760 PITTS: What's for dinner? - Spaghetti and meatballs. 1284 01:21:58,640 --> 01:22:00,970 Save some for me. 1285 01:22:02,600 --> 01:22:05,560 But, room, fairy! Here comes Oberon. 1286 01:22:08,560 --> 01:22:11,690 - Father. - Neil. 1287 01:22:13,690 --> 01:22:17,700 - Before you say anything, please let me-- - Don't you dare talk back to me. 1288 01:22:19,700 --> 01:22:22,240 It's bad enough that you've wasted your time 1289 01:22:22,410 --> 01:22:25,710 with this absurd acting business. 1290 01:22:26,620 --> 01:22:29,000 But you deliberately deceived me. 1291 01:22:30,290 --> 01:22:32,630 How did you expect to get away with this? 1292 01:22:35,380 --> 01:22:37,090 Answer me. 1293 01:22:38,050 --> 01:22:41,600 Who put you up to it? Was it this new man, this, uh, Mr. Keating? 1294 01:22:41,760 --> 01:22:44,520 No, nobody-- 1295 01:22:44,680 --> 01:22:46,390 I thought I'd surprise you. 1296 01:22:46,600 --> 01:22:49,940 - I've gotten all A's in every class. - So did you think I wasn't gonna find out? 1297 01:22:50,650 --> 01:22:53,780 "Oh, my niece is in a play with your son," says Mrs. Marks. 1298 01:22:53,940 --> 01:22:55,110 "No, no, no," I say. 1299 01:22:55,280 --> 01:22:58,240 "You must be mistaken. My son's not in a play." 1300 01:22:58,410 --> 01:22:59,740 You made a liar out of me, Neil. 1301 01:23:03,740 --> 01:23:08,670 Now, tomorrow, you go to them and you tell them that you're quitting. 1302 01:23:09,170 --> 01:23:12,460 No, I can't. I have the main part. The performance is tomorrow night. 1303 01:23:12,670 --> 01:23:16,920 I don't care if the world comes to an end tomorrow. You are through with that play. 1304 01:23:17,970 --> 01:23:19,800 Is that clear? 1305 01:23:20,340 --> 01:23:22,470 Is that clear? 1306 01:23:23,310 --> 01:23:25,060 Yes, sir. 1307 01:23:33,360 --> 01:23:36,900 I made a great many sacrifices to get you here, Neil. 1308 01:23:37,570 --> 01:23:39,950 And you will not let me down. 1309 01:23:41,370 --> 01:23:43,120 No, sir. 1310 01:24:04,390 --> 01:24:05,470 [KNOCKING ON DOOR] 1311 01:24:05,640 --> 01:24:07,430 It's open. 1312 01:24:17,570 --> 01:24:19,280 Neil, what's up? 1313 01:24:19,450 --> 01:24:22,610 - Can I speak to you a minute? - Certainly. Sit down. 1314 01:24:25,330 --> 01:24:28,370 - I'm sorry, here. - Excuse me. 1315 01:24:30,290 --> 01:24:33,880 - Get you some tea? - Tea, sure. 1316 01:24:34,750 --> 01:24:38,000 - Like some milk or sugar in that? - No, thanks. 1317 01:24:38,380 --> 01:24:40,340 Gosh, they don't give you much room around here. 1318 01:24:40,510 --> 01:24:42,260 No, it's part of the monastic oath. 1319 01:24:42,430 --> 01:24:45,930 They don't want worldly things distracting me from my teaching. 1320 01:24:49,020 --> 01:24:51,560 - She's pretty. - She's also in London. 1321 01:24:51,730 --> 01:24:53,730 Makes it a little difficult. 1322 01:24:53,900 --> 01:24:56,150 - How can you stand it? - Stand what? 1323 01:24:56,320 --> 01:24:57,980 You can go anywhere. You can do anything. 1324 01:24:58,150 --> 01:25:00,990 - How can you stand being here? - Because I love teaching. 1325 01:25:01,150 --> 01:25:03,360 I don't want to be anywhere else. 1326 01:25:06,830 --> 01:25:08,490 What's up? 1327 01:25:08,950 --> 01:25:10,870 I just talked to my father. 1328 01:25:11,040 --> 01:25:13,580 He's making me quit the play at Henley Hall. 1329 01:25:16,170 --> 01:25:20,130 Acting's everything to me. I-- 1330 01:25:20,920 --> 01:25:22,590 But he doesn't know, he-- 1331 01:25:22,760 --> 01:25:25,680 I can see his point. We're not a rich family like Charlie's. 1332 01:25:25,850 --> 01:25:26,930 And we-- 1333 01:25:28,010 --> 01:25:30,140 But he's planning the rest of my life for me, 1334 01:25:30,310 --> 01:25:32,600 and he's never asked me what I want. 1335 01:25:33,310 --> 01:25:35,560 Have you ever told your father what you just told me? 1336 01:25:35,770 --> 01:25:38,270 About your passion for acting. You ever show him that? 1337 01:25:38,440 --> 01:25:40,860 - I can't. - Why not? 1338 01:25:41,780 --> 01:25:46,410 - I can't talk to him this way. - Then you're acting for him too. 1339 01:25:46,570 --> 01:25:48,490 You're playing the part of the dutiful son. 1340 01:25:49,830 --> 01:25:52,250 I know this sounds impossible, but you have to talk to him. 1341 01:25:52,410 --> 01:25:54,370 Show him who you are, what your heart is. 1342 01:25:54,580 --> 01:25:56,880 I know what he'll say. 1343 01:25:57,210 --> 01:26:00,250 He'll tell me that acting's a whim and I should forget it. 1344 01:26:00,880 --> 01:26:02,710 That they're counting on me. 1345 01:26:02,880 --> 01:26:05,630 He'll just tell me to put it out of my mind for my own good. 1346 01:26:05,800 --> 01:26:09,470 You are not an indentured servant. If it's not a whim for you, 1347 01:26:09,640 --> 01:26:12,220 you prove it to him by your conviction and your passion. 1348 01:26:12,390 --> 01:26:14,810 You show him that, and if he still doesn't believe you, 1349 01:26:14,980 --> 01:26:17,940 well, by then, you'll be out of school and you can do anything you want. 1350 01:26:20,110 --> 01:26:21,570 No. 1351 01:26:22,690 --> 01:26:24,150 [SNIFFLES] 1352 01:26:24,570 --> 01:26:26,490 What about the play? The show's tomorrow night. 1353 01:26:26,660 --> 01:26:29,660 Then you have to talk to him before tomorrow night. 1354 01:26:32,160 --> 01:26:33,790 I... 1355 01:26:34,290 --> 01:26:36,410 - Isn't there an easier way? - No. 1356 01:26:41,920 --> 01:26:43,840 I'm trapped. 1357 01:26:44,420 --> 01:26:46,420 No, you're not. 1358 01:27:01,440 --> 01:27:02,480 [CHATTERING] 1359 01:27:02,650 --> 01:27:04,820 BOY 1: I need my notebook. 1360 01:27:05,440 --> 01:27:07,570 BOY 2: I'll see you later, Brian. 1361 01:27:10,030 --> 01:27:11,700 Chris. 1362 01:27:13,580 --> 01:27:14,990 Hey, Chris. 1363 01:27:15,160 --> 01:27:18,080 - Chris Noel, do you know where she is? - I think she's in Room 1 1 1. 1364 01:27:18,250 --> 01:27:19,870 Thanks. 1365 01:27:22,460 --> 01:27:24,250 I know. 1366 01:27:27,470 --> 01:27:28,550 Oh, no. 1367 01:27:30,680 --> 01:27:34,140 KNOX: Excuse me. Chris. - Knox, what are you doing here? 1368 01:27:34,310 --> 01:27:36,140 I came to apologize for the other night. 1369 01:27:36,350 --> 01:27:38,270 I brought you these and a poem I wrote for you. 1370 01:27:41,900 --> 01:27:44,570 Knox, don't you know that if Chet finds you here, he'll kill you? 1371 01:27:44,730 --> 01:27:46,400 I don't care. 1372 01:27:46,570 --> 01:27:48,530 - I love you, Chris. - Knox, you're crazy. 1373 01:27:48,700 --> 01:27:51,160 - Look, I acted like a jerk, and I know it. BOY 3: Hey. 1374 01:27:51,320 --> 01:27:54,990 - Please accept these. Please? - No, I-- I can't. 1375 01:27:55,160 --> 01:27:57,080 Just forget it. 1376 01:27:57,250 --> 01:27:59,330 [BELL RINGING] 1377 01:28:09,720 --> 01:28:11,590 [CHATTERING] 1378 01:28:12,800 --> 01:28:15,720 - Knox, I don't believe this. KNOX: All I'm asking you to do is listen. 1379 01:28:18,430 --> 01:28:20,180 The heavens made a girl named Chris 1380 01:28:21,850 --> 01:28:23,770 With hair and skin of gold 1381 01:28:24,980 --> 01:28:29,150 To touch her would be paradise 1382 01:28:41,420 --> 01:28:43,500 [BELL RINGING] 1383 01:28:44,460 --> 01:28:47,000 - Uhh. CHARLIE: Get out of here. 1384 01:28:47,170 --> 01:28:49,590 Cameron, you fool. 1385 01:28:49,760 --> 01:28:52,470 - Hey, how'd it go? Did you read it to her? - Yeah. 1386 01:28:52,630 --> 01:28:54,180 [LAUGHING] 1387 01:28:54,350 --> 01:28:57,390 - What'd she say? - Nothing. 1388 01:28:57,560 --> 01:28:59,560 Nothing? What do you mean, nothing? 1389 01:28:59,730 --> 01:29:02,890 Nothing. But I did it. 1390 01:29:03,060 --> 01:29:06,560 CHARLIE: What did she say? She had to say something. 1391 01:29:06,730 --> 01:29:09,650 PITTS: Come here, Knox. KNOX: Seize the day. Whoo-hoo-hoo. 1392 01:29:19,370 --> 01:29:21,750 - Did you talk to your father? - Uh, yeah. 1393 01:29:21,910 --> 01:29:23,750 He didn't like it one bit, 1394 01:29:23,920 --> 01:29:26,460 but at least he's letting me stay in the play. 1395 01:29:26,630 --> 01:29:29,710 He won't be able make it. He's in Chicago. 1396 01:29:30,170 --> 01:29:33,050 But I think he's gonna let me stay with acting. 1397 01:29:34,010 --> 01:29:37,390 Really? You told him what you told me? 1398 01:29:37,600 --> 01:29:39,560 Yeah. 1399 01:29:40,350 --> 01:29:42,230 He wasn't happy. 1400 01:29:42,390 --> 01:29:46,480 But he'll be gone at least four days. 1401 01:29:46,650 --> 01:29:48,770 I don't think he'll make the show, 1402 01:29:51,280 --> 01:29:53,860 but I think he'll let me stay with it. 1403 01:29:54,030 --> 01:29:55,360 Keep up the school work. 1404 01:29:59,200 --> 01:30:00,330 Thanks. 1405 01:30:05,080 --> 01:30:06,620 - Baby. - Beautiful baby. 1406 01:30:06,790 --> 01:30:11,250 - Henley Hall, here I come. - Excuse me, just a moment. 1407 01:30:11,420 --> 01:30:14,010 Yes, you. 1408 01:30:14,170 --> 01:30:15,760 Come on, Todd, I'm trying to fix this. 1409 01:30:15,930 --> 01:30:18,180 Come on, Nuwanda, we're gonna miss Neil's entrance. 1410 01:30:18,350 --> 01:30:20,720 He said something about getting red before we left. 1411 01:30:20,890 --> 01:30:22,930 Getting red? What does that mean? 1412 01:30:23,100 --> 01:30:25,980 I-- Well, you know Charlie. 1413 01:30:27,650 --> 01:30:30,980 MEEKS: So, Charlie, what's this "getting red" bit? 1414 01:30:33,190 --> 01:30:34,940 [GROANING THEN LAUGHING] 1415 01:30:36,200 --> 01:30:37,990 What is that? 1416 01:30:38,160 --> 01:30:40,950 It's an Indian warrior symbol for virility. 1417 01:30:41,120 --> 01:30:44,620 Makes me feel potent. Like it can drive girls crazy. 1418 01:30:44,790 --> 01:30:47,080 Oh, come on, Charlie. The girls are waiting. 1419 01:30:48,040 --> 01:30:50,670 - Henley Hall. - Whoa. 1420 01:30:50,840 --> 01:30:52,920 [WHISTLING] 1421 01:30:54,130 --> 01:30:55,590 [CHARLIE WOLF WHISTLES] 1422 01:30:56,840 --> 01:30:58,510 Chris. 1423 01:31:00,890 --> 01:31:03,810 - What are you doing here? KEATING: Gentlemen, let's go. 1424 01:31:03,970 --> 01:31:07,600 - Go ahead, guys, I'll catch up. - Yeah, come on, guys. 1425 01:31:08,600 --> 01:31:09,900 KNOX: Chris, you can't be in here. 1426 01:31:10,060 --> 01:31:11,980 If they catch you, we're gonna be in trouble. 1427 01:31:12,150 --> 01:31:13,440 CHARLIE: Come on. - Oh, but it's fine-- 1428 01:31:13,610 --> 01:31:14,980 Chris. 1429 01:31:16,900 --> 01:31:20,780 It's fine for you to come into my school and make a complete fool out of me? 1430 01:31:20,950 --> 01:31:24,410 - I didn't mean to make a fool out of you. - Well, you did. 1431 01:31:24,580 --> 01:31:26,580 Chet found out, and it took everything I could do 1432 01:31:26,750 --> 01:31:29,290 to keep him from coming here and killing you. 1433 01:31:29,460 --> 01:31:31,670 Knox, you have got to stop this stuff. 1434 01:31:31,840 --> 01:31:33,920 I can't, Chris. I love you. 1435 01:31:34,090 --> 01:31:37,220 Knox, you say that over and over. 1436 01:31:37,380 --> 01:31:39,760 You don't even know me. 1437 01:31:39,930 --> 01:31:41,890 KEATING: Will you be joining us, Mr. Overstreet? 1438 01:31:42,050 --> 01:31:43,470 KNOX: Go ahead, captain. I'll walk. 1439 01:31:43,640 --> 01:31:50,390 Knox. Knox, if it just so happens that I could care less about you... 1440 01:31:53,520 --> 01:31:56,150 Then you wouldn't be here warning me about Chet. 1441 01:32:00,660 --> 01:32:03,370 I have to go. I'm gonna be late for the play. 1442 01:32:03,530 --> 01:32:07,660 - Are you going with him? - Chet, to a play? Are you kidding? 1443 01:32:07,830 --> 01:32:10,330 - Then come with me. - Knox, you are so infuriating. 1444 01:32:10,500 --> 01:32:13,080 Come on, Chris, just give me one chance. 1445 01:32:13,250 --> 01:32:15,880 If you don't like me after tonight, I'll stay away forever. 1446 01:32:16,050 --> 01:32:19,420 - Uh-huh. - I promise. Dead Poets' honor. 1447 01:32:19,590 --> 01:32:20,680 You come with me tonight, 1448 01:32:20,840 --> 01:32:23,300 then if you don't want to see me again, I swear, I'll bow out. 1449 01:32:23,510 --> 01:32:26,010 You know what would happen if Chet found out? 1450 01:32:26,180 --> 01:32:27,810 He won't know anything. 1451 01:32:27,980 --> 01:32:30,980 We'll sit in the back and sneak away as soon as it's over. 1452 01:32:31,140 --> 01:32:34,810 And I suppose you would promise that this would be the end of it. 1453 01:32:34,980 --> 01:32:36,230 Dead Poets' honor. 1454 01:32:36,780 --> 01:32:37,980 What is that? 1455 01:32:40,400 --> 01:32:41,530 My word. 1456 01:32:54,080 --> 01:32:57,040 You are so infuriating. 1457 01:33:19,110 --> 01:33:20,860 - Hey, there he is. - Hey, hey, hey. 1458 01:33:21,650 --> 01:33:23,490 KEATING: Shh. Boys. 1459 01:33:30,580 --> 01:33:34,830 Either I mistake your shape or making quite, 1460 01:33:35,000 --> 01:33:39,090 Or else you are that shrewd and knavish sprite 1461 01:33:39,250 --> 01:33:40,500 Called Robin Goodfellow. 1462 01:33:40,670 --> 01:33:44,470 Thou speak'st aright; I am that merry wanderer of the night. 1463 01:33:44,640 --> 01:33:47,390 I jest to Oberon and make him smile 1464 01:33:47,550 --> 01:33:51,220 When I a fat and bean-fed horse, pbbt, beguile, 1465 01:33:51,430 --> 01:33:54,390 Neighing in likeness of a filly foal. 1466 01:33:54,600 --> 01:33:59,900 Sometime lurk I in a gossip's bowl, In very likeness of a roasted crab, 1467 01:34:00,070 --> 01:34:02,860 And when she drink, against her lips I bob 1468 01:34:03,030 --> 01:34:05,610 And on her wither'd dewlap pour the ale. 1469 01:34:05,820 --> 01:34:07,780 He's good. He's really good. 1470 01:34:08,660 --> 01:34:11,490 Sometime for three-foot stool mistaketh me; 1471 01:34:11,660 --> 01:34:14,290 Then slip I from her bum, down topples she, 1472 01:34:14,460 --> 01:34:17,080 And 'tailor' cries, and falls into a cough; 1473 01:34:17,250 --> 01:34:20,130 And then the whole quire hold their hips and laugh, 1474 01:34:20,300 --> 01:34:24,670 And waxen in their mirth and neeze and swear 1475 01:34:24,880 --> 01:34:27,930 A merrier hour was never wasted there. 1476 01:34:28,470 --> 01:34:31,350 But, room, fairy! here comes Oberon. 1477 01:34:31,520 --> 01:34:34,560 And here my mistress. Would that he were gone! 1478 01:34:38,810 --> 01:34:41,570 LYSANDER: Then by your side no bed-room me deny; 1479 01:34:41,780 --> 01:34:44,650 For lying so, Hermia, I do not lie. 1480 01:34:44,860 --> 01:34:47,490 HERMIA: Lysander riddles very prettily: 1481 01:34:47,660 --> 01:34:49,410 Now much beshrew my manners and my pride, 1482 01:34:49,570 --> 01:34:52,120 If Hermia meant to say Lysander lied. 1483 01:34:52,290 --> 01:34:55,120 But, gentle friend, for love and courtesy 1484 01:34:55,290 --> 01:34:57,670 Lie further off; in human modesty, 1485 01:34:57,830 --> 01:35:01,790 Such separation as may well be said Becomes a virtuous bachelor and a maid, 1486 01:35:02,000 --> 01:35:03,800 and, good night, sweet friend: 1487 01:35:03,960 --> 01:35:06,170 Thy love ne'er alter till thy sweet life end! 1488 01:35:06,340 --> 01:35:10,090 LYSANDER: Amen, amen, to that fair prayer, say I; 1489 01:35:10,260 --> 01:35:12,390 WOMAN: Neil. That's your cue, Neil. 1490 01:35:12,560 --> 01:35:15,680 Come on, Neil. Here's your crown. Let's go. 1491 01:36:21,670 --> 01:36:24,130 If we shadows have offended, 1492 01:36:25,920 --> 01:36:28,340 Think but this, and all is mended, 1493 01:36:28,510 --> 01:36:32,130 That you have but slumber' d here While these visions did appear. 1494 01:36:32,930 --> 01:36:36,510 And this weak and idle theme, No more yielding but a dream, 1495 01:36:37,810 --> 01:36:43,730 Gentles, do not reprehend: if you pardon, we will mend: 1496 01:36:43,900 --> 01:36:47,400 And, as I am an honest Puck, If we have unearned luck 1497 01:36:47,570 --> 01:36:52,400 Now to 'scape the serpent's tongue, We will make amends ere long; 1498 01:36:52,990 --> 01:36:54,450 Else the Puck a liar call; 1499 01:36:58,500 --> 01:37:02,580 So, good night unto you all. Give me your hands, if we be friends, 1500 01:37:03,210 --> 01:37:06,210 And Robin shall restore amends. 1501 01:37:11,880 --> 01:37:13,970 [CHATTERING] 1502 01:37:19,390 --> 01:37:21,480 [WHISTLING AND CHEERING] 1503 01:37:36,070 --> 01:37:37,990 [CROWD WHOOPING] 1504 01:37:39,660 --> 01:37:41,450 Yeah! 1505 01:37:41,660 --> 01:37:43,370 Yeah, Neil. 1506 01:37:50,050 --> 01:37:52,130 [CHUCKLING] 1507 01:37:54,340 --> 01:37:56,430 Great job, Neil. 1508 01:37:56,760 --> 01:37:58,890 WOMAN 1: Great show, everyone. 1509 01:37:59,060 --> 01:38:01,140 [CHATTERING] 1510 01:38:05,480 --> 01:38:08,860 Excuse me, I'm Neil's father. I need to see him. 1511 01:38:13,450 --> 01:38:16,280 Your father, he's... 1512 01:38:17,410 --> 01:38:18,570 MAN: What did you think of it? 1513 01:38:18,740 --> 01:38:23,540 WOMAN 2: Really, I thought you were all just wonderful. 1514 01:38:36,590 --> 01:38:38,840 Excuse me, please. Excuse me. 1515 01:38:39,010 --> 01:38:42,350 - Excuse me, please. TODD: Neil. Neil. 1516 01:38:42,970 --> 01:38:45,310 - Neil. BOY 1: We love you, wait. 1517 01:38:45,890 --> 01:38:47,480 - I can't, guys. TODD: Neil. 1518 01:38:47,650 --> 01:38:49,860 - Neil. - Excuse me. 1519 01:38:50,520 --> 01:38:53,860 Neil. Neil. You have the gift. 1520 01:38:54,070 --> 01:38:57,070 What a performance. You left even me speechless. 1521 01:38:57,240 --> 01:38:58,740 - You have to stay-- PERRY: Get in the car. 1522 01:38:58,910 --> 01:39:02,030 Keating, you stay away from my son. 1523 01:39:02,540 --> 01:39:06,910 Neil. Neil. Mr. Perry, come on. 1524 01:39:07,080 --> 01:39:09,330 PERRY: Don't make it any worse than it is. 1525 01:39:21,850 --> 01:39:23,970 Is it okay if we walk back? 1526 01:39:24,640 --> 01:39:26,180 Captain? 1527 01:39:29,940 --> 01:39:31,520 CHARLIE: Knox. 1528 01:39:32,400 --> 01:39:36,280 BOY 2: We'll be home about 1 1:30 still. WOMAN: I know where he gets it. 1529 01:40:12,860 --> 01:40:19,280 Ahem. We're trying very hard to understand why it is that you insist on defying us. 1530 01:40:20,700 --> 01:40:25,580 Whatever the reason, we're not gonna let you ruin your life. 1531 01:40:25,790 --> 01:40:27,410 Tomorrow I'm withdrawing you from Welton 1532 01:40:27,580 --> 01:40:29,370 and enrolling you in Braden Military School. 1533 01:40:29,960 --> 01:40:32,580 You're going to Harvard and you're gonna be a doctor. 1534 01:40:36,670 --> 01:40:37,920 But that's 1 0 more years. 1535 01:40:38,090 --> 01:40:40,170 - Father, that's a lifetime. - Oh, stop it. 1536 01:40:40,340 --> 01:40:43,970 Don't be so dramatic. You make it sound like a prison term. 1537 01:40:45,430 --> 01:40:47,510 You don't understand, Neil. 1538 01:40:47,680 --> 01:40:49,810 You have opportunities that I never even dreamt of. 1539 01:40:49,980 --> 01:40:53,230 - I am not going to let you waste them. - I've got to tell you what I feel. 1540 01:40:53,400 --> 01:40:56,610 - We've been so worried about-- - What? What? Tell me what you feel. 1541 01:40:59,110 --> 01:41:00,530 What is it? 1542 01:41:09,370 --> 01:41:12,750 Is it more of this--? This acting business? 1543 01:41:13,580 --> 01:41:15,710 Because you can forget that. 1544 01:41:17,800 --> 01:41:19,130 What? 1545 01:41:24,220 --> 01:41:25,800 Nothing. 1546 01:41:39,650 --> 01:41:41,280 Nothing? 1547 01:41:45,200 --> 01:41:46,820 Well, then, let's go to bed. 1548 01:42:00,420 --> 01:42:02,300 I was good. 1549 01:42:03,260 --> 01:42:05,300 I was really good. 1550 01:42:10,310 --> 01:42:12,520 Go on, get some sleep. 1551 01:42:44,170 --> 01:42:45,220 [MRS. PERRY CRYING] 1552 01:42:45,380 --> 01:42:48,390 PERRY: It's all right. It's going to be all right. 1553 01:46:01,160 --> 01:46:03,250 [PANTING] 1554 01:46:03,500 --> 01:46:05,790 - What was that? - What? 1555 01:46:07,630 --> 01:46:10,880 - That sound. - What sound? 1556 01:46:17,680 --> 01:46:19,220 Tom? 1557 01:46:23,350 --> 01:46:25,100 What is it? 1558 01:46:26,940 --> 01:46:28,690 What's wrong? 1559 01:46:38,700 --> 01:46:40,530 PERRY: Neil? 1560 01:46:47,330 --> 01:46:49,250 Tom, what is it? 1561 01:46:50,380 --> 01:46:52,210 What's wrong? 1562 01:46:55,510 --> 01:46:56,590 Neil? 1563 01:47:01,720 --> 01:47:04,770 - Neil? MRS. PERRY: I'll look outside. 1564 01:47:06,480 --> 01:47:07,690 Neil? 1565 01:47:11,570 --> 01:47:13,020 [SNIFFING] 1566 01:47:25,910 --> 01:47:29,920 No! 1567 01:47:30,130 --> 01:47:31,540 Oh, Neil! 1568 01:47:31,710 --> 01:47:34,130 - Oh, my God! - Oh, my God. 1569 01:47:34,300 --> 01:47:38,050 - No, no, no. He's all right. - Oh, my son. My son, my poor son. 1570 01:47:38,220 --> 01:47:42,350 - He's all right. He's all right. He's all right. - Stop it. Stop it. Stop it. 1571 01:47:42,510 --> 01:47:43,640 [CRYING] 1572 01:47:43,810 --> 01:47:45,470 Stop it. 1573 01:47:52,860 --> 01:47:54,020 CHARLIE: Todd? 1574 01:47:54,860 --> 01:47:58,490 - Todd. - Oh, Charlie. 1575 01:48:05,700 --> 01:48:07,290 What is it? 1576 01:48:16,510 --> 01:48:18,670 Neil's dead. 1577 01:48:56,920 --> 01:48:58,000 It's so beautiful. 1578 01:49:09,770 --> 01:49:10,810 [TODD RETCHING] 1579 01:49:10,980 --> 01:49:13,350 CHARLIE: Todd. It's okay, Todd. 1580 01:49:13,520 --> 01:49:14,980 - Calm down. KNOX: It's all right, Todd. 1581 01:49:15,150 --> 01:49:16,190 [SOBBING] 1582 01:49:16,360 --> 01:49:17,940 CHARLIE: Todd, it's okay. It's okay, Todd. 1583 01:49:18,110 --> 01:49:19,940 It's all right. 1584 01:49:20,110 --> 01:49:21,860 - Now, listen. TODD: He wouldn't have done it. 1585 01:49:22,030 --> 01:49:23,820 - You can't explain it. TODD: It was his father. 1586 01:49:23,990 --> 01:49:26,660 - No. - He wouldn't have left us. 1587 01:49:27,330 --> 01:49:30,040 He wouldn't have. His dad was-- 1588 01:49:30,200 --> 01:49:31,620 - Todd. - His father did it. 1589 01:49:31,790 --> 01:49:34,790 - His father killed him. MEEKS: You can't explain it, Todd. 1590 01:49:37,130 --> 01:49:39,920 MEEKS: Todd. - Leave him be. 1591 01:49:42,510 --> 01:49:45,010 TODD: Neil! 1592 01:51:34,250 --> 01:51:36,330 [CRYING] 1593 01:51:41,960 --> 01:51:44,050 [SINGING] 1594 01:52:19,370 --> 01:52:21,670 NOLAN: The death of Neil Perry is a tragedy. 1595 01:52:26,050 --> 01:52:28,050 He was a fine student. 1596 01:52:29,340 --> 01:52:31,720 One of Welton's best. 1597 01:52:33,720 --> 01:52:35,760 And he will be missed. 1598 01:52:39,850 --> 01:52:44,230 We've contacted each of your parents to explain the situation. 1599 01:52:44,400 --> 01:52:47,150 Naturally, they're all quite concerned. 1600 01:52:53,120 --> 01:52:56,120 At the request of Neil's family, 1601 01:52:56,910 --> 01:53:01,580 I intend to conduct a thorough enquiry into this matter. 1602 01:53:03,580 --> 01:53:07,300 Your complete cooperation is expected. 1603 01:53:17,600 --> 01:53:19,850 - You told him about this meeting? MEEKS: Twice. 1604 01:53:20,020 --> 01:53:22,270 That's it, guys. We're all fried. 1605 01:53:22,440 --> 01:53:25,060 - How do you mean? - Cameron's a fink. 1606 01:53:25,230 --> 01:53:28,360 - He's in Nolan's office right now, finking. - About what? 1607 01:53:28,570 --> 01:53:31,650 The club, Pittsie. Think about it. 1608 01:53:31,820 --> 01:53:35,530 The board of directors, the trustees and Mr. Nolan. 1609 01:53:35,700 --> 01:53:39,330 Do you think for one moment they're gonna let this thing just blow over? 1610 01:53:39,500 --> 01:53:42,410 Schools go down because of things like this. 1611 01:53:42,580 --> 01:53:43,790 They need a scapegoat. 1612 01:53:46,920 --> 01:53:49,000 [DOOR RATTLES AND SQUEAKS] 1613 01:53:59,970 --> 01:54:01,270 What's going on, guys? 1614 01:54:02,980 --> 01:54:04,890 You finked, didn't you, Cameron? 1615 01:54:05,230 --> 01:54:07,150 Finked? I don't know what you're talking about. 1616 01:54:07,310 --> 01:54:10,070 You told Nolan everything about the club is what I'm talking about. 1617 01:54:10,230 --> 01:54:11,860 Look, in case you hadn't heard, Dalton, 1618 01:54:12,030 --> 01:54:15,570 there's something called an honor code at this school, all right? 1619 01:54:15,740 --> 01:54:18,780 If a teacher asks you a question, you tell the truth or you're expelled. 1620 01:54:18,990 --> 01:54:20,540 - You little punk. KNOX: Charlie. 1621 01:54:21,200 --> 01:54:24,710 He's a rat! He's in it up to his eyes, so he ratted to save himself. 1622 01:54:24,870 --> 01:54:26,500 KNOX: Don't touch him. You do and you're out. 1623 01:54:26,670 --> 01:54:28,670 - I'm out anyway. - You don't know that, not yet. 1624 01:54:28,840 --> 01:54:30,840 He's right there, Charlie. 1625 01:54:31,010 --> 01:54:34,760 And if you guys are smart, you will do exactly what I did and cooperate. 1626 01:54:35,840 --> 01:54:39,680 They're not after us. We're the victims. 1627 01:54:41,100 --> 01:54:42,430 Us and Neil. 1628 01:54:42,640 --> 01:54:44,850 What's that mean? Who are they after? 1629 01:54:45,060 --> 01:54:48,310 Why, Mr. Keating, of course. The "captain" himself. 1630 01:54:49,270 --> 01:54:52,400 I mean, you guys didn't really think he could avoid responsibility, did you? 1631 01:54:52,570 --> 01:54:54,690 Mr. Keating responsible for Neil? 1632 01:54:54,860 --> 01:54:58,160 - Is that what they're saying? - Well, who else do you think, dumb-ass? 1633 01:54:58,320 --> 01:55:01,030 The administration? Mr. Perry? 1634 01:55:01,200 --> 01:55:03,620 Mr. Keating put us up to all this crap, didn't he? 1635 01:55:04,750 --> 01:55:07,830 If it wasn't for Mr. Keating, Neil would be cozied up in his room right now 1636 01:55:08,000 --> 01:55:09,830 studying his chemistry and dreaming of being-- 1637 01:55:10,000 --> 01:55:12,050 That is not true, Cameron. You know that. 1638 01:55:12,210 --> 01:55:15,130 He didn't put us up to anything. Neil loved acting. 1639 01:55:15,300 --> 01:55:18,840 Believe what you want, but I say let Keating fry. 1640 01:55:19,470 --> 01:55:22,100 I mean, why ruin our lives? 1641 01:55:23,350 --> 01:55:24,930 KNOX: Charlie. 1642 01:55:25,140 --> 01:55:26,480 - You dummy. MEEKS: Charlie. 1643 01:55:32,190 --> 01:55:35,150 You just signed your expulsion papers, Nuwanda. 1644 01:55:38,990 --> 01:55:42,240 And if the rest of you are smart, you'll do exactly what I did. 1645 01:55:43,910 --> 01:55:46,580 They know everything anyway. 1646 01:55:48,830 --> 01:55:51,290 You can't save Keating, 1647 01:55:52,250 --> 01:55:54,130 but you can save yourselves. 1648 01:56:27,580 --> 01:56:30,120 Knox Overstreet. 1649 01:56:56,900 --> 01:56:59,400 - Meeks. MEEKS: Go away, I have to study. 1650 01:57:01,700 --> 01:57:05,580 - What happened to Nuwanda? - Expelled. 1651 01:57:08,370 --> 01:57:10,040 What'd you tell them? 1652 01:57:10,710 --> 01:57:13,210 Nothing they didn't already know. 1653 01:57:15,130 --> 01:57:17,210 HAGER: Todd Anderson. 1654 01:57:38,900 --> 01:57:41,400 - Hello, son. - Hello, darling. 1655 01:57:43,610 --> 01:57:45,240 [MOUTHING] Mom. 1656 01:57:51,120 --> 01:57:53,250 Have a seat, Mr. Anderson. 1657 01:57:59,460 --> 01:58:02,920 Mr. Anderson, I think we've pretty well put together what's happened here. 1658 01:58:03,090 --> 01:58:08,260 You do admit to being a part of this Dead Poets Society? 1659 01:58:11,180 --> 01:58:13,270 Answer him, Todd. 1660 01:58:15,560 --> 01:58:17,060 Yes, sir. 1661 01:58:19,020 --> 01:58:24,450 I have here a detailed description of what occurred at your meetings. 1662 01:58:24,610 --> 01:58:26,360 It describes how your teacher, Mr. Keating, 1663 01:58:26,530 --> 01:58:28,950 encouraged you boys to organize this club 1664 01:58:29,120 --> 01:58:34,370 and to use it as a source of inspiration for reckless and self-indulgent behavior. 1665 01:58:34,540 --> 01:58:38,790 It describes how Mr. Keating, both in and out of the classroom, 1666 01:58:38,960 --> 01:58:43,090 encouraged Neil Perry to follow his obsession with acting 1667 01:58:43,920 --> 01:58:48,930 when he knew all along it was against the explicit orders of Neil's parents. 1668 01:58:49,470 --> 01:58:52,930 It was Mr. Keating's blatant abuse of his position as teacher 1669 01:58:53,140 --> 01:58:56,190 that led directly to Neil Perry's death. 1670 01:59:06,740 --> 01:59:08,950 Read that document carefully, Todd. 1671 01:59:11,240 --> 01:59:13,330 Very carefully. 1672 01:59:19,330 --> 01:59:22,090 If you've nothing to add or amend, sign it. 1673 01:59:23,420 --> 01:59:25,720 What's gonna happen to Mr. Keating? 1674 01:59:25,880 --> 01:59:30,050 MR. ANDERSON: I've had enough. Sign the paper, Todd. 1675 01:59:34,430 --> 01:59:38,350 McAllister: Grass is garment or herbal. 1676 01:59:38,810 --> 01:59:41,110 Lapis is stone. 1677 01:59:41,270 --> 01:59:45,150 The entire building is aedificium. 1678 02:00:13,640 --> 02:00:15,100 [DOOR CLICKS] 1679 02:00:21,440 --> 02:00:22,900 NOLAN: Sit. 1680 02:00:24,730 --> 02:00:26,980 I'll be teaching this class through exams. 1681 02:00:27,150 --> 02:00:30,360 We'll find a permanent English teacher during the break. 1682 02:00:32,620 --> 02:00:35,740 Who will tell me where you are in the Pritchard textbook? 1683 02:00:42,380 --> 02:00:44,040 Mr. Anderson. 1684 02:00:46,210 --> 02:00:49,130 - In the-- In the Pr-- NOLAN: I can't hear you, Mr. Anderson. 1685 02:00:49,300 --> 02:00:51,590 In the Pritchard? 1686 02:00:52,050 --> 02:00:53,890 Kindly inform me, Mr. Cameron. 1687 02:00:55,720 --> 02:00:58,390 We skipped around a lot, sir. We covered the romantics 1688 02:00:58,560 --> 02:01:01,270 and some of the chapters on post Civil War literature. 1689 02:01:01,940 --> 02:01:03,190 What about the realists? 1690 02:01:04,230 --> 02:01:06,730 I believe we skipped most of that, sir. 1691 02:01:07,940 --> 02:01:09,610 All right, then, we'll start over. 1692 02:01:13,070 --> 02:01:15,030 What is poetry? 1693 02:01:17,620 --> 02:01:19,120 [KNOCKING ON DOOR] 1694 02:01:19,290 --> 02:01:20,870 Come. 1695 02:01:23,750 --> 02:01:25,330 Excuse me. 1696 02:01:27,630 --> 02:01:30,260 I came for my personals. 1697 02:01:30,720 --> 02:01:34,340 - Should I come back after class? - Get them now, Mr. Keating. 1698 02:01:37,640 --> 02:01:40,680 Gentlemen, turn to page 21 of the introduction. 1699 02:01:42,230 --> 02:01:43,440 Mr. Cameron, 1700 02:01:44,560 --> 02:01:48,860 read aloud the excellent essay by Dr. Pritchard 1701 02:01:49,030 --> 02:01:51,400 on "Understanding Poetry." 1702 02:01:53,530 --> 02:01:55,280 That page has been ripped out, sir. 1703 02:01:56,160 --> 02:01:59,740 - Well, borrow somebody else's book. - They're all ripped out, sir. 1704 02:01:59,950 --> 02:02:01,870 NOLAN: What do you mean, they're all ripped out? 1705 02:02:03,670 --> 02:02:06,710 - Sir, we... NOLAN: Never mind. 1706 02:02:11,380 --> 02:02:13,050 Read. 1707 02:02:15,680 --> 02:02:19,970 CAMERON: "Understanding Poetry, by Dr. J. Evans Pritchard, Ph.D. 1708 02:02:20,140 --> 02:02:21,310 To fully understand poetry, 1709 02:02:21,480 --> 02:02:25,140 we must first be fluent with its meter, rhyme and figures of speech, 1710 02:02:25,310 --> 02:02:26,600 then ask two questions. 1711 02:02:27,270 --> 02:02:30,270 One: How artfully has the objective of the poem been rendered? 1712 02:02:30,480 --> 02:02:32,110 And two: 1713 02:02:33,650 --> 02:02:36,610 How important is that objective? 1714 02:02:36,780 --> 02:02:40,490 Question one rates the poem's perfection. Question two rates its importance. 1715 02:02:40,660 --> 02:02:42,450 And once these questions have been answered, 1716 02:02:42,620 --> 02:02:45,580 determining the poem's greatness becomes a relatively simple matter. 1717 02:02:45,750 --> 02:02:48,920 If the poem's score for perfection is plotted on the horizontal of a graph--" 1718 02:02:49,090 --> 02:02:51,250 - Mr. Keating, they made everybody sign it. - Quiet. 1719 02:02:51,420 --> 02:02:52,760 TODD: You gotta believe me, it's true. 1720 02:02:52,920 --> 02:02:54,920 - I do believe you, Todd. - Leave, Mr. Keating. 1721 02:02:55,090 --> 02:02:56,840 - But it wasn't his fault. - Sit down. 1722 02:02:57,050 --> 02:02:59,180 One more outburst from you or anyone else, 1723 02:02:59,350 --> 02:03:01,640 and you're out of this school. 1724 02:03:01,810 --> 02:03:03,850 Leave, Mr. Keating. 1725 02:03:05,810 --> 02:03:08,480 I said leave, Mr. Keating. 1726 02:03:24,290 --> 02:03:25,370 O Captain! my Captain! 1727 02:03:25,580 --> 02:03:28,460 NOLAN: Sit down, Mr. Anderson. 1728 02:03:30,250 --> 02:03:32,630 Do you hear me? Sit down. 1729 02:03:33,340 --> 02:03:35,420 Sit down. 1730 02:03:37,300 --> 02:03:40,340 This is your final warning, Anderson. 1731 02:03:40,970 --> 02:03:43,010 How dare you? 1732 02:03:43,180 --> 02:03:45,520 Do you hear me? 1733 02:03:45,680 --> 02:03:47,390 KNOX: O Captain! my Captain! 1734 02:03:49,020 --> 02:03:52,610 Mr. Overstreet, I warn you. Sit down. 1735 02:03:55,240 --> 02:03:57,030 Sit down. 1736 02:03:57,240 --> 02:03:58,900 Sit down. All of you. 1737 02:03:59,450 --> 02:04:02,320 I want you seated. Sit down. 1738 02:04:02,490 --> 02:04:03,910 Leave, Mr. Keating. 1739 02:04:12,420 --> 02:04:14,920 All of you, down. I want you seated. 1740 02:04:15,590 --> 02:04:17,630 Do you hear me? 1741 02:04:23,430 --> 02:04:25,680 Sit down. 1742 02:05:06,140 --> 02:05:07,970 Thank you, boys. 1743 02:05:10,020 --> 02:05:11,440 Thank you.