I'm watching "Dead Poets Society" on VHS. Ask me anything!

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

:popcorn:

[LSK]

1. doesnt VHS rock?

:popcorn:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

2. I approve of it.

[Oeditpus Rex]

3. Have you learned yet why people write poetry?

It should be of interest. :evilgrin:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

5. Because we feel the need to.

That's why I write poetry, at least.

[Oeditpus Rex]

7. Dammit — I erred

This...

John Keating: "Why do we need language?"
Neil: "To communicate..."
John Keating: "Nooo! To woo women!"



...is not this:

John Keating: "We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for."

[pokerfan]

9. same reason anybody does anything....

"And in that moment, Dan was reminded once again why he wanted to write in the first place. It's for the same reason anybody does anything: to impress women."

[Drum]

4. Here's mine: Why does that mean father

look and act sooooo EXACTLY like my own (late) Dad? :scared:

Honestly...it's uncanny, and still creeps me out, though I appreciate the film a lot.

Being a young man going into the theatre industry at the time that "Dead Poets..." came out---also an abrupt change-of-course for me---I was aghast seeing the movie. It gave me some real shivery chills to see it, and was of course very sad at the end. I was mortified. That father actor and his character was an utter mirror of our household, though they're much more affluent of course. My ending was different: I've stayed alive, and my career choice turned out to be right and has worked out pretty well.

Hey, I know I cannot expect ya to answer that...just thought I'd throw it onto the fire. :shrug:


(And vhs does still rock...i've got tons.)

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

6. My mother and stepfather act quite like that father.

My late father was actually rather supportive. Though my mother is messed up in many ways, so I don't really pay much attention to her.

[LostinVA]

13. My little Haruka, here's a hug

And, not a pervie one for a change.

[mr blur]

8. Isn't it just an AWFUL film?

I mean, really, really dreadful. The worst kind of embarrassing drivel. And who decided that Robin Williams could act? Sheesh!

[WCGreen]

11. I am so sick and tired of the problems of poor little rich boys

in movies such as A Separate Peace and the Dead Poets Society...

And I guess I read Catcher in the Rye after my balls dropped so I didn't get all the angst...

Or whatever it was suppose to be about...

John Irving covers a lot of the same ground but does it in a humorous way that forces you to empathize with the characters...

[devilgrrl]

21. Yes, it sucked ass

:puke:

[ScreamingMeemie]

10. The part of that movie that stuck with me...

Is when Robin Williams had his students looking at the pictures of students from long ago...the part where he says something like "Listen...can you hear them saying 'carpe diem'? Ever since whenever I see an old picture I think of that scene and think about how the people were "in the moment" when that picture was taken and now they are gone.

I think too much I guess. :hi:

[LostinVA]

14. Oh gods, me too!

[LostinVA]

12. O Captain, My Captain

Okay -- quick quiz: who wrote it, and who was it about???

(And... VHS????????)

[ScreamingMeemie]

15. Walt Whitman... Abe Lincoln

:hi:

[LostinVA]

16. I was quizzing Haruka -- CHEATER

But. MrsG gets an A+.

[ScreamingMeemie]

17. ***Gasp****

PassingFair (my dearest DU friend IRL and rabid Lincoln fan) would be stunned. ;) :hi:

[LostinVA]

18. What, that you got an A+???

[ScreamingMeemie]

20. Hehehe...

That I was a CHEATER! ;)

I actually wrote a term paper in 12th grade on that poem. Lame, I know.

[LostinVA]

22. CHEATER!!!

I majored in English Lit and European History, and read esoteric history books for fun.... trust me, I don't consider you lame because of that....

Other things, yes.

:spank: :spank: :spank:

[swag]

19. Why don't you have it on Betamax?

[BarenakedLady]

23. Should I forgive him

again? Make him suffer a bit more, then forgive him? Or throw him to the curb and move on?

[Love Bug]

24. Ok, I first read your title as "Dead Parrots Society" and thought it

was a new Monty Python movie. I am clearly not awake yet.

Never mind.

[Javaman]

25. Why doesn't robin williams go away? nt

[dback]

26. God, Ethan Hawke was so beautiful back then

Not just physically, but there was something about the sweetness of that role, and his absolute emotional commitment to it, that was extraordinarily touching.

My question: was Todd in love with Neal?

[Aristus]

27. Hmm. Could have been.

But then, it was a posh boys' boarding school. All kinds of shit must have been going on. I won't even mention the headmaster's paddle...