- Dead Poets Society is a 1989 film directed by Peter Weir about an English teacher at a conservative boarding school in the 1950s who inspires his students through teaching poetry.
- The teacher, John Keating, encourages his students to "seize the day" and make their lives extraordinary.
- One student, Neil, discovers his love of acting but his strict father disapproves, which leads Neil to commit suicide. As a result, Keating is fired from his teaching position at the school.
- In the end, Todd and other students stand up for Keating and salute him for his inspiring teachings.
- Dead Poets Society is a 1989 film directed by Peter Weir about an English teacher at a conservative boarding school in the 1950s who inspires his students through teaching poetry.
- The teacher, John Keating, encourages his students to "seize the day" and make their lives extraordinary.
- One student, Neil, discovers his love of acting but his strict father disapproves, which leads Neil to commit suicide. As a result, Keating is fired from his teaching position at the school.
- In the end, Todd and other students stand up for Keating and salute him for his inspiring teachings.
- Dead Poets Society is a 1989 film directed by Peter Weir about an English teacher at a conservative boarding school in the 1950s who inspires his students through teaching poetry.
- The teacher, John Keating, encourages his students to "seize the day" and make their lives extraordinary.
- One student, Neil, discovers his love of acting but his strict father disapproves, which leads Neil to commit suicide. As a result, Keating is fired from his teaching position at the school.
- In the end, Todd and other students stand up for Keating and salute him for his inspiring teachings.
- Dead Poets Society is a 1989 film directed by Peter Weir about an English teacher at a conservative boarding school in the 1950s who inspires his students through teaching poetry.
- The teacher, John Keating, encourages his students to "seize the day" and make their lives extraordinary.
- One student, Neil, discovers his love of acting but his strict father disapproves, which leads Neil to commit suicide. As a result, Keating is fired from his teaching position at the school.
- In the end, Todd and other students stand up for Keating and salute him for his inspiring teachings.
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Dead Poets Society
is a 1989 American drama film directed by Peter Weir, written by Tom Schulman, and
starring Robin Williams. Set in 1959 at the fictional elite conservative Vermont boarding school Welton Academy,[4] it tells the story of an English teacher who inspires his students through his teaching of poetry. The film received critical acclaim and was a box office success. It won the BAFTA Award for Best Film,[5] the César Award for Best Foreign Film and the David di Donatello Award for Best Foreign Film. Schulman received an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for his work. The script was written by Tom Schulman, based on his experiences at the Montgomery Bell Academy in Nashville, Tennessee, particularly with his inspirational teacher Samuel Pickering.[6 HYPERLINK "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Poets_Society"] HYPERLINK "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Poets_Society"[7] A scene in the original script showing Keating dying in a hospital was removed by film director Peter Weir.[8] Filming took place at St. Andrew's HYPERLINK "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Andrew%27s_School_(Delaware)"Schoolin Middletown, Delaware, and at locations in New Castle, Delaware, and in nearby Wilmington, Delaware.[9] In the autumn of 1959, shy Todd Anderson begins his senior year of high school at Welton Academy, an all-male, elite prep school. He is assigned one of Welton's most promising students, Neil Perry, as his roommate and is quickly accepted by Neil's friends: Knox Overstreet, Richard Cameron, Steven Meeks, Gerard Pitts, and Charlie Dalton. On the first day of classes, they are surprised by the unorthodox teaching methods of the new English teacher John Keating, a Welton alumnus who encourages his students to "make your lives extraordinary", a sentiment he summarizes with the Latin expression carpe diem, meaning "seize the day." teacher was member of the dead poets society while he was at welton, Neil restarts the club and reads the poetry with his friends in the cave. Then Nale discovers his love of acting and gets the role despite of the fact, that his father doesn’t like the idea of being actor, but neil is encouraged by his teacher,who want really good for him. After that neil wasn’t supported by her parents and at the end he commit suicide. Then neil’s death is investigated by Nolan one of the teacher of welton and keating is fired. After that Nolan (who taught English at Welton before becoming headmaster) takes over teaching the class, with the intent of adhering to traditional Welton rules. Keating interrupts the class to collect personal articles; before he leaves, Todd shouts that all of them were forced to sign the letter that resulted in his dismissal and that Neil's death was not his fault. Todd stands on his desk and salutes Keating with the words "O Captain! HYPERLINK "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_Captain! _My_Captain!"My HYPERLINK "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_Captain!_My_Captain!" HYPERLINK "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_Captain!_My_Captain!"Captain HYPERLINK "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_Captain!_My_Captain!"!". Knox, Gerard, Steven, and over half of the class do the same, defying a furious Nolan's orders to sit down. Keating is deeply touched by their gesture. He thanks the boys and departs. This is our favourite film, because there are the things , that will help us to improve our personalities. We can learn that our wishes are the most crucial in the world and nothing is more significant than that is. There should be mentonied also, the relationship between teacher and students, how they respect and love their teacher is amazing. when we watch this film , we can feel so many different senses at the same time and that makes film more interesting. Just it touches our souls deeply. Dead Poets Society teaches us to resolve to lead lives of passion and conviction, mindful of the fact that in the story of our lives the script is ours to write, but the ending has long been decided. No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world - this is the most important thing that we must understand.