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Films Directed by Peter Weir: Green Card, Witness, Dead Poets Society, the Year of Living Dangerously, Fearless, the Truman Show
Paperback. Books LLC 2010-05-05.
ISBN 9781155553177
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Green Card, Witness, Dead Poets Society, the Year of Living Dangerously, Fearless, the Truman Show, Master and Commander: the Far Side of the World, Gallipoli, Picnic at Hanging Rock, the Mosquito Coast, the Last Wave, the Plumber, the Cars That Ate Paris, the Way Back. Excerpt: Dead Poets Society Dead Poets Society is a 1989 film starring Robin Williams and directed by Peter Weir . Set in 1959 at a conservative and aristocratic boys prep school , it tells the story of an English teacher who inspires his students to change their lives of conformity through his teaching of poetry and literature . The story is set in Welton Academy in Vermont , America, and was filmed at St. Andrew's School in Middletown, Delaware . The script, written by Tom Schulman , was based on his life at Montgomery Bell Academy , an all-boys preparatory school in Nashville, Tennessee . Plot Neil Perry (Robert Sean Leonard ), Todd Anderson (Ethan Hawke ), Knox Overstreet (Josh Charles ), Charlie Dalton (Gale Hansen ), Richard Cameron (Dylan Kussman ), Steven Meeks (Allelon Ruggiero ) and Gerard Pitts (James Waterston ) attend the Welton Academy prep school . Their new English teacher, John Keating (Robin Williams ), tells the students that they may call him "O Captain! My Captain! " (the title of a Walt Whitman poem) if they feel daring. His first lesson is unorthodox by Welton standards, whistling the 1812 Overture and taking them out of the classroom to focus on the idea of carpe diem . In a later class, Keating has Neil read the introduction to their poetry textbook, which describes how to rate the quality of poetry. Keating finds such mathematical criticism ridiculous and instructs his pupils to rip out the essay. He later has the students stand on his desk as a reminder to look at the world in a differ
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Films Directed by Peter Weir: Green Card, Witness, Dead Poets Society, the Year of Living Dangerously, Fearless, the Truman Show
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