200:00:42,315 --> 00:00:45,767Now remember keepyour shoulders back.300:00:54,786 --> 00:00:57,403Okay put your armaround your brother. That's it.400:00:57,497 --> 00:00:59,457That's it.Right and breathe in.500:01:01,209 --> 00:01:03,117Okay one more.600:01:07,632 --> 00:01:09,707Now just to review700:01:09,801 --> 00:01:12,210you're going to followalong the procession...800:01:12,303 --> 00:01:15,223until you getto the headmaster.900:01:15,306 --> 00:01:17,882At that pointhe will indicate to you...1000:01:17,976 --> 00:01:20,051to light the candlesof the boys.1100:01:20,145 --> 00:01:22,720All right boyslet's settle down.1200:01:29,320 --> 00:01:32,105Banners up!1300:02:22,791 --> 00:02:26,868Ladies and gentlemenboys...1400:02:26,961 --> 00:02:28,870the Light of Knowledge.1500:02:43,478 --> 00:02:48,900One hundred years agoin 18591600:02:48,983 --> 00:02:52,72741 boys sat in this room...1700:02:52,821 --> 00:02:55,313and were askedthe same question...1800:02:55,407 --> 00:02:58,576that now greets youat the start of each semester.1900:02:58,660 --> 00:03:02,487Gentlemenwhat are the Four Pillars?2000:03:04,958 --> 00:03:09,744Tradition. Honour.Discipline. Excellence.2100:03:11,131 --> 00:03:13,091In her first year2200:03:13,174 --> 00:03:17,251Welton Academy graduatedfive students.2300:03:17,345 --> 00:03:20,265Last yearwe graduated 51.2400:03:20,348 --> 00:03:23,382And more than 75 percentof those...2500:03:23,476 --> 00:03:26,229went on to the Ivy League.2600:03:26,312 --> 00:03:31,057This- This kindof accomplishment...2700:03:31,151 --> 00:03:33,111is the result...2800:03:33,194 --> 00:03:38,106of fervent dedicationto the principles taught here.2900:03:38,199 --> 00:03:41,609This is why you parentshave been sending us your sons.3000:03:41,703 --> 00:03:44,737This is whywe are the best...3100:03:44,831 --> 00:03:47,865preparatory schoolin the United States.3200:03:56,134 --> 00:03:58,543As you know3300:03:58,636 --> 00:04:03,673our beloved Mr Portius of theEnglish Department retired last term.3400:04:03,767 --> 00:04:07,635You will have the opportunity later tomeet his replacement Mr John Keating3500:04:09,105 --> 00:04:12,640himself an honours graduateof this school.3600:04:12,734 --> 00:04:15,309And who for the past several yearshas been teaching...3700:04:15,403 --> 00:04:17,645at the highly regardedChester School in London.3800:04:23,536 --> 00:04:25,445Richard you forgot your bag!3900:04:25,538 --> 00:04:27,697Hi Johnny!Hey how you doin'?4000:04:27,791 --> 00:04:30,543Don't worry.I got your room assignment.4100:04:41,971 --> 00:04:44,891They haven't movedthe dining area.4200:04:44,974 --> 00:04:46,883Glad you could come by.4300:04:46,976 --> 00:04:50,011- Thrilling ceremonyas usual Dr Nolan.- You've been away too long.4400:04:50,105 --> 00:04:52,013- Hello Dr Nolan.- Good to have you back.4500:04:52,107 --> 00:04:54,265- This is our youngest Todd.- Mr Anderson.4600:04:54,359 --> 00:04:57,977You have some big shoes to fill.Your brother was one of our finest.4700:04:58,071 --> 00:05:01,105Thank you.4800:05:01,199 --> 00:05:04,150- Lovely ceremony.- Thank you. Glad you liked it.4900:05:04,244 --> 00:05:06,152- Gale.- Tom.5000:05:06,246 --> 00:05:08,154- Good to see you again.- Hello Mr Nolan.5100:05:08,248 --> 00:05:11,418- We expect great thingsfrom you this year.- Thank you sir.5200:05:11,501 --> 00:05:13,409Well he won't disappoint us.Right Neil?5300:05:13,503 --> 00:05:15,787I'll do my best sir.5400:05:15,880 --> 00:05:17,841Hey come on son.5500:05:17,924 --> 00:05:19,165- Chin up.- Okay.5600:05:19,259 --> 00:05:20,635- No tears now.- Chin up.5700:05:20,719 --> 00:05:22,679- I don't want to go here.- Honey I love you.5800:05:22,762 --> 00:05:26,714- I'll walk you over.- You be a good boy. Do your lessons.5900:05:31,521 --> 00:05:34,013Hey! I hearwe're gonna be roommates.6000:05:34,107 --> 00:05:36,682- I'm Neil Perry.- I'm Todd Anderson.6100:05:36,776 --> 00:05:38,851Why'd you leave Balincrest?6200:05:38,945 --> 00:05:40,853My brother went here.6300:05:40,947 --> 00:05:42,907Oh so you'rethat Anderson.6400:05:42,991 --> 00:05:45,191- This is for his sinuses.- Yes. I see.6500:05:45,285 --> 00:05:48,538Oh and if he can't swallowyou give him one of these.6600:05:48,621 --> 00:05:51,541And if he has trouble breathingyou can give him some of those.6700:05:51,624 --> 00:05:54,992- Did you remember your vaporizer?- Yes I put it in my room.6800:06:00,633 --> 00:06:02,625- Hey how's it going Neil?- Hey Knox.6900:06:02,719 --> 00:06:05,472Neil study group tonight?7000:06:05,555 --> 00:06:08,131- Yeah sure.- Business as usual huh?7100:06:08,224 --> 00:06:10,977Hey I heard you got the new kid.Looks like a stiff!7200:06:11,061 --> 00:06:13,897Oops.7300:06:16,566 --> 00:06:18,641Listen don't mind Cameron.7400:06:18,735 --> 00:06:23,312He was born with his foot in his mouth.You know what I mean?7500:06:25,742 --> 00:06:29,110Rumour has it...you did summer school.7600:06:29,204 --> 00:06:32,321Yep. Chemistry. My fatherthought I should get ahead.7700:06:32,415 --> 00:06:34,323How was your summer slick?7800:06:34,417 --> 00:06:36,242Keen.7900:06:37,921 --> 00:06:39,954Meeks. Door. Closed.8000:06:40,048 --> 00:06:42,206Yes sir.8100:06:42,300 --> 00:06:44,500Gentlemen what arethe Four Pillars?8200:06:44,594 --> 00:06:49,338Travesty. Horror.Decadence. Excrement.8300:06:49,432 --> 00:06:52,185Okay. Study group.8400:06:52,268 --> 00:06:55,188Meeks aced Latin.I didn't quite flunk English.8500:06:55,271 --> 00:06:57,680- If you want we got our study group.- Sure.8600:06:57,774 --> 00:07:00,016Cameron asked me too.Anyone mind including him?8700:07:00,110 --> 00:07:02,643Hmm what's his specialty?Bootlicking?8800:07:02,737 --> 00:07:04,896- Come on he's your roommate.- That's not my fault.8900:07:04,989 --> 00:07:09,484I'm sorry. My name is Stephen Meeks.9000:07:09,577 --> 00:07:11,652Oh!This is Todd Anderson.9100:07:11,746 --> 00:07:13,654- Nice to meet you.- Nice to meet you.9200:07:13,748 --> 00:07:16,157Charlie Dalton.9300:07:16,251 --> 00:07:18,701Knox Overstreet.9400:07:18,795 --> 00:07:20,703Todd's brother wasJeffrey Anderson.9500:07:20,797 --> 00:07:22,997- Oh yeah sure.- What do you know?9600:07:23,091 --> 00:07:26,959- Valedictorian. National Merit Scholar.- Oh well...9700:07:27,053 --> 00:07:29,170welcome to Hell- ton.9800:07:29,264 --> 00:07:33,309It's every bit as tough as they sayunless you're a genius like Meeks.9900:07:33,393 --> 00:07:35,843He flatters me.That's why I help him with Latin.10000:07:35,937 --> 00:07:38,857And English. And trig.10100:07:38,940 --> 00:07:41,974It's open.10200:07:45,280 --> 00:07:47,355Father I thought you'd gone.10300:07:47,449 --> 00:07:50,149- Mr Perry.- Keep your seats fellows.10400:07:50,243 --> 00:07:54,028Neil I've just spokento Mr Nolan.10500:07:54,122 --> 00:07:57,375You're taking too many extracurricularactivities this semester10600:07:57,459 --> 00:08:00,326and I've decided thatyou should drop the school annual.10700:08:00,420 --> 00:08:02,245But I'm the assistant editorthis year.10800:08:02,339 --> 00:08:05,998- Well I'm sorry Neil.- But Father I can't.10900:08:06,092 --> 00:08:10,002- It wouldn't be fair.- Would you excuse us for a moment?11000:08:21,107 --> 00:08:24,142Don't you ever dispute me in public.Do you understand?11100:08:24,235 --> 00:08:26,644- Father I wasn't disputing- -- After you've finished medical school...11200:08:26,738 --> 00:08:28,813and you're on your ownthen you can do as you damn well please.11300:08:28,907 --> 00:08:32,160But until then you do as I tell you.Is that clear?11400:08:32,243 --> 00:08:34,819Yes sir.I'm sorry.11500:08:37,082 --> 00:08:39,042You know how much this meansto your mother don't you?11600:08:39,125 --> 00:08:41,325Yes sir.11700:08:41,419 --> 00:08:45,496You know me:always taking on too much.11800:08:45,590 --> 00:08:48,166Well that's my boy.11900:08:48,259 --> 00:08:52,170- You need anything you let us know.- Yes sir.12000:09:00,438 --> 00:09:04,223Why doesn't helet you do what you want?12100:09:04,317 --> 00:09:07,602Yeah Neil. Tell him off.Couldn't get any worse.12200:09:07,696 --> 00:09:09,604Oh that's rich.Like you guys tell your parents off?12300:09:09,698 --> 00:09:11,606Mr Future Lawyerand Mr Future Banker?12400:09:11,700 --> 00:09:14,275Okay so I don't like itany more than you do.12500:09:14,369 --> 00:09:16,486Well just don't tell mehow to talk to my father.12600:09:16,579 --> 00:09:19,499- You guys are the same way.- All right all right.Jesus.12700:09:19,582 --> 00:09:21,699- So what are you gonna do then?- What I have to do.12800:09:21,793 --> 00:09:25,286- Drop the annual.- I wouldn't lose much sleep over it.12900:09:25,380 --> 00:09:27,872It's just a bunch of jerkstrying to impress Nolan.13000:09:27,966 --> 00:09:31,000I don't care. I don'tgive a damn about any of it.13100:09:31,094 --> 00:09:34,837- Well uh... Latin 8:00 in my room?- Yes.13200:09:34,931 --> 00:09:37,965- That sounds okay.- Todd you're welcome to join us.13300:09:38,059 --> 00:09:40,510- Yeah come along pal.- Thanks.13400:10:18,308 --> 00:10:20,883Slow down boys!13500:10:20,977 --> 00:10:25,388Slow down you horriblephalanx of pubescence!13600:10:25,482 --> 00:10:29,392Pick three laboratory experimentsfrom the project list...13700:10:29,486 --> 00:10:33,229and report on themevery five weeks.13800:10:33,323 --> 00:10:37,733The first 20 questions at the endof chapter one are due tomorrow.13900:10:39,954 --> 00:10:41,863- Agricolam.- Agricolam.14000:10:41,956 --> 00:10:43,865- Agricola.- Agricola.14100:10:43,958 --> 00:10:46,242- Agricolae.- Agricolae.14200:10:46,336 --> 00:10:49,089- Agricolarum.- Agricolarum.14300:10:49,172 --> 00:10:51,414- Agricolis.- Agricolis.14400:10:51,508 --> 00:10:53,583- Agricolas.- Agricolas.14500:10:53,677 --> 00:10:55,918- Agricolis.- Agricolis.14600:10:56,012 --> 00:10:58,880- Again please. Agricola.- Agricola.14700:10:58,973 --> 00:11:04,729Your study of trigonometryrequires absolute precision.14800:11:04,813 --> 00:11:09,557Anyone failing to turn inany homework assignment...14900:11:09,651 --> 00:11:14,729will be penalized one pointoff their final grade.15000:11:14,823 --> 00:11:18,691Let me urge you now notto test me on this point.15100:11:30,171 --> 00:11:32,413Hey Spaz. Spaz.15200:11:32,507 --> 00:11:35,082Brain damage!15300:11:35,176 --> 00:11:38,753- Shh!15400:11:56,197 --> 00:11:59,117Well come on.15500:12:06,458 --> 00:12:09,544- Let's go.- Let's go guys.15600:12:09,627 --> 00:12:14,914Let's go.15700:12:34,319 --> 00:12:37,895"O Captain my Captain."15800:12:37,989 --> 00:12:41,159Who knowswhere that comes from?15900:12:41,242 --> 00:12:42,900Anybody?16000:12:47,165 --> 00:12:49,407Not a clue?16100:12:49,501 --> 00:12:53,411It's from a poem by Walt Whitmanabout Mr Abraham Lincoln.16200:12:53,505 --> 00:12:56,591Now in this class you caneither call me Mr Keating...16300:12:56,675 --> 00:13:00,668or if you're slightly more daring"O Captain my Captain."16400:13:04,432 --> 00:13:07,519Now let me dispel a few rumoursso they don't fester into facts.16500:13:07,602 --> 00:13:11,345Yes I too attended Hell- tonand survived.16600:13:11,439 --> 00:13:15,516And no at that time I was notthe mental giant you see before you.16700:13:15,610 --> 00:13:19,187I was the intellectual equivalentof a 98- pound weakling.16800:13:19,280 --> 00:13:23,191I would go to the beach and peoplewould kick copies of Byron in my face.16900:13:26,621 --> 00:13:32,043Now... Mr Pitts?17000:13:32,127 --> 00:13:34,202That's a ratherunfortunate name.17100:13:34,295 --> 00:13:37,705Mr Pitts where are you?17200:13:37,799 --> 00:13:42,210Mr Pitts would you openyour hymnal to page 542.17300:13:42,303 --> 00:13:45,390Read the first stanzaof the poem you find there.17400:13:47,976 --> 00:13:50,551"To the Virginsto Make Much of Time"?17500:13:50,645 --> 00:13:53,846Yes that's the one.17600:13:53,940 --> 00:13:56,724Somewhat appropriate isn't it?17700:13:56,818 --> 00:13:59,393"Gather ye rosebuds while ye may.17800:13:59,487 --> 00:14:01,395"Old Time is still a- flying.17900:14:01,489 --> 00:14:04,899And this same flower that smiles todaytomorrow will be dying."18000:14:04,993 --> 00:14:08,027Thank you Mr Pitts.18100:14:08,121 --> 00:14:11,207"Gather ye rosebuds while ye may."18200:14:11,291 --> 00:14:15,034The Latin term for that sentimentis "Carpe diem. "18300:14:15,128 --> 00:14:17,411Now who knows what that means?18400:14:18,840 --> 00:14:21,249Carpe diem.That's "Seize the day."18500:14:21,343 --> 00:14:23,251- Very good Mister- -- Meeks.18600:14:23,345 --> 00:14:26,598Meeks.Another unusual name.18700:14:26,681 --> 00:14:28,881Seize the day.18800:14:28,975 --> 00:14:32,552"Gather ye rosebuds while ye may."18900:14:32,645 --> 00:14:34,929Why does the writeruse these lines?19000:14:35,023 --> 00:14:37,859- Because he's in a hurry.- No! Ding!19100:14:37,942 --> 00:14:40,184Thank youfor playing anyway.19200:14:42,155 --> 00:14:45,731Because we are foodfor worms lads.19300:14:45,825 --> 00:14:48,609Because believe it or noteach and every one of us in this room...19400:14:48,703 --> 00:14:54,125is one day going to stop breathingturn cold and die.19500:14:56,002 --> 00:14:58,578I would like youto step forward over here...19600:14:58,672 --> 00:15:01,247and peruse some of the facesfrom the past.19700:15:01,341 --> 00:15:05,668You've walked past themmany times. I don't thinkyou've really looked at them.19800:15:11,393 --> 00:15:14,062They're not that differentfrom you are they?19900:15:14,145 --> 00:15:16,815Same haircuts.20000:15:16,898 --> 00:15:20,016Full of hormonesjust like you.20100:15:20,110 --> 00:15:25,532Invincible just like you feel.The world is their oyster.20200:15:25,615 --> 00:15:28,733They believe they're destined forgreat things just like many of you.20300:15:28,827 --> 00:15:31,068Their eyes are full of hopejust like you.20400:15:31,162 --> 00:15:33,832Did they waituntil it was too late...20500:15:33,915 --> 00:15:37,366to make from their lives even one iotaof what they were capable?20600:15:37,460 --> 00:15:42,538Because you see gentlemen theseboys are now fertilizing daffodils.20700:15:44,259 --> 00:15:47,178But if you listenreal close...20800:15:47,262 --> 00:15:50,181you can hear them whispertheir legacy to you.20900:15:50,265 --> 00:15:52,173Go on lean in.21000:15:52,267 --> 00:15:57,887Listen.Do you hear it?21100:16:04,279 --> 00:16:06,521Carpe.21200:16:09,034 --> 00:16:11,870Hear it?21300:16:11,953 --> 00:16:17,292Carpe.21400:16:17,375 --> 00:16:22,714Carpe diem.21500:16:22,797 --> 00:16:27,542Seize the day boys.21600:16:27,635 --> 00:16:33,141Make your livesextraordinary.21700:16:46,488 --> 00:16:49,240- That was weird.- But different.21800:16:49,324 --> 00:16:51,899Spooky if you ask me.21900:16:51,993 --> 00:16:54,068Think he'll test uson that stuff?22000:16:54,162 --> 00:16:57,248Oh come on Cameron.Don't you get anything?22100:16:57,332 --> 00:16:59,407What? What?22200:17:01,670 --> 00:17:05,496Let's go boys. Hustle up in here.That means you Dalton!22300:17:05,590 --> 00:17:07,832Who's up for a quickstudy group tonight guys?22400:17:07,926 --> 00:17:10,001- Me.- What?22500:17:10,095 --> 00:17:13,504I can't make it guys. I have to havedinner at the Danburrys' house tonight.22600:17:13,598 --> 00:17:15,506The Danburrys?Who are the Danburrys?22700:17:15,600 --> 00:17:17,508Big alums.How'd you swing that?22800:17:17,602 --> 00:17:20,011Friends of my dad's. They're probablyin their nineties or something.22900:17:20,105 --> 00:17:21,512Ooh!23000:17:21,606 --> 00:17:24,015Anything's betterthan Hell- ton hash Knox.23100:17:24,109 --> 00:17:26,684- I'll second that.- Yeah we'll see.23200:17:26,778 --> 00:17:30,521You coming to the study group tonight?23300:17:30,615 --> 00:17:34,525Uh... no. No I- -Uh I've got some history I wanna do.23400:17:34,619 --> 00:17:37,372Suit yourself.23500:18:10,405 --> 00:18:12,313Ready Overstreet?23600:18:14,409 --> 00:18:16,692Ready to go sir.23700:18:41,603 --> 00:18:44,011Chet can you get that?23800:18:44,105 --> 00:18:46,180- I can't Mom.- I'll get it!23900:18:51,571 --> 00:18:54,188Can I help you?24000:18:54,282 --> 00:18:57,859Hi. Knox Overstreet.24100:18:57,952 --> 00:19:01,696- Uh Dr Hager.- Hi.24200:19:01,790 --> 00:19:03,666This is the Danburrys'right?24300:19:03,750 --> 00:19:07,034- Are you here to see Chet?- Mrs Danburry?24400:19:07,128 --> 00:19:11,205- No.- Sorry. Thank you. I'm Mrs Danburry.24500:19:11,299 --> 00:19:13,207- You must be Knox.- Yes.24600:19:13,301 --> 00:19:16,054Back by 9:00?Please come on in.24700:19:16,137 --> 00:19:18,045- Chris come on!- Chet I'm coming.24800:19:18,139 --> 00:19:20,506Knox. How are you?Joe Danburry.24900:19:20,600 --> 00:19:23,353- Nice to meet you sir.- He's the spitting image of his father.25000:19:23,436 --> 00:19:25,344- How is he? Come on in.- Chris!25100:19:25,438 --> 00:19:28,014- Great. He just did a big case for G.M.- I know where you're headed.25200:19:28,108 --> 00:19:30,433- I'm coming.- Like father like son huh?25300:19:32,112 --> 00:19:34,072Ooh! Psycho!25400:19:34,155 --> 00:19:36,647- Yes!- To Queen- Six.25500:19:36,741 --> 00:19:39,358- Another game?- What do you mean?- Duh!25600:19:39,452 --> 00:19:42,706just replace these numbers herewith 'x "for 'x"and 'y. "25700:19:42,789 --> 00:19:45,323- Of course.- Of course. So what's the problem?25800:19:45,417 --> 00:19:48,086You think I can get in there?You've been hogging it all day.25900:19:48,169 --> 00:19:50,244- Wait. No.- How was dinner?26000:19:50,338 --> 00:19:52,371Huh?26100:19:52,465 --> 00:19:56,125- How was dinner?- Terrible.26200:19:57,512 --> 00:20:01,214- Awful.- Why? What happened?26300:20:04,144 --> 00:20:08,721Tonight I metthe most beautiful girl...26400:20:08,815 --> 00:20:11,224I have ever seenin my entire life.26500:20:11,317 --> 00:20:14,018Are you crazy?What's wrong with that?26600:20:14,112 --> 00:20:18,241She's practically engagedto Chet Danburry.26700:20:18,324 --> 00:20:19,951That guy could eat a football.26800:20:20,035 --> 00:20:22,110- Too bad.- "Too bad"?26900:20:22,203 --> 00:20:24,737It's worse than "too bad"Pittsie. It's a tragedy.27000:20:24,831 --> 00:20:27,584A girl this beautifulin love with such a jerk.27100:20:27,667 --> 00:20:30,118All the good ones go for jerks.You know that.27200:20:30,211 --> 00:20:32,745Yeah forget her. Open your trig bookand try and figure out problem five.27300:20:32,839 --> 00:20:35,248I can't just forget her Cameron.27400:20:35,342 --> 00:20:38,209And I certainlycan't think about trig.27500:20:38,303 --> 00:20:40,461We got it!27600:20:40,555 --> 00:20:43,308All right gentlemen.Five minutes.27700:20:43,391 --> 00:20:45,800Let's go.27800:20:45,894 --> 00:20:49,595- Did you see her naked?- Very funny Dalton.27900:20:49,689 --> 00:20:52,640That wouldn't be a radio in your lap28000:20:52,734 --> 00:20:57,145- would it Mr Pitts?- No sir. Science experiment.28100:20:57,238 --> 00:20:59,313Radar.28200:21:03,912 --> 00:21:08,698Gentlemen open your textto page 21 of the introduction.28300:21:08,792 --> 00:21:12,201Mr Perry will you readthe opening paragraph of the preface28400:21:12,295 --> 00:21:14,454entitled"Understanding Poetry."28500:21:15,799 --> 00:21:20,543"'Understand Poetry'by Dr J. Evans Pritchard Ph.D.28600:21:20,637 --> 00:21:23,390"To fully understand poetrywe must first be fluent...28700:21:23,473 --> 00:21:26,393"with its metre rhymeand figures of speech.28800:21:26,476 --> 00:21:28,384"Then ask two questions.28900:21:28,478 --> 00:21:30,720"One.: How artfully has the objectiveof the poem been rendered?29000:21:30,814 --> 00:21:34,307'And two.: How importantis that objective?29100:21:34,401 --> 00:21:36,309"Question one ratesthe poem's perfection.29200:21:36,403 --> 00:21:38,394"Question two ratesits importance.29300:21:38,488 --> 00:21:40,897'And once these questionshave been answered...29400:21:40,990 --> 00:21:44,400"determining a poem's greatnessbecomes a relatively simple matter.29500:21:44,494 --> 00:21:47,069"If the poem's scorefor perfection is plotted...29600:21:47,163 --> 00:21:49,238"on the horizontalof a graph...29700:21:49,332 --> 00:21:52,742"and its importanceis plotted on the vertical29800:21:52,836 --> 00:21:56,089"then calculatingthe total area of the poem...29900:21:56,172 --> 00:21:58,873"yields the measureof its greatness.30000:22:01,469 --> 00:22:06,714"A sonnet by Byron mightscore high on the vertical30100:22:06,808 --> 00:22:09,728"but only averageon the horizontal.30200:22:09,811 --> 00:22:13,012'A Shakespearean sonneton the other hand30300:22:13,106 --> 00:22:16,443"would score high bothhorizontally and vertically30400:22:16,526 --> 00:22:18,434'yieldinga massive total area;:30500:22:18,528 --> 00:22:21,865"thereby revealingthe poem to be truly great.30600:22:21,948 --> 00:22:26,734'As you proceed through the poetry inthis book practise this rating method.30700:22:26,828 --> 00:22:29,529'As your ability to evaluatepoems in this manner grows30800:22:29,622 --> 00:22:35,409so will- - so will your enjoymentand understanding of poetry."30900:22:39,841 --> 00:22:41,749Excrement.31000:22:44,179 --> 00:22:46,546That's what I thinkof Mr J. Evans Pritchard.31100:22:46,639 --> 00:22:49,757We're not laying pipe.We're talking about poetry.31200:22:49,851 --> 00:22:53,104I mean how can you describe poetrylike American Bandstand?31300:22:53,188 --> 00:22:58,057"I like Byron. I give him a 42.But I can't dance to it."31400:22:58,151 --> 00:23:01,237Now I want youto rip out that page.31500:23:01,321 --> 00:23:04,689Go on.Rip out the entire page.31600:23:07,327 --> 00:23:09,902You heard me.Rip it out.31700:23:09,996 --> 00:23:12,447Rip it out!31800:23:12,540 --> 00:23:14,657Go on.Rip it out.31900:23:16,044 --> 00:23:18,453Thank you Mr Dalton.32000:23:18,546 --> 00:23:20,538Gentlemen tell you what.Don't just tear out that page.32100:23:20,632 --> 00:23:25,460Tear out the entire introduction.I want it gone history. Leave nothing.32200:23:25,553 --> 00:23:29,849Rip it out! Rip! Be goneJ. Evans Pritchard Ph.D.!32300:23:29,933 --> 00:23:32,383Rip! Shred! Tear!32400:23:32,477 --> 00:23:35,480Rip it out! I want to hear nothingbut ripping of Mr Pritchard!32500:23:35,563 --> 00:23:38,316We'll perforate it put it on a roll!32600:23:38,400 --> 00:23:40,808It's not the Bible.You're not gonna go to hell for this.32700:23:43,363 --> 00:23:46,814Go on. Make a clean tear.I want nothing left of it.32800:23:46,908 --> 00:23:49,275We shouldn't be doing this.32900:23:49,369 --> 00:23:51,819Rip! Rip! Rip!33000:23:51,913 --> 00:23:53,821Rip it out! Rip!33100:23:58,128 --> 00:24:02,121Rip it! Yeah! Rip it out!33200:24:05,719 --> 00:24:08,722- Rip it!- What the hell is going on here?33300:24:10,098 --> 00:24:13,674- I don't hear enough rips.- Mr Keating.33400:24:13,768 --> 00:24:16,135Mr McAllister.33500:24:16,229 --> 00:24:20,723I'm sorry I- -I didn't know you were here.33600:24:20,817 --> 00:24:26,687- I am.- Ah. So you are.33700:24:26,781 --> 00:24:28,856Excuse me.33800:24:30,618 --> 00:24:32,902Keep ripping gentlemen.33900:24:32,996 --> 00:24:35,696This is a battle a war.34000:24:35,790 --> 00:24:37,865And the casualties could beyour hearts and souls.34100:24:37,959 --> 00:24:39,867Thank you Mr Dalton.34200:24:39,961 --> 00:24:43,048Armies of academicsgoing forward measuring poetry.34300:24:43,131 --> 00:24:45,039No! We will nothave that here.34400:24:45,133 --> 00:24:47,041No moreof MrJ. Evans Pritchard.34500:24:47,135 --> 00:24:50,388Now my class you will learnto think for yourselves again.34600:24:50,472 --> 00:24:54,006You will learnto savour words and language.34700:24:54,100 --> 00:24:56,384No matter whatanybody tells you34800:24:56,478 --> 00:25:00,221words and ideascan change the world.34900:25:00,315 --> 00:25:02,682I see that lookin Mr Pitts' eye...35000:25:02,776 --> 00:25:05,017like 19th century literaturehas nothing to do...35100:25:05,111 --> 00:25:07,019with going to business schoolor medical school.35200:25:07,113 --> 00:25:09,021Right? Maybe.35300:25:09,115 --> 00:25:11,190Mr Hopkins you may agreewith him thinking35400:25:11,284 --> 00:25:14,537"Yes we should simply studyour Mr Pritchard...35500:25:14,621 --> 00:25:17,540"and learn our rhyme and metreand go quietly about the business...35600:25:17,624 --> 00:25:20,710of achieving other ambitions."35700:25:20,794 --> 00:25:23,713I have a little secret for you.Huddle up.35800:25:23,797 --> 00:25:25,705Huddle up!35900:25:33,640 --> 00:25:37,049We don't read and writepoetry because it's cute.36000:25:37,143 --> 00:25:41,888We read and write poetry becausewe are members of the human race.36100:25:41,981 --> 00:25:46,726And the human raceis filled with passion.36200:25:46,820 --> 00:25:49,395Medicine lawbusiness engineering:36300:25:49,489 --> 00:25:52,659these are noble pursuitsand necessary to sustain life.36400:25:52,742 --> 00:25:55,234But poetry36500:25:55,328 --> 00:25:59,405beauty romance love- -36600:25:59,499 --> 00:26:02,074these are whatwe stay alive for.36700:26:02,168 --> 00:26:05,005To quote from Whitman.:36800:26:05,088 --> 00:26:09,134"O me O life of the questionsof these recurring.36900:26:09,217 --> 00:26:12,303"Of the endless trainsof the faithless.37000:26:12,387 --> 00:26:15,306"Of cities filledwith the foolish.37100:26:15,390 --> 00:26:18,674"What good amid theseO me O life?37200:26:18,768 --> 00:26:22,678"Answer:That you are here.37300:26:22,772 --> 00:26:26,849"That life existsand identity.37400:26:26,943 --> 00:26:29,352"That the powerful playgoes on37500:26:29,446 --> 00:26:32,021and you may contributea verse."37600:26:34,117 --> 00:26:36,786"That the powerful playgoes on37700:26:36,870 --> 00:26:40,696and you may contributea verse. "37800:26:44,294 --> 00:26:46,410What will your verse be?37900:26:50,425 --> 00:26:53,209For what we areabout to receive38000:26:53,303 --> 00:26:56,389may the Lord make ustruly grateful.38100:26:56,473 --> 00:26:58,381Amen.38200:27:10,111 --> 00:27:12,864Quite an interesting classyou gave today Mr Keating.38300:27:12,947 --> 00:27:15,867- Sorry if I shocked you Mr McAllister.- There's no need to apologise.38400:27:15,950 --> 00:27:19,037It was very fascinatingmisguided though it was.38500:27:19,120 --> 00:27:21,028You think so?38600:27:21,122 --> 00:27:24,376You take a big risk by encouraging themto become artistsJohn.38700:27:24,459 --> 00:27:28,202When they realize that they'renot Rembrandts Shakespeares or Mozarts38800:27:28,296 --> 00:27:29,871they'll hate you for it.38900:27:29,964 --> 00:27:33,374We're not talking artists George.We're talking freethinkers.39000:27:33,468 --> 00:27:35,877Freethinkers at 17?39100:27:35,970 --> 00:27:37,879Funny I never pegged youas a cynic.39200:27:40,308 --> 00:27:43,009Not a cynic.39300:27:43,103 --> 00:27:45,063A realist.39400:27:45,146 --> 00:27:49,223"Show me the heart unfetteredby foolish dreams39500:27:49,317 --> 00:27:51,517and I'll show youa happy man."39600:27:51,611 --> 00:27:55,229"But only in their dreamscan men be truly free.39700:27:55,323 --> 00:27:58,274'Twas always thusand always thus will be."39800:27:58,368 --> 00:28:00,401Tennyson?39900:28:00,495 --> 00:28:02,653No. Keating.40000:28:07,502 --> 00:28:10,077Hey I found his seniorannual in the library.40100:28:10,171 --> 00:28:13,206Listen to this.Captain of the soccer team.40200:28:13,299 --> 00:28:16,219Editor of the school annual.Cambridge bound.40300:28:16,302 --> 00:28:19,472Thigh manand the Dead Poets Society.40400:28:19,556 --> 00:28:22,256"Man Most LikelyTo Do Anything."40500:28:22,350 --> 00:28:25,718Thigh man?Mr "K" was a hell- raiser.40600:28:25,812 --> 00:28:28,513What's the Dead Poets Society?40700:28:28,606 --> 00:28:30,515- I don't know.- Is there a picture in the annual?40800:28:30,608 --> 00:28:32,517- Nothing. No other mention of it.- That boy there40900:28:32,610 --> 00:28:34,519see me after lunch.41000:28:38,116 --> 00:28:40,024Mr Keating?41100:28:40,118 --> 00:28:42,819Mr Keating?41200:28:42,912 --> 00:28:45,446Sir?41300:28:45,540 --> 00:28:48,293- Say something.- O Captain my Captain?41400:28:48,376 --> 00:28:50,868Gentlemen.41500:28:50,962 --> 00:28:54,539We were just lookingin your old annual.41600:28:54,632 --> 00:28:56,916Oh my God.41700:28:57,010 --> 00:29:00,378No that's not me.41800:29:00,472 --> 00:29:03,423Stanley "The Tool" Wilson.41900:29:05,935 --> 00:29:09,595- God.- What was the Dead Poets Society?42000:29:13,943 --> 00:29:17,478I doubt the present administrationwould look too favourably upon that.42100:29:17,572 --> 00:29:20,241Why?What was it?42200:29:23,078 --> 00:29:27,290- Gentlemen can you keep a secret?- Sure.42300:29:29,584 --> 00:29:35,173The Dead Poets were dedicatedto sucking the marrow out of life.42400:29:35,256 --> 00:29:38,510That's a phrase from Thoreau we'd invokeat the beginning of every meeting.42500:29:38,593 --> 00:29:41,169You see we would gatherat the old Indian cave...42600:29:41,262 --> 00:29:45,809and take turns reading from ThoreauWhitman Shelley- - the biggies.42700:29:45,892 --> 00:29:47,686Even some of our own verse.42800:29:47,769 --> 00:29:51,387And in the enchantment of the momentwe'd let poetry work its magic.42900:29:51,481 --> 00:29:54,682You mean it was a bunch of guyssitting around reading poetry?43000:29:54,776 --> 00:29:57,696No Mr Overstreet.It wasn't just guys.43100:29:57,779 --> 00:30:01,032We weren't a Greek organization.We were romantics.43200:30:01,116 --> 00:30:06,152We didn't just read poetry we let itdrip from our tongues like honey.43300:30:06,246 --> 00:30:10,875Spirits soared women swoonedand gods were created gentlemen.43400:30:10,959 --> 00:30:13,409Not a bad wayto spend an evening eh?43500:30:13,503 --> 00:30:14,827Hmm.43600:30:14,921 --> 00:30:17,705Thank you Mr Perryfor this stroll down amnesia lane.43700:30:17,799 --> 00:30:19,832Burn that.43800:30:19,926 --> 00:30:22,710Especially my picture.43900:30:22,804 --> 00:30:28,226Dead Poets Society.44000:30:28,309 --> 00:30:30,270What?44100:30:34,149 --> 00:30:36,390- I say we go tonight.- Tonight?44200:30:36,484 --> 00:30:38,559- Wait a minute.- Everybody in?44300:30:38,653 --> 00:30:40,728- Where's this cave he's talking about?- It's beyond the stream.44400:30:40,822 --> 00:30:43,231- I know where it is.- That's miles.44500:30:43,324 --> 00:30:46,526- Sounds boring to me.- Don't go.44600:30:46,619 --> 00:30:49,070- You know how manydemerits we're talking?- So don't come. Please.44700:30:49,164 --> 00:30:51,572Look all I'm sayingis that we have to be careful.44800:30:51,666 --> 00:30:54,784- We can't get caught.- No shit Sherlock.44900:30:54,878 --> 00:30:57,745You boys there!Hurry up!45000:30:57,839 --> 00:31:00,925- All right who's in?- Aw come on Neil. Hager's- -45100:31:01,009 --> 00:31:04,377Forget Hager! No!Who's in?45200:31:04,471 --> 00:31:06,295I'm in.45300:31:07,474 --> 00:31:10,091I'm warning you! Move!45400:31:10,185 --> 00:31:11,300Me too.45500:31:11,394 --> 00:31:13,761- I don't know Neil.- What? Pitts!45600:31:13,855 --> 00:31:15,763- Pittsie come on.- His grades are hurting.45700:31:15,857 --> 00:31:18,558- You can help him Meeks.- What is this a midnight study group?45800:31:18,651 --> 00:31:21,404Forget it Pitts. You're coming.Meeks your grades hurting too?45900:31:21,488 --> 00:31:23,813- I'll try anything once.- Except sex.46000:31:23,907 --> 00:31:26,232- Ha ha ha.- I'm in as long as we're careful.46100:31:26,326 --> 00:31:28,901- What about you Knox?- I don't know Charlie.46200:31:28,995 --> 00:31:31,070Come on Knox.It'll help you get Chris.46300:31:31,164 --> 00:31:33,072Yeah? How?46400:31:33,166 --> 00:31:36,909- Women swoon.- But why do they swoon?46500:31:37,003 --> 00:31:40,455Charlie tell me why they swoon!Charlie!46600:31:43,009 --> 00:31:45,460Okayfollow the stream to the waterfall.46700:31:45,553 --> 00:31:47,462It's right there.It's got to be on the banks.46800:31:47,555 --> 00:31:49,464I don't know.This is starting to sound dangerous.46900:31:49,557 --> 00:31:52,967- Oh well why don't you stay home?- Hey you're crazy.47000:31:53,061 --> 00:31:56,929For God's sakestop chattering and sit down.47100:32:03,947 --> 00:32:06,647- Todd are you coming tonight?- No.47200:32:06,741 --> 00:32:08,816Why not? God you were there.You heard Keating.47300:32:08,910 --> 00:32:11,277- Don't you wantto do something about that?- Yes.47400:32:11,371 --> 00:32:15,667- But- -- But? But what?47500:32:17,460 --> 00:32:21,204Keating said that everybodytook turns reading47600:32:21,297 --> 00:32:24,050and I don't want to do that.47700:32:24,134 --> 00:32:26,292Gosh you really havea problem with that don't you?47800:32:28,471 --> 00:32:30,880N- No I don't have a problem.47900:32:30,974 --> 00:32:34,310Neil I just- -I don't want to do it okay?48000:32:34,394 --> 00:32:36,886All right.48100:32:36,980 --> 00:32:40,556What if you didn't have to read?What if you just came and listened?48200:32:40,650 --> 00:32:43,737- That's not how it works.- Well forget how it works.48300:32:43,820 --> 00:32:47,730What if- -What if they said it was okay?48400:32:47,824 --> 00:32:50,691What- - What are you gonnago up and ask them?48500:32:50,785 --> 00:32:53,538No.No Neil.48600:32:53,621 --> 00:32:55,822- I'll be right back.- Neil. Neil!48700:32:58,585 --> 00:33:01,921Oh shut up will you?48800:33:04,007 --> 00:33:06,040That's for my asthma okay?48900:33:06,134 --> 00:33:08,709Could you give that back please?49000:33:08,803 --> 00:33:10,711What's the matter?Don't you like snakes?49100:33:10,805 --> 00:33:12,880- You're in.- Get away from me okay?49200:33:12,974 --> 00:33:16,384- Why don't you check your pocket huh?49300:33:16,478 --> 00:33:20,221- Come on. I have to brush my teeth.- Get a- - Get off.49400:33:20,315 --> 00:33:24,225- Cut out that racket in there!49500:34:26,131 --> 00:34:30,708Go. Go.49600:36:04,104 --> 00:36:06,596- I'm a dead poet!- Aw shit Charlie.49700:36:06,690 --> 00:36:10,558- Guys! Over here!- Funny. You're real funny.49800:36:10,652 --> 00:36:12,685It's too wet.49900:36:12,779 --> 00:36:14,687God are you tryingto smoke us out of here?50000:36:14,781 --> 00:36:16,856No no. The smoke'sgoing right up this opening.50100:36:19,994 --> 00:36:22,695You okay?50200:36:22,789 --> 00:36:25,198Oh God. Clowns.50300:36:25,291 --> 00:36:27,867All right forget the fire.50400:36:27,961 --> 00:36:31,047Let's go gentlemen.50500:36:31,131 --> 00:36:35,176- I hereby reconvenethe Dead Poets Society50600:36:35,260 --> 00:36:37,543Welton Chapter.50700:36:37,637 --> 00:36:39,545The meetings will beconducted by myself...50800:36:39,639 --> 00:36:41,714and the othernew initiates now present.50900:36:41,808 --> 00:36:43,841Todd Anderson becausehe prefers not to read51000:36:43,935 --> 00:36:46,427will keep minutesof the meetings.51100:36:46,521 --> 00:36:49,555I'll now readthe traditional opening message...51200:36:49,649 --> 00:36:51,557by Society memberHenry David Thoreau.51300:36:51,651 --> 00:36:54,571"I went to the woods becauseI wanted to live deliberately.51400:36:54,654 --> 00:36:57,323I wanted to live deep and suckout all the marrow of life."51500:36:57,407 --> 00:36:58,981I'll second that.51600:36:59,075 --> 00:37:01,567"To put to routall that was not life.51700:37:01,661 --> 00:37:03,486"And notwhen I had come to die51800:37:03,580 --> 00:37:05,947discoverthat I had not lived."51900:37:09,544 --> 00:37:12,630- Keating's markeda bunch of other pages.- All right intermission!52000:37:12,714 --> 00:37:14,831Dig deep. Right here.Right here lay it down.52100:37:14,924 --> 00:37:16,999On the mud? We're gonnaput our food on the mud?52200:37:17,093 --> 00:37:19,335Meeks put your coat down.Picnic blanket.52300:37:19,429 --> 00:37:22,349Use Meeks' coat.52400:37:22,432 --> 00:37:24,340Don't keep anything back either.52500:37:24,434 --> 00:37:27,187- You guys are always bumming my smokes.- Raisins?52600:37:27,270 --> 00:37:29,178- Yuck.- Wait a minute!52700:37:29,272 --> 00:37:32,359- Who gave us half a roll?- I'm eating the other half.52800:37:32,442 --> 00:37:35,226- Come on!- What you want me to put it back?52900:37:35,320 --> 00:37:38,354It was a dark and rainy nightand this old lady53000:37:38,448 --> 00:37:40,690who had a passionfor jigsaw puzzles53100:37:40,784 --> 00:37:45,330sat by herself in her house at her tableto complete a new jigsaw puzzle.53200:37:45,413 --> 00:37:48,197But as she piecedthe puzzle together53300:37:48,291 --> 00:37:50,199she realizedto her astonishment53400:37:50,293 --> 00:37:53,703that the image that was formedwas her very own room.53500:37:53,797 --> 00:37:56,038And the figurein the centre of the puzzle53600:37:56,132 --> 00:37:58,708as she completed itwas herself.53700:37:58,802 --> 00:38:02,847And with trembling handsshe placed the last four pieces...53800:38:02,931 --> 00:38:08,009and stared in horror at the faceof a demented madman at the window.53900:38:08,103 --> 00:38:12,013The last thing thatthis old lady ever heard...54000:38:12,107 --> 00:38:14,859- was the sound of breaking glass.- No she didn't.54100:38:14,943 --> 00:38:17,696Yes this is true. This is true.54200:38:17,779 --> 00:38:20,354I've got one that's better than that.54300:38:20,448 --> 00:38:22,774I do. There's a youngmarried couple54400:38:22,867 --> 00:38:25,359and they're driving through the forestat night on a long trip.54500:38:25,453 --> 00:38:28,029And they run out of gasand there's a madman on the- -54600:38:28,123 --> 00:38:29,530The thing with the hand?54700:38:29,624 --> 00:38:31,532I love that story!54800:38:31,626 --> 00:38:33,534- I told you that one.- You did not.54900:38:33,628 --> 00:38:35,703- I got that in camp in sixth grade.- Last year?55000:38:35,797 --> 00:38:37,872"In a mean abodein the Shanking Road55100:38:37,966 --> 00:38:39,874"lived a man namedWilliam Bloat.55200:38:39,968 --> 00:38:42,043"Now he had a wifethe plague of his life55300:38:42,137 --> 00:38:44,212"who continuallygot his goat.55400:38:44,305 --> 00:38:46,714"And one day at dawnwith her nightshift on55500:38:46,808 --> 00:38:49,050he slither bloody throat."55600:38:49,144 --> 00:38:50,885Oh and it gets worse.55700:38:50,979 --> 00:38:53,221You want to heara real poem?55800:38:53,314 --> 00:38:55,389- You want this?- No I don't need- - Get this outta here.55900:38:55,483 --> 00:38:57,391- What did you bring one?- You memorized a poem?56000:38:57,485 --> 00:39:00,238You memorized a poem?56100:39:00,321 --> 00:39:02,647- An original piece by Charlie Dalton.- An original piece.56200:39:02,741 --> 00:39:05,108- Take centre stage.- You know this is history right?56300:39:13,043 --> 00:39:15,618Wow. Whoa.56400:39:15,712 --> 00:39:17,912Where did you get that?56500:39:18,006 --> 00:39:19,288Where did you- -56600:39:19,382 --> 00:39:22,333- Whoa.- "Teach me to love?56700:39:22,427 --> 00:39:25,347"Go teach thyself more wit.56800:39:25,430 --> 00:39:27,672"I chief professor am of it.56900:39:27,766 --> 00:39:31,509"The god of loveif such a thing there be57000:39:31,603 --> 00:39:33,678may learn to love from me."57100:39:33,772 --> 00:39:35,763Wow. Did you write that?57200:39:40,945 --> 00:39:43,104Abraham Cowley.57300:39:43,198 --> 00:39:45,106Okay.Who's next?57400:39:45,200 --> 00:39:47,525Alfred Lord Tennyson.57500:39:47,619 --> 00:39:49,694"Come my friends.57600:39:49,788 --> 00:39:52,707"'Tis not too lateto seek a newer world.57700:39:52,791 --> 00:39:56,367"For my purpose holdsto sail beyond the sunset.57800:39:56,461 --> 00:39:58,703"And though we are notnow that strength...57900:39:58,797 --> 00:40:02,540"which in old daysmoved Earth and heaven.58000:40:02,634 --> 00:40:04,876"That which we are we are:58100:40:04,969 --> 00:40:09,046"one equal temperof heroic hearts...58200:40:09,140 --> 00:40:13,050"made weak by time and fatebut strong in will...58300:40:13,144 --> 00:40:18,222"to strive to seek to find58400:40:18,316 --> 00:40:20,725and not to yield."58500:40:21,903 --> 00:40:24,572"Then I had religionthen I had a vision.58600:40:24,656 --> 00:40:27,064"I could not turn fromtheir revel in derision.58700:40:27,158 --> 00:40:29,734"Then I saw the Congocreeping through the black58800:40:29,828 --> 00:40:32,664cutting through the forestwith a golden track."58900:40:32,747 --> 00:40:35,417- Then I saw the Congocreeping through the black- Meeks. Meeks.59000:40:35,500 --> 00:40:37,909cutting through the forestwith a golden track.59100:40:38,003 --> 00:40:40,411Then I saw the Congocreeping through the black59200:40:40,505 --> 00:40:43,174- cutting through the forestwith a golden track.59300:40:43,258 --> 00:40:45,583Then I saw the Congocreeping through the black59400:40:45,677 --> 00:40:48,086- cutting through the forestwith a golden track!59500:40:48,179 --> 00:40:50,588Then I saw the Congocreeping through the black59600:40:50,682 --> 00:40:53,518cutting through the forestwith a golden track!59700:40:53,601 --> 00:40:55,760Then I saw the Congocreeping through the black59800:40:55,854 --> 00:40:58,096cutting through the forestwith a golden track!59900:40:58,189 --> 00:41:00,598Then I saw the Congocreeping through the black60000:41:00,692 --> 00:41:03,184- cutting through the forestwith a golden track!60100:41:03,278 --> 00:41:05,520Then I saw the Congocreeping through the black60200:41:05,613 --> 00:41:07,855cutting through the forestwith a golden track!60300:41:10,618 --> 00:41:12,860Cutting through the forestwith a golden track!60400:41:12,954 --> 00:41:15,874Then I saw the Congocreeping through the black- -60500:41:24,507 --> 00:41:27,208A man is not "very tired. "He is "exhausted. "60600:41:27,302 --> 00:41:29,210And don't use "very sad."Use- -60700:41:29,304 --> 00:41:31,546Come on Mr Overstreetyou twerp.60800:41:31,639 --> 00:41:35,049- "Morose"?- Exactly! Morose!60900:41:35,143 --> 00:41:38,970Language was developed for oneendeavour and that is- - Mr Anderson?61000:41:39,064 --> 00:41:42,233Come onare you a man or an amoeba?61100:41:44,736 --> 00:41:46,727Mr Perry?61200:41:48,990 --> 00:41:51,659Uh... to communicate.61300:41:51,743 --> 00:41:54,579No! To woo women.61400:41:54,662 --> 00:41:57,071Today we're going to be talking...61500:41:57,165 --> 00:41:59,918- about William Shakespeare.- Oh God.61600:42:00,001 --> 00:42:01,909I know. A lot of youlook forward to this...61700:42:02,003 --> 00:42:04,370about as much as you look forwardto root canal work.61800:42:04,464 --> 00:42:06,456We're gonna talkabout Shakespeare...61900:42:06,549 --> 00:42:09,167as someone who writessomething very interesting.62000:42:09,260 --> 00:42:12,879Now many of you have seen Shakespearedone very much like this:62100:42:12,972 --> 00:42:16,226"O Titus bring your friend hither."62200:42:16,309 --> 00:42:19,229But if any of you have seenMr Marlon Brando62300:42:19,312 --> 00:42:21,387you knowthat Shakespeare can be different.62400:42:21,481 --> 00:42:25,558"Friends Romans countrymenlend me your ears."62500:42:28,321 --> 00:42:30,897You can also imagine maybeJohn Wayne as Macbeth going...62600:42:30,990 --> 00:42:34,942"Wellis this a dagger I see before me?"62700:42:37,205 --> 00:42:40,990"Dogs sir?Oh not just now.62800:42:41,084 --> 00:42:45,244"I do enjoy a good dogonce in a while sir.62900:42:45,338 --> 00:42:48,748"You can have yourselfa three- course meal from one dog.63000:42:48,842 --> 00:42:52,971"Start with a canine croquette.63100:42:53,054 --> 00:42:54,962"Go to your Fido Flambefor main course.63200:42:55,056 --> 00:42:57,924'And for desserta Pekingese parfait.63300:42:58,018 --> 00:43:00,134And you can pick your teethwith the little paw. "63400:43:02,772 --> 00:43:04,806Why do I stand up here?63500:43:04,899 --> 00:43:07,350- Anybody?- To feel taller.63600:43:07,444 --> 00:43:09,352No! Thank you for playing.63700:43:09,446 --> 00:43:11,979I stand upon my desk...63800:43:12,073 --> 00:43:17,193to remind myself that we must constantlylook at things in a different way.63900:43:22,292 --> 00:43:24,534See the world looksvery different from up here.64000:43:24,627 --> 00:43:26,661You don't believe me?64100:43:26,755 --> 00:43:30,206Come see for yourselves.Come on.64200:43:30,300 --> 00:43:33,709Come on. Just when youthink you know something64300:43:33,803 --> 00:43:35,711you have to look at itin another way.64400:43:35,805 --> 00:43:38,558Even though it may seemsilly or wrong64500:43:38,641 --> 00:43:40,550you must try.64600:43:40,643 --> 00:43:43,010Now when you read don't justconsider what the author thinks.64700:43:43,104 --> 00:43:47,014Consider what you think.64800:43:47,108 --> 00:43:50,560Boys you must striveto find your own voice.64900:43:50,653 --> 00:43:52,562Because the longeryou wait to begin65000:43:52,655 --> 00:43:55,022the less likely you areto find it at all.65100:43:55,116 --> 00:43:58,401Thoreau said "Most men leadlives of quiet desperation."65200:43:58,495 --> 00:44:02,029Don't be resigned to that.Break out.65300:44:02,123 --> 00:44:05,408Don't just walk off the edgelike lemmings. Look around you.65400:44:05,502 --> 00:44:08,202There you go Mr Priske. Thank you!65500:44:08,296 --> 00:44:10,371Yes!65600:44:10,465 --> 00:44:14,709Dare to strike outand find new ground.65700:44:14,803 --> 00:44:17,378Now in addition to your essays65800:44:17,472 --> 00:44:20,923I would like you to composea poem of your own an original work.65900:44:21,017 --> 00:44:25,563Ooh!66000:44:25,647 --> 00:44:27,722That's right.66100:44:27,816 --> 00:44:31,642You have to deliver it aloudin front of the class on Monday.66200:44:31,736 --> 00:44:33,644Bon chance gentlemen.66300:44:35,365 --> 00:44:37,732Mr Anderson.66400:44:37,826 --> 00:44:42,904Don't think I don't know this assignmentscares the hell out of you you mole.66500:44:56,511 --> 00:44:58,878Take a power train in two!66600:45:00,682 --> 00:45:03,852- Three keep your eyes in the boat!- Stroke! Stroke!66700:45:03,935 --> 00:45:06,260Stroke! Stroke!66800:45:06,354 --> 00:45:10,515- We got it Pittsie.66900:45:10,608 --> 00:45:13,976Radio Free America!67000:45:14,070 --> 00:45:17,021Some people like to rockSome people like to roll67100:45:17,115 --> 00:45:20,285But movin'and a- groovin'is gonna satisfy my soul67200:45:20,368 --> 00:45:22,527Let's have a partyOooh67300:45:22,620 --> 00:45:25,373Let's have a party67400:45:25,457 --> 00:45:28,543Let's spin it to the soulLet's rock and roll67500:45:28,626 --> 00:45:31,379Let's have a party tonight67600:45:31,463 --> 00:45:34,215I never kissed a bearI never kissed a goose67700:45:34,299 --> 00:45:36,374But I can shake a chickenin the middle of the room67800:45:36,468 --> 00:45:38,376- Let's have a party67900:45:41,139 --> 00:45:43,714- I found it.- You found what?68000:45:43,808 --> 00:45:47,062What I want to do right now.What's really really inside of me.68100:45:47,145 --> 00:45:49,387- "A Midsummer Night's Dream."- This is it.68200:45:49,481 --> 00:45:52,348- What is that?- It's a play dummy.68300:45:52,442 --> 00:45:54,976I know that.Wh- What does it have to do with you?68400:45:55,070 --> 00:45:57,061All right they'reputting it on at Henley Hall.68500:45:57,155 --> 00:45:59,480Open tryouts.Open tryouts!68600:45:59,574 --> 00:46:01,482- Yeah so?- So!68700:46:01,576 --> 00:46:05,486I'm gonna act.68800:46:05,580 --> 00:46:08,666Yes! Yes!I'm gonna be an actor!68900:46:08,750 --> 00:46:10,825Ever since I can rememberI've wanted to try this!69000:46:10,919 --> 00:46:12,827I even tried to goto summer stock auditions last year69100:46:12,921 --> 00:46:14,996but of coursemy father wouldn't let me.69200:46:15,090 --> 00:46:18,499For the first time in my whole lifeI know what I want to do.69300:46:18,593 --> 00:46:21,169And forthe first time I'm gonna do it...69400:46:21,262 --> 00:46:23,171whether my fatherwants me to or not!69500:46:23,264 --> 00:46:26,518- Carpe diem!- Neil Neil hold it.69600:46:26,601 --> 00:46:30,052How are you gonna be in a playif your father won't let you?69700:46:30,146 --> 00:46:32,847First I gotta get the partthen I can worry about that.69800:46:32,941 --> 00:46:35,349But won't he kill you if he finds outyou went to an auditionand didn't tell him?69900:46:35,443 --> 00:46:38,394No no no. As far as I'm concernedhe won't have to know about any of this.70000:46:38,488 --> 00:46:41,939- Well that's impossible.- Bullshit. Nothing's impossible.70100:46:42,033 --> 00:46:44,703Well why don't you just call himand ask him and m- maybe he'll say yes.70200:46:44,786 --> 00:46:47,361That's a laugh.70300:46:47,455 --> 00:46:50,709If I don't ask himat least I won't be disobeying him.70400:46:50,792 --> 00:46:53,576- Yeah but if he said no before- -- Jesus Todd whose side are you on?70500:47:04,764 --> 00:47:08,018I mean I haven't evengotten the part yet.70600:47:08,101 --> 00:47:12,147Can't I even enjoy the ideafor a little while?70700:47:21,448 --> 00:47:25,858- You're coming to the meeting?- I don't know. Maybe.70800:47:25,952 --> 00:47:30,363Nothing Mr Keating has to saymeans shit to you does it Todd?70900:47:30,457 --> 00:47:32,698- Wh- What is that supposed to mean?- You're in the club!71000:47:32,792 --> 00:47:35,159Being in the club meansbeing stirred up by things.71100:47:35,253 --> 00:47:37,161You look aboutas stirred up as a cesspool.71200:47:37,255 --> 00:47:40,706- So you want me out?- No I want you in!71300:47:40,800 --> 00:47:43,668But being in means you gotta dosomething not just say you're in.71400:47:43,762 --> 00:47:46,879Listen Neil I meanI appreciate this concern71500:47:46,973 --> 00:47:49,382but I'm not like youall right?71600:47:49,476 --> 00:47:52,729You- - You- You say thingsand people listen.71700:47:52,812 --> 00:47:54,773I- - I- I'm not like that.71800:47:54,856 --> 00:47:56,931- Don't you think you could be?- No.71900:47:57,025 --> 00:47:59,944I- - I- I don't knowbut that's not the point.72000:48:00,028 --> 00:48:04,324The point is there's nothing you cando about it so you can just butt out.72100:48:04,407 --> 00:48:06,774I can take careof myself just fine.72200:48:06,868 --> 00:48:08,985All right?72300:48:11,081 --> 00:48:12,989No.72400:48:15,919 --> 00:48:17,879What do you mean "no"?72500:48:19,089 --> 00:48:21,289No.72600:48:21,383 --> 00:48:23,458Give me that!Neil!72700:48:23,551 --> 00:48:25,668- Neil give that back!- "We are dreaming of a tomorrow- - "72800:48:25,762 --> 00:48:27,670- It's poetry!- Neil!72900:48:27,764 --> 00:48:30,173I'm being chased by Walt Whitman!73000:48:30,266 --> 00:48:32,341Okay! Okay!73100:48:32,435 --> 00:48:35,188What are you guys doing?I'm trying- - You see this chemistry- -73200:48:35,271 --> 00:48:37,680Hey. Give me- - Neil give me- -73300:48:37,774 --> 00:48:39,682Don't be immature. Come on!73400:48:39,776 --> 00:48:42,351- I need my- -- Give it to me!73500:48:42,445 --> 00:48:44,687Charlie!73600:48:44,781 --> 00:48:47,356Let me have my book. I need my- -73700:50:16,164 --> 00:50:20,575Okay everybody on the bus.73800:50:20,669 --> 00:50:24,078Let's go boys.73900:50:24,172 --> 00:50:26,330Come on. Let's go. On the bus boys.74000:50:26,424 --> 00:50:29,260Now!74100:50:30,512 --> 00:50:32,253Now devotees may argue...74200:50:32,347 --> 00:50:35,923that one sport or gameis inherently better than another.74300:50:36,017 --> 00:50:38,770For me sportis actually a chance...74400:50:38,853 --> 00:50:42,346for us to have other human beingspush us to excel.74500:50:42,440 --> 00:50:46,017I want you all to come over hereand take a slip of paper...74600:50:46,111 --> 00:50:48,947and line up single file.74700:50:49,030 --> 00:50:51,105Mr Meekstime to inherit the Earth.74800:50:51,199 --> 00:50:55,109Mr Pitts...rise above your name.74900:50:55,203 --> 00:50:59,332I want you to hand these outto the boys one apiece.75000:50:59,416 --> 00:51:03,034You know what to do Pitts!75100:51:03,128 --> 00:51:06,381"Oh to struggle against great oddsto meet enemies undaunted."75200:51:06,464 --> 00:51:09,551Sounds like you're daunted.Say it again like you're undaunted.75300:51:09,634 --> 00:51:12,721"Oh to struggle against great oddsto meet enemies undaunted"!75400:51:12,804 --> 00:51:15,129Now go on!75500:51:15,223 --> 00:51:17,381Yes!Next!75600:51:17,475 --> 00:51:22,720"To be a sailor of the worldbound for all ports."75700:51:22,814 --> 00:51:25,223Next.Louder!75800:51:25,316 --> 00:51:29,362"Oh I live to be the ruler of lifenot a slave."75900:51:29,446 --> 00:51:31,354"To mount the scaffolds.76000:51:31,448 --> 00:51:34,649To advance to the muzzles of gunswith perfect nonchalance. "76100:51:39,831 --> 00:51:42,156Come on Meeks!Listen to the music!76200:51:42,250 --> 00:51:46,244"To dance clap handsexalt shout skip76300:51:46,338 --> 00:51:49,997- roll on float on!"- Yes!76400:51:51,384 --> 00:51:54,502"Oh to have life henceforththe poem of new joys."76500:51:56,598 --> 00:51:58,923Boo!76600:51:59,017 --> 00:52:01,384Come on Charlielet it fill your soul.76700:52:01,478 --> 00:52:03,845"To indeed be a god!"76800:52:05,857 --> 00:52:08,349Charlie I got the part!76900:52:08,443 --> 00:52:10,351I'm gonna play Puck!77000:52:10,445 --> 00:52:12,353- I'm gonna play Puck!- What did he say?77100:52:12,447 --> 00:52:14,355- Puck you!- The main part!77200:52:14,449 --> 00:52:16,357- Great Neil!- Charlie I got it!77300:52:16,451 --> 00:52:19,204- Congratulations.- Good for you! Good for you!77400:52:19,287 --> 00:52:22,540Okay okay okay okay.77500:52:22,624 --> 00:52:25,199Neil how are you gonna do this?77600:52:25,293 --> 00:52:29,203They need a letter of permissionfrom my father and Mr Nolan.77700:52:29,297 --> 00:52:31,873- You're not gonna write it.- Oh yes I am.77800:52:31,966 --> 00:52:35,220Oh Neil- - Neil you're crazy.77900:52:35,303 --> 00:52:37,462Okay.78000:52:37,555 --> 00:52:41,215I am writing to you...78100:52:41,309 --> 00:52:44,396on behalf of...78200:52:44,479 --> 00:52:47,232my son...78300:52:47,315 --> 00:52:50,235Neil Perry.78400:52:50,318 --> 00:52:54,270This is great!78500:53:44,258 --> 00:53:48,043"To Chris."78600:53:48,136 --> 00:53:50,628Who's Chris? Mmm Chris.78700:53:50,722 --> 00:53:53,757"I see a sweetnessin her smile.78800:53:53,850 --> 00:53:56,176"Bright light shinesfrom her eyes.78900:53:58,188 --> 00:54:01,890"But life is completecontentment is mine...79000:54:01,984 --> 00:54:05,570"just knowing that- -79100:54:05,654 --> 00:54:09,105"Just knowing that...79200:54:09,199 --> 00:54:10,993she's alive."79300:54:11,076 --> 00:54:14,194- I'm sorry Captain. It's stupid.- No. No it's not stupid.79400:54:14,288 --> 00:54:18,208It's a good effort. It touched onone of the major themes: love.79500:54:18,292 --> 00:54:21,326A major themenot only in poetry but life.79600:54:21,420 --> 00:54:26,216Mr Hopkins you were laughing.You're up.79700:54:35,392 --> 00:54:39,177"The cat sat on the mat."79800:54:44,943 --> 00:54:46,518Congratulations Mr Hopkins.79900:54:46,612 --> 00:54:49,239Yours is the first poem to ever havea negative score on the Pritchard scale.80000:54:49,323 --> 00:54:52,857We're not laughing at youwe're laughing near you.80100:54:52,951 --> 00:54:55,527I don't mind that your poemhad a simple theme.80200:54:55,621 --> 00:54:57,862Sometimes the most beautiful poetrycan be about simple things80300:54:57,956 --> 00:55:00,990like a cat or a flower or rain.80400:55:01,084 --> 00:55:04,285You see poetry can come from anythingwith the stuff of revelation in it.80500:55:04,379 --> 00:55:06,538Just don't let your poemsbe ordinary.80600:55:08,634 --> 00:55:11,345Now who's next?80700:55:12,596 --> 00:55:16,381Mr Anderson I see yousitting there in agony.80800:55:16,475 --> 00:55:19,509Come on Todd step up.Let's put you out of your misery.80900:55:22,356 --> 00:55:24,431I- I didn't do it.I didn't write a poem.81000:55:28,320 --> 00:55:33,200Mr Anderson thinks everything insideof him is worthless and embarrassing.81100:55:33,283 --> 00:55:37,861Isn't that right Todd?Isn't that your worst fear?81200:55:37,955 --> 00:55:40,530Well I think you're wrong. I thinkyou have something inside of you...81300:55:40,624 --> 00:55:43,627that is worth a great deal.81400:55:43,710 --> 00:55:47,245"I sound...81500:55:47,339 --> 00:55:52,636"my barbaric...81600:55:53,720 --> 00:55:55,628"yawp...81700:55:58,433 --> 00:56:00,675"over the rooftops...81800:56:00,769 --> 00:56:03,230of the world. "81900:56:05,524 --> 00:56:09,278W.W.Uncle Walt again.82000:56:09,361 --> 00:56:13,855Now for those of you who don't knowa yawp is a loud cry or yell.82100:56:13,949 --> 00:56:18,245Now Todd I would like you to give usa demonstration of a barbaric yawp.82200:56:18,328 --> 00:56:21,613Come on you can't yawp sitting down.82300:56:21,707 --> 00:56:23,917Let's go.Come on up.82400:56:24,001 --> 00:56:28,005Got to get in yawping stance.82500:56:28,088 --> 00:56:31,790- A- Ayawp?- Not just a yawp. A barbaric yawp.82600:56:31,883 --> 00:56:36,378- Right. Yawp.- Come on. Louder.82700:56:36,471 --> 00:56:38,515- Yawp.- That's a mouse. Come on louder!82800:56:38,599 --> 00:56:40,507- Yawp.- Oh good God boy yell like a man!82900:56:40,601 --> 00:56:42,008- Yawp!- There it is.83000:56:42,102 --> 00:56:44,594You see you have a barbarianin you after all.83100:56:44,688 --> 00:56:47,149You don't get away that easy. There'sa picture of Uncle Walt up there.83200:56:47,232 --> 00:56:51,153What does he remind you of?Don't think answer. Go on.83300:56:51,236 --> 00:56:53,478- A m- m- m- madman.- What kind of madman?83400:56:53,572 --> 00:56:55,480- Don't think about it just answer.- A cr- crazy madman.83500:56:55,574 --> 00:56:58,358No you can do better than that.Free up your mind. Use your imagination.83600:56:58,452 --> 00:57:00,996Say the first thing that pops intoyour head even if it's total gibberish.83700:57:01,079 --> 00:57:03,154A- A- A sweaty- toothed madman.83800:57:03,248 --> 00:57:05,876Good God boy there'sa poet in you after all!83900:57:05,959 --> 00:57:08,743There. Close your eyes.Close your eyes. Close them.84000:57:08,837 --> 00:57:10,912Now describe what you see.84100:57:11,006 --> 00:57:13,717- Uh I- I close my eyes...- Yes?84200:57:13,800 --> 00:57:17,471- uh and his image floats beside me.- A sweaty- toothed madman.84300:57:17,554 --> 00:57:20,265A sweaty- toothed madman witha stare that pounds my brain.84400:57:20,349 --> 00:57:21,756Oh that's excellent!84500:57:21,850 --> 00:57:23,758Now give him actionmake him do something.84600:57:23,852 --> 00:57:26,313- H- His hands reach out and choke me.- That's it. Wonderful. Wonderful.84700:57:26,396 --> 00:57:28,304- And all the time he's mumbling.- What's he mumbling?84800:57:28,398 --> 00:57:30,306- Mumbling truth.- Yes.84900:57:30,400 --> 00:57:33,820- Truth is like a blanket thatalways leaves your feet cold.85000:57:33,904 --> 00:57:36,855Forget them. Forget them. Stay withthe blanket. Tell me about that blanket.85100:57:36,949 --> 00:57:40,369Y- Y- You push it stretch itit'll never be enough.85200:57:40,452 --> 00:57:42,527You kick at it beat itit'll never cover any of us.85300:57:42,621 --> 00:57:45,958From the moment we enter cryingto the moment we leave dying85400:57:46,041 --> 00:57:50,952it'll just cover your faceas you wail and cry and scream.85500:57:59,471 --> 00:58:02,339Don't you forget this.85600:59:03,577 --> 00:59:05,954That a boy Pittsie.85700:59:06,038 --> 00:59:08,279- Inhale deeply.- My dad collects pipes.85800:59:08,373 --> 00:59:10,615- Really?- He must have 30.85900:59:10,709 --> 00:59:13,378Your parents collect pipes?Oh that's interesting.86000:59:13,462 --> 00:59:17,622- Come on Knox. Join in.- Yeah Knox we're from the government.86100:59:17,716 --> 00:59:19,624We're here to help.What's wrong?86200:59:19,718 --> 00:59:23,003- It's Chris!- Here's a picture of Chris for you!86300:59:23,096 --> 00:59:25,005- Put that in your pipe and smoke it.- It's not funny.86400:59:25,098 --> 00:59:28,518Knock it off.Smoke your pipes.86500:59:28,602 --> 00:59:33,315- Neil.- Friends scholars Welton men.86600:59:33,398 --> 00:59:35,609What is that Neil?86700:59:35,692 --> 00:59:40,822- Duh it's a lamp Meeks.- No this is the god of the cave.86800:59:40,906 --> 00:59:42,313The god of the cave.86900:59:44,576 --> 00:59:47,829- Charlie what are you doing?- What do you say we start this meeting?87000:59:47,913 --> 00:59:51,031- I need a light. Who's got a light?- Anybody bring earplugs?87100:59:51,124 --> 00:59:54,409Gentlemen.87200:59:54,503 --> 00:59:59,132"Poetrusic" by Charles Dalton.87300:59:59,216 --> 01:00:02,834Oh man.87401:00:02,928 --> 01:00:05,597Laughing cryingtumbling mumbling.87501:00:05,681 --> 01:00:07,724Gotta do moregotta be more.87601:00:09,935 --> 01:00:12,719Pitts.87701:00:12,813 --> 01:00:16,566Chaos screaming chaos dreaming.Gotta do more gotta be more!87801:00:48,473 --> 01:00:52,008- Wow. Nice.- That was great.87901:00:52,102 --> 01:00:54,010Where did you learnto play like that?88001:00:54,104 --> 01:00:56,732My parents made me takethe clarinet for years!88101:00:56,815 --> 01:00:59,224- I love the clarinet.- I hated it.88201:01:01,320 --> 01:01:06,398The saxophone.The saxophone is more... sonorous.88301:01:06,491 --> 01:01:09,119Ooh more sonorous.Vocabulary.88401:01:09,202 --> 01:01:12,789I can't takeit any more. If I don't have Chris88501:01:12,873 --> 01:01:16,074- I'm gonna kill myself.- Knoxious calm down.88601:01:16,168 --> 01:01:20,172No Charlie!That's just my problem.88701:01:20,255 --> 01:01:23,926I've been calm all my life.I'm gonna do something about that.88801:01:24,009 --> 01:01:26,553Where are you going?What are you gonna do?88901:01:26,637 --> 01:01:28,795I'm gonna call her.89001:01:28,889 --> 01:01:32,966- He's gonna call her!- Wait for me!89101:01:35,062 --> 01:01:36,970Hello?89201:01:37,064 --> 01:01:39,816She's gonna hate me.89301:01:42,027 --> 01:01:43,852The Danburrys will hate me.89401:01:43,946 --> 01:01:47,147My parents will kill me.89501:01:51,536 --> 01:01:53,664All right goddam it.89601:01:53,747 --> 01:01:57,365You're right.Carpe diem.89701:01:57,459 --> 01:01:59,784Even if it kills me.89801:02:07,886 --> 01:02:09,794- Hello?- Hello Chris?89901:02:09,888 --> 01:02:12,808- Yes.- Hi. This is Knox Overstreet.90001:02:12,891 --> 01:02:16,478Oh yes. Knox.90101:02:16,561 --> 01:02:19,481- I'm glad you called.- She's glad I called.90201:02:19,564 --> 01:02:21,692Listen Chet's parentsare going out of town this weekend90301:02:21,775 --> 01:02:23,683and he's having a party.90401:02:23,777 --> 01:02:25,821- Would you like to come?- Would I like to come to a party?90501:02:25,904 --> 01:02:28,824- Yes. Say yes.- It's Friday.- Well sure.90601:02:28,907 --> 01:02:30,732- About 7.:00.- Great. I'll be there Chris.90701:02:30,826 --> 01:02:33,662- Okay.- Friday night at the Danburrys'. Okay.90801:02:33,745 --> 01:02:35,987- Okay. Bye.- Thank you. I'll see you. Bye.90901:02:36,081 --> 01:02:38,406Yawp!91001:02:40,586 --> 01:02:42,494Can you believe it?91101:02:42,588 --> 01:02:45,299She was gonna call me.91201:02:45,382 --> 01:02:47,843She invited meto a party with her.91301:02:47,926 --> 01:02:50,637- At Chet Danburry's house.- Yeah.91401:02:50,721 --> 01:02:53,296- Well?- So?91501:02:53,390 --> 01:02:57,967So you don't really thinkshe means you're going with her?91601:02:58,061 --> 01:03:01,481Well of course not Charlie.But that's not the point.91701:03:01,565 --> 01:03:05,809- That's not the point at all.- What is the point?91801:03:05,902 --> 01:03:11,147- The point Charlie...- Uh- huh?91901:03:11,241 --> 01:03:14,995- is...- Yeah?92001:03:15,078 --> 01:03:18,697that she wasthinking about me.92101:03:18,790 --> 01:03:21,543I've only met her onceand already...92201:03:21,627 --> 01:03:23,670she's thinking about me.92301:03:23,754 --> 01:03:26,329Damn it it's gonna happen guys.92401:03:26,423 --> 01:03:28,634I feel it.92501:03:28,717 --> 01:03:31,835She is going to be mine.92601:03:34,765 --> 01:03:39,227Carpe! Carpe!92701:03:39,478 --> 01:03:43,555No grades at stake gentlemen.Just take a stroll.92801:03:50,656 --> 01:03:55,233There it is.92901:04:01,833 --> 01:04:05,337- I don't know but I've been told.- I don't know but I've been told.93001:04:05,420 --> 01:04:08,090Doing poetry is cold.93101:04:08,173 --> 01:04:12,250- Doing poetry is cold.- Left. Left. Left right left.93201:04:12,344 --> 01:04:15,628Left. Left.Left right left.93301:04:15,722 --> 01:04:17,630Left. Halt!93401:04:17,724 --> 01:04:21,311Thank you gentlemen.93501:04:21,395 --> 01:04:25,399If you noticed everyone started offwith their own stride their own pace.93601:04:25,482 --> 01:04:29,434Mr Pitts taking his time.He knew he'll get there one day.93701:04:29,528 --> 01:04:32,281Mr Cameron. You could see him thinking"Is this right? It might be right.93801:04:32,364 --> 01:04:35,200It might be right. I know that- -Maybe not. I don't know."93901:04:35,284 --> 01:04:40,622Mr Overstreetdriven by a deeper force. Yes.94001:04:40,706 --> 01:04:43,709We know that. All right. Now I didn'tbring them up here to ridicule them.94101:04:43,792 --> 01:04:46,503I brought them up here toillustrate the point of conformity.94201:04:46,587 --> 01:04:50,205The difficulty in maintaining yourown beliefs in the face of others.94301:04:50,299 --> 01:04:54,678Now I see the look in your eyes like"I would have walked differently."94401:04:54,761 --> 01:04:57,514Well ask yourselveswhy you were clapping.94501:04:57,598 --> 01:05:00,632Now we all have a great needfor acceptance.94601:05:00,726 --> 01:05:03,812But you must trust thatyour beliefs are unique your own.94701:05:03,895 --> 01:05:06,304Even though others may thinkthem odd or unpopular.94801:05:06,398 --> 01:05:09,026Even though the herd may go"That's ba- a- a- a- ad."94901:05:09,109 --> 01:05:11,653Robert Frost said95001:05:11,737 --> 01:05:17,190"Two roads diverged in the wood and II took the one less traveled by.95101:05:17,284 --> 01:05:19,192And that has madeall the difference."95201:05:19,286 --> 01:05:21,663I want you to findyour own walk right now95301:05:21,747 --> 01:05:24,614your own way of stridingpacing any direction.95401:05:24,708 --> 01:05:28,211Anything you want whether it's proudwhether it's silly anything.95501:05:28,295 --> 01:05:32,841Gentlemen the courtyard is yours.95601:05:32,925 --> 01:05:37,585You don't have to performjust make it for yourself.95701:05:37,679 --> 01:05:42,007Mr Daltonwill you be joining us?95801:05:42,100 --> 01:05:44,342Exercising the rightnot to walk.95901:05:44,436 --> 01:05:48,732Thank you Mr Dalton.Just illustrated the point.96001:05:48,815 --> 01:05:52,684Swim against the stream.96101:06:02,245 --> 01:06:04,154Todd?96201:06:06,124 --> 01:06:08,033- Hey.- Hey.96301:06:08,126 --> 01:06:11,046- What's going on?- Nothing.96401:06:13,298 --> 01:06:16,301- Today's my birthday.- Is today your birthday?96501:06:16,385 --> 01:06:18,095- Happy birthday.- Thanks.96601:06:18,178 --> 01:06:22,255- What did you get?- My parents just gave me this.96701:06:22,349 --> 01:06:23,548Isn't this the same desk set- -96801:06:23,642 --> 01:06:26,561Yeah yeah they gave methe same thing as last year.96901:06:29,147 --> 01:06:31,056- Oh.- Oh.97001:06:32,734 --> 01:06:34,642Maybe they thought you neededanother one.97101:06:34,736 --> 01:06:38,188Maybe they weren'tthinking about anything at all.97201:06:40,742 --> 01:06:45,737The funny thing is about thisis I didn't even like it the first time.97301:06:48,208 --> 01:06:51,878Todd I think you're underestimatingthe value of this desk set.97401:06:54,006 --> 01:06:59,167I mean who would wanta football or a baseball- -97501:06:59,261 --> 01:07:01,252- Or a car.- Mm- hmm or a car- -97601:07:01,346 --> 01:07:03,974if they could have a desk setas wonderful as this one.97701:07:04,057 --> 01:07:08,186I mean if I were ever goingto buy a desk set... twice97801:07:08,270 --> 01:07:11,940I would probablybuy this one... both times.97901:07:14,067 --> 01:07:18,395In fact its... shape is- -98001:07:18,488 --> 01:07:21,272It's rather aerodynamicisn't it?98101:07:21,366 --> 01:07:24,703You can feel it.98201:07:24,786 --> 01:07:29,864This desk set wants to fly.98301:07:32,544 --> 01:07:34,536Todd...98401:07:34,630 --> 01:07:38,790the world's firstunmanned flying desk set.98501:07:43,847 --> 01:07:48,393Oh my!Well I wouldn't worry.98601:07:48,477 --> 01:07:51,813You'll get another one next year.98701:07:51,897 --> 01:07:54,900"To live deep and suck outall the marrow of life.98801:07:54,983 --> 01:07:58,820- To put to rout all that was not life- - "98901:07:58,904 --> 01:08:01,396My God.99001:08:01,490 --> 01:08:05,358- Is this it?- Yeah this is it.99101:08:05,452 --> 01:08:09,154Go ahead. Go on in.It's my cave. Watch your step.99201:08:09,247 --> 01:08:10,655Uh- oh.99301:08:10,749 --> 01:08:13,324Hi.99401:08:13,418 --> 01:08:14,909- Hello.- Hi.99501:08:15,003 --> 01:08:19,967Hi guys. Meet uh Gloria and- -99601:08:20,050 --> 01:08:22,010- Tina.- Tina.99701:08:22,094 --> 01:08:25,847- This is the pledge classof the Dead Poets Society.- Hello.99801:08:25,931 --> 01:08:28,006- How do you do?- Hello.- Hi.99901:08:28,100 --> 01:08:31,885Guys move. Move!Come on folks it's Friday night.100001:08:31,979 --> 01:08:36,275Let's get on with the meeting.Guys I have an announcement to make.100101:08:36,358 --> 01:08:40,112In keeping with the spirit of passionateexperimentation of the Dead Poets100201:08:40,195 --> 01:08:42,406I'm giving up the nameCharles Dalton.100301:08:42,489 --> 01:08:45,065From now oncall me Nuwanda.100401:08:45,158 --> 01:08:47,703Nuwanda?100501:09:00,048 --> 01:09:01,623Hello? Hello Chris?100601:09:01,717 --> 01:09:05,001I crashed in thejunglewhile trying to keep a date100701:09:05,095 --> 01:09:08,181With my little girlwho was back in the States100801:09:08,265 --> 01:09:10,173- I was stranded in thejungle-- Knox!100901:09:10,267 --> 01:09:12,342- Hi.- You made it! Great.101001:09:12,436 --> 01:09:14,344- Did you bring anybody?- No.101101:09:14,438 --> 01:09:18,191No? Ginny Danburry's here.Look I have to go find Chet.101201:09:18,275 --> 01:09:21,028- Why don't you go downstairs?That's where everybody is.- Yeah but Chris I've- -101301:09:21,111 --> 01:09:24,229- Make yourself at home.- But I've- -101401:09:27,451 --> 01:09:31,663Baby babylet's make romance101501:09:33,457 --> 01:09:37,534You know your old- time loverhasn't got a chance101601:09:37,628 --> 01:09:41,381- Hi guys.101701:09:45,010 --> 01:09:48,096Hey you Mutt Sanders'brother?101801:09:48,180 --> 01:09:51,548Bubba this guy look likeMutt Sanders to you or what?101901:09:51,642 --> 01:09:55,427- You're his brother?- No relation.102001:09:55,520 --> 01:09:58,148- Never heard of him. Sorry guys.- Where's our manners Steve?102101:09:58,231 --> 01:10:00,359Here's Mutt Sanders' brotherand we don't even offer him a drink.102201:10:00,442 --> 01:10:03,195- Here you go. Have some whisky pal.- Yeah.102301:10:03,278 --> 01:10:05,489I uh I don't really drink whisky.102401:10:05,572 --> 01:10:08,773- To Mutt.- To Mutt.102501:10:08,867 --> 01:10:10,942To Mutt.102601:10:13,205 --> 01:10:17,615- How the hell is old Mutt anyway?- Yeah what's old Mutter been up to?102701:10:17,709 --> 01:10:19,951I don't really know Mutt.102801:10:20,045 --> 01:10:22,537To the Mighty Mutt.102901:10:22,631 --> 01:10:25,884- To Mighty Mutt.- To Mighty Mutt.103001:10:29,221 --> 01:10:33,684Listen I gotta go find Patsy.103101:10:33,767 --> 01:10:37,719- Say hello to Mutt for me okay?- Will do.103201:10:37,813 --> 01:10:41,973Hell of a guy your brother Mutt.103301:10:42,067 --> 01:10:44,642We gonna have a meetingor what?103401:10:44,736 --> 01:10:46,644Yeah if you guysdon't have a meeting103501:10:46,738 --> 01:10:48,646how do we knowif we want to join?103601:10:48,740 --> 01:10:51,743"Join"?103701:10:51,827 --> 01:10:54,538"Shall I compare theeto a summer's day?103801:10:54,621 --> 01:10:57,030Thou art more lovelyand more temperate."103901:10:57,124 --> 01:10:58,782That's so sweet.104001:10:58,875 --> 01:11:03,672- I made that up just for you.- You did?104101:11:03,755 --> 01:11:06,758I'll write onefor you too Gloria.104201:11:09,177 --> 01:11:12,431"She walks in beautylike the night.104301:11:13,932 --> 01:11:16,935"She walks in beautylike the night...104401:11:17,019 --> 01:11:22,180"of cloudless climesand starry skies.104501:11:22,274 --> 01:11:24,182"All that's bestdark and bright104601:11:24,276 --> 01:11:28,520- meet in her aspect and her eyes."- That's beautiful.104701:11:29,948 --> 01:11:32,524There's plenty morewhere that came from.104801:11:48,133 --> 01:11:52,596She sure looks fine to meWhat's her name104901:11:52,679 --> 01:11:55,223Look outLet me call her one time105001:12:06,735 --> 01:12:09,655Hey little girl105101:12:09,738 --> 01:12:13,606Gee you sure look fine105201:12:15,953 --> 01:12:17,861God help me.105301:12:17,955 --> 01:12:22,032Ooh babyyou're not mine105401:12:25,045 --> 01:12:30,206Hey little girlHow's about a date105501:12:32,010 --> 01:12:35,264- Carpe diem.- Hey little girl105601:12:35,347 --> 01:12:39,268How's about a date105701:12:40,769 --> 01:12:43,887You know I'll come get youearly baby105801:12:43,981 --> 01:12:46,817Won't keep you outtoo late105901:12:50,070 --> 01:12:52,562Say little girl106001:12:52,656 --> 01:12:55,033Now how's about a kiss106101:12:57,869 --> 01:13:00,904Yeah say little girl106201:13:00,998 --> 01:13:04,668How's about a kiss106301:13:04,751 --> 01:13:08,672- You don't remember?- Well if you don't kiss me baby106401:13:08,755 --> 01:13:13,500- Chet. Chet. Look.- What?106501:13:13,594 --> 01:13:16,628- It's Mutt Sanders' brother.- Huh?106601:13:16,722 --> 01:13:18,463- Knox what- -- And he's feeling up your girl!106701:13:18,557 --> 01:13:20,799What are you doing?106801:13:20,892 --> 01:13:23,385- What the hell are you doing?- Chet. Chet don't!106901:13:23,478 --> 01:13:26,648- Now Chet I know this looks bad- -- Leave him alone.107001:13:26,732 --> 01:13:28,973Chet no!You'll hurt him!107101:13:29,067 --> 01:13:32,352- Chet stop it! Leave him alone!- Damn!107201:13:32,446 --> 01:13:34,521- Chet stop it!- Bastard!107301:13:34,615 --> 01:13:36,658Knox are you all right?107401:13:36,742 --> 01:13:38,619Chris get the hell away from him!107501:13:38,702 --> 01:13:39,953- Chet you hurt him!- Good!107601:13:40,037 --> 01:13:43,405- I'm sorry. I'm so sorry.- It's okay. It's- It's okay.107701:13:43,498 --> 01:13:45,407Next time I see youyou die.107801:13:47,878 --> 01:13:51,496Go ahead.Pass it around.107901:13:59,848 --> 01:14:03,383Me and Pitts are workingon a hi- fi system.108001:14:03,477 --> 01:14:07,262It shouldn't be that hard touh to put together.108101:14:07,356 --> 01:14:10,692Yeah. Uh I mightbe going to Yale.108201:14:10,776 --> 01:14:13,695Uh but I- I might not.108301:14:13,779 --> 01:14:15,854Don't you guys misshaving girls around here?108401:14:15,948 --> 01:14:17,522- Yeah.- Yeah.108501:14:17,616 --> 01:14:20,191That's part of what this club is about.108601:14:20,285 --> 01:14:22,412In factI'd like to announce...108701:14:22,496 --> 01:14:25,780I published an article in the schoolpaper in the name of the Dead Poets108801:14:25,874 --> 01:14:29,294- What?- demanding girlsbe admitted to Welton...108901:14:29,378 --> 01:14:32,047- You didn't.- so we can all stop beating off.109001:14:32,130 --> 01:14:33,788- How did you do that?- I'm one of the proofers.109101:14:33,882 --> 01:14:36,885- I slipped the article in.- It's- It's over now.109201:14:36,969 --> 01:14:38,543Why?Nobody knows who we are.109301:14:38,637 --> 01:14:40,879Well don't you thinkthey're gonna figure out who wrote it?109401:14:40,973 --> 01:14:44,591They're gonna come to you and askto know what the Dead Poets Society is.109501:14:44,685 --> 01:14:47,229Charlie you had no rightto do something like that.109601:14:47,312 --> 01:14:49,554It's Nuwanda Cameron.109701:14:49,648 --> 01:14:52,484That's right. It's Nuwanda.109801:14:52,567 --> 01:14:55,654Are we just playing around out hereor do we mean what we say?109901:14:55,737 --> 01:14:58,573If all we do is come togetherand read a bunch of poems to each other110001:14:58,657 --> 01:15:00,565- what the hell are we doing?- All right.110101:15:00,659 --> 01:15:02,703But you still shouldn'thave done it Charlie.110201:15:02,786 --> 01:15:05,247This could mean trouble.You don't speak for the club.110301:15:05,330 --> 01:15:07,906Hey would you not worry aboutyour precious little neck?110401:15:08,000 --> 01:15:11,336If they catch meI'll tell them I made it up.110501:15:25,434 --> 01:15:27,842Fine.110601:15:37,946 --> 01:15:39,854Sit.110701:15:45,078 --> 01:15:46,986In this week's issueof Welton Honor110801:15:47,080 --> 01:15:50,918there appeared a profaneand unauthorized article.110901:15:51,001 --> 01:15:56,590Rather than spend my valuable timeferreting out the guilty persons- -111001:15:56,673 --> 01:15:58,915and let me assure youI will find them- -111101:15:59,009 --> 01:16:02,460I'm asking any and all studentswho know anything about this article...111201:16:02,554 --> 01:16:06,391to make themselves knownhere and now.111301:16:08,226 --> 01:16:10,687Whoever the guilty persons are111401:16:10,771 --> 01:16:14,931this is your only chance to avoidexpulsion from this school.111501:16:20,072 --> 01:16:22,115Welton Academy.Hello.111601:16:22,199 --> 01:16:24,743Yes he is.just a moment.111701:16:24,826 --> 01:16:27,861Mr Nolan it's for you.111801:16:27,955 --> 01:16:29,915It's God!111901:16:29,998 --> 01:16:31,959He says we should have girlsat Welton.112001:16:47,766 --> 01:16:49,893Wipe that smirk off your face.112101:16:49,977 --> 01:16:52,980If you think Mr Dalton112201:16:53,063 --> 01:16:56,014that you're the first to try to getthrown out of this school think again.112301:16:56,108 --> 01:17:00,185Others have had similar notions and havefailed just as surely as you will fail.112401:17:00,279 --> 01:17:03,646Assume the position.112501:17:14,960 --> 01:17:17,369Count aloud Mr Dalton.112601:17:20,799 --> 01:17:22,791One.112701:17:24,970 --> 01:17:27,045Two.112801:17:31,143 --> 01:17:33,770Three.112901:17:33,854 --> 01:17:37,441Four.113001:17:37,524 --> 01:17:39,901Five.113101:17:39,985 --> 01:17:42,696What is this Dead Poets Society?I want names.113201:18:11,934 --> 01:18:14,175- You kicked out?- No.113301:18:14,269 --> 01:18:17,022So what happened?113401:18:19,107 --> 01:18:22,694I'm to turn everybody inapologise to the school113501:18:22,778 --> 01:18:24,853and all will be forgiven.113601:18:24,947 --> 01:18:27,157So what are you gonna do?113701:18:27,240 --> 01:18:30,525- Charlie- -- Damn it Neil113801:18:30,619 --> 01:18:33,570the name is Nuwanda.113901:18:39,127 --> 01:18:42,547Excuse me.May we have a word Mr Keating?114001:18:42,631 --> 01:18:44,622Certainly.114101:18:50,055 --> 01:18:54,132This was my first classroomJohn.Did you know that?114201:18:54,226 --> 01:18:56,468My first desk.114301:18:56,561 --> 01:18:58,970I didn't know you taughtMr Nolan.114401:18:59,064 --> 01:19:03,475English.Long before your time.114501:19:03,568 --> 01:19:06,989It was hard giving it upI can tell you.114601:19:10,242 --> 01:19:15,320I'm hearing rumoursabout some unorthodoxteaching methods in your classroom.114701:19:15,414 --> 01:19:19,657I'm not saying they've had anythingto do with the Dalton boy's outburst114801:19:19,751 --> 01:19:24,496but I don't think I have to warn youboys his age are very impressionable.114901:19:24,590 --> 01:19:27,843Well your reprimand madequite an impression I'm sure.115001:19:30,596 --> 01:19:34,673- What was going onin the courtyard the other day?- Courtyard?115101:19:34,766 --> 01:19:37,853- Boys marching clapping in unison.- Oh that.115201:19:37,936 --> 01:19:41,054That was an exercise to prove a point:dangers of conformity.115301:19:41,148 --> 01:19:43,984WellJohn the curriculum here is set.It's proven. It works.115401:19:44,067 --> 01:19:46,643If you question it what's toprevent them from doing the same?115501:19:46,737 --> 01:19:49,145I always thought the idea of educationwas to learn to think for yourself.115601:19:49,239 --> 01:19:51,867At these boys' age?Not on your life!115701:19:51,950 --> 01:19:55,996TraditionJohn. Discipline.115801:19:56,079 --> 01:20:00,490Prepare them for collegeand the rest will take care of itself.115901:20:04,504 --> 01:20:07,841Creak.116001:20:07,925 --> 01:20:10,844He starts walking aroundtowards my left.116101:20:10,928 --> 01:20:14,264Creak. Creak.116201:20:14,348 --> 01:20:17,966'Assume the position Mr Dalton "which means- -116301:20:18,060 --> 01:20:20,187All right gentlemen.116401:20:20,270 --> 01:20:23,357- Mr Keating.- Mr Dalton.116501:20:23,440 --> 01:20:25,682That was a pretty lame stuntyou pulled today.116601:20:25,776 --> 01:20:27,684You're siding with Mr Nolan?116701:20:27,778 --> 01:20:29,686What about carpe diemand sucking all the marrow...116801:20:29,780 --> 01:20:31,521- out of life and all that?- Sucking the marrow out of life...116901:20:31,615 --> 01:20:34,618doesn't meanchoking on the bone.117001:20:34,701 --> 01:20:39,029There is a time for daringand there is a time for caution.117101:20:39,122 --> 01:20:41,531And a wise man understandswhich is called for.117201:20:41,625 --> 01:20:43,835But I thought you'd like that.117301:20:43,919 --> 01:20:45,827No.117401:20:45,921 --> 01:20:48,872You being expelled from schoolis not daring to me. It's stupid.117501:20:48,966 --> 01:20:51,426'Cause you'll miss somegolden opportunities.117601:20:51,510 --> 01:20:52,970Yeah? Like what?117701:20:53,053 --> 01:20:57,099Like if nothing elsethe opportunity to attend my classes.117801:20:59,017 --> 01:21:01,395Got it ace?117901:21:01,478 --> 01:21:04,231Aye aye Captain.118001:21:04,314 --> 01:21:06,775Keep your head about you.118101:21:06,858 --> 01:21:09,642That goesfor the lot of you.118201:21:09,736 --> 01:21:12,656- Yes Captain.- Yes Captain.118301:21:12,739 --> 01:21:14,731Phone call from God.118401:21:16,702 --> 01:21:20,070If it'd been collectit would have been daring.118501:21:22,249 --> 01:21:25,617- All right. Go on boy.- No.118601:21:35,512 --> 01:21:38,181- We're trying to rehearse okay? Go.118701:21:38,265 --> 01:21:40,340A good persuasiontherefore hear me Hermia.118801:21:40,434 --> 01:21:44,302Wait wait. The excitement. I don'thear any excitement about this play.118901:21:44,396 --> 01:21:48,807Now take her handbring her downstage...119001:21:48,900 --> 01:21:50,892and stopand "Fair gentle Hermia."119101:21:50,986 --> 01:21:53,113Okay? Try again.119201:21:53,196 --> 01:21:55,105What's for dinner?119301:21:55,198 --> 01:21:56,940- Spaghetti and meatballs!- Food!119401:21:59,578 --> 01:22:01,653Save some for me.119501:22:03,415 --> 01:22:06,752"But room fairy!Here comes Oberon."119601:22:09,254 --> 01:22:13,008- Father.- Neil.119701:22:13,091 --> 01:22:15,250Wait a minute.Before you say anything119801:22:15,344 --> 01:22:18,513- please let me ex- -- Don't you dare talk back to me.119901:22:20,182 --> 01:22:23,352It's bad enough thatyou've wasted your time...120001:22:23,435 --> 01:22:26,886with this thisabsurd acting business120101:22:26,980 --> 01:22:30,181but you deliberatelydeceived me.120201:22:30,275 --> 01:22:33,810How- How- How did you expectto get away with this?120301:22:35,948 --> 01:22:38,023Answer me.120401:22:38,116 --> 01:22:40,160Who put you up to it?120501:22:40,243 --> 01:22:43,497- Was it this new man? Keating?- No.120601:22:43,580 --> 01:22:47,584Nobody p- - I thought I'd surprise you.I've gotten all A's in every class.120701:22:47,668 --> 01:22:50,921Did you really thinkI wasn't going to find out?120801:22:51,004 --> 01:22:54,956"Oh my niece is in a playwith your son" says Mrs Marks.120901:22:55,050 --> 01:22:58,887"No no no" I say. "You must bemistaken. My son's not in a play."121001:22:58,971 --> 01:23:00,879You made a liarout of me Neil!121101:23:04,977 --> 01:23:09,439Now tomorrow you go to themand you tell them that you're quitting.121201:23:09,523 --> 01:23:11,431No I can't.121301:23:11,525 --> 01:23:13,652I have the main part.The performance is tomorrow night!121401:23:13,735 --> 01:23:15,727I don't care if the worldcomes to an end tomorrow night121501:23:15,821 --> 01:23:18,991you are through with that play!121601:23:19,074 --> 01:23:20,982Is that clear?121701:23:21,076 --> 01:23:23,620Is that clear?121801:23:24,496 --> 01:23:27,249Yes sir.121901:23:34,464 --> 01:23:38,135I made a great many sacrificesto get you here Neil122001:23:38,218 --> 01:23:42,431and you will not let me down.122101:23:42,514 --> 01:23:44,923No sir.122201:24:05,037 --> 01:24:07,706It's open.122301:24:18,717 --> 01:24:20,625Neil what's up?122401:24:20,719 --> 01:24:23,388- Can I speak to you a minute?- Certainly. Sit down.122501:24:24,222 --> 01:24:26,464Oh.122601:24:26,558 --> 01:24:29,050- I'm sorry. Here.- Excuse me.122701:24:31,271 --> 01:24:35,817- Get you some tea?- Tea? Sure.122801:24:35,901 --> 01:24:39,237- Want some milk or sugar in that?- No thanks.122901:24:39,321 --> 01:24:41,479Gosh they don't give youmuch room around here.123001:24:41,573 --> 01:24:43,398It's part of the monastic oath.123101:24:43,492 --> 01:24:46,995They don't want worldly thingsdistracting me from my teaching.123201:24:49,915 --> 01:24:51,823- She's pretty.- She's also in London.123301:24:51,917 --> 01:24:55,003Makes it a little difficult.123401:24:55,087 --> 01:24:58,090- How do you stand it?- Stand what?123501:24:58,173 --> 01:25:00,498You can go anywhere. You can doanything. How can you stand being here?123601:25:00,592 --> 01:25:04,513Because I love teaching.I don't want to be anywhere else.123701:25:08,058 --> 01:25:12,062- What's up?- I just talked to my father.123801:25:12,145 --> 01:25:14,773He's making me quit the playat Henley Hall.123901:25:16,650 --> 01:25:19,820But acting is everything to me.124001:25:19,903 --> 01:25:23,021I mean- -But he doesn't know. He- -124101:25:23,115 --> 01:25:28,109I can see his point. We're nota rich family like Charlie's. I mean- -124201:25:28,203 --> 01:25:31,290But he's planning the restof my life for me.124301:25:31,373 --> 01:25:33,782And he- he's never asked mewhat I want.124401:25:33,875 --> 01:25:36,743Have you ever told your fatherwhat you just told me?124501:25:36,837 --> 01:25:39,548About your passion for acting?Have you showed him that?124601:25:39,631 --> 01:25:42,718- I can't.- Why not?124701:25:42,801 --> 01:25:44,709I can't talk to him this way.124801:25:44,803 --> 01:25:47,472Then you're acting for him too.124901:25:47,556 --> 01:25:50,757You're playing the partof the dutiful son.125001:25:50,851 --> 01:25:52,759I know this sounds impossiblebut you have t