Have you had one of those teachers who really made an impact on your life?
I did.
Here name was Mary Johnson and she was my 8th grade C.A. (Communication Arts) teacher. She was the one and only teacher who encouraged me to continue with my creative writing. I’m pretty sure if it wasn’t for her, I wouldn’t be writing this post right now.
In Dead Poets Society (one of my favorite flicks), Robin Williams inspires his students to think for themselves and live life to the fullest. This method of teaching is, of course, frowned upon by the faculty when an unexpected tragedy occurs.
The movie stars Robin Williams as Professor John Keating, Ethan Hawke as Todd Anderson and Robert Sean Leonard as Neil Perry. Oh, and if you watch the show The Good Wife, you will recognize a young Josh Charles (Will Gardner) as Knox Overstreet (he is in the clip below!) Tom Schulman won the Academy Award or Best Original Screenplay in 1989 for this film as well.
Here is a short clip from the film.
The Blu-ray is filled with awesome bonus features such as:
“Dead Poets: A Look Back” featuring interview footage with Director Peter Weir, Ethan Hawke, Robert Sean Leonard and many others; “Raw Takes;” “Master of Sound: Alan Splet” – interviews with David Lynch And Peter Weir; “Cinematography Master Class” – an intensive and inspirational lighting workshop with Cinematographer John Seale; “Audio Commentary” with Director Peter Weir, Cinematographer John Seale and Writer Tom Schulman; and the “Theatrical Trailer.”
I personally enjoyed watching the “Theatrical Trailer” again for the first time ever since the film came out when I was a mere 11 years old.
This is also a film that I was happy to introduce to my 2 older children (age almost 13 and just shy of 12). Both of the kids really enjoyed the movie and loved the message they took from it which as they summed it up was to think outside the box.
We gladly recommend this film for any home movie collection!
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