Dead Poet's Society
~sarah~ (cinnimon@vvm.com)
Fri, 01 Jan 1999 22:36:53 -0800 (PST)
Camille:
I'd have to agree with you about "Dead Poet's Society" having
"Catcheresque" overtones. "DPS" is one of my favorite movies and Robin
Williams one of my favorite actors as well. The part about rating poetry
and Keating's reaction to it is absolutely amazing on Keating, or rather
the writers' part.
Now that I think about it, I can picture Williams as Mr. Antolini - I
suppose I never thought about it before!
Sarah
"But only in their dreams
can men be truly free.
'Twas always thus,
and always thus will be"
-'Keating'
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Camille wrote:
>I think Holden Caulfield would have loved the movie `Dead Poets Society'
>(which, when you think about it, has some slightly Catcheresque overtones -
>Robin Williams would have to be a shoe-in for a Mr Antolini should, in a
>moment of insanity, JD sign over the movie rights). I always cite the scene
>about the J Evans Prichard method of rating a poem's overall greatness (by
>plotting various attributes on a graph) to embody all the worst things
>about literary criticism - as you say, those people who almost seem hell
>bent on ruining all the fun.
>
>Camille