DVD - Dead Poets Society - Special Edition
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Painfully shy Todd Anderson has been sent to the school where his popular older brother was valedictorian. His room-mate, Neil, although exceedingly bright and popular, is very much under the thumb of his overbearing father. The two, along with their other friends, meet Professor Keating, their new English teacher, who tells them of the Dead Poets Society, and encourages them to go against the status quo. Each, in their own way, does this, and are changed for life.
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DVD information
| Release Date (USA): | 2006-01-10 |
| Rating (USA): | PG |
| Release Date (UK): | TBA |
| Rating (UK) : | NA |
| Director: | Peter Weir |
| Producer: | |
| Studio: | Buena Vista Home Entertainment |
| Writer/s: | Tom Schulman |
Cast
| Robin Williams | John Keating |
| Robert Sean Leonard | Neil Perry |
| Ethan Hawke | Todd Anderson |
| Josh Charles | Knox Overstreet |
| Gale Hansen | Charlie Dalton |
| Dylan Kussman | Richard Cameron |
| Allelon Ruggiero | Steven Meeks |
| James Waterston | Gerard Pitts |
| Norman Lloyd | Mr. Nolan |
| Kurtwood Smith | Mr. Perry |
| Carla Belver | Mrs. Perry |
| Leon Pownall | McAllister |
| George Martin | Dr. Hager |
| Joe Aufiery | Chemistry Teacher |
| Matt Carey | Hopkins |
DVD Features
| Commentary by: Director Peter Weir & his writing and cinematography team (Unknown Format) Raw Takes: A collection of uncut, deleted scenes Dead Poets - A Look Back: A look back at the making of the film with acclaimed director Peter Weir. Featuring new interview footage with Ethan Hawke, Robert Sean Leonard, and many others Audio Commentary: With director Peter Weir and his writing and cinematography team Master of Sound: Alan Splet - featuring new interviews with David Lynch and Peter Weir Cinematography Master Class: Cinematographer John Seale conducts an intensive and inspirational lighting workshop |
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RonPriceJul 29th, 2007 - 14:42:50
DEAFENING SILENCE & LOUD NOISE
In my last decade as a full-time professional teacher, the film Dead Poets Society was released(1989). I saw the film some time in the 1990s just before retiring. I saw it again tonight on a DVD my son brought on one of his weekend visits. The film was set in 1959 the year I joined the Baha’i Faith. I won’t summarize the story-line here, but I will contextualize it in terms of my own life and of society’s in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
There is a strong emphasis in the film on the poet, the individual, finding his own voice, his freedom, his liberation from tradition; a philosophy of thinking for one’s self, a giving-in to impulse, to feeling is at the centre of this film. In 1959 the notion of self-realization was not yet the pop-psych cliché it became in the ‘60s and sheer impulse had yet to become the bi-word of the freewheeling rock-‘n’-roll sixties. Walt Whitman, the supreme poet of personality, is the only poet quoted at length in the film.
-Ron Price with thanks to Pamela A. Rooks, “Woo who? Exclusion of otherness in Dead Poets Society,” Australian Journal of Communication, Vol.18, No.2, 1991, pp.75-83.
Still, Peter, I liked your film.1
I did not even know about the
Ivy League schools back then,
but school was about doing what
you were told to do and keeping
your passions well-hidden with
sport and studying.....and a new
religion which came onto the block
back then in those quiet ‘50s and
insensibly moved to the centre of
my life long after sport had moved
to the periphery and it stayed with
me long after girls became marriage
and I had to knuckle-down to routine,
paying bills, mortgages, faithfulness
and what some called the harder virtues.
I needed to find my voice, Peter, no doubt
about it--our whole generation did--as those
prevailing systems and human values were
rapidly breaking down; my world was loosing
its moral moorings, ethical reference points
swept away with passionate intensities filling
the emotions of those who knew so little
and convictions deserting the minds and
hearts of the best: result--deafening silence
and loud noises and rhythms everywhere.
1 Peter Weir, the director
Ron Price
28 July 2007
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