#John keating

[follows-the-bees]

Day Two Hundred and Two

John Keating | Dead Poet's Society

I'm a sucker for the classic trope of the unconventional teacher who tries to get the kids to think for themselves instead of only following the rules. John Keating was my introduction to this trope when I was a kid and I bawled the first time I watched this. (And pretty much every time I watch it still.)

This is a year-long commitment but I'm up for the challenge.

Characters aren't in a ranked order.

[g--shadows]

GUYS LOOK WHAT MY MOM GOT ME

[those2fireboys]

RIP Neil Perry you would have loved Super Trouper by ABBA

RIP Todd Anderson you would have loved Vienna by Billy Joel

RIP Charlie Dalton you would have loved An Innocent Man by Billy Joel

RIP Knox Overstreet you would have loved I've Just Seen a Face by The Beatles

Rip Steven Meeks you would have loved I'll Be Your Mirror by The Velvet Underground

RIP Gerard Pitts you would have loved Take a Chance On Me by ABBA

RIP Richard Cameron you would have loved The Winner Takes it All by ABBA

RIP John Keating you would have loved Blackbird by The Beatles

RIP Chris Noel you would have loved Thank You For The Music by ABBA

RIP Ginny Danburry you would have loved Angel Eyes By ABBA

(Head cannons from my current favs playlist)

[deadpoetsandlivinglegends]

Feel like Neil couldn’t have been any other kind of actor than one in theatre. If he was a movie actor or on social media or whatnot, it would not be the same. Theatre by nature is fleeting. Recorded mediums can be rewatched over and over, creating a time loop of sorts. We the audience can keep going back to a time when Neil is still alive. Theatre however is live and once the play is over, there is no going back except in our memories. It is much like life. We are forced to live in the moment in a theater lest we miss it altogether. It’s not that the poets choose to live in a world where Neil is dead, it’s that they must because the only other option is to die themselves. I feel like Keatings teachings could only be reflected in stage theatre because that’s the only way there can be no time loop of grief. I think dead poets society itself isn’t about overcoming the authority in your life to do what you want but rather about grief, about allowing oneself to feel grief and all one’s emotions without letting it consume you and to keep living after, to live every day in the moment lest you fall into grief and regret that will destroy you or force you into a miserable life

[sjk0500]

todd only dared to stand up for something of his own accord once everyone who’d stood up for him had gone

[elle8n]

This movie changed my live <3

[sweaty-toothed-mad-woman]

I noticed something in dps

in film class last year they taught us that when shooting dialogue you show connections by putting the back of someone in the shot or smth i don’t really remember BUT

in the “I’m trapped” scene when Neil is telling Mr Keating about how his dad won’t let him act it shows Mr K, therefore showing that Neil feels like Mr Keating really understands

but right after Me Keating says that Neil should tell his father it no longer shows them together in the shot because Neil feels alone again, because he realizes that Mr K doesn’t fully understand his plight

so now I’m crying

thank you for coming to my Ted talk

[glorious-destruction]

“Tortured poets department?” Back in my day it was dead poets society

[a-d3ad-p0et]

i don't care what you say you can't make me think anything else anymore

hold up i have more, i can't add more pictures

[got-the-cheese-touch]

rip neil perry you would have loved a theatre kid group chat

rip todd anderson you would have loved ao3

rip charlie dalton you would have loved facebook and crocs (ironically)

rip john keating you would have loved facebook and crocs (unironically)

rip knox overstreet you would have loved x reader fanfics

rip richard cameron you would have loved an anonymous comment section

rip to all the poets, you would have hated colleen hoover.

[deadpoets]

DEAD POETS SOCIETY (1989) dir. Peter Weir

[soullust]

dead poets society (1989)

[ash5monster01]

finally that time of year 🍂🤍

Dead Poets Society (1989)

[deadxregulus]

I'm bitches too