#can you tell cameron is quickly becoming one of my favs

[isolarya]

a collection of things I notice upon a rewatching of dead poets society + some analysis if I feel like it

first shot is on a painting of past students - highlights the school's focus on tradition (also the boys do kinda look similar to the poets so that's interesting)

cameron holds the tradition banner, knox holds discipline, neil holds excellence - does what banners they hold and the fact its only these three say something? perhaps

not cameron pointing out buildings to his parents like a tour guide lmao

cameron watching from the opposite room as mr perry talks to neil - okay headcanon but I think cameron sees a bit of himself in this interaction. you cannot tell me he doesn't look at mr perry and just think, even just a little, of the adults in his own life pushing him for more and more accomplishments

I feel like those shots of a massive flock of birds flying away says something but idk what

keating does not give them a seating plan I think do they just choose to sit like that? away from their friends? huh? (idk how american schools work especially in 1959 forgive me)

however stick does sit next to cameron and also can be seen around cameron relatively often so I headcanon they're friends

the banner for tradition isn't in shot when keating leads them outside but the rest are - hints at keating being the breakaway from tradition

charlie just standing behind the rest of the group with his foot on the chair - his lack of respect for authority (even keating rn)

friendly reminder that neil is shown whenever the topic of death comes uo

lmao cameron just judging keating's whispering (I would too, icl)

todd has a picture of like a rowboat pinned up beside his desk and yk that cut scene about how he would prefer rowing so uh yeah!

cameron writing and ripping with a ruler says a lot about him (also using a ruler to rip a book page out will only make it worse cameron wtf are you doing)

love how neil immediately stops and turns around when hager tells them to be faster

charlie doesn't wear the typical pyjamas I think and again, defiance

again the image of the old students - breaking tradition!

not something interesting but the running through the forest scene brings me so much joy

neil goes back to his desk after standing on keatings and spins his pen in his left hand and it may be people just spin pens with their non dominant hand but I choose to interpret this as left handed neil (however the way his things are laid out suggests left handedness to me) (keep in mind I am right handed)

neil keeps that blanket over his shoulders when he's excited about the play and drops it when todd mentions his dad and does that say something

charlie already has the drums before cameron comes in lmao

also is that stick I see joining in (more evidence for the cameron-stick friendship theory)

no see when cameron looks upset after charlie says he hated the clarinet and the poets laugh this is one of the moments that he will remember when they're asking about the dead poets society and the rest won't remember but he will

love anderperry just being gay in the background

stick is short (like me)

aww we love the cave making an appearance when charlie brings the girls

when charlie get the phone call from god he appears to be sitting away from his friends (to not get caught, probably)

when keating tells the class to keep their heads about them you can see cameron saying something like “yes sir” and only when everyone else says “yes captain” does he look around and say captain and that's just more stuff about he sees keating

“I don't care if the world comes to an end tomorrow night you are through with that play” - ow this hits after neil’s death

neil shaking out his hands before he speaks to keating because its nervous

I think it says a lot when you see neil is a lot more comfortable and loose around keating than his own father

also something about that scene gives the idea before neil was crying even before he went to keating like just something about how he acts and talks

that reminds me there are quite a few moments in this film where imo it looks like neil is about to cry but he doesn't and that also says something about his character

keating telling neil about he loves teaching and I bet neil was thinking about how he loved acting

neil is usually quite confident but like he's so unsure with his words in these few scenes

also neil lying to keating and he's fidgeting and also that tiny moment where he acts like his dad and also also I think keating knows he's lying

todd trying to mess up camerons hair and now I'm so proud of how confident he is when he's with his friends

oh I love the poets (especially meeks) just staring at knox and chris in utter awe

hang on why are cameron and charlie sitting next to each other in the play I thought they didn't like each other (chameron propaganda time)

you can see neil isn't smiling by the time the curtain closes and dammit I hate mr perry even more for ruining this one moment for his son

but then when he sees the poets clapping for him and the audience covers his dad you see him smiling again and then his dad comes to ruin that too

neil standing on that stage smiling one last time until he has to go to his dad

the fact that the perrys have a black car is reminiscent of a funeral car or something and uh more foreshadowing to neil’s death

the window motif thing is pretty well known but I'd like to add the fact that we see neil looking out the window of the car at his friends and the theatre right before mr perry makes him leave

also todd in the background watching neil go and keating also watching without words and I'm pretty sure he knows he'll never see neil again one way or another

the fact that neil brought his crown home suggests he made it himself (or maybe he stole it but anyway) and that he loved the play enough to put so much effort in it and ow

I think the fact that neil reacts so much to his father telling him he has to be a doctor is because neil didn't know. like his father just told him this out of the blue and expected neil to go along no matter what

the pyjamas on neil’s bed don't remotely match the ones at welton - something about neil getting pulled away in every aspect of his life, something about even his clothes being chosen for him

neil’s so still in these last few scenes too and it's such a contrast from how much he moves earlier in the film

I've talked about this before but why is cameron not there when they tell todd about neil’s death. like he's probably awake you can see light behind the window above their door but charlie chose not to and I don't know why because they seem to be on decent enough terms

todd running towards the docks is so damn sad when you remember that one cut scene

neil’s things are still there in his desk :(

charlie refusing to sing - he's mourning neil, definitely, but he refuses to do it the way the school wants (and ignore the reality of neil’s death)

also cameron is next to charlie again WHY WAS HE NOT TOLD SOMEONE EXPLAIN THIS TO ME

hey remember when I said earlier that the tradition banner wasn't in shot? guess what's the only banner in shot now that neil’s dead and keating’s done for

when mcallister takes the class outside they're walking on a path with many footsteps. it's an effort, but it's not what keating did

EVEN HOPKINS STOOD lets goooo

the triumphant music is great and yes I am mourning the two desks left empty but triumphant music

this movie will never make me not cry

fun fact we have the names for almost everyone in the class i believe, which you can find in the credits along with their actor, and I'm pretty sure the actors got to pick the names

also in the og script one of the students has the surname priske (which could be headcanon, you pick which ig) and one is called richard watson (I believe there is one name missing in the credits so this is my headcanon for that one)

sorry for how long it is lmao