#peter weir

[neilperryismine]

just thought i’d point this out: just before neil dies, there’s a shot that pans from a painting on mr perry side table to him sleeping

this painting is titled “The Red Boy”

the sitter was a young boy, Charles William Lambton, who later died at the age of 13 from tuberculosis, but the painting now stands to represent a young boy on the verge of “life”, becoming an adult, being the heir to his fathers title. but his life was cut short, just before he was able to actually grow up and live. as a result of this, his younger brother become went on to inherit everything…got to live.

i guess what i’m saying here is that this symbolises neil as a person, as a character, as a piece in the puzzle of life…he died so others - his friends, todd - could live. they only fully grasped what is what to live, and how to choose life over tradition, after his death.

everything in dps is intentional.

also if think this painting is similar to the one in the hall at the beginning of the film, where one boy is looking up, and the other is looking down. it’s kind of mirroring it - people have said that the boy looking down is neil and the one looking up is todd - and now, here is a painting of this boy looking up, neil looking up, to what he could have in life, to what living would be like. neil has learnt how to finally live and not follow his fathers rules and expectations like he had done in the beginning, which meant his life was cut short, but not before he experienced what it would’ve been like.

also the fact that the shot panned from the painting to mr perry could suggest that he was that boy, whose idea of living was cut short by whatever circumstances to he had passed the expectations and legacy that he could’ve had onto neil, expecting him to become the person he couldn’t be.

[sci-fi-gifs]

You were real. That’s what made you so good to watch. THE TRUMAN SHOW (1998) dir. Peter Weir

[asoftepiloguemylove]

on memory and loss

Haruki Murakami Norwegian Wood / Call Me by Your Name (2018) dir. Luca Guadagnino / Ocean Vuong On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous / Sea Wolf The Garden That You Planted / Ocean Vuong On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous / Vladimir Nabokov / Theodore Roethke Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke / The Truman Show (1998) dir. Peter Weir / Amal El-Mohtar This is How You Lose the Time War

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[nihillist-blog]

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)

[nostalgicacademia]

Dead Poets Society (Peter Weir, 1983)

My articles on Dark Academia:

Dark Academia aesthetic

The imaginary of Dead Poets Society

The Secret History a key fandom

[amatesura]

Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) - outtakes

[ash5monster01]

Peter Weir behind the scenes of Dead Poets Society

[davidhudson]

Polish poster for Peter Weir’s Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975).

[cosmonautroger]

Picnic At Hanging Rock, Peter Weir, 1975

[picspammer]

Dead Poets Society (1989) dir. Peter Weir

Derry Girls (S2, E2 Ms De Brún and the Child of Prague) created by Lisa McGee, dir. Michael Lennox

[soullust]

this filming-of dead poets society pic >>>>>

[asoftepiloguemylove]

on humanity and love

Chen Chen Elegy / Dead Poets Society (1989) dir. Peter Weir / Sheila Heti Pure Colour / unknown (via @morepeachyogurt) / Ocean Vuong Night Sky with Exit Wounds / As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000) dir. Jonas Mekas / Berlot Brecht Motto / Fleabag (2016-2019); Episode #2.3 dir. Harry Bradbeer / Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) dir. Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert / pinterest / Louise Glück Vita Nova

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[Note: This poll is a re-do of an older poll, as the original poll received less than 2,000 votes.]

[dailytraingirl]

whoever does my homework for me i will go to the gas station and buy a lotto ticket and win and use the money to build a time machine to go back in time to 1986 before dps was being made and become the director with the idea and make and rewrite it so that todd and neil are in love, tom perry dies because somebody accidentally shoots a missile launcher at him (whoopsies) and neil gets to act and todd and neil get married and move to manhattan

[wasco]

maybe my friends can be the great loves of my life

seven - Taylor Swift // Dead Poets Society (dir. Peter Weir) // A Little Life - Hanya Yanigahara // Lady Bird (dir. Greta Gerwig // The Orange - Wendy Cope // Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (dir. John Hughes) // The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky // dedication on a bench // The Miseducation of Cameron Post (dir. Desiree Akhavan) // dorothea - Taylor Swift // Close (dir. Lukas Dhont) // Frances Ha (written by Noah Baumbach, Greta Gerwig) // The Perks of Being a Wallflower (dir. Stephen Chbosky) // The Long and Short of It - Richard Siken // The Goldfinch (dir. John Crowley) // Graceland Too - Phoebe Bridgers