#peter weir

[neilperryismine]

[eastofedean]

"This, I feel, is the advantage to creating art at this point in time: When we realize that we are temporary, we are facing our self-destruction, we are realizing our fate and we must confront it. Art is the only sensible primal response to an outlook of possible destruction."

[bertolt brecht || unkown || dead poets society (1989), dir. peter weir || all things end, hozier || andrew garfield in an interview for 'the believer' || free, florence + the machines || give yourself permission to be creative, ethan hawke || dead poets society (1989), dir. peter weir || road to hell (reprise) hadestown || keith haring]

[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

[devourerzofgod]

When I'm trying to enjoy the dead poets society book,but then knox comes out with:

"God...I want to suck all the marrow out of Chris!"

WHAAAAATT

[davidhudson]

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

[toiich]

The Truman Show (1998), dir. Peter Weir

[cosmonautroger]

Picnic At Hanging Rock, Peter Weir, 1975

[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.

[meetmeintheatre]

dir peter weir, dead poets society (1989)

[theicarus-to-your-certainty]

Just watched the interview with Ethan Hawke (Todd Anderson) where he said that he and Robert Sean Leonard (Neil Perry) each wondered why they were given their roles and not the opposite. The former said he thought he was much more suited for Neil because he was more extroverted and a natural leader, while the latter said he kept more to himself and thought he would be cast as Todd. BUT THE DIRECTOR SAID YOU HAVE TO CAST FOR THE END RESULT. THE END RESULT BEING NEIL RETREATING INTO HIS SHELL AND BEING UNABLE TO STAND UP TO HIS FATHER AND TODD HAVING HIS O CAPTAIN MY CAPTAIN MOMENT!! 💔💔 THEY DID SO GOOD I LOVE THEM SO MUCH🥹

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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.]

[ash5monster01]

Peter Weir behind the scenes of Dead Poets Society