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“it’s just a ship” maybe to YOU. they’re engraved in my soul

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real

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As a true believer in the ‘chameron are in a toxic situationship’ agenda, I couldn’t stop thinking about flipping the ‘Charlie having to deal with Neil pining after Todd’ trope into ‘Neil having to deal with Charlie’s weird, obsessive, and confusing relationship with Cameron’. Unfortunately I’m so busy with classes that I don’t really have the time to properly write, so I did the next best thing and made a bunch of fake tweets about it.

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what's wrong babe you've barely touched your potential even though all your elementary teachers really liked you and said you were gifted and that you were going to do great things

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im watching dps with audio commentary and its awful hearing all the decisions that were made and them explaining the characters and how they constructed the film to make everything unfold in the right way, it just breaks my heart.

one thing is that they consulted a psychologist to make sure neil’s suicide didn’t make anyone watching feel like that was their only option and they were told to make him look “weak” which is why he said “nothing”, and why there are camera shots looking down on him to make him look small.

and how the gesture of them standing on their desks at the end and keating saying “thank you boys” was him saying thank you for giving me a reason to carry on. peter said that otherwise he could’ve become very depressed and stopped teaching, so the gesture gave him and us hope.

another thing is that they didn’t include the scene to intercut with neil’s death because it “didn’t fit”, they needed to cut scenes, and because they didn’t want to make keating actually complicit in the meetings. they said that the sixties brought the end of strict institutions like welton, with student protests and rebellion, but keating wasn’t like that. he didn’t want them to rebel, he wanted them to live — “medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits, neccessary to sustain life. but beauty, poetry, romance, love. these are what we stay alive for.” — to know that outside of everything that society expects there is a life worth living. (i think the difference here is that keating knew the consequences — he told neil to explain how he felt to his father, and never encouraged him to go against him — “choking on the bone”)

i also wondered how they shot the scene in the snow, and they did it by shooting the scenes where they walk in the snow, and then set up the cameras for when todd’s comforted by the poets (they shot this three times and moved the camera forward into fresh snow each time). then they set the camera up so ethan could run through the fresh snow from there to the dock, without any tracks in the shot. they also mention that it was important for the camera operators to know the scenes and who was speaking and where so they could quickly cut between the boys (when neil suggests they reconvene the dead poets society as the sun was setting quickly, and when todd runs in the snow)

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bla bla place name backstory stuff

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OH MY GODDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

CALLOUT POST FOR FUCKING EURIPIDES

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stop tagging your random dark academica/ "dark academica" posts with Dead Poets Society. I want to see gay people and movie analysis. I don't care about Taylor swift

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Anderperry cuddling I won’t finish because I’m lazy

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— “suddenly it’s december”, margaux paul

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how i look at my friends when they ask for movie recommendations

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the fanfiction in my head is soooo good wish you guys could see this