I haven't read it yet but remembered my first Aha! when the title came up. It was one of my first big revelations about screenwriting. At that time poetry was losing its popularity. I dug it and couldn't wait to see the film, but it was watching the wide spectrum of people in the theater that brought on the Aha! It was a realization that a superior screenplay could stimulate interest in the movie-making machinery and the public, no matter what the subject matter. A script doesn't have to be trendy, just so good it can't be ignored.

Love, love the movie but the approach to female characters leaves something to be desired... That's why we have this re-imagining/Gender Swap of the story with an all female cast. :-) http://redsilverchains.livejournal.com/33307.html

Well said, Cyd. We are seeing this a lot nowadays with all these scripts getting set up that are in the tradition of a biopic -- like Grace of Monaco, McCarthy, Saving Mr. Banks, Seducing Ingrid Bergman. If a script is great, it doesn't matter WHAT the subject is about... well, it actually DOES, but you get my point. A great story trumps almost everything else.

That is AWESOME! Do you mind if I do a blog post featuring this?

I remember seeing it when I was younger (11, maybe 12) and it was the first time I realized a movie could emotionally invest me. And to this day, no movie gives me chills like that final shot of the boys standing on their desks and Keaton's "Thank you." Between this and JAWS (also seen around the same time) my [as of yet unknown] journey towards wanting to create my own movies that resonate with others began...

I cannot read the spring breakers of the 2014 series as I have a 3 year long journey to become an adult yet, so i read the dead poets society instead. I felt touched by it. It also made me cry but again, fascination! For the next couple of hours after reading I couldn't get my thoughts out of it. I wanted to watch the mvi so badly but I dont yet have it in my hands (download takes so long!). Yes, I did love the movie, but the resolution seemed unfair to me (seems like I am the only one, looking at the user reviews in imdb) so a question strucks me, Why does sad endings impress the audience, no matter endings when some kind of unknown hope arises or is in a way incomplete feels perfect, but an ending like this- keating closing the door. Do satisfaction (not to happy perfect ending) loses over tragic ending? Could the ending of the dead poets society be different in a better way?

If I sound like I didn't like the ending, its not that it was in a way perfest, the standing o stool and thank u but I was just wondering these questions i asked in my previous comment above.if you could help me on those Thank you