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...ol students. With those words he begins his unorthodox and brilliant lessons that will change the young men's lives forever. The school's stodgy administrator and repressive parents are resistant to Keating's teaching methods, especially when their fledglings' free thinking leads to serious conflict. The time is 1959, the hundredth anniversary of the founding of Welton Academy. Welton is a sort of Ivy League training school. The boys of Welton Academy are dutiful sons, their lives arranged by Mom and Dad like connecting dots. They need only move assuredly from point A, Welton, to point B, Harvard or Oxford, to point C, a prestigious law firm/corporation/band. However, that does not stop their new English teacher from encouraging them to break the pattern. With a contagious passion for verse and a lust for life, Keating exhorts his students to think for themselves. Then avocation that they strip themselves of prejudices, habits and influences. Dead Poets Society opens with prep-school.... Robin Williams plays John Keating, a renegade teacher at a Vermont prep school who confounds, inspires and changes the lives of his students. Keating reveals how to feel the poetry they are studying, and instills in his students the spirit of the motto Carpe Diem with a witty zest and a love for teaching few had experienced previously. Thus enthralled, his students try to pursue their real dreams, but the somber reality of their upper-middle class lifestyles proves a much bigger challenge than they had thought. Robert Sean Leonard is notable as Neil, one of the students who is determined to be an actor despite the domineering presence of his domineering father. Winner of the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay (Tom Schulman). Academy Award nominations for Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Director. ead Poet's Society was filmed on location in Middletown, New Castle and Rockland, Delaware, USA. Featured deep in the crevices of New England are several pre-Ivy league facilities. They are an old tradition, generally populated by young men who are being forced to live out their parent's expectations and dreams. Going to one of these elite institutes of educations (to call it a mere school would be insulting) ensures a grand future, if not least a chance to attend the likes of Harvard or Princeton. Todd Anderson (Ethan Hawke at his weepy eyed best) is worried. His brother had been a Valedictorian at Welton, the fictional Vermont Prep school the movie centers around. Shy and withdrawn, he feels shadowed by his brother's former glory, and is nothing like his handsome, infectiously friendly roommate, Neil Perry. Neil is one of those people who can be described as a generally good person. He himself has his life mapped out by his domineering father, yet has a twinkle of freedom in his eyes and has spent his life trying to please his strict father, now he is finding he wants the kind of joy one doesn't get from following orders and pleasing others. Neil introd...