Dead Poets Society (1989) ♦Movie Reaction♦ First Time Watching!

[@BoOmBANG_]

This was Ethan Hawk’s first major film. He was trying so hard to be a serious actor Robin teased him continuously trying to get him to lighten up. Hawke said he thought Robin hated him. He was shocked when Robin called his agent and told him he needed to sign him up immediately because he was going to be a star! R.I.P. Robin 🙏🏽

[@jesse33cdn]

Ethan hawk was in a movie called EXPLORERS when he was 15

[@OhitsGeo]

@@jesse33cdnHe said “first major film” not first film of his career. Explorers was good but it wasn’t on a level as Dead Poets Society.

[@jean-paulaudette9246]

I watched Explorers about 10 times, on my own. the only reason DPS can rival it is because teachers loved to play it in school on "I'm Too Hungover to Focus-Day".

[@anaeladam780]

​@@jesse33cdn Explorers is major ! 😝

[@churningwhales]

EXPLORERS had some pretty big third act issues.

[@isthatwhatemptymeans8222]

Welcome back. I feel like I can confidentially speak for everyone and say we missed you. Looking forward to watching!

[@TheCosmicBrownie]

Seconded!

[@LJSpit]

From being the weird kid in the back. You have become one of the best film reviewer on KZbin. Wow.

[@lenuvian]

Being anxious about public speaking is absolutely not weird, it's very common.

[@charlize1253]

According to surveys, large numbers of people say they're more afraid of public speaking than they are of death.

[@didonna1974]

You have the BEST outros on KZbin. Awesome reaction as always Whimsory ❤❤

[@James-w4s]

Thanks Whimsory!

[@Whimsory]

OH MY GOSH!!! Thank you so much!!! I truly appreciate your kindness!! ☺️☺️

[@James-w4s]

@@Whimsory You are welcome! 🧔‍♀👀

[@steved272]

Wonderful reaction by the enigma that is Whimsory, you deserve 'two thumbs up' for your reactions and your outro's are second to none ... You are a credit to home schooling.

[@James-y2v]

👍👍

[@Rick-c5s]

Thanks!

[@Whimsory]

Thank you so much!!☺️

[@robq73]

You're back, yay! I saw this movie when I was in high school and wrote a review of it on a typewriter for a film class. I have not seen it since, now I'm watching someone review it on this thing called KZbin that I could not have imagined back in 1989. Seize the day! It goes by fast. Unless you're Norman Lloyd (Mr. Nolan) because he made it to 106 years old before he shuffled off this mortal coil. Oh and 7:31 to 7:34. 😃Find another reviewer who can make that face...you're definitely more free verse than iambic pentameter, thankfully. Great job as always!

[@Fiendy]

I loved Nuwanda, he may be an idiot but he is the most loyal person in the whole group. He doesn’t name the other members of the society and gets himself spelled rather than betray Keating.

[@vincentmalloy4424]

Like Ethan Hawke's character, I have crippling anxiety. But, I wanted so bad to work in radio. The school I attended had people go through classes for both radio and television. This meant that I had to perform in front of a camera. I almost dropped out. Thankfully, you found an outlet for your expression.

[@brettmuir5679]

Quintessential Robbin Williams. Such an underrated movie. Can't wait to watch this. Huge thanks in advance. I can always expect the utter top notch from Whimsory :)

[@MichaelAlexander1881]

I love your channel! You are so adorable. You're so silly. Don't ever stop. Keep doing what you're doing

[@magicbrownie1357]

You really are the most comprehensive and intelligent and enjoyable reactors on YT. Thanks for the reactions. And this is a really brilliant film. And my favorite poet is Charles Bukowski.

[@elricofmelnibone8256]

Good old drunken Buke. I prefer William Wordsworth.

[@Ceractucus]

Nature’s first green is gold Her hardest hue to hold Her early leaf’s a flower But only four an hour Then leaf subsides to leaf So Eden sank to grief So dawn goes down to day Nothing good can stay -Robert Frost I try to memorize a new poem every year or so. Most are relatively short, like this one.

[@J.Johnson-hf1nn]

Stay gold Whimsory.

[@actingkeith]

My favorite poem... by Shel Silverstein Listen to Mustn'ts, child, listen to the Don'ts. Listen to the Shouldn'ts, the Impossibles, the Won'ts. Listen to the Never Haves, then listen close to me. Anything can happen, child, Anything can be.

[@anthonywatts8963]

Thank the gods for this long-overdue upload from KZbin's best reviewer!

[@James-m5w]

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[@J.Johnson-hf1nn]

Oh Whimsory, our Whimsory!

[@stpetie7686]

Darn you, Whimsory! I was going to go trim a tree in my front yard and this popped up. Oh well, the tree will be there next week!

[@TheCosmicBrownie]

Everything takes a back seat to a new Whimsory reaction!

[@stpetie7686]

@@TheCosmicBrownie I have secretly believed that Brownies didn't get the credit they deserved. Now I know I'm right.

[@richgoebel6650]

The hidden gem for Robin Williams in my opinion is his acting in the movie Awakenings, co-starring Robert DeNiro which also is my favorite movie by him. It was based on true events, and not once does Robin appear to do any improvisation. Masterful serious character performance. For Robert DeNiro,, his character portrayal was better than Dustin Hoffman in Raimnan.

[@Stogie2112]

Whimsory returns! The crowd goes WILD! 😆😆😆 Massive happiness!!

[@TheCosmicBrownie]

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[@MrGadfly772]

Thanks!

[@Wlkn2025]

WHIMMY!!! 🥰😍🥰😍🥰🥰 WE'VE MISSED YOU!!!

[@marcelos.8462]

Here´s another one released 5 years later of this one that for sure you really gonna love it. With Honors (1994). A movie that provides reflections, inspiration and motivation to deal with the adversities without losing your life principles and without failing to pay attention and help those ones who cross our path . As usual: Best Regards from Belo Horizonte City - State of Minas Gerais - Brazil !

[@notmee2388]

Underrated movie

[@marcelos.8462]

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[@marcelos.8462]

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[@Geo-Storm]

We are dreaming of tomorrow and tomorrow isn't coming. We are dreaming of a glory that we don't really want. We are dreaming of a new day when the new day's here already. We are running from the battle when it's one that must be fought. And still we sleep. We are listening for the calling but never really heeding. Hoping for the future when the future's only plans. Dreaming of the wisdom that we are dodging daily. Praying for a savoir when salvation's in our hands. And still we sleep. And still we sleep, and still we pray, and still we fear And still we sleep. By: Todd Anderson

[@thegorn68]

"You guys suck at giving gifts." LOL! You're so cute. That made me giggle.

[@notmee2388]

It’s Whimsory day!

[@DeanAdams-dh3gd]

Great choice of movie to react to young lady. I was 13 when I saw this at the cinema with a girl I had a massive crush on in 1989. This movie was a heartbreaker then I still get choked up now. Hitting subscribe now..❤

[@maggedo-x1s]

Your enjoyable reactions to this classic movie are like ;poetry to the ears, Whimsory!📖🥹🎼 RIPoetic Peace, Robin Williams...

[@kHanSolo69]

I had just recently left a boarding school much like this one, when I saw this movie in the theater. On the way out, my friends and I were jumping on every table and chair, yelling, “O, Captain, my Captain!”. Changed my life, thank you, Robin! 🥰👍🏼

[@MJM1309]

You should be a comedian. You really crack me up with you're delivery and expressions. I mean that sincerely "Oh Captain my Captain"

[@JeffersonMills]

Super reaction as usual ❤

[@alexhale2696]

You're not alone, Miss Whimsory. Public speaking is a big fear of most people. It even surpasses death. But it seems like you're doing alright now.

[@EShelby2127]

When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time’s waste: Then can I drown an eye, unus’d to flow, For precious friends hid in death’s dateless night, And weep afresh love’s long since cancell’d woe, And moan the expense of many a vanish’d sight: Then can I grieve at grievances foregone, And heavily from woe to woe tell o’er The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan, Which I new pay as if not paid before. But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, All losses are restor’d and sorrows end. Sonnet XXX - Shakespeare

[@J.Johnson-hf1nn]

This precisely explains why I subscribed to this channel. When I am watching a Whimsory video all the old pains fade and I just feel.....better.

[@dsc5754]

Cool hat girl! I just want virtual hug her 🫂 she's a master of building anticipation. She's worth the wait, because there's only one cool hat girl 💯

[@willcool713]

*The Fisher King* (1991) is another spectacular Robin Williams movie. Very dark and complicated, but also beautiful. I push it to every reactor at every chance.

[@thegorn68]

I push that one too. Such an awesome movie and forgotten gem.

[@stanleysmith2221]

Amazing movie indeed 👏

[@wubsworld8946]

I first saw this movie in middle school and it changed my life. It offered validity to a vulnerable part of my character that I had previously suppressed as a young man and that yielded a confidence in my emotions that I've carried ever since. *It's okay to be in touch with sensitivity and vulnerability as a man.* - women, the good ones, actually appreciate it.

[@chapo0815]

Whimsory your'e awsome! 😉👍🏼

[@artao5]

I named one of my kitties Yawp (RIP 2021) after that very line. And your reaction to "quiet desperation." Yep. Feel ya.

[@mwflanagan1]

It also occurs in the lyrics to “Time” from Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon.

[@DarthChef]

My personal connection to this move; I graduated high school in 1991 and this movie had a big influence on me and many of my classmates during our last few years of high school because we had an AP English teacher who was a lot like Mr. Keating. He always wanted us to find our voice and wanted to develop us not only as students, but as free thinking young adults. It just so happened that my senior year was also the year he was retiring. Our valedictorian also loved and respected him and she devised a tribute to him. At the end of her graduation speech she talked about Mr. Morton and how much of a great teacher he was and when she said "Oh Captain, my Captain" many of us stood up in our chairs. Favorite poet: e.e. cummings One of my favorites from e.e cummings: "pity this busy monster, manunkind"

[@IDLERACER]

😎👍 This inspired me to do a search of your channel to see what other Robin Williams films you've already watched. So far, just this and "Good Will Hunting." I don't know which other ones you might've viewed in your spare time, but I'll recommend two that I think are right up your alley, though you won't find either of them on that IMDB list: The original "Jumanji" (1995) and "Robots" (2005). They are both extremely fast-paced, visually dazzling, and above all else, funny & heartwarming at the same time. 😊 By the way, that New England dialect you just demonstrated was excellent. It sounded like a humorous combination of Brooklyn & Boston. 😉

[@James-w4s]

Jumanji 👍

[@MikeHarvey-ol7xr]

The snarky critic should have been aware of Williams' previous roles, such as the titular character in The World According to Garp.

[@J.Johnson-hf1nn]

@@MikeHarvey-ol7xr People keep bringing up TWATG. I haven't seen it since.....wow. I guess since it first came out. Sounds like it might be time to revisit it.

[@kevinmorbidthelostcronin1984]

I got to 30:00 and felt so in-line with Whimsory about my issues with poetry. My junior year in high school, we were required to write a poem that had a repetitious bridge and did not need to rhyme or follow an obvious meter. I did it, but then the teacher required us to present the poems to the class. When it was my turn, I stood before the class and read my lengthy poem that very purposely rhymed and followed the Emily Dickenson meter (Yellow Rose of Texas) as I described how much I absolutely hated poems that did not rhyme or adhere to a meter. I got an unexpected ovation from the class.

[@NarnianRailway]

Whimsory's charming movie reactions can make poets live forever and craft many smiles.

[@maxvonsydow6180]

Apropos Eathan Hauke, I bet you would love the " Before..." movies 👍🎬🙂

[@niftymagic]

Even the kid as you said hated poetry and the class had so much respect for Mr Keating he stood on his desk to show him so, this has the best ending in a movie “Thank you boys, thank you”.

[@isthatwhatemptymeans8222]

One of your best outros/awards segments. Here is a gift, your favorite poem could be "The Goldfish" in its entirety. "Oh wet pet." That's it.

[@charlesleerae9023]

The movie ravenous with Guy Pearce

[@tsogobauggi8721]

26:50 "O Captain, my Captain."

[@glennlesliedance]

I wouldn't speak to adults K-2+, until my mother, who was a gym teacher at another school saw that I was not in the lunch line (our school had to walk past the playground to the neighboring school for lunch). She can in to find out what was going on. My teacher said that she kept me from lunch until I read out loud, which I refused to do until my mother, lost her tempter, a rare thing to shout, "I am so sick of this! You read this! You read this now!" Through tears, I read out loud. Through tough love, we broke through. I've spent much of my adult live as a theater performer and teacher. When we had a 85th birthday for my mother at the local high school that teacher came up to me to say hello. We had a good chuckle about my growing from not talking to being a performer. Sometimes people need some tough love and to be pushed.

[@blairhaffly1777]

Robin Williams was sometimes out and about in my old neighborhood in SF. Just being a regular person. He seemed like a kind man. He was a roadbike cyclist, too, and they said the same thing. Gracious but not really seeking attention.

[@kevinmorbidthelostcronin1984]

The hard thing for most people to understand is that he was an introvert. I personally think he was an INFJ. These individuals tend to appear very vibrant and extroverted, when in their comfort zones (with ONLY close friends, when performing comedy, etc); but, make no mistake, they have not stopped being Introverts. A lot of successful stand-up comics tend to have been INFJs because it creates the part of them that watches/assesses human behaviour, making it easy to find the absurd. It also creates a dark and lonely place in them as people mistakenly treat them as something they really are not. In their minds, they are not seeking attention or being vainglorious, just offering a piece of themselves. They are often seen as quiet, demure, gracious, kind, unassuming, and sweet when met personally. In the last fifty years, becoming famous has often been a negative for people like Williams. Being successful eventually surrounded them with Hollywood people. Most Hollywood people tend to be extroverts. Nothing wrong with that, it just further isolated one of the personalities most known for isolating themselves and HATING it (not everything we do unconsciously is good for us). I think his wife tried very hard to help him overcome this, but it was a perfect storm that led to losing an incredible man too early.

[@James-t2j]

39:27 Ecto Gamut!! And if you don't know what that means, you need to watch "The Fifth Element" (1999) starring Bruce Willis, Ian Holm and Chris Tucker.

[@positivelynegative9149]

19:22 Good job, editor. 🤣

[@Stevarooni]

Cats can be in Witness Protection, too!

[@markbeckner2564]

That was fun, you crack me up!

[@willcool713]

Charles Bukowski, favorite poet. And, of course Dr Suess counts. Lots of musicians, too.

[@Filboid2000]

"A Midsummer Night's Dream" by William Shakespeare is a comedy and Neil played the lead role of Puck, a woodland fairy.

[@dallesamllhals9161]

FUNNY too...

[@MrGadfly772]

I'm glad you're back to the list. Although IMBD tends to be a bit biased toward recent films. I agree with your reaction. Extroverts always think they just need to put the introvert on stage, and they will blossom. As an introvert I know otherwise (I too would have felt like barfing), and I suspect you felt it as well. I was terrified of being noticed in school and I just wanted to not be seen. Not all artists are on stage, some are locked in their rooms writing or doing art. Sometimes silence is what is needed. I totally get how anxiety producing social situations can be... until you're ready. Oddly enough I tried to be a teacher later in life. A Robin Williams movie you might like id "The Fisher King." It co-stars Jeff Bridges and was directed by Terry Gillam.

[@djgrant8761]

Elements of this film are based on the school where I was educated. In 1994 our school performed this film on the stage.

[@johnpittsii7524]

Hi whimsory hope you are having an great and awesome day ❤

[@cmay7429]

Yay! Excellent movie that more young people should know about! Looking forward to it. Also, going to recommend the Breakfast Club, if you've never seen it. And Midsummer Night's Dream, with Shaton Stone!

[@J.Johnson-hf1nn]

The Breakfast Club 👍

[@dondunco2538]

To a very dear, young Lady: Whimsory, welcome back. We've missed you. I'VE missed you. Your whimsical take on things is something I live to experience. To explain the reviewer who said about Williams performance in this movie: "wonderfully restrained," there is something you need to realize about Robin. The Genie in Aladdin was restrained for Robin Williams. You should do some reactions to Robin's stand up comedy specials. He is so manic and all over the place. You never knew what was coming next or how serious he would be on the topic. Btw, you don't neeed to blur the cat for his flexible grooming. It's mortifying, I know, but our family owned a toy poodle who walked into a party (church group at our house in the living room) and sat down and started licking himself (unsheathed, of course, because DOG). No way to edit. And so, so FUNNY. Anyone who's ever owned a dog can relate to my poodle and your cat. ❤ You've been away too long. We really are super happy you've returned. I hope you're having a wonderful day. I'm waiting for your next reaction, even now. Good night and have Fun.

[@MarcoMM1]

Great reaction like always, i love this movie and Robin Williams may have been famous because of his comedy work but his non-comedy role in Dead Poets Society is one of his best performances. Dead Poets Society was written by Tom Schulman It was the first screenplay he sold to Hollywood, though not the first one he wrote. The story is based in part on his experiences at Montgomery Bell Academy, a prep school in Nashville, Tennessee. Most of the characters were modeled on people he knew from real life. There are some fun facts about this movie. Robin Williams's character, John Keating, was based on two of Schulman's former teachers: Harold Clurman, who taught at the Actors and Directors Lab, and Samuel Pickering, who taught Schulman's sophomore English class. At one point, Dustin Hoffman was going to direct and star in Dead Poets Society. When Williams first arrived on set, his portrayal of Keating was wooden and uncomfortable, so Weir suggested they improvise. He asked Williams what he wanted to “teach” the class, and he said Shakespeare. Then Williams did an improv of Marlon Brando and John Wayne doing Shakespeare, a scene that made it into the movie. After that, he relaxed into the role, and the movie started to come together. A large amount of Williams's dialogue was improvised. And not just the scene mentioned above. Producers estimated that about 15 percent of Williams's dialogue was improvised by the actor. Ethan Hawke credits a scene with Williams for introducing him to the possibilities of acting. The movie was originally going to be filmed in Rome, Georgia, but the director wanted snow to enhance the feel of a New England prep school. Since snow is expensive to replicate, they moved filming to Delaware, where snow is free. Keep up the amazing work.

[@jamespfp]

41:28 -- RE: Shakespeare; Ha! Two fun facts about the Bard. First, many of his best plays aren't the super serious ones which involve history or tragedy, which is why "Midsummer's Night's Dream" is still among the most popular among audiences. The narrative involves fairy queens and magic, making it perfect for re-adaptation. Second, re-adaptation made its way to almost every Shakespeare play, particularly after the early 20th century and the start of Hollywood. "Throne of Blood" by Akira Kurosawa is one of the most entertaining versions of "Macbeth" ever adapted for film, and "Titus" (1999) by Julie Taymor is probably one of the best uses of theatrical talent ever, based on the play "Titus Andronicus". The exception who proves the classical-form rule though is Kenneth Branagh, who has a heck of a "Hamlet" on film, as well as "Henry the Fifth" famous for the Battle of Agincourt.

[@WolfsDE]

I like to think that Mr. Keating went to that Public School down the road. That Nuwanda and the other boys in the DPS all went there. Moved the DPS with them, brought the book, and maybe they moved it out of the cave, but they kept it alive. That all of the boys who stood up, got themselves expelled from the school and went to the public school. Yes, the school got the parents to put pressure on the boys to sign the paper. Not give the boys even a chance to say their side of things to their own parents. I get it. Sometimes, it is hard to know what the right thing to do is when you feel like you are at the bottom of the dog pile. The end is a reminder that it is never to late to try and do the right thing. That once you find an opening from the dog pile, you can get back up to fight back. DPS has a great ending point, but I do wish we had gotten a sequel with one of the boys years later, maybe Charles "Nuwanda" Daulton as the teacher and he is in a different school and inspires kids the same way. Hopefully, not the same kind of ending. This is my favorite movie from Robin Williams. You need to see A Midsummer Night's Dream. It is a good film and helps you understand the play.

[@miller-joel]

36:30 And now you're speaking in front of thousands of people.

[@jean-paulaudette9246]

This is a specific type of performance by Robin Williams, of which his body of work contains several. I'd include "Awakenings" and "Patch Adams" among them, and others doubtless can think of others.

[@TheCosmicBrownie]

Awakenings 👍👍

[@J.Johnson-hf1nn]

"Awakenings" is an amazing movie. Sad, but amazing.

[@mikecarew8329]

Awakenings and Good Will Hunting are his best. Good Morning Vietnam is also good.

[@MikeHarvey-ol7xr]

The World According to Garp One Hour Photo What Dreams May Come

[@billthomas478]

The play is "A Midsummer's Nights Dream" by Shakespeare. There's a movie version with Michelle Phiffer and a few other people that I recommend watching

[@jtoland2333]

You have such a pretty name! In my opinion, this is Robin Williams’ best movie. We’ve just left a repressive culture for the last 30 years. This movie speaks even more loudly than it did when it was released. This is the movie that made me fall in love with Robert Sean Leonard (Neil). The music that freaked you out was deliberately reflective of the heritage of the school and of the students; English, Irish, Scottish and English. It also was supposed to evoke a feeling of ancient Europe. If you listen closely, you’ll hear the Celtic influence. The final piece is Keating’s Triumph. It always gives me chills. Give poetry a chance. You weren’t taught in a way that beat the life out of it. The fun lies in trying to figure out the message in the poem, because it’s often subjective. I just about died when you said people were just getting to know Robin. Americans fell in love with Robin Williams since the late 70s and we totally knew who he was and what he was capable of. He was a household name from his show, Mork and Mindy, and the show’s catchphrase, rainbow suspenders and M&M t shirts everywhere. His first movie was The World According to Garp. It was really ahead of its time.

[@charlize1253]

Never has poetry been so integral to a Hollywood movie, nor felt so inspiring

[@Sorats42]

Favorite Poet: Shel Silverstein. His work isn't always profound, but it's FUN. It reminds me not to take anything too seriously. Love this movie, thanks for watching it!

[@ericpersons3499]

Top three personal favorites: “Waiting” by John Burroughs “Little Boy Blue” by Eugene Fields “If” by Rudyard Kipling It helps, at the end, to know Longfellow write “O Captain, My Captain” on the assassination of Lincoln. (Maybe a little foreshadowing?) The play was “A Midsummer Nights Dream”, fairly approachable, for Shakespeare. There are a number of video productions to choose from. Always love your reactions!

[@nicolasripoll7974]

I also watched it yesterday ! The timing X)

[@Jaskelart]

When I was 17 I was in a stage production of this playing Neal. My dad played Mr. Perry. It wasn't hard to act like we didn't get along, because we didn't. We got home after opening night, had dinner, and went to bed. My dad never woke up; he died of heart failure that night. I watch this movie once a year to mark the day he died. I named my son Robin because of Robin Williams and Puck (Robin Goodfellow). This movie shaped me more than any other single piece of media.

[@StephenRansom47]

29:58 🙌 Pickle 🥒 Wimsory!!! 🤣

[@charlize1253]

According to surveys, large numbers of people say they're more afraid of public speaking than they are of death.

[@fightingidiocy7724]

I was a Sophomore at parochials HS in 1989. One of my brothers, a year ahead, was an amazing actor. He ended performing in maybe 30 different plays/musicals, getting the lead, all the way into college, even moved to NYC with headshots..But my parents always encouraged him...always in the front row...I took my HOME-SCHOOLED girlfriend to see him Fiddler, the worst part was not the acting, but metal folding chair you're supposed to sit for 3 hours

[@aylwyne]

Blurring your cat grooming themselves made me giggle

[@isaackellogg3493]

The main theme in this movie is entitled “Keating’s Triumph.” A Roman triumph was a celebratory parade of a conquering general, with the defeated general chained to his chariot wheels. In this case, what is chained to Keating’s chariot wheels is conformity to the group.

[@wndbrn]

Good work!

[@zedwpd]

Hi Whimsory.

[@seanmonahan]

This is the most soul-crushing of Robin Williams' movies to watch, after the manner of his death.

[@Pastor_Disaster]

"I've never been a fan of poetry." You and me both, kiddo. To each his own, not gonna yuck someone else's yum. But just not my jam. But sucking the marrow out of life? Yep, I'm all for that.

[@J.Johnson-hf1nn]

"Not gonna yuck someone else's yum." I like that.

[@thegreenman7181]

One of my favourite Movies of all Time! ✌ Go Whimsory!

[@inkedfish7373]

I suggest checking out Robin Williams in Awakenings.

[@chet8682]

I love Williams and have never heard of this movie. For shits and giggles, I checked out the trailer, and ok... wow... I'm gonna check this out! thanks for the recommendation!

[@inkedfish7373]

@chet8682 it's one of my favorites, enjoy!

[@howardadamkramer]

Thanks for doing this one. Not many reactors have touched it yet!

[@StCerberusEngel]

The play is Shakespear's A Midsummer Night's Dream, a comedy where faeries in the woods play tricks and manipulate people amidst their own interpersonal dealings. The big event that the human interactions revolve around is the marriage of Theseus and Hippolyta. The fact that Neil was giving Puk(Robin Goodfellow)'s soliloquy as his father was in the audience turned what is a rather light-hearted plea to not take the faerie-folk's antics too seriously, into a rather poignant cry to his father to understand and forgive him. It's my favorite part of the film. If we shadows have offended, Think but this and all is mended: That you have but slumbered here While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme, No more yielding but a dream, Gentles, do not reprehend. If you pardon, we will mend. And, as I am an honest Puck, If we have unearnèd luck Now to ’scape the serpent’s tongue, We will make amends ere long. Else the Puck a liar call. So good night unto you all. Give me your hands, if we be friends, And Robin shall restore amends.

[@brianrecinos3914]

21:35: They're doing a play based on W. Shakespeare's comedy set in ancient Greece.

[@aatragon]

Let me begin by saying that you are an extraordinary individual. It is easy to see that you are intelligent, quick witted and perceptive. This is definitely a movie I would have recommended to you. Poetry, like geometry or classical music, is not for everyone. Moreover, boring or unengaging teaching methods in any of these can be their death knell, even to a bright student. But don't give up on Shakespeare; just don't try reading him. What it requires is a really good actor speaking the complex lines to an attentive ear to bring it to life. The movie Robin Williams jokingly refers to at 9:21 is the 1953 version of 𝙅𝙪𝙡𝙞𝙪𝙨 𝘾𝙖𝙚𝙨𝙖𝙧, with Marlon Brando as Mark Antony. That movie, and I am not joking, is well worth the watch and a very good place to start due to its stellar cast. The two Franco Zeffirelli movies of the 1960's, 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙏𝙖𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙎𝙝𝙧𝙚𝙬 and 𝙍𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙤 & 𝙅𝙪𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙩 are both marvelous films, and alternatively make great jumping off points. I encourage you to look into it.

[@P5YcHoKiLLa]

21:56 Shakespeare - A Midsummer Night's Dream 28:46 How may I fun?! Let me count the ways ! 31:17 Looks like you need Tums. 41:42 They mostly joke at night...mostly.

[@James-y2v]

41:42 They mostly come at night....mostly. (Newt from Aliens)

[@RightTurnClyde]

The play was A Midsummer Night's Dream. It's by Shakespeare

[@jamespfp]

30:14 -- RE: What's your favorite poem?; A: Two have stuck in my head and heart since high school, other than nonsense and doggerel. The second is the shortest, "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner" written during World War 2, short enough to be easily memorized. The first was "Ozymandias" by Percy Shelley. Peak dramatic pause poem, that, "Nothing. Beside. Remains."

[@velinion1]

The Shield of Achilles by W. H. Auden is possibly my favorite poem. Contrasting the mythological crafting of the shield with the realities of war has always had a huge emotional impact on me.

[@jamespfp]

31:30 -- RE: Iambic Pentameter; The second word should give the most clues as to why learning about it matters more for people who'll specialize in such things, later. Penta, meaning 5 and meter, for feet. The importance of rhythm was probably much greater in the past before large portions of any given culture became literate, and oral traditions have different ideas about what is lyrical and regular enough to be put to music, among other uses. Many of Shakespeare's plays also exhibit deliberate use of meter in monologues or dialogues between characters.

[@hughtube5154]

It's strange that she was taught the mechanics of poetry before learning to enjoy the thing in itself. It would be like learning to love cooking by julienne'ing a vegetable rather than eating the salad.

[@joeblankenship377]

When the kids stand up on their desk at the end? Waterworks, every time.

[@viewfromthehighchair9391]

My favourite poem is "Kubla Khan" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. It is the only poem where I can actually remember a couple of lines consistently. "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure dome decree; where Alph the sacred river ran, through caverns measureless to man, down to a sunless sea." The poem is long and unfinished but it is wonderful.

[@yogurt3876]

Nice video

[@paulflux5892]

7:32 - your disapproving face is so magnificently disapproving! 😅

[@user-jb8qq9fk6m]

There is a classic 1935 film version of a Mid-Summer's Night dream that is a lot of fun. Made in the old Studio System days they basically put everyone they had under contract into the roles, including Jimmy Cagney as Bottom and a young Mickey Rooney as Puck.

[@christinastirrup1272]

This channel has very cool reactions. Here are a few movie suggestions. Phenomenon - John Travolta Here on Earth - Josh Hartnett August Rush - Kerry Russell The Ultimate gift - Abigail Bresslin The longest ride - Britt Robertson Jerry McGuire - Tom Cruise Untamed Heart - Marissa Tomei The Campaign - Will Farrell Trust me. You will love these movies.

[@J.Johnson-hf1nn]

Untamed Heart 👍👍

[@Rick-c5s]

You're a poet but don't know it... You said, like "Turning words into math..." That was beautiful! I'm going to remember that! ❤

[@johnchrysostomon6284]

Harrison Ford was known mainly for sci-fi and adventure movies. He got Aussie director Peter Weir to direct him in “Witness” as a serious actor. Robin Williams was known for comedies, though he had trained at the Julliard school. He got Peter Weir to direct him in a serious role in “Dead Poet’s Society.” So Jim Carrey also wanting to show he could act seriously got Peter Weir to direct him in “The Truman Show” Each of these actors believed that Peter Weir could help bring out the serious side of their acting.

[@Anon54387]

Peter Weir seems to be drawn to the fish out of water stories. Master and Commander with Dr. Maturin out of his element at sea in a naval ship. DPS with Robin Williams out of place among all those stuffy prep school teachers. And Witness, Weir turned the fish out of water story on its head a bit by having the fish out of water being the big city cop being the fish out of water on an Amish farm rather than what the usual, predictable course of having the rural person being out of place in the city. And it was handled without being cliche, they didn't reduce either the cop or the Amish farmers to mere cliches. Them joking about the horse with one testicle, that's the kind of jokes guys make whether rural or urban, Amish or not, in one form or another.

[@mikeduplessis8069]

Two of those young actors went on to act int 'House' and 'The God Wife', two of the best series of the new millenium.