人生啊

片子裡的伊桑 霍克, 敏感, 內向, 而又薄發, 激情. 的確是少年天才, 他演的時候應該是不到20歲的樣子. 雖然他不是男主, 有幾段很好的展示了他的演技, 一段是和羅賓 威廉斯對手戲. 羅賓讓敏感的他上台讀詩, 他拒絕, 羅賓為了引導他擋住他的眼睛, 讓他說出內心的感受, 情急之下,他出口成詩,滿堂驚嘆....還有一段, 男主自殺後, 伊桑演的角色非常受傷, 先是笑, 然後控制不住地哀泣,之後在雪地裡跑......最後一段, 只有一句台詞, "Captain, my captain!"

人個認為何為天才, 即方法派能發自內心的忘我地體會到角色的感情, 達到溶入其中而不能自己的地步.

在這一點上, 伊桑 霍克很輕鬆自然地達到了. 當然我們不知道他在角色上實際用了多少功, 好演員的功夫是永遠不嫌多的. 當他自如地揮灑情感的時候. 角色真的在某一段時間裡存在過.

最後感謝本片的所有創作人員, 為我們奉獻了這樣一部作品. 近二十後仍然激動人心, 撫慰心靈.

二十年後的伊桑 霍克功成名就, 和超級名星老婆離了婚, 和自己孩子的保姆奉子成婚. 他蓬頭垢面的中年男樣子配和大肚老婆出現在娛樂頭條上...二十年前的他自己會答應這種事嗎?

也許時光是最無情的敵人, 他磨去你的激情, 讓人覺得人生不過如此, 年少實在輕狂. 二十年後, 我也會覺得二十年前的自己也是輕狂地很嗎?Oh! Captain, my captain 請你不要離開我!

台詞8G:
Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary!

The phrase "carpe diem" is from Odes 1.11 of Q. Horatius Flaccus ("Horace"), 65BC-8BC

The poem by Henry David Thoreau that is featured on the front page of the poetry book Neil receives is not an original poem by Thoreau. Rather, it is a rearrangement of sentences from his work "Where I Lived", Chapter 2. The passage containing the quotes seen in the movie actually reads "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, ..."

John Keating: No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.

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Meeks: I'll try anything once.
Dalton: Yeah, except sex.

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John Keating: They're not that different from you, are they? Same haircuts. Full of hormones, just like you. Invincible, just like you feel. The world is their oyster. They believe they're destined for great things, just like many of you, their eyes are full of hope, just like you. Did they wait until it was too late to make from their lives even one iota of what they were capable? Because, you see gentlemen, these boys are now fertilizing daffodils. But if you listen real close, you can hear them whisper their legacy to you. Go on, lean in. Listen, you hear it? - - Carpe - - hear it? - - Carpe, carpe diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary.

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John Keating: O Captain, my Captain. Who knows where that comes from? Anybody? Not a clue? It's from a poem by Walt Whitman about Mr. Abraham Lincoln. Now in this class you can either call me Mr. Keating, or if you're slightly more daring, O Captain my Captain.

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John Keating: We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. To quote from Whitman, "O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless... of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life?" Answer. That you are here - that life exists, and identity; that the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. That the powerful play *goes on* and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

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John Keating: Sucking all the marrow out of life doesn't mean choking on the bone.

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John Keating: There is a time for daring and a time for caution, and a wise man knows which is called for.

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John Keating: I thought the purpose of education was to learn to think for yourself.
Nolan: At these boys age? Not on your life!

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Neil: For the first time in my life, I know what I want to do! And for the first time, I'm going to DO IT! Whether my father wants me to or not! Carpe diem!

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John Keating: We're not laughing at you - we're laughing near you.

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Dalton: [answering phone] Welton Academy, hello. Yes he is, hold on. Mr. Nolan, it's for you. It's God. He says we should have girls at Welton.

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John Keating: Why do we need language?
Neil: To communicate...
John Keating: Nooo! To woo women!

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[Quoting Henry David Thoreau]
Neil: I went into the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life... to put to rout all that was not life; and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

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McAllister: "Show me the heart unfettered by foolish dreams and I'll show you a happy man."
John Keating: "But only in their dreams can men be truly free. 'Twas always thus, and always thus will be."
McAllister: Tennyson?
John Keating: No, Keating.

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John Keating: Close your eyes - closure! Close 'em! Now, describe what you see.
Todd 安德生: I... I close my eyes, and this image floats beside me.
John Keating: A sweaty-toothed madman.
Todd 安德生: A sweaty-toothed madman with a stare that pounds my brain.
John Keating: Oh, that's *excellent*! Now, give him action - make him do something!
Todd 安德生: His hands reach out and choke me.
John Keating: That's it! Wonderful, wonderful!
Todd 安德生: And all the time he's mumbling.
John Keating: What's he mumbling?
Todd 安德生: Mumbling truth... Truth's like a blanket that always leaves your feet cold.
John Keating: [some of the class start to laugh] Forget them, forget them! Stay with the blanket. Tell me about that blanket!
Todd 安德生: Y-You push it, stretch it, it'll never be enough. You kick at it, beat it, it will never cover any of us. From the moment we enter crying to the moment we leave dying, it will cover just your head as you wail and cry and scream!
[class appauds]
John Keating: Don't you forget this.

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Neil: [Neil finds Todd sitting alone on the roof] Hey!
Todd 安德生: Hey.
Neil: What's going on?
Todd 安德生: Today's my birthday.
Neil: Is today your birthday? Happy birthday!
Todd 安德生: Thanks.
Neil: What'd you get?
Todd 安德生: [indicating the desk set lying beside him] My parents gave me this.
Neil: Isn't this the same desk set ...
Todd 安德生: Yeah. Yeah, they gave me the same thing as last year.
Neil: Oh... maybe they thought you needed another one.
Todd 安德生: Maybe they weren't thinking about anything at all. The funny thing is about this is, I didn't even like it the first time.
Neil: Todd, I think you're underestimating the value of this desk set.
[He picks it up]
Neil: I mean, who would want a football or a baseball...
Todd 安德生: ...or a car...
Neil: Or a car, if they could have a desk set as wonderful as this one? I mean, if I were ever going to buy a desk set... twice... I would probably buy this one. Both times! In fact, its shape... it's rather aerodynamic, isn't it?
[he walks to the edge of the roof]
Neil: You can feel it. This desk set wants to fly!
[he hands it to Todd]
Neil: Todd? The world's first unmanned flying desk set.
[Todd throws it off the roof - papers fly everywhere and things crash and clatter to the ground]
Neil: Oh my! Well, I wouldn't worry. You'll get another one next year.

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John Keating: Phone call from God... Now if it had been collect, it would have been daring!

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John Keating: Mr. 安德生! Don't think that I don't know that this assignment scares the hell out of you most!

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Todd 安德生: Keating said everyone took turns reading and I don't want to do that.
Neil: Gosh, you really have a problem with that don't you?
Todd 安德生: No, I don't have a problem. I just don't want to do it, OK!

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[Keating is standing on his desk]
John Keating: Why do I stand up here?
Dalton: To feel taller!
John Keating: No!
[Dings a bell with his foot]
John Keating: Thank you for playing Mr. Dalton. I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way.

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John Keating: I was the equivalent of a 98lb weakling! I would go to the beach and people would kick copies of Byron in my face!

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Dr. Hagar: That wouldn't be a radio in your lap would it Mr. Pitts?
Pitts: No sir, science experiment... radar!

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[after hearing "The Introduction to Poetry"]
John Keating: Excrement! That's what I think of Mr. J. Evans Pritchard! We're not laying pipe! We're talking about poetry. How can you describe poetry like American Bandstand? "I like Byron, I give him a 42 but I can't dance to it!"

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[joining the DPS]
Dalton: It'll help you get Chris!
Knox: Yeah? How?
Dalton: Women swoon!
[Dalton rushes off to class]
Knox: Why do they swoon?
[Runs after Dalton]
Knox: Tell me why they swoon!

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John Keating: Boys, you must strive to find your own voice. Because the longer you wait to begin, the less likely you are to find it at all. Thoreau said, "Most men lead lives of quiet desperation." Don't be resigned to that. Break out!

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John Keating: Now we all have a great need for acceptance, but you must trust that your beliefs are unique, your own, even though others may think them odd or unpopular, even though the herd may go,
[imitating a goat]
John Keating: "that's baaaaad." Robert Frost said, "Two roads diverged in the wood and I, I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference."

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John Keating: I SOUND MY BARBARIC YAWP OVER THE ROOFTOPS OF THE WORLD.

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Todd 安德生: [standing on his desk] Oh captain, my captain.

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Neil: So what are you going to do? Charlie?
Dalton: Damn it Neil, the name is Nuwanda.

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[last lines]
John Keating: Thank you, boys. Thank you.

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John Keating: Mr. Meeks, learn to inherit the earth.

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John Keating: This is a battle, a war, and the casualties could be your hearts and souls.

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Knox: C'mon, Chris, just give me one chance. If you don't like me after tonight I'll stay away forever.
Chris Noel: Uh-huh.
Knox: I promise. Dead Poets Honor. You come with me tonight and then if you don't want to see me again I swear I'll bow out.
Chris Noel: You know what would happen if Chet found out?
Knox: He won't know anything. We'll sit in the back and sneak away as soon as it's over.
Chris Noel: And I suppose that you would promise that this would be the end of it.
Knox: Dead Poets Honor.
Chris Noel: What is that?
Knox: My word.

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Neil Perry: I just talked to my father. He's making me quit the play at Henley Hall. Acting's everything to me. But he doesn't know! I can see his point; we're not a rich family, like Charlie's. But he's planning the rest of my life for me, and he's never asked me what I want!
John Keating: Have you ever told your father what you just told me? About your passion for acting? You ever show him that?
Neil Perry: I can't.
John Keating: Why not?
Neil Perry: I can't talk to him this way.
John Keating: Then you're acting for him, too. You're playing the part of the dutiful son. I know this sounds impossible, but you have to talk to him. You have to show him who you are, where your heart is!
Neil Perry: I know what he'll say! He'll tell me that acting is a whim and I should forget it. They're counting on me; he'll just tell me to put it out of my mind for my own good.
John Keating: You are NOT an indentured servant! It's not a whim for you, and you prove it to him by your conviction and your passion! You show that to him, and if he still doesn't believe you - well, by then, you'll be out of school and can do anything you want.
Neil Perry: I don't know - what about the play? The show's tomorrow night!
John Keating: Then you have to talk to him before tomorrow night.
Neil Perry: Is there an easier way?
John Keating: No.
Neil Perry: [laughs] I'm trapped!
John Keating: No you're not.

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[Neil's father has just driven him home from his performance in "A Midsummer Night's Dream."]
Mr. Perry: We're trying very hard to understand why it is that you insist on defying us. Whatever the reason, we're not going to let you ruin your life. Tomorrow I'm withdrawing you from Welton and enrolling you in Braighton Military School. You're going to Harvard, and you're going to be a doctor.
Neil Perry: That's ten more years! Father, that's a LIFETIME!
Mr. Perry: Oh, stop it! Don't be so dramatic! You make it sound like a prison term! You don't understand, Neil! You have opportunities that I never even dreamt of, and I am not going to let you waste them!
Neil Perry: I've got to tell you what I feel!
Mrs. Perry: We've been so worried about you!
Mr. Perry: WHAT? What? Tell me what you feel! What is it? Is it more of this, this ACTING business? Because you can forget about that! What?
Neil Perry: [pauses] Nothing.
Mr. Perry: [pauses] Nothing? Well, then, let's go to bed.

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Meeks: Me and Pitts are working on a hi-fi system. It shouldn't be that hard to, uh, to put together.
Pitts: Yeah... Uh, I might be going to Yale... Uh, but I might not.

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Gloria: Don't you guys miss having girls around here?
Meeks, Pitts: Yeah.

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Nolan: Free thinkers at 17?

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John Keating: Mr. Pitts, please turn to page 542 and read the first stanza.
Pitts: [reading the poem title] "To the Virgins To Make Much of Time"?
John Keating: Seems very appropriate, doesn't it?

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Student in class: [reading his poem] "A cat sat on a mat"
John Keating: Congratulations. You may have just written the first poem to get a negative score on the Pritchard scale.

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[the students are climbing onto Keating's desk to see a new perspective]
John Keating: Don't just jump off like lemmings! Take a look around!

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Neil: I was good. I was really good.

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Dalton: I'm exercising the right not to walk.

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Neil: If I don't ask him, at least I won't be disobeying him.

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Todd 安德生: [talking about people listening to him] The point is, there's nothing you can do about it. So you can just butt out. I can take care of myself just fine. Alright?
Neil: [long pause] No.
Todd 安德生: What do you mean 'no'?
Neil: [grinning] No!

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Neil: [talking angrily to Todd] You're in the club! Being in the club means being stirred up by things! You look about as stirred up as a cesspool!

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John Keating: [the class hesitates to rip out the introduction page] Go ahead, rip it, it's not the Bible, you won't go to Hell for it.

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Chet Danburry: Next time I see you, you die.