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Movie Clip Reflection five:

Dead Poets Society

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Abstract

Dead Poet Society is a 1989 film full of emotion that is well represented

by its actors focusing on their great performance. With wonderful background

music to help set the mood of each seance. And extraordinary camera angles.

Put all together to great a well respected very popular film.

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The movie ​Dead Poets Society ​by Peter Weir is a film full of emotion and great acting.

Neil played by Robert Sean is one of the most unique characters. Throughout the film we see

Neil grow to love poetry with a huge passion along with theater. Neil’s bouncy and ​elated

personality is well represented by Robert’s facial expression and movements. But Robert also

keeps a well-performed balance when it comes to showing Neil’s change in personality when it

comes to his relationship with his father. His change in stance and lack of thrill when it comes to

his father deepens the awareness of the audience. In one of the final seance after Neil’s theater

performance when he decides to take his own life. Robert’s stance and slow movements

represent his pain, difficulty, and realization that for him this is the best choice.

This seance is well executed not only because of Robert’s acting but also with the play in

camera angle, darkness, and the music. The camera focuses on his bare feet as he is walking

around in the darkness of the night with no lights. His shadowy figure going down the stairs in

an ominous setting with the mysterious music and the same what far shot of him sitting ar his

fathers’ desk with the wrapped gun on the desk. The camera angle continues to have a great

effect on the famous seance when all the boys stand on their school desks. How the camera

zooms in on each of the boys’ faces just before they get up. Then with all of them standing tall

the lower angle of the camera shows how powerful their growth throughout Mr. Keating’s

reaching was to them. With the addition of the background music helps set the mood and the

emotion of each and every student that did stand.