"I sound my barbaric YAWP over the roofs of the world."

[icepixie]

Showed my students Dead Poets Society tonight. Not many came (ohhhh, there's gonna be a quiz on Friday), but of those who did, I got more than a few "OMG, this is my new favorite movie!"s, which was gratifying. (Thanks for the suggestion, vallentine!) I was sort of surprised that so many of them hadn't seen it before; as I recall, we watched it at least three times in high school, and perhaps even once every year. I think we may have watched it in middle school as well. I must tell them about watching that movie with my fellow Pezzers and then going out and yawping into the night at Kenyon.

ETA: I just looked up the movie on Wikipedia, and...one of the boys grew up to play Dan Rydell on Sports Night! Ha! No wonder he looked so familiar! (Also...seriously, that was Ethan Hawke? I had no idea.)

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[icepixie]

Well, I haven't watched SN in a looong time. And I never pay much attention to actors' names, so...no, I had no idea.

No joke, this movie absolutely, 120% changed my life.

It is a wonderful movie.

[alto2.livejournal.com]

I was kind of saying that names had nothing to do with recognizing him, because to me he has a very distinctive look, but ymmv.

And not joking about it changing my life. It literally was the catalyst that made me say, "You know, this engineering thing is insane and ridiculous and I gotta get out of here before I lose my mind."

[icepixie]

And not joking about it changing my life. It literally was the catalyst that made me say, "You know, this engineering thing is insane and ridiculous and I gotta get out of here before I lose my mind."

So you were studying/working in engineering? Wow. That is kind of a 180.

[alto2.livejournal.com]

I was doing a 5-year double-major, English and Engineering. Just the first semester. And when I saw that movie, I saw SO many things. I saw myself in RSL, I saw my dad in his father (mine's not nearly so bad, but you know how caricature is sometimes easier to see?), and I saw the kind of person I wanted to be in John Keating. I was about to fail my Calculus class and barely scrape by in Physics (it was the end of the semester when they showed the movie, but we hadn't had exams yet), and I'd started to sense that I really wasn't cut out to be an engineer, no matter how much I love to figure out how things work. Going to see that movie was like having a sledgehammer hit me over the head.

[icepixie]

I was doing a 5-year double-major, English and Engineering.

Egads.

[alto2.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's...one way to put it.

[icepixie]

Heh.