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CAMERON
What's going on, guys?
CHARLIE
You finked, didn't you, Cameron?
CAMERON
Finked? I didn't know what the hell you're talking about.
CHARLIE
You told Nolan everything about the club is what I'm talking about.
CAMERON
Look, in case you hadn't heard, Dalton, there's something called
an honor code at this school, all right? If a teacher asks you
a question, you tell the truth or you're expelled.
CHARLIE
You little punk!
MEEKS
Charlie!
CHARLIE
He's a rat! He's in it up to his eyes, so he rattled to save himself.
KNOX
Don't touch him, Charlie. You do and you're out.
CHARLIE
I'm out anyway!
KNOX
You don't know that, not yet.
CAMERON
He's right there, Charlie. And if you guys are smart, you will
do exactly what I did and cooperate. They're not after us. We're
the victims. Us and Neil.
CHARLIE
What's that mean? Who are they after?
CAMERON
Why, Mr. Keating, of course. The "Captain" himself.
I mean, you guys didn't really think he could avoid responsibility,
did you?
CHARLIE
Mr. Keating responsible for Neil? Is that what they're saying?
CAMERON
Well, who else do you think, dumb ass? The administration? Mr.
Perry? Mr. Keating put us up to all this crap, didn't he? If he
wasn't for Mr. Keating, Neil would be cozied up in his room right
now, studying his chemistry and dreaming of being called doctor.
TODD
That is not true, Cameron. You know that. He didn't put us to
anything. Neil loved acting.
CAMERON
Believe what you want, but I say let Keating fry. I mean, why
ruin our lives?
KNOX
Charlie.
CAMERON
You just signed your expulsion papers, Nuwanda.
CAMERON
And if the rest of you are smart, you'll do exactly what I did.
They know everything anyway. You can't save Keating, but you can
save yourselves.
HABER
Knox Overstreet.
TODD
Meeks?
MEEKS
Go away. I have to study.
TODD
What happened to Nuwanda?
MEEKS
Expelled.
TODD
What'd you tell 'em?
MEEKS
Nothing they didn't already know.
HABER
Todd Anderson.
MR. ANDERSON
Hello, son.
MRS. ANDERSON
Hello, darling.
TODD
Mom.
MR. NOLAN
Have a seat, Mr. Anderson.
MR. NOLAN
Mr. Anderson, I think we've pretty well put together what's happened
here. You do admit to being a part of this Dead Poets Society?
MR. ANDERSON
Answer him, Todd.
TODD
Yes, sir.
MR. NOLAN
I have here a detailed description of what occurred at your meetings.
It describes how your teacher, Mr. Keating, encouraged you boys
to organize this club and to use it as a source of inspiration
for reckless and self-indulgent behavior. It describes how Mr.
Keating, both in and out of the classroom, encouraged Neil Perry
to follow his obsession with acting when he knew all along it
was against the explicit order of Neil's parents. It was Mr. Keating's
blatant abuse of his position as teacher that led directly to
Neil Perry's death.
MR. NOLAN
Read that document carefully, Todd. Very carefully.
MR. NOLAN
If you've nothing to add or amend, sign it.
TODD
What's gonna happen to Mr. Keating?
MR. ANDERSON
I've had enough. Sign the paper, Todd.
McALLISTER
Grass is gramen or herba. Lapis is stone. The entire building
is aedificium.
MR. NOLAN
Sit. I'll be teaching this class through exams. We'll find a permanent
English teacher during the break. Who will tell me where you are
in the Pritchard textbook?
MR. NOLAN
Mr. Anderson.
TODD
Uh, in the, in the Pr-
MR. NOLAN
I can't hear you, Mr. Anderson.
TODD
In the, in the, in the Pritchard?
MR. NOLAN
Kindly inform me, Mr. Cameron.
CAMERON
We skipped around a lot, sir. We covered the Romantics and some
of the chapters on Post Civil War literature.
MR. NOLAN
What about the Realists?
CAMERON
I believe we skipped most of that, sir.
MR. NOLAN
All right, then, we'll start over. What is poetry?
MR. NOLAN
Come.
KEATING
Excuse me. I came for my personals. Should I come back after class?
MR. NOLAN
Get them now, Mr. Keating.
MR. NOLAN
Gentlemen, turn to page 21 of the introduction. Mr. Cameron, read
aloud the excellent essay by Dr. Pritchard on "Understanding
Poetry."
CAMERON
That page has been ripped out, sir.
MR. NOLAN
Well, borrow somebody else's book.
CAMERON
They're all ripped out, sir.
MR. NOLAN
What do you mean, they're all ripped out?
CAMERON
Sir, we, uh-
MR. NOLAN
Never mind.
MR. NOLAN
Read!
CAMERON
"Understanding Poetry by Dr. J Evans Pritchard, Ph.D.
To fully understand poetry, we must first be fluent with its meter,
rhyme and figures of speech, then ask two questions: 1) How artfully
has the objective of the poem been rendered and 2)..."
CAMERON
"... How important is that objective? Question 1 rates
the poem's perfection; question 2 rates its importance. And once
these questions have been answered, determining the poem's greatness
becomes a relatively simple matter. If the poem's score for perfection
is plotted on the horizontal of a graph--"
TODD
Mr. Keating! They made everybody sign it.
MR. NOLAN
Quiet, Mr. Anderson.
TODD
You gotta believe me. It's true.
KEATING
I do believe you, Todd.
MR. NOLAN
Leave, Mr. Keating.
TODD
But it wasn't his fault!
MR. NOLAN
Sit down, Mr. Anderson! One more outburst from you or anyone else,
and you're out of this school! Leave, Mr. Keating. I said leave,
Mr. Keating.
TODD
O Captain! My Captain!
MR. NOLAN
Sit down, Mr. Anderson!
MR. NOLAN
Do you hear me? Sit down! Sit down! This is your final warning,
Anderson. How dare you? Do you hear me?
KNOX
O Captain! My Captain!
MR. NOLAN
Mr. Overstreet, I warn you! Sit down!
MR. NOLAN
Sit down! Sit down. All of you. I want you seated. Sit down. Leave,
Mr. Keating.
MR. NOLAN
All of you, down. I want you seated. Do you hear me?
MR. NOLAN
Sit down!
KEATING
Thank you, boys. Thank you.
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