Episode 229 - Dead Poets Society
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(Deep Dive begins at 30:50) We don't watch and analyse films because it's cute. We watch and analyse films because we are members of the human race. Join your favorite TransAtlantic podcasters, Ian, Liam, and Megan (Georgia is in detention) as we're heading to a dark cave in the middle of the night to trade snacks, play saxophone, and read from Five Centuries of Verse in the film that's crack for teachers, Dead Poets Society.  We're seizing the day in our 229th episode as we discuss: Just how responsible is Mr Keating for what happens to Neil Does the film have a happy ending. How do we know what the director wants us to think? Liam asks a lot of questions from a student's perspective. Ian & Megan try to answer them from a teacher's perspective Why did Robin Williams no-show the first day of shooting and how did Touchstone/Disney react? How did Disney want to change this film and who saved it from some truly terrible notes We ask if this is Robin Williams' finest film and/or performance There's a couple of hiccoughs in the signal this week Whether or not Dead Poets Society and the Last Crusade is the Best Film Ever Become a Patron of this podcast and support the BFE at https://www.patreon.com/BFE We are extremely thankful to our following Patrons for their most generous support: Juleen from It Goes Down In The PM Hermes Auslander James DeGuzman Kirsti Synthia Ensign Ian Davies Chris Pedersen  Duane Smith (Duane Smith!) Randal Silva The Yeetmeister Nate The Great Rev Bruce Cheezy (with a fish on a bike) Andy Dickson Richard Ryan Kuketz Dirk Diggler Shai Bergerfroind Stew from the Stew World Order podcast NorfolkDomus John Humphrey's Right Foot Buy some BFE merch at https://my-store-b4e4d4.creator-spring.com/ Massive thanks to Lex Van Den Berghe for the use of 'Mistake' by Luckydog.  Catch more from Lex's new band, The Maids of Honor at https://soundcloud.com/themaidsofhonor Also massive thanks to Moonlight Social for our age game theme song.  You can catch more from them at https://www.moonlightsocialmusic.com/Join Hermes in his revolution; he is trying so very hard.
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