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April 17, 2017 at 1:12 pm #1016Cassidy BrightonParticipant
Sami, I definitely agree with a lot of the points you made. I have also seen this movie more than once, and when I watched it when I was younger, some of these points you made now I wasn’t able to make sense of. At first, Mr. Keating does seem like the cool teacher: ripping pages out of books, having them kick kickballs as they read lines of poetry, standing on desks etc. But I feel as though these boys took Mr. Keating’s influences, took them too literally, and got themselves in trouble. He must not have intentionally thought the boys would take his advice and get themselves into trouble, but to not realize how influential you can be on young boys is a reckless lack in judgment. Mr. Keating is meant to be a character we love, and that is why I still think you teared up at the end of the film. We are supposed to wish we had a teacher like him, but also ignore his shortcomings.
April 17, 2017 at 1:12 pm #1015Cassidy BrightonParticipantSami, I definitely agree with a lot of the points you made. I have also seen this movie more than once, and when I watched it when I was younger, some of these points you made now I wasn’t able to make sense of. At first, Mr. Keating does seem like the cool teacher: ripping pages out of books, having them kick kickballs as they read lines of poetry, standing on desks etc. But I feel as though these boys took Mr. Keating’s influences, took them too literally, and got themselves in trouble. He must not have intentionally thought the boys would take his advice and get themselves into trouble, but to not realize how influential you can be on young boys is a reckless lack in judgment. Mr. Keating is meant to be a character we love, and that is why I still think you teared up at the end of the film. We are supposed to wish we had a teacher like him, but also ignore his shortcomings.
March 27, 2017 at 8:39 pm #990Cassidy BrightonParticipantMegan, I do agree with you that the cannibalism is really disgusting, but I think it is essential to the movie. On my list of scenes to include, it was on my list because I think that is one of the main elements that set this story apart as being one that people find so shocking and interesting. I was shocked at the way the scenes were done though. The men eating it didn’t seem to have much trouble eating it, even taking bites off of pieces like it was something they enjoyed. I needed the men to look and act weaker for the cannibalism to make sense to me. The desperation was depicted much better in the book in my opinion.
March 27, 2017 at 8:30 pm #989Cassidy BrightonParticipantArden, I think you made a lot of good points about this film. While I was reading the book, I felt a strong emphasis on the aspect of religion. I was happy that Marshall made a point to include key scenes that emphasized religion as well. This is a true story, even though it has been creatively adapted now on film. The religion was obviously important to the men and their spirits, so I think including the scenes that showed the rosary or the praying was necessary. Also, when making a film about a real life event, it is important to depict it with some accuracy, so this does that to a certain degree.
As for the tone of the movie differing from that of the book, I agree with you on that point as well. I think this could have been done for a number of reasons. This could be a stylistic choice from Marshall. This also could just be a mistake on the part of the writer of the book. Another writer for instance may have written it with a different tone. I think it is also important for the movie to include some funnier or lighter scenes. Watching over two hours straight of something so heavy could get gruesome. When reading a book, at least you can take breaks between the pages of misery.
As for your last point about leaving out certain scenes of the outside world, this is where I disagree with you. In my list of scenes that I would include in a movie adaptation of this book, I included some scenes of the players parents and flashes to the search party in the beginning that gave up. I think showing people actually missing and mourning these missing players is and important part in humanizing them and making them characters that the audience cares about. I understand that there were already almost too many characters to keep track of without including these scenes, though. Adding them in might just add to the confusion, but I did think they were important.
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