Dead Poet Society剧本.doc

Dead Poets Society 《死亡诗社 》ACT 1Aside: Welton Academy is a private school nestled in the remote hills of Verment. Students and the faculty have had its welcoming ceremonies for a new semester. Mr. John Keating, an honor graduate of this school, is introduced as the new English teacher. McALLISTER：In her first year, Welton Academy graduated five students. Last year we graduated fifty-one and more than seventy-five percent of those went on to the Ivy League. This, this kind of accomplishment is the result of fervent dedication to the principles taught here. This is why you parents have been sending your sons. This is why we are the best preparatory school in the United States. McALLISTER（介绍 Keating）：As you know, our beloved Mr. Portius of the English Department retired last term. You will have the opportunity later to meet his replacement Mr. John Keating, himself an honor’s graduate of this school and who, for the past several years, has been teaching at the highly regarded Chester School in London.ACT 2 /Scene 1（开学典礼结束后，大家散去，Keating 准备第一节课。

）(After the opening ceremony, the new English teacher, Mr. Keating is going to give his first lesson here. The junior students--Todd, Neil, Knox, Charlie, Cameron, Meeks and some of the others we've seen--enter. They are loaded down with books and look weary. Sitting in the front of the room, staring out the window is JOHN KEATING, the teacher we glimpsed earlier. He wears a collared shirt, tie, no jacket. The boys take seats and settle in. Keating stares out the window a long time. The students start to shuffle uncomfortably. Finally Keating stands, picks up a yardstick, and begins slowly strolling the aisles. He stops and stares into the face of one of the boys.) KEATING (to the blushing boy): Don't be embarrassed. (He moves off, then stops in front of Charlie Dalton.) KEATING：(As if discovering something known only to himself) Uh-huh (he moves to Todd Anderson) Uh-huh (he moves to Neil Perry) Ha! (Keating slaps his free hand with the yardstick, then strides to the front of the room.)KEATING: Nimble young minds! (He steps up onto the desk, turns and faces the class.) KEATING：(Energetically) Oh Captain, My Captain. Who knows where that's from? (No one raises a hand.) KEATING: It was written by a poet named Walt Whitman about Mr. Abraham Lincoln. In this class you may refer to me as either Mr. Keating, or Oh Captain, My Captain. KEATING：So that I become the source of as few rumors as possible, let me tell you that yes, I was a student at this institution many moons ago, and no, at that time I did not possess this charismatic personality. However, should you choose to emulate my manner, it can only help your grade. Pick up a textbook from the back, gentlemen. KEATING: Mister... (Keating looks at his roll) Pitts. An unfortunate name. Stand up, Mister Pitts. (Pitts stands.) KEATING: Open your text, Pitts, to page forty and read for us the first stanza of the poem. (Pitts looks through his book. He finds the poem.) PITTS: To The Virgins to Make Much Of Time? KEATING: That's the one. (Giggles in the class. Pitts reads.) PITTS: Gather ye rosebuds while ye may /Old time is still a flying/ And this same flower that smiles today /Tomorrow will be dying. KEATING: Gather ye rosebuds while ye may. Anyone know what that means? MEEKS: Seize the day.KEATING: Very good, Mr._? MEEKS: Meeks. KEATING: Seize the day while you're young, see that you make use of your time. Why does the poet write these lines? A STUDENT: Because he's in a hurry? (Others laugh)KEATING (loudly): Because we're food for worms, young men! Because we're only going to experience a limited number of springs, summers, and falls. One day, hard as it is to believe, each and every one of us is going to stop breathing, turn cold, and die! Do not wait until it was too late before making your lives into even one iota of what you were capable; do not squander your boyhood dreams in chasing the almighty deity of success. You are fertilizing daffodils! Seize the day and make your lives extraordinary. - (Todd, Neil, Knox, Charlie, Cameron, Meeks, Pitts are lost in thought.) (Bell rings. Todd, Neil, Knox, Charlie, Cameron, Necks, and Pitts walk together, books in hand. All thinking about what just happened in class.) PITTS(一边整理书一边说) :Weird. NEIL（若有所思）:But different. KNOX （走出教室，声音有些颤抖）Spooky if you ask me. CAMERON：You think he'll test us on that stuff? CHARLIE：Oh come on, Cameron, don't you get anything? KEATING: Gentlemen, open your texts to page 21 of this introduction. Mr. Perry, will you read the opening paragraph of the preface entitled “Understanding Poetry”.NEIL: “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) How important is that objective? Question 1 rates the poem's perfection; question 2 rates its importance. 。