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Mr. Perry.

MR PERRY

Keep your seats fellows, keep your seats. Neil, I've

just spoken to Mr. Nolan. I think that you're taking

too many extra curricular activities this semester, and

I've decided that you should drop the school annual.

NEIL

But I'm the assistant editor this year.

MR PERRY

Well I'm sorry Neil.

NEIL

But Father, I can't. It wouldn't be fair.

MR PERRY

Fellas, would you excuse us for a moment?

Mr. Perry walks towards the door and Neil hesitantly follows. Mr. Perry pauses by the door and smiles to the other boys.

INT. HALLWAY - DAY

The smile has gone from Mr. Perry's face. He grabs a hold of Neil's arm.

MR PERRY

Don't you ever dispute me in public. Do you

understand?

NEIL

Father, I wasn't disputing-

MR PERRY

After you've finished medical school and you're on your own, then you

can do as you damn well please. But until then, you do as I tell you.

Is that clear?

NEIL

Yes sir. I'm sorry.

MR PERRY

You know how much this means to your mother,

don't you?

NEIL

Yes sir. You know me, always taking on too much.

MR PERRY

Well, that's my boy. Now listen, you need anything,

you let us know, huh?

NEIL

Yes sir.

Mr. Perry slaps his son on the shoulder and leaves. Neil leans his head back against the wall as the other boys emerge from the room.

CHARLIE

Why doesn't he let you do what you want?

KNOX

Yeah Neil, tell him off. It couldn't get any worse.

NEIL

Oh, that's rich. Like you guys tell your parents off, Mr.

Future Lawyer and Mr. Future Banker.

CHARLIE

Okay, so I don't like it any more than you do.

NEIL

Well just don't tell me how to talk to my father. You

guys are the same way.

KNOX

All right, all right, Jesus. So what are you going to do?

NEIL

What I have to do. Drop the annual.

CHARLIE

Well I wouldn't lose much sleep over it. It's just a

bunch of jerks trying to impress Nolan.

NEIL

I don't care. I don't give a damn about any of it.

MEEKS

Well, uh, Latin, eight o' clock in my room?

NEIL

Yes.

MEEKS

Todd, you're welcome to join us.

KNOX

Yeah, come along pal.

Todd looks up from his desk where he is setting his alarm clock.

TODD

Thanks.

EXT. FIELDS - DAY

A clock bell chimes five o'clock. Enormous flocks of birds, apparently

disturbed by the noise, take to the sky.

INT. STAIRCASE - DAY

The sound of squawking birds merges into the sound of noisy boys as they descend the stairs in a long spiralling line.

MR. MCALLISTER tries to make it upstairs against the steady stream.

MCALLISTER

Slow down boys, slow down you horrible

phalanx of pubescense.

INT CHEMISTRY LAB - DAY

A teacher walks up and down the aisles, handing out books.

TEACHER

Pick three laboratory experiments from

the project list and report on them every

five weeks. The first twenty questions at

the end of chapter one are due tomorrow.

The students let out a collective groan.

INT. LATIN CLASSROOM - DAY

Mr. McAllister paces back and forth in front of the blackboard and gets the students to repeat everything he says.

MCALLISTER

(students repeat after each word. )

Agricolam. Agricola. Agricolae.

Agricolarum. Agricolis. Agricolas.

Agrilcolis.

Again, please.

Agricola.

INT. MATH CLASSROOM - DAY

Dr. Hager walks up the classroom aisles with his arms behind his back.

HAGER

Your study of trigonometry requires absolute precision.

Anyone failing to turn in any homework assignment will

be penalized one point off their final grade. Let me urge

you now not to test me on this point.

INT. KEATING'S CLASSROOM - DAY

Students enter Keating's classroom, talking and acting up. Keating

glances out from his room off to one side.

KNOX

Hey Spaz, Spaz.

Spaz turns around in time to be hit by a ball of crumpled up paper

while Cameron smacks him on the shoulder.

CAMERON

Brain damage.

The students quickly quiet down as Keating emerges from the other room, whistling the 1812 Overture. He walks up the length of the classroom and out the door without a word. The students look around at one another,

uncertain of what to do. Keating pokes his head back in the doorway.

KEATING

Well come on.

He gestures them to follow and the students, after some hesitation, grab their books and follow Keating out into the main entranceway.

INT. ENTRANCEWAY - DAY

Keating stands before the school's trophy cabinets and waits until all

the boys arrive.

KEATING

" Oh Captain, My Captain" who knows where

that comes from?

Todd looks up as if he knows the answer, but says nothing. Spaz blows his nose a little too close to Meeks for his liking.

KEATING

Not a clue? It's from a poem by Walt

Whitman about Mr. Abraham Lincoln. Now in

this class you can call me Mr. Keating. Or,

if you're slightly more daring, Oh Captain,

My Captain.

The students laugh slightly.

KEATING

Now let me dispel a few rumors so they

don't fester into facts. Yes, I too

attended Hell-ton and survived. And no,

at that time I was not the mental giant

you see before you. I was the intellectual

equivalent of a ninety-eight pound

weakling. I would go to the beach and

people would kick copies of Byron in my

face.

The boys laugh once again, while Cameron, obviously trying to write all this down, looks around confusedly. Keating looks down at papers in his hand.

KEATING

Now, Mr… Pitts. That's a rather

unfortunate name. Mr. Pitts, where are

you?

Pitts raises his hand while everyone around him snickers.

KEATING

Mr. Pitts, would you open your hymnal to page 542 and read the first

stanza of the poem you find there?

PITTS

" To the virgins, to make much of time"?

KEATING

Yes, that's the one. Somewhat appropriate,

isn't it.

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

Thank you Mr. Pitts. " Gather ye rosebuds

while ye may. " The Latin term for that

sentiment is Carpe Diem. Now who knows

what that means?

Meeks immediately puts his hand up.

MEEKS

Carpe Diem. That's " seize the day. "

KEATING

Very good, Mr. -

MEEKS

Meeks.

KEATING

Meeks. Another unusual name. Seize the

day. Gather ye rosebuds while ye may.

Why does the writer use these lines?

CHARLIE

Because he's in a hurry.

KEATING

No, ding!

Keating slams his hand down on an imaginary buzzer.

KEATING

Thank you for playing anyway. Because we

are food for worms lads. Because, believe

it or not, each and every one of us in

this room is one day going to stop

breathing, turn cold, and die.

Keating turns towards the trophy cases, filled with trophies, footballs, and team pictures.

KEATING

Now I would like you to step forward over

here and peruse some of the faces from

the past. You've walked past them many

times. I don't think you've really looked

at them.

The students slowly gather round the cases and Keating moves behind them.

KEATING

They're not that different from you, are

they? Same haircuts. Full of hormones,

just like you. Invincible, just like you

feel. The world is their oyster. They

believe they're destined for great things,

just like many of you. Their eyes are full

of hope, just like you. Did they wait until

it was too late to make from their lives

even one iota of what they were capable?

Because you see gentlmen, these boys are

now fertilizing daffodils. But if you listen

real close, you can hear them whisper their

legacy to you. Go on, lean in.

The boys lean in and Keating hovers over Cameron's shoulder.

KEATING

(whispering in a gruff voice)

Carpe.

Cameron looks over his shoulder with an aggravated expression on his face.

KEATING

Hear it?

(whispering again)

Carpe. Carpe Diem. Seize the day boys,

make your lives extraordinary.

The boys stare at the faces in the cabinet in silence.

EXT. SCHOOL STEPS - DAY

The boys emerge from the school, loaded down with numerous books.

PITTS

That was weird.

NEIL

But different.

KNOX

Spooky if you ask me.

CAMERON

Think he'll test us on that stuff?

CHARLIE

Come on Cameron, don't you get anything?

CAMERON

What? What?

INT. LOCKER ROOM - EVENING

A coach sticks his head around the corner into the room.

COACH

Let's go boys, hustle up in here. That

means you Dalton.

Meeks emerges from the showers, drying himself off.

MEEKS

Okay, who's up for a trig study group

tonight guys?

PITTS

Me.

NEIL

Me.

CHARLIE

(still annoyed by what the coach said)

What?

KNOX

I can't make it guys. I have to have

dinner at the Danburry's house.

PITTS

The Danburry's? Who are the Danburry's?

CAMERON

Big alumns. How'd you swing that?

KNOX

Friends of my Dad's. They're probably in

their nineties or something.

CHARLIE

Ooh!

NEIL

Anything's better than Hell-ton hash.

CHARLIE

I'll second that.

KNOX

Yeah we'll see.

Neil approaches Todd, who's been sitting by the window staring down at the floor. Neil snaps his fingers to get Todd's attention.