In Dead Poets Society (1989) Ethan Hawke plays the diffident and bashful schoolboy Todd Anderson who is influenced by the eccentric teaching style of John Keating, played by Robin Williams. In one of the film’s most memorable scenes, as Keating is leaving after being fired from the school, Anderson is the first to stand on his desk and speak the words, “O Captain! my Captain!”—a reference to a Walt Whitman poem that is often referred to in the film.
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