Peter Weir has a habit of getting career-best performances from his leads - Harrison Ford in Witness, Jim Carrey in The Truman Show, Jeff Bridges in Fearless, and Robin Williams here. :) - Simon Dillon

n go…d. Glad I can rectify that mistake here, since he’s every bit as charming and warm as you’d expect. Williams’s performance as John Keating is quieter and more delicate than his more bombastic and vivid performances, but Williams is one of those actors that can go high or low and deliver on the emotion all the same. In a setting full of dull monotony with the teachers of the academy, Mr. Keating is a ray of light t…
Retro Review | The Poetic and Tragic Love of “Dead Poets Society”
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Peter Weir has a habit of getting career-best performances from his leads - Harrison Ford in Witness, Jim Carrey in The Truman Show, Jeff Bridges in Fearless, and Robin Williams here. :)
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Novelist and Short Story-ist. Film and Book Lover. If you cut me, I bleed celluloid and paper pulp. Blog: www.simondillonbooks.wordpress.com
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