Dead Poet Society剧本

1、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

2、 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

3、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 honors graduate of this sch

4、ool 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, Charli

5、e, 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. Keat

6、ing 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, the

7、n 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 on

8、to 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

9、 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.

10、 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.

11、) 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 wh

12、at 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

13、, 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 y

14、ou 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, Ne

15、cks, 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:

16、 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 figur

17、es 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. And once these questions have been answered, determining the poem's greatness bec

18、omes a relatively simple matter.NEIL: If the poem's score for perfection is plotted on the horizontal of a graph and its importance is plotted on the vertical, then calculating the total area of the poem yields the measure of its greatness.NEIL: A sonnet by Byron might score high on the vertical

19、 but only average on the horizontal. A Shakespearean sonnet, on the other hand, would score high both horizontally and vertically, yielding a massive total area, thereby revealing the poem to be truly great. As you proceed through the poetry in this book, practice this rating method. As your ability

20、 to evaluate poems in this matter grows, so will, so will your enjoyment and understanding of poetry.KEATING: Excrement. That's what I think of Mr. J. Evans Pritchard. We're not laying pipe. We're talking about poetry. How can you describe poetry like American Bandstand? Oh, I like Byron

21、. I give him a 42, but I can't dance to it. Now, I want you to rip out that page. KEATING: Go on. Rip out the entire page. You heard me. Rip it out. Rip it out! Go on. Rip it out! KEATING: Thank you, Mr. Dalton. Gentlemen, tell you what. Don't just tear out that page, tear out the entire int

22、roduction. I want it gone. History. Leave nothing of it. Rip it out! Rip! Be gone, J. Evans Pritchard, Ph.D. Rip. Shred. Tear. Rip it out! I want to hear nothing but ripping of Mr. Pritchard. We'll perforate it, put it on a roll. It's not the Bible. You're not gonna go to hell for this.

23、KEATING: Go on. Make a clean tear. I want nothing left of it. CAMERON: We shouldn't be doing this. KEATING: Rip! Rip! Rip! Rip it out! Rip! KEATING: Rip it out! McALLISTER: What the hell is going on here? KEATING: I don't hear enough rips! McALLISTER: Mr. Keating. KEATING: Mr. McAllister. Mc

24、ALLISTER: I'm sorry. I, I didn't know you were here. KEATING: I am. Ah. McALLISTER: So you are. Excuse me. KEATING: Keep ripping, gentlemen! This is a battle. A war. And the casualties could be your hearts and souls. Thank you, Dalton. Armies of academics going forward, measuring poetry. No!

25、 We'll not have that here. No more Mr. J. Evans Pritchard. Now, my class, you will learn to think for yourselves again. You will learn to savor words and language. No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world. I've a little secret for you. Huddle up. Huddle up! (一位同

26、学把所有的纸捡到一个垃圾篓里，放到舞台旁边)KEATING: We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering - these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. Bu

27、t poetry, beauty, romance, love - these are what we stay alive for. To quote from Whitman O me! O life! of the question of these recurring, Of the endless trains of the faithless, of cities fill'd with the foolish. What good amid these O me, O life? Answer that you are here-That life exists and

28、identity, That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse. Ok, lets call it a day.（学生下，Keating留在台上，校长McALLISTER上，看到了那个垃圾筒）Scene 2 McALLISTER: Quite an interesting class you gave today, Mr. Keating. KEATING: Sorry if I shocked you, Mr. McAllister. McALLISTER: Oh, there's no need to

29、 apologize. It was very fascinated, misguided though it was. KEATING: You think so? McALLISTER: You take a big risk by encouraging them to become artists, John. When they realize that they're not Rembrandts, Shakespeares or Mozarts, they'll hate you for it. KEATING: We're not talking art

30、ist, George. We're talking free thinkers. McALLISTER: Free thinkers at seventeen? KEATING: Funny. I never pegged you as a cynic. McALLISTER: Not a cynic. A realist. Show me the heart unfettered by foolish dreams and I'll show you a happy man. KEATING: But only in their dreams can men be trul

31、y free. 'Twas always thus, and always thus will be.McALLISTER: Tennyson? KEATING: No. Keating. ACT 3 / Scene 1（在班级）（Neil拿着一本很厚的书，其他同学围在一起，正当他们发现“死亡诗社”的时候，Keating走了进来，于是他们就质问Keating）NEIL: Hey, I found his senior annual in the library. NEIL: Listen to this. Captain of the soccer team, Editor of th

32、e school annual, Cambridge bound, Thigh man, and Dead Poets Society.CAMERON: Man most likely to do anything.PITTS: What's the Dead Poets Society? NEIL: I don't know. （Keating上）NEIL: Mr. Keating! Mr. Keating! Sir? CHARLIE: Say something. NEIL: O Captain! My Captain! KEATING: Gentlemen. NEIL:

33、We were just looking in your old annual. KEATING: Oh, my God. No, that's not me. Stanley, Wilson. KEATING: God. NEIL: What was the Dead Poets Society? KEATING: I doubt the present administration would look too favorably upon that. NEIL: Why? What was it? KEATING: Gentlemen, can you keep a secret

34、? NEIL: Sure, yeah. KEATING: The Dead Poets was dedicated to sucking the marrow out of life. That's a phrase from Thoreau we would invoke at the beginning of every meeting. You see, we would gather at the old Indian cave and take turns reading from Thoreau, Whitman, Shelly - the biggies - even s

35、ome of our own verse. And, in the enchantment of the moment, we'd let poetry work its magic. KNOX: You mean, it was a bunch of guys sitting around reading poetry? KEATING: No, Mr. Overstreet, it wasn't just guys. We weren't a Greek organization. We were Romantics. We didn't just read

36、 poetry; we let it drip from our tongues like honey. Spirits soared, women swooned and gods were created, gentlemen. Not a bad way to spend an evening, eh? Thank you, Mr. Perry, for this stroll down Amnesia Lane. Burn that, especially my picture. NEIL: Dead Poets Society. Scene 2 Aside: the very nig

37、ht, certain that everyone was deep in sleep, the boy met at an old ample tree and then crowded into the dark cave.（注意这段灯光的安排）NEIL (一本正经): I hereby reconvene the Welton Chapter of the Dead Poets Society. These meetings will be conducted by myself and by the rest of the new initiates now present. NEIL

38、：I will now read the traditional opening message from society member Henry David Thoreau. （打开带过去的书，读）: I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life!" CHARLIE（打断）: All right. I'll second that. NEIL：To put the rout all th

39、at was not life. (Skips through the text) And not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.（一阵沉默） Pledge Overstreet. （Knox steps up. Neil hands him Walden. Knox flips through the book until he finds another underlined passage. He reads.）KNOX：The millions are awake enough for Physical labor

40、; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only one in a hundred millions to a poetic or divine life. To be awake is to be alive. CHARLIE（大声嚷道）：Hey, this is great. （Knox hands the bock to Cameron. Cameron reads.）CAMERON：If one advances confidently in the directi

41、on of his dreams and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. CAMERON hands the book to Meeks. MEEKS：If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost. That is where they should be. Now put foundations under them. NEIL：G

42、od, I want to do everything! I'm going to explode. （Neil looks imbued with the desire to break out of his mold. He slams the palms of his hands together with an expression of determination. Charlie opens a book he brought and flips through it. CHARLIE：Listen to this: Out of the night that covers

43、 me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be for my unconquerable soul!" CHARLIE：I here and now commit myself to daring! （众人欢呼，此时校长出现，表情严肃）（注意灯光的安排）McALLISTER: What are you doing up here? （MEEKS想把书藏刀身后）Give me that book, Mr. MEEKS！（从他们手中夺过那本厚书，看到了“死亡诗社”）Who told you to

44、join this? Who asked to read poetry in this dead night? （McALLISTER翻书，看到了Keating的名字）John KEATINGOK, everybody, go back to your dorm，no delay and no hesitation, NOW!（众人下）Scene 3 Aside: next day in Keatings class.KEATING: So avoid using the word 'very' because it's lazy. A man is not very

45、tired, he is exhausted. Don't use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys-to woo women-and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do. It also won't do in your essays. (The class laughs appreciatively. Keating closes his book, then walks over and raises a map that cover

46、s the blackboard in the front of the room. On the board is a quote, which Keating reads aloud)KEATING：Creeds and schools in abeyance I permit to speak at every hazard, Nature without check, with original energy. - Walt Whitman. Ah, but the difficulty of ignoring those creeds and schools, conditioned

47、 as we are by our parents, our traditions, by the modern age. How do we, like Whitman, permit our own true natures to speak? How do we strip ourselves of prejudices, habits, influences? The answer, my dear lads, is that we must constantly endeavor to find a new point of view. (He leaps onto his desk

48、.)KEATING：Why do I stand here? To feel taller than you? I stand on my desk to remind myself that we must constantly force ourselves to look at things differently. The world looks different from up here. If you don't believe it, stand up here and try it. All of you. Take turns. (Keating jumps off

49、. The boys, with the inclusion of Todd, go to the front of the room and a few at a time take turns standing on Keating's desk. As they do, Keating strolls up and down the aisles. （此时校长McALLISTER正好来他们班偷看，手里拿着垃圾篓和那本厚书）KEATING：Try never to think about anything the same way twice. If you're sure

50、 about something, force yourself to think about it another way, even if you know it's wrong or silly. When you read, don't consider only what the author thinks, but take the time to consider what you think. Boys, and the longer you wait to begin, the less likely you are to find it at all. Th

51、oreau said, "Most men lead lives of quiet desperation." I ask, why be resigned to that? Risk walking new ground. Now. A flame in your hearts could change the world, lads. Nurture it. （Keating和学生们刚要离开，校长冲了进来，十分恼火）McALLISTER：What was going on in the classroom? Why were students standing on t

52、he desk?Keating: Oh, that. That was an exercise to prove a point. Dangers of conformity and the importance of different perspectives in seeing things.McALLISTER：At these boys' ages? Not on your life! Tradition, John. Discipline. Prepare them for college, and the rest will take care of itself.KEA

53、TING: I always thought the idea of educating was to learn to think for yourself. （学生纷纷点头，表示赞同）McALLISTER （拿出厚书）：Then what about this damn “Dead Poets Society”? Is it a defiance of traditions and disciplines with your students reading aloud in the depth of night?Keating有些惊奇，看着他的学生。McALLISTER进一步逼近McAL

54、LISTER：Is poetry about ripping out the books and challenging our great poets in history?（Keating想要解释，但被McALLISTER打断）McALLISTER：After serious consideration, I am convinced that you are not suitable for teaching our students. These young minds will be corrupted before they realize it. I will impart th

55、em all my knowledge about poetry from now on.（扔下这句话，McALLISTER就走了）Keating有些伤心，悄悄下台，同学在后面叫喊：Mr. Keating, Captain, My CaptainACT 4 （表演的具体细节请务必参照电影，十分精彩！）Aside: When McALLISTER is giving a lesson to students the second day, Keating packs up and is leaving. McALLISTER：Sit. I'll be teaching this clas

56、s through exams. We'll find a permanent English teacher during the break. Who will tell me where you are in the Pritchard textbook?CAMERON: We skipped around a lot, sir. We covered the Romantics and some of the chapters on Post Civil War literature.McALLISTER：What about the Realists? CAMERON: I believe we skipped most of that, sir. McALLISTER：All right, then, we'll start over. What is poetry?（Keating从舞台另一边，舞台外边上，McALLISTER和学生们都愣了一下）KEATING: Excuse me. I came for my personals. Should I come back after class? McALLISTER : Get them now, Mr