1、死亡诗社剧本INN ACADEMY HALLWAY - DAY A young boy, dressed in a school uniform and cap, fidgets as his mother adjusts his tie. MOTHER Now remember, keep your shoulders back. A student opens up a case and removes a set of bagpipes. The young boy and his brother line up for a photograph PHOTOGRAPHER Okay, p
2、ut your arm around your brother. Thats it. And breathe in. The young boy blinks as the flash goes off. PHOTOGRAPHR Okay, one more. An old man lights a single candle. A teacher goes over the old mans duties. TEACHER Now just to review, youre going to follow along the procession until you get to the h
3、eadmaster. At that point he will indicate to you to light the candles of the boys. MAN All right boys, lets settle down. The various boys, including NEIL, KNOX, and CAMERON, line up holding banners. Ahead of them is the old man, followed by the boy with the bagpipes with the two youngest boys at the
4、 front. MAN Banners up. The boys hoist the banners and the bagpipes begin to play loudly. The small group marches out of the room and down a set of stairs into a church. The pews are filled with students and parents while the teachers, all dressed in robes, are seated at the front of the church behi
5、nd the headmaster. The boys break off to either side at the front of the church. The bagpipes cease and the headmaster, MR. NOLAN, walks over to the old man carrying the candle. MR NOLAN Ladies and gentlemen, boys, the light of knowledge. An organ begins to play as the old man goes forward with shak
6、ing hands to the young boys in the front pew. Each boy is holding a candle and he bends over to light the first one. Each boy in turn lights the candle of the boy next to him. MR NOLAN One hundred years ago, in 1859, 41 boys sat in this room and were asked the same question that greets you at the st
7、art of each semester. Gentlemen, what are the four pillars? All throughout the pews, uniformed boys rise to their feet. TODD, who is not wearing a uniform, is urged by his father to stand with them. BOYS Tradition, honor, discipline, excellence. The boys quickly return to their seats. MR NOLAN In he
8、r 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 sendin
9、g us your sons. This is why we are the best preparatory school in the United States. Mr. Nolan soaks up the applause from the audience. MR NOLAN 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 Kea
10、ting, himself a graduate of this school. And who, for the past several years, has been teaching at the highly regarded Chester School in London. The crowd applauds once again. EXT. SCHOOL GROUNDS - DAY The school lawn is a filled with luggage, students, and parents mulling about in every direction.
11、INT CHURCH ENTRANCE - DAY Mr Nolan stands by the entrance, speaking with each family as they leave. MR NOLAN Glad you could come by. MR ANDERSON Thrilling ceremony as usual Dr. Nolan. MR NOLAN Youve been away too long. MRS ANDERSON Hello Dr. Nolan. MR NOLAN Good to have you back. MRS ANDERSON This i
12、s our youngest, Todd. MR NOLAN Mr. Anderson.You have some big shoes to fill, young man. Your brother was one of our finest. TODD Thank you. Todd and his parents leave while others file past Mr. Nolan. WOMAN Lovely ceremony. MR NOLAN Thank you. So glad you liked it. MR PERRY approaches with his son N
13、eil. He shakes Mr. Nolans hand. MR PERRY Gale MR NOLAN Tom MR PERRY Good to see you again. NEIL Hello Mr. Nolan. MR NOLAN Neil. We expect great things from you this year. NEIL Thank you, sir. MR PERRY Well he wont disappoint us. Right Neil? NEIL Ill do my best sir. EXT SCHOOL GROUNDS - DAY A bell to
14、lls. Parents begin wishing their boys farewell. FATHER Hey, come on son. MOTHER Chin up. FATHER No tears now. BOY Okay. MOTHER Chin up. Another boy hugs his mother. BOY I dont want to go here. MOTHER You be a good boy and do your lessons. EXT SCHOOL GROUNDS - DAY Neil emerges from a building and see
15、s Todd. NEIL Hey, I hear were gonna be roommates. He shakes Todds hand. NEIL Im Neil Perry. TODD Todd Anderson. NEIL Whyd you leave Balincrest? TODD My brother went here. NEIL Oh, so youre that Anderson. INT DORMATORY - DAY DR. HAGER is standing in his room doorway while SPAZ and his father are goin
16、g over some last minute precautions over the boys allergies. Spazs father hands Hager various bottles. FATHER This is for sinuses. Oh, and if he cant swallow you give him one of these. And if he had trouble breathing you can give him some of those. HAGER All right fine. Dr. Hager takes the bottles a
17、nd quickly backs into his room, shutting the door. FATHER (to son) Did you remember your vaporizer? SPAZ Yes, I put it in my room. Spazs father tries to say something else to Dr. Hager but realizes he has already gone. INT HALLWAY - DAY Neil pushes his way through a crowd of boys, carrying two suitc
18、ases. As he enters his room, Knox quickly passes by. KNOX Hey, hows it going Neil? NEIL Hey Knox. Cameron comes by and leans against the doorway. CAMERON Neil, study group tonight? NEIL Yeah, sure. CAMERON Business as usual, huh? Hey, I hear you got the new kid. Looks like a stiff! He begins laughin
19、g when he notices Todd coming into the room. CAMERON Oops! Cameron quickly leaves. Neil tries to keep from laughing as Todd enters the room and sets his luggage down on his bed. NEIL Listen, dont mind Cameron. He was born with his foot in his mouth. You know what I mean? He pulls some papers from hi
20、s blazer pocket and playfully whacks Todd across the back with it. CHARLIE comes to the door with a smug expression on his face. Knox and MEEKS are close behind him. He points at Neil CHARLIE Rumor has it, you did summer school. NEIL Yep. Chemistry. My father thought I should get ahead. How was your
21、 summer Slick? CHARLIE Keen. The boys enter the room. Charlie turns around and looks at Meeks who is just entering. CHARLIE Meeks. Door. Closed. MEEKS Yes sir. NEIL Gentlemen, what are the four pillars? BOYS Travesty. Horror. Decadence. Excrement. Charlie makes himself comfortable on Neils bed and l
22、ights up a cigarette. Meanwhile, Todd is by his bed unpacking his luggage. CHARLIE Okay, study group. Meeks aced Latin. I didnt quite flunk English. So, if you want, weve got our study group. NEIL Sure. Cameron asked me too. Anyone mind including him? CHARLIE Hmm, whats his specialty, boot-licking?
23、NEIL Come on, hes your roommate. CHARLIE Thats not my fault. Meeks seems to notice Todd for the first time. MEEKS Oh, Im sorry, my name is Steven Meeks. Neil quickly gets up from his spot by the window. NEIL Oh, this is Todd Anderson. Todd turns around and shakes hands with Meeks. MEEKS Nice to meet
24、 you. TODD Nice to meet you. CHARLIE Charlie Dalton. Charlie continues to lay on the bed, looking smug. Knox extends a hand. KNOX Knox Overstreet. NEIL Todds brother was Jeffrey Anderson. CHARLIE Oh yeah, sure. Valedictorian. National merit scholar. MEEKS Oh well, welcome to Hell-ton. CHARLIE Its ev
25、ery bit as tough as they say, unless youre a genius like Meeks. MEEKS He flatters me. Thats why I help him with Latin. CHARLIE And English, and Trig. Charlie begins coughing. There is a knock at the door. Charlie quickly stamps out his cigarette on the floor and Neil tries to wave the smoke from the
26、 air. NEIL Its open. The door opens and Mr. Perry walks into the room. Neil quickly rises from the window. NEIL Father, I thought youd gone. The other boys stand up when he enters. BOYS Mr. Perry. MR PERRY Keep your seats fellows, keep your seats. Neil, Ive just spoken to Mr. Nolan. I think that you
27、re taking too many extra curricular activities this semester, and Ive decided that you should drop the school annual. NEIL But Im the assistant editor this year. MR PERRY Well Im sorry Neil. NEIL But Father, I cant. It wouldnt be fair. MR PERRY Fellas, would you excuse us for a moment? Mr. Perry wal
28、ks 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. Perrys face. He grabs a hold of Neils arm. MR PERRY Dont you ever dispute me in public. Do you understand? NEIL Father, I wasnt disputing- MR PER
29、RY After youve finished medical school and youre 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. Im sorry. MR PERRY You know how much this means to your mother, dont you? NEIL Yes sir. You know me, always taking on too much. MR
30、 PERRY Well, thats 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 doesnt he let you do what you want? KNOX Yeah Neil, tell him
31、 off. It couldnt get any worse. NEIL Oh, thats rich. Like you guys tell your parents off, Mr. Future Lawyer and Mr. Future Banker. CHARLIE Okay, so I dont like it any more than you do. NEIL Well just dont tell me how to talk to my father. You guys are the same way. KNOX All right, all right, Jesus.
32、So what are you going to do? NEIL What I have to do. Drop the annual. CHARLIE Well I wouldnt lose much sleep over it. Its just a bunch of jerks trying to impress Nolan. NEIL I dont care. I dont give a damn about any of it. MEEKS Well, uh, Latin, eight o clock in my room? NEIL Yes. MEEKS Todd, youre
33、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 oclock. Enormous flocks of birds, apparently disturbed by the noise, take to the sky. INT. STAIRCASE - DAY The sound of squawking bi
34、rds 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, h
35、anding 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 fro
36、nt 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 ar
37、ms 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. KEATINGS CLASSROOM - DAY Students enter Keatings classroom, ta
38、lking 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, whis
39、tling 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, gr
40、ab their books and follow Keating out into the main entranceway. INT. ENTRANCEWAY - DAY Keating stands before the schools 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.
41、Spaz blows his nose a little too close to Meeks for his liking. KEATING Not a clue? Its from a poem by Walt Whitman about Mr. Abraham Lincoln. Now in this class you can call me Mr. Keating. Or, if youre slightly more daring, Oh Captain, My Captain. The students laugh slightly. KEATING Now let me dis
42、pel a few rumors so they dont 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
43、. 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. Thats a rather unfortunate name. Mr. Pitts, where are you? Pitts raises his hand while everyone around him snickers. KEATING
44、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, thats the one. Somewhat appropriate, isnt it. PITTS “Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, old time is still a flying, and this same flower th
45、at 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. Thats “seize the day.“ KEATING Very good, Mr.- MEEKS Meeks.
46、KEATING Meeks. Another unusual name. Seize the day. Gather ye rosebuds while ye may. Why does the writer use these lines? CHARLIE Because hes 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. Be
47、cause, 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
48、 the past. Youve walked past them many times. I dont think youve really looked at them. The students slowly gather round the cases and Keating moves behind them. KEATING Theyre not that different from you, are they? Same haircuts. Full of hormones, just like you. Invincible, just like you feel. The
49、world is their oyster. They believe theyre 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 Camerons shoulder. KEATING (whispering in a gruff voice) Carpe. Cameron looks ove
