The Dead

John Carpenter Pans AMC’s Zombie Series ‘The Walking Dead,’ Says He Didn’t Like it ‘The Walking Dead’ is one of those rare shows that boast of a cult status and massive fan following. It is a rage among horror show aficionados but it looks like some prominent icon from the horror world is not impressed with the zombie series. According to reports, John Carpenter, the man behind popular and successful movies ‘Halloween’ and ‘The Thing,’ has said that he did not like it. He stated that it was just…

past few years is “The Walking Dead”. The Walking Dead first broadcast of October 31, 2010 to present have exemplify many critical issues concerned both moral and ethical principles of humanity in a post-apocalyptic future. Fun facts: the series is based on the highly successful comic book series written by Robert Kirkman, who was present during the filming of the first season. The pilot episode spans the first six issues of the comic book series (Thomas, The Walking Dead’ Synopsis and Other…

MOVIE REVIEW Dead Poet’s Society The film Dead Poets Society is a film that explores the idea of "Carpe Diem" (seize the day) from the perspective of few young men at an all boys boarding school. Their teacher Mr. Keating (their poetry professor) played an important role throughout and helps them stretching their minds, and exercising their right to defiant acts of love for life and poetry, and the false opinions of the society. The movie throughout takes us on a roller coaster that leaves the…

Robin Williams’s most remembered leading roles was performing as Mr. Keating in the film, Dead Poets Society. The movie takes place at the all-male boarding school, Welton Academy, in 1959. It follows a group of high schoolers that learn an important lesson from their English teacher, Mr. Keating, to follow their own path and go against what is normal. They were inspired by Mr. Keating to recreate the Dead Poets Society Club and recite poetry. One of Mr. Keating’s speeches to his students takes…

In the 1989 film Dead Poets Society, Todd Anderson, a student at Welton Academy, has an older brother who graduated as the Valedictorian. He then went to Yale, and became a lawyer. Todd attends Welton because his parents want the same from him. They want Todd to follow his brother’s footsteps so he can become a “leader”. In a speech made by William Deresiewicz, called Solitude and Leadership, he explains how solitude and leadership seem like polar opposites, but if someone has both, they can…

be willing to lose everything to gain yourself”. Sophocles well-renowned work based on affliction, Antigone, and drama based film, Dead Poets Society demonstrates to us, that when uncertainty strikes, you’’ be shown your worth. This statement comply with these two literary works correspondingly. In these two written works, Ismene from, Antigone and Dalton from, Dead Poets Society. These two characters showed that they would risk something for what they believed in. In Antigone, Ismene; even…

This quote relates to transcendentalism because in the movie Dead Poets Society each character goes through a change that changes them for the better. The movie Dead Poets Society is about a group of students who have a teacher who is different from the teachers at their boarding school. Mr. Keating uses different methods to teach his students. All the boy’s face a lot of pressure from their parents. Then one day the come across the Dead Poets Society and decide to start it. With the help of…

A theme is the subject of a talk, a piece of writing, or a person’s thoughts. Be it film, literature, or art, these practices always revolve around themes. In particular, the film Dead Poets Society (Peter Weir) revolves around a potpourri of themes. In comparison, the french poet Baudelaire has written many poems involving plenty of the same topics. Imagination and its power against the social norm is a striking theme in both Weir’s work and Baudelaire’s poem “Windows”. Right through to the end…

Dead Poets Society is a film, released in 1989 about a college professor (John Keating) who inspires his students to have more transcendental ideals. Charlie Dalton is one of Keating's most loyal followers throughout the movie. Charlie comes from a wealthy family and attends Welton private school. He has a hard time conforming to authority and believes creativity can be expressed best through writing. Mr. Keating's teachings do more than inspire him. Charlie takes transcendentalism to a new…

Shambling mindless corpses trying to feast on the flesh of the living. The idea of the undead has been around for almost as long as people and their culture have. There have been multiple cultural variants of zombies and ideas of how to keep the dead from coming back to haunt the living such as the theory behind the origin of the tombstone was that it was literally a giant rock that cavemen rolled on top of graves to keep the body pinned down if the corpse reanimated. The first modern…