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Dead Poets Society
Robin Williams' ability to improvise has derailed the original vision of many a film. But has any film suffered from his tragicomically inventive touch as much as Dead Poets Society?
Cinema buffs, of course, know this film (original working title: The Perpicacious Mr Perry) was supposed to be a psychological slasher flick about arts-hating father Mr Perry (Kurtwood Smith), mentally torturing his eight namby-pamby poetry-lovin' wannabe actor sons to a series of increasingly grisly suicidal demises. (This idea, of course, was clearly cribbed from the infamous, rarely-repeated, Dick Van Patten-directed episode of Eight Is Enough.)
Enter Williams, and a complete reinvention of the plot. Sure, they threw Kurtwood a bone and let him drive Robert Sean Leonard to a self-offing status, but all his other sons were rewritten as feckless classmates on some kind of day-seizing frenzy. Hell, even RSL later recovered, under the watchful diagnostic eye of Dr Gregory House.
Sheesh. Thanks a lot, Mork.
Begone,
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