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#001

Originally, Professor Keating was supposed to die of leukemia. But the director decided to have the story focus on the boys instead.
#002

Director Peter Weir chose to shoot the film in chronological order to better capture the development of the relationships between the boys and their growing respect for Mr. Keating.
#003

Filmed at St. Andrews, a private boarding school in Delaware.
#004

Loosely based on the experiences of private school students with Samuel Pickering, who is currently a Professor of English at the University of Connecticut.
#005

Liam Neeson had originally landed the leading role to be directed by Jeff Kanew, but lost it to Robin Williams when director Peter Weir came on board.
#006

Originally slated to be filmed at Berry College in Rome, Georgia, the project was moved to Delaware because it would have been too expensive to create fake snow on the campus grounds.
#007

Frequently shown to fraternity members during leadership seminars because of the striking similarities between the film's plot and the historical events that led to the creation of fraternal organizations at universities in the United States 200 years ago.
#008

Peter Weir attended The Scots College, a private boys school in Sydney. The uniforms, discipline and overall feel of the school translated into many of the film's scenes. In 1994 a stage production of the film, the first in the world authorized by Touchstone Pictures, was put on by the school. Peter Weir attended the opening night and spoke about the making of the film.
#009

The part of John Keating was once intended for Dustin Hoffman.
#010

Charlie Dalton has copied some lines from Abraham Cowley's poem "The Prophet" on the centerfold of Elaine Reynolds, Miss October 1959.
#011

When the boys show Professor Keating his old senior yearbook picture, it is in reality Robin William's high school senior picture when he was a student at Redwood High School in Larkspur, California, north of San Francisco
#012

The movie's line "Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary." was voted as the #95 movie quote by the American Film Institute (out of 100).
#013

The phrase "carpe diem" is from Odes 1.11 of Q. Horatius Flaccus ("Horace"), 65BC-8BC.
#014

The poem by Henry David Thoreau that is featured on the front page of the poetry book Neil receives is not an original poem by Thoreau. Rather, it is a rearrangement of sentences from his work "Where I Lived", Chapter 2. The passage containing the quotes seen in the movie actually reads "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, ..."