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Enneagram Movie Board Archive lolololl !!!Posted by Andy on March 04, 1999 at 12:23:15: In Reply to: DEAD POETS SOCIETY - a wonderful movie with great examples of all nine enneatypes posted by Jan den Breejen on February 21, 1999 at 12:24:08: : It seems that the commercial succes of a movie is highly correlated with the amount of different well cast enneatypes . Let's call this Jan's Law. It certainly applies to Dead Poets Society. Here's the plot in a nutshell. The unorthodox English literature teacher John Keating (played by Robin Williams) upsets the status quo-apple cart at a conservative US boy's prep school in 1959. The ambiance is so formalistic E1 that I could have believed the school to be an English school. In his own flamboyant fashion, E7 Keating introduces his students to new worlds of boundless creativity and intellectual expansion (without the 1968 LSD facilitator -favorite of many E7's at that time - of course) as propounded by such E7-ish poets as Horace and Walt Whitman. The teacher has a profound effect on seven students who, in various ways, have had their artistic muses beaten down by their (mostly rich E3) elders. These boys decide to further explore the literary brilliance offered to them by re-surrecting the nocturnal conclave started by Keating in his student years, the Dead Poets Society (a great example of the common urge to be original shared by E4's (Neil) and E7's (Keating)). Naturally all this E7 stimulation and adrenaline rush incurs of the E1/E3 powers-that-be. When E4 student Neil, with Keating' s encouragement, defies his domineering E3 father by auditioning in a play, the father's subsequent wrath leads the sensitive boy to commit suicide. Held responsible for this tragedy, Keating is dismissed by manipulation of student 'withnesses' by E3 headmaster Dr. Nolan. But it's clear that the progressive idea's he has put into his students heads will not leave with him… : The characters analyzed: : E1's : - student Hopkins looks E1-ish; repressed emotions, stiff but assertive presentation of poem. : : - Knox Overstreet is a John Travolta-like male E2; a love sick soap romantic, obsessed like a stalker with Chris; 'I can't take it anymore…If I can't get Chris, I am gonna kill myself!…I am gonna call her…the point is that she is thinking about me…she is going to be MINE…(posessive)…I can't forget her…Relationally jealous; 'It's a deep tragedy, a girl this beautiful in love with such a jerk…..' : - EEThe father of Chet Dunburry looks E2-ish; interested in the 'human thing' when meeting Knox and does his best to make Knox feel at home. : : - headmaster/'manager' Dr. Nolan is a dark E3; obsessed with enhancing and selling the public image of his elite school and of course by that: of himself. Impressive ceremony speech at the start of the movie. Performance addict: 'In the first year graduated 5 students from Welton Academy, last year we graduated 51 and 75%of these went to the famous Ivy League University. This kind of accomplishment is the result of…(etc.)' See him indulge in the applause after the speach (or is it: advertisement?). He is pathologic enough to destroy everything that comes into his career path; and Keating certainly is one of these obstructive elements. He removes him from the school by pushing students to sign false 'witness reports' : - Mr. Perry (Neil's father) is an E3 too. He want's Neil go do summer courses and work ahead, wants him to give un the extracurricular activities like the school annual. He's very image conscious; 'don't you ever dispute me in public…' He plans the career of his son relentlessly to the point Neil commits suicide. I would think Neil's father is a counterphobic six. He just does not fit the
Like could I put up a live camera here and also set up a server working That's something ...could you enneafolks not put up a server with microsoft
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