Wonderful work by Williams

Rating: Null/10 (1 June 2000)

I remember seeing this movie in my American Literature class. It was really great. The actors were wonderful, especially Robin Williams as the college English professor. One part I don't understand is when one of the students played a joke on the dean. He pretended to make the phone ring and answered it. He then said it was God. The dean took him into his office and literally gave him a paddling on the butt. Don't you think college students are a little old to be treated like that? Besides, wasn't that unlawful or had no laws about that yet been passed in the 50's? Watching this movie also taught me one thing. It was a famous word (actually two) called "Carpe Diem." I had heard of that little phrase for several years. Now I finally knew what it meant, "seize the day." A similar incident was used in the movie "Mrs. Doubtfire." (also starring Williams) Mrs. Doubtfire spilled her dentures in her water and said "Carpe Dentum; seize the teeth." This is truly every English teacher's movie and I recommend it to all of them.