The production of Dead Poets Society was filled with improvisation and last minute decisions that seemed to benefit the script and filming of the movie. The director of the movie was very open to the cast and crews opinion on how to shoot the movie. The director, Peter Weir, wanted the movies writer, Tom Schulman, to work closely on the film and to help direct. Peter thought that in order to correctly portray the vision of the writer in the film, it was important to have him assist in directing. Main characters, Ethan Hawke and Robin Williams were also a key part of making the film. Besides their incredible acting skills, there was an immense amount of improve in the movie. There was a scene where Hawke and his friends Neil were discussing a desk set that Hawke had received for multiple years in a row for his birthday, as the whole scene was improved. When I saw that some of the scenes were improvised, I think it added more depth to the film. It made it more real to realise that the actors were really getting into their role as the characters and trying their best to be the characters they were playing. This movie was based on an idea of an open and respectful set to everyone's ideas.

There was a story in an interview in which the writer, Tom Schulman, said how he was a rookie director and he was very nervous to assist in the making of the film. Though throughout the whole process of filming, Peter Weir was completely helpful and wanted to get everybody's input on how to make the film better. A scene where Robin Williams is sitting eating dinner with one of the main teachers at the boarding school in which the boys attend, he speaks a poem that was written by one of crew members on set. Another interesting part of the making of the movie was how the ending changed. Schulman originally made the ending so that Keating dies of cancer in the end, which explains why he had his mantra of “Carpe Diem”, seize the day. Though with input from the cast and crew, he was persuaded to change this ending to make the movie more interpretable and have the viewer be able to create an explanation themselves, not have it handed to them. This I feel is an important way to capture the viewer's interest. When you watch a movie, the point is to show and display a piece of writing in a visually pleasing way. Though it is also important that the viewer is able to interpret some of the meaning themselves. This creates a platform in which the brain is able to be pleased in many ways. Not everyone is going to like the same movie or feel the same way about what the secret meaning behind the plot really is. So there needs to be some room for imagination in a movie where mostly everything is being given to you on a screen.