Spring Awakening & Dead Poets Society

[TerrenceIsTheMann]

Posted: 11/9/15 at 8:11pm

I just noticed these two have very similar plot lines. Anyone else catch this before?

[c0113g3b0y]

Posted: 11/9/15 at 10:04pm

except that it was the "Melchior" in DPS that committed suicide, and not the "Moritz".

Spring Awakening had no influential parent / teacher figure unlike Robin Williams' character in DPS, who encourages his students to ignore the prescribed texts.

DPS although a good movie is a little disgustingly testosterone fueled ... Spring Awakening gives equal time for the boys / girls to shine.

so yeah... NO

Updated On: 11/9/15 at 10:04 PM

[GreasedLightning]

Posted: 11/9/15 at 10:14pm

Melchior's mother is not a sympathetic adult character in Spring Awakening? She sings a whole damn song about how much she wishes she could help her son's friend and will do whatever she can for him. She is also resistant toward sending Melchior to the reformatory because what he is being held accountable for is, in fact, true. 

Additionally, I'd say male characters are way more predominately represented in Spring Awakening... at least in the original text. 

[c0113g3b0y]

Posted: 11/9/15 at 10:21pm

Thanks for the correction.

I have not read the original text as I was comparing the musical. but I am not surprised that if the male characters were dominant in the original play.