There is one part though where he gets caught cheating and they're going to expel him from school... So the Dean--Dean Martin (not the real Dean Martin but the Dean who's last name is comically Martin) makes him take an oral exam with all his Professors...
Well Mr. Dangerfield decides he can't win so he decides to quit.... He is facing a tough challenge... So his son talks him into staying and studying for the test.... Which again is another comical part of the movie... (His son holding up books to Mr. Dangerfield in the shower.... Mr. Dangerfield in a robe and his son in one of those yellow rain parkas complete with the hat...)
Anyway at the test he is having trouble and his english teacher who likes him has him recite this poem...
DO NOT GO GENTLE INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT
by Dylan ThomasDo not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Now you have to watch this part of the movie to see how inspirational this can be...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTv1Dmu5CYc
At the end the teacher goes what does this mean to you... To which Dangerfield says, "It means I don't take #$%^$ from no one.
Can you get inspired by this poem also ?
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