Good Will Hunting: A Screenplay by Ben Affleck, Matt Damon Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Good Will Hunting: A Screenplay
Book Review: "How do you like them Apples"
Summary: 4 Stars
This was a hit for Affleck & Damon, I own very few DVD's this is on eof my favorites. The cast of characters fit well together.
Robin Williams always delivers a dynamic believable real performance, subtle humor in an beautiful written drama.
I found a lot of personal connection to Will in this movie. His complacancy in life reveals his hestitation to step outisde the bounds of his comfort zone and really let his Gaurd down to become who he can.
There are so many great moments in this movie from the animated dialogue between Will and numerous therapists & Sean ( Robin Willimas), to his running in with bloated Ego's of College preps.
Good Will Hunting inspires us all to seek knowledge using what resources or devices we have available. An inspiring entertaining film.
Favorite lines:
Sean to Will: "Maybe *you're* perfect right now. Maybe you don't wanna ruin that. I think that's a super philosophy, Will; that way you can go through your entire life without ever having to really know anybody..."
Will to College prep: "See, the sad thing about a guy like you is in 50 years you're gonna start doing some thinkin on your own and you're gonna come up with the fact that there are two certaintees in life. One, don't do that. And Two, you dropped a hundred and fifty grand on a f***n education you coulda got for a dollar fifty in late chahges at the public library"
Sean to Will: after he tells the Story ( passion energy & detail of Fisk HR of Game 6 World Series of which he had tickets to.. , "Sorry, guys; I gotta see about a girl." <----That entire dialogue was amazing!
Sean to Will: "If I ask you about women, you'll probably give me a syllabus of your personal favorites. You may have even been laid a few times. But you can't tell me what it feels like to wake up next to a woman... and feel truly happy."
Sean to Will: ..."My wife..She had all sorts of wonderful little idiosyncrasies. She used to fart in her sleep. I thought I'd share that with you. One night it was so loud it woke the dog up. She woke up and went `ah was that you?' And I didn't have the heart to tell her. Oh!"
...."Ah...! But Will, ..... Those are the things I miss the most. The little idiosyncrasies that only I know about: that's what made her my wife. Oh she had the goods on me too, she knew all my little peccadilloes. People call these things imperfections, but there not. Ah, that's the good stuff."
Book Review: Brilliant in its simplicity
Summary: 5 Stars
This script is sheer perfection, brilliant in its simplicity. My goal is to learn to write like that!Book Review: Great Screenplay of a Great Movie
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a great story--a tale about guys in their early twenties living in working-class Boston. One of them, Will, just happens to be a genius, with a photographic memory. He is also an abused orphan who doesn't trust anyone but his friends and seems content to do construction and janitorial work. When an M.I.T. professor of mathematics catches him solving a nearly impossible proof one evening after all of the students have left, he is intrigued.
After Will gets into trouble with the law, which is a fairly common occurrence for him, the professor steps in and agrees to work with him and get him counseling if the judge will agree not to send him to jail. Will reluctantly agrees, not really willing to see a therapist. It proves to be difficult to find a therapist who can handle Will; he has read their books and mocks them during therapy sessions. Finally an old college friend of the professor's has a breakthrough and becomes someone that Will can trust.
This is a story about a person learning to take risks in relationships and with his future. The movie was excellent, and the screenplay is very interesting. I hadn't realized that a screenplay has so little direction; it gives me new respect for a film's director as well as the actors and actresses who create three-dimensional characters out of the words ont he page.
Book Review: Great script of a great movie
Summary: 5 Stars
The lines such as "How do you like them apples" are classics already. The movie was brilliant and I own the screenplay. A terrific insight into the anatomy of the film.Book Review: Trite, rehashed and recycled mishmash
Summary: 1 Stars
Having seen the movie and read the screenplay, I can never fail to understand how something like this was ever taken seriously. There is absolutely nothing original here; the writing is shallow, tedious and unbelievably hackneyed and I marvel that such mediocre talent could be so hyped, so gushed over and can only wonder how such 'writing' could ever have been made into a movie let alone win an Academy Award! It baffles me completely.
Incidentally, there is much whispering in industry circles that Affleck and Damon didn't really even write this screenplay. Instead it was the result of a collaboration between Gus Van Zant, Robin Williams, William Goldman and Rob Reiner. As a matter of fact much of William's comedic dialogue was actually improvised, yet authorship was, strangely, still credited to Affleck and Damon - probably for unknown publicity and marketing reasons.
The fact that these two have not produced any screenplays worthwhile since tends to verify suspicions about their real and minimal contributions to Good Will Hunting.