![]() ![]() Professor Lambeau figures out who solved his math problem, comes to Will’s rescue, and arranges for the directionless kid to be released into his care. Twenty-year-old uneducated janitor Will Hunting (Matt Damon) solves a Ph.D.-level math problem in “Good Will Hunting.” (Miramax) An 11th-Hour Save He knows the law back to the 1800s, but he’s not able to get the charges dismissed this time, finally running into a judge who will not tolerate, in this case, the striking of an officer. He’s got a rap sheet as long as his arm, but he’s previously been successful defending himself against various charges of assault (impersonating an officer, grand theft auto, resisting arrest, and so on). Meanwhile, juvie-genius Will finally ends up in jail. Lickety-split, Will solves it, shocking Lambeau to his core and inspiring him to track down the mystery math superhero. When no one steps forward, Lambeau puts another problem on the board that took him and his colleagues two years to figure out. Will Hunting (Matt Damon) observes a grad-student-level math problem in “Good Will Hunting.” (Miramax) Will, on his floor-mopping rounds, sees it and solves the formula overnight, scribbling on pieces of envelopes and creating an instant buzz as to who the mystery student-genius might be. One day, decorated mathematician and MIT professor Gerald Lambeau (Stellan Skarsgard) posts a high-octane math formula on the hallway chalkboard outside his room, to challenge his students. (L–R) Casey Affleck, Cole Hauser, Ben Affleck, and Matt Damon play guys who grew up together in South Boston, in “Good Will Hunting.” (Miramax) Weekends are spent in batting cages, at the dog-racing track, attending Little League games, picking fights with local rival gangs, followed by more barhopping. Will Hunting spends his days mopping floors, his nights drinking with his bros who, in addition to Chuckie, include Chuckie’s obnoxious and hilariously clueless kid brother Morgan (Casey Affleck) and stoic mechanic Billy (Cole Hauser). She gave him her number after watching him verbally destroy a hostile Harvard student, in “Good Will Hunting.” (Miramax) Harbinger Skylar (Minnie Driver) and Will (Matt Damon) out on a date. It’s equal parts bromance, romance, redemption story, coming-of-age story, and Hero’s Journey. “Good Will Hunting” was famously co-authored by early-career Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, for which they won Oscars, thereby elevating their showbiz cache into the stratosphere. By the way, if you have a problem with that, we could just step outside and we could figure it out.” And you’ll be serving my kids fries at a drive-through on our way to a ski trip.” Harvard guy: “Yeah, but I’ll have a degree. And two: You dropped a hundred and fifty grand on a … education you could’ve got for a dollar-fifty in late charges at the public library.” Will: “The sad thing about a guy like you is in 50 years you’re gonna start doing some thinking of your own, and you’re gonna come up with the fact that there are two certainties in life. ![]() (L–R) Minnie Driver, Casey Affleck, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, and Scott William Winters, in an actual genius-versus-Harvard-student verbal showdown in “Good Will Hunting.” (Miramax) Because he’s a photographic-memory-having, speed-reading math genius with an encyclopedic, memorized metric ton of trivia in his head, who is also able to intuit people’s thoughts and secrets. He could easily reduce the disdainful, pony-tailed Harvard guy to a grease stain on the rug, but he doesn’t need to. Now Will’s a tough kid he put a gang member in the hospital during a street fight. He notices that his best friend, Chuckie (Ben Affleck), at the other end of the bar is on the losing end of a publicly embarrassing, predatory-competitive debate about history-with a Harvardian. In “Good Will Hunting,” this occurs when 20-year-old MIT university janitor Will Hunting (Matt Damon) is hanging out with his blue-collar South Boston buddies in a Cambridge bar packed with world-class Harvard minds. Like when that silent guy at the bar, who wants nothing more than a cold beer and a quiet place to drink it in (that’s a Clint Eastwood line), gets fed up with being harassed, and the opposition suddenly realizes it’s knocked over a hornet’s nest. There’s nothing quite as fun in movies as when an apparently innocuous individual unexpectedly unpacks his or her superpowers. ![]()
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