Blog Will Hunting has been honored to receive several mentions around the web lately. Universal Hub, your source for all blog things Boston, namedropped us a couple weeks ago… plus, we got a nice little write-up in Thrillist. (Here’s what it looks like… I like their design!)
The Thrillist post invokes a couple talking points upon which we’d like to elaborate.
First, describing GWH as “the TNT classic.” Of course, it’s true. This is what Good Will Hunting has become, and how so many of us end up watching half of it when overcome by fondness while just flipping channels. Have you noticed, though, how the for-tv edit of the film is so much more ridiculous than most dubbed-over obscenity-laced movies? I’m particularly struck by the the translation of “fuckin’ sandwich” to “burger sandwich.”
Are we to believe that “burger sandwich” is some wacky Boston slang, like “pahk the cah in Hahvahd yahd”? Because, first of all, Harvard Yard isn’t a fuckin’ parking lot and no one has ever parked their car there and it just doesn’t make sense. It makes more sense for a car to be parked on the MIT dome than in Harvard Yard.
Second, are we really a “10-year-too-late fansite”? I’d argue that we are ten years too early. All the best nostalgia is twenty years post. Take Happy Days‘ 70s nostalgia for the 50s. In ten years everyone will have Good Will Hunting fansites.
But we were here first.
