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A Call for Anecdotes

Written by Alex on September 4th, 2010

Okay, we know you’ve got ‘em. We’re looking for anecdotes about the time(s) you’ve seen Good Will Hunting.

Maybe the first time you saw it. Maybe other times. Seeing a movie in a movie theater lends itself to a more textured experience, so maybe if you saw it back in 1997/1998 you have a couple distinct memories about the experience.

Leave a comment below, email us, or submit your anecdote here.

earthtones I remember going by myself to the bigger theater in the next town, back in 1998. (It had a small release in December of 1997 but didn’t reach me in South Carolina until early 1998.) As far as I was concerned, Good Will Hunting was a small, indie movie for discerning viewers (like my 17-year-old self).

I had been to Boston before, and had lived in a suburb when I was younger. The next year I would go to college in western Massachusetts.

Getting home from the theater involved taking a small highway, not unlike the one seen at the end of the film, and I reflected upon my young life in a brooding, Matt-Damon-y way on the ride. Inspired (I was an artist, you see) by Gus Van Sant’s tonal choices in the film, I went to the little room off of the garage that I called “my studio,” where I had my art supplies set up. I did a small abstract oil painting, which relied heavily on yellow ochre, burnt sienna, and raw sienna (among my favorites, those earth tones).

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Come with me; we’ll take the orange line.

Written by Alex on August 9th, 2010

Bunker Hill Community College

"You've never been outta Bahston"

I passed by Bunker Hill Community College on a rare use of the orange line the other day, and I was reminded of my biggest pet peeve in Good Will Hunting, which has got to be when Will comes in for his second therapy session, and Sean says simply, “Come with me.” In the next scene they are on a bench in Boston’s Public Garden, watching the swans go by and talking about the role experience has upon one’s intellectual maturity.

My experience tells me that you can’t just easily wander over to the Public Garden from Bunker Hill. It’s a two mile walk, which for America’s Walking City isn’t unreasonable, but it seems like Will and Sean’s conversation doesn’t begin until they get to that park bench. So I can’t watch that scene without imagining them awkwardly taking one of two trains (the orange line to Chinatown, or the green line to Arlington Station), or driving (but of course that would be crazy, because where would they park?)

So what makes the most sense to me is they took a cab. And I like to think of that as a deleted scene, wherein the cab driver is the cab driver character who’s in the Olympia Sports commercials that are always on during Red Sox games.

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Get drunk and jump ship to the Red Sox

Written by Alex on August 8th, 2010

A back-and-forth with Kevin Smith, some crude remarks about Minnie Driver, and other notable recent tweets about Good Will Hunting. This is What We Tweet When We Tweet About Good Will Hunting…

pronounced_ty

(General Larry Platt)

How come when I watch "good will hunting", I feel compelled to get drunk, jump ship to the Red Sox and read Howard Zinn books. GREAT MOVIE. On 8:50 AM Aug 8th 2010 from Twitter for iPhone

morebanter

(H.S. Mauberley)

@ThatKevinSmith From all my research, I have to ask...how much of a hand DID you play in writing Good Will Hunting? On 3:39 AM Aug 6th 2010 from Twitterrific in reply to KevinSmith

ThatKevinSmith

(KevinSmith)

Via @morebanter "how much of a hand DID you play in writing Good Will Hunting" I helped the most by NOT ADDING ANYTHING except "This rules." On 3:49 AM Aug 6th 2010 from web

johnny_trouble

(John)

how the fuck am i going to write a 7 page paper about Good Will Hunting? On 6:10 PM Aug 5th 2010 from mobile web

JJordan527

(Jamie Jordan)

I have declared today job hunt and a movie day. Today's film Good Will Hunting. Excellent movie On 7:29 PM Aug 4th 2010 from TweetDeck

emilywrogers

(Emily Rogers)

Just watched Good Will Hunting for the first time. All I could think was "Isn't Minnie Driver a bit old to play a college student?" On 5:57 AM Aug 4th 2010 from web

nicjones32

(Nicholas Jones)

Whenever I see Minnie Driver I can only see her doing that blowjob joke on Good Will Hunting On 8:27 PM Aug 3rd 2010 from Echofon

MedskiPurnamski

(Meda Purnama)

Rewatched Good Will Hunting thx to @togesky it's still a damn good movie. I'd totally bang Minnie Driver just to hear her laugh. On 4:00 PM Aug 3rd 2010 from web

gregharbin

(Greg Harbin)

Good Will Hunting did get one thing right: Bostonians do curse like sailors. #butdotheylikeapples On 2:25 AM Aug 2nd 2010 from Twitter for iPhone

philthegr81

(Phil Mills)

Watching "Good Will Hunting" with the wife. How did Gus Van Sant get Robin Williams to stand/sit still that long? CGI? On 1:50 AM Aug 2nd 2010 from Twitter for iPhone

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I’m feeling lucky

Written by Alex on July 31st, 2010

This is the 100th post on Blog Will Hunting, and to celebrate, a little retrospective….

Here is a list of some of my favorite of the hundreds of search terms that have brought people to the site.

I’m not sure everyone got what they were looking for. Nevertheless, enjoy.

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Youk, it’s not your fault. (1)
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