Scary when you know that Matt & Ben wrote this classic when they were only 22 and when his performance was recognised by the Academy, Robin referenced their age during his acceptance words. The whole speech is one of the best Oscar moments ever, you can feel the love in the room for Robin, especially from the host Billy Crystal, his old friend from the very early days of trying to make it in showbiz. It wasn't polite applause from his peers - it was genuine love for a man who had brought so much joy & laughter but was also capable of touching performances like this. Wonderful. The award and speech are on YT, do try and watch.
They both kept talking about how young Matt Damon and Ben Affleck were when they acted in this, but they don't seem to know that they wrote it maybe? ... Which is kind of weird when it was in the credits and they were reading the credits but whether they were talking when it went by? I don't know ...
You really should find the Oscars for that year on UA-cam Ben and Matt won an Oscar for the screenplay & Robin won Best Supporting Actor - it’s a classic ❤
@@SnailHatan scary when you compare it to what you did with your life ... and by you I mean me ... and by me I mean 60 year old me who is running out of time for my latent talents to appear 🤣
This movie is an example of the adage "write what you know." Matt Damon and Ben Affleck wrote this movie together in their early 20s, and the father of one of them (can't recall which) was a math professor at Harvard, and the mother of the other was a psychologist. That's why the script knows so much about math and trauma therapy.
@@jkhooverdo you talk to your dad about what he does at work and go in depth? That's probably why. I didn't know anything about running a business until I was 20 and started talking to my dad about his and he told me all the workings of running a business
"I used to think the worst thing in life was to be alone. But is not. The worst thing in life is to be with people that make you feel alone." - Robin Williams
I believe that they said they wrote this with Robin Williams in mind and watching it, you can see why. I can't imagine anyone else in that role. His thoughtfulness and sentimentality come through so well. We really lost someone special when he left us. And to top it off, the subtle wistfulness of Elliot Smith's music filling out the soundtrack was perfection.
I don’t mean to shatter your thought here, but they wrote the part just hoping they could get someone famous to help get the movie a good budget. They wrote it so open ended that if a really famous woman wanted it, they could make it mother/son rather than father/son. If someone like Denzel or Morgan freeman wanted it they could adjust it to reflect racial relations in Boston. Yes robin Williams was perfect, but they certainly didn’t write it for him
Nominated for 9 Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director. But won two Oscars for: 1. Best Supporting Actor for Robin Williams 2. Best Original Screenplay for Ben Affleck and Matt Damon. Honestly, Robin Williams deserve that Oscar Win cause he’s so good in this movie along with his previous appearances. RIP Robin. Hopefully both you and Stella get to react to _Jumanji, Hook,_ and _Aladdin_ (the latter if you plan to react to Animated movies) for your next reactions and if you girls love Robin Williams and his performance in _Good Will Hunting_ I recommend the both of you react to _Dead Poets Society_ one of Robin’s best performances but an extremely heartbreaking ending. Edit: I just realized that James and Nobu had already reacted to _Dead Poets Society_ 2 years ago, so hopefully that means both of you girls will react to _Dead Poets Society_
He is actually really good in August Rush, starring Freddie Highmore. It is actually a really good movie. Extremely underrated and doesn’t have a good rating on rotten tomatoes because it is kinda of a fairy tale in terms of order of events but it is a very emotional movie and very well acted.
@@Phelddagrif1998 I second _August Rush_ and that I can imagine being saved as a Four group reaction at a later point, along with the fact there aren’t any reactions for this movie. As for Robin’s performance in _August Rush_ it’s good and I don’t deny but not Oscar level good as his previous acting work he did in _Dead Poets Society_ and _Good Will Hunting._ I do give credit to Robin Williams for playing against type and playing an antagonistic/villainous role as his only other role was _Insomnia_ where he also was the antagonist.
The most spectacular thing about the writing was that they didn't go for the trope of "catching the girl at the airport" at the end. We never got to see the totally expected reaction shot of Skylar locking eyes with Will when she realizes "he's the one" and "he really does love me and is capable of vulnerability" -- it's just assumed in this script. The cliché was absent entirely, and we're left to imagine the awkward, effed-up, and probably-pretty-smart conversation that they had to have in order for Will to actually see about a girl. We're made to worry about whether the car can make it, not about what will happen when it gets there. I think about that conversation every time I get to the end of this film.
That's a great observation, and it drives home that the point of the movie isn't whether Will gets the girl, it's that he made the choice to try. Throughout the movie Will is confronted with three choices: stay in his comfort zone (represented by his old buddies), focus on maximizing his genius to do great things (Professor Lambeau), or take a leap of faith and try to love and trust (Skyler). The victory is that a guy from his abused background chooses to try to love, not whether it turns out well afterwards.
@@charlize1253 That's totally, totally right. I couldn't have said it better myself. And here are these two guys, Damon and Affleck, barely out of high school. And they knew to write the story that way. OR, and stay with me here, maybe they didn't, maybe producers pushed it that way and they were just dumb kids. Thing is, we don't get to know. And that's what I love about this film -- I can't tell where the creators end, and the entrenched Hollywood money begins. I guess I've got to be okay with that, but so far, I'm okay with that.
Before this film: Damon & Affleck, childhood friends who were semi-known actors. Then they made this incredible piece of work as writers. Casting Minnie Driver (up and coming as well) and the late Robin Williams was perfection. After this film: Critical acclaim and award wins, Including 3 Oscars. Best Original Screenplay for Damon & Affleck, Best Supporting Actor for Robin Williams. I was rooting for them all to win during the 70th annual Academy Awards show. 25 years later; The filmmakers, the cast and moviegoers remember a story about being gifted and not just for the purpose of being smart. But being strong enough to give and receive the love that we all deserve.
The Park Bench scene is magnificent, but my favorite scene is the "Unabomber scene", with Gerry and Sean debating what was best for Will. It was a brilliant illustration of who those men are and how they see Will.
The math looks like it is from graph theory, which is about network structures - essentially, circles(nodes) representing objects in a space and a line connecting the 2 objects(an edge). A network could be like a collection of islands where an edge exists if there is a way to get from one island to the next or a social media friend network, where each node represents a user and an edge exists between them if they are friends. @4:42, All the questions are related to that network drawn on board where the nodes are labeled {1,2,3,4}. The first question asks for the adjacency matrix which is essentially a table with the rows labeled 1-4 and columns labeled 1-4 and each box in the table is a 1 or a 0 meaning: 1 if there is a edge between the 2 nodes and 0 if there isn't. The second question is another matrix - like the adjacency - which is the number of ways to get from 1 node to another in 3 steps. For example the top left value in 2) is 2, which means 2 ways to get from node 1 to node 1(itself), If you look at network diagram that would be 1 -> 3 > 2 -> 1 and 1-> 2 -> 3-> 1. 3rd question is just creating a more generalized form of this matrix where instead of restricting to 3 steps it could be any number you want and you just plug in the numbers and it generates all the steps from any node to another without you having to enumerate everything. I think the 4th question is similar except it's restricted to steps 1, steps 2, and steps 3. The other problem @7:23 is hard to see, but I think it is just asking to draw out all of the networks that satisfy a particular condition. Hopefully that makes sense!
I hated this class. lol.. It excluded my Calculus knowledge altogether, in which I was 4.0 (old system). My class was called "Discrete Mathematics" and was available to me as a freshman since I tested out of 2 years of college courses. I get that it was tying into my computer programming classes which in 1985 was just 4 semesters of COBOL/FORTRAN, etc. But the whole skew away from the business applicability was rough for me. lol
A big maths UA-camr covered the problem on his channel years ago, he explained that it was a genuine maths problem and that it had only been solved shortly before the movie came out and so Ben and Matt borrowed it for the movie.
Love the scene where the professor and the therapist are arguing over the boy. It's like the mom and the dad are arguing about they're son as he walks in the house from school. Dad wants his son to succeed. Mom wants son to be happy.
(Tw) This film really was so good. I have PTSD and BPD, I also had childhood trauma, (was r worded by a family member for a couple years) I struggled with abandonment issues and pushed people away a lot too, the scene where the therapist says "it wasn't your fault" was so impactful and healing. ❤
Robin Williams won his only Academy Award for this film, which many say is his best performance. It was very well deserved and his Oscar speech is very poignant and memorable. I highly recommend watching that speech.
Also when you watch that speech, watch out for the fact that he didn't thank his mother. He forgot her and he joked about her reaction to that on the Graham Norton show years later
"It's too much work to hold a GRUDGE when you're older." There is so much truth in this quote! I keep telling my buddies from high school the same thing. Why go through life wasting time and energy of incidents of the past? Life and people continue moving on while you are still bitter inside. It's not only unhealthy, but it is also meaningless. Live life to its fullest I say! Forgive, forget and keep living! Great reaction.
Its not just being smarter or having knowledge he doesnt use, these men have worked their entire life in the pursuit of knowledge and the ability to solve these problems. In walks will and renders their entire professional pursuit worthless. Thats hard to reconcile with regardless of ego. Love this movie and the reaction!
When Will walks in at 32:09 it's like he is walking on two parents arguing about his future, it's very interesting subtext since he most likely never experienced that sorta "care", even the way the two professors react when he walks in is like parents noticing their argument woke their child.
The math is: Problem 1: For the graph G 1) Find the adjacency matrix A 2) Find the matrix giving the number of 3 step walks 3) Find the generating function for walks from point i to j. 4) Find the generating function for walks from points 1 to 3. This involves some liner algebra Problem 2: Find all Homeomorphically Irreducible Trees of degree ten (i.e ten nodes). A Homeomorphically irreducible (or series-reduced) tree is a tree in which there is no vertex of degree 2. So, the question means we need to join ten nodes together such that all nodes are connected to at least one other node. No cycles are allowed and only one line is allowed between two nodes. Most important property of a homeomorphic tree must be satisfied i.e all nodes must have 1 or more lines connecting to other node and no node can have degree of 2.
Stella is great to watch movies with. Honest, thoughtful, empathetic. Needs her own channel.... but THAT is a lot of work and gets in the way of having a real life. Glad she was added to the crew.
Robin Williams deservedly won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar. His performance is so restrained from his usual zany roles, yet he embodied it perfectly. His legacy will continue to burn brightly. 🕯️💖
At the end of the movie. When Robin William said "Son of a bicth, he stole my line". That was improvise by Robin William & not scripted. Love yall Reactions ❤
9:32 "People who talk about what they know about are always attractive." That's one of the best things I've ever heard anyone say. Also definitely wasn't the scene where I expected to start crying at this reaction, so thank you for surprising me Stella.
When Ben and Matt wrote this film specifically for them to star in, to create their own roles as actors (meaning they were not open to selling it and letting other, better known actors be in it, it was all or nothing) and were successful it started a trend. All over America, especially in LA, young struggling actors all started writing screenplays for the first time. People who never had an interest in writing before were trying to make their own films specifically to help boost their acting careers. They would refer to their attempts as their “good will huntings”. That seems so normal to us now. The early 2000s were full of successful Indy movies with actor/ writer/ directors. Then came the open platforms of the internet and hustle culture and everyone became their own everything. But so much of that concept for young artists in the film industry at that time had its roots in this film’s success.
@@joegreene7619True! I didn’t mean to imply they single handily invented it 😬😂 And they were probably inspired by Stallone. I just meant they inspired a whole host of young actors at the time. And because of the timing that fed into the early days of the digital age.
I grew up one street over from where Will's apartment was supposed to be. There's some very real Boston stuff from this time period such as riding with your friends, who have no money, in an old clunker of a car, and especially the fight scene from the playground. We had grudges with other groups and everyone was expected to settle it on the street. Our neighborhood was full of abused and traumatized kids with terrible parents and poverty everywhere. We wore it as a badge of honor for years, but the trauma catches up later in life after substance abuse, bad marriages, and the same social issues Will had. The movie doesn't get too deep into the issues all around Will, but watching the movie still reminds me of how many friends (if they didn't die from drugs and crime) needed help later in life.
Definitely one of Robin Williams highlights in his filmography but if you haven't seen it already I would certainly recommend watching "What Dreams May Come" which is another of Williams dramatic films that's a certified tear jerker. Also I must say I love Hayley's lipstick and the effort she made to make everything in her room to match the color. 😉
Heard joke once: Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain. Doctor says: "Treatment is simple. Great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight. Go and see him. That should pick you up." Man bursts into tears. Says: "But doctor…I am Pagliacci." Good joke. Everybody laugh. Roll on snare drum. Curtains.
One of the most dismissed movie by those who never saw this film, but one of the greatest with real life lessons mixed with just enough humor. If you haven't seen the movie "Patch Adams" with Robin Williams, you will see more of his magic. I'm glad you shared it with us.
Thank you for such a beautiful and thoughtful reaction. I am always so moved, like you guys, by the moment when Robin Williams on a bench speaks quietly and manages to communicate all the love and pain and loss and complexity of a human life in a single speech. It was fun to see you both react to the real-feeling friendships and relationships, too -- and I especially loved the way Stella noted the constant choices of each character and how they seemed to exist as real people, not as script archetypes to "teach Will a lesson." It's a wonderful movie that has honestly only gotten richer for me as time went on. And as a child abuse victim with PTSD (I'm okay, but it's there), it always moves me deeply every time Sean gets Will to finally show vulnerability and pain. And Will's romance with Skylar is so real and sweet and underrated. Minnie Driver was amazing here, as was the rest of the cast.
Stella mentioned the effect this movie had back in 1999. You cannot underestimate how many people became open to the idea of therapy, and how many therapists were at least partly inspired in their career choices because of this movie. Before this, a lot of the 80s & 90s movies portrayed therapy as something "New Yorkers did", often as a joke or to show how neurotic a character was - almost like a flaw or personal failure. This is purely anecdotal, but my mother, who was a professional therapist for many decades, to this day appreciates this movie as something that took some anxiety from patients and animated them to seek help. This movie just oozes empathy and kindness, and I think that is one of the main reasons why it still stands the test of time.
I've seen that movie a few time and each time it reminds me so much of how much as been loss from Robin Williams death...some insane performance in all movie genres...That whole scene of : "It's not your fault". Four words and so powerful. Top 10 greatest drama in all of cinema no questions !
There is a gentleman with a channel called “My Little Thought Tree”. He analyzes all the therapy scenes between Will and Sean. It’s really interesting and insightful! I believe he is a therapist too! And I’m pretty sure I’m in love with Stella.
Great reaction. I was a young man when this movie came out, and could relate a lot to the character Will. I was a student struggling with my own identity and knowing what I wanted to do. Now that I'm older, I find that I relate more to the character, Shaun. I have life experience behind me and enjoy supporting young people to find their own way in life.
7:31 the second math problem is actually not as complicated as it is shown in the movie, because everybody can try this at home and you definitely dont need 2 years to solve it. the problem is: "Draw all homeomorphically irreducible trees of size of n=10". those trees are justs a network of 10 dots connected by lines and you have to showcase all possible connection variations. there are 3 restrictions: homeomorphically just means that you are not allowed to rotate or reflect the same design over and over. the second is you are not allowed to create cycles which can lead to the original starting point and the last one is each dot has to provide at least to 2 connections to other dots except end of the line dots. this is why the graphs look like trees and molecules. everyone could draw at least a couple within 15minutes
7:27 You are looking at some Vertices in a "graph" which represent "entities", now the edges represent relationships between these "things". Graphs can be directed or undirected (edges have a direction). This one is sound but complex. A vertex's degree is the number of edges that intersect it. There are in-degree and out-degree in directed graphs, which represent the number of incoming and exiting edges, respectively. So what are you looking for in a graph like this, a path is a succession of vertices with each adjacent pair connected by an edge. A cycle would be when we find a path is closed with the same first and last vertices. A graph is said to be linked if there is a path connecting every pair of vertices. Understanding that level of integrated interconnectivity is valuable. A disconnected graph is made up of two or more components. Now regarding a tree, it is an undirected, acyclic, linked graph. It has a distinct path between any two vertices. a tree has exactly one less edge than the number of vertices (|E| = |V| - 1). This property ensures that the tree is connected and acyclic. When dealing with very sophisticated topics, these graph become very complicated,... what is the one for, I have no clue but it could be for such things as to tackle other graph-related problems, or deep structural algorithms such as Dijkstra's algorithm, Bellman-Ford algorithm, and depth-first search hierarchies in utilization. These are essential in high-level computer science and probably AI programing where they would be employed in data structures such as adjacency matrices and adjacency lists. I could try to make this sound simpler... but yeah.. .. yeah
I would love to see you guys react to movies outside of the UA-cam movie bubble. I'm not saying any of those movies bad, some like Good Will Hunting are really good, it's just that there's a whole world (literally) of great cinema out there. Classic Hollywood, New Hollywood, the new waves from around the world in the late 50's and early 60's (France, Japan, Czechoslovakia, etc.), Indian Parallel Cinema and a dozen more film movements I could name. Gus Van Sant's earlier film, Drugstore Cowboy is really good and doesn't get talked about enough these days. Keep up the good work.
This was a great boon for the idea of therapy ... though it was pretty accepted at the time. (I'm 60 now) An equally good film that came before this, also based on the relationship between a traumatized kid and his therapist was "Ordinary People"... Mary Tyler Moore, Donald Sutherland, Timothy Hutton... won best picture , lots of noms. It was the Good Will Hunting of my gen.... worth a watch on this channel for sure.
I gotchu on the math. The first problem was about walks on graphs, more or less a routine problem in linear algebra. The second problem was also about graphs, determining how many different graphs are equivalent to a given one of a certain shape. That one’s not too hard either. The third problem (where Will and the professor are staring at the chalkboard) is a bit harder, and it’s about finding a formula for the number of ways to color the vertices on that Triforce-looking shape such that no two adjacent vertices have the same color. Although they’re not super-hard or particularly deep problems, they are also not trivial exercises, they are real, and they do look nice on film when you present the shapes and equations for the audience. Thanks for reacting to one of my favorite movies of all time!
Supposedly, Spielberg wanted to cast a relatively unknown up and coming actor as Ryan in saving private Ryan. Affleck and Damon wrote and released and won awards for good will hunting just before spr
That second problem could be something to do with chemistry bond angles. Its about how the atoms repel each other based on the magnetic repulsion of the atoms. But I could be wrong, I'm not a mathematician.
How are yall just seeing this. This movie made the career of almost everyone who was in it. Great drama just such a masterclass in fimaking all around.
I was a maths person growing up and I was the best in my class but I never cared for it. It took me until I was an adult to realise english and art were the things I loved but never really had a chance to do well in when I was in school. I was always pushed into maths just because it came naturally to me and art was off limits because it wasn't a "real subject"
A lovely reaction. As someone who was in therapy at the time the film came out, this felt realistic -- except for the hand on the throat; that was something that'd cost you your license. Therapy by 1990 did not have the stigma it had, say, in the 1960s, and certainly educated people knew about it, but perhaps not quite as much as is known today. The part of the film I like best is where four people in a row call out Will on his avoidance: Skyler, then Lambeau, then Sean, then even Chuckie. And you have the realization that that there all these folks who want Will to heal, to succeed, to win, and are willing to confront him in order to make that happen -- and that Will has nowhere left to run. Since you asked: the second math puzzle on the hallway board was a series of network diagrams, from graph theory. (I'm not a mathematician, but I read a few chapters of a graph theory book last year. :) ) (NB, I was always a math *and* English nerd. Still am, although I became a writer and not a scientist.)
The last line of the movie - Robin Williams reading Will's note and saying "Son of a bitch - he stole my line." was improvised by Williams. Which seems amazing, since it's a callback to "I've gotta go see about a girl" said by Williams earlier in the film, and it feels like that line was only said by Williams because the script knew Damon would write it at the end of the film, allowing Williams to say "he stole my line". But it wasn't in the script and was improvised by Williams.
I saw this this film when it first came out, I was 17 or 18 and even though the terminology was known, i don't think most people really understood the meaning. I can only speak from my own experience but terms like 'depression' kinda meant 'feeling a bit sad'. As someone who, when older was diagnosed with depression it was hard to wrap my head around, I always thought everyone else felt the same as me and it was just normal. Times have changed now though😊 (Name drop alert🤪) I worked on a film with Robin Williams in 95(?) and glad to say he was every bit the person I'd imagined, not so different from his character in this film and will be truely missed🥰
You two are intelligent and lovely. Oh, more? Well you made so many post-watch points that were both spot on and illuminating. To watch this a 2nd time and notice the nuances of both the movie and your own growth, it was amazing to experience. Thank you both! ❤
I like to think that when Will first speaks to Sean at the 19 minute mark it's because he notices he's falling asleep and that doesn't serve Will's agenda to waste his time because if he's asleep he's not focusing his attention on Will, so while he doesn't want to be vunerable he still, even subconciously, wants Sean's attention
The second problem in Good Will Hunting asks for all the series-reduced trees "homeomorphically irreducible trees" of order 10 [10 nodes] - the first problem was actually harder and the second problem took no one "two years" to solve. The challenge of the second problem is generalizing as the number of nodes increase - 10 is hard - producing a method for 20 is harder still.
You should watch Patch Adams. One of my favourite Robin Williams performances and a beautiful movie and a true story. What is amazing about this movie is that Matt and Ben wrote the script for this movie at the age they were and then they starred in it. I am sure they got a lot of input for all the counseling elements but it's exceptional.
Knowing math, I recognized third-year problems. I suppose the description of very hard problems was to be accepted for the sake of the plot. Fair enough.
Such an incredible movie! The "Its not your fault" line gets me everytime. The first time I watched this movie which was just a couple years ago, I was going through such a low point in my life and I honestly had to pause the movie so I could breakdown and dwell on that moment because I needed to hear that! So well written and so well performed.
You should check out Searching For Bobby Fischer. It's a movie about chess, but it's not really about chess. It's just like this movie where the underlying theme is more important than the background of the movie. You also get that in a lot of sports movies, such as Moneyball, Field Of Dreams, Rush (2013), Rocky, Chariots Of Fire, and Brian's Song, to name a few. If you want to see another film where Robin Williams plays a similar role, check out Dead Again.
Love your reaction!! What's funny is that language is even structured in math/logic; so even though you're an English person, you still have to understand logic to understand language. The speeches by Sean and Chucky are iconic as well as some of the one-liners and jokes in this movie!! This soundtrack with Elliott Smith is one of the best as well and fits really well - although depressing at times.
Always love to see people's reactions to this, such a great movie, and done really well, thank you. I wonder when someone will have the guts to do Sleepers 1996. Without giving it away, its got a great cast, and covers a dark topic like this. Bit more Hollywood though. For some of us, it's cathartic to see people reacting to this sort of content. All the best.
One of my all-time favourite movies. Brilliant writing, direction, casting, and acting. An occasionally heart-breaking, often hilarious, and generally heart-warming film.
The problem he solved that looks like lines and dots is homeomorphically irreducible trees of size of the order of ten, that is trees or lines connected by 10 dots. Each node or dot can only end or be connected by three lines max and cannot repeat themselves. It can be used in ways to promote thinking in creativity by reduction without redundancy. But are used in graph theory etc. And can be seen in nature sought like the fibonacci sequence. It's actually not a hard math problem just different. I think they made it simpler and interesting visually.
@White Noise Reacts,Hey Stella& Hailey-you two should react to ,"A Beautiful Mind" (Russell Crowe)after this film,because both has the same elements sprinkled into the storyarc& very charcter focus on a male whom seem odd to his friends/coleague or randon strangers,I think the two film came out around the same decade?.
Robin William has done more for young man that he will ever realize. We lost him way too soon. That "good luck, son" alongside all the other intimate moments towards the end speak to A LOT of men and boys. I've seen tough-guy military veterans and I've seen young boys cry all the same tears because of this movie. I wonder if people realize how relatable the struggles Matt Damon's character goes through are for a lot of men.
Stella talks about not liking math in school. I had the same problem, from elementary all the way through college. The only thing I half-way liked was geometry, because proofs just made sense. It was looking at rules, then applying the right ones to what you're looking at. It was more like a puzzle than anything else. But that was in the middle of high school and I never ran into anything else I liked for as long as I *had* to study it. It was work. It was a slog. It was boring and repetitive. It was ritual, when it could've been a puzzle. And it was all the same until I decided to do some reading, all on my own, years after I was out of school. I got curious about large number theory. Math involving numbers so large it requires special notation because there aren't enough carbon atoms in the universe to form enough graphite to make enough pencils to write one of them out completely. So, don't give up on anything, even if 99% of what you experienced of it was horrible. All it takes is one spark of inspiration and a little curiosity to dig into something completely new.
Regarding the chemistry between Damon and Driver, they started dating during (after?) making this film and fell in love. Unfortunately it didn't last, and was a very public breakup.
I went up to Calculus 3 and Differential Equations in college ( albeit, I was barely holding on for dear life in there) that problem on the board was well beyond what I've ever seen. Like Robin Williams (Sean) said. only one or two people in the world could figure out those equations!
The second math problem in the movie is part of graph theory, so unless you take classes dealing with Discrete Mathematics, you might not get introduced to it. That specific problem was brilliantly covered by a Numerphile video posted here: ua-cam.com/video/iW_LkYiuTKE/v-deo.html
MIT is in Cambridge (used to live there), across the river from Boston. Will and his friends live in South Boston, a pretty run down area. No kid bought a new car in Boston in those days. The song at the end is "Miss Misery" by Elliot Smith, who died at an early age the same way Robin Williams died (I don't want to say it). "Miss Misery" is on the deluxe edition of the album "XO", I just bought a copy on vinyl yesterday. Two LPs, brown vinyl. I'm from the area of this movie. The movie is very realistic. The "troubled teen" was a common story in New England in the 70s. I have my own stories. Cheers.
It isn't fair of Skylar to ask Will to prove his love by going to California with her. What is the context,? Extended vacation? Live together while she goes to med school and be a househusband? Ever know anyone in med school? They barely, have time to breathe. And the sex they have is quickies with other med students. Has anyone remembered the fact that Will is ON PROBATION. He's not allowed to move ...anywhere until the terms of his probation have been met. As for money, it's not the number of dollars that matters, it's the shared background that does matter. Men and women are different enough to manage without throwing in differences in race, religion, and class. What happens when she gets tired of bowling and bars and batting cages? What happens when she pops out with "don't you love Greece in the off-season?" Or "can you ski? Golf? Hangglide? Have a private plane that you have a pilots license to use?" Don't you know how much fun you can have in Paris for a long weekend" Or "Lets go to China for the summer?" Relationships not built on mutual values rarely last. Look around. The relationships that DO work when people of different backgrounds marry it's usually when the husband who is the boss. Why? Guys want be able to support their families. Or feel that they can. So Skylar wants Will to uproot himself and leave everyone he knows to prove himself. What if Will proposed and asked Skylar to drop plans for med school and live with him In South Boston? And if he accused Skylar of cowardice if she says no? Or go to a medical in Boston? Should HE ask Skylar for a permanent life of bars, batting cages, and nights out with his friends? Would she be a coward if she said no? Rich people have a common history. Dífferent people have passion that usually burns out quickly. Unless it's the man who is marrying down. Ask your friends. AND...Will is on probation! He legally cannot leave Boston until the terms of his probation are met?
I first saw this film soon after it won the Oscars. The film raises a question for me that in 25 years I've never heard anyone talk about. But I recently got to answer. I recently went into and sat for half an hour in the Sistine Chapel (named after the Pope that built it in the late 1400s). I didn't notice any unique discernible smell, but this is clearly really great writing. Also, the most beautiful room I've ever been in.
Because of everything that's happened in my life, whenever people tell me 'its not your fault' I'm afraid of letting them in because of a very bad abusive experience, which is why my social circle is very small
I actually was really familiar with Damon and Affleck before this movie. They both were in smaller movies: Courage Under Fire, Mallrats, and School Ties. School Ties they also did together, way before Good Will Hunting, but Damon has a bigger role in the movie. School Ties, lesser known, is an amazing film.
*Begins playing Between the Bars* "This is one of my favorite songs of all time!" *Throws hands up* Alright, that does it. It's official: I am in love with Stella. Marry me, marry me, marry me. 💍 Seriously though, shout out - like a GREAT, BIG, ENORMOUS shout out - to the one, the only, the man, the myth, the legend: Elliott Smith (August 6, 1969 - October 21, 2003). "Angleles" "No Name #3" "Between the Bars" "Say Yes" "Miss Misery" not to mention all the other incredible songs he wrote and performed. RIP
12:45 in reality therapy isnt some magic where the therapist talks to you and one day you wake up and you are healed. if you go to therapy because your parents or a friend or a judge told you to do so its usually wasted time. therapy is really hard mental work, its exhausting, and it may hurt and it requires all of your willpower to make changes happen.
The Robin Williams monologue on the park bench Ben affleck's monologue on the construction site, is the real life altering moments in this film for Will. Williams monologue I think helps break down the stigma for Will, and Chucky's monologue is a real friend telling you the hard truths that you don't want to hear necessarily but you need to hear.
This movie.... excited. After Williams left us, the bench became an impromptu memorial location. This movie doesn't just have one of the best speeches in cinema history, but it has multiple...
Scary when you know that Matt & Ben wrote this classic when they were only 22 and when his performance was recognised by the Academy, Robin referenced their age during his acceptance words. The whole speech is one of the best Oscar moments ever, you can feel the love in the room for Robin, especially from the host Billy Crystal, his old friend from the very early days of trying to make it in showbiz. It wasn't polite applause from his peers - it was genuine love for a man who had brought so much joy & laughter but was also capable of touching performances like this. Wonderful. The award and speech are on YT, do try and watch.
They both kept talking about how young Matt Damon and Ben Affleck were when they acted in this, but they don't seem to know that they wrote it maybe? ... Which is kind of weird when it was in the credits and they were reading the credits but whether they were talking when it went by? I don't know ...
You really should find the Oscars for that year on UA-cam Ben and Matt won an Oscar for the screenplay & Robin won Best Supporting Actor - it’s a classic ❤
And? What’s the scary part?
@@SnailHatan scary when you compare it to what you did with your life ... and by you I mean me ... and by me I mean 60 year old me who is running out of time for my latent talents to appear 🤣
Ben was 21, Matt was 23, then when they made the movie they were 24 and 26.
This movie is an example of the adage "write what you know." Matt Damon and Ben Affleck wrote this movie together in their early 20s, and the father of one of them (can't recall which) was a math professor at Harvard, and the mother of the other was a psychologist. That's why the script knows so much about math and trauma therapy.
To be fair, my father was an engineer, I definitely can't write competently about engineering.
@@jkhooverdo you talk to your dad about what he does at work and go in depth? That's probably why. I didn't know anything about running a business until I was 20 and started talking to my dad about his and he told me all the workings of running a business
"I used to think the worst thing in life was to be alone. But is not. The worst thing in life is to be with people that make you feel alone."
- Robin Williams
Damn, I know that feeling.
I believe that they said they wrote this with Robin Williams in mind and watching it, you can see why. I can't imagine anyone else in that role. His thoughtfulness and sentimentality come through so well. We really lost someone special when he left us. And to top it off, the subtle wistfulness of Elliot Smith's music filling out the soundtrack was perfection.
I don’t mean to shatter your thought here, but they wrote the part just hoping they could get someone famous to help get the movie a good budget. They wrote it so open ended that if a really famous woman wanted it, they could make it mother/son rather than father/son. If someone like Denzel or Morgan freeman wanted it they could adjust it to reflect racial relations in Boston. Yes robin Williams was perfect, but they certainly didn’t write it for him
@@boppityboopy114 Ah, ok. Thanks for the info! 🙂
Nominated for 9 Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director.
But won two Oscars for:
1. Best Supporting Actor for Robin Williams
2. Best Original Screenplay for Ben Affleck and Matt Damon.
Honestly, Robin Williams deserve that Oscar Win cause he’s so good in this movie along with his previous appearances. RIP Robin.
Hopefully both you and Stella get to react to _Jumanji, Hook,_ and _Aladdin_ (the latter if you plan to react to Animated movies) for your next reactions and if you girls love Robin Williams and his performance in _Good Will Hunting_ I recommend the both of you react to _Dead Poets Society_ one of Robin’s best performances but an extremely heartbreaking ending.
Edit: I just realized that James and Nobu had already reacted to _Dead Poets Society_ 2 years ago, so hopefully that means both of you girls will react to _Dead Poets Society_
He is actually really good in August Rush, starring Freddie Highmore. It is actually a really good movie. Extremely underrated and doesn’t have a good rating on rotten tomatoes because it is kinda of a fairy tale in terms of order of events but it is a very emotional movie and very well acted.
@@Phelddagrif1998 I second _August Rush_ and that I can imagine being saved as a Four group reaction at a later point, along with the fact there aren’t any reactions for this movie.
As for Robin’s performance in _August Rush_ it’s good and I don’t deny but not Oscar level good as his previous acting work he did in _Dead Poets Society_ and _Good Will Hunting._ I do give credit to Robin Williams for playing against type and playing an antagonistic/villainous role as his only other role was _Insomnia_ where he also was the antagonist.
The most spectacular thing about the writing was that they didn't go for the trope of "catching the girl at the airport" at the end. We never got to see the totally expected reaction shot of Skylar locking eyes with Will when she realizes "he's the one" and "he really does love me and is capable of vulnerability" -- it's just assumed in this script. The cliché was absent entirely, and we're left to imagine the awkward, effed-up, and probably-pretty-smart conversation that they had to have in order for Will to actually see about a girl. We're made to worry about whether the car can make it, not about what will happen when it gets there. I think about that conversation every time I get to the end of this film.
That's a great observation, and it drives home that the point of the movie isn't whether Will gets the girl, it's that he made the choice to try. Throughout the movie Will is confronted with three choices: stay in his comfort zone (represented by his old buddies), focus on maximizing his genius to do great things (Professor Lambeau), or take a leap of faith and try to love and trust (Skyler). The victory is that a guy from his abused background chooses to try to love, not whether it turns out well afterwards.
@@charlize1253 That's totally, totally right. I couldn't have said it better myself. And here are these two guys, Damon and Affleck, barely out of high school. And they knew to write the story that way. OR, and stay with me here, maybe they didn't, maybe producers pushed it that way and they were just dumb kids. Thing is, we don't get to know. And that's what I love about this film -- I can't tell where the creators end, and the entrenched Hollywood money begins. I guess I've got to be okay with that, but so far, I'm okay with that.
I always imagined he found some other chick on his way to California. ;)
Before this film:
Damon & Affleck, childhood friends who were semi-known actors.
Then they made this incredible piece of work as writers.
Casting Minnie Driver (up and coming as well) and the late Robin Williams was perfection.
After this film:
Critical acclaim and award wins,
Including 3 Oscars.
Best Original Screenplay for Damon & Affleck, Best Supporting Actor for Robin Williams.
I was rooting for them all to win during the 70th annual Academy Awards show.
25 years later; The filmmakers, the cast and moviegoers remember a story about being gifted and not just for the purpose of being smart.
But being strong enough to give and receive the love that we all deserve.
The Park Bench scene is magnificent, but my favorite scene is the "Unabomber scene", with Gerry and Sean debating what was best for Will. It was a brilliant illustration of who those men are and how they see Will.
If I'm not mistaken that bench has been named after Robin Williams
Sometimes, I like to watch this movie to feel like I'm getting free therapy sessions from Robin Williams. 😭
So true 😭😭😭
Ultimate comfort movie for me
The math looks like it is from graph theory, which is about network structures - essentially, circles(nodes) representing objects in a space and a line connecting the 2 objects(an edge). A network could be like a collection of islands where an edge exists if there is a way to get from one island to the next or a social media friend network, where each node represents a user and an edge exists between them if they are friends. @4:42, All the questions are related to that network drawn on board where the nodes are labeled {1,2,3,4}. The first question asks for the adjacency matrix which is essentially a table with the rows labeled 1-4 and columns labeled 1-4 and each box in the table is a 1 or a 0 meaning: 1 if there is a edge between the 2 nodes and 0 if there isn't. The second question is another matrix - like the adjacency - which is the number of ways to get from 1 node to another in 3 steps. For example the top left value in 2) is 2, which means 2 ways to get from node 1 to node 1(itself), If you look at network diagram that would be 1 -> 3 > 2 -> 1 and 1-> 2 -> 3-> 1. 3rd question is just creating a more generalized form of this matrix where instead of restricting to 3 steps it could be any number you want and you just plug in the numbers and it generates all the steps from any node to another without you having to enumerate everything. I think the 4th question is similar except it's restricted to steps 1, steps 2, and steps 3. The other problem @7:23 is hard to see, but I think it is just asking to draw out all of the networks that satisfy a particular condition. Hopefully that makes sense!
I hated this class. lol.. It excluded my Calculus knowledge altogether, in which I was 4.0 (old system). My class was called "Discrete Mathematics" and was available to me as a freshman since I tested out of 2 years of college courses. I get that it was tying into my computer programming classes which in 1985 was just 4 semesters of COBOL/FORTRAN, etc. But the whole skew away from the business applicability was rough for me. lol
A big maths UA-camr covered the problem on his channel years ago, he explained that it was a genuine maths problem and that it had only been solved shortly before the movie came out and so Ben and Matt borrowed it for the movie.
It is indeed graph theory. For those interested, Numberphile did a video breaking down the problem here: ua-cam.com/video/iW_LkYiuTKE/v-deo.html
Love the scene where the professor and the therapist are arguing over the boy. It's like the mom and the dad are arguing about they're son as he walks in the house from school. Dad wants his son to succeed. Mom wants son to be happy.
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This film really was so good. I have PTSD and BPD, I also had childhood trauma, (was r worded by a family member for a couple years) I struggled with abandonment issues and pushed people away a lot too, the scene where the therapist says "it wasn't your fault" was so impactful and healing. ❤
That “it’s not your fault” scene is hands down one of the saddest yet happiest scenes in a movie ever
Robin Williams won his only Academy Award for this film, which many say is his best performance. It was very well deserved and his Oscar speech is very poignant and memorable. I highly recommend watching that speech.
Also when you watch that speech, watch out for the fact that he didn't thank his mother. He forgot her and he joked about her reaction to that on the Graham Norton show years later
"It's too much work to hold a GRUDGE when you're older." There is so much truth in this quote! I keep telling my buddies from high school the same thing. Why go through life wasting time and energy of incidents of the past? Life and people continue moving on while you are still bitter inside. It's not only unhealthy, but it is also meaningless. Live life to its fullest I say! Forgive, forget and keep living! Great reaction.
Its not just being smarter or having knowledge he doesnt use, these men have worked their entire life in the pursuit of knowledge and the ability to solve these problems. In walks will and renders their entire professional pursuit worthless. Thats hard to reconcile with regardless of ego. Love this movie and the reaction!
When Will walks in at 32:09 it's like he is walking on two parents arguing about his future, it's very interesting subtext since he most likely never experienced that sorta "care", even the way the two professors react when he walks in is like parents noticing their argument woke their child.
The math is:
Problem 1:
For the graph G
1) Find the adjacency matrix A
2) Find the matrix giving the number of 3 step walks
3) Find the generating function for walks from point i to j.
4) Find the generating function for walks from points 1 to 3.
This involves some liner algebra
Problem 2:
Find all Homeomorphically Irreducible Trees of degree ten (i.e ten nodes).
A Homeomorphically irreducible (or series-reduced) tree is a tree in which there is no vertex of degree 2. So, the question means we need to join ten nodes together such that all nodes are connected to at least one other node. No cycles are allowed and only one line is allowed between two nodes. Most important property of a homeomorphic tree must be satisfied i.e all nodes must have 1 or more lines connecting to other node and no node can have degree of 2.
Stella is great to watch movies with. Honest, thoughtful, empathetic. Needs her own channel.... but THAT is a lot of work and gets in the way of having a real life. Glad she was added to the crew.
To cry "Amen" to that, thus we appear.
@larryjohnston2075
You are right.
But for me, it`s as if it is her channel when she takes over.
And stunningly beautiful. Especially during "Wednesday".
@@lechat8533 Yes Stella effortlessly owns the camera, I wonder if she does the same on stage?
It's only a matter of time. She's a powerhouse of youthful intellect. Her future will be what she makes of it.
Robin Williams deservedly won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar. His performance is so restrained from his usual zany roles, yet he embodied it perfectly. His legacy will continue to burn brightly. 🕯️💖
I try to imagine a more beautiful spirit, a more beautiful soul than Robin Williams and I fail every time.
We were so lucky to have him
At the end of the movie. When Robin William said "Son of a bicth, he stole my line". That was improvise by Robin William & not scripted. Love yall Reactions ❤
9:32 "People who talk about what they know about are always attractive." That's one of the best things I've ever heard anyone say. Also definitely wasn't the scene where I expected to start crying at this reaction, so thank you for surprising me Stella.
When Ben and Matt wrote this film specifically for them to star in, to create their own roles as actors (meaning they were not open to selling it and letting other, better known actors be in it, it was all or nothing) and were successful it started a trend.
All over America, especially in LA, young struggling actors all started writing screenplays for the first time. People who never had an interest in writing before were trying to make their own films specifically to help boost their acting careers. They would refer to their attempts as their “good will huntings”.
That seems so normal to us now. The early 2000s were full of successful Indy movies with actor/ writer/ directors. Then came the open platforms of the internet and hustle culture and everyone became their own everything.
But so much of that concept for young artists in the film industry at that time had its roots in this film’s success.
It's the Rocky approach that Sylvester Stallone did 20 years earlier.
@@joegreene7619That was my first thought as well.
@@joegreene7619True! I didn’t mean to imply they single handily invented it 😬😂 And they were probably inspired by Stallone. I just meant they inspired a whole host of young actors at the time. And because of the timing that fed into the early days of the digital age.
I grew up one street over from where Will's apartment was supposed to be. There's some very real Boston stuff from this time period such as riding with your friends, who have no money, in an old clunker of a car, and especially the fight scene from the playground. We had grudges with other groups and everyone was expected to settle it on the street. Our neighborhood was full of abused and traumatized kids with terrible parents and poverty everywhere. We wore it as a badge of honor for years, but the trauma catches up later in life after substance abuse, bad marriages, and the same social issues Will had. The movie doesn't get too deep into the issues all around Will, but watching the movie still reminds me of how many friends (if they didn't die from drugs and crime) needed help later in life.
Elliott Smith's music makes the soundtrack so fucking good
One of those movies that makes your life better somehow, makes you emotionally mature and questions your own abilities and life itself
Definitely one of Robin Williams highlights in his filmography but if you haven't seen it already I would certainly recommend watching "What Dreams May Come" which is another of Williams dramatic films that's a certified tear jerker. Also I must say I love Hayley's lipstick and the effort she made to make everything in her room to match the color. 😉
Heard joke once:
Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain.
Doctor says:
"Treatment is simple. Great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight. Go and see him. That should pick you up."
Man bursts into tears. Says:
"But doctor…I am Pagliacci."
Good joke. Everybody laugh. Roll on snare drum. Curtains.
One of the most dismissed movie by those who never saw this film, but one of the greatest with real life lessons mixed with just enough humor. If you haven't seen the movie "Patch Adams" with Robin Williams, you will see more of his magic. I'm glad you shared it with us.
Thank you for such a beautiful and thoughtful reaction. I am always so moved, like you guys, by the moment when Robin Williams on a bench speaks quietly and manages to communicate all the love and pain and loss and complexity of a human life in a single speech. It was fun to see you both react to the real-feeling friendships and relationships, too -- and I especially loved the way Stella noted the constant choices of each character and how they seemed to exist as real people, not as script archetypes to "teach Will a lesson."
It's a wonderful movie that has honestly only gotten richer for me as time went on. And as a child abuse victim with PTSD (I'm okay, but it's there), it always moves me deeply every time Sean gets Will to finally show vulnerability and pain. And Will's romance with Skylar is so real and sweet and underrated. Minnie Driver was amazing here, as was the rest of the cast.
This is, and quite possibly always will be, my favourite film
Stella mentioned the effect this movie had back in 1999.
You cannot underestimate how many people became open to the idea of therapy, and how many therapists were at least partly inspired in their career choices because of this movie.
Before this, a lot of the 80s & 90s movies portrayed therapy as something "New Yorkers did", often as a joke or to show how neurotic a character was - almost like a flaw or personal failure.
This is purely anecdotal, but my mother, who was a professional therapist for many decades, to this day appreciates this movie as something that took some anxiety from patients and animated them to seek help.
This movie just oozes empathy and kindness, and I think that is one of the main reasons why it still stands the test of time.
That’s so beautiful❤
I've seen that movie a few time and each time it reminds me so much of how much as been loss from Robin Williams death...some insane performance in all movie genres...That whole scene of : "It's not your fault". Four words and so powerful. Top 10 greatest drama in all of cinema no questions !
There is a gentleman with a channel called “My Little Thought Tree”. He analyzes all the therapy scenes between Will and Sean. It’s really interesting and insightful! I believe he is a therapist too! And I’m pretty sure I’m in love with Stella.
Great reaction. I was a young man when this movie came out, and could relate a lot to the character Will. I was a student struggling with my own identity and knowing what I wanted to do. Now that I'm older, I find that I relate more to the character, Shaun. I have life experience behind me and enjoy supporting young people to find their own way in life.
7:31 the second math problem is actually not as complicated as it is shown in the movie, because everybody can try this at home and you definitely dont need 2 years to solve it. the problem is: "Draw all homeomorphically irreducible trees of size of n=10". those trees are justs a network of 10 dots connected by lines and you have to showcase all possible connection variations. there are 3 restrictions: homeomorphically just means that you are not allowed to rotate or reflect the same design over and over. the second is you are not allowed to create cycles which can lead to the original starting point and the last one is each dot has to provide at least to 2 connections to other dots except end of the line dots. this is why the graphs look like trees and molecules. everyone could draw at least a couple within 15minutes
7:27 You are looking at some Vertices in a "graph" which represent "entities", now the edges represent relationships between these "things". Graphs can be directed or undirected (edges have a direction). This one is sound but complex. A vertex's degree is the number of edges that intersect it. There are in-degree and out-degree in directed graphs, which represent the number of incoming and exiting edges, respectively. So what are you looking for in a graph like this, a path is a succession of vertices with each adjacent pair connected by an edge. A cycle would be when we find a path is closed with the same first and last vertices. A graph is said to be linked if there is a path connecting every pair of vertices. Understanding that level of integrated interconnectivity is valuable. A disconnected graph is made up of two or more components. Now regarding a tree, it is an undirected, acyclic, linked graph. It has a distinct path between any two vertices. a tree has exactly one less edge than the number of vertices (|E| = |V| - 1). This property ensures that the tree is connected and acyclic. When dealing with very sophisticated topics, these graph become very complicated,... what is the one for, I have no clue but it could be for such things as to tackle other graph-related problems, or deep structural algorithms such as Dijkstra's algorithm, Bellman-Ford algorithm, and depth-first search hierarchies in utilization. These are essential in high-level computer science and probably AI programing where they would be employed in data structures such as adjacency matrices and adjacency lists. I could try to make this sound simpler... but yeah.. .. yeah
Another drama with Robin Williams (also Deniro) is Awakenings. Not many people mention that one, but it hit me very hard when I saw it.
I would love to see you guys react to movies outside of the UA-cam movie bubble. I'm not saying any of those movies bad, some like Good Will Hunting are really good, it's just that there's a whole world (literally) of great cinema out there. Classic Hollywood, New Hollywood, the new waves from around the world in the late 50's and early 60's (France, Japan, Czechoslovakia, etc.), Indian Parallel Cinema and a dozen more film movements I could name. Gus Van Sant's earlier film, Drugstore Cowboy is really good and doesn't get talked about enough these days. Keep up the good work.
For anyone curious about how a therapist's viewpoint on this movie, I highly recommend watching Cinema Therapy's video on it. It's really good.
My Little Thought Tree has an in depth analysis too.
The fact that they wrote this so young blows me away
This was a great boon for the idea of therapy ... though it was pretty accepted at the time. (I'm 60 now) An equally good film that came before this, also based on the relationship between a traumatized kid and his therapist was "Ordinary People"... Mary Tyler Moore, Donald Sutherland, Timothy Hutton... won best picture , lots of noms. It was the Good Will Hunting of my gen.... worth a watch on this channel for sure.
Minnie Driver and Matt Damon started a relationship in real life during this movie. Its one of the reasons their chemistry is so palpable on screen.
Interesting filming fact, the story Robin Williams tell about his wife farting was improvised. The laugh from Matt Damon is a genuine laugh.
Dead Poets Society is an earlier Robin Williams film that nobody seems to react to. He's a teacher in that film too.
I gotchu on the math.
The first problem was about walks on graphs, more or less a routine problem in linear algebra. The second problem was also about graphs, determining how many different graphs are equivalent to a given one of a certain shape. That one’s not too hard either. The third problem (where Will and the professor are staring at the chalkboard) is a bit harder, and it’s about finding a formula for the number of ways to color the vertices on that Triforce-looking shape such that no two adjacent vertices have the same color. Although they’re not super-hard or particularly deep problems, they are also not trivial exercises, they are real, and they do look nice on film when you present the shapes and equations for the audience.
Thanks for reacting to one of my favorite movies of all time!
Supposedly, Spielberg wanted to cast a relatively unknown up and coming actor as Ryan in saving private Ryan. Affleck and Damon wrote and released and won awards for good will hunting just before spr
That second problem could be something to do with chemistry bond angles. Its about how the atoms repel each other based on the magnetic repulsion of the atoms. But I could be wrong, I'm not a mathematician.
How are yall just seeing this. This movie made the career of almost everyone who was in it. Great drama just such a masterclass in fimaking all around.
Oww Stella "Between The Bars" is one of my favourite songs too🥲
I was a maths person growing up and I was the best in my class but I never cared for it. It took me until I was an adult to realise english and art were the things I loved but never really had a chance to do well in when I was in school. I was always pushed into maths just because it came naturally to me and art was off limits because it wasn't a "real subject"
The scene in the park is great. Great acting, Great dialogue.
A lovely reaction. As someone who was in therapy at the time the film came out, this felt realistic -- except for the hand on the throat; that was something that'd cost you your license. Therapy by 1990 did not have the stigma it had, say, in the 1960s, and certainly educated people knew about it, but perhaps not quite as much as is known today.
The part of the film I like best is where four people in a row call out Will on his avoidance: Skyler, then Lambeau, then Sean, then even Chuckie. And you have the realization that that there all these folks who want Will to heal, to succeed, to win, and are willing to confront him in order to make that happen -- and that Will has nowhere left to run.
Since you asked: the second math puzzle on the hallway board was a series of network diagrams, from graph theory. (I'm not a mathematician, but I read a few chapters of a graph theory book last year. :) ) (NB, I was always a math *and* English nerd. Still am, although I became a writer and not a scientist.)
The last line of the movie - Robin Williams reading Will's note and saying "Son of a bitch - he stole my line." was improvised by Williams. Which seems amazing, since it's a callback to "I've gotta go see about a girl" said by Williams earlier in the film, and it feels like that line was only said by Williams because the script knew Damon would write it at the end of the film, allowing Williams to say "he stole my line". But it wasn't in the script and was improvised by Williams.
I saw this this film when it first came out, I was 17 or 18 and even though the terminology was known, i don't think most people really understood the meaning. I can only speak from my own experience but terms like 'depression' kinda meant 'feeling a bit sad'. As someone who, when older was diagnosed with depression it was hard to wrap my head around, I always thought everyone else felt the same as me and it was just normal. Times have changed now though😊 (Name drop alert🤪) I worked on a film with Robin Williams in 95(?) and glad to say he was every bit the person I'd imagined, not so different from his character in this film and will be truely missed🥰
You two are intelligent and lovely.
Oh, more? Well you made so many post-watch points that were both spot on and illuminating. To watch this a 2nd time and notice the nuances of both the movie and your own growth, it was amazing to experience. Thank you both! ❤
I like to think that when Will first speaks to Sean at the 19 minute mark it's because he notices he's falling asleep and that doesn't serve Will's agenda to waste his time because if he's asleep he's not focusing his attention on Will, so while he doesn't want to be vunerable he still, even subconciously, wants Sean's attention
The second problem in Good Will Hunting asks for all the series-reduced trees "homeomorphically irreducible trees" of order 10 [10 nodes] - the first problem was actually harder and the second problem took no one "two years" to solve. The challenge of the second problem is generalizing as the number of nodes increase - 10 is hard - producing a method for 20 is harder still.
You should watch Patch Adams. One of my favourite Robin Williams performances and a beautiful movie and a true story.
What is amazing about this movie is that Matt and Ben wrote the script for this movie at the age they were and then they starred in it. I am sure they got a lot of input for all the counseling elements but it's exceptional.
Knowing math, I recognized third-year problems. I suppose the description of very hard problems was to be accepted for the sake of the plot. Fair enough.
My suspension of disbelief was damaged when he pulled the mop out of the bucket without wringing it. Them boys ain't never worked as no janitor.
How I discovered the music of Elliott Smith too just to add extra depth to a great movie.
Such an incredible movie! The "Its not your fault" line gets me everytime. The first time I watched this movie which was just a couple years ago, I was going through such a low point in my life and I honestly had to pause the movie so I could breakdown and dwell on that moment because I needed to hear that! So well written and so well performed.
If you want to see the sequel, ‘Good Will Hunting 2: Hunting Season’, you’ll have to go through ‘Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back’ first.
I love this movie. This is one of my favorite movies.
You guys should check out Dead Poets Society, another Robin Williams film.
You should check out Searching For Bobby Fischer. It's a movie about chess, but it's not really about chess. It's just like this movie where the underlying theme is more important than the background of the movie. You also get that in a lot of sports movies, such as Moneyball, Field Of Dreams, Rush (2013), Rocky, Chariots Of Fire, and Brian's Song, to name a few. If you want to see another film where Robin Williams plays a similar role, check out Dead Again.
Love your reaction!! What's funny is that language is even structured in math/logic; so even though you're an English person, you still have to understand logic to understand language. The speeches by Sean and Chucky are iconic as well as some of the one-liners and jokes in this movie!! This soundtrack with Elliott Smith is one of the best as well and fits really well - although depressing at times.
Always love to see people's reactions to this, such a great movie, and done really well, thank you. I wonder when someone will have the guts to do Sleepers 1996. Without giving it away, its got a great cast, and covers a dark topic like this. Bit more Hollywood though. For some of us, it's cathartic to see people reacting to this sort of content. All the best.
One of my all-time favourite movies. Brilliant writing, direction, casting, and acting. An occasionally heart-breaking, often hilarious, and generally heart-warming film.
The part about Maguire describes his wife farting was improvised!
Men don't like mental health. To see a man break down like that is refreshing
The problem he solved that looks like lines and dots is homeomorphically irreducible trees of size of the order of ten, that is trees or lines connected by 10 dots. Each node or dot can only end or be connected by three lines max and cannot repeat themselves. It can be used in ways to promote thinking in creativity by reduction without redundancy. But are used in graph theory etc. And can be seen in nature sought like the fibonacci sequence. It's actually not a hard math problem just different. I think they made it simpler and interesting visually.
@White Noise Reacts,Hey Stella& Hailey-you two should react to ,"A Beautiful Mind" (Russell Crowe)after this film,because both has the same elements sprinkled into the storyarc& very charcter focus on a male whom seem odd to his friends/coleague or randon strangers,I think the two film came out around the same decade?.
Robin William has done more for young man that he will ever realize. We lost him way too soon. That "good luck, son" alongside all the other intimate moments towards the end speak to A LOT of men and boys. I've seen tough-guy military veterans and I've seen young boys cry all the same tears because of this movie. I wonder if people realize how relatable the struggles Matt Damon's character goes through are for a lot of men.
Only someone dead inside wouldn't like "Mork from Ork".
Stella talks about not liking math in school. I had the same problem, from elementary all the way through college. The only thing I half-way liked was geometry, because proofs just made sense. It was looking at rules, then applying the right ones to what you're looking at. It was more like a puzzle than anything else. But that was in the middle of high school and I never ran into anything else I liked for as long as I *had* to study it. It was work. It was a slog. It was boring and repetitive. It was ritual, when it could've been a puzzle. And it was all the same until I decided to do some reading, all on my own, years after I was out of school. I got curious about large number theory. Math involving numbers so large it requires special notation because there aren't enough carbon atoms in the universe to form enough graphite to make enough pencils to write one of them out completely.
So, don't give up on anything, even if 99% of what you experienced of it was horrible. All it takes is one spark of inspiration and a little curiosity to dig into something completely new.
You guys are on a roll. This might be close to a perfect movie as can be
If you want to break through in Hollywood, writing an Oscar-winning screenplay and acting in it is certainly a boss move.
Regarding the chemistry between Damon and Driver, they started dating during (after?) making this film and fell in love. Unfortunately it didn't last, and was a very public breakup.
I went up to Calculus 3 and Differential Equations in college ( albeit, I was barely holding on for dear life in there) that problem on the board was well beyond what I've ever seen. Like Robin Williams (Sean) said. only one or two people in the world could figure out those equations!
Not true. It's advanced math, to be sure, but it's stuff a math major or grad student could do.
@@ntertanedangel I was 21 left home and partied too much, probably why I ended up doing something else
The second math problem in the movie is part of graph theory, so unless you take classes dealing with Discrete Mathematics, you might not get introduced to it. That specific problem was brilliantly covered by a Numerphile video posted here: ua-cam.com/video/iW_LkYiuTKE/v-deo.html
MIT is in Cambridge (used to live there), across the river from Boston. Will and his friends live in South Boston, a pretty run down area. No kid bought a new car in Boston in those days. The song at the end is "Miss Misery" by Elliot Smith, who died at an early age the same way Robin Williams died (I don't want to say it). "Miss Misery" is on the deluxe edition of the album "XO", I just bought a copy on vinyl yesterday. Two LPs, brown vinyl. I'm from the area of this movie. The movie is very realistic. The "troubled teen" was a common story in New England in the 70s. I have my own stories. Cheers.
It isn't fair of Skylar to ask Will to prove his love by going to California with her. What is the context,? Extended vacation? Live together while she goes to med school and be a househusband?
Ever know anyone in med school? They barely, have time to breathe. And the sex they have is quickies with other med students.
Has anyone remembered the fact that Will is ON PROBATION. He's not allowed to move ...anywhere until the terms of his probation have been met.
As for money, it's not the number of dollars that matters, it's the shared background that does matter. Men and women are different enough to manage without throwing in differences in race, religion, and class. What happens when she gets tired of bowling and bars and batting cages?
What happens when she pops out with "don't you love Greece in the off-season?" Or "can you ski? Golf? Hangglide? Have a private plane that you have a pilots license to use?" Don't you know how much fun you can have in Paris for a long weekend" Or "Lets go to China for the summer?"
Relationships not built on mutual values rarely last. Look around. The relationships that DO work when people of different backgrounds marry it's usually when the husband who is the boss. Why? Guys want be able to support their families. Or feel that they can.
So Skylar wants Will to uproot himself and leave everyone he knows to prove himself. What if Will proposed and asked Skylar to drop plans for med school and live with him In South Boston? And if he accused Skylar of cowardice if she says no? Or go to a medical in Boston? Should HE ask Skylar for a permanent life of bars, batting cages, and nights out with his friends? Would she be a coward if she said no?
Rich people have a common history. Dífferent people have passion
that usually burns out quickly. Unless it's the man who is marrying down. Ask your friends.
AND...Will is on probation! He legally cannot leave Boston until the terms of his probation are met?
I saw this in the theater when it came out. I’m getting old. This movie is fantastic. A top ten movie of all time for me.
I first saw this film soon after it won the Oscars. The film raises a question for me that in 25 years I've never heard anyone talk about. But I recently got to answer. I recently went into and sat for half an hour in the Sistine Chapel (named after the Pope that built it in the late 1400s). I didn't notice any unique discernible smell, but this is clearly really great writing. Also, the most beautiful room I've ever been in.
you should watch ''Dead Poets Society'', it's just as on point and just as emotional!!!
Because of everything that's happened in my life, whenever people tell me 'its not your fault' I'm afraid of letting them in because of a very bad abusive experience, which is why my social circle is very small
Looking forward to this reaction. Thanks.
Oooh, a fellow Elliott Smith fan! 'Between The Bars' is one of my favorites as well.
I actually was really familiar with Damon and Affleck before this movie. They both were in smaller movies: Courage Under Fire, Mallrats, and School Ties. School Ties they also did together, way before Good Will Hunting, but Damon has a bigger role in the movie. School Ties, lesser known, is an amazing film.
I love the girls reaction please more
it's a shame that robin williams chose to leave us. i hope he found the peace he was looking for.
Yeah, we definitely need more reactions form the two of you.
"My guy is wicked smaht" i just love that line for some reason
*Begins playing Between the Bars*
"This is one of my favorite songs of all time!"
*Throws hands up* Alright, that does it. It's official: I am in love with Stella. Marry me, marry me, marry me. 💍
Seriously though, shout out - like a GREAT, BIG, ENORMOUS shout out - to the one, the only, the man, the myth, the legend: Elliott Smith (August 6, 1969 - October 21, 2003). "Angleles" "No Name #3" "Between the Bars" "Say Yes" "Miss Misery" not to mention all the other incredible songs he wrote and performed. RIP
12:45 in reality therapy isnt some magic where the therapist talks to you and one day you wake up and you are healed.
if you go to therapy because your parents or a friend or a judge told you to do so its usually wasted time. therapy is really hard mental work, its exhausting, and it may hurt and it requires all of your willpower to make changes happen.
The Robin Williams monologue on the park bench Ben affleck's monologue on the construction site, is the real life altering moments in this film for Will. Williams monologue I think helps break down the stigma for Will, and Chucky's monologue is a real friend telling you the hard truths that you don't want to hear necessarily but you need to hear.
Have either of you seen “What Dreams May Come”? If not, it’s another Robin Williams movie I highly recommend.
What Dreams May Come is very underrated. They way it presents it's subject matter is unparalleled. It deserves more eyes brought to it.
This movie.... excited. After Williams left us, the bench became an impromptu memorial location. This movie doesn't just have one of the best speeches in cinema history, but it has multiple...