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Science Fiction Film Podcast (2019)

Good Will Hunting

Science Fiction Film Podcast (2019)

LSG Media

Tv & Film, Film Reviews, Improv, Comedy

4.7598 Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2019

⏱️ 148 minutes

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Summary

Episode Rundown

  • 03:53 - A pretty good movie with GREAT performances.

  • 07:45 - Dean relates to the blue-collared wayward boy.

  • 11:41 - Will's friends are honest, loyal, and tough.

  • 15:35 - No scarves allowed.

  • 21:25 - Danny Elfman's music is BAD in this movie.

  • 24:26 - A brawl with the bully.

  • 32:49 - Screenplay excellence.

  • 37:21 - Let's talk Skylar (Minnie Driver).

  • 39:26 - Ambition is not always good.

  • 44:09 - My math is wicked tough and way better than yours!

  • 46:26 - Keep the scarves away from Robin Williams!

  • 49:18 - A vaguely foreign hypnotist.

  • 56:14 - Will jabs, feints, and probes for weakness in Sean's personality.

  • 1:04:18 - Sean talks knowledge versus experience.

  • 1:09:38 - Creating trust with the patient.

  • 1:16:04 - Let it go! You aren't perfect.

  • 1:21:11 - Robin Williams' brilliance despite a bad Boston accent.

  • 1:27:53 - Matthew and Dean want stuff out of their conversations.

  • 1:31:12 - Dean is not going to schmooze.

  • 1:48:22 - Let him put a pinky in so we can watch Clerks!

  • 1:55:27 - Good dialogue focuses on the subtext.

  • 1:58:41 - Will wields the truth for purpose but not principle.

  • 2:09:37 - Masking fear with false virtue.

  • 2:12:12 - Gerry Lambeau's arrogance in assuming what's best.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome back to the science fiction film podcast by LSG Media.

0:10.7

I'm Dean.

0:11.8

I'm Matthew.

0:12.5

And on this week's episode, we are discussing Goodwill Hunting from 1997 directed by Gus Van Sant.

0:25.9

If you were smart as old Will Hunting,

0:30.5

and you could work for the NSA,

0:32.2

and you could get those codes that you knew would unlock people

0:35.7

that could bomb villages,

0:37.6

would you, in fact, turn those weapons upon the very job that you work at

0:42.0

that has repeatedly made you sick?

0:44.3

Because just a minute ago, what the people don't realize,

0:47.2

because it's not on the podcast,

0:48.2

that you were bitching about maybe having a throat infection.

0:50.5

I just can't handle that.

0:52.4

I can't handle you having a throat infection.

0:54.0

So if you can do the

0:55.9

equations and shit, right, if you're wicked smart, maybe you can go to the NSA. You can get this

1:02.6

thing going. You can turn those bombs right on those kids you work with. You know, I think if you

1:06.5

even do become a super smart NSA analyst, I think doing the codes doesn't turn you into a human

1:12.7

colossus who can just point the missiles

1:14.8

with your mind powers.

1:16.5

Well, you can try. But if that is the case,

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