Good Will Hunting
Sometime or the other, one comes across a great movie and can't get that movie out of the system. I was talking to a friend on MSN, when the conversation shifted to the movie, "As Good As It Gets" I love this movie, but as I was scanning for the dialogues of the same. I came across dialogues from another great movie that was released the same year to a great response and shot two, then unknown actors, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck to instant fame and got them the academy award for writing the script of this amazing movie "Good Will Hunting". It also got Robin Williams, the much awaited and well deserved academy award.
The greatest irony is when I saw "Good Will Hunting", I was blown away by the dialogues to such an extent that I actually bought the script and paid a good amount for it and now, one can access this script easily online. However, some of the dialogues are altered in the movie and some dialogues from the movie don't exist in the original script online.
I thought of doing a feature on "Good Will Hunting", but then I figured everyone might have seen the movie, so I dropped the idea. But I guess I will just share two favourite moments from the movie, which kind of altered my life and perspective about people.
I think Matt Damon and Ben Affleck deserve an Oscar just for writing these two dialogues.
This is a dialogue between Sean Maguire played by Robin Williams and Will Hunting played by Matt Damon.
Sean's Office
WILL
You again, huh?
SEAN
Come with me.
Swan Pond in Boston Common
WILL
So what's this? A Taster's Choice moment between guys? This is really nice. You got a thing for swans? Is this like a fetish? It's something, like; maybe we need to devote some time to?
SEAN
I thought about what you said to me the other day, about my painting.
WILL
Yeah?
SEAN
Stayed up half the night thinking about it. Something occurred to me, I fell into a deep peaceful sleep, and I haven't thought about you since. You know what occurred to me?
WILL
No.
SEAN
You're just a kid. You don't have the faintest idea what you're talking about.
WILL
Why thank you.
SEAN
It's all right. You've never been out of Boston.
WILL
Nope.
SEAN
So, if I asked you about art, you'd probably give me the skinny on every art book ever written. Michelangelo. You know a lot about him. Life's work, political aspirations, him and the pope, sexual orientation, the whole works, right? But I bet you can't tell me what it smells like in the Sistine Chapel. You've never actually stood there and looked up at that beautiful ceiling. Seen that....If I ask you about women, you'd probably give me a syllabus of your personal favourites. You may have even been laid a few times. But you can't tell me what it feels like to wake up next to a woman and feel truly happy. You're a tough kid. I ask you about war, you'd probably uh...throw Shakespeare at me, right? "Once more into the breach, dear friends." But you've never been near one. You've never held your best friend's head in your lap, and watched him gasp his last breath looking to you for help. I ask you about love, y'probably quote me a sonnet. But you've never looked at a woman and been totally vulnerable...known someone that could level you with her eyes. Feeling like God put an angel on Earth just for you...who could rescue you from the depths of Hell. And you wouldn't know what it's like to be her angel, and to have that love for her be there forever. Through anything. Through cancer. And you wouldn't know about sleepin' sittin' up in a hospital room for two months, holding her hand because the doctors could see in your eyes that the terms visiting hours don't apply to you. You don't know about real loss, because that only occurs when you love something more than you love yourself. I doubt you've ever dared to love anybody that much. I look at you: I don't see an intelligent, confident man. I see a cocky, scared s***less kid. But you're a genius, Will. No one denies that. No one could possibly understand the depths of you. But you presume to know everything about me because you saw a painting of mine and ripped my f***in' life apart. You're an orphan, right? Do you think I'd know the first thing about how hard your life has been, how you feel, who you are because I read Oliver Twist? Does that encapsulate you? Personally, I don't give a s*** about that, because you know what? I can't learn anything from you I can't read in some f***in' book. Unless you wanna talk about you, who you are. And I'm fascinated. I'm in. But you don't wanna do that, do you, sport? You're terrified of what you might say. Your move, chief.
And second dialogue describes relationship aspect so aptly that I don't think anyone can beat this. This is not a part of online script.
Sean's Office
WILL
You know, I was on this plane once. And I'm sitting there and uh...the captain gets on, he does his whole, you know, we'll be cruisin' at 35,000 feet. But then he puts the mic down n forgets to turn it off.
SEAN
Mm-hmm.
WILL
And so he turns to the co-pilot n he's like, "you know, all I could use right now is a f***in' b*** job and a cup of coffee." So the stewardess f***in' goes bombin' up from the back of the plane to tell him that the microphone's still on. And this guy in the back of the plane is like, "Hey, hon, don't forget the coffee!"
SEAN
You ever been on a plane?
WILL
No, but it's a f***in' joke. It works better if I tell it in the first person.
SEAN
Yeah, it does.
WILL
I have been laid, you know.
SEAN
Really? Good for you.
WILL
Big time.
SEAN
Big time, huh?
WILL
I went on a date last week.
SEAN
How'd it go?
WILL
It was good.
SEAN
Goin' out again?
WILL
I dunno.
SEAN
Why not?
WILL
Haven't called her.
SEAN
Christ, you're an amateur.
WILL
I know what I'm doin'.
SEAN
Yeah.
WILL
Yeah. Don't worry about me, I know what I'm doin'. Yeah, but this girl is like, you know, beautiful. She's smart. She's funny. She's different from most of the girls I've been with.
SEAN
So, call her up, Romeo.
WILL
Why? So I can realize she's not that smart, that she's f***in' boring? Y'know--I mean...this girl is like f***in' perfect right now, I don't wanna r--ruin that.
SEAN
Maybe you're perfect right now. Maybe you don't wanna ruin that. I think that's a super philosophy, Will, that way you can go through your entire life without ever having to really know anybody....My wife used to fart when she was nervous. She had all sorts of wonderful idiosyncrasies. You know what? She used to fart in her sleep. Sorry I shared that with you. One night it was so loud it woke the dog up. She woke up and gone like "oh was that you?" I'd say yeah...I didn't have the heart to tell her...Oh God...
WILL
She woke herself up?
SEAN
Ye e e e sss.... Oh Christ....aahhh, but, Will, she's been dead two years and that's the s*** I remember. Wonderful stuff, you know, little things like that. Ah, but, those are the things I miss the most. The little idiosyncrasies that only I knew about. That's what made her my wife. Oh and she had the goods on me, too, she knew all my little peccadilloes. People call these things imperfections, but they're not, aw that's the good stuff. And then we get to choose who we let in to our weird little worlds. You're not perfect, sport. And let me save you the suspense. This girl you met, she isn't perfect either. But the question is: whether or not you're perfect for each other. That's the whole deal. That's what intimacy is all about. Now you can know everything in the world, sport, but the only way you're findin' out that one is by givin' it a shot. You certainly won't learn from an old f***er like me. Even if I did know, I wouldn't tell a piss ant like you.
WILL
Why not? You told me every other f***in' thing. Jesus Christ. F***in' talk more than any shrink I ever seen in my life.
SEAN
I teach this s***, I didn't say I know how to do it.
WILL
Yeah.......You ever think about gettin' remarried?
SEAN
My wife's dead.
WILL
Hence the word: remarried.
SEAN
She's dead.
WILL
Yeah... Well, I think that's a super philosophy, Sean. I mean that way you could actually go through the rest of your life without ever really knowing anybody.
SEAN
Time's up.
One can check out the script of same but if you want to read both the original script and the original transcript of the movie and also want other information of this movie please try this site.
The greatest irony is when I saw "Good Will Hunting", I was blown away by the dialogues to such an extent that I actually bought the script and paid a good amount for it and now, one can access this script easily online. However, some of the dialogues are altered in the movie and some dialogues from the movie don't exist in the original script online.
I thought of doing a feature on "Good Will Hunting", but then I figured everyone might have seen the movie, so I dropped the idea. But I guess I will just share two favourite moments from the movie, which kind of altered my life and perspective about people.
I think Matt Damon and Ben Affleck deserve an Oscar just for writing these two dialogues.
This is a dialogue between Sean Maguire played by Robin Williams and Will Hunting played by Matt Damon.
Sean's Office
WILL
You again, huh?
SEAN
Come with me.
Swan Pond in Boston Common
WILL
So what's this? A Taster's Choice moment between guys? This is really nice. You got a thing for swans? Is this like a fetish? It's something, like; maybe we need to devote some time to?
SEAN
I thought about what you said to me the other day, about my painting.
WILL
Yeah?
SEAN
Stayed up half the night thinking about it. Something occurred to me, I fell into a deep peaceful sleep, and I haven't thought about you since. You know what occurred to me?
WILL
No.
SEAN
You're just a kid. You don't have the faintest idea what you're talking about.
WILL
Why thank you.
SEAN
It's all right. You've never been out of Boston.
WILL
Nope.
SEAN
So, if I asked you about art, you'd probably give me the skinny on every art book ever written. Michelangelo. You know a lot about him. Life's work, political aspirations, him and the pope, sexual orientation, the whole works, right? But I bet you can't tell me what it smells like in the Sistine Chapel. You've never actually stood there and looked up at that beautiful ceiling. Seen that....If I ask you about women, you'd probably give me a syllabus of your personal favourites. You may have even been laid a few times. But you can't tell me what it feels like to wake up next to a woman and feel truly happy. You're a tough kid. I ask you about war, you'd probably uh...throw Shakespeare at me, right? "Once more into the breach, dear friends." But you've never been near one. You've never held your best friend's head in your lap, and watched him gasp his last breath looking to you for help. I ask you about love, y'probably quote me a sonnet. But you've never looked at a woman and been totally vulnerable...known someone that could level you with her eyes. Feeling like God put an angel on Earth just for you...who could rescue you from the depths of Hell. And you wouldn't know what it's like to be her angel, and to have that love for her be there forever. Through anything. Through cancer. And you wouldn't know about sleepin' sittin' up in a hospital room for two months, holding her hand because the doctors could see in your eyes that the terms visiting hours don't apply to you. You don't know about real loss, because that only occurs when you love something more than you love yourself. I doubt you've ever dared to love anybody that much. I look at you: I don't see an intelligent, confident man. I see a cocky, scared s***less kid. But you're a genius, Will. No one denies that. No one could possibly understand the depths of you. But you presume to know everything about me because you saw a painting of mine and ripped my f***in' life apart. You're an orphan, right? Do you think I'd know the first thing about how hard your life has been, how you feel, who you are because I read Oliver Twist? Does that encapsulate you? Personally, I don't give a s*** about that, because you know what? I can't learn anything from you I can't read in some f***in' book. Unless you wanna talk about you, who you are. And I'm fascinated. I'm in. But you don't wanna do that, do you, sport? You're terrified of what you might say. Your move, chief.
And second dialogue describes relationship aspect so aptly that I don't think anyone can beat this. This is not a part of online script.
Sean's Office
WILL
You know, I was on this plane once. And I'm sitting there and uh...the captain gets on, he does his whole, you know, we'll be cruisin' at 35,000 feet. But then he puts the mic down n forgets to turn it off.
SEAN
Mm-hmm.
WILL
And so he turns to the co-pilot n he's like, "you know, all I could use right now is a f***in' b*** job and a cup of coffee." So the stewardess f***in' goes bombin' up from the back of the plane to tell him that the microphone's still on. And this guy in the back of the plane is like, "Hey, hon, don't forget the coffee!"
SEAN
You ever been on a plane?
WILL
No, but it's a f***in' joke. It works better if I tell it in the first person.
SEAN
Yeah, it does.
WILL
I have been laid, you know.
SEAN
Really? Good for you.
WILL
Big time.
SEAN
Big time, huh?
WILL
I went on a date last week.
SEAN
How'd it go?
WILL
It was good.
SEAN
Goin' out again?
WILL
I dunno.
SEAN
Why not?
WILL
Haven't called her.
SEAN
Christ, you're an amateur.
WILL
I know what I'm doin'.
SEAN
Yeah.
WILL
Yeah. Don't worry about me, I know what I'm doin'. Yeah, but this girl is like, you know, beautiful. She's smart. She's funny. She's different from most of the girls I've been with.
SEAN
So, call her up, Romeo.
WILL
Why? So I can realize she's not that smart, that she's f***in' boring? Y'know--I mean...this girl is like f***in' perfect right now, I don't wanna r--ruin that.
SEAN
Maybe you're perfect right now. Maybe you don't wanna ruin that. I think that's a super philosophy, Will, that way you can go through your entire life without ever having to really know anybody....My wife used to fart when she was nervous. She had all sorts of wonderful idiosyncrasies. You know what? She used to fart in her sleep. Sorry I shared that with you. One night it was so loud it woke the dog up. She woke up and gone like "oh was that you?" I'd say yeah...I didn't have the heart to tell her...Oh God...
WILL
She woke herself up?
SEAN
Ye e e e sss.... Oh Christ....aahhh, but, Will, she's been dead two years and that's the s*** I remember. Wonderful stuff, you know, little things like that. Ah, but, those are the things I miss the most. The little idiosyncrasies that only I knew about. That's what made her my wife. Oh and she had the goods on me, too, she knew all my little peccadilloes. People call these things imperfections, but they're not, aw that's the good stuff. And then we get to choose who we let in to our weird little worlds. You're not perfect, sport. And let me save you the suspense. This girl you met, she isn't perfect either. But the question is: whether or not you're perfect for each other. That's the whole deal. That's what intimacy is all about. Now you can know everything in the world, sport, but the only way you're findin' out that one is by givin' it a shot. You certainly won't learn from an old f***er like me. Even if I did know, I wouldn't tell a piss ant like you.
WILL
Why not? You told me every other f***in' thing. Jesus Christ. F***in' talk more than any shrink I ever seen in my life.
SEAN
I teach this s***, I didn't say I know how to do it.
WILL
Yeah.......You ever think about gettin' remarried?
SEAN
My wife's dead.
WILL
Hence the word: remarried.
SEAN
She's dead.
WILL
Yeah... Well, I think that's a super philosophy, Sean. I mean that way you could actually go through the rest of your life without ever really knowing anybody.
SEAN
Time's up.
One can check out the script of same but if you want to read both the original script and the original transcript of the movie and also want other information of this movie please try this site.
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