It's an amazing moment, even if it's one of those speeches that I can't imagine a real person ever saying. But such is the power of cinema.

Will's friends are the only "family" he has ever had. Leaving them required a push. And that push couldn't come from a psychiatrist, a professor, or a woman. None of them were Will's "family". The push to leave the nest had to come from his family. Between the speech from Ben Affleck, and them giving him the means (a car), they were finally able to convince him to spread his wings.

Love this moment as well (The Community does a fantastic parody of this too ☺️)

Beautiful movie period. Testament to the horrible damage done by abuse. Lots of other issues adressed, but also healing, redemption and forgiveness, what a gem.

@@waltrohrbach2459 - Oh my god, I took a got a completely different message from this. Are you saying that beating kids does NOT turn them into geniuses?!? No wonder my kid is failing math!

I'm hoping that they'll still be friends in the future.. probably after Facebook gets invented.

i thought it was about getting out of the dead end job work a day lives and doing something better.

Stellan Skarsgård is Swedish (like me)!

He's really versatile, I think he's mostly a supporting actor and brilliant as one, sometimes a character actor but he can really rise to a tremendous performance like he had in, well I don't want to say it because it would spoil people that haven't seen it, but I think people who have know what I'm talking about.

nah, his own performances are his greatest contributions

Brilliant in Breaking the Waves

@@trouty42 Remember when he was the very believable and imposing king of the Saxons in King Arthur?

Everyone reacts, you can't "be" a "reactor", that's like "being" a "feeler" when everyone feels.. She's an interesting person.

@@OriginalPuro you must be fun at parties. Everyone knew what I meant. KZfaq calls this genre Reacting, so there is a talent to it to be interesting. You pulling out a Websters to be denotative instead of connotative.

@@OriginalPuro Everyone can sing, but you can "be" a good "singer". If you're saying 'reactor' is not a word meaning somebody who records their reaction to a piece of media for the purposes of sharing that reaction with others, then you're watching the wrong channel.

She's intelligent, empathic and cool- adds a lot to this channel.

Love your reaction to this great movie.

During a break from filming GWH, Robin took Matt to visit Spielberg on set who was filming Amistad in Boston. That's when Steven recognized Matt from The Rainmaker and said he was still trying to cast Private Ryan. Meeting in person like that sealed the deal to cast Matt in Saving Private Ryan.

Don't forget that while filming Saving Private Ryan they put the unknown Damon in a nice trailer while the other stars were outside in tents, eating rations and roughing it to engrain a disdain to Damon/Ryan and get them salty for the movie filming. And as you said, while SPR was in production GWH came out, won Academy Award and made Damon a known name. I forget who the actors were but one called another on Academy Award night to share the news the disbelief of what he just saw who won. Great backstory that I don't think I give due credit to as I am spotty on all the facts but that is the gist of it.

@@3toobular also, the cast had to go through a 6 week bootcamp, while Damon didn't, and Spielberg made sure the others knew that.

@@billwithers7457 Tom Hanks was deemed exempt from the hollywood boot camp because he already went through it for Forrest Gump; he did get to warn the others about how rough it was.

Late to this, but yeah it was amazing how much of a roll Matt was on after Good Will Hunting, this and Saving Private Ryan the next year really set him on his path to stardom, followed by The Talented Mr Ripley and then Oceans and Jason Bourne which cemented him as a A-list star.

He's like 45 and he just married a 20-year-old instamodel. That movie would have to take a lot of turns

Well yeah we are going to get "Good Will Hunting 2: Hunting Season", we'll see Morgan go crazy.

Right into an Academy Award for best actor in a leading role..

And of course Robin William's won his Oscar for this film.

**coughs** Kevin Smith **coughs**

@@antoinettelopes TF are you **coughing** about?

@@antoinettelopes Let me guess, you're one of the people who think Kevin Smith actually wrote the film, despite that being a ridiculous theory debunked dozens of times?

Makes you wonder why they never wrote anything else.

@@buddystewart2020 yes, that too 😁

Everyone can imagine that.

Too bad nobody'll show up if you make a movie like this these days.

Streaming makes this unrealistic

I wonder what it would cost to hire this cast now (including Robin Williams if he were still alive). I imagine that $10m would barely scratch the surface even before the cameras started rolling.

An antagonist does not necessarily mean "bad" or "evil," although in some stories, it does. An antagonist is anyone or anything that the protagonist comes into conflict with, and that conflict drives the events of the story. In that sense, Will has a lot of antagonists: Sean, the professor, his friends, Skylar. One could even claim that the primary conflict was Will's internal conflict and the primary antagonist was Will's damaged self that needed some degree of healing. The other conflicts and antagonists appear secondary to this one.

@@hellohi821 You like being a corrector? You knew exactly what he was talking about. There wasn't a bad guy. There was no villain. Dude you are the living version of the ponytail guy at the bar ha.

@@Onthebrink5 Not exactly. Plenty of stories have antagonists that are neither "bad guys" nor "villains." Any story with a protagonist competing for a sport prize has antagonists, but their rivals are usually not bad guys or villains: They often have the same motives as the protagonist, but only one of them can have the prize. Likewise, stories can have antagonists that are forces of nature, and it would be difficult to argue that forces of nature are "bad guys" or "villains." Antagonist means much more than that. In fact, a story with "no antagonist" would be a story without conflict--and probably quite boring.

@@Onthebrink5 Do you like being ignorant, cuz that’s how you remain being ignorant-not learning new things and then lashing out at others. You’re the actual pony tail man. How you like them apples? 😘

Maple & Sams reactions didn't disappoint 😢😉

@@steveswafen2528 I haven't heard of them.

Yea I hate when ppl watch a really good movie and they cut off their reaction as soon as the movie credit rolls

@@pamosborn1956 Maple reacts on the channel Diegesis & I was referring to Sam from this channel being the 2 seperate Good Will Hunting reactions that @simianinc was referring to that were released today. Maple & Ariana on Diegesis have some awesome emotional & hilarious reactions that i'd highly recommend to add to your rotation of reactors besides TBR Schmitt. Hope this helps & have a wonderful day/evening.

As did the camera operator if you look closely.... #Shake

Damon learned that technique from Williams and ad-libbed the "barn story" in Saving Private Ryan the same way. If you watch Tom Hanks as Damon starts to tell the story he looks to the side with a "what the hell is this" expression on his face. He's looking at Steven Spielberg off-screen waiting for him to cut the scene, but Spielberg let it roll and captured the moment.

So was Williams' "Son of a bitch, he stole my line." The ending was supposed to just be silent after reading the letter, but Williams threw in a little meta-adlib.

What are the other 2?

@@sparksdrinker5650 HEAT and Departures (2009 Academy Award Winner for Best Foreign Language Film) This movie hit close to home

they still exist. watch The Banshees of Inisherin

Absolutely and well said!

Great movie.. No ever reacts to Moscow on the Hudson or The World According To Garp either. Those are some of my favorite films by him.. of which there are many!

i never felt so envious yet at home at a place i have never been in. this would have been a city i would've thrived in and fully felt everything u said xx

@@graceonfilmsnstuffI visited Boston in September 2023 (partially because of Good Will Hunting) and absolutely loved the place, it was my favourite city in the U.S. and I actually wish I spent more time there!

Yes!! and adding: Dead Poets Society (1989)

I know it kinda not as serious as the others but Bicentennial Man always gets me. He's amazing in it as the robot and makes me laugh and cry every time I see that movie.

And patch adams great movie

Dude. Dead Poets Society.

"What Dreams May Come". Amazing, and will rip your heart out.

Loved Argo!

A completely Americanized version of true events...

@@robertcampbell8070 LOL

@@asmrhead1560 I mean, it is. The "true events" that it actually gets right are that the Iran hostage crisis happened and that Tony Mendez was a person who existed. Other than that, the Canadian contribution is minimized (while Jimmy Carter said Canada did about 90% of the work) and the CIA and Mendez are glorified when Mendez was actually in Tehran for about a day and half. Look, the movie is actually very good. I enjoy it. But it's far from historically accurate.

@@robertcampbell8070 I’ve seen Argo 400 times and not once did I think the Canadian contribution was minimized. For F sake they stayed at the Canadian ambassador’s house to hide and survive. Seems the real hero was not about Nation affiliation but rather the lightning quick wit and creativity from the Hollywood Make Up Artist / Producer JOHN CHAMBERS. He created all the false details connected to the movie scouting trip down to the fake business cards. He was the backbone to the entire rescue plan which was successful. Maybe catch a power nap, drink some water, whisky, play some chess, whatever you need to relax sir Robert. 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 ✌️🙏🏼✝️ - Affleck sold his soul anyway, just like Damon. Sadly, We’ve all been fooled.

Casey is an Oscar winner as well for Manchester By The Sea. Also was in Oppenheimer recently as Colonel Pash!

I'm one of those rare weirdos that hasn't watched Oppenheimer yet. Really need to!@@andrewburgemeister6684

Agreed. I wish more people checked that movie out.

Have you watched Sleepers? Criminally underrated film and although Minnie doesn’t play a huge role in it, it’s such an incredible film. Even better book if you’re into reading stories as well. One of my favorites, though admittedly it is very sad and depressing.

I second the recommendation for ‘Grosse Point Blank’. Such a fun movie on many levels, and a great cast.

Grosse Pointe Blank - oh yes! So good!!!!

I love her. They had a relationship when filming this movie and Matt broke it off by text message.....ahole.

Untrue. Both were pushing him in the way they thought best. Robin was no different except for perspective. Only a child-adult let's a child make their own decisions about long-term things. It is necessary to push and direct children and child-adults until they grow up. The professor was pushing him to grow up and care about more than himself and to realize the great power that he has (but the responsibility to others that must go with it else it be corrupted by selfish purposes, as it already was doing). Robin pushed for classic romance and his character was the stereotypical simp by today's standards - playing to win the romance lottery where 0.000001 win and everyone else loses but hey sacrifice everything for that lotto ticket. Don't forget that the professor, while not perfectly happy (who is?) is far happier than Robin who was heading toward possible suicide (the character and the actor, ironic enough).

@@unclebounce1495 Interesting, I totally dissagree but it's an interesting take. I don't think Robin pushed for anything other than for Will to look for other options and was using his own experience as a benchmark which is all any therapist can do. While young and of couse truamatised Will is not a child. Don't get me wrong the professor is in no way a villain, he can simply not comprehend that the work he has dedicated his life to is just not as important to Will (or anyone else) as per his conversation with Robin seeing his decision as a failure where from Robins point of view it was best decision he ever made.

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Thank you for this, I don't think I knew this information!

There is an awesome documentary called Robin's Wish that discloses the autopsy

A friend’s Grandad had LBD and when she mentioned it I was so shocked given I knew Robin had it and how brutal of a condition it is. As awful as his death was, I’m relieved he ended his life on his own terms when he was still the Robin everyone loved before he became a complete shell of himself with the progression of the disease which would have seen him end up in a nursing home, most likely mute and showing aggressive behaviours and dead within the next couple of years. I absolutely loved Robin in things like Mrs Doubtfire as a kid and this film as an adult.

@@andrewburgemeister6684 I couldn't agree with you more. Years ago my uncle, a physician, wrote a book called, "Dr. Please Close the Door." It was one of the first books ever written about living wills, advanced directives, power of attorney, etc. In it he detailed how dementia robs the person and the family of the one they loved, their dignity and their humanity. How that person becomes a total stranger to their family. How these sweet old schoolteachers end up screaming curse words and becoming physically abusive to the people caring for them, and how they would be mortified if they knew that was how it was going to end. He discussed many things in the book and told many stories of his patients that he had guided through end-of-life decisions. He told of one of his patients who came to see him. He was a man with type 2 diabetes who had undergone 17 surgeries in which he lost both his legs, one arm, and was in kidney failure. The man asked "What would happen if I stop taking my insulin?" My uncle outlined what the man's body would do without insulin and how it would progress over a period of time. About a month later, he read his patient had passed away. He had determined for himself that he was not going to continue to lose pieces of himself, one surgery at a time. One of his patients was an elderly woman who came to see my uncle with her husband. She'd been diagnosed with Alzheimers and they were terrified of how it was going to go. Her mother had died from it and they were very familiar with the final years of care needed in a nursing home that would eventually lead to her curled into a fetal position being essentially force fed to keep her alive. With my uncles guidance they created her advanced directives which were pretty simple. She was never to have food fed to her. Once she reached a point where she would no longer feed herself, then nature was to take its course. It sounds awful, and how difficult would it be not to sit with your mom and feed her a bowl of soup? But that was what she wanted. So I couldn't agree with you more. You described exactly what I didn't want for Robin and just like you, when I learned that after he passed, I was at peace with his passing. Take good care and God Bless....friend of Robin. 🥰

You minimize your own value and potential, you sabotage yourself at every turn. It's not a conscious decision, there's just this nagging voice inside you that says "you don't deserve this".

Yes, Dead Poets Society is a must!

YES!

Awakenings is heartbreaking!

The whole shot is shaking because of the cameraman is laughing his ass off.

that's a strange outlook, no matter your past bad decisions in the present are still bad. This whole excuse and victim ideology needs to be put away for good.

@@kennethburmeister8119 okay Kevin. You do you 🤣

100 percent this. Trauma isnt something you simply shrug off-especially early age trauma. It can take a life time of work to learn to manage.

@@kennethburmeister8119 And you're a cold-hearted person. Congratulations.

@@elcorado83 correct, I never said it takes no work, nor does it have poor outcomes in manifesting decisions later in life. I just stated doing something bad/poor decisions no matter the past are still bad and poor decisions. No matter the past the present actions are what you can control. Sadly too many people think with emotion first. As you can see with the thread.

APPLESAUCE BITCH - Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back

"How do you like them apples?" actually originated from famous quote by jack nicholsons character in "Chinatown" movie from early 70s.