70th Academy Awards

The project I did was a Stroll Down Hollywood Boulevard. I watched the movie Good Will Hunting. The movie was directed by Gus Van Sant, and had roles played by Robin Williams, Matt Damon, and Ben Afflack. The plot is about Will Hunting, a janitor at MIT who solved a very high level math problem posted for the students to solve. Whoever solved the problem would receive great recognition by the math professor. The next day the math professor, Gerald Lambeau, comes in to see the problem solved but nobody would come forward and say who solved it. The professor posts another problem which took him 2 years to solve, later that evening he sees Will writing on the chalkboard and accuses him of graffiti until he looks and sees that is is solved and correct. Professor Lambeau tracks down Will and finds out that he is not a student and has been employed through his parole officer because he is in trouble with the law. Will is in court for an assault case, he is defending himself and has a very long history of crimes and he has defended himself in all the other cases and got them all overruled but the judge charges him with a high bail and jail time. Professor Lambeau talks to the judge and makes a deal to get Will out of jail time. The judge gives two conditions, that have to be followed he will take Will and make him work with him on the math and put him through therapy. Will runs off most of the therapist through mind games and by frustrating them. Lambeau takes Will to his…

Will Hunting is a prime example of how childhood experiences can affect how a person’s personality develops into adulthood. There are many Psychoanalytic theories that can be applied to Will Hunting’s personality, such as the following: actions that are deeply rooted into his unconscious, the battle going on inside his mind between his Id and Superego, as well as many defense mechanisms that he uses to protect himself from further psychological harm. According to the textbook (Friedman 2016) the…

Good Will Hunting is a story about a young man who overcomes his demons brought on by a childhood of psychological, physical, and emotional abuse in order to better his life and pursue his natural talents of mathematics with the help of his relationships. Throughout the story we are introduced to three of his most important relationships, the one with his psychologist, his best friend, and his love interest but in my point of view his most important relationship is with Chuckie, he is the main…

The movie “Good Will Hunting” is about a genius leveled young janitor, Will Hunting who gets discovered to be a math whiz by a professor. One day a professor named Gerald Lambeau writes two complex math problems on the board for his students to solve. This is how professor Gerald Lambeau discovers the janitor Will Hunting has solved the equations. At the same time, it is discovered that Will Hunting has assaulted a police officer therefore, he gets himself in trouble with the law. Luckily,…

Have you ever wondered what it was like to be a true genius? Good Will Hunting is a movie about just that: a young boy who has experienced a less than satisfactory upbringing, but through reading informational books at a public library in his youth and through having a photographic memory that allows him to remember everything he reads has resulted in him becoming very intelligent. It is shown just how intelligent he is when he solves a proof that is written on a chalkboard at Harvard…

Driver. As Jane Maslin wrote in her critique “Logarithms and Biorhythms Test a Young Janitor” she wrote “As the teasing, beautiful medical student who can peer into Will's soul as easily as she can tell a dirty joke, Minnie Driver adds further charm to an already wise, inviting story.” (Maslin) Bygre)This statement truly captures all of which Ms. Driver gives to the film. As a testament to how well Ms. Driver acted in the movie she was nominated for best supporting actress in the 1998 Academy…

Will Hunting is a genius comparable to Albert Einstein. He is working as a janitor when a professor realizes his ability. This professor seeks Will out and sets out to get him professional help so that he can live up to his full potential. Will has experienced a more than difficult childhood, and has built up many walls to resist interactions between others that he does not know or trust. The story unravels when Will is confronted by a psychiatrist that chooses to go beyond typical measures to…

In the Film Good Will Hunting, the main character played by Matt Damon, is a 20 year old, who lives in South Boston. Will Hunting was a foster child, who’s foster father physically abused him, by stabbing him and cigarette burns. Will Huntington have an individualist culture; it mainly focused on his goals and achievements. His friends were accepting in his disability, but in a negative way. If Huntington wanted to fight someone, his three friends had his back and fought. He didn’t really have a…

The American dream is the belief that if you have to will to succeed and want success and prosperity you have an equal opportunity to do so. In the movie Good Will Hunting, Will the main character grew up with nothing, and at the end he has achieves his American dream what some might say. Everyone has their own American dream and in Good Will Hunting it was just Will’s American dream, everyone controls their fate and how successful they are in their minds, there is no cookie cutter American…

Therapy session with Will and Sean In the early part of the film, Will start to have a therapy session with Sean, he was quite resistant to reveal himself and share his past stories at the beginning of the session, which is understandable considering his traumatised childhood and socio-economical status. With the high level of cultural intelligence and cultural capabilities of Sean, Will starts to feel secure and safe with Sean’s presence, which guards down his defending mechanism and express…