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    know it would be one of my favorite movies of all time. “The $80 million-plus earned by the quality indie blockbuster hits released later in the decade— Good Will Hunting”(The Business Of Hollywood). This was a known blockbuster film that made it one of the greats in the 1990s. The chosen location or background was Boston because Will Hunting‚ from South Boston who works for the infamous Massachusetts Institute Of Technology as a Janitor and solves a Mathematical problem that took more than two

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    Background of the Study Consumer buying behavior can be defined as the way in which consumers or buyers of goods and services tend to react or behave when purchasing products that they like. Buyers tend to exhibit different types of buying behavior when they are in the process of purchasing goods and services and the behaviors witnessed are influenced by the type of product he/she wants to buy. Consumer buying behavior involves a long process where the buyer has to identify the product‚ study well

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    The movie “Good Will Hunting”‚ chronicling the story of an unknown genius with a photographic memory‚ redefines the word “genius”. Whereas MIT professors and their colleagues struggle to understand higher level mathematics and algorithms‚ this humble janitor solves the queries as if they came directly from an episode of Sesame Street. Will Hunting does not attend college; he is self educated via books which he reads at an astonishing pace‚ flipping the pages as if there were just a word on each page

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    Good Will Hunting Analysis

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    Good Will Hunting is a movie with an all-star cast including Matt Damon‚ Robin Williams‚ and Ben Affleck just to name a few. Matt Demon plays the main character Will Hunting while Robin Williams and Ben Affleck play supporting roles as a psychology professor and best friend. The movie introduces Will as a janitor at MIT that is much smarter than he lets on. In fact‚ Will Hunting is a mathematical genius. Stellan Skarsgard plays a professor at MIT named Gerald Lambeau. Professor Lambeau decided

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    Good Will Hunting is about story of a prodigy genius named Will Hunting who is discovered when Professor Lambeau releases a difficult math for his class to solve. When he figures out that Will Hunting solved the problem‚ Professor Lambeau takes Will under his wing and prevents him from going to jail. In exchange‚ Will is under the supervision of Professor Lambeau while being forced into therapy. Will is a fool who wastes his potential. Sean Maguire‚ a therapist‚ tries to help Will but he’s facing

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    Good Will Hunting Movie Analysis The movie Good Will Hunting is about Will Hunting‚ a janitor with an Irish background and a pure gift for math. He is the janitor at the notorious college MIT and often cleans near a prominent math/chemistry professor’s classroom. This professor assigns his class a task that would involve solving a very difficult math problem and the reward would be an automatic A in the class and the ability to work with the professor on research. Will‚ having an excellent background

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    Abstract This paper will discuss this student’s perception‚ study and analysis of the character Will Hunting‚ in the movie Good Will Hunting. (Affleck and Damon‚ 1997) It will share the results and conclusions about the character of Will Hunting reached by this author‚ citing the methods and theories used to reach said results and conclusions. The report will provide a brief overview of the character‚ a cultural description of the character‚ discuss the character’s personality development from

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    Good Will Hunting Matt Damon and Ben Affleck both won an Oscar for their work on this screenplay‚ but everyone knows that. What is great about the film is the fact that it is written from the point of view of Bostonians‚ guys who grew up in the shit they wrote about‚ drawing influences from past people and events. But at the same time it is so powerfully written that it is hard to remember that people live this way‚ live this struggle‚ and for every Will Hunting that makes it out‚ there are others

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    critique of "good will hunting" A studious young man‚ an open book these two images swirl around the screen in a kaleidoscope effect‚ this was the introductory scene of "Good Will Hunting." This scene is followed by Ben Afflick‚ knocking on Will’s door‚ when Will comes out a credit rolls by that says‚ "screenplay written by Ben Afflick and Matt Damon‚" just as the two walk side by side. This shows how perfectly the makers of this movie have everything timed‚ down to the credits. Also‚ the timing

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    Malarie Smiley 10/10/13 Good Will Hunting Will One of the main characters in the movie Good Will Hunting‚ Will‚ starts off as smart mouth‚ joking young guy that hangs out with his 3 best friends fighting and drinking.. He works at MIT as a janitor and starts secretly solving hard theorems put on a chalk board in a hallway that “only one or two people in the world knew how to solve” (Van). Will was really smart‚ in the beginning of the movie it shows him reading big books. While at a college

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