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    The movie Good Will Hunting has characters that have successful qualities. Success is when a person achieves their goals‚ whether it be raising a family or having a successful job. Will Hunting is a mathematical genius and Gerald Lambeau worked very hard to get to where he is. Chuckie Sullivan is loyal and Skylar is caring. However‚ Sean Maguire is the most successful person in the movie because he is an understanding and empathetic person‚ he is knowledgeable in the field he enjoys working in‚ and

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    GOOD WILL HUNTING SYNOPSIS This movie is based on the character Will Hunting who works at MIT‚ a prestigious University‚ as a janitor. He endured an extremely rough childhood as an orphan. Whilst working one day Will stops and puzzles out a math problem written on a blackboard that had been left for the graduate students to solve‚ but none could accomplish it. upon seeing this Professor Lambeau discovers Will’s limitless intelligence and decides to bail him out of jail for his crime of assault

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    Karisa Zamy Zamy1 Lowell Harris COM 260 2/26/15 The two films I am going to get into depth with and compare is The Academy award winning drama Good Will Hunting‚ and also another Academy award winning film Mrs. Doubtfire‚ both starring the legend Robin Williams. In both the films Robin Williams plays an important supportive role and proves that he can make a difference. Ben Affleck and Matt Damon also play great lead and supporting roles where we can see the characters grow and have a

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    Good Will Hunting Good Will Hunting is an unusual character portrait of a self-taught genius named Will Hunting‚ who grew up as an orphan in South Boston‚ suffered abuse at the hands of his foster father and engaged in gang violence because of his rough upbringing as a child. Will is a mathematical genius with a photographic memory but struggles to find his place in the world. Will works as a school janitor at M.I.T‚ one of the prestigious technical universities around‚ while working‚ he delights

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    Fabian Gonzales Mrs. Schuler Writing 836 Feb. 8‚ 2011 Good Will Hunting Sometimes our past can cause pain that doesn’t allow us to trust others. People we trust can cause us to put up a wall and look to other things for comfort. In the movie‚ Will Hunting found his comfort in books. Will Hunting needed a real friendship to help him open up his mind in order to discover that there is more to life than living through the books he reads. In the movie‚ there are four main characters‚ each

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    Good Will Hunting 1) Will hunting was an orphan. As a child he was moved from foster house to foster house and during this time he didn’t receive proper moral development. He was alone and probably acted out by breaking things‚ hurting other kids and talking back but this got him punished. In the movie he explains that he would get abused by his foster parents‚ he would get cigarette buds put out on his skin and probably got a lot of verbal abuse. This could’ve resulted in his relationship issues

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    Good Will Hunting Though Will Hunting (Matt Damon) has a genius level-intelligence (such as solving sophisticated mathematical problems)‚ works as a janitor at a prestigious college in Boston and lives alone in a few apartment in South Boston. Even though Will is one of a kind genius‚ he is an abused foster child resulting for him to destruct his own professional and emotional life. Will solved the problem of Professor Gerald Lambeau‚ a Field Medalist‚ left on a challenge to his students in the

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    The movie I chose to explore the concepts of existentialism was Good Will Hunting. I want to preface this by stating that I noticed not only a lot of existentialist ideas being applied in the movie‚ but much of the traits of good counseling (caveat: there were also a lot of ethical breaches‚ such as placing hands on a client’s neck‚ potentially excessive self-disclosure‚ broken confidentiality). This included building a rapport‚ building a relationship based on trust‚ and even a case of paradoxical

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    Good Will Hunting Good Will Hunting is about a young man named Will Hunting. He is a complex character with an upsetting past. The movie first starts off with Will working as a janitor‚ and even though he has a simple job‚ he is a really smart man. He could solve any math problem thrown at him‚ and he also specialized in other subjects. One day‚ a Nobel Prize winner Professor Gerry Lambeau puts out a math problem and sees that Will has solved it. Before Gerry can speak to him‚ he runs

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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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