Angst

 

How many people have seen “Good Will Hunting?”

The first director was Indian American, first generation and the son of immigrants.

The third was female director.

The fourth is a gay director.

Good Will Hunting is a pun. We often use puns to write titles. Shakespeare loved to write puns.

Good Will: be nice to other people you don’t know

We should show good will to our fellow man at Christmas. The protagonist is name Will. I think his surname is hunting. Hunting is also a person looking for some kind of truth. Metaphor. He comes from a troubled past. He is an abused orphan.

My dad told me a story. It was a grade ten drop out. He was a cowboy. And he was a janitor. He cleaned the labs at the University of Toronto. While he was there, he worked nights and saw the experiments on radar. He figured out a lot of radar’s equations even though he was uneducated. Later, he IQ tested at 197.

It takes place in Boston. Listen for the accent. Robin Williams won the Oscar for best supporting actor.

The driving scene from Pulp Fiction, which copies the driving scene from A Clockwork Orange. The director was copying Stanley Kubrick, who is famous director, to show respect. This is called paying homage.

The fight scene and the eye is paying homage to A Clockwork Orange.

The socio-economic idea behind the movie. Rich class v. poor class.

Why does Will feel angst? Nervous feeling young

people have because they feel they cannot solve their

problems.

1.  Lack of opportunity based on social position (money). He should be a student in the university, not a janitor. Not fair.

2.  He feels trapped in his neighborhood.

3.  He was a physically abused child.

 

P.O. This is an acronym for parole officers.

They are both from the same poor, blue collar neighborhood in Boston.

Match cut: copying to get from scene A to scene B

The sea is a mess of color. The sink is a mess of dishes.

Hint about something we will see or know later in the film or book. We know that he’s married, but where is his wife, and why is he drinking heavily?

Pay homage to, bird’s eye view, misanthrope, misogynist, tracking shot, chronological is sequential, myth, represent: symbolize, genre, filial piety

 

Paragraph: five or more sentences; when you write, you should explain

Homework:

1.  Write three reasons you think (not me) Will feels angst or pushes people away.

2.  Write a couple sentences on Robin Williams’ biography.

3.  What is your favorite Robin Williams’ movie.

4.  Why does Will have an emotional response when the shrink mentions Oliver Twist. This is an 1840s novel by Charles Dickens.

I said the genre of Good Will Hunting is drama. More specifically, it is a coming-of-age drama.

Line from Shakespeare’s Henry V: “Once more into the breach.” The door to the castle. Henry is saying “do not give up fighting and run away. Re-attack the French.

 

Paying homage to: copying a scene from another movie to show respect to the filmmakers

Gus van Sant is paying homage to Danny Boyd’s Trainspotting. The job applicants do not want the job they are applying for. Here, Will’s friend is pretending to be him. In Trainspotting, Spud is on the dole (free living from the government), but must show that he is trying to find a job.