Alejandro at 2014-04-13 21:19:32:

Good Will Hunting (1997) By Writers: Matt Damon, Ben Affleck http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hWIr9_noRo LAMBEAU 'ell, I'm sorry. I'm sorry that I came here today. I came here out of courtesy. I--I wanted to keep you in the loop. SEAN Yeah, well, nice to be in the loop. LAMBEAU The boy's in a meeting right now I set up for him..over at McNeil. Interview at McNeil EXECUTIVE #1 Well, Will, uh, I'm not exactly sure what you mean, uh...We've already offered you a position. CHUCKIE Nobody in this town works without a retainer, guys. You think you can find somebody who does, let me tell you you have my blessing. But I think we all know that person's not going to represent you as well as I can. EXECUTIVE #2 Will, our offer is 84,000 dollars a year plus benefits. CHUCKIE Reeeeetaaaaaineeeer! Retainer. EXECUTIVE #2 You want us to give you cash right now? CHUCKIE Oh, ho, ho..oh ee ee now I didn't say that. Allegedly, your situation, for you would be concurrently improved if I had 200 dollars in my back pocket right now. EXECUTIVE #1 hmm...Well, I don't think I--I can uh...uh..Larry? EXECUTIVE #2 I've got uh..73 dollars. EXECUTIVE #1 Will you uh...Take a check? CHUCKIE Let me tell you something: you're suspect. Yeah you. I don't know what your reputation is, in this town, but after the shit you tried to pull today, you can bet I'll be lookin' into you. Now, the business we have here to fore, you can speak with my aforementioned attorney. Good day gentlemen, and until that day comes, keep your ear to the grindstone Great screenwriting-realted trivia: Trivia: Director Gus Van Sant at one point asked Matt Damon and Ben Affleck to rewrite the script so that Chuckie is killed in a construction accident. Damon and Affleck protested, but reluctantly wrote the scene in. After Van Sant read it, he agreed that it was a terrible idea. Trivia: Casey Affleck ad libbed most of his lines. This frustrated Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, and Gus Van Sant during filming - but they later admitted that Casey's improvised lines were much funnier and better than what had been originally written for him. Trivia: At a WGA seminar in 2003, William Goldman denied the persistent rumor that he was the actual writer of Good Will Hunting: "I would love to say that I wrote it. Here is the truth. In my obit it will say that I wrote it. People don't want to think those two cute guys wrote it. What happened was, they had the script. It was their script. They gave it to Rob [Reiner] to read, and there was a great deal of stuff in the script dealing with the F.B.I. trying to use Matt Damon for spy work because he was so brilliant in math. Rob said, "Get rid of it." They then sent them in to see me for a day - I met with them in New York - and all I said to them was, "Rob's right. Get rid of the F.B.I. stuff. Go with the family, go with Boston, go with all that wonderful stuff." And they did. I think people refuse to admit it because their careers have been so far from writing, and I think it's too bad. I'll tell you who wrote a marvelous script once, Sylvester Stallone. Rocky's a marvelous script. God, read it, it's wonderful. It's just got marvelous stuff. And then he stopped suddenly because it's easier being a movie star and making all that money than going in your pit and writing a script. But I did not write [Good Will Hunting], alas. I would not have written the "It's not your fault" scene. I'm going to assume that 148 percent of the people in this room have seen a therapist. I certainly have, for a long time. Hollywood always has this idea that it's this shrink with only one patient. I mean, that scene with Robin Williams gushing and Matt Damon and they're hugging, "It's not your fault, it's not your fault." I thought, Oh God, Freud is so agonized over this scene. But Hollywood tends to do that with therapists." As of 2009, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck have both co-written one other script each, although not with each other; Damon co-wrote Gerry (2002) with Gus Van Sant and Ben's brother Casey Affleck, and Ben Affleck directed and co-wrote (with his childhood friend Aaron Stockard) the script for Gone Baby Gone (2007). In 2010, Ben Affleck directed The Town (2010), for which he had also co-written the screenplay.