Good Will Hunting

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Movie
German title Good Will Hunting - The good Will Hunting
Original title Good Will Hunting
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1997
length 122 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Gus Van Sant
script Ben Affleck ,
Matt Damon
production Lawrence Bender
music Danny Elfman
camera Jean-Yves Escoffier
cut Pietro Scalia
occupation
synchronization

Good Will Hunting - The good Will Hunting (Original title: Good Will Hunting ) is an American drama from 1997 directed by Gus Van Sant . The main role is played by Matt Damon , who also wrote the script with Ben Affleck .

action

The 20-year-old Will Hunting lives in a shabby area in South Boston, a sparsely furnished apartment and spends his free time with his friends Chuckie, Billy and Morgan playing baseball and drinking in bars afterwards. He also likes to fight. He has a number of previous convictions, ranging from assault to car theft. He earns his money with various unskilled jobs. He currently works as a cleaner at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge , where he mops the hallways. When he effortlessly solves complicated mathematical problems written on a blackboard, intended for students, mathematics professor Gerald Lambeau discovers the previously unknown mathematical genius in him.

After Will has instigated a fight several times, he comes to court and is sentenced to prison on the basis of his criminal record. Professor Lambeau makes an agreement with the judge that Will will be released from prison while Lambeau is under observation, provided he meets two conditions: He must meet with the Professor once a week and seek therapeutic treatment. When Will has already got the fifth therapist to give up working with him, Lambeau sees the last chance in psychologist Sean Maguire of Bunker Hill Community College in Charlestown . Maguire, whom he knows from his student days, comes from the same working-class neighborhood of Boston as Will. He gradually finds Will and makes him face challenges instead of avoiding them. Sean speaks the language Will understands. He reveals things from his life, always reveals himself to a certain extent, increasingly behaves as a fatherly friend. Both immerse themselves in their life stories, reveal their wounds. Will, mistreated as an orphan by the stepfather . Sean, widower whose wife died of cancer.

In a bar, Will meets Skylar, a student who gives him her phone number. There is a meeting and the two fall in love.

Lambeau plans to give Will a lucrative position in research or industry that matches his abilities as soon as possible. However, Will is not ready to trade the familiar unskilled life with his buddy Chuckie for a bourgeois existence. Professor Lambeau cannot understand this, the contact between the two breaks off. Will also split up with Skylar, claiming that he did not love her. In fact, even here he is just afraid of making a final decision.

Maguire learns from court records that Will grew up in foster families and was severely physically abused there. Maguire himself was beaten as a child by his alcoholic father and had to experience similar experiences as Will. When he confronts Will with it in one of the next sessions and repeatedly insistently tells him that he is not to blame ("You can't help it. You can't help it. You can't help it."), Will suddenly breaks into tears out, falls into Maguire's arms and lets his pain run free for the first time.

However, Will gets the decisive impulse to change his life from his best friend Chuckie, when he confronts him for the fact that Will doesn't care about his abilities (“You have a lottery ticket with six numbers in your pocket and you're too cowardly, to redeem it is nonsense! ”). Chuckie says he'd be happiest if one day Will just disappeared with no goodbye to tackle bigger things.

The argument with Will also changes Maguire's life: after the death of his beloved wife, he had shown himself as closed to new things as Will, but now he decides to travel the world.

The film ends with Will making Chuckie's wish come true and going to California in his old car to follow Skylar, who is studying medicine there. He says goodbye to Maguire with a note: "I have to look after my girl." The same words Sean Maguire had once used when he told Will how he met his wife and a crucial baseball game ( Game 6 of the 1975 World Series ) missed.

synchronization

The German synchronization was for a dialogue book by Jörg Hartung under the dialogue director of Joachim Tennstedt on behalf of Hermes Synchron GmbH in Potsdam .

role Actress German voice
Will hunting Matt Damon Matthias Hinze
Sean Maguire Robin Williams Peer Augustinski
Chuckie Sullivan Ben Affleck Nicolas Boell
Prof. Gerald Lambeau Stellan Skarsgård Randolf Kronberg
Skylar Minnie Driver Martina Treger
Morgan O'Mally Casey Affleck Simon hunter
Billy McBride Cole Hauser Thomas Nero Wolff
Clark Scott William Winters Dietmar miracle
Dr. Henry Lipkin George Plimpton Jürgen Thormann
Krystyn Rachel Majorowski Diana Borgwardt
Timmy Richard Fitzpatrick Eberhard Prüter
Judge George H. Malone Jimmy Flynn Hermann Ebeling

Background and trivia

  • The script was developed by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck from a short story originally written by Damon for a writing class. When Damon was still studying at Harvard, from 1992 onwards they wrote a complete script from his 40-page draft about an unskilled worker with the potential to become a mathematical genius.
  • The title of the film is a play on words: it means both "The Good Will Hunting" and "The Chase for the Good Will".
  • In the movie, Will mentions the book in the first meeting with Sean A People's History of the United States of Howard Zinn . In 2007 Matt Damon was the speaker for an audio book version of the book, and Damon lived in Zinn's neighborhood as a child.
  • The role of Skylar was named after Matt Damon's girlfriend at the time, Skylar Satenstein. Matt Damon left this before filming started because of Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich . Damon and Skylar actress Minnie Driver, in turn, began an affair during the film production. Skylar Satenstein and Lars Ulrich married in 1997 and divorced again in 2004.
  • The first names of Will's alleged brothers mentioned in the film (Marky, Ricky, Danny, Terry, Mikey, Davey, Timmy, Tommy, Joey, Robby, Johnny and Brian) are the first names of Ben Affleck's favorite directors Marc Rocco , Richard Attenborough , Danny Boyle , Terry Gilliam , Mikael Salomon , David Fincher , Tim Burton , Tom Hanks , Joel Schumacher , Robert Redford , John Woo and Brian De Palma .
  • The mathematical advisor for the film was Daniel Kleitman , who also has a cameo .
  • The credits end with the line: "In Memory of Allen Ginsberg & William S. Burroughs ", both American writers of the Beat Generation .
  • After Robin Williams received the Oscar for his role in the film, he sent Peer Augustinski , who had dubbed it in the German version, a small replica of the Oscar statuette with the comment: “Thank you for making me famous in Germany ".
  • In the 2001 movie Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (director: Kevin Smith ), Ben Affleck and Matt Damon play their roles from Good Will Hunting in one scene and parody them in the fictional sequel Good Will Hunting II: Hunting Season . Director Gus Van Sant can be seen as the disinterested director of the sequel.
  • Gerald Lambeau mentions Srinivasa Ramanujan and his employment relationship with Godfrey Hardy (Cambridge) as an illustration of Will's talent (although he exaggerates Ramanujan's origins). Maguire opposes the mathematician Theodore Kaczynski , who became known as an assassin.
  • The mathematical problems shown in the film come predominantly from graph theory and linear algebra , including the actually by no means particularly difficult problem of listing all homeomorphic-irreducible trees (i.e. without nodes with degree 2) with 10 nodes - whereby the protagonist only records 8 of the 10 trees - and a number problem of trees, the solution of which is given by Cayley's formula .
  • In the series Disney's Big Break , episode 29 (Hank, das Genie / Original: A Genius Among Us) tells the very similar story in which the school janitor solves difficult math problems on the blackboard unnoticed without anyone knowing about his talent.

Soundtrack

  1. Elliott Smith : Between the Bars
  2. Jeb Loy Nichols: As the Rain
  3. Elliott Smith: Angeles
  4. Elliott Smith: No Name # 3
  5. The Waterboys : Fisherman's Blues
  6. Luscious Jackson : Why Do I Lie?
  7. Danny Elfman : Will Hunting (Main Titles)
  8. Elliott Smith: Between the Bars
  9. Elliott Smith: Say Yes
  10. Gerry Rafferty : Baker Street
  11. Andru Donalds : Somebody's baby
  12. The Dandy Warhols : Boys Better
  13. Al Green : How Can You Mend a Broken Heart?
  14. Elliott Smith: Miss Misery
  15. Danny Elfman: Weepy Donuts

reception

Reviews

“A cinematic development novel that lives primarily from dialogue and focuses entirely on the faces of the outstanding actors in close-up shots. The performance as well as some extremely intense moments, however, cannot make the film's visual deficits or its plot clichés forgotten. "

- Lexicon of international film

“Above all, it is the superb acting achievements (above all Williams in a serious portrayal, reminiscent of his haunting role in ' The Dead Poets ' Club ') that lift the psychogram over some script clichés. […] The fact that 'Good Will Hunting' has an irresistible effect on its audience despite some nosy dialogues is certainly due to Gus Van Sant's direction, which is very conventional for his circumstances, but who does not neglect his dazzling feeling for young outsiders and a To always make the highest degree of authenticity almost physically tangible. "

- Kino.de

Awards (selection)

Academy Awards 1998

Nominated:

Golden Globe Awards 1998

Nominated:

Screen Actors Guild Awards 1998

Nominated:

European Film Award 1998

Berlin International Film Festival 1998

  • Silver Bear for Outstanding Individual Achievement to Matt Damon as a screenwriter and actor

Chlotrudis Awards Nominated

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Film poster on moviepilot.de ( Memento of the original from October 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.moviepilot.de
  2. ^ Certificate of Approval for Good Will Hunting . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , December 2011 (PDF; test number: 79 113 V).
  3. ↑ In the English language original of the film “It's not your fault”, literally: “It's not your fault.” (Miramax / Arthaus DVD, 2012)
  4. ↑ Good Will Hunting. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on April 19, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Dirk Jasper, Matt Damon, Droemer Knaur, 1998, ISBN 3-426-61111-2
  6. ↑ Interview with Ben Affleck in the Süddeutsche Zeitung , November 19, 2007
  7. ↑ Review of Good Will Hunting by Mark Saul, Notices AMS, No. 4, 1998, pdf , with a section from Kleitman My career in the movies .
  8. ↑ Gabor Horvath, Jozsef Korandi, Csaba Szabo: Mathematics in Good Will Hunting II , University of Debrecen, Eötvös Lorand University of Budapest (pdf)
  9. ↑ The Good Will Hunting Problem , Oliver Knill, Math 21b, Harvard, 2003. The first blackboard problem that the protagonist solved. It asks for the adjacency matrix and the generating function of paths in a graph.
  10. ^ First solved by Frank Harary , Prins: The number of homeomorphically irreducible trees, and other species, Acta Math., Volume 101, 1959, pp. 141-162
  11. ↑ Good Will Hunting. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  12. ^ Review of Good Will Hunting on Kino.de