This whole scene was fucking stupid. The reason pony tail guy spent 150k on education instead of going to the library is because going to Harvard looks better on a resume. Did people really think this scene was genius?
its good because right before that he owned the pretentous guy but yes i also think that scene was cheesy and dramatic if it were irl the other guy would literally burst out laughing
>>215237027The whole movie was literally written by damon, what do you expect
Movie written by an idiot. Dedicated to a NAMBLA jew commie.
>>215237027Do you like apples""nope"Well how do you.. oh sht. Hold on I'll be right back
It's what 105 IQs who think they are 145 IQ actually believe.
The "Do you like apples?" was dumb, too. A genius should've been able to come up with a better dis.
>>215237027He dunked on him intellectually but physical violence trumps even that in the moment.
>>215237027GWH is a midwit's idea of a smart person, yes, we know, this has been discussed to death already
Ben Affleck>literal dog shit>Casey Affleck>Matt DamonI had high hopes after Talented Mr. Ripley & he pissed it away
>>215237027>"Wood drastically underestimates the impact of social distinctions predicated upon wealth, especially inherited wealth..."This quote does not seem to appear in Daniel Vickers' book - which, by the way, is not titled "Work in Essex County" but "Farmers and Fishermen: Two Centuries of Work in Essex County, Massachusetts, 1630–1850". Neither does the quote appear on page 98, nor anywhere else in the book.Page 98: https://books.google.at/books?id=N1jUaJR5becC&pg=PA98Mentions of "wood" throughout the book: https://books.google.at/books?id=N1jUaJR5becC&pg=PA98#q=WoodAnd the kicker? Whereever a guy with the last name "Wood" DID get mentioned in the book, it was William Wood, not Gordon Wood.Clark could have torn Will to shreds then and there.
>>215237027>Did people really think this scene was genius?I dont know where are you from but in the US, you just need to show you know the job for them to give you an opportunity. Is true they are not going to give you the interview but if you manage to get in the company you can get your way up really fast. I saw so many cases in my working life with big companies. Not to mention small companies.The downside is they abuse you with the salary because you dont have the stupid paper.
>>215237027The whole point of university is to get the certificate AND make connections to already successful people who are just mostly dicking around. If you can’t do one or the other you should drop out and get a job, leech off the system/parents.
All of the "smart" stuff in this movie is actually pretty dumb, even the equation he solves at the university in the beginning of the movie is nothing special. Ben and Matt didn't care about making any of that make sense, they just wanted to establish that the character is smart and then focus on the drama.
>>215237027>its a "Matt damon has le epic super smaht rant/monologue" scene
The industry was already beyond fucked if this laughable, self indulgent trash can be hailed as a masterpiece. The absolute worst of American cinema.
>>215237027In tye end it wasn't the ontellectual own it was threatening to beat his ass
>>215237027This movie is the midwife fantasy. >im really smartest in room>just too blue collar and bad ass to go to school or get the right qualifications that I could totally get if I wanted to. >I don’t need your approval I hate these kinda people.
>>215237027its stupid because whites are not allowed and actively discriminated from enrollment in harvard.
>>215237607Based researcher.
>>215237988Midwit* Darn autocorrect
The whole movie is destroyed if the guy didn't actually like apples
>>215237988The tragedy is when you really are smarter than a menial job but there is nothing else for you.
>>215237027A writer cannot write a character more intelligent than himself
>>215237027It was wicked smaht
>>215237607
>>215237866The drawing on a window is a great shot but a terrible trope.
>>215237027Matt probably got destroyed in a debate during his time at Harvard. Then wrote this cringe headcanon.
>>215237866>and then focus on the drama.In that case, they should have left in the gay sex scene.
>>215238278the what
>>215238331The script initially had a sex scene between Will and Chuckie. It wasn't meant to stay in, it was a test to see if the studio was reading the script.
Yeah maybe, but at least he wasn't unoriginal.
Chuckle wouldn't have told him to pursue a better future, he would've called him gay and said the right thing to do is stay in your neighborhood forever. Also, lend me 20 dollars. No group of friends would gift their friend a car for their birthday. That is more fantastical than the eiditic memory.
This scene made no sense because why would Matt Damon have been reading all those boring ass textbooks if he wasn't even enrolled in school? Like who goes to the library and decides to read "American Economic policies in 1837" for leisure?
>>215238521>he never skipped school to read faulkner for free
>>215238521Intellectuals, you can get a syllabus from the front desk. He enjoyed the pursuit of knowledge but felt he didn't deserve the fruits of labor due to his trauma and low self worth. Hence the defeatist attitude.
>>215238521my boys wicked smaht
>>215238046In school teachers and classmates kept telling me I was brilliant but I didnt care. I dropped out and worked retail jobs because that was all I could get. My manager kept telling me I was too smart for retail and I needed to do something better with my life. 20 years later I work in tech and regret it. Im too dumb for this kind of work. I was happier doing menial labor and hooking up with young female coworkers. The real tragedy is somehow i was too smart for retail but I am too dumb to be an engineer which I spent my whole adult life doing. Wasted over half my life in a shitty career.
>>215237988t. nepobaby
>>215238046>The tragedy is when you really are smarter than a menial job but there is nothing else for you.
>>215238599unsubscribe
>>215238201Matt Damon went to Harvard?
>>215238765Hahvahd
>>215238650this made me laugh really hard
>>215238765he went to Rounders
>>215237988thats a less retarded worldview then believing that everyone ends up in the job they belong in.
>>215238825tfw unemployed
>>215238007describes midwives too funnily enough
>>215237988I think that most midwits could certainly get the right qualifications if they wanted to. There are very few fields that actually require more than above intelligence, these are mostly revolved around STEM. If a person has above average intelligence (or even just average), they can succeed in almost every field. So, yeah I think it's mostly about motivation and circumstances does one get the degree or not.Regards, dumb fuck in a demanding field but still doing ok.
>>215238860Creepy. Source?
>>215237547he was only good in Ripley because he was playing himself
>>215238046Crime is always hiring.
>>215239122Based lunatic.
>>215238046you're a big boy
>>215237027Pony tail guy didnt cry like a bitch at the end either.
>>215237027>The reason pony tail guy spent 150k on education instead of going to the library is because going to Harvard looks better on a resume.and yet the janny was being headhunted by every major agency in the country
>>215237027it is a classic dick-sizing scene, and it is a good one
>>215239476Its a fictional story of wish fulfullment.
>>215237988either you lack experience or you need this mindset to not self doubt. i really can´t explain it. over the years i met people that are way above average in terms of intelligence and work deadend logistic jobs, they usually are in the "this guy does everything that needs to be done every day"-position, taking care of everyones shit.and i have met and worked with dozens of people that went through all the channels you are supposed to, always had good grades, studied, always worked in leadership positions and by all accounts were absolute inept fucking retards that shat up everything they touched, somehow weaseling their way around accountability.
How to cope with never being a 150 IQ chad when you're a 120 IQ incel?
He's saying that he's a pretentious apprent know it all that only had a base level understanding of things. He ran his mouth, got cocky, parroting what he heard and read and tried to look like the cool guy and got embarrassed in front of people.
>>215237607Dude, did you grow up as a genius orphan too? Or just spend 140K on an educuation that will open many doors and secure a very succesful and stable future?
>>215239366Getting punked is brutal but essential to staying out of trouble.
>>215238109I WASNT WITH A HOOKER TODAY AH-HA!
>>215240020To be fair, he was going around a strange local and trying to.pick up chicks that they had no right too. It's like going to a different high school party in a different part of town and picking up the hottest girl.
>>215237027Just a typical poorfag misunderstanding of higher education.
>>215240003Enjoy life and not shitpost on this horrid site.
>>215237027Brahmans and brawlahs in Boston kid go pats
>>215238519If he didnt have those friends he would have blew his head off ages ago. So yeah i believe we are following the one abused genius orphan with actual loyal friends because the ones without those like you described are dead.
>>215237027>Education is a proven thing that works, and you describing the process doesn't make you look smart, it makes you look stupid.
>sperm jokes, people laughing outloud.>farts jokes, people laughing outloud.tell me how to ruin a movie
>>215240085Of course he butted into a conversation between two people that he wasn't a part of to look cool. I fucking hate dudes like that, ok bud, we're going to change our conversation to being about you. No one was talking to you, fuck off faggot.
>>215238521He read like a page per second so he read a lot apparently. Thats just how us genius iq guys read. I read like 5000 books per year, i just focus on two words per page and then proceed to next page.
>>215237027I haven't seen this in like 20 years but wasn't that basically what pony tail guy replied with?>>215237465>>215237498https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ1pXh1x71E
>>215237333>if it were irl the other guy would literally burst out laughingAnd will would have just beat the shit out of him. Like, holy shit.
>>215240154Sometimes I just want to join the party and make new friends.
>>215240201He wasnt being friendly.
>>215237027>Will has sour grapes because he couldn't get into a prestigious college>retarded scene where he "cucks" a student>the girl he gets is Minnie Driverthe student won
>>215240158You joke but tai Lopez revealed his sophistry when he revealed his reading list was so accomplished because authors only write the important concepts in the first page of the chapter. The nincompoop has only been reading like that on every book he claimed to read.
>>215237988Some guys are actually the smartest in just about any room. I’ll agree though most of these guys are posers, but some people really do deserve to talk exactly like this.These types of guys usually have a negative mindset and bad social skills, unironically even if you’re incredibly intelligent having at least basic social skills is still more important.
>>215240176Yeah, that sure would prove him right
>>215240119STFU, you stupid pajeet.
>>215240234>Minnie DriverMy suspension of disbelief was working overtime trying to convince me that was a college student in her early twenties.
>>215240465The girl from the tv show younger is supposed to be in her 20s despite being in her 40s. It has prime Hillary duff. Pretty funny.
>>215237027>Face it, Hunting. You just won the shitbox!
>>215239907>people that are way above average in terms of intelligence and work deadend logistic jobs, they usually are in the "this guy does everything that needs to be done every day"-position, taking care of everyones shit.tfw you've been this guy for twenty years
>>215240513>autist that can't comprehend that people age
>>215240654This is a cope. An actual smart person can do better.
>>215240465I thought she was in grad school but maybe that's my brain writing excuses for the movie.
>>215240764OK now that I think about it she was supposed to graduate soon in the movie. I think during filming she would have been like 25. So I guess she was the right age but she looked like 38 in that movie.
>>215237027it was all just an act. if he was actually smart he wouldn't read leftard smut like chomsky and howard zinn
>>215240764She was going to medical school, in the cafe scene she is studying organic chemistry.
The movie is totally nonsensical. If Will was as smart as the movie portrayed, then he was on a multi-millionaire within a decade tract. I'm not as smart as that fictional character who has apparently supernatural intelligence and I made enough money to take care of my friends to such an extent that the U.S. government came after me. In Will's case he could have made enough money to cut all his friends checks for $500,000, retired, and used his wealth for whatever personal reasons or causes he wanted. In real life it's not quite that cut and dry because we're not geniuses with eidetic memory, but that movie is like the Flash struggling with winning the 100 meter sprint.
>>215240888
>>215240901You need money and opportunity. The is a reason why investors exist.
>>215240856No she didn't. Have you been around real people?
its even more cringe when you realise he wrote the character himself
>>215240958Yes. None of my interns at work have looked that old.
>>215240914a jew hating and undermining his host country, how original, never had that before
>>215240141Will was mocking the education system though, which prioritises rote learning rather than understanding and comprehension of the material, not education itself, which is the point of the library comment
>>215240933Will is a genius being offered elite positions in the NSA. He could have gotten a job at almost any hedge fund in the country. Certainly at the equivalent of Bridgewater or Renaissance Technologies.
>>215240991It's even more cringe when you find out the original plot was a high stakes thriller about government agencies trying to recruit him and not a drama.
>You're good, Will Hunting. Maybe too good.Walked out of the kinoplex then and there
>>215238599your manager didn’t want you to take their job. district managers are always looking to replace crusty old store managers with young blood, especially in the Customer Service department.
>>215241068If the NSA is so genius why did 9/11 happen and why did they think Saddam had WMDs etc etc etc. will was a """"genius"""" written by a couple of Massachusetts retard faggots.
>>215241018She didn't look old
>still no good will wunting 2: hunting season
>>215240513
>>215241130That's kind of ok desu. She was stacking shelves at 40. My job is lame too but not stacking shelves at 40 lame.
>>215241181>Bad Will Hunting
>>215241134>why did they think Saddam had WMDskek imagine being this naive
>>215241134The NSA is so genius that they hire some weab dork who ends up leaking all their secrets.
>>215239907>and i have met and worked with dozens of people that went through all the channels you are supposed to, always had good grades, studied, always worked in leadership positions and by all accounts were absolute inept fucking retards that shat up everything they touched, somehow weaseling their way around accountability.Yep, that's me
>>215241253How the fuck do I reach that position? It it just being likeable?
>>215240364>southie>in charge of giving a fuck
>>215241136That guy is literally a hater.
>>215240743Whatever, I'm dumb. I barely care anymore. I'm just hoping the shooting starts before I'm too old to take part.
>>215240654I used to be. Now I'm management and my goal is to be as lazy as possible. If I could make someone take a shit for me, I would. But its zipfs law, 80 percent of the work is done by 20 percent of your people. And of those 20 percent, 20 percent of their time is spent on 80 percent of your work.
WYAN?
>>215241375>zipfs lawWeird, I've only ever heard it called the Pareto Principle. I like Zipfs Law better.
Ponytail did nothing wrong >hanging out in a college bar>some poorfag retards decide to show up to try to fuck college girl pussy >decide to intellectually embarrass one of them to remind them of their place >retard’s friend is a turbo autist who decided to embarrass you>calmly refute his point>all thing he can say is at least he’s not original >then threatens you with physical violence like the brute that he is
>>215241068If you have the amazing capabilities he has you can bypass ordinary procedures. Walter pitts was a teen runaway who ended up with the intelligentsia of the USA. He ended up spiraling out of control because of some fuel with his best friend. Kinda smart people still have to struggle through the same intellectual hurdles. There are no royal roads in math.
>>215239150why did you just open that door for him if that anon is the "based lunatic"? see how smoke and mirrors work there wise one?
>>215241134They needed something to kick off a new war.
>>215241721How much Halliburton make? It was Kennedy all over again and the helicopter company Johnson was connected with.
>>215238599better to be a big fish in a small pond, eh?
>>215241458It was funny that Will was bragging to Clark that he got Skylar's number since Clark already had it and they obviously were at least somewhat social with each other, even if she wasn't into him. And there's really no evidence that Clark was into her, which makes Will's bragging even dumber.
>>215237027So how would you make a film about a smart character? Would he be a smarmy 4chan troll who spends his days posting about chuds, trannies, BBC, and Good Will Hunting?
>>215242641Hey janny, I posted it again, how do you like them apples?
>>215242282I dont know. If I could leech off of my parents then yeah being in the small pond (retail or other menial labor) would be fine.
>>215241458
>>215237027I initially adored Good Will Hunting until I realized that it was written by two Middle-upper class fratboy douchebags, with Damon having went to Harvard no less, and both from privileged households that caused them insecurity about their masculinity reflected in GWH's script...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Damon#Early_life_and_educationhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Affleck#Early_lifeWill Hunting is a mathematical genius who works a shit job as a janitor and hangs around with his working class friends until he's able to get past his psychological hangups and decides to move on with his life.It's the fantasy of Damon and Affleck that they're smarter than everyone but want to make people think they're tough guys from the streets yet can walk away from that life anytime they want to because of their profound intellect and get a high paying job due to their intelligence.You'll also notice that Will doesn't fall in love with a working class woman but one that's a trust fund baby who's studying to be a doctor ensuring that he and her will enjoy a wealthy life of upward mobility which symbolizes Damon and Afflecks fear that they'd spend the rest of their lives as wage slaves, explicitly expressed by Affleck in the scene at the construction site with Damon where he laments about his station in life and fear that he knows he'll never rise above it.Oh well, I guess sucking Harvey Weinstein and Kevin Smiths cocks paid off in the end!!!FACT!!!
>>215237027Yep.Btw the apple refers to the garden of eden. The coward let others think for him. Did the wrong thing. Now his head is hell. And he doesn't deserve to go outside of institution. Because he spreads it.
>>215237027This whole movie was fucking stupid.*
>>215242922The original plot was more about government agencies trying to recruit him, more thriller, the only real mentions of this in the finished product is the NSA scene. Someone gave them advice saying it was stupid and the drama of the character was more interesting.So it's not like two pseudo intellectuals up their own ass made a drama. It's more like two idiots made a thriller until someone told them it was hacky and they made a drama based on the advice.
>>215240141It's proven the opposite. Look at you. You're that, and that all. A wish for wrong to be taken as right.You take progress, and make it abandoned because it's linked with torture etc done intentionally for the torturers profit. You are not the world. You are it's enemy.
>>215237027"At least I'll be original"Yeah by doing exactly the same thing he just did, reciting shit that he only knows because he read it, then threatening violence while this should have been the other guys response..."How intellectual, how about you stop being a faggot and hit me right now in front of all these witnesses so I can sue you and you'll be working for me the rest of your life?"I'd like to take this moment to also talk about the difference between KNOWLEDGE and INTELLIGENCE.Will has vast amounts of knowledge but he doesn't posses the intelligence to do anything new with it other than solving puzzles that other people created.He can do mathematical problems all day but all he's doing is connecting the dots and just better at it than most people.But as he says to his cocksleeve he couldn't paint a picture or play the piano because those require physical activities that he doesn't want to do such as being a engineer or scientist that requires actual work where he could be developing new technology but can't because he lacks the originality to do so and doesn't want to get his hands dirty.This just shows Damon and Affleck's middle-upper-class-trust-fund-baby aversion to physical labor as Will only wants to answer math problems which wouldn't require him to step foot out of a comfy air conditioned office which is a job that he know doubt could easily land anywhere he goes!Knowledge is being able to answer questions but intelligence is being able to come up with the initial question that no one else thought of.That's true originality that Will doesn't have!!!FACT!!!
>>215237498It was a reference to what ww1 soldiers said when they lobbed grenades because the grenades at the time resembled apples. It was supposed to be a flex on how much of a genius Matt Damon is and his knowledge of obscure history but it really just demonstrates how far he has his head up his own ass.
>>215243386>The original plot was more about government agencies trying to recruit him, more thriller, the only real mentions of this in the finished product is the NSA scene. Someone gave them advice saying it was stupid and the drama of the character was more interesting.>So it's not like two pseudo intellectuals up their own ass made a drama. It's more like two idiots made a thriller until someone told them it was hacky and they made a drama based on the advice.That advice came from TERRENCE MALICK who was a friend of Ben Affleck's godfather and met with Damon/Affleck to give pointers on the script and was the one who convinced them to drop the thriller aspect but also that Will should follow Skylar at the end.Just once again shows that those two never had to struggle for anything, got help every step of the way and reflective of their thoughts about jobs involving physical labor, even those that required math skills such as engineering or science where you have to do more than lift a finger!!!FACT!!!
>>215243386>The original plot was more about government agencies trying to recruit him, more thriller, the only real mentions of this in the finished product is the NSA scene. Someone gave them advice saying it was stupid and the drama of the character was more interesting.>So it's not like two pseudo intellectuals up their own ass made a drama. It's more like two idiots made a thriller until someone told them it was hacky and they made a drama based on the advice.If You Would Like To Know More read Peter Biskind's Down & Dirty Pictures about the 90's "indie" film scene where it goes into extensive detail of Good Will Hunting's development!!!FACT!!!
>>215243046Based schizo. Tell me more.
>>215237547casey affleck is underrated and easily the best of those 3
>>215237027I hate nepo babies that get into college because their daddies were senators, so this scene resonated with me a lot.
>>215238046>tfw think i'm fairly smart but only in the useless subjects that employers don't give a shit aboutwhy couldn't I have been an autist who's really good at math instead of the autist who's obsessed with WWII tank types
>>215244026>why couldn't I have been an autist who's really good at math instead of the autist who's obsessed with WWII tank typesSame hear and hate that I could never get myself invested into focusing on math and science because they just don't interest me while being able to remember vast amounts of useless shit that has no practical applications in the real world apart from shitposting!!!FACT!!!
>>215237027
>>215242860>>I dont know.>>Im too dumb for this kind of work. I was happier doing menial labor>>The real tragedy is somehow i was too smart for retail but I am too dumb to be an engineer
>>215240253Tldr
>>215244636Hahaha! Jokes.
>>215238644This never happens. Actually smart people, not just standard intj b average Wikipedia reading nerds, always get good jobs.
>>215244273There has to be some method or book that treat math phobia and guarantees the process of learning at least calculus to earn a degree. You can enter academia and become a teacher with just that.
>>215237988Good Will Hunting is underachiever cope. >>215238046>>215238599>>215238644EVERYBODY thinks they're the smart one. There isn't a single person on Earth who thinks they're the stupid one. Especially the guys in factories and fast food places.
>>215237027It's appealing to the people who see themselves as Will and making fun of them because they lack the instinct that the bourgeois have to think about the institutions they are attached to or subject to. Thinking about ones reputation like that is a taboo Will has because of his social class. Also seen in the Robin/Stellan(?) dynamic. People thought it was genius for the wrong reasons but it actually is. It's highlighting slave vs master morality
>>215237027>do you like ap->SMACK>Damon punches back>sue his ass back into the ghetto with daddy's money>fuck his ho and send him the tape in jail
>>215238765Both he and Affleck grew up in Cambridge. Went to Latin and Rindge, then dropped out of Harvard to go to Hollywood.
>>215245189There is plenty of people that will admit their intellectual limits, to the point that you want them to stop.
>>215237027>>215237988>>215240295It's the mindset of someone who loathes society, status, institutations, that sort of thing.
>>215244655Not at all true. There's a sweet spot for IQ and ambition, around the lawyer/physician range, like 110-120, effectively midwits, really. From the gifted range on up, 130+, the odds of mental illness are orders of magnitude more likely. I've belonged to Mensa for 20 years and went to exactly one meeting as it was the most depressing experience of my life. I thought I'd meet all these interesting people and get to network and shit, and instead I met all these fucking spergs on disability whose interests were chess and sci-fi paperbacks.I'd be willing to bet most of the people in this thread are smarter than most of the VPs at any fintech company, they just didn't get lucky enough to be born to parents with money.
>>215237027>>215237333>>215240364>>215241458This isn’t hard math. You can get an education and make all the money in the world, and you’ll never forget the night you went from trying to scoop college pussy to getting punked out in front of a bar full of people by some white trash hoodlum. If he had pushed it, he would have gotten his ass beat which would have made the eternal sting even worse. The “at least I’ll be original” line was gay but it didn’t matter. The guy was still cucked. Of course the truth is I’d rather be the college douche over Will and most people would. That wouldn’t change the humiliating memory though. Of course Will looks more embarrassing in the long view but in the college kids mind, his humiliation is paramount.
>>215237369Literally. All by himself. Literally.
>>215237547Fuck off, namefag. Your output is embarrassing.
>>215245813Every doctor i have met seems competent but no more a genius than anyone else.
>>215237607Harvard wants "well-rounded" individuals; guys who not only study but like to go skiing and drink at bars and hit on women.You only have the brains and obsessiveness thing that might get you the grades for Harvard to look at you, but I assure you you couldn't pass any of the other requirements for "well-rounded individual". You're probably a shut-in incel who identifies as some kind of "neurodivergent". At least you have something going for you though. Most of the people posting on this forum don't even have the fortitude to do all the research you did.
>>215237465"...do you uh...do you like bananas?"
The fact that he wrote it meant he was pathetic and a loser in his own right. He was a fucking janitor. There's no esteem in that career.
>>215237866Yeah, and only autistic faggots will ever care about any of the equations on the walls or what Gordon Wood did or didn't drastically underestimate. All movies are this way. The technical details at the margins are not the focal point. This goes for sci-fi and courtroom and police procedural and any subject you can think of. You guys get hung up on the shit you're not supposed to even remember.
>>215237027Now you know how I feel about people who think Columbo "gotchas" are "brilliant".
>>215237904go back
>>215238007Why don't you disable autocorrect? Or pay attention before you publish your posts?
>>215246466So that young fellas like yourself can wear a suit and a tie and have a job. What do you really wanna know? Am I sorry for what I did?There's not a day goes by I don't feel regret. Not because I'm in here, or because you think I should. I look back on the way I was then, a young, stupid kid who committed that terrible post.I wanna talk to him. I wanna try to talk some sense to him -- tell him the way things are. But I can't. That kid's long gone and this old man is all that's left. I gotta live with that.
>>215237027>going to Harvard looks better on a resumeI'm sure that worked out spendidly for him :P
>>215246466nta but i have stubby-ish fingers and constantly screw up typing on phones, so autocorrect comes in handly despite the occasional mistake.
>>215239907This. If you put in the time and get your degree (getting easier every year) you can land a job and be terrible at it.People have told me I'm the smartest guy in the room. But it will never do me any good because I'm fucking lazy. I'd rather lay around reading all day than pursue higher education through the formal channels. I'm not motivated to get a "good" job. I don't mind custodial work or dishwashing. I get stoned and zone out at work and in my many off hours I make art and read books in a tiny guest house I get for $500/month. I feel I have a rich life in a great community.Happiness and success as concepts are subjective to the individual.
>>215246664Are your parents happy? Do your partners care? Im not being facetious. Mine wanted me to go to school because that is what smart people do.
>>215240154Why are you siding against the protagonist and his crew? You're the viewer of the movie, so you're in Will's corner and you identify with him, not the bad guy with the pony tail. You post in bad faith. There's no way you watch movies wrong and don't support the main character.
>>215240215He swooped in after Affleck interrupted. It wasn't him, and even he was talking to the girls. The main group of the movie did not do anything wrong. The Harvard dude went out of his way to approach and start trying to make a fool out of Affleck.
>>215240465Yeah, she was in her MID twenties. How did they ever think she could pull that off?
>>215246664>in a tiny guest house I get for $500/month.Where do you live for 500/ month?
>>215246737>There's no way you watch movies wrong and don't support the main character.What if you watch a movie or show where the main character gets femsplained by an asian cunt like in Louie.
>>215240888You're not intelligent if you disregard good reads because of some imaginary and simplified political association of the authors. But you're on 4chan, not sure why I expected you'd be anything but an ignorant simpleton angry at "the left".lol
>>215240901In the end he had a lot of options and we're not led to believe he never took any of them. He just wanted to bang that girl some more and see the rest of the country. He'd never been out of the state even. He was taking a road trip to California. He's still just a kid. I'm sure he eventually would have made money, but that seems to be all you think is important. Most of us are not that way, especially really smart people. >make that money make that money!!!
>>215241051A schizo bashing jews on 4chan, how original, never seen that before
>>215241068You care too much about the almighty 'ollar.
>>215241189I always thought it was so strange that she took that small role as a Russian mistress. No one ever mentions it.
>>215241366Yeah, but 'literally'? Hating is hating and none of it is literal vs. figurative.
this scene probably kicked off the snarky shitlib style of writing, where they have to keep one-upping someone who represents the WASP bully.
>>215238765Yes. He was a member of the Delphic Club. People don't just fall into success.
>>215241458hahahaI love contrarian trolls like this. Always picking the other team out of rebellion.
>>215240295You’re embarrassing yourself
>>215242433He didn't already have her number and he was into her. You can't just deny what the movie showed you and invent your own headcanon for how it "really" was. lolYou have an active imagination though and if your goal was to post an absolutely original thought that no one ever had about that movie, you sure succeeded. You don't believe a word of it however.
>>215242812lol, you took offense to that comment. You're not even ashamed to be a troll. You're basically defending it and calling the other guy the troll.
>>215242922Can't separate the art from the artist. Yeah, a few of you crazies on this website. I pity you and the way you suspiciously see the world. You are a virgin for a reason.
>>215242922>I initially adored it until I found out about the filmmakers. I can't appreciate a story if the storyteller came from means.Bullshit.
>>215243473>at least I'll be originalIs this the new "Luke, I am your father"?He never says those words. He says: "At least I won't be unoriginal."You paraphrased, and you're not the first one ITT to do that. Don't use actual quotations if you're going to misrepresent the fucking dialogue.
The "education" system is a fucking joke.University is glorified high school and doesn't teach you shit either.I never realized how uneducated I truly was until I started reading proper books years after.What's sad is that the books that expose how bullshit everything is aren't even long or hard to read, so there's never been an excuse not to read them all.
>>215245385Face it, it appealed to EVERYONE. It won Oscars and everyone and their aunt went to see it in 1998. Only some ignorant cunt zoomer can look at Good Will Hunting like it's for some specific kind of douchebag you don't like.>the bourgeoislol, fuck off
>>215247208Go ahead, post them.
>>215245530You want to be edgy and rebellious SO bad that you make posts like this where the good guy gets fucked over and you champion the bad guy.
>>215240914Weren't zinn and Damon neighbors?
>>215237988Apathy was in style at the time
>>215247227Dumbing Us Down - John Taylor GattoWeapons of Mass Instruction - John Taylor GattoEconomics in One Lesson - Henry Hazlitt (alternatively: Essentials of Economics - Faustino Ballve)What Has Government Done to Our Money - Murray RothbardPublic Relations - Edward BernaysBullshit Jobs - David GraeberThe Basic Laws of Human Stupidity - Carlo CipollaThe Manipulated Man - Esther VilarThe book of PookRich Dad, Poor Dad - Robert Kiyosaki (yes, I know he's a grifter, but the motivational part against wagecuckery is fantastic)
>>215237498Applesauce bitch
>>215247331Based literati! I have heard of some these. The dumbing down a download years ago. These will prove that education in America is subpar?
>>215246935>not "take your meds"Actually semioriginal, I'll give it up
>>215245813This. I was in the Talented And Gifted program as a child. IQ tested at 130. I clowned on my teachers and excelled in areas that interested me. Cared more about drawing than math and shit. My parents had enough money that I could have gone to college and been somebody, but I liked just drinking and getting high and hanging out with friends. That's still really all I care about as a middle-aged man with no family. Though I wish I had a family. Most women aren't intellectually stimulating. And the ones who are want a "successful" man with good money and a career. The few artsy chicks I love to hang out with wouldn't make good mothers. I guess I could marry a dumb woman and have half-dumb kids, but I just can't bring myself to. I can't be with someone dumb. And only dumb women have any interest in long term type relationships with me. I'm too cantankerous anyway. Smart people see the world as a mess they can't fix and they can never be happy. I read that somewhere and it makes sense. I can't find solace in religion or sports or any such retarded pursuit. Doomed to general unhappiness and "mediocrity" financially. There's definitely some mental illness here somewhere, but I avoid having it checked and diagnosed. But even if I could snap my fingers and instantly be slightly dumber and yet successful and happy I still wouldn't do it. I don't believe in that kind of thing. This is my life and I'm stuck being me. We all have our own plight. It's our duty to live it out.
>>215237027I went to this bar and the bartender was like what can I get you and I was like uhh good question, I'm just here because it was in Good Will Hunting, and he had no idea what I was talking about, so I ordered a beer, chugged it, and dipped.
>>215246621Yes?
>>215246601lol, nice
>>215246841Behind a way bigger house owned by someone who likes me. I'm aware it's a favor deal. That's why I consider my life rich.
>>215246866Even more reason to stay on the side of the main character. When he wanted to buy pots and pans? Yeah, why would someone watch that wrong and support her over him? You're confused here.
>>215237027Matt Damon wrote the movie as a writing assignment when he was going to Harvard fyi
>>215247378It's about how the entire mandatory schooling system is subpar.
>>215247426Seriously? You actually did and said those things? How did you expect him to react? What the fuck is wrong with you?
>>215247478I'd read that they wrote it because as young actors they didn't have access to good scripts that they could act in, so they decided to do it themselves.
>>215247259it was just a joke anon, but I enjoy any attempt at post-profiling.
>>215240295Very few people that watched this movie are actually like the character. 135+ iq is 1% of the population. And will is supposed to be some sort of supergenius 1% of that 1%. I doubt that type of person would even enjoy this midwit self insert masturbation fantasy
>>215247510seems like a pretty normal thing to do anon
>>215247479>>215247378Not for nothing but it doesn't take much to realize that these institutions are solely in place, at least in the United States, to funnel money. Schools get more money based on students that graduate. Universities pay schools money to tell students to go to their universities. Students pay to go to university. This isn't a conspiracy, it's just the way things are. >>215247331I haven't read those books, but unless you can tell us all here and now that they can help raise the next generation to be better and raise humanity as a whole, then who cares.
>>215247331>proper books>it's all pop-sci amazon bestseller slop
>>215248421>Get me? Good question. I'm really just here because of Good Will Hunting.Yes, seems like a very normal trip to a bar. I'm sure that happens all the time.
>>215248502I'm sure you've read the REAL books, with the leather and the dust. Reference room books. Anything that sells is just fluff for posers.
>>215248470>it doesn't take much to realize that these institutions are solely in place, at least in the United States, to funnel moneyAnd yet barely anybody speaks out against it.>help raise the next generation to be better and raise humanity as a wholeFirst step to solving a problem is realizing that there is a problem. These books help identify the problems.>>215248502You're an idiot. This is an exhaustive argument, so don't (You) me.
>>215237988Did a tradie mogg you lollol officecel
>>215248560>And yet barely anybody speaks out against it.Because people like you and I who know the truth don't care enough to speak about it beyond 4chan. If you give a fuck, because I don't, go write articles and pitch them to major outlets.>But they wouldn't publish something like thisSelf-publish, pay a hot chick to read your words in a youtube video essay. The avenues to get the word out are innumerable. What matters is will.>First step to solving a problem is realizing that there is a problem. These books help identify the problems.These books don't matter if you can't get anyone to read them. Nobody on 4chan who reads these books matters. Your goal should be to get normalfags to read them. If you care, you'll go do what I said. Good luck.
