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  • Will (Matt Damon) breaks down exactly why he shouldn't work for the NSA.
    In this scene: Will (Matt Damon), NSA Agent #1 (Bruce Hunter), NSA Agent #2 (Robert Talvano)
    About Good Will Hunting:
    The most brilliant mind at America’s top university isn’t a student, he’s the kid who cleans the floors. Will Hunting is a headstrong, working-class genius who is failing the lessons of life. After one too many run-ins with the law, Will’s last chance is a psychology professor, who might be the only man who can reach him. Finally forced to deal with his past, Will discovers that the only one holding him back is himself.
    Starring, in alphabetical order: Ben Affleck, Casey Affleck, Cole Hauser, Matt Damon, Minnie Driver, Robin Williams, Stellan Skarsgård
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  • @drumempire
    @drumempire Před 5 lety +3380

    "My boy's wicked smaat."

  • @roninr6383
    @roninr6383 Před 6 lety +4967

    He just described why Veterans laugh at “Thanks for your service.”

    • @tsonny1104
      @tsonny1104 Před 5 lety +389

      I really think its a slap to the face. Veterans face homelessness and mental illness rates higher than pretty much every other demographic simply because old rich guys need to make more money.

    • @davidcunningham2984
      @davidcunningham2984 Před 5 lety +115

      and why i never say thanks for your service.

    • @johnwayne2103
      @johnwayne2103 Před 5 lety +206

      Don't thank Marines for our service. We don't give a fuck. If you want to show me thanks, come paint my house, put a new roof on or pay off my mortgage.
      Now that's how you say THANKS!
      Now fuck you very much.

    • @EhCanadianGamer
      @EhCanadianGamer Před 5 lety +117

      I know it seems insulting to say soldiers are just "political pawns". But do you honestly think warfare compares to the first two world wars? WWII is as black and white as you're gonna get. Today it's based around financial interest. You know how much is spent on countering terrorism? Imagine if I invented a magic machine that made everyone all peaceful and we all smoke joints and fuck and live in prosperity. They don't want that, cause the defense contractors will lose hundreds of billions of dollars. So today, its fair to say warfare and war in general doesn't have the same meaning it had in the past. So yes, if you're a soldier? You're furthering someone else's interests who wouldn't give two fucks about you or even cares that you're "serving your country". And once you're done serving? They chew you up and spit you out. So it's either go straight back into the fire or find illegal means of making money. We serve our veterans so well don't we?

    • @EhCanadianGamer
      @EhCanadianGamer Před 5 lety +23

      @Tommy Hass Wasn't suggesting everyone against Hitler was "good". I was saying WWII is as black and white as you're gonna get. Even then it isn't as black and white as some stories were at a certain time.

  • @silverstarlightproductions1292

    NSA: So is that a no?

  • @Linda-mf8vm
    @Linda-mf8vm Před 2 lety +392

    To think Matt and Ben wrote this while in their early 20's astounds me. This movie is so spot on and they spoke about issues that were not even popular back in the 90's! Matt was brilliant in this role. Ben was the perfect best friend. Great film!!!

    • @uselesstrident1267
      @uselesstrident1267 Před rokem +14

      People have been talking about these issues since Vietnam.

    • @itsgoingtobeok-justbreathe4808
      @itsgoingtobeok-justbreathe4808 Před 8 měsíci

      and now in 2023 Ben is pimping Dunkin' Donuts pumpkin spice coffee on tv commercials as "brand embassador" and trying to rap. smdh czcams.com/video/3HrQoNSDBHc/video.html&ab_channel=Dunkin%27

    • @calldwnthesky6495
      @calldwnthesky6495 Před 5 měsíci +1

      agree this is brilliantly written. the issues that he brings up were probably more popular than you think in the 90s but the people in power have been developing a public relations strategy (essentially a propaganda machine) for many decades - a machine which disseminates information that conforms to a fairly strict agenda but also very effectively suppresses information that doesn't fit that agenda. Vietnam was arguably much worse in terms of human suffering - not only in southeast Asia but also here in the states (though to a much lesser extent)... and there were significant protests against the vietnam war. the people in power include experts at indoctrinating the population though - and they target young people especially... because young people of course are the future... and the powerful want to keep their military machine alive. this is the way every nation state operates by the way... they are power centers. power centers produce all kinds of violence and fear. i see them as mafias for the most part... criminal organizations

  • @hiawathaclemons
    @hiawathaclemons Před 4 lety +3163

    As a Marine who went to Iraq. I can honestly say this was a brilliant theory. More accurate than people think. Those waiting to disagree, at least be respectful. Being an arrogant disrespectful troll from behind a screen is nowhere near impressive to anyone except the person who types and others who co-sign it.

    • @haandawg
      @haandawg Před 4 lety +87

      Crazy to think this was before Iraq. It's almost like this stuff is scripted

    • @suspicioususer
      @suspicioususer Před 4 lety +36

      @@haandawg i mean Desert Storm was before

    • @yunush
      @yunush Před 3 lety +39

      @@suspicioususer the 2003 invasion of Iraq is what people remember the most; Sadly, I doubt most people can even guess what Desert Storm was.

    • @hiawathaclemons
      @hiawathaclemons Před 3 lety

      Hanibalistic27 I know right?!

    • @hiawathaclemons
      @hiawathaclemons Před 3 lety

      Brandon Michaels True indeed

  • @tsonny1104
    @tsonny1104 Před 5 lety +2390

    'Not your fault' was probably the most brilliant scene, and 'Say you dont love me' was probably the most impressive acting performance, but this is my favorite part of the movie. It really hammers home that Will is actually a good person and just puts on a tough guy brovado. He deeply cares for other people and is so ridiculously intelligent he can deduce all of the 1% bullshit and call it for what it is. Plus, this message is extremely important for every American to hear.

    • @ZacharyBaez
      @ZacharyBaez Před 5 lety +30

      Tommy Hass just why with the anti semitism tho

    • @shessoheavy6130
      @shessoheavy6130 Před 5 lety +4

      Right on right on.

    • @shessoheavy6130
      @shessoheavy6130 Před 5 lety +43

      @Some One So you know what every person in history was, is, or going to be going through because of their past with their parents/guardians. Your arrogance is mind boggling.

    • @bradebronson8835
      @bradebronson8835 Před 4 lety +11

      @Some One That was one of my favorite scenes. Didn't think it was forced at all. Almost everyone is affected by what happens to them during their childhood and it shapes them good or bad to who they are when they grow up.

    • @RYSEAmato
      @RYSEAmato Před 4 lety +2

      my life...without the math genius part

  • @penmuni3833
    @penmuni3833 Před 2 lety +553

    I am an Afghan veteran. Served two tours. Saw how the army contractors had insanely more money and better life than us. While those of us who joined the Army for 'higher cause' and followed directives of the NSA, are now left ashamed, useless, and wish we had listened to Matt Damon.

    • @J3MOdh3NOWX3S
      @J3MOdh3NOWX3S Před 2 lety +8

      aw poor baby. It was your choice. YOU signed up. You wanted the money, or education, or whatever the fuck your motives were. But in the end it was Your choice.

    • @Helmutlozzi
      @Helmutlozzi Před 2 lety +39

      ​@@J3MOdh3NOWX3S That's what he's writing dumbass. Learn to read.

    • @zippydodahquirk9039
      @zippydodahquirk9039 Před 2 lety +2

      Corporations control everything now and it's only going to get worse.

    • @penmuni3833
      @penmuni3833 Před 2 lety +96

      @@J3MOdh3NOWX3S No need to be rude. You are right. We are all destined by our choices in life. But as an eighteen year old boy from rural midwest, USA didn't give me much choice. Take care.

    • @forwardescape2955
      @forwardescape2955 Před 2 lety +9

      @@J3MOdh3NOWX3S some should join the army. They could use all that anger in your heart.

  • @GitSumGaming
    @GitSumGaming Před 5 lety +662

    Damn 20 years later and what he said is still so damn accurate.

    • @melontusk7358
      @melontusk7358 Před 3 lety +14

      Mah bois wicket smaht

    • @richardsongukdgrutgabgar3950
      @richardsongukdgrutgabgar3950 Před 3 lety +3

      He is a good actor and intellectual

    • @johnadams7480
      @johnadams7480 Před 3 lety +2

      The truth is always accurate

    • @tubehound69
      @tubehound69 Před 3 lety +7

      "History repeats itself" also means "shit never really changes."

    • @GitSumGaming
      @GitSumGaming Před 3 lety +7

      @@tubehound69 It goes by many names. "War...war never changes" :D lol, only intelligent people can see it its like being on a different plane than everyone else. You see the aspects happening around you while so many mindlessly go about their day unaware of what is happening. Look at the US...same thing that happened to Rome is happening to the US now.

  • @vinnyhaddad
    @vinnyhaddad Před 2 lety +339

    Ah yes, the days when $2.50 a gallon sounded insanely high.

    • @victorufondu2988
      @victorufondu2988 Před 2 lety +5

      HOLY THEY'RE KILLING US HERE IN CALI

    • @johnjohnston3879
      @johnjohnston3879 Před 2 lety +1

      @@victorufondu2988 how bout dollar fifty a litre in canada.

    • @underdog6074
      @underdog6074 Před 2 lety

      That's like half price right now in California

    • @airflare7285
      @airflare7285 Před 2 lety

      haha +6$ in cali now

    • @chrisrodgers6084
      @chrisrodgers6084 Před rokem

      Nuclear reactors under 1200 feet of reinforced concrete and 30 feet in casing of depleted uranium 238 or better yet tungsten in case anybody wants to get funny

  • @adamgordon6435
    @adamgordon6435 Před 6 lety +1557

    I love how the scene changes mid monologue from the interview at the NSA to the chair in Robin Williams' office, where Will is telling him about the interview. Visually interesting detail that catches your attention and draws you in.

    • @jackflexington4706
      @jackflexington4706 Před 6 lety +16

      Solid point. One of my favorite movies ever.

    • @69srayner
      @69srayner Před 5 lety +47

      loved the movie, so wrapped up in the dialogue, didn't notice the chair change, well spotted!

    • @timsas
      @timsas Před 5 lety +3

      I could do you one better. They have a name for that, they call it "a transition". MIND=BLOWN right?

    • @addiegrg
      @addiegrg Před 4 lety +12

      Not only that. The interviewer asks him "Why shouldnt you?", which is supposed to be a constructive cross question for the test. But that actually got the idea of why should he not, and he is explaining to Robin Williams in his office, that he thinks hes "holding out for something better". Reasons why he did not take in the job also. Genius storytelling in this scene.

    • @LibraA380
      @LibraA380 Před 4 lety +4

      AND the fact that will recited to Sean the response he gave to the NSA verbatim

  • @chrissnyder8108
    @chrissnyder8108 Před 5 lety +262

    This is my favorite clip; Will has a great grasp of the unintended consequences of working for an intelligence agency/ military industrial complex not knowing what they plan to do with the info you are giving them.

    • @zachkh
      @zachkh Před 2 lety +1

      You know exactly what they’re going to do with it.

    • @SyrupBuccaneer
      @SyrupBuccaneer Před 2 lety +2

      @@zachkh Pancake recipes?

  • @Shipwrecksos
    @Shipwrecksos Před 2 lety +556

    To think that this was written nearly 15 years before the Edward Snowden leak, this was remarkably insightful, accurate, and borderline prophetic.

    • @antondelacruz9362
      @antondelacruz9362 Před 2 lety +25

      Not prophetic because it had already been done.

    • @hoosier3060
      @hoosier3060 Před 2 lety +2

      The fact he hasn’t been pardoned just proves the United States is run by criminals. And there is no way to fix it

    • @hellsunicorn
      @hellsunicorn Před 2 lety +29

      What Damon said has been the standard view that 3rd party movements in America have held for much of the 20th century. There were people questioning the logic of selling military goods to Germany and Japan prior to WWII. America has a rich tradition of questioning government power, it’s just rarely reflected in how our elections are decided.

    • @schr4nz
      @schr4nz Před 2 lety +1

      @@hellsunicorn that's because you don't have democratic elections, the system most countries have is the illusion of choice. The entire system is ruled by the class who wrote the rules and own the media

    • @bradgarrett7159
      @bradgarrett7159 Před rokem +1

      Do you mean 25 years ago? Good Will Hunting came out in 1997.

  • @yellibelly
    @yellibelly Před 2 lety +74

    this might be the greatest most underrated line in the history of cinema

    • @gregorymirabella1423
      @gregorymirabella1423 Před 2 lety +8

      it's not just a line, this is a goddamn speech.

    • @MrRizzyWizzy
      @MrRizzyWizzy Před rokem

      I dunno, this one gives it a run for it's money. czcams.com/video/bIpKfw17-yY/video.html

  • @user-ti4oc5sm2t
    @user-ti4oc5sm2t Před 5 lety +381

    And this is why Will volunteered Project Treadstone, became Jason Bourne

    • @nickolausafon5458
      @nickolausafon5458 Před 4 lety +4

      The kind of actor who plays many roles, on all sides of the equation. I'd imagine he played a Martian cosmonaut. Might as well play a religious maniac next or some kind of rebel. Bad guy roles do well for him, as well as "nasty good guys."

    • @lunasilvermoon2283
      @lunasilvermoon2283 Před 4 lety +1

      @@nickolausafon5458 ''the green hornet'' Wasn't that a war film he starred in as well, taking place in the middle east somewhere ? Edit: I just googled it. it's ''Green Zone''

    • @zero0805
      @zero0805 Před 3 lety +1

      Lmao

  • @astralplainer
    @astralplainer Před 2 lety +58

    As an Army vet I concur: The truth really is greater than fiction.

    • @CheerfullyCynical829
      @CheerfullyCynical829 Před 2 lety

      I couldn't disagree more. Fiction is almost always far more entertaining and engaging than truth. Real life and reality is usually boring, tedious, and feels like a chore.

    • @jb47vintage
      @jb47vintage Před 2 lety

      @@CheerfullyCynical829 No, non-fiction espionage stories are very entertaining. War stories too. There are channels on CZcams that tell stories about various aspects of history that are very interesting. There's stories about animals doing amazing things.

  • @ianhenefield6491
    @ianhenefield6491 Před 2 lety +101

    This scene is great because it reiterates that he isn't just innately intelligent with math. Throughout the film you see him read, crushing books, just to learn about something, like the military industrial complex, or psychology, organic chemistry etc... and then of course Robin's character shows him that fictional literary characters, while enjoyable, can't replace real life connections with people.

    • @freddyhercz153
      @freddyhercz153 Před rokem

      There's this one scene where he's going through a a book finishing through each page every few seconds

    • @ianhenefield6491
      @ianhenefield6491 Před rokem

      @@freddyhercz153 totally, and its cool because he's an immersive learner. He refutes bad arguments and ideas throughout the movie with stuff he's learned by reading. Sean knows this when he says, "you read those books, what about those books, which are the right books?' Will uses knowledge to keep the world at bay.

    • @freddyhercz153
      @freddyhercz153 Před rokem

      @@ianhenefield6491 I just rewatched it and he's reading faster than what I previously said. I tried to scan my eyes through my book as fast as he did and you would almost have to understand what the book was telling you just with the whole box of text in your peripheral. Ya know, I thought I knew a lot through tiktoks, articles, and random facts, but books that really challenge me have crazy influence.

    • @ianhenefield6491
      @ianhenefield6491 Před rokem

      @@freddyhercz153 totally...they have the benefit of being deeper, rather than surface- level information which we enjoy (social media, tok, articles etc...) Like, a good book will make you feel anger, sadness, humor etc...in a way that surface level media just can't touch.

    • @freddyhercz153
      @freddyhercz153 Před rokem

      @@ianhenefield6491 he reads so fast, but you can also see that he laughed at the book and didn't finish it. It's impressive how fast he was reading, but what makes a book good as well is if it challenges your judgment, which he clearly has.

  • @x--destroyer--x2059
    @x--destroyer--x2059 Před 6 lety +104

    You ask my why this won an Oscar for best original screen play, I show you this.

  • @shanemcgas2697
    @shanemcgas2697 Před 6 lety +2271

    the national GAAD

  • @hamishreid9213
    @hamishreid9213 Před 3 lety +369

    This is so prescient, but such a painful mindset to live in. "You don't want to take the first step because all you see is every negative thing 10 miles down the road." This film is an astonishingly accurate portrait of someone who's been traumatized.

    • @mcnamaraky
      @mcnamaraky Před 3 lety +29

      Lots of people, myself included, fear success, and self-sabotage as a result. It seems simpler to stay with what's familiar, and to fear accomplishment because it may create expectations of you in the future, and some fear on failing to meet those even before they are actually expected of them. Hence, the self-sabotage. It's very common, and I sympathize with anyone else suffering similar thoughts. It's not also necessarily just because of trauma either, but fear of rejection, fear of disappointing those that you care about and who care about you, fear of the unknown. Sometimes it's just fear: non-specific and irrational.
      In this movie, Will has both that fear, as well as a trauma that adds onto it, but it doesn't necessarily need to be both. Often times it's just that fear by itself: an irrational fear of something that you don't even know yet. You used a good road analogy, and I'll say that it can be an existential fear: a fear of nothing, a fear you don't even know what, just fear. Someone might be afraid of roadblocks on the road, but they're still too paralyzed by that fear to even start the path, because they aren't even 1 mile down that road, let alone 8, to see the roadblock at mile 9. There are other reasons too, but often there that underlying element of fear.
      I agree with you, I am just trying to add that it's not necessarily about trauma. Will has trauma sure, but as it's pointed out, he's also afraid to take those risks, emotionally, spiritually, academically, etc. because he's so afraid of things not working out that he's content in his familiar life. While I myself, and many others, didn't necessarily suffer the same level of physical and emotional trauma Will suffered, each of us potentially has our own emotional traumas that create those fears, of losing people in our lives (sometimes even fear of losing negative people, because, again, it's a familiar state to be in). In this film, a lot of his fear of losing good relationships is for sure born of trauma, but again I think it goes a bit more broader. Hence why the movie is probably so beloved.
      Thanks for your comment, as I believe you are right, and additionally, it had the added result of inspiring my own additional thoughts on the matter.

    • @FreshMedlar
      @FreshMedlar Před 3 lety +20

      he's describing reality.

    • @marcvesper
      @marcvesper Před 3 lety +5

      Yeah. The contention is that to see things as mostly negative at most levels is the most accurate and realistic way to see them. It's just not useful to overly see it that way. Positivity brings delusion, but a little, and occasionally a lot, can be a choice that actually helps to continue to improve that baseline state of affairs. Just because of course life is suffering, doesn't mean there aren't ways to attempt to leave it slightly better than you found it across multiple timescales. It's why idealism is perennial, and so should it be, as it represents something not only genuinely benevolent and admirable our species' capacities, but it's adaptive too. Or to get spoonier: one can suggest our species has variously decided that love and/ or positive focus are at least equal to truth, and so that has proven a pragmatic psychological strategy to progress and improve in the face of the harsh challenge of life.

    • @marcvesper
      @marcvesper Před 3 lety +1

      The problem for most seems to be seeing these aspects as necessarily opposed. Just because cognitively they often must take turns doesn't mean they can't evolve their cooperation with increasing sophistication. Analytical mind is a subset of human mind: the brain is the impressive dominant infrastructure, the source of power. So my only pointed criticism of the logical aspect of truth-seeking is it tends to presume its own higher level cognitive superiority to other packages on the basis of some absolutely respectable comparisons, but quite without more fundamental justification in a fuller context. This is probably one of those rivalries-that-always-becomes-true-alliance tropes that every generation and perhaps every individual has to think and feel through for themselves.

    • @kodoy
      @kodoy Před 2 lety +15

      except this clearly isn't just about trauma and self-sabotage. fuck you guys think the NSA does lol, what matt damon says in the scene is pretty accurate.

  • @richardmbowman
    @richardmbowman Před 6 lety +272

    Matt Damon was a savage....a beast! There're few actors this good.

  • @SntJulio07
    @SntJulio07 Před 6 lety +2355

    Why shouldn't I work for the NSA? That's a tough one, but I'll take a shot.
    Say I'm working at NSA and somebody puts a code on my desk, something no one else can break. Maybe I take a shot at it, maybe I break it. And I'm real happy with myself, 'cause I did my job well. But maybe that code was the location of some rebel army in North Africa or the Middle East. Once they have that location, they bomb the village where the rebels are hiding. Fifteen hundred people that I never met, never had no problem with, get killed.
    Now the politicians are sayin', "Oh, send in the Marines to secure the area" 'cause they don't give a shit. It won't be their kid over there, gettin' shot. Just like it wasn't them when their number got called, 'cause they were all pullin' a tour in the National Guard. It'll be some kid from Southie over there takin' shrapnel in the ass. He comes back to find that the plant he used to work at got exported to the country he just got back from. And the guy who put the shrapnel in his ass got his old job, 'cause he'll work for fifteen cents a day and no bathroom breaks. Meanwhile, he realizes the only reason he was over there in the first place was so we could install a government that would sell us oil at a good price. And, of course, the oil companies used the skirmish over there to scare up domestic oil prices. A cute little ancillary benefit for them, but it ain't helping my buddy at two-fifty a gallon.
    And they're takin' their sweet time bringin' the oil back, of course, and maybe they even took the liberty of hiring an alcoholic skipper who likes to drink martinis and fuckin' play slalom with the icebergs. It ain't too long 'til he hits one, spills the oil and kills all the sea life in the North Atlantic. So now my buddy's out of work, he can't afford to drive, so he's walking to the fuckin' job interviews, which sucks 'cause the shrapnel in his ass is givin' him chronic hemorrhoids.
    And meanwhile he's starvin', 'cause every time he tries to get a bite to eat, the only blue plate special they're servin' is North Atlantic scrod with Quaker State. So what did I think? I'm holdin' out for somethin' better. I figure fuck it, while I'm at it why not just shoot my buddy, take his job, give it to his sworn enemy, hike up gas prices, bomb a village, club a baby seal, hit the hash pipe and join the National Guard. I could be elected president

    • @EthanRoss22
      @EthanRoss22 Před 6 lety +85

      Julio JA1 you wrote this at the perfect time. 50 minutes later, I'm looking through the comments for the transcript to read along to it. Thank you :)

    • @SntJulio07
      @SntJulio07 Před 6 lety +8

      Ethan Ross lol copy and paste

    • @shah1668
      @shah1668 Před 5 lety +82

      damn. how can matt damon memorize all those lines?

    • @sharpnova2
      @sharpnova2 Před 5 lety +9

      @@shah1668 how do you know it wasn't there for him to read?

    • @EhCanadianGamer
      @EhCanadianGamer Před 5 lety +58

      This....is why genius's always worry. Cause that's how far ahead they think, and they know all the road blocks. So it's very easy for one to say "why do anything?".

  • @mikaelaweston
    @mikaelaweston Před 7 lety +924

    There should be more comments on this. Its too brilliant not to be talked about and discussed with the general public.

    • @svtcobra9148
      @svtcobra9148 Před 6 lety

      lol

    • @ReganMarcelis
      @ReganMarcelis Před 6 lety +2

      Mika West it's True!.. so true..

    • @yevgeniyzharinov7473
      @yevgeniyzharinov7473 Před 6 lety +1

      Brilliant? This junk? Ugh!

    • @miguelgordillo3257
      @miguelgordillo3257 Před 6 lety +2

      it's too generic of a statement: "bet you were a stepdaughter, poor, molested, fucked, never had a steady boyfriend." most popular quotes from this movie are a bit boring.

    • @miguelgordillo3257
      @miguelgordillo3257 Před 6 lety +5

      to clarify: i like this movie a lot, but you have to assume the dude is a genius to enjoy it. don't just nod and think "man, he's so right!" when the fact is everything here is written by screenwriters, not geniuses. it's like thinking mr. robot is deep and smart, or rick and morty reqs. 200 IQ.

  • @Ashbash-kf5xd
    @Ashbash-kf5xd Před 4 lety +45

    It wasn't until it got this far in the movie, where I realized exactly how BRILLIANT this guy actually is. There is no limit to his capabilities, mentally wise.

  • @GitSumGaming
    @GitSumGaming Před 3 lety +21

    1998 Department of 'Defense': "This is a pretty good movie but that NSA scene gave me an idea...hmm..."
    *3 years later*

  • @vsully360
    @vsully360 Před 2 lety +32

    1:11- the seamless transition from the NSA interview to Sean's office. Subtly brilliant.

    • @silversniper1841
      @silversniper1841 Před 2 lety

      Maybe on the first viewing. The audio switch is not subtle.

  • @owenmajor1314
    @owenmajor1314 Před 4 lety +22

    Love the use of symbolism in this scene. There’s what looks like a dorsal fin sitting atop the desk, letting us know he’s a dangerous man.

    • @Psyfi85
      @Psyfi85 Před rokem

      There were two, and we know which one the NSA is. Whole scene is pitch perfect. “Do you feel alone Will?”

  • @sntrra5632
    @sntrra5632 Před 6 lety +21

    1:09 im in love with that transition...dope af

  • @Dario_Salvi
    @Dario_Salvi Před 4 lety +32

    One of the best monologues I've ever heard

  • @groominator-magneticequato7195

    Everything in this film and specifically in this scene was inspired by Damon's respect and relationship with Howard Zinn. If youve real interest in digging into how and why he thinks like he does, and where this film garnered its inspiration, "The Peoples History of the United States". He references it in and outside this film.

    • @LegendSpencer
      @LegendSpencer Před 3 lety +7

      Best book ive ever read. Followed that up with confessions of an economic hitman while in the army. Lost my mind 🤣

  • @eluweniestargazer2570
    @eluweniestargazer2570 Před 5 lety +16

    100% truth in film. This movie had a ton of balls! Thank you for posting.

    • @spenser9908
      @spenser9908 Před rokem

      You missed the point of this scene. It was to show how scared Will is of taking any chances, he'd go out of his way to see pitfalls to avoid doing anything with his life.

  • @WadeMFilms
    @WadeMFilms Před 5 lety +8

    Earlier in the film, Will mentions Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States and that's where he gets so much of this brilliant monologue.

  • @GitSumGaming
    @GitSumGaming Před 4 lety +35

    When you realize that even despite telling people the truth....handing it to them on a silver platter...they are still to ignorant and will continue to listen to the blatant lies of those who dont give a shit about them...

    • @mjnoon3609
      @mjnoon3609 Před 3 lety

      Brave of you to believe that people are able to be intelligent regarding these matters.

    • @GitSumGaming
      @GitSumGaming Před 3 lety +5

      @@mjnoon3609 I never braved it...I simply stated a fact about Will. I already know people are not intelligent enough regarding these matters to process and understand the truth. The sad reality of humanity these days...

    • @GhostCell47
      @GhostCell47 Před 2 lety +1

      Ain't that the truth?

    • @GitSumGaming
      @GitSumGaming Před 2 lety +2

      @@GhostCell47 Truth...the thing that now days people keep running from.

  • @IlluminatedWings
    @IlluminatedWings Před rokem +11

    Well said! 😂 For a man with a chip on his shoulder, he still has empathy.❤️

  • @fellrathmoonlitknight7866
    @fellrathmoonlitknight7866 Před 6 lety +84

    100% Truth in film. Still goes on today. Happy Memorial Day 2018.

    • @stevefowler2112
      @stevefowler2112 Před 5 lety

      Nothing Happy about Memorial Day dude...rethink that...Semper Fi

  • @DrKentVC
    @DrKentVC Před 2 lety +7

    One of my all-time favorite movie scenes. And dead-on accurate.

  • @brmillgr
    @brmillgr Před 4 lety +7

    This is absolutely perfect, I forgot how great this scene was

  • @adamgillespie3393
    @adamgillespie3393 Před 4 lety +6

    He just said exactly what I've wanted to say and it's 2019... This is insightful

  • @nitroburner1838
    @nitroburner1838 Před 4 lety +54

    "and join the National Gahd...." that shit kills me

  • @ridd5417
    @ridd5417 Před 8 lety +44

    love this scene

  • @abhay26dh
    @abhay26dh Před 5 lety +9

    I wish I am able to speak this much sense in my life time.

    • @marctouss1862
      @marctouss1862 Před 4 lety

      ill settle for just being able to write it.. which he did...

  • @Kidgloves1984
    @Kidgloves1984 Před 4 lety +173

    He summed up and exposed u.s foreign policy!

    • @TheMAnimal617
      @TheMAnimal617 Před 4 lety +4

      Ricardo Feitosa more than people realize. The bombing stuff is tangential to the weaponization of chaos math.

    • @nickolausafon5458
      @nickolausafon5458 Před 4 lety

      A loaded god complex. Cock it and pull it.

    • @Kidgloves1984
      @Kidgloves1984 Před rokem

      What do you mean?

  • @gundrillerman4810
    @gundrillerman4810 Před 5 lety +3

    This is by far the best scene in any movie ever!

  • @fay-amieaspen6046
    @fay-amieaspen6046 Před 5 lety +3

    Love this scene! Lines are perfect!

  • @nrpbrown
    @nrpbrown Před rokem +2

    I know a lot of people see this scene as him spitting truth and there is something to that but I see it as someone who can take any opportunity and chance he can to show off his smarts and at the same time not make any positive moves forward.
    It's a great scene and his dumbass behavior is called out immediately by his therapist after this cuts off.
    I think the truth of what he is saying is irrelevant, give him any job interview and he'd have found a way to deflect it because he really IS brilliant but he's also afraid of stepping outside his comfort zone and being challenged. His ability to recount the entire idea seamlessly in my eyes shows just how much of an affect it was.
    This movie is so amazing.

  • @StrangeAttractor
    @StrangeAttractor Před 3 lety +3

    one of the best 90 seconds in the history of cinema.

  • @ericyankovich8475
    @ericyankovich8475 Před 2 lety +2

    This is one of the most powerful scenes in any movie. Damn

  • @connie1wilson
    @connie1wilson Před rokem

    Just watched a ‘Watch Mojo’ video on the best monologues, and this do not even make the Honourable mentions. I remember when I saw this BitD I was blown away! This is crazy, one take! Love the way the shot zooms in then when he’s giving his response zooms back out!

  • @MusicByJM
    @MusicByJM Před 5 lety +2

    My favorite scene of from every movie I've seen.

  • @quiksix25
    @quiksix25 Před 6 lety +608

    Basically described George W Bush- and this came out in like '97

    • @theivory1
      @theivory1 Před 6 lety +11

      Not really. Described Clinton and Obama though.

    • @moonlitegram
      @moonlitegram Před 6 lety +155

      Bush Sr, Clinton, Bush Jr, Obama, Trump...take your pick. The republicans and the democrats are all the same on foreign policy.

    • @boxtears
      @boxtears Před 6 lety +34

      theivory1 You're a cancer.

    • @CrochetDoll07
      @CrochetDoll07 Před 6 lety +5

      This has Clinton and Obama all over it

    • @jasonthomas4895
      @jasonthomas4895 Před 6 lety +1

      dumbass XD

  • @Fabio-tk7nt
    @Fabio-tk7nt Před 2 lety +10

    I'm surprised they didn't censor this part of the movie! When movies do good, reporting truth through fiction. I love it.

  • @JordTheeNord
    @JordTheeNord Před 11 měsíci

    the instant cut to the therapy session without skipping a beat in the story is what gets me every time xD. This movie has so damn many legendary scenes.

  • @NoGlitching
    @NoGlitching Před 4 lety

    Legendary, this is not lying to yourself

  • @sigismund7126
    @sigismund7126 Před 2 lety +3

    this movie is a true masterpiece and i have been saying that for the last 20 years

  • @bacflash
    @bacflash Před rokem +5

    Major kudos to the screenwriters for this particular NSA script....which incidentally ARE Will Hunting and Chuckie Sullivan (Ben Affleck).

  • @thomasesposito9359
    @thomasesposito9359 Před 2 lety +1

    Absolutely THE BEST MOVIE INTERACTION SCENE IN THE HISTORY OF ALL MOVIES !!

  • @natecar1
    @natecar1 Před 3 lety +1

    That clip really did age like a fine wine

  • @kylebroussard5952
    @kylebroussard5952 Před 4 lety +5

    To end it all with, "I could be elected President" really sums it all up.

  • @riderzinc
    @riderzinc Před 3 lety +4

    It's true how you can make a small decision can causes a chain reaction of events that could change the lives of many other people

  • @samppakoivula9977
    @samppakoivula9977 Před 4 lety +2

    This clip never gets old XD

  • @A.B.-zs8ir
    @A.B.-zs8ir Před 3 lety +1

    One of the most powerful scenes put on film, my fav of this movie, Mat be the man, it's always something when the truth is being told.

  • @makeit7579
    @makeit7579 Před 5 lety +66

    pay attention . this is the way to complain.

  • @andrewkamoha4666
    @andrewkamoha4666 Před rokem +3

    Most important scene from the movie.
    Accurate even after 25 years!

  • @nihleigleca6702
    @nihleigleca6702 Před 3 lety +1

    So much truth and so many accurate predictions in these minutes.

  • @rishavg9524
    @rishavg9524 Před 3 lety +1

    He probably read a bit off a teleprompter but that was an iconic monologue

  • @danielpan5147
    @danielpan5147 Před 4 lety +8

    They left out the best part..."Do you feel alone, Will?"

  • @williamschiller3038
    @williamschiller3038 Před 3 lety +6

    when you can write lines like these and then perform them you become Elvis. Iconic.

    • @philindien
      @philindien Před 2 lety

      when you write these lines at 23 you are what? wicked smaaaat!

  • @karthikrajendran3394
    @karthikrajendran3394 Před 10 měsíci

    This for real! awesome dialogue delivery. arresting scene.

  • @salv236
    @salv236 Před 5 lety

    an awesome piece

  • @A.B.-zs8ir
    @A.B.-zs8ir Před 4 lety +8

    Insane insane insane, what a scene, one of the most powerful scene put on screen bcuz of it's truthfulness!! one of my favorite movies of all time, Will just shut the man down w/nothing but the truth of politics in America today!

  • @Smokealotofblunts
    @Smokealotofblunts Před 5 lety +10

    Getting drunk and playing slalom through icebergs sounds kind of exhilarating.

  • @marthalouise701
    @marthalouise701 Před 2 lety +1

    My favorite monologue of all time!!!!

  • @chrisninamartinez3851
    @chrisninamartinez3851 Před 3 lety +1

    I love how the camera zooms in on him but once he tells a grim picture of our system towards the end, suddenly zooms out for us to me the whole picture. Not sure if that was intentional but it felt that way.

  • @proctorritter5176
    @proctorritter5176 Před 2 lety +7

    Will is right. I’d rather have a simple life with an average income than be rich and powerful but have to take advantage of innocent people everyday to stay rich and powerful.

    • @akorn9943
      @akorn9943 Před 2 lety +1

      “At least I won’t be unoriginal.”

  • @tdreamgmail
    @tdreamgmail Před 6 lety +149

    That's pretty much the blueprint to become president.

    • @EhCanadianGamer
      @EhCanadianGamer Před 5 lety +5

      Psychopaths tend to go the "1%, business tie, back-stabbing" route. People like Will have the map, who know all the pathways to life. They don't take that route, cause they know the potential effect of their actions.

    • @epictube51
      @epictube51 Před 3 lety

      not a blue print to presidency, but a roadmap of US foreign policy

  • @tealsnake93
    @tealsnake93 Před rokem

    Brilliant and right on.

  • @dudermam
    @dudermam Před 4 lety

    Well put.

  • @scozzafava28
    @scozzafava28 Před 5 lety +9

    'I'm holding out for something better' lol I use that line with recruiters all the time

  • @cblanchhiphop
    @cblanchhiphop Před rokem +3

    Crazy Ben and Matt wrote such a masterpiece in their 20's

    • @spenser9908
      @spenser9908 Před rokem +1

      You actually think those two meatheads wrote this?

  • @bonniebaxter2553
    @bonniebaxter2553 Před 3 měsíci

    This is one of the most brilliant scenes ever written.

  • @YB2324
    @YB2324 Před 2 lety +1

    Movie was ahead of it’s time

  • @MisterAAnderson
    @MisterAAnderson Před 3 lety +27

    Basically Edward Snowden making up his mind to leave the NSA.

  • @jarvisfamily3837
    @jarvisfamily3837 Před 5 lety +3

    A classic. Damon and Affleck were smack on with this one.

  • @batbullet3315
    @batbullet3315 Před 5 lety +2

    I think this is the realest thing I've ever heard

  • @kelleyspartiatis4776
    @kelleyspartiatis4776 Před 2 lety

    This is the most memorable monologue in movie history for me.

  • @jenniferkozlik8812
    @jenniferkozlik8812 Před 4 lety +6

    " We don't like to brag about that."

  • @antonioalbino9994
    @antonioalbino9994 Před 7 lety +462

    how the hell he memorized the entire line by heart ?

    • @Reignor99
      @Reignor99 Před 7 lety +84

      notice how he keeps glancing to his right? I'm assuming it was written down on a board or something.

    • @bookrokodil
      @bookrokodil Před 7 lety +242

      Antônio Albino it's literally their job?

    • @theprofessorfate6184
      @theprofessorfate6184 Před 6 lety +98

      He wrote it or helped write it.

    • @berbereukrainetv66
      @berbereukrainetv66 Před 6 lety +90

      That's normal !! Cuz he is the script writer with Ben Affleck. They wrote it by themselves when they were 24 and 26 years old. Amazing lines ever

    • @two-toneblue7455
      @two-toneblue7455 Před 6 lety +23

      You can do it too. Give it a try. You might be surprised. It'd make a nice audition piece if you ever want to try some acting.

  • @ratius1979
    @ratius1979 Před rokem

    Great monologue xxx

  • @aerond7881
    @aerond7881 Před 3 lety +1

    This scene is aging like a fine wine

  • @JimmySteller
    @JimmySteller Před 5 lety +4

    I'm surprised that Bob Stuyvesant had the time to work for the NSA. He's usually playing golf near Possum Lodge!

  • @MPDLR
    @MPDLR Před 3 lety +6

    I'm a recovering Chickenhawk. Then in mid 2000's I started rethinking all the flag waving and "war war war" "bomb em!" stuff and I've felt my views really changing ever since. And what Damon's character says in this scene...shit.....I think it's virtually impossible to argue it. It's sort of sad really.

    • @pwilki8631
      @pwilki8631 Před 2 lety

      Good on you for pulling your head out of your ass.

  • @glennsmith2896
    @glennsmith2896 Před 4 lety

    He is a great actor 👍👌😎,
    Thank you for all you do 👍👌😎

  • @nm-ki1jy
    @nm-ki1jy Před 2 lety

    one of my fav movies

  • @toptenguy1
    @toptenguy1 Před 4 lety +8

    Director : "CUT! You pronounced "A" instead of "AH" at the 2 minute mark of your speech, REDO THE WHOLE THING!"

  • @paulhart2021
    @paulhart2021 Před 3 lety +3

    He's 100. Percent accurate on on international relations!!!!

  • @lethalwolf7455
    @lethalwolf7455 Před 6 měsíci

    This and the Tom Hanks long one shot take towards the end of ‘Castaway’ are examples of cinema monologues done right

  • @two-toneblue7455
    @two-toneblue7455 Před 6 lety

    Beautiful.

  • @Timepiece80
    @Timepiece80 Před 5 lety +4

    Brilliant. This scene reminds me of George Carlin's wisdom.

  • @gecceseyri
    @gecceseyri Před 5 lety +8

    This movie was long before Edward Snowden case, magnificent foreseeing.

  • @Evansilcox
    @Evansilcox Před 4 lety +1

    I love the transition but I would love to see the guys reaction to that

  • @pattyhiggins5524
    @pattyhiggins5524 Před 3 měsíci

    This scene is incredible