Will Hunting - Genio ribelle

Titolo originale: Good Will Hunting
Regia: Gus Van Sant |
Anno: 1997
Origine: United States of America |
Generi: Dramma
Tag: boston, massachusetts | mathematics | genius | male friendship | flashback | psychologist | janitor | dating | courtroom | group of friends | southie | college professor | prodigy | math genius | foster kid | fear of change | abused as a child | massachusetts institute of technology (mit) | math professor |
Cast: Matt Damon | Robin Williams | Ben Affleck | Stellan Skarsgård | Minnie Driver | Casey Affleck | Cole Hauser | Vik Sahay | John Mighton | Rachel Majorowski | Colleen McCauley | Matt Mercier | Ralph St. George | Rob Lynds | Dan Washington | Alison Folland | Derrick Bridgeman | Shannon Egleson | Rob Lyons | Steven Kozlowski | Jennifer Deathe | Scott William Winters | Philip Williams | Patrick O'Donnell | Kevin Rushton | Jimmy Flynn | Joe Cannon | Ann Matacunas | George Plimpton | Francesco Clemente | Jessica Morton | Barna Moricz | Libby Geller | Chas Lawther | Richard Fitzpatrick | Frank Nakashima | Chris Britton | David Eisner | Bruce Hunter | Robert Talvano | James Allodi | Michael Arthur | Christian Harmony | Riva Di Paola | Harmony Korine | Thomas Lundy | Paul McGillicuddy | Daniel Olsen | Stephen L'Heureux |

Will Hunting è un ragazzo orfano dedito a piccoli furti, ma con grandi capacità per la matematica. Queste doti vengono notate da un professore universitario, che mandandolo da un suo amico psichiatra cerca di aiutarlo a togliersi dalla strada.

Approfondimenti

While looking over some of Will's work, Lambeau remarks, "I see you used Maclaurin here," referring [...] D
Both Robin Williams and Minnie Driver have both been in Disney films: Williams was the voice of Geni [...] D
Robin Williams' last line in the film--"Son of a bitch. He stole my line"--was ad-libbed. D
When Robin Williams read the script via Francis Ford Coppola and really liked it, his one question f [...] D
In his first scene, Robin Williams is standing in front of a blackboard. Behind him, written on the [...] D
First film in Kevin Smith's and Scott Mosier's filmography to receive Oscar recognition. Though they [...] D
In the hypnotherapy scene Will sings "Afternoon Delight" by Starland Vocal Band, which is the last s [...] D
The lines in the scene when Sean talks about his late wife's farting antics were ad-libbed by Robin [...] D
Gus Van Sant painted the picture that hangs in Sean Maguire's (Robin Williams') office. D
In 2014, after Robin Williams died, the bench in the Boston Public Garden where he and Matt Damon ha [...] D
According to Matt Damon, Robin Williams' best addition is the last line of the film. D
Kevin Smith was offered the chance to direct the movie, but he turned it down because he knew that M [...] D
When Will and Dr. Maguire are having their test of will Robin Williams whistles "People Who Need Peo [...] D
The script was originally developed by Castle Rock Entertainment, Rob Reiner's production company. W [...] D
Skyler's phone number is 555-1294. D
Jan Sverák refused to direct it. D
Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, and Cole Hauser appeared in Scuola d'onore (1992). D
Morgan O'Malley says that the crew has run into a "barney" at the Harvard bar. Barney is Boston slan [...] D
The odd and perplexing line "I swallowed a bug", said by Morgan (Casey Affleck) in the Harvard bar s [...] D
After Matt Damon and Ben Affleck removed the NSA stuff from the script, Castle Rock, by that time ow [...] D
As of 2009, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck have both co-written one other script each, although not with [...] D
Skylar's door room number is 206. That is the number of bones in the human body. She is supposed to [...] D
After Matt Damon and Ben Affleck sold their script to Castle Rock Entertainment, it was printed in D [...] D
Michael Winterbottom was approached to direct, but declined. D
Matt Damon became the fourth person to be nominated for both acting and writing in the same year, fo [...] D
The watercolor painting in Sean's office of a man in a rowboat amid turbulent waters was actually pa [...] D
Matt Damon was MIT's 2016 commencement speaker. He commented in his speech that it was the second ti [...] D
When Matt Damon was in his fifth year at Harvard, he was in a playwriting class. The culmination of [...] D
Matt Damon was twenty-six when the movie was filmed. His character, Will, was twenty. D
Stellan Skarsgård previously appeared in Caccia a Ottobre Rosso (1990) based on a Tom Clancy Clan [...] D
The very last line in the credits is "In Memory Of Allen Ginsberg & William S. Burroughs". D
The very first day of the shooting, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck started crying out of happiness, beca [...] D
When Will is mopping the floor at the beginning of the movie, his name tag identifies him as "Bob" r [...] D
The movie was named as one of "The 20 Most Overrated Movies of All Time" by Premiere. D
The second problem Matt Damon solves on the chalkboard in the hallway, his answer was incomplete (du [...] D
In a Boston Magazine retrospective interview, Ben Affleck mentioned that he and Matt Damon wrote the [...] D
Near the end of the movie, Sean Maguire (Robin Williams)'s office featured newspaper clippings of th [...] D
To date, this is the film with the highest U.S. box-office gross with Kevin Smith's name attached to [...] D
When Will (Matt Damon) and Sean (Robin Williams) meet for the first time in Sean's office, Will reco [...] D
The subway car Will rides in is a model that was retired in 1994. The MBTA took one out of mothballs [...] D
Minnie Driver's character Skylar is named after Damon's girlfriend, Skylar Satenstein, who left Damo [...] D
In an interview, between Matt Damon and Kevin Smith at IMDb's 2016 San Diego Comic Con, Damon mentio [...] D
The film cast includes four Oscar winners: Robin Williams, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, and Casey Afflec [...] D
When Matt Damon and Ben Affleck met with Mel Gibson, Braveheart - Cuore impavido (1995) had just com [...] D
Ben Affleck's father and stepmother worked as janitors at Harvard University. In 2000, Ben Affleck a [...] D
Casey Affleck ad-libbed most of his lines. Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, and Gus Van Sant later admitted [...] D
According to Gus Van Sant, the moment where Harvey Weinstein really wanted to get the movie done was [...] D
The phone number printed on the sign for the construction company that they are working for is the a [...] D
The Ontario Specialty Company, at 133 Church Street in Toronto, Ontario, was the setting for Matt Da [...] D
Matt Damon and Casey Affleck appeared in the Ocean's trilogy. D
According to Matt Damon, when the project was set up at Castle Rock Entertainment, all he and Ben Af [...] D
When Robin Williams won the Oscar for his supporting role, he sent Peer Augustinski, who dubbed his [...] D
Many years after the fact, Ben Affleck admitted to having had concerns after the film's success that [...] D
An earlier draft of the script had Will Hunting being recruited by the government to become a crypta [...] D
Initially, producer Harvey Weinstein did not want Minnie Driver at all for the role of Skylar, feeli [...] D
Sean's office is set up like a baseball diamond, with four chairs representing the bases and a table [...] D
Ben Stiller turned down an offer to direct this film, a decision he later regretted. D
The last movie robin Williams was in that would get an Oscar nomination for best picture. D
Sean Maguire was based on Matt Damon's mother and Ben Affleck's father, kind of a synthesis of the t [...] D
Ben Affleck was twenty-five when he won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for this film [...] D
This is the first film in which the top billed actor (excluding films in which the cast is billed al [...] D
Both Matt Damon being cast as the lead in L'uomo della pioggia (1997), and Robin Williams signing on [...] D
Gus Van Sant, at one point, asked Matt Damon and Ben Affleck to re-write the script so that Chuckie [...] D
After Mel Gibson dropped out of directing, Michael Mann expressed interest in directing. However, he [...] D
Matt Damon, a former Harvard student, originally intended to make the title character a physics prod [...] D
Anthony Minghella was offered the role of Henry Lipkin, but scheduling conflicts kept him from takin [...] D
In the café scene where Will announces to Skylar that he was hoping to "get laid", an extra walki [...] D
At 15:49 in the guy at the bar looks right at the camera for a split second. D
Included among the American Film Institute's 2004 list of 400 movies nominated for the top 100 Ameri [...] D
The last scene of Will's car driving west on the Massachusetts Turnpike during the credits was filme [...] D
When Robin Williams and Matt Damon were shooting the scene on the bench in the Public Garden, it see [...] D
The mathematical equations seen in the opening credits are part of a math technique called "Fourier [...] D
At 7:28 Chuckie tells Will that Casey is bouncin up a bar at Harvard the next week & says they shoul [...] D
In one of the therapist scenes Will is seen wearing a Shelby Cobra jacket. Matt Damon would later go [...] D
This film is in the Official Top 250 Narrative Feature Films on Letterboxd. D
The painting in Sean's office that Will uses to evaluate Sean's state of mind very closely resembles [...] D
When the project was in turnaround at Castle Rock, Ben Affleck showed the script to Kevin Smith whil [...] D
Referenced in 2 Fast 2 Furious by Paul Walker in the freeway race, "How do you like them apples" - w [...] D
Andrew Scheinman and Michael Mann were considered to direct. D
Roger Ebert asked in his "Movie Answer Man" column for suggestions as to who Will's "brothers"--Mark [...] D
At a WGA seminar in 2003, William Goldman denied the persistent rumor that he was the actual writer [...] D
The job interview Will sends Chuckie on is for a company called Holden & McNeil. Ben Affleck's chara [...] D
While a guest on Late Show with David Letterman (1993), Robin Williams joked about his experience af [...] D
George Plimpton also played the role of a psychotherapist three years earlier on the TV series Wings [...] D
In the scene where we are introduced to Sean he makes a joke to his class about Sigmund Freud while [...] D
As of 2018, features Minnie Driver's only Oscar nominated performance. D
Mel Gibson was offered a chance to direct, even meeting with Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, and executive [...] D
The lecture hall in the movie is actually a lecture hall in McLennan Physical Laboratories (MP); a b [...] D
Matt Damon and Ben Affleck found a clever way to choose the right studio for their script. The story [...] D
The infamous "How do you like them apples?" line that Will (Matt Damon) says at the window was a com [...] D
In the scene on the park bench, Robin Williams gives an example of love that Will hasn't experienced [...] D
In the film, Skylar talks about her father having died years prior. Skylar Satenstein's father, Fran [...] D