Good Will Hunting: Difference between revisions

* [[Foreshadowing]]: Maguire is introduced teaching a community college class on psychology, specifically lecturing on the importance of trust. The only reason he's able to help Will is because Will trusts him.

* [[Genius Bruiser]]: Will.

* [[Hannibal Lecture]]: Will is an advanced student of them and pulls several off successfully. He also tries using one on [[Robin Williams]], to avoid talking about his own feelings. {{spoiler|This is a subversion, though, as despite the words cutting Williams' character at first, the next time the two are together, Will gets a Lecture thrown right back at him that is something of a combination of [[Shut UP, Hannibal]], [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]], and a [[Hannibal Lecture]] itself}}.

* [[Hollywood Hype Machine]]: Affleck and Damon won an Academy Award for their script, and promptly became the biggest stars in Hollywood. They've parlayed that success into different avenues over the years, with Damon appearing to be much more critically and commercially consistent than Affleck (whose career petered out for a period of time in the mid 00's).

* [[Ironic Echo]]: "{{spoiler|I have to go see about a girl.}}"

* [[Jerkass Facade]]: Will uses this as a defense mechanism.

* [[Justified Title]]

* [[MacGuffin]]: Will's math talents drive the plot of the film, but it's basically an [[Informed Attribute]] (see that trope above).

* [[The One Who Made It Out]]: Inverted. Will wants to stay in Southie but Chuckie desperately want him to use his gifts to become the one who gets out.

* [[Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping]]: Happens to Prof. Lambeau (played by Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgard) occasionally.

* [[Photographic Memory]]: Played with. Maguire talks with Will about his ability to memorize books and analyze information ridiculously fast, but not know the feelings, emotions and sensations that result from a lifetime of personal experiences.

* [[Power of Trust]]: Lambeau teaches this to a student by throwing an apple to him out of the blue, and asking what he learned from the experience.

* [[Southies]]

* [[Star-Making Role]]: For both Affleck and Damon, as well as a dramatic one for [[Robin Williams]], who had primarily been known for his comedy work up to that point.

* [[Throw It In]]: Maguire's final line, "Son of a bitch...he stole my line," was ad-libbed by Robin Williams, and was kept as the second-last shot of the film.

* [[Unsportsmanlike Gloating]]: A moment of awesome.

* [[What Could Have Been]]:

** [[Ben Affleck]] and [[Matt Damon]] first asked [[Kevin Smith]] to Direct. He declined because he felt the script deserved a better Director, and served as a Producer instead.

** Damon and Affleck's original idea for the film was more along the lines of a thriller, with the CIA endeavouring to use Will's math talents for their own ends. The Weinstein brothers encouraged them instead to focus on the relationship between Will and Maguire.

* [[You Wouldn't Believe Me If I Told You]]