Is good will hunting gay
It’s been 25 years since Will Seeking (played by a baby-faced Matt Damon) stepped into the office of Sean Maguire (the note-perfect Robin Williams) and found out it wasn’t his fault. Though now a beloved classic, for all its twinkly-eyed charm, the production is not without its rough edges. The plot is set in motion when Will narrowly avoids jail day for beating a former bully senseless. More than once, he and his friends are pleased to use slurs. “Bro, how r*tarded you gotta be to get fired from that job?” Morgan (Casey Affleck) asks Will, after being spotted productive on a math’s problem on a chalkboard by Professor Gerald Lambeau (Stellan Skarsgård). This surface reading of the film, though, makes what lies under the surface of the movie even more surprising.
Past all the machismo, Good Will Hunting tells a story that shares a lot in common with the experiences of most, if not all queer people. Will starts the film in denial about himself. His tight-knit group of friends are all he needs to survive, he seems to think, until girlfriend Skylar (Minnie Driver) asks him to move to California. Reluctant in the extreme to leave the tiny world in which he feels easy , Will explodes.
The Problematic Way Ben Affleck & Matt Damon Chose Which Studio Got 'Good Will Hunting'
Summary
- The theory that Matt Damon and Ben Affleck used sexually explicit scenes in their Good Will Hunting script to test producers' reading diligence is flawed and reflects toxic masculinity.
- The stigma surrounding homosexuality at the time influenced Damon and Affleck's decision to include a male lover sex scene, and Harvey Weinstein's objection revealed his homophobia.
- Both Damon and Affleck include displayed toxic masculinity in their past actions and remarks, but the film Good Will Hunting offers a message of expansion and breaking free from toxic masculinity.
Matt Damon and Ben Affleck started their acting careers in the 1980s. Both were very close in age, and both had momentary roles in 1989’s Field of Dreams followed by a few more common film credits after that. They soon began working together on a script for Good Will Hunting and, when they were ready to p
Good Will Hunting’s Original Script Contained A Pretty Violent Gay Sex Scene
It’s no secret that some of our favorite movie classics looked drastically different in the early stages, but would anyone have guessed that a pretty intense gay sex scene figured into the original draft of Good Will Hunting? Harvey Weinstein hit up the Tribeca Film Festival this past weekend for a panel and revealed a ton of his Hollywood experiences, one of which was this hard-to-believe tidbit.
As reported by UPROXX, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck approached Weinstein with this particular draft of Good Will Hunting. It was on page 60 that he realized there was as standout scene where two professors, who were presumed to be straight, began performing oral sex on each other. In doing so Weinstein passed the test he didn’t know he was taking. He recalled:
I idea they were both heterosexual in the way they talked before. He missing his wife, and he talks about his family. I’m like, ‘What the hell was that?’ And they said, ‘That’s the red herring! Now, we know you’re the first guy in a studio to have read the script…’ They gave it to
Documentation Traps: ‘Good Will Hunting’s Gay Sex Scene and Van Halen’s Requirement for No Brown M&Ms
Over the years I have had a sneaking suspicion that the vast majority, of the hundreds of pages, of my required technical documentation was never being read. This feeling started at my time with at an Orlando organization whose mascot is a mouse. I don’t wish to say the company’s name directly but it sounds like the pos Misney (Yes I am just joking). I was a little suspicious that my reams of required documentation never seemed to be sent back for correction. I felt like I could doodle pictures of Labradoodles on my Technical Requirements Documents(TRD or pronounced TURD for short) and nobody ever corrected me. Cornerstone documents like an SDNA would, of course, be scrutinized but ancillary documents could just contain pictures of cats and nobody would be the wiser. Some project manager could then check them off as existence done on her list and the project could strategy forward.
It was about this time I started adding sentences like “You will never read this – Scott Turman” too much of my documentation. Over the years I have only been called out once for these chin