Matt Damon wrote this?

He actually is a genius with a reported IQ of 160.

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Take a risk, Take a chance, Make a change. Kelly Clarkson - Breakaway

Matt and Ben Affleck both wrote it.

Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions-Dag Hammarskjold

Who else would have cast these two GQ-looks, private school educated, posh losers as roughnecks from the "old neighborhood" if not themselves?

For every lie I unlearn I learn something new - Ani Difranco

X files season 1 episode 23

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“I would love to say that I wrote (Good Will Hunting). Here is the truth. In my obit it will say that I wrote it. People don't want to think those two cute guys wrote it. What happened was, they had the script. It was their script. They gave it to Rob [Reiner] to read, and there was a great deal of stuff in the script dealing with the F.B.I. trying to use Matt Damon for spy work because he was so brilliant in math. Rob said, "Get rid of it." They then sent them in to see me for a day - I met with them in New York - and all I said to them was, "Rob's right. Get rid of the F.B.I. stuff. Go with the family, go with Boston, go with all that wonderful stuff." And they did. I think people refuse to admit it because their careers have been so far from writing, and I think it's too bad. I'll tell you who wrote a marvelous script once, Sylvester Stallone. Rocky's a marvelous script. God, read it, it's wonderful. It's just got marvelous stuff. And then he stopped suddenly because it's easier being a movie star and making all that money than going in your pit and writing a script. But I did not write [Good Will Hunting], alas. I would not have written the "It's not your fault" scene. I'm going to assume that 148 percent of the people in this room have seen a therapist. I certainly have, for a long time. Hollywood always has this idea that it's this shrink with only one patient. I mean, that scene with Robin Williams gushing and Matt Damon and they're hugging, "It's not your fault, it's not your fault." I thought, Oh God, Freud is so agonized over this scene. But Hollywood tends to do that with therapists.

(from 2003 WGA seminar)”


― William Goldman




SOOOOO, YES, BEN AND MATT WROTE IT. TO ACT AS IF COLLABORATING ON A FINAL SCRIPT IS SOME SORT OF JUSTIFICATION FOR DISQUALIFYING THEM FROM ANY CREDIT IS JUST IDIOTIC. IT ALSO MAKES IT VERY CLEAR THAT THE FOLKS BELOW ARENT VERY FAMILIAR WITH THE INDUSTRY.

exactly

Yes, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon wrote the screenplay. These two really need to get back to the page someday. Good Will Hunting is one of the greatest films of all time, and the screenplay has a lot to do with it.