最近总是干后知后觉的事情，Good Will Hunting在1997年获得了9项奥斯卡提名（包括Matt Damon的最佳男主角和最佳影片提名），最终获得了最佳原创剧本奖（Matt Damon和Ben Affleck一起）和最佳男配角（Robin Williams），而我居然在前几天才真正看了这部电影。最有趣的要数这盘DVD是我去年这个时候为了祝贺BF终于通过了MIT的qualifiers买的礼物，这一年我在Boston长长短短也待了三个多月，居然都没有想起来去看。
Anyway，好东西总算没有错过。Josh Groban如是，Good Will Hunting也如是。剧情其实很简单，一个出生贫寒的天才少年埋没在MIT当清洁工，因为解出了一位数学大拿给学生们布置的难题从而被发现，可从小桀骜不驯性格怪异的少年并不想好好利用自己可与爱因斯坦媲美的大脑，于是大拿不得不求助于一位中年丧妻的心理学家，希望能使得少年走出心理阴影。我非常喜欢影片的名字，因为它可以解释成: good “Will Hunting”（剧中主角的名字），和”good will” hunting。相比之下，国内翻译成“好人威尔”和“心灵捕手”都只能体现出一层含义。
名字精彩，里面的对话还要更胜一筹，Matt Damon和Ben Affleck因此获得奥斯卡原创剧本奖一点也不令人惊讶。看了资料才知道，这个本子本来是Matt在哈佛就读时候的语言课作业，可他为了追求自己的演艺事业，在离毕业还有12个学分的时候退学，跟好朋友Ben一起闯荡好莱坞。然而接连接到的都是一些小制作和小角色，他们不由得产生：别人不让我们当主演，我们就自己写本子给自己的想法。于是他们开始修改Good Will Hunting，然而第一个愿意购买他们的本子的电影公司不愿意让他们两个名不见经传的演员担当主演，于是他们拒绝出售，而最终Miramax接受了这个剧本和两位年轻的演员，并邀请Robin Williams为他们配戏。
也许是因为影片以Boston为背景（Matt和Ben都是Boston长大的孩子），那些景色，建筑，谈论的事物也都为我熟悉，也更容易激起我的共鸣。就像剧中Will和Skylar一起喝咖啡的Harvard Square，Will天天坐的subway，Will和Chunkie (Ben)喝的dunkin’ donuts，Morgan (Ben的弟弟Casey)说要买个T pass作为Will的生日礼物，和Sean墙上贴的red sox报导。（影片中Boston的美丽景色）
影片中有颇多搞笑的地方：
Chuckie在Harvard Bar里面伪装Havard学生勾引MM，结果被另一个哈佛学生嘲笑，Will旁征博引反而把对方羞辱了一顿，然后他说：
Will: Wood drastically…Wood drastically underestimates the impact of social distinctions predicated upon wealth, especially inherited wealth. You got that from Vickers. Work in Essex County, page 98, right? Yeah, I read that, too. You gunna’ plagiarize the whole thing for us? Do you have any thoughts that…of your own on this matter? Or do you—is that your thing? You come into a bar, you read some obscure passage, and then pretend you, you..pawn it off as your own..as your own idea just to impress some girls..? Embarrass my friend? See, the sad thing about a guy like you is in fifty years you’re gunna start doing some thinkin’ on your own, and you’re gunna’ come up with the fact that there are two certainties in life: one, don’t do that, and, two, you dropped a hundred and fifty grand on a fuckin’ education you coulda’ got for a dollar fifty in late charges at the public library.
还有就是Will作弄心理医生的场景，他假装被催眠，胡说八道一阵之后就开始大唱：Skyrockets in flight! Afternoon delight! 真是hilarious到了极点。同样还有Chunkie作为Will的chief negotiator去跟公司谈判胡乱捉弄人那一段，和Will讽刺NSA agent那一段：
Why shouldn’t I work for the NSA? That’s a tough one. But I’ll take a shot. Say I’m working at the NSA, and somebody puts a code on my desk, somethin’ no one else can break. Maybe I take a shot at it and maybe I break it. And I’m real happy with myself, cus’ I did my job well. But maybe that code was the location of some rebel army in North Africa or the Middle East and 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” cus’ 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, cus’ they were off 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, cus’ 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 that we could install a government that would sell us oil at a good price. And of course the oil companies used the little 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. They’re takin’ their sweet time bringin’ the oil back, of course, maybe 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 because the shrapnel in his ass is givin’ him chronic hemorrhoids. And meanwhile he’s starvin’ cus’ 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.
还有他跟Skylar约会的时候为了掩饰自己孤儿的身份，骗她说自己有12个哥哥：
WILL: I have twelve big brothers.
SKYLAR: You do not.
WILL: No, I swear to God. I swear to God. I’m lucky 13 right here.
SKYLAR: Do you know all their names?
WILL: Do I—? Yeah they’re my brothers.
SKYLAR: What’re they called?
WILL: Marky, Ricky, Danny, Terry, Mikey, Davey, Timmy, Tommy, Joey, Robby, Johnny, and Brian.
SKYLAR: Say it again.
WILL: Marky, Ricky, Danny, Terry, Mikey, Davey, Timmy, Tommy, Joey, Robby, Johnny, and Brian.
SKYLAR: And Willy.
WILL: Willy?
SKYLAR: Yeah.
WILL: Will.
还有一些长篇的对话也是相当精彩，让人忍不住拍案叫绝。这部片子让我忍不住对Matt Damon刮目相看。因为之前只看过他的Bourn系列和Ocean’s系列，大约因为都是动作片的关系，觉得演技一般，这个片子他真是把那个浑身长刺却内心柔软的小孩演神了，非常可惜他没有拿到那年的奥斯卡奖（Jack Nicholson in “As good as it gets”）。加上他在剧本里面显现的才华，我想我要开始真正很喜欢这个演员了。（影片中的Will Hunting）
我我我~~~我跑了一个下午，腿都跑断了，也没有找到the talented mr ripley…现在已经在网上订了~~叹气ing
haha~ 好东西总是要历经磨难才能得到么:P