Chuckie: All right, are we gonna have a problem? Clark: There's no problem. I was just hoping you could give me some insight into the evolution of the market economy in the early colonies. My contention is that prior to the Revolutionary War the economic modalities, especially of the southern colonies could most aptly be characterized as agrarian pre-capitalist and. Will: [interrupting] Of course that's your contention. You're a first year grad student. You just got finished some Marxian historian, Pete Garrison prob’ly, you’re gonna be convinced of that until next month when you get to James Lemon, then you’re gonna be talkin’ about how the economies of Virginia and Pennsylvania were entrepreneurial and capitalist back in 1740. That's gonna last until next year, you’re gonna be in here regurgitating Gordon Wood, talkin’ about you know, the Pre-revolutionary utopia and the capital-forming effects of military mobilization. Clark: [taken aback] Well, as a matter of fact, I won't, because Wood drastically underestimates the impact of- Will. 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. Were you gonna plagiarize the whole thing for us- you have any thoughts of- of your own on this matter? Or do- is that your thing, you come into a bar, you read some obscure passage and then you pretend- you pawn it off as your own- your own idea just to impress some girls? Embarrass my friend? Will: See the sad thing about a guy like you, is in about 50 years you’re gonna start doin' some thinkin' on your own and you’re gonna 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.
Good Will Hunting location: The South Boston bar: L Street Tavern, 658 East Eighth Street A, Boston If you’re struggling actors who can’t get good roles, why not write your own script, with a peach of a central role? You might just pick up a screenplay Oscar on the side. You wouldn’t believe it in the movies. Matt Damon and Ben Affleck took their script to Kevin Smith, who’d directed Affleck in Chasing Amy, and who passed on directing, but produced the movie, with Gus Van Sant in the director’s chair. The rest, as they say, is history. The film is set around South Boston and Harvard Square and, although the publicity made great play of the Massachusetts locales ( Boston is the hometown of both Damon and Affleck financial concerns dictated that much of the movie was actually made in Toronto. Real Boston locations include the college, where stubbornly underachieving genius Will Hunting ( Damon) works as janitor, which is Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge – the exterior is MIT’s Mc Laurin Building. Good Will Hunting location: The college of gruff shrink Sean Maguire: Bunker Hill Community College, Charlestown, Boston The college of gruff shrink Sean Maguire ( Robin Williams) is the Bunker Hill Community College, Rutherford Avenue, Charlestown, while the college room of Skylar ( Minnie Driver) is over the Charles River, Dunster House, Harvard University, Cambridge. Good Will Hunting location: Will tries to explain his gift to Skylar: Au Bon Pain, Harvard Square, Cambridge Harvard Square is the site of Au Bon Pain, 27 Brattle Street, where Will Hunting tries to explain his gift to Skylar, and also the now closed Tasty Café, where the two share a very messy pickle. Off Massachusetts Avenue was Harvard student hangout the Bow and Arrow Pub, now gone. But still serving up drinks is the working class bar where Will hangs out with Chuckie Sullivan ( Ben Affleck) and.
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