Dr. Rousseau: You know, as a scientist and atheist my mind was closed to such things. Oh, absolutely. Afterlife, near-death experiences Like everyone else, I thought people saw bright lights, Eden-like gardens and so forth because they were culturally conditioned to do so. But after 25 years in a hospice working with people, many of whom were pronounced dead but then miraculously survived. the account of what they actually experienced were so strikingly similar it couldn’t just be coincidence. And add to that the fact that when they had these experiences they were almost all unconscious, a state in which my enemies agree the brain cannot create fresh images.
Marie Lelay: So you think I really did experience something?
Dr. Rousseau: Oh, yes. I think you experienced death.
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a film by Clint Eastwood. An ambiguous, ambivalent, open-ended take on what happens after death. Matt Damon plays a blue collar construction worker and … a reluctant, very unwilling “psychic-medium” hounded by individuals who have lost loved ones — but he shuts the door, refuses to do any more readings. a child who lost his twin brother persists.
Email and photos from Myra:“Just read your blog. want to share this. Teng showed me this house for sale in their neighborhood in E____ ____, Los Angeles last July 2011. Advertised as “Good Will Hunting House” about $900,000. Ben Affleck and Matt Damon rented and lived in this house where Good Will Hunting was written.
(photo by Myra Lambino from her cellphone)
“1923 Medieval Storybook Fantasy house with panoramic views of Los Angeles. Couldn’t help but take pictures from my cellphone.”
(photo by Myra Lambino from her cellphone)
My reply:“Hahaha! quaint Hollywood houses – parang Gothic ang dating! (looks Gothic to me!) Look at the twisted and uneven architecture – it’s like being inside a Van Gogh painting! Natuwa siguro sila they used up the creativity of the architect to finish the script! They didn’t just go to a hotel like many scriptwriters and songwriters do – they found a stonehouse that looked like it had spirits in it. In an interview, Matt Damon said that in his scriptwriting class in Harvard, he submitted 40 pages of a play to his scriptwriting professor, and got an “A” at the end of the sem; his prof took him aside and told him: “There’s something in this, finish it.” He couldn’t write some more so he went to see his childhood friend Ben Affleck who was then in L.A. Ben Affleck wrote 200 pages more of it. Parang may prayle nakatira sa bahay na ito (This house looks like there’s a Spanish friar living in it) o kaya parang lalabas si Quasimodo to serve you dinner (or like — Quasimodo, the hunchback of Notre Dame, would come out any minute to serve you dinner.) Inspirational!”
(photos by Myra Lambino from her cellphone)
Myra’s reply: “Hahaha its a creepy charming house. pagpasok ko nga,(when I got inside the house,) I felt like — baka may witch dito lumabas (i felt like a witch might come out here) i- bake kaming cookies!(and bake us cookies!) just to add, during Ben Affleck’s stay in this house he was enrolled in Occidental College, here is Los Angeles ( which is in the same neighborhood E____ ____, LA where Teng lives). President Obama was also enrolled in Occidental College here before. People get their minor subjects or prerequisites in this college ( low tuition fee) then transfer to the Universities.”
And that’s the Quasimodo house where it all started.
Update, 2012: The Hollywood Film Awards honors the cast of the Ben Affleck-directed film Argo with the “Hollywood Ensemble Acting Award”; Matt Damon gets Oscar buzz for Promised Land.
(Filipino movie scripts are not documented online, not my fault po :0 maybe in time… i looked for “Abakada Ina” — nada.)
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can’t blog today series. Matt Damon and Ben Affleck wrote the script, went around and peddled it, and starred in their Good Will Hunting; text from imdb.com, curse word blipped by blog admin:
Chuckie (played by Ben Affleck), tries to chat up Skylar (played by Minnie Driver) at a pub near Harvard; her schoolmate, Clark, butts in; Will (played by Matt Damon) sits a table away.
Chuckie (Ben Affleck): Yeah…let’s see…see, I think I had a class with you.
Skylar (Minnie Driver): Oh yeah? What class?
Chuckie: History.
Skylar: Maybe.
Chuckie: Yeeesss…I think that’s what it was. You don’t necessarily…might not remember me…You know, I like it here. It doesn’t mean cus’ I go here I’m a genius…I am actually very smart…
Clark: Hey.
Chuckie: Hey. How’s it goin’? How are you?
Clark: Good. How’re you doin’?
Chuckie: You wanna…–
Clark: What uh…What class did you..did you say that was?
Chuckie and Skylar: History.
Clark: Yeah…JUST History? It musta’ been a survey course then, huh?
Chuckie: Yeah, it was, it was surveys.
Clark: Right.
Chuckie: You should check it out, it’s a good course. It’s a, uh…good..good class.
Clark: How’d you like that course?
Chuckie: You know…Frankly, I found the class, you know, rather…uh…elementary.
Clark: Elementary..
Chuckie: eah..
Clark: You know I don’t doubt that it was.
Chuckie: eah…
Clark: I uh…I remember that class. It was um…it was just between recess and lunch.
Skylar: Clark, why don’t you go away..?
Clark: Why don’t you relax?
Skylar: Why don’t you just go away?
Clark: I’m just having fun with my new friend, that’s all.
Chuckie: What, are you gunna’ have a problem? I don’t understand…
Clark: No, no, no, no..no, there’s no problem here. I was just hoping you might give me some insight into the evolution of the market economy of the Southern Colonies. My contention is that uh…prior to the Revolutionary War, the economic modalities, especially in the Southern Colonies, could most aptly be characterized as agrarian precapital–
Will (Matt Damon) butts in: Let me tell you somethin’, all right? Of course that’s your contention.
Clark: Hang on a second…
Will: You’re a first year grad student. You just got finished reading some Marxian historian — Pete Garrison, probably — you gunna’ be convinced of that till next month when you get to James Lemon, then you’re gunna’ be talkin’ about how the economies of Virginia and Pennsylvania were entrepreneurial and capitalist way back in 1740. That’s gunna’ last until next year, you’re gunna’ be in here regurgitatin’ Gordon Wood. Talkin’ about, you know, the pre-Revolutionary Utopia and the capital forming effects of military mobilization.
Clark: Well, as a matter of fact I won’t because Wood drastically underestimates the impact of social di–
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 f_ _ _ _ n’ education you coulda’ got for a dollar fifty in late charges at the public library.
Clark: Yeah, but I will have a degree. and you’ll be serving my kids fries at a drive-thru on our way to a skiing trip.
Will: Yeah, maybe. eh, but at least I won’t be unoriginal. Pardon me, if you have a problem like that, you and me could just outside ‘n we could figure it out.
