(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.
