Episode Transcript
[00:00:06] Speaker A: Welcome to five Minute Film Finder, brought to you by Pioneer Library System.
Hello and welcome back to Five Minute Film Finder. I'm Ben and I'm joined by Darren. Hi, Darren. How are you doing today?
[00:00:20] Speaker B: Doing great.
[00:00:21] Speaker A: Good. Are you excited to do another Deep Focus episode?
[00:00:24] Speaker B: I do really like the Deep Focus. Getting a little extended time to talk about some stuff. And this happens to be a movie I really like, so. Even better.
[00:00:31] Speaker A: Yeah, I think so. We are today talking about Good Will Hunting. I think for like 80s and 90s kids like us, like, it's, I think among most people's like up there in their pantheon of great movies.
[00:00:48] Speaker B: Yeah. Like, you know, in an emotional movie written, starring men. Yes, right.
[00:00:55] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah.
[00:00:55] Speaker B: Like, which isn't something that happens a
[00:00:57] Speaker A: lot in general, especially in that era, so.
And it's not about sports. Right?
[00:01:02] Speaker B: Exactly. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's no sporting at all.
[00:01:06] Speaker A: Yeah, absolutely.
So no timers today. So do you want to jump off by reading the fantastic IMDb description of this film?
[00:01:17] Speaker B: Let's do it. Here, Here. So Good Will Hunting is about a therapist counsels Will Hunting, a janitor with a genius iq.
I'm gonna do it one more time just case everybody missed it. A therapist counsels Will Hunting, a janitor with a genius iq.
[00:01:33] Speaker A: I think that's one of the shortest ones I've ever seen. It's so concise and it's not wrong. Like that is.
[00:01:40] Speaker B: That's perfect.
[00:01:41] Speaker A: There's so much that goes on in the movie, but that is the core of this movie is the relationship between Will Hunting and his therapist, played by Robin Williams.
[00:01:51] Speaker B: Yeah. So Matt Damon, Will Hunting and Robin Williams. They're the ones that were, you know, they're on the picture, the DVD picture and stuff like that. They're on the. All the movie posters.
[00:01:59] Speaker A: Yeah, Them sitting on the bench.
[00:02:01] Speaker B: Yeah. Like, that's the classic scene. Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
[00:02:07] Speaker A: I think, easy to say, are you a Robin Williams guy?
[00:02:10] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah, of course. Right. Like Hook. Yeah, for me, like, you know, the right age for Hook.
[00:02:16] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:02:18] Speaker B: And. And yeah, like, he was so good.
[00:02:21] Speaker A: Yeah. I mean, I think very formative again for our age range of folks is like, he just had a run in the 80s and 90s of just all these killer comedies and family and adult like dramas that were just so good and like, like kind of defined a vibe for there, like Mrs. Doubtfire.
I mean, for, for folks slightly older than me, Mork and Mindy. Like, I, I didn't even know that era, but a lot of people, like he, he would say later on in his life, still thought of him as Mork. For Mork.
[00:02:59] Speaker B: Mork. Yeah.
And.
[00:03:02] Speaker A: And just like. And he was all over the place in his career, like, despite having a very singular creative voice, like, was able to do a lot of things over the course of his career. But I think this is my favorite kind of Robin Williams, where it allows him to be funny, but mostly relies on the seriousness.
[00:03:26] Speaker B: Right. Yeah, he is. This is absolutely a pure drama movie. Yes, he is hilarious in his role.
[00:03:34] Speaker A: Of course, this film is rated R. We should. We should mention because there's a lot of profanity mostly stemming from the fact that. That it's around characters from South Boston
[00:03:45] Speaker B: or messing around both Matt Damon's character and his friends and then Robin Williams as well. His character, the therapist, is also from South East. So, like, that's kind of a thing that they have together.
[00:03:57] Speaker A: They're rough and tumble, crude, but, like, loyal, sweet guys.
How. How old were you when you saw this for the first time? If you were to guess?
[00:04:15] Speaker B: I don't know, probably right after it came out. Probably not right away.
You know, 18, 19.
[00:04:24] Speaker A: Sure.
[00:04:25] Speaker B: You know, something like that. Yeah, I didn't see it in the theater. It would have been after that, you know, a DVD rental or something like that. But, you know, it was.
Yeah, like I said before is you don't see men crying on film and like, unless he said, like, it's a sports thing.
[00:04:43] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:04:44] Speaker B: Especially movies that are written by men starring men like this, you know, so it was. It was different at the time.
[00:04:49] Speaker A: Yeah, for sure.
[00:04:50] Speaker B: The.
Written by the stars of the movie. Matt Damon, Ben Affleck were the writers of this movie. They won an Oscar for writing this movie.
Put them on the map. They had been around a little bit as actors before this, but it really put them on the map. Yeah.
[00:05:06] Speaker A: The filmmaking crew of, like, the.
Everybody involved with this project is a real interesting cast of characters because, like, they wrote it. It's their first, like, big star vehicle
[00:05:21] Speaker B: starring Robin Williams. Caught that at the beginning of the movie. He is the first one billed, so he is the star of this movie, even though he's only on screen.
I don't know, probably half as much as Matt Damon's character.
[00:05:34] Speaker A: Yeah, easily. Yeah. And it's a Gus Van Zant film, which.
[00:05:38] Speaker B: Yeah, his best film as far as I'm concerned, but tons of good movies.
[00:05:42] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. And like, he's got a. Like in. If you're looking at his career, it's kind of an oddity in his career for, like, how, like, I Guess populist. It is. It's like, it's like very easy to digest and like very like everybody saw.
[00:06:00] Speaker B: Yeah, everybody, like everybody. It is most everybody that saw movies. Yeah. Saw this one. Whereas a lot of his films are going to be more niche. Yeah.
[00:06:08] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:06:10] Speaker B: Danny Elfman did the music and then
[00:06:13] Speaker A: the rest of the soundtrack is Elliot Smith. So like that, that one, two punch for the, for the score and soundtrack, like is pretty wild because like Danny Elfman is doing like not, not his weird side but more of his just like very like feel good with like
[00:06:30] Speaker B: kind of a classical drama score and like just high quality classical drama.
[00:06:35] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:06:36] Speaker B: Mixed in that Elliot Smith stuff, which is amazing. Like, I can't.
[00:06:39] Speaker A: And I think that like kind of like hit off an era in like indie music of this just like, oh, this is a thing kind of changed like culture with like that music and
[00:06:51] Speaker B: movies and stuff together. Yeah. So you know the Elliot Smith being nominated for an Oscar for that. For that movie didn't win, but nominated for an Oscar for an artist that like you said it was an independent artist that basically nobody had heard of.
[00:07:04] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:07:04] Speaker B: Wasn't going to hear of. And this was a global movie kind of thing. Yeah, it was really kind of interesting. And like I said that the end of the movie with that song.
Yeah, yeah.
[00:07:14] Speaker A: I mean every single needle drop of his in the movie you're just like, oh yeah.
[00:07:20] Speaker B: So well used.
[00:07:22] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:07:23] Speaker B: Like for it to be just one artist and for his multiple songs like that of his to be so well used throughout the movie. So good.
[00:07:29] Speaker A: And like such a fun contrast to the brashness of the majority of the characters in this film is just like, oh, this is like belying the gentle, thoughtful inner working of Matt Damon's character.
[00:07:48] Speaker B: Yeah. Cause like I said, you see from his perspective, it's. He is at the beginning, he. He's quiet in his own home. He has books and stuff like that. But like that is not who he presents to the world.
[00:08:02] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:08:03] Speaker B: Ever. Basically throughout the whole movie until the very end, you just, you don't see him present that to the world.
[00:08:08] Speaker A: We should get into a little bit.
We're talking around it.
So this we. We already know from the IMDb synopsis that it's about a gender who is working at mit. Mit.
And he cleans up at night. And basically the kicking off inciting incident of this film is he sees a proof on a whiteboard in the hall and can't help but solve it.
[00:08:44] Speaker B: He sees it and just. He knows how to solve it. He describes this later on in the movie. It's just something he can do.
[00:08:50] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:08:50] Speaker B: The math just is there for him.
[00:08:52] Speaker A: Yeah. He, he compares himself to Beethoven as like he sat at a keyboard and it just made sense.
You could just do it. You can just play. Yeah.
And.
But as the film unfolds, you find out that he has had a horribly tough life.
[00:09:11] Speaker B: Horrific life.
[00:09:12] Speaker A: He was a orphan, went through the foster care system, but has a like, ride or die set of friends who he has stuck with through thick or thin, and lots of apparent court cases and arrests that he talks himself out of.
[00:09:30] Speaker B: Because he's a genius.
[00:09:31] Speaker A: Yes, he is genuinely a genius. And I think that's like something that like, I really liked as a kid seeing this. Like, I think a lot of kids who like, felt misunderstood but also, also felt smart were like.
[00:09:46] Speaker B: Sure.
[00:09:47] Speaker A: I think probably a lot of neurodivergent kids like myself, like, were just like, I know I'm smart, but I'm messing up.
Like, saw this film, we're like, okay, maybe it's that it was like, maybe I'm not quite a math genius, but I could be something like that.
[00:10:05] Speaker B: Sure.
Find it.
[00:10:08] Speaker A: Yeah. And like them talking about like Albert Einstein. Like, I think it appealed to like the kids who were. Who like the story of like Albert Einstein failed math in school. And like, so I think it's kind of following alternative path.
[00:10:20] Speaker B: Right. Like, it was clear that this, he was a very intelligent person that just didn't get the same chances that everybody else, you know, got. That was at mit.
[00:10:29] Speaker A: Absolutely.
And so through the mechanism of finding of figuring out this proof on the whiteboard that it was impossible to solve via the professor played by Stellan Skarsgrd.
[00:10:48] Speaker B: Great performance by him. One of his earliest roles that I remember seeing him in. Yeah.
One of his early American roles.
[00:10:55] Speaker A: Yeah. And he plays such a good.
This balance between showing that he really loves Matt Damon's character but then also not being able to help but want to exploit him because he sees the great potential there.
[00:11:15] Speaker B: Yeah. The potential overrides his feelings towards the man.
[00:11:21] Speaker A: Many times throughout the film you see him have almost a father like relationship with him. But then as opportunities grow and as he sees the depths of his genius, he, he, he, he seems to be corrupted by Matt Damon's genius and seems to be like, pulled away from like, doing what's in his best interest, basically
[00:11:44] Speaker B: just kind of come. Becomes obsessed with the genius itself rather than anything having to do with like,
[00:11:50] Speaker A: I don't care about the person.
Yeah, yeah. I just want whatever he does to Happen.
And that's a very interesting like push and pull throughout because as, as part of the mechanism of this whole thing is he figures out that it's Matt Damon who, who solved the proof. He finds out that he's in trouble with the court and strikes a deal with them to come work with him. But he must also go to therapy.
And a good montage in the movie is him pulling Matt Damon Good Will Hunting as through many therapists office and just him provoking and just running circles on these men.
[00:12:38] Speaker B: Like these old therapists that are very buttoned up and you know, they're the preeminent guys in their world because this mathematician who's an award winning mathematician who's trying to help Will Hunting, like he knows all these guys, he has connections and he's like, he's going to bring in these the best therapists he can to fix this kid.
[00:12:58] Speaker A: Yeah.
And it's, it's a hilarious sequence. There's some stuff that's a little bit dated in terms of like the way that he provokes people. But I mean it's, it's the time and the place and the guy.
[00:13:14] Speaker B: Right. Like, and that guy would do that even today. Right. Like, if we're being honest, I mean, not that that's an excuse for that kind of stuff. But
[00:13:26] Speaker A: then they finally land with Stellan Skarsgard's old college roommate who is Robin Williams, who is just a professor of psychology at a small college. At a small college, yeah.
[00:13:40] Speaker B: Not mit. So like, you know, Professor Lambeau, Stellan Skarsgrd's character shows up there, you know, kind of pops into the classroom to surprise him. He hasn't seen him in years and, and is like, you know, what are you doing here?
[00:13:53] Speaker A: Got something interesting for you.
[00:13:54] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:13:57] Speaker A: So like after this point, most of the film is basically unfolding the kind of mirror images of Robin Williams and Matt Damon and like their shared and different traumas.
And I think what's really interesting is when they see their similarities, like they keep showing them clocking each other. It's like, oh, hey, you just told me that.
And it's very sweet.
And breaking down the walls of somebody who is clearly very insulated themselves from all the hard times that they've had.
[00:14:44] Speaker B: And I can't get over how wonderfully acted the stuff was between those two, Matt Damon and Robin Williams in this movie. I mean, so good.
[00:14:53] Speaker A: Yeah, the subtlety in the change between the guardedness to the like halfway to the like fully comfortable is so, well, like you can, you can just see it In Matt Damon's like, posture and
[00:15:10] Speaker B: how he talks, how he's sitting in the chair. Everything about him in those scenes, you're
[00:15:14] Speaker A: just like, okay, we. Yeah, you can. You could. You could just see pictures of him in those scenes and be like, I know where we're at in the story because of how well he's.
[00:15:24] Speaker B: His face displaying it. He's smiling.
[00:15:26] Speaker A: Yeah.
Another aspect we must mention that is a very important arc to this movie is the love story with Minnie Driver.
[00:15:39] Speaker B: Minnie Driver with her actual accent.
[00:15:41] Speaker A: Yeah. And so we discussed a movie a few weeks back in which she was not using her gross point blank that came out the same year.
And that was my first time seeing that movie. And I was shocked to learn that these were the same year because she's got such a different vibe using her own accent.
Because this was like one of my very early crushes because I was just like, oh, she's so smart and cool.
[00:16:10] Speaker B: Right.
[00:16:12] Speaker A: I just like her so much. She's.
[00:16:13] Speaker B: The scene where she's putting on the masks and stuff in that costume shop thing or whatever.
[00:16:17] Speaker A: Whatever the little like party costume joke shop is. Yeah. That scene is so charming and like just all.
All of their, like, bits that aren't like the heart wrenching, like, painful ones are so sweet and like, she does such a good job that. That was, I think the. My first experience with Mini Driver in any movie probably, but that was like, very early on in her career. That's maybe her like second or third golden eye.
[00:16:51] Speaker B: Did you see GoldenEye before this?
She is a singer in the. The Russian bar in goldeneye.
[00:16:57] Speaker A: Okay. Yes, I do remember she doesn't have
[00:16:58] Speaker B: much of a scene there, but yeah, yeah, yeah, sure.
This was her movie. Like, they put her into the realm of like, where she's gonna be a star and stuff too. Like, and not just her, but like, you know, like I said, Ben Affleck's in this movie, his brother Casey, even Cole Hauser, who is the, like the lowest friend on the totem pole in their friend group. Matt Damon's friends in this movie. He's on the Yellowstone. And now the spin off for that. He's been on TV for the last 15 years. Lots of people, lots of work came out of this movie.
[00:17:32] Speaker A: Absolutely.
[00:17:32] Speaker B: Such a good movie.
[00:17:33] Speaker A: Yeah,
[00:17:36] Speaker B: man.
[00:17:36] Speaker A: I was just trying to look up the movies that came out around this from Gus Van Zandt, but he was just doing music videos.
Candlebox. In 1996, he did a music video. Allen Ginsberg. He did a music video for in 97 and Hanson.
[00:18:00] Speaker B: Nice.
Out there.
[00:18:02] Speaker A: Yeah. Did a music video for them the next year.
Then his next movie after that was Psycho, the remake.
So, like we said, a very. Like.
[00:18:13] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:18:14] Speaker A: We think other than finding Forrester, like,
[00:18:17] Speaker B: that's the only other movie sense for this. Like, those are the two that have a tie in.
[00:18:22] Speaker A: Yeah. Those feel like. Okay, we're doing. We're trying to recapture that kind of energy again.
But. Yeah, those are.
[00:18:30] Speaker B: But you're certainly not gonna compare, like, you know, Milk.
[00:18:34] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:18:35] Speaker B: To either of those two movies. Yeah.
[00:18:37] Speaker A: I mean, stylistically, anything. Yeah.
But let's see. What was. What was Robin Williams doing around then?
[00:18:48] Speaker B: So this period of Robin Williams career. I mean, I loved all of his stuff, but the section here where he did this, and then a little while after this, he does his first bad guy movies.
[00:19:06] Speaker A: Oh, sure.
[00:19:07] Speaker B: So. Yeah.
[00:19:07] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:19:10] Speaker B: So good.
[00:19:12] Speaker A: Oh, this is a.
This is a run for Robin Williams. I mean, that whole era was. But Flubber. Same year as Good Will Hunting. What dreams may come. 98. Patch Adams. 98.
Bicentennial Man. 99.
[00:19:29] Speaker B: I never did see that one.
[00:19:31] Speaker A: He's in. He's an AI.
Oh, he's a voice. Okay.
[00:19:35] Speaker B: Voice. Roll cameo appearance. And then one hour photo.
[00:19:38] Speaker A: Then one hour photo. That's when he starts to be like, I need to, like, do some creepy stuff.
[00:19:42] Speaker B: Yeah. Diversify my opinion at the same time. Right. Like, so. Which. Yeah. Which is a good tie in. We've been talking about Matt Damon. We can talk about Christopher Nolan. So we were. We. I decided I wanted to do this because the Odyssey is coming out, and so.
[00:19:55] Speaker A: And I decided I want to do it because I'm going to Boston.
[00:19:57] Speaker B: Yeah.
So we have a co worker who had said that, you know, the. The train rides that Matt Damon takes in this movie is. Is real, like, you know, evocative. It's, you know, it kind of sells. Boston shows you Boston.
[00:20:11] Speaker A: Yeah. I'm excited. I did, like, get a good look at all the streets and stuff while I was watching, just because I was just like, I want to. I want to, like, absorb this and feel. See if I can see any of this stuff while I'm there, because I know they did a lot of stuff on location.
[00:20:27] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:20:29] Speaker A: But.
Yeah.
What else should we talk about with. Well, goodwill hunting?
[00:20:35] Speaker B: So the. I mean, we didn't really talk about the Ben Affleck very much. And for me, the second most important scene in this movie is the scene where Ben Affleck tells Matt Damon. Basically tells him off, like, you know, quit being a jerk. Quit being a jackass.
[00:20:53] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:20:53] Speaker B: You know, Go be somebody. Not because you owe it to yourself, but because you owe it to me. Because I can't.
[00:21:00] Speaker A: No, you owe it to me. Yeah.
[00:21:02] Speaker B: I can never do what you can do.
[00:21:04] Speaker A: I, I. Yeah, that. That scene always gets me to just be like, it's not about you. It's about. It's. It's a slap in the face to those of us who can't.
[00:21:15] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:21:16] Speaker A: Like you. You owe it to us.
[00:21:18] Speaker B: Yeah. Like Matt Damon said, Will Hunting's like, I wanted our kids to grow up and, you know, go to ball games and stuff. And.
And he. He was shocked by his friend's response. I just. I love that scene so much.
[00:21:31] Speaker A: I. I think he said, I'll. I would punch you in the face if you were still here.
[00:21:36] Speaker B: Whatever, y'. All. Kill you. Yeah.
And then. And then that he does that. Matt Damon's Will Hunting does what his friend wants. Chucky. He does what he, you know, he fulfills his.
[00:21:46] Speaker A: I always forget his name's Chucky because he, Robin Williams, at one point, is like, do you have any, like, soul mates? Do you have any, like, people that, like, really challenge you? And he's like, I got Chucky. And I was just like, who's Chucky? Oh, it's.
It's Ben Affleck's character.
[00:22:02] Speaker B: Because he's not in the movie very much.
[00:22:04] Speaker A: Yeah. But, like, when he's in it.
[00:22:06] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:22:08] Speaker A: He's like, you see why he had the arc he did when he did?
Because there's something magnetic about him when he.
So the iconic scene at the bar early on when we are about to meet Minnie Driver, when he's striding over to go hit on his little walk, and he stops and points at himself in the mirror off to the side. Gets me every time because I'm just like, what? What a wild move.
[00:22:39] Speaker B: And then he goes up and he's trying to pick up these MIT girls and makes a fool of himself.
[00:22:43] Speaker A: Yeah. And then we get our first iconic villain of the movie who's only in it for that first, like, that little couple minute scenes and just, like, basically, pompous jerk who wanted to, like, show off that he's smarter than this southy guy, and then gives Matt Damon the opportunity to show off his intellect and impress Mini Driver and eventually gives us the line, I got a number. How about them apples?
So good. Yeah.
[00:23:23] Speaker B: And that guy, I don't remember what his name is now. I loved him, actually, on the show Oz, he would go on to do 50 episodes or something.
[00:23:34] Speaker A: Oh, my gosh.
[00:23:35] Speaker B: Of the television Show Oz.
I can't remember his dang name. I was trying to look it up. There it is. Scott William Winters.
[00:23:43] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:23:44] Speaker B: The brother of Dean Winters, and they were on the show together.
Okay, nice. Dean Winters is the. The mayhem guy in the commercials.
[00:23:55] Speaker A: Yes. Okay. Of course. Yep.
I was just rewatching the John Wick series and forgot that he was in the first one.
[00:24:04] Speaker B: Yeah, he's the lawyer guy or whatever. Yeah. Huh.
[00:24:08] Speaker A: Man.
So this movie did very well. It got an Oscar. Multiple Oscars.
[00:24:16] Speaker B: Two.
Robin Williams won.
[00:24:19] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:24:19] Speaker B: Best Supporting Actor. Even though, like I said, he. He was the first Build name and he won a bet. I thought that was really interesting. He won a Best Supporting Actor, but he's the first name Build when the movie starts.
[00:24:30] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:24:31] Speaker B: Which is interesting. You don't got to see that very often, but. Yeah. So he won Best Supporting Actor, and then they won. Matt Damon and Ben Affleck won for the writing.
[00:24:39] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:24:40] Speaker B: And it was nominated for basically everything else. Yeah.
[00:24:43] Speaker A: Yeah.
And I don't know, it's just such a good movie. I just.
There's so many points that just, like, make me tear up.
Like, just. And it's mostly just, like, people who care about Will Hunting, confronting him and just being like, we care about you, and then be like, I don't know,
[00:25:04] Speaker B: freaking out about, I don't know how to do this.
[00:25:07] Speaker A: And every time, it just gets every person. Yeah.
[00:25:10] Speaker B: And even a little bit, including Chucky. Like, when he. When I was talking about where he says that, like, that's a blow to him. He doesn't understand. Like, he doesn't quite understand how. How and why these people love him and stuff like that, and it just freaks him out.
[00:25:25] Speaker A: Yeah. Chucky loves him so much that he wants him to go away because he can do better.
Yeah.
[00:25:34] Speaker B: But, yeah, like we said, rated R. There is some language, some images of child abuse, I guess. Like, they. They show his little jacket of, like, where his Will Hunting's foster dad was beating him with a wrench, you know?
[00:25:49] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:25:49] Speaker B: Some. Some. Some rough stuff in there. Yeah. But such a good movie.
[00:25:53] Speaker A: Yeah.
I think if you're of an age that you can handle language. I think this movie's for anybody.
[00:26:02] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:26:02] Speaker A: Yeah. I think. I think it's very good. It's about coming of age. It's about dealing with trauma. It's about finding your people and finding your potential.
[00:26:12] Speaker B: Yeah. And, you know, just kind of being, you know, opening yourself up.
[00:26:16] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:26:16] Speaker B: A little bit. Because he's so. He's the smartest guy in the world, basically. And you know, so closed off.
[00:26:22] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:26:23] Speaker B: Robin Williams makes a good point. His, his character, he's talking the bit, one of the big, big scenes. He, he basically is says, you know, you've not actually experienced anything. Yeah. You're just a dumb kid.
[00:26:35] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:26:35] Speaker B: Who's read a lot of experience.
[00:26:36] Speaker A: South Boston.
[00:26:37] Speaker B: Right.
[00:26:38] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:26:38] Speaker B: You know, you can't tell me, you know, this and this and this. I've done this, these things. But I'm not going to be able to tell you what it's like to be an orphan and grow up in foster care.
[00:26:48] Speaker A: Yeah. I love when he like turns it back to be like. I wouldn't presume that I know you because I've read Oliver Twist.
[00:26:55] Speaker B: Right. That's so good. Yeah, it's so good because. Because of the way Will acts earlier towards him and like that's his rebuttal. And it's such a good rebuttal.
[00:27:04] Speaker A: Yeah.
Go watch this movie.
[00:27:08] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:27:10] Speaker A: I don't really have anything else to say because we already nailed home. The soundtrack's fantastic.
[00:27:17] Speaker B: Once again, go listen to Elliot Smith.
[00:27:19] Speaker A: Yeah. Go listen to Elliot Smith writ large.
Yeah. And wait, have you seen the Odyssey yet?
[00:27:28] Speaker B: I have not seen the Odyssey yet. I got too busy this weekend with stuff. But my friend said it's really, really good. So I'm pretty excited.
[00:27:35] Speaker A: I've heard nothing but fantastic things and I can't wait to see it.
[00:27:39] Speaker B: Did you see the bit about the. Matt Damon's stunt double for the scene with the seven foot tall warriors? Apparently they got seven foot tall guys and five foot tall women to play Matt Damon. Odysseus and his guys. Okay. And he said that this lady had the best arms he's ever seen. He really liked his stunt double, his female stunt double, because she was just jacked at the best.
[00:28:02] Speaker A: Oh man, that rules.
That's. That's so cool. And also makes sense.
[00:28:08] Speaker B: That scene looks so good. And that's why. Cuz they're real.
[00:28:10] Speaker A: Yeah. Cuz like I heard people being like, well, Christopher Nolan doesn't really mess around with cgi. So like how'd they do that? That makes so much more sense. They just found a way to like mess with the scales.
[00:28:21] Speaker B: Giant dudes.
[00:28:22] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:28:23] Speaker B: Small women.
[00:28:24] Speaker A: Small women playing. Yeah.
[00:28:25] Speaker B: Yep.
Cool.
[00:28:27] Speaker A: That's so cool. I can't wait to see it.
And from all reports, like, it's been really fun hearing people talk about Matt Damon's work on this movie.
Like, seems like he really wanted to make this one of his big, biggest films he's ever made.
[00:28:46] Speaker B: Yeah. Put it like the dedication yeah,
[00:28:50] Speaker A: which is pretty wild considering he has an incredible, like, very busy man. Yeah, an incredible list of movies in his canon already.
But yeah, go watch. This movie is available on Canopy and Hoopla, I believe.
And we will catch you next month because we're doing limited episodes and we'll see you then.
Bye bye.
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