"Clever Will Hunting": actors, script, plot

The American film "The Clever Will Hunting" is on the list of the two hundred and fifty best works of cinema of all time according to the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) - the largest database of films. This is a piercing story with a profound philosophical overtones, wrapped in the shell of the youth drama and at first glance reflecting only a typical American dream.

The film was awarded a number of nominations for prestigious cinematographic awards, having won in some of them, and also received favorable reviews of critics.

Plot

The film is a kind of dedication to the classics of American contemporary literature - William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg. "Clever Will Hunting" (actors in the text below) is a dramatic tape about a twenty-year-old child prodigy living in Boston and working as a room cleaner at the university. Not finding proper application of his talent and sharp mind, he now and then gets into unpleasant situations. After another street fight, a professor of mathematics liberates and takes care of him from the police, impressed by his abilities to this exact science. However, he sets two conditions before him: regular and compulsory attendance of his studies, as well as a psychotherapist. The doctor's sessions start with mistrust and problems, but gradually become a strong friendship between the student and the mentor.

About the scenario

Those who wrote the script for the film "Clever Will Hunting", - actors, and now very famous. In this case, from Matt Damon and Ben Affleck turned out to be a good duo not only on the screen. According to the actors themselves, they started writing the script only because they were not taken anywhere else. So, without ambition, without knowing it, they created one of their best projects, for which they received an Oscar at the very beginning of their career. It is noteworthy that the oldest of the Affleck brothers and Damon are friends since childhood, moreover, their families come to each other distant relatives.

Scenario for the film was appreciated by many film studios, but they did not hurry to embody it on the screen. One of the main conditions of its creators assumed their participation in the main roles. Given the fact that B. Affleck and M. Damon at that time were not yet known, and in the actor's piggy bank had only a few episodic roles, the enterprise threatened to be a failure. The guys believed the producers of the company Miramax and did not lose. Young actors literally woke up famous, job offers fell on them, as from a cornucopia.

"Clever Will Hunting": Matt Damon

The character of Matt Damon is Will Hunting. It is, in fact, the core of the whole film. Already not a teenager, but not yet an adult. Will occupies an intermediate position. He does not need the talent of a mathematician who breaks through from him. The only thing he wanted was a normal life, so that he was simply taken and placed in it, and explained that it was so right. Overpowered by internal demons, he tries to become the master of his life, and in this he is helped by a psychotherapist.

"Clever Will Hunting": supporting actors

Having fulfilled the main condition of the young actors, Miramax company for the role of friend of the main character Chakka Sullivan approved Ben Affleck. The character is not given much screen time, but the future Hollywood star could show itself. A year after the filming in this film, he was invited by Michael Bay to his fantastic tape "Armageddon." Note also that the picture introduced the audience to another representative of the Affleck family. The younger brother of Ben Casey (pictured above) played the role of Morgan O'Maley.

Images of Will's mentors - Professor Gerald Lambaut and psychotherapist Sean Maguire - were performed by Stellan Skarsgård (photo below) and Robin Williams respectively. Some of the most famous actors of our time have decorated the film with their presence, showing young people what a real acting game should be. Without awards, by the way, they also did not remain.

Another role of the second plan went to the English actress, singer and songwriter Minnie Driver. Working in the image of Will's girlfriend is a good start for her, followed by several roles in romantic comedies. However, the vocation for her was television.

Awards and nominations

The debut project of Ben Affleck and Matt Damon the film "Clever Will Hunting" was highly appreciated by critics and won the most prestigious awards.

So, in 1998, the tape received 9 nominations for the Oscar, two of which won. The figurine went to R. Williams, the best supporting actor, and writers.

At the film festival in Berlin, Matt Damon for an outstanding individual contribution received a silver bear. The director of the painting Gus Van Sain was nominated for a gold statuette.

For the screenplay for the movie "Clever Will Hunting" actors M. Damon and B. Affleck received the Golden Globe. Immediately two prestigious awards in this category could be safely regarded as recognition of talent and complete success. M. Damon and R. Williams were nominated for the title of best dramatic actor and actor of the second plan.

Stellan Skarsgard, after filming in the project, received the European Film Awards for his great contribution to the development of world cinema.