It’s an impressive performance - by both Skylar and Driver. Here, we watch Skylar overcome those obstacles and fit in seamlessly. You want to make a good first impression so that they don’t secretly hate you. They all have inside jokes and talk in shorthand that you’re not privy to. Anyone who has met a significant other’s group of friends all at once knows that it can be an intimidating experience. It’s meant as a way for her to win over Will’s friends. Skylar’s story probably isn’t true, but it’s funnier than Chuckie’s.
It also tees up Skylar, who has a story of her own. Its purpose is to introduce Skylar to the dynamic between Will and his tight-knit circle of friends as Chuckie and Morgan (Casey Affleck) exchange barbs. The shit we say at bars really isn’t that interesting.
It’s a decent story, the kind of drunk story that is funnier to everyone sitting at the table than it is to anyone else, which makes it entirely believable as a drunken bar story. First, Chuckie (Affleck) tells the group a story about his drunk uncle who accidentally stole a cop cruiser. The first time Skylar (Minnie Driver) meets Will’s friends is essentially a double monologue scene. But I was forced to leave some worthy selections out. There are more than 12 great scenes in this 126-minute masterpiece. Just know that if I had additional time or space, I’d rank more than 12 scenes.
GOOD WILL HUNTING SKYLAR MOVIE
Today, I’m here in your inbox to rank the 12 best scenes from Good Will Hunting, because it’s an insanely rewatchable movie filled with insanely rewatchable scenes, and because I like ranking things.īelow, you’ll find 12 scenes from the movie, ranked. I’m not here in your inbox today to complain about fake people named Sean or to review Good Will Hunting or to provide a CliffNotes history of the film that you can read all about on its Wikipedia page. Seriously, Minority Report is one of my favorite Spielberg movies, but it’s a difficult rewatch because I have to listen to Tom Cruise yell SEAN! over and over again as he obsesses over his son’s disappearance. I reckon it’s one of my most rewatched movies of all time, even though I absolutely despise watching movies with characters named Sean. And it’s remained firmly in my top five with each and every subsequent rewatch. It’s been one of my five favorite movies ever since I first saw it at some point in the aughts. It’s a movie that manages to provide meaningful commentary on brother-like friendships, romantic relationships, patient-doctor bonds, grief and loss, and fighting off your own internal demons, all at the same time.
Released in 1997 after an arduous process from page to screen - Matt Damon first started writing it as an assignment for a playwriting class, Ben Affleck helped him turn it into a thriller, Rob Reiner convinced the pair to ditch the thriller and focus more on the patient-doctor relationship, Terrence Malick gave them their ending, and finally, years later, Miramax (we don’t need to get into the Harvey Weinstein stuff, because it’s the worst part of the movie) put the film into motion - the movie still resonates as strongly as it did two-plus decades ago. It’s fitting that Good Will Hunting is a Boston movie, because it has longevity that even Tom Brady would be jealous of.