"Good Will Hunting" Character Biography and Outline

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Character Biography Will: Will, 20 years old, is a seemingly bohemian and unruly person, but he is actually an extremely fragile person. He was an orphan since he was a child and worked as a cleaner at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a math genius with a super IQ and a talent that is different from ordinary people. He can successfully use his talent to solve those difficult math problems perfectly. . However, his poor background and childhood experiences formed his self-enclosed temperament, which made him fight, steal, beat the police, and even get arrested and imprisoned. He used rebellious and unruly behaviors to cover up his inferiority and vent his anguish, and his life was also a mess. Will's extraordinary talent was seen by Professor Lamber of MIT. He wanted to train Will to become a successful person in the mathematics world, so he arranged psychological counseling for Will. In order to protect Will He, without being seen as vulnerable in his heart, used words to humiliate every expert who counseled him. This was precisely because he was abandoned at a very young age and lacked trust. With the help of psychology professor Sean, Will gradually opened his heart and began to understand trust. In the end, Will stepped out of the shadow of childhood abuse and bravely pursued his own happiness. Sean: 52 years old, well dressed, strong build, with a nice moustache. Sean is very serious in his work and knows how to respect others. During Will's treatment, Sean never got angry, even if Will mocked his favorite painting. He doesn't have a high-spirited style, and treats Will like a friend, patiently counseling, and sharing his wife's shortcomings. He is very casual, he chases what he likes, and he doesn't force what he doesn't like. Sean once gave up his favorite and most exciting game because of his wife. He had a disagreement with Lamber on Will's future life path. He did not make Will's talent a slave to his work. In the process of counseling, he also respected Will's personal thoughts, only guiding and not persecuting. Emotionally, Sean is a very dedicated person. In order to pursue his wife, he gave up the game. Although his wife is deceased, he has always loved his wife. The person in his heart has not disappeared because of the other party's departure. Lamber: 52 years old, a mathematics professor at MIT, he is passionate about his work, believes that only success is the meaning of life, and cherishes talents very much. When he found that Will has the gift of high and ordinary people, he decided to save him This troubled boy with mathematical talent, he gave him counseling and sought expert treatment, just hoping that Will could achieve something in this field. Very stubborn, and even a little paranoid at work. He has worked hard for 30 years and won the highest field award in mathematics. This is what he thinks of success, so he imposed this idea on Will and wanted Will to plan according to his own ideas. In the future, the path of life will not take into account the preferences and feelings of others. Chuckie Sullivan: Will's best friend, 20 years old, tall, swaggering, shouting, naturally fun-loving and friendly. When friends get together, Sullivan always brings the atmosphere and tells some vulgar jokes. Sullivan is usually very informal and condescending, but he still treats his friends very carefully, and treats Will as his own brother. Sullivan persuaded Will to kill Will when he was 50 years old if he was the same as he is now, which shocked Will, and for Sullivan Saying that his happiness is that when he drives to pick Will up every day, he finds that Will is gone, which means that Will has a place to display his talents. The story outlines an ordinary American young Will, who works as a cleaner at the famous Massachusetts Institute of Technology. One day, Lamb, a math professor at this school, wrote a question that he found very difficult on the bulletin board in his department, hoping that his outstanding students could solve the answer, but no one could. When Will was cleaning after class, he found this math problem and solved it easily. After failing to find a real problem solver, Professor Lamber wrote another, more difficult problem to find this mathematical genius. This time Professor Lamber saw him, Will cursed, turned and ran. In a bar at Harvard, Will humiliates the self-righteous Harvard student with his deep academic accomplishments, and wins the admiration of the teenage Skira. Although Will is extremely smart, he is rebellious and unruly, and even fights everywhere. In one fight, Will was sent to the Juvenile Detention Center. After Professor Lamber's bail, Will was freed from prison, but on the condition that he accepted Professor Lamber's academic counseling on time every week, and agreed to accept the psychological counseling of a psychiatrist, Will had no choice but to agree Lamb's request. Will's psychological counseling was not very smooth. Every psychologist who came to counsel was humiliated by Will, and all the experts who came in contact with Will no longer accepted the second counseling. Professor Lamb was helpless. He had no choice but to ask his college classmate and friend, Sean, a psychology professor at a community college, to enlighten this young man whose future was at stake. When they met Sean for the first time, the conversation between the two was not very pleasant. Will even criticized a painting that Sean liked very much, but Sean did not give up Will because of this, and insisted on every Zhou's coaching to Will. Sean told Will about his wife's shortcomings, and he pointed out that Will himself is not perfect. Although he is very smart, theory is higher than practice. Gradually, Will is also a little bit to Xiao Well open your heart. Sean also respects Will's personal ideas, but this is contrary to Professor Lamb's ideas. Lamb wants to cultivate Will into a mathematical genius who can make a difference, and only in this way can Will be considered a real success. But Sean thinks that he must follow Will's own wishes and cannot force him to do things he doesn't like, so the two parted ways. Will and his girlfriend Skira never said they were orphans. Instead, they said that they had 12 brothers. Once, Skira wanted Will to accompany him to Laizhou. The two disagreed during the conversation, Skira said. After Will was an orphan, Will couldn't hold back, got angry with his girlfriend, and finally Skira left alone. Once, when Lamb was having a heated argument with Sean, Will came back to find Sean. Sean spoke to Will from his childhood. This conversation made Will's long-standing psychological defense finally collapsed and opened up a knot in his heart for many years. In the end, Will followed his heart and gave up Lamb for himself. Arranged work, set foot on the journey to find a girlfriend.

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Good Will Hunting quotes

  • Lambeau: You're angry at me for doing what you could have done; but ask yourself, Sean. Ask yourself if you want Will to feel that way, if you want him to feel like a failure.

    Sean: Oh, you arrogant shit! That's why I don't come to the goddamned reunions, 'cause I can't stand that look in your eye. Ya know, that condescending, embarrassed look. You think I'm a failure. I know who I am, and I'm proud of what I do. I was a conscientious choice, I didn't fuck up! And you and your cronies think I'm some sort of pity case. You and your kiss-ass chorus following you around going, "The Fields Medal! The Fields Medal!" Why are you still so fuckin' afraid of failure?

  • Chuckie: [in a bar] I didn't get on Cathy last night.

    Will: No?

    Chuckie: Nah.

    Will: Why not?

    Chuckie: I don't know.

    [yells across room]

    Chuckie: Cathy!

    Cathy: What?

    Chuckie: Why didn't you give me none of that nasty little hoochie-woochie you usually throw at me?

    Cathy: Oh, fuck you and your Irish curse, Chuckie. Like I'd waste my energy spreading my legs for that Tootsie Roll dick? So go home and give it a tug yourself.