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    Questions for Good Will Hunting: 1. There were several attempts at therapy before the Robin Williams character, why did those fail and the last succeeded? From my perception, the first two therapists failed to establish a therapeutic relationship and build rapport with Will. Neither of them gave Will the opportunity to earn his trust. Along with the dismissal of building rapport, the first therapist was too direct in his approach with Will as well. Unclear of his orientation, but he was telling

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    The fear of never being understood by someone is what isolates us from ever trying to be understood. In the film, Good Will Hunting the main character Will has this tough persona and wants people to think that there is nothing emotionally wrong with him. Like every young adult Will just wants to live life hanging out with his friends and act reckless. During the day Will works as a janitor at MIT in Boston, where he solves a mathematical problem which according to Professor Lambeau a genius mathematician

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    Trevor Burkhead Professor Nyfeler EN 211 22 February 2017 Analytical Essay on the Movie “Good Will Hunting” I have watched a considerable number of movies this semester so it was hard to choose which one to analyze. It came down to “Remember the Titans” or “Good Will Hunting”. However, the movie that I will be analyzing is “Good Will Hunting”. The reason I chose this movie is that it can be analyzed in many different ways. I will be analyzing different scenes of the movie and analyze them from

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    Abstract: The movie “Good Will Hunting” (1997) by Gus Van Sant depicted an intelligent man, Will Hunting, with issues fitting in society and maintaining relationship connections and the therapists who successfully changed Will’s outlook at the world . However, it wasn’t without certain technical flaws and possible crossing of certain code of ethics. This paper raises the issue of the potential erroneous counseling depiction in movies and certain ethical principles that may have been violated in such

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    film "Good Will Hunting", the characters experience many emotions that impact their interpersonal relationships and communicative interactions. Taking into consideration that each character grew up with a different lifestyle, their interpersonal relationships and communicative interactions are affected in their continuing years. The film allows us to see different personalities in each character and how their emotions affect how they communicate. Characters in the movie Good Will

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    Good Will Hunting Good Will Hunting is a tale of a twenty-year-old man's struggle to transcend his childhood, to find out where belongs in the world, and to achieve intimacy with the people surrounding him. The main character, Will Hunting, is a gifted orphan from South Boston who prefers to spend his nighttime hanging out with his friends by drinking alcohol, and flirting with girls Will works as a janitor at MIT until one day he completes a complex math problem written on a chalkboard at MIT as

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    movie Good Will Hunting an American Drama Film was directed by Gus Van Sant, and starring Robin Williams, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Minnie Driver and Stellan Skarsgard in 1997. This movie is about a man named Good Will Hunting who was a genius but chose not to live as a genius because of fear of past experiences and the ill treatment he received when he was in foster home. Some of the other characters in the movie were supportive and some were not supportive of him. This essay discusses Good Will’s

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    Good Will Hunting, a movie based about a young adult by the name of Will Hunting. Will is a mathematician yet he does not use it to its potential. Instead, Will likes to go out with his friends and mess around. One day he gets arrested for the charges of assaulting a police man. While waiting to serve time, Professor Lambeau of M.I.T came to release him if only he cooperates with his term, which is to visit his office to demonstrate his math skills and he would have to see a therapist. After several

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    great film, Good Will Hunting offers a great basis for which linguistic studies regarding dialect can be done. The film offers a great contrast in characters from “Southie” to prestigious high-class individuals. While there is a noticeable difference in the dialect used, the focus is primarily on stereotypes between the lower and upper-class individuals. Language and dialects help to reinforce the stereotypes regarding socio-economic classes. The division of dialect in Good Will Hunting reflects the

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    The movie, Good Will Hunting (1997), is about a young twenty-year-old man named Will Hunting. Will Hunting lives in a rather impoverished area in South Boston and is a young janitor who typically drinks with his friends in his free time, however, Will is actually an indiscreet self-taught genius. During the first week of classes at MIT, Will solves a difficult graduate-level math problem that one of the math professors left an extremely difficult problem on the board to challenge his students, in

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