Good Will Hunting - Superphilosophy

I remember a few conversations between Sean and WIll, like above, remain in my memory.

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INT. SEAN'S OFFICE -- DAY

 

Will and Sean sit in silence. A long moment passes. Sean

casually reclines in his chair, disinterested. Will restlessly

looks around the room and then back to Sean. An odd half smile crosses Sean's face. After a moment:

 

WILL

You know, I was on this plane once.

And I'm sittin' there and the captain

comes on and is like "we'll be cruising

at 35,000 feet," and does his thing,

then he puts the mike down but forgets

to turn it off. Then he says "man,

all I want right now is a blow-job and

a cup of coffee." So the stewardess

goes runnin' up towards the cock-pit

to tell him the mike's still on, and

this guy in the back of the plane goes

"don't forget the coffee!"

 

SEAN

(smiles)

You've never been on a plane.

 

WILL

I know, but the joke's better if I

tell it in the first person.

 

A beat.

 

WILL (cont'd)

I have been laid you know.

 

Sean smiles.

 

SEAN

Yeah? You got a lady now?

 

WILL

Yeah, I went on a date last week.

 

SEAN

How'd it go?

 

WILL

Fine.

 

SEAN

Well, are you going out again?

 

WILL

I don't know.

 

SEAN

Why not?

 

WILL

Haven't called her.

 

SEAN

Jesus Christ, you are an amateur.

 

WILL

I know what I'm doing. She's different

from the other girls I met. We have a

really good time. She's smart,

beautiful, fun...

 

SEAN

So Christ, call her up.

 

WILL

Why? So I can realize she's not so

smart. That she's boring. You don't

get it. Right now she's perfect, I

don't want to ruin that.

 

SEAN

And right now you're perfect too.

Maybe you don't want to ruin that.

 

Will says nothing.

 

SEAN (cont'd)

Well, I think that's a great philosophy

Will, that way you can go through your

entire life without ever having to

really know anybody.

 

Sean looks directly at Will, who looks away. A beat.

 

SEAN (cont'd)

My wife used to turn the alarm clock

off in her sleep. I was late for work

all the time because in the middle of

the night she'd roll over and turn the

damn thing off. Eventually I got a

second clock and put it under my side

of the bed, but it got to where she was

gettin' to that one too. She was

afraid of the dark, so the closet light

was on all night. Thing kept me up

half the night. Eventually I'd fall

asleep, out of sheer exhaustion and

not wake up when I was supposed to

cause she'd have already gotten to my

alarms.

 

Will smiles, Sean takes a beat.

 

SEAN (cont'd)

My wife's been dead two years, Will.

And when I think about her, those are

the things I think about most. Little

idiosyncrasies that only I knew about.

Those made her my wife. And she had

the goods on me too. Little things I

do out of habit. People call these

things imperfections Will. It's just

who we are. And we get to choose who

we're going to let into out weird

little worlds. You're not perfect.

And let me save you the suspense, this

girl you met isn't either. The question

is, whether or not you're perfect for

each other. You can know everything

in the world, but the only way you're

findin' that one out is by giving it a

shot. You sure won't get the answer

from an old fucker like me. And even

if I did know, I wouldn't tell you.

 

Will smiles. A beat.

 

WILL

Why not? You told me every other

fuckin' thing. You talk more than any

shrink I ever met.

 

Sean laughs.

 

SEAN

I teach this shit, I didn't say I knew

how to do it.

 

WILL

You ever think about gettin' remarried?

 

SEAN

My wife's dead.

 

WILL

Hence, the word remarried.

 

SEAN

My wife's dead.

 

WILL

Well I think that's a wonderful

philosophy, Sean. That way you can go

through the rest of your life without

having to really know anyone.

 

A beat. Sean smiles.

 

SEAN

Time's up.

 

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