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The social media quote about Samwise Gamgee from LOTR

Who saids it?

@@1MCEliasThe asian guy reacting to the movie said it

@@StMichael7 Oh right, to Ben Affleck character.

Even the camera operator was laughing-you can see the picture shaking.

The line that broke them both the hardest didn't make the cut. "Honey, light a match!" "Is that how she died?"

The Saving Private Ryan brother story was also improvised.

Robin was a master at improv. I couldn’t imagine another actor with his role in this movie.

@@brycealthoff8092 Billy Connolly would've also done a great job :)

Their normal accents aren't that thick though. They just know them well enough to put them on in a performance. I grew up in the South surrounded by a lot of Southern sounding people. I don't have a southern accent myself but I know how to imitate one.

Just in case the fact that it's MIT didn't give it away.. lmao

Yeah, as someone who has one, it’s refreshing to hear a well done Massachusetts accent done in a movie in a sea of crappy imitation accents without any New England dialect. This movie had both accent and dialect

@@oliviarogers2808I’m from Boston. My sister was neighbors with Ben’s mother, and got to know the family. Those are their accents-they had vocal training to get rid of it, at a young age. That’s how we sound, here-the ones that don’t speak with the accent (FROM here), worked to get rid of it. Give us a few beers, and it comes back.

@@oliviarogers2808People sometimes lose their thick accent when they move away from where they grew up. It happened to my husband when he moved away from the south. He still has a southern accent but it’s nothing like it used to be.

It was so perfect they used a clip from that monologue when they were going through the Best Supporting Actor nominees during the ceremony.

Definitely my most rewatched scene from this movie.

Well, according to Dan Pena , it isn't your fault , it's your parents fault that you're totally f!!ked up ! I still don't buy that . Every good parent tries their best with what they know to bring up their child in a right , proper way . Just because someone isn't a big success in life , that's not your parents' fault. They question is who's fault is it? My guess, it's society as a whole , period !

"Breakthrough" scenes always carry a lot of emotion, especially for the audience. That scene always reminds me of "The Prince of Tides", which has a very similar breakthrough experience between Nick Nolte and Barbara Streisand. It's a wonderful film, and Streisand (I'm usually not a fan of hers) was robbed of the Oscar for Best Director that year...even the winner said that she really deserved at least a nomination.

Sadly, it's something a lot of abused kids need to hear. Kids tend to soak up the abuse like sponges, internalize it and then repeat the cycle, lashing out like Will did at the beginning. It takes a lot to break through that mindset that internalizes everything, and it usually takes a lot more therapy than we see in this movie.

Dude sometimes it just pops into my head and I have to try really hard not to break down sobbing.

yeah it still hits me like a truck, because I've been in a similar situation, where someone will tell you something you need to hear and internally you just brush it off because you don't feel it's true, even though you agree with them verbally to end the conversation, but they don't let it go and make you really understand the words they are telling you, and it all starts coming out

I tried to show this movie to my Mom and Step-dad one day and my mom couldn't get past all the swearing. I told her to ignore the swearing and pay attention to the movie and she just couldn't do it. Her loss.

@@shercahn My mother used to scold me for using bad language, and tell me that it was a sign of a limited vocabulary... I just told her that if you don't use swear words then you are limiting your vocabulary, and therefore would have a larger vocabulary by adding in swear words... My mother didn't raise no fool 🤣🤣

I'm absolutely astounded that anyone in the modern day gives enough a shit about swears to impact them that way. They only have as much power as you give em

@@chrisparti I could swear there was a study that found that people who swear do have a larger vocabulary. There are exceptions, of course, like idiots who riddle every sentence with "fuck" and "motherfucker", or "like", or whatever, to give themselves time to think up the next syllable they want to say, but still.

@@PotatoPaul69 I loved how you started your comment with "I could swear" 😅

Why did you abuse your family members?

I’m rowing that same boat

I agree, it is good therapy for people who went through some kind of abuse in childhood.

@@pistonburner6448 😂😂

@@pistonburner6448 it feels wrong to laugh but I can't help it lmao. Brian I'm no laughing at your past pain but cmon that was pretty good

and thus robin is a genius. well done sir. and a great movie.

The opposite of Donald Sutherland on Animal House, the studio offered him $25,000 or 2 points on the film. He took the cash payment. It cost him 14 million dollars.

@@davidwilson3568 It’s not genius. It’s business and he’s been in it for decades at this point.

Not to mention win two academy awards on the main categories

Unknowns? Matt Damon was already a star when this was made.

Now used to taunt someone when you have a victory over them

And 'do you like apples' has no particular meaning. It was just a way to set up the punchline.

Not knowing the history or necessarily the "definition" that Craig uses here, I had always thought it meant because some apples are sweet and some are tart. And it still works as the taunt because those apples are sweet for Matt Damon's character and turned tart for the other guy (although I like tart apples so that's not always a negative).

Why did the guy reply with 'yes'? Will was obiviously about to bazinga him and...he just went along with it.

@@christophplank8972 probably replied with yes so move it along & get the embarrassment over with quicker

Totally genuine, improvised and made the cameraman laugh so much the camera shook.

I mean you cannot have a movie with Robin William in it, and not have at least one scene where he goes totaly off script and its actually 1000's better than anything that was scripted and not include it in the movie Thats how 60% of his movies where made

He improvised that paht?

It's kind of funny that they mention that saving private ryan scene, because that was improvised too.

For anyone unaware, Robin Williams is a master of improv, and can just throw down at any time. I have a friend who worked on a movie set with him once, and one time they were stuck waiting for hours, Robin got up and did a combination of improv comedy and some of his standup just to keep people entertained while waiting.

yeah the music really captures a particular sound that those of us who grew up in this era will instantly recognize, yet it is also a bit timeless. The soft songwriter ballad of the 80s-90s was one of those bridges from the 60s to the modern era that can be overlooked but is pervasive. His work here really captures that bridge.

Slight difference being Stallone was an outsider, poor as shit and these guys were raised in Hollywood and wealthy before they were movie stars, I mean their Disney kids and Stallone sold his dog to make his movie.. But indeed on the same level of putting yourself in your script and it elevating your career to A list, very similar there.

@@bryansmith1691 Yeah, that's just not true. Both of them were raised in Massachusetts and while their families weren't poor, they were very far from the rich and wealthy Hollywood "elite". Please check your strories, before you spout nonsense! Cheers!

@@bryansmith1691 More "Theater Kids"; not the same thing

@@bryansmith1691 LOL you enjoy being stupid? They were from blue collar parents, teachers and such.

The studio wanted Brad Pitt and Leo DiCaprio instead. They gave Damon and Affleck 30 days to find a new backer, or they would go with Pitt and DiCaprio. (Harvey Weinstein came to the rescue)

The saying I think of is"not all tears are an evil"...true thing

@@daveheesen9174 Yeah, Lord of the Rings has some great life quotes...

That's from the Rosey Grier from Free to Be You and Me, "It's Alright to Cry": ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8jzrSqgVL_A.html

Still hilarious people were saying its mainly Matt and that Ben just rode the wave lol

The movie is probably older than them - cut them some slack lol

Kevin Smith: “Am I a joke to you?”

Yup. Crazy thing is that not long after this they cast Matt "How You Like Them Apples" Damon as Jason Bourne. Everyone was like "how will this baby faced dramatic actor play an action hero spy?" Then everyone saw the trailer for 'Bourne Identity' and quickly STFU. Those two roles made Matt Damon a super star, and rightfully so.

@@BigMikeDTW And now they should react to the Bourne trilogy of movies -The Bourne Identity, Bourne Supremacy, and Bourne Ultimatum! Brilliant films!

This isn't a 'play in the background' movie. If you watch it, it will get you, and you'll be glad.

Nice! I watched the movie yesterday, so now I'm going through reactions :D I'm glad Cinebinge had watched it

I've always thought that Chucky was the hero of the movie. He knew of Will's gift and wanted more for him. He took him to the Harvard Bar, built a car for him to work in Cambridge; he encouraged Will to get out of Southie and do something better and, when it was clear that Will wouldn't leave on his own, he called him out for being a chickenshit. Will was his best friend and Chucky let him go to find greater things.

@@dard4642 Yes exactly. It's the type of character we don't see much in movies or TV shows but there really are people like that out there. Even if Will hadn't taken his advice by the end of the movie, you can tell Chuckie wasn't going to let up until he finally got through to him.

that was pure Luck ! have you ever played the Lottery ? (jk)

Thank you.

He was

I very much recommend his videos on this movie; I also highly recommend Cinema Therapy's review/discussion of it.

great suggestion. I would add "patch adams" and "awakenings". Maybe not that similar but Robins character in each has the same kind of sweet and caring but a bit troubled nature

I haven't seen patch adams but awakenings, definitely worth watching!

I agree about The Fisher King. One of my all time favorite movies!!!

Awakenings. Also, I miss Robin Williams.

Why he killed himself is so sad. Mental illness is horrible.

@@ratflail215 : It wasn’t just “mental illness”. He was suffering from Lewy Body dementia, a disease that mimics Parkinson’s, but in reality is like a fast-progressing Alzheimer’s, with tremors, hallucinations, paranoia & memory loss. It must have been torture for him, even though initially misdiagnosed, to know that something is destroying his mind, so either he, or his delusions told him to end it.

@@jenniferrogers2492 Oh man. I knew he had something like that but it sounds like pure torture.

“Awakenings” would be a great one to react to. An often overlooked, but wonderful film based on a true story, starring Robin and Robert DeNiro.

@@maggieshevelew7579 Yes!

sounds like youre just coping

Is this a troll post? Lol. A 119 IQ is still in the top 10%. You lucked out for a guy with a TBI, yeah it sucks you're not a genius anymore but you're not exactly drooling either.

@@CJW0056 Well yes its still good. But not mensa good. And with a brain injury I struggle to learn. Most of my memories are gone from before the incidents.

Pretty sure Chaplin's Great Dictator speech tops it.

i was thinking the same i love that Movie so much. Chaplin was one of the greatest actors ever walked the Earth seen so much of his movies from a young age on the Silent ones and all the others@@Hexon66

Lemme tell ya something. You're suspect !

If you can run faster than everyone else, you get celebrated. If you do math faster than everyone else, you get beaten up after school.

@@peterpike Or, being the only math-expert makes you a valuable and appreciated resource 👍 Also, finding ways how to explain things to people who have zero idea, helped me very much later - being a flying SW consultant

Poets is my favorite Robin Williams movie by far

Pixieologist: I'm in educational research and teaching and learning with a focus in gifted education. And yes, there are people like Will Hunting. Smarter even. They would be categorized as exceptionally gifted, the highest level of giftedness. These people are extremely rare, so it's not a stretch that believing people like this strains all credibility because you'll likely live your entire life and never meet such a person. Maybe hear of someone, watch a documentary, a docudrama, but actually meet one? The odds are low. You're more likely to meet people lower on the scale -- mildly gifted. Moderately gifted. Maybe highly gifted. As you go higher, these types are more and more rare. This is especially true in (American) education today. This is because, there's a fanatical desire to create an egalitarian system in which all students are the same. If you do even a little research, you'll find that teachers' unions are very busy trying to wipe out advanced programs and courses as fast possible. They have a particular hatred of gifted programs, students, and the very idea of giftedness. They see it as unfair, elitist, and threatening. Because of this, if you look closely at the type of students in most current gifted programs, there are almost no actual Gifted students in those programs. They've been pushed out by the high achieving students -- those who make very high grades (think 4.0 and 5.0 gpa) and test scores, but they ain't gifted. Not even a little bit. But, their parents get them in. The difference is, the high achievers Still need to study a great deal to achieve those high marks. They are normal, just motivated, by parents, usually. Gifteds are extremely different. They are biologically, psychologically, mentally, and emotionally different. Neurologically different. Most of them eschew gifted programs because they Know it's a waste of their time. Remember Will's outburst to that professor about not wanting to spend his life explaining things to people? That's what usually happens to identified kids. The teachers aren't interested in furthering their education. They Can't and they Know they can't. So, teachers force the Gifteds to explain the work to their classmates who will Never understand the work in the minutes it takes them, at the depths they understand it. Think Divergent. Williams' character in this movie. Ender Wiggins (Enders Game). Artemis Fowl. Little Man Tate. Jonas (The Giver). Harrison Bergeron in the short story of the same name. George Platen (Profession by Asimov). Shikamaru Nara (Naruto), as well as Sasuke Uchiha, Gara, and even Neji... It's like Sensei Kakashi once told Naruto when they met such a character during his training, "In this world there are kids who are younger than you, and yet... stronger than me..." Naruto was 12. This is the reality. A lot of people are like you. They don't and don't want to know there are people walking around with this kind of ability and more (watch Little Man Tate sometime). Nowadays, the word I hear the most about it is "fair." And how it's just not "fair." Fear not. "Teachers" agree and they're trying their level best to destroy these kids and anything that will make them better at their gifts

@@LA_HA salute to you, well laid out. Society ebbs and wanes with the tiring masses of apathetic attitude. Only a paradigm shift will get us back on a path of pursuing exceptionalism. Sadly those shifts are usually very painful for the whole of humanity. Good luck to you.

@@kennethburmeister8119 Thank you. Agreed about the painful pendulum swing. And the sad part is, it didn't have to be this way. We could've gone straight onwards and upwards. But, the radicalized Intelligentsia took over when most weren't looking and now, history is beginning to repeat because History isn't taught in schools anymore. A bright spot has appeared, though. Many studies show that about half of the current younger generation is rejecting the nonsense going on. But, the most we can hope for is a Mexican standoff, however, no one really wins those, do they? We'll have to wait for the Ever After to know what happens. In the meantime, when you have a few minutes to burn, check out the short online article, Suicide of the Liberals, by Gary Saul Morson (Oct 2020), who discusses the destruction of Russia back in the day. Real eye-opening stuff. Thank you again. Be well

This is one of those movies that everyone can relate to, because we all have deep issues that keep us from reaching our full potential.