That would imply the person does not have the cure for cancer. Anyone with the proper education and enough time can do anything. That is like saying if Einstein graduated high school. He would have unified gravity with the other forces. It is just nonsense words.
Or what if someone said "They knew the cure, but a bullet ended up being stuck in their mind/brain". Next Gov't will be saying "cancer comes from horses" just remember to 'play dumb' and agree.
@@brucef310 Then they are simply just idiots. That is the same a saying. A Nazi wouldn't obey traffic lights, because a Black man invented them. A large part of medical advancement was tested on people without consent. Many of them were Inmates, Homeless, Blacks, Women, Children, even Infants... A persons beliefs have no place in science and medicine.
To all the folks that say Matt just slopped the mop out of the bucket without wringing it out. That's exactly how you heavy duty industrial mop...you start with a freshly swept floor THEN lay down a good layer of water/cleaner over an area, then rinse out and thoroughly wring out the mop, and go back to where you began and mop up the standing water solution til all the water you put down mopped up. I did this in a dry brake/ friction machine shop I worked at for bout 16 years and the entire kitchen area I worked at in a restaurant through high school. Not exactly what youd do for your kitchen at home. Outside of that, this movie is possible the best I saw concerning several years around when this came out. Brilliant
That wasn't a kitchen or area effected by grease or heavy soiling of anything other than dust and tennis shoe traffic and maybe the occasional coffee spill. So industrial mopping is not required.
That scene was so perfectly played by Skarsgård. The excitement of discovering a true genius, and the crushing realization that it was a janitor who was smarter than he was or will ever be.
Excellent movie One can easily see why he and Affleck won an Oscar for best screen play. Plus, for his his acting this movie, Robin Williams won an Oscar for best supporting actor. Mr Williams, RIP
Eddie Sloan, it's nice that you have so much compassion and empathy for those who struggle with depression. isn't it nice that you grew up in a stable environment, sheltered by loving parents who kept you safe and warm so you never had to overcome any adversity until you were well beyond high school. If the cliche of walk in someone else's shoes applies to anyone you seem like the perfect candidate.
You'd be surprised to know that this kind of writing is extremely common in Hollywood. The problem, even after the success of this film, is that most studios won't take a chance on scripts like this and always opt for the ones where many things are being blown up, transformed, or fight Tom Cruise at the end!
It wasn't photographic, he had to solve it for himself - then once he knew what the solution was, he didn't need to copy or remember it... he would just finish it again on the school blackboard. He was figuring it out... a photographic memory would remember things, but not necessarily understand them.
It's like the "beautiful mind movie" where he's solving the problems on the window with a grease pencil, it isn't about memorizing... it's about understanding, once they understand what the answer is - they can reproduce it afterward.
If this was photographic, he wouldn't need a mirror or window to work the steps - he would work them all in his mind... it was more about understanding, not remembering.
Remember when he was trying to explain his genius to Skylar? "Mozart, Beethoven just looked at a keyboard and it all made sense to them and they could just play. Now I can't hit a ball out of Fenway Park, and I can't play piano. But when it comes to this, I could just play." In real life, Mozart had a photographic memory. He could listen to an entire symphony, then transcribe the whole thing for every instrument on to sheet music. Mozart also remembered what notes people played from days before. He also completed compositions in his head before transcribing them onto sheet music. Mozart was the "Sir Isaac Newton" of music, just like Bach and Beethoven. Michelangelo and Leonardo DaVinci had that same kind of genius to see a completed work in marble and on canvas.
@@golfhound when they were dating at the park, yeah, I remember. Isn't Mozart the first guy who pirated music? Haha. It was the Vatican's Miserere IIRC. Guy just heard the piece in the Church and recreated it lol. The church was so mad at him he got excommunicated for a while 🤣🤣🤣
Rumor is that there was a ghostwriter on the script and Matt and Ben didn't actually write this. You win an oscar for writing something but then you never write another original movie? People will say because they became busy acting. Well, Stallone, Rogen, Jason Segel, Clooney are writers who also act in many movies. Yes Ben and Matt have written but nothing original. They have come in to rewrite other people's work.
Thanks. Every time I see any clip from GWH, I never fail to re-watch the entire movie within a day or two. The emotions which I feel equal those upon my first viewing of this masterpiece of cinema.
Will makes his entrance pushing a mop bucket. Then he lifts the mop directly from the water and slops it onto the floor without first wringing it out. Ridiculous. A janitor who had any idea what they were doing would never do this. Fortunately he's a genius, because he sure isn't Good Will Mopping.
@@muchograndeyolatengo that's for kitchens or places with heavy cleaning needing done. A place like this hallway a good old sailors mop with a damp mop will keep it clean provided regular cleaning. This isnt rocket surgery folks. Its mopping.
The professor should ask his students if they like apples. The tell them who solved the problem and say "it was the janitor, how do you like those apples"
I remember being told to buff the floor in basic training. Being 20 dys out of High school, I never ran a buffer before. I put the handle thru the wall. The Drill Sergeant is still screaming at me 49 years later.
I’ve always thought he splashed the mop to get them to move. In fact I think that’s definitely why. Though it is funny to think what they thought about it😂
LOL... You realize of course that if they enforced everyone's wish for a "required reading", "mandatory viewing", etc. of one thing or another, it would take at least 250 years to get through high school...😬
@@MrBeen992 As valuable as your advice is, there certainly is a difference between being enrolled at the University at campus and being enrolled online
@@LetsbeHonest97 You are definitely right. But here we are not talking about any university. MIT has some math online actual courses online. If you are talking about any university, I wonder what would stop you from doing it instead of imagine it.
In my Calc 3 class there was a really young kid ( he looked about 16) while the rest of us were 20+ something who aced the class. Turned out he was a kid of Indian decent who only had been in the U.S. for 6 years. Most gifted kid I ever met. He ended up working at Google.
This movie was one of the best I ever seen. Being a victim of bullying as a kid, this film really made me wonder how many other brilliant people who’s abilities are suppressed by abuse in their past.
@@SignalCorps1 same for minorities lynched by racist southerners, or the countless slaves their fathers abused, or the children killed by psychotic trump supporters with AR15s Please leave your politics in your right wing facebook groups
Makes sense. Just realized after watching this scene for the 100th time that there are lockers in the hallway. I’ve never seen a college building with lockers like that.
Not realy, there are maybe 10-15 people like this in the entire world ( an optimistic guess I am sure ), and while there are plenty of geniuses hiding in plain sight, they are not so smart that the average joe cannot fathom it.
Not working jobs like this. The unrealistic part is not that a poor kid is a genius. The unrealistic part is that he would choose to remain poor doing blue collar jobs when he could easily make a killing and bring his standard of living up, especially since the movie never gave a solid reason why
This film was brilliant because you would think Lambeau would be the antagonist of the movie but in so many nuanced scenes primarily between he and Robin Williams, it proved neither one was wrong about how they chose to go about things regarding Will. Lambeau was right, Will needed to be pushed, but Robin was too that you had to do it a certain way. His character definitely provided a perfect contrast and context to a remarkably written film.
Like a janitor, before Will could be launched into the future to reach his potential, he first had to mop up the mess from his past. Lambeau could look up and see Will's future. Sean had to dig deep to see Will's past. Had Lambeau and Sean communicated without having their own pasts getting in the way, the best path for Will to take may have been a little easier.
"There is a problem on the board right now that took us more than two years to prove" So just look it up, wherever they published it, and copy down onto the little chalkboard. Easy!
I'm glad he made something of himself and became an assassin for the CIA. I see that his friend decided to stay in Boston and live a life of robbing banks, starring in his own movie "The Town". Later retiring in Illinois as an accountant.
The tree problem is rather trivial. Most undergraduate computer science students can solve it in a few minutes. I wish they had used something harder. (Of course, the drawings of the trees is visually interesting which is why they used it.)
This was a great movie, in that scene what was also impressive is that he remembered the complex questions to a complex answer, just by reading through it once…then drawing out the answer on his mirror….I guess having meetings in HS with Ben A. paid off.
Watching this video reminds me of when I was working at a Dell in QUEENS years ago and I went to a gas station to get gas. On that day, the attention of the guy working, his name was Albert LUCUS and he asked me if there was a job at the Dell and I didn't have a answer, so I went back and talked to the owner, and I said CHARLIE is there a opening and he said I will make room and ALBERT worked for 5 years and he applied to The CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA UPSTATE NEW YORK STATE. He graduated with HONORS top in his class and I was so happy for him, and he work's in WASHINGTON DC for the SENATE and he is from QUEENS nyc
It may just be me, but this scene always makes me emotional in one way or another. The accidental discovery of a genius. I think there are many undiscovered geniuses in this world who, for whatever reason, have not made it in this society through the regular means. Neither origin nor education are leading or decisive in what goes on in someone's brain or what immense talents someone possesses that may never be known to the general public. A waste of talent or a blessing for those who are left alone by society? As far as I'm concerned, there is no clear answer to this question.
