My best friend unexpectedly lost her husband two years ago. This was the last movie they watched together before he died. She quoted that line at his funeral.
@@nithinsukuhell, a lot of Robin’s scenes I think he drew upon his own personal experiences and also the experiences of people who are psychologists who with their clients of course focus on them but also tell their own personal stories and experiences to relate more with their client to build rapport. I couldn’t imagine anyone but Robin as Sean!
@adamgordon3990 I don't know about that line but could well be I saw a clip with Matt Damon recently talking about the film that line at the end of the film when Williams says "son of a bitch stole my line" 😂 wasn't in the script
@@andrewburgemeister6684 the baseball story in particular seems 100% Williams. I'm curious if it was in the script because that entire aside just sounds like him retelling a game he remembers.
0:21 I always remember this scene. It's the first time we see Will taking responsibility for something he said and showing empathy to someone else. It really comes at a great point in the film.
Shawn was the only one that could really get through to him because he respected him & also they had very similar backgrounds. He knew he wasn’t a phony so he respected his opinions & valued them
I think Robin Williams put every ounce of himself into every roll he played. Whether it be comedy or straight drama, his talent expressed every emotion he played! He was a genius!! I wish he could have appreciated that talent within himself.
Jack Nicholson actually had the part. He did the first week of scenes. But just after he accepted Helen Hunt called him and asked him to co star with her and Cuba Gooding Jr in the movie As Good As It Gets. He went on to say that he didnt regret his decision at all being that As Good As It Gets was 3rd in box office sales behind Titanic and Tomorrow Never Dies, and was Jack's second highest grossing film behind Batman
@@Diego-Delgado ehhh he probably deep down regrets it, because As Good as it gets might be a good film, but Good Will Hunting is one of the Top 50 movies of all time and will be watched from decades to come
@@dylancampbell7468 I think it's alright for him. He never would have fitted the role as good as Williams and was perfect for As Good As It Gets. And I believe he had a blast playing that role.
The ironic thing is he never found "the one". He just got destroyed in the divorce courts and loveless marriages which ultimately drove him to suicide.
I literally watched this scene before I called, my now current wife, for the first time to ask her out on a date. She didn’t pick up so I left a message. I turned my phone off and went out because I didn’t want to be staring at it forever waiting to possibly never see a call. I turned it on several hours later and had a voice message from her saying she wanted to go out as well…. Almost 15 years later…. I’m so glad I made that call and for this scene
as a therapist, he does a great job at sharing enough to be friendly and to get to Will, but not too much for it to feel like it’s just a conversation between friends. it’s a delicate balance
Why do you have to be in the balance? Cant you share as much as you want and wouldnt be ethical to share as much as you need to from keeping your client sad and some worse cases, from hurting himself or others/family or driving into opposite traffic or offing himself?
@@paolothorpe1461 Because the focus needs to remain on the patient and they need to engage with it as treatment, it's important to get to like and respect you but if it just winds up with two people being very close personal friends it both allows the therapist to get too attached and make mistakes and the patient treating it as two friends hanging out instead of treating it as a therapy session for personal growth.
0:11 The fact Will desperately wants to know whether the pain of the loss was worth the positives of the relationship, is so telling. You can tell he's been thinking about it for days, wanting a chance to ask; it didn't just pop into his head, even though he's trying to make it sound like it did. That first little sign that he's been contemplating opening up.
Truth is… it’s not worth the loss. Don’t get involved with relationships in this generation, they always end. I’d bet if robin were alive today he’d admit the same. What he’s describing doesn’t exist anymore.
@@usefulprogrammer9880 he thought the point/meaning of life is the relationships we create with other so I'm inclined to disagree, but for what it's worth it sounds like you may have had a rough go with one and I'm sorry and hope things get better for you.
@@tommyblade8093 you "should" since your relationships with people contribute a lot to making your life and time more meaningful and evoking all kinds of emotions even at the risk of getting hurt, because even getting hurt opens your eyes to good things that you might've missed.
This is one of the most poignant scenes in all of moviedom. I met my soulmate 47 years ago. We had 10 years of amazing moments, with some hard times, as Sean confesses. It's been 37 years he's gone now. But oh those 10--enough to sustain me this lifetime.
so do you think there is true love? true connection? Did you also feel like you knew him/her even before you met? did you also feel like you can read each other's mind like no one else can?
Thank you for sharing.. that made my entire day, I hope you feel as close as ever to him and always will until you meet eye to eye and touch to touch again. He's lucky to have met and to have had you too.
I've had to explain time and time again the same thing to people and why I choose to remain single after so many years since "the one". I've realised that those who have not felt true love don't understand no matter how I explain it to them, and they seem to think they know what true love is but they really don't since I have to explain in the first place. Being with a woman every now and then is nice and all, it keeps my sanity in check and not lose it to loneliness, but she was really the one for me, and just like Sean here knows the exact date and moment when he knew, so do I and all those who have been in these shoes, and just like Sean doesn't regret a single moment with his wife, neither do I. I'd do it all again and again if I had the chance, even if I'd know it'd end beforehand.
@@esinbozdag391the definition of love is different for everyone. Some call it grief, some call it mental illness. There is no right or wrong here. That’s love. Even though that person is not there, you would remember the good times and how you both made each other a better person.
The most important thing Robin Williams does in the scene is saying that he's never regretted a second he spent with his wife, despite the pain of losing her. That's all Will needed. The encouragement to commit to something good, without the fear of emptiness once it isn't there anymore.
But there's the truth in "I didn't know Pudge was gonna hit a Home Run" line which brings reality to a 1% shot of regret from Robin Williams character.
It's a beautiful sentiment because all good things in this world are fleeting. We don't know how long we'll get to enjoy the good and that's frightening, but even if it's short-lived, we can still feel fortunate to have experienced it at all.
@@theprousteffect9717 That's quite interesting because all religions speak of such a subject. Buddhism, for example, teaches the transitory nature of all things, and instead points towards the "abode", if one can use that term, of Nibbana, the unconditioned, deathless realm where no suffering is possible. Similarly, Christian and Sufi mystics speak of an unconditional, unending and permanent Love that supersedes all things and people, and yet is innate within all things and people, which can be called God. Similarly, Hinduism, Taoism, etc and people throughout history have spoken of such a way of seeing the world, which is perceived to the be Truth, the Ultimate Reality. All paths speak of surrender of personal will and desires (the ego) for the recognition of this Truth. In its realization, one realizes the interconnectedness and utter love that constitutes all things. One of the tenants of religion is this truth that all things of form pass away, therefore one must seek the Eternal, or the dissolution of the personal self, if one would like to see true happiness which can never pass away, ie. the Kingdom of God, Nibbana, Brahma, the Absolute, the Self, the Dao, etc. In such a life would one love not just one person or a group, but aim to make their love unconditional for all beings and things they come in contact with. This growing compassion would reveal the nature of the self-radiant love that is the formless, the truth of reality. It's quite interesting, this world, this universe, and this sense of a "something" many feel that both transcends and comprises the all.
"I don't care if Helen of TROY walks into the room!" "Oh, Helen of Troy!" God this is so amazing and heartfelt and well written. Genius, and one of the best movies of all time in my opinion.
Do you mind explaining? Is it because of humour, or something more contextual in the film? I just really want to appreciate this movie more, so I was intrigued by your comment and don't want to miss your point!
octopu5ie i think it’s just because Helen of Troy is supposed to be the most beautiful women in the world. And from my understanding the fact the Matt Damon says that about a character that wouldn’t really be known by just anyone unless you are interested in that type of mythology shows Matt’s characters intellect, while also juxtaposed to how robin Williams character is saying that exact thing about his wife, that she is the Helen of Troy.
@@ilovetheweeknd3412 exactly, especially when Robin Williams' character earlier said that everything Matt gets from a book in what he says, how he would quote Shakespeare or the classics. And so Helen of Troy is exactly what Matt would say to sound academic and smart, and not something the casual person might mention. But its also at the same time such a natural funny response as well, I love it.
The four chairs in a circle gave these scenes such wonderful flexibility in direction. Will starting in one chair and ending in another, it almost feels like he went over to Sean's "side".
Very genuine reaction. A movie would’ve had him say “what” right away. A REAL reaction would’ve been exactly this: his brain taking a second to understand the absurdity of what he just heard.
@@Furio666 are you... trying to imply that all girls who visit bars have slept with tons of guys?? thats gotta be the craziest generalization I think I've ever heard
Yeah he walks up to her. She says she has a boyfriend and isn’t interested. The boyfriend turns up and gives him a sound thrashing for hitting on to her.
@@dinar7082 lol 99% of the time hit women aren’t available. As if he’d be the only one in the bar that wanted her. It’s be a sad live giving up a ticket for a girl that almost certainly was taken 😂
Will's impressed "Wow!" at the end, though... Even though he follows it up with a joke about how it "woulda been nice to catch the game, though", you can see that he's absolutely impressed with Sean. This was the moment for him when he became a 100% certain that this guy doesn't just talk the talk, he walks the walk. He took a huge risk (in Will's eyes at least, he seems like a big baseball fan) and it resulted in a lot of beautiful years and a lot of years of pain. And Will knows that Sean isn't full of shit when he talks about not regretting the pain he had to go through.
Also I loved the “I didn’t know pudge was gonna hit a homah” line from Sean, shows that despite all he feels there is a *tiny* bit of resentment he missed the game. Like you can almost see him watching the home run in 1975 with his future wife thinking, “come on, really?” To me that’s a very human reaction though and teaches Will that the opportunity cost will NEVER be zero. There WILL be things you miss out on that you might have enjoyed. But at the end it’s worth it if you go for it. To me the equivalent of that is Will foregoing hanging out with his own friends in Boston in order to pursue his talents and try to “go see about a girl”
@@rohunsaigal2576yes, it’s a great scene about opportunity cost. Yes, Sean could have gone to the game and had the thrill of witnessing that home run and rushing the field, but the Opportunity Cost would be not meeting his future wife and having many years of joy and difficult years caring for her. At the end of the day, it was just a baseball game, and I bet that if you were given the choice of witnessing an amazing baseball game or skipping out on it to meet your life partner and spend years with them in good times and difficult times you’d pick the latter, which I’m sure if presented with the choice Sean would do all over again.
"I didn't know Pudge was gonna hit a home run!" That line is underrated and ties the theme of the scene together so well. You don't actually know your worst regrets. If he'd never approached her he'd regret it, yes, but he'd also never know by how much. He knew he was missing a big game of Baseball, but no one could have told him how great it was. When they were describing the game, walking around the room and laughing, that's how we want to tell the story of meeting our wives/husbands with our friends.
I don't see Robin Williams talking about a girl he met before a big game. I see a man genuinely remanicing about his late wife and how glad he is he met her instead of watching the game. That's how good an actor Robin was, God rest his soul
I started dating my fiancé about 25 months ago. She was reluctant to date me because we’d been friends for many years (but in marriages that ended in 2016 for me and 2018 for her) and the friend ship was at risk if it didn’t work out. The other reason is she’s had stage 3B breast cancer wand was worried she wouldn’t be around for a very long time. But I knew we were meant to spend our lives together the day I met her so I didn’t give up. On January 13, 2021, we became boyfriend and girlfriend. In November of that year her cancer became stage 4 mestatic. On December 1, we became engaged. My Carly left to be with God on January 30, 2023. The pain I’m in is immense and I’m not sure how to move forward. But even with the pain, I know we were each other’s person. We were best friends and I loved every day we spent together, even the hard ones brought on by this horrible disease and don’t regret the choice I made, not even for a second. And if I knew two years ago just how short our time together would be, I’d still do it all over again.
Better to experience an “unbelievable “ love for a short time, than to never know that kind of joy and and depth of a relationship like that. Those memories will keep you going for the rest of your time.
I couldn’t agree more, except it’s not an appropriate song for this specific scene. Say yes is obviously right over the target for this one. I guess the tone of Say Yes wasn’t right, even if the lyrics fit perfectly.
My favourite movie of all time. I think when Robin Williams died it was made even more incredible. Part of Robin was the psychiatrist in real life. Lost, broken but still fighting the lost cause. Tragic in every sense.
Lost , broken? He suffered from Lewys body dementia, a horrific disease that was going to take his life,depression, he coped with this until he couldn’t
@@Birdyblue12 Many, many comedians use humour to mask their pain, sorrow. Not just talking about professional comedians....the class clown, office joker... For all Robin Williams' zany antics, or even his more serious roles, there was always some sadness in his eyes.
It’s finally hit me that Rob is gone 😿 he was a major influence on my life when it came to laughter- being the genie in Aladdin, to playing the professor who created a *Flubber*
Good Will Hunting has those kind of lessons that are eternally important and relatable. Years after this movie and I still have a hard time putting to action a philosophy of being more active in my life, taking part in it, going out, creating social connections, living to the day etc. But this movie does remind me often the important of being grateful of what you do have, and what you might have, and just so many lessons about life. It's just really relatable in a lot of ways. I love that the audience can all relate to Will, you don't have to be smart to know what he's going through, or to have gone through it.
October 21st was my grandma’s birthday. She was working as the charge nurse in the emergency room, and she had bet money on the Red Sox to win the game. She loved to tell the story of the ER staff watching the game on the little tv they had in the ER, and how they all went crazy when he hit the home run. I never got tired of that story, I wish she was still here to tell me again ♥️
What a moment in cinematic history. Love of the moment, love of the sport, love of a woman, love of your journey and love for your existence. I’m going upstairs to hug my love. Cheers amigos.
The world is lesser without him. Some people should be immortal. The best of our kind should not go out like this. Then again, he was suffering and that suffering is now over and in our collective memories he will always live on. Or so I hope...
"I just slid my ticket across the table..." Shows just how great Sean's friends were -- that they knew he'd met the woman he'd want to spend his whole life with. They just understood after what must've been years of talking about girls/women, all the derogatory jokes they probably told, all the ogling of women they saw throughout their youth, supported each other thru dating and even feeling resentful when any of them would stop spending time with the gang to spend it with a woman, probably served in as groomsmen at each other's weddings, they still got it. They were probably incredibly supportive of him when they heard she'd gotten sick, even if they'd all gone their separate ways and lived at opposite ends of the country or the world. That's the kind of friendship Sean rails about at Lambeau later when Lambeau tries to tell Sean that Will hangs out with a crowd who are a bad influence.
How Robin Williams face lights up when he talks about his wife. Any woman would love that. That’s how you know he really loved her. He is greatly missed!
The contrast in Will’s respect to Sean and Sean’s wife between this scene and the painting scene is phenomenal. The slightest possibility of Will’s comment being taken disrespectfully, makes him immediately retract and and clear his statement
I love the part where he said he didn't rush the field cause he was not there. Something so important in his life happened that it literally put everything else on hold including one of his favorite past times. These days I think we spend too much time committing to things are just aren't that important, and fail to commit to the things that are really worth. The things that inspire us, the things that scare us, the things that make us truly feel alive. I wish we spent 90 percent of our lives living, and only 10 percent doing what we have to. But sometimes we just get in the way of ourselves. And that can be pretty frustrating.
It was 12 years into our relationship. There was just this one point that I knew, no matter what, I'd stick by her side, and she would stick by mine. Still ups, and big downs, but we have a mutual understanding and agreement to work through it, even if it takes a few days. Life is a journey and we've committed to seeing it through, together. This was a really nice scene. I know it's hollywould, but still, it does speak truth to the pains being worth it for the joys. And to the lack of regret one can feel, being still very aware that there are downsides to love. Just that the positives outweigh them. Really, love is about a whole lot of balance, in so many ways.
Just rewatched this for our podcast and it was a great reminder of how well Robin Williams was able to pull a certain feeling out of you. He really was his own Patch Adams, making people feel better with laughter, but also someone you can be sympathetic towards depending on his role!
Im a huge Red sox fan and the first time I saw this scene I had the same reaction Will did. I get the point of this scene but it hurt to hear he missed Game 6 for a lady he just met. When Will says "I dont care if Hellen of Troy comes into the room that's Game 6" and flails his arms in anger, makes me laugh everytime cause that would be my reaction too.
Acting genius. All the excitement he builds up to in this scene with the sports historical moment is not even close to the excitement of meeting his future wife. Incredible writing and acting.
This showed up randomly in my recommended.I have never seen this movie before. But as someone who has a wife who is chronically ill, this really hit hard, and hit home.
I love the opening of this scene. When Will immediately tries to explain how he didn't mean to diminish or belittle Shauns wife. This, compared with their first meeting when Will pushes him by saying he married the wrong woman, it shows a very clear development of their relationship, as well as a development for Will as he is coming to respect and even care about Shaun and his opinion of him. A subtle thing, but for some reason, always stood out as one of my favorite parts.
7 years with my highschool sweetheart. I knew when I saw her picture in 8th grade and i was stunned. Finally matured enough and asked her in 11th grade. I remind myself often how lucky I am
It hits you like a bolt of lightning. You see them in a light no 1 has ever had before and you just know. I'm praying for her happiness, and if that includes me than may God keep shining on us. 🙏
I remember that kind of moment. I saw a picture of her and I remember the feeling of anxiety wash over me because I knew this was the person I had been looking for, just one look and I kinda knew that this was a person I was going to meet. Gorgeous, a kind face and in a beautiful dark purple dress. Marriage is tough, don't let anyone bullshit you into saying it isn't. But I wouldn't trade her love for anything else in life. "For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?"
"I don't regret a single day I spent with her". That is the most powerful line in this scene that speaks to me. I met a woman I felt that way about and she never felt the same towards me. In fact, she summarily rejected me. I was in love with her from the moment I first saw her. Sometimes I wonder if had done things differently, said more sooner, let her know the effect she was having on me, would the outcome have been the two of us together. She was that woman that I would not have regretted a single day I was together with. One important lesson I learned from this experience, one that I already knew intellectually but had never lived through, was that you cannot make another person love you no matter what you do. A person can only truly love you in their heart in the most pure, spontaneous, and authentic way when the feeling is real. Manufactured love, forced loved, demanded love is not genuine, never lasts, does not fulfill, and is not eternal love as is described in this scene.
@@hhhj789 I do believe in miracles but I feel that God must surely be busy granting more critical miracles than repairing my love life. Thank you for the positive support.
@@thebestlayahead7331 thats false god is capable of everything and he is always here for us but you cannot blame him for others reactions or attitudes he has no fault about that and sometimes its meant to be in another your wish it will never fade away
Some heavy dialogue here. Still seriously powerful. RIP Robin Williams. May you sail tranquil seas forevermore. Godspeed and safe travels, esteemed comrade.
Damn son, dem feels hit me every time! What a script, what great casting, and what magical delivery and chemistry. Seen this movie 100 times, and various scenes thousands! Never get sick of it. RIP mate, thank you for your gift and for sharing it with us
I love when Robin Williams is justifying why he missed such an iconic sports moment but trying to get him to understand that she wasn’t just some lady the absolute light of his life by a simple motion of pounding his chest like a heart beat it’s so subtle but such great acting subconsciously expressing he was alive the moment he saw her. It’s at 2:08
