As director Gus Van Sant observes in the introduction to Matt Damons and Ben. Live Read events began in 2011 in Los Angeles with director Jason Reitman gathering actors together to read popular scripts like “Breakfast Club”, “The Princess Bride” and “Reservoir Dogs,” to raise money for Film Independent. Buy a cheap copy of Good Will Hunting: A Screenplay book by Matt Damon. Williams won the best supporting actor Academy Award.
“Good Will Hunting” won Damon and Affleck the Oscar for best writing of an original screenplay in 1997. A few lines were flubbed, but the theater was silent when Martindale recited Williams’ dialogue in an emotional scene. Here are the best quotes from one of the best movies. Sure, everything is shrouded in a thick Boston accent, but underneath the cursing and southie vernacular are a bunch of pretty inspirational life lessons. The reading went off script a few times, like when Krasinski would jokingly protest to Blunt and Damon’s portrayal of lovers and when Affleck and Damon pointed out inside jokes. Good Will Hunting is a really well written movie. The crowd screamed and gave a standing ovation and Krasinski took over the duty of narrator. Krasinski then attempted to begin Affleck’s role of Hunting’s wise-cracking friend, when he appeared. The script began as a school project: Damon told Boston Magazine in 2013 that he began writing 'Good Will Hunting' for a playwriting class he was taking at Harvard University. The read kicked off with Krasinski taking Damon’s lead role of Will Hunting when Damon walked on stage and surprised the audience.