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    Art often represents the challenges overcome by individuals as they search for life meaning. Gus Van Sant’s Good Will Hunting, released on12 March 1998, follows the story of protagonist Will Hunting, played by Matt Damon, who has Attachment Disorder. Abused as a child, he has trouble developing meaningful and appropriate relationships with adults and women. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby”, published on 10 April 1925, is a story told by involved narrator Nick Carraway, who was once Jay Gatsby

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    He wants Neil to be doctor. In an emotionally charged scene, Neil finds that he doesn't want to cope with a life that doesn't involve acting, and he takes his own life.In the movie Good Will Hunting, Robin Williams plays a psychiatrist giving therapy to a character played by Matt Damon. Damon's character, Will, is a math genius who has severe social problems stemming from a traumatic childhood. Will knows his gift, but is afraid to use it

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    maltreatment show changes in important parts of their brains. These changes are linked to depression, drug addition, schizophrenia, and other metal health problems. Although Good Will Hunting and Antwone Fisher are similar in the situations that the main characters face, they have some differences in the outcome of the story. Good Will Hunting, is a movie about a 20 years old kid named Will, an orphan and abused foster kid, who is a self-taught genius but chooses to work as a janitor at the Massachusetts

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    Will Hunting was a twenty-year-old, Caucasian boy in a struggling economic state, without the support of a family. He was living in a run down apartment in a low economical neighborhood in the south of Boston, Massachusetts. Will was very much admired by people around him. Although he might have been seen as cocky, Will was also a very smart, good-looking boy. He was a math genius but was better known for hanging around bars and getting into neighborhood fights. It was until he was discovered

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    Analyzing Personalities: An Analysis of Personality Traits from a Theoretical Perspective In the movie, Good Will Hunting there is a character named Will, he is a janitor at MIT. Will has a difficult time blending in to the world he lives in. Will was caught solving math problems that a math professor’s students cannot even solve. This captures the professor’s attention. This professors name is Professor Lambeau. Will gets himself into some trouble and ends up getting arrested. Will then is

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    Will Hunting is a janitor at M.I.T. who solves problems other students cannot at work. Will is a genius no doubt about that, but his childhood is filled with darkness making him defensive towards feelings. After being sentenced to jail he has no choice but to work with Professor Lambeau, and attend therapy. Will Hunting will now embark on a journey to find himself and realize what he truly wants in life. This first act begins with Will living in South Boston (a southie) as referred to in the movie

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    will all fall apart. If you’re really trying to stop this nightmare from happening?” says Willie “It’s complex now there are too many variables and people involved.” she says “But they haven’t got the weapons and the governments are still full of good people willing to talk and work it out.” states an extremely weak Willie The medic gets Willie to his feet. Rallah too

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    At the very beginning of the story, two boys see a man and they start to have a conflict about him. In the beginning, it starts with what sorts of coat he was wearing but, later the conflict moves into the less deceptive things such as where he’s from. I don’t know if these boys are going to be writers, but they certainly talk with a lot of detail that indicates that the first-person narrator is an expert. The narrator throws a wild detail into the arguments, making this conversational planting with

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    evidence of “primary control” and “secondary control” as seen in the film with these two groups. In the film, Gerald Lambeau, a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T) is a prime example of a middle-class White American. Whereas, Will Hunting, a genius from South Boston who works as a janitor at M.I.T. is a prime example of a working-class White American. For these examples, Will’s friends: Chuckie, Morgan, and Billy also represent other working-class White Americans. Each group display

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    In the 1986 film Manhunter, directed by Michael Mann, a retired FBI detective named Will Graham is called from his seemingly perfect life of drinking beer on the beach with his beautiful wife to assist in the investigation of a serial killer called the tooth fairy. The opening scene of Manhunter is the camera in place of the serial killer following his every move while he carefully tiptoes in the house of his next victims. This exact scene is revisited later on in the film when Graham retraces the

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