He is currently out of the country on an extended holiday with his family.

I figured I was such a ball of fire it didn’t matter what I gave away.”Ī spokesman for Damon said, “Matt is unavailable. “You can’t do it the way I did it, obviously. “Moore acted like he didn’t know anything and told me not to call him again.” The fact that Damon and Affleck didn’t write much else in the following 20-plus years - concentrating on acting - has helped sow doubt.Ĭohen said he contacted Moore after the Oscars. People don’t want to think those two cute guys wrote it. You will find purpose in life after watching this moving drama that is so very down to Earth. Van Zant desperately searches for human decency and kindness in his seminal drama. “But I said, ‘When it wins Best Original Screenplay, I want a thank you, and I want you to finance my next film.’”Īs soon as childhood friends Damon and Ben Affleck won the Oscar for the screenplay in 1998, skeptics scoffed that the two neophytes could possibly have written such a polished work.Īce screenwriter William Goldman - in his book “Which Lie Did I Tell?” - wrote, “In my obit it will say that I wrote it. Good Will Hunting is simply a life changing, life affirming, and inspiring film that holds up beautifully. But when one relates to a Thou, ones whole being is involved. I didn’t even ask for a part,” said Cohen. The heart of the movie Good Will Hunting (1997) is an encounter between Will (Matt. Moore was a Harvard classmate of Matt Damon’s, who showed up at the bakery a few days later and met with Cohen. “I asked him, ‘Do you know someone younger who could help me finish it?’” “I thought was someone else and started talking to him,” Cohen, who has kept his secret for 20 years, told me.

Cohen said he got the idea from a gifted frat brother who came to MIT at the age of 16. He says he was hanging out at Columbus Bakery (83rd Street and Columbus Avenue) in the mid-’90s when he met aspiring producer Chris Moore and told him about his idea for a movie about a janitor who is also a math genius. Language: Hindi + English Quality: 720p BluRay Size: 1.1GB Movie Resolution: 1280692 Subtitle: English Format: Mkv StoryLine. Who wrote “Good Will Hunting”? Bernard Cohen says the idea was his.Ĭohen, MIT class of ’62, is a lifelong Upper West Sider who is an artist and writer, as well as a waiter, bartender, chauffeur and movie extra. Good Will Hunting 1997 Dual Audio Hindi 720p BluRay.

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