Comment Re:Does none count? (Score 1) 481
No that bit of dialogue is vile, what are you on about?
That whole film suffers from the flaw that the directors haven't a clue what intelligence is.
Will complains about Clark being unoriginal, but the only way his supposed brilliance is portrayed throughout the film is via his machine-like ability to quote from texts he himself has read. That and a robot-like ability to effortlessly solve maths problems.
So it just perpetuates a damaging high school myth, the idea that intelligence is something effortless, that the really clever people are the (non-existent) ones for whom solving problems is as easy as blinking.
In fact, the truly brilliant are the ones who, in addition to being highly creative or having laser-sharp analytical skills, are also extremely dedicated and energetic with the ability to keep working on a problem for as long as it takes to solve it.
Any geeks on Slashdot should be furious about Good Will Hunting - it subscribes to the myth that true success is effortless and that anybody who works for something is a dork. Not an appealing ideology.
That whole film suffers from the flaw that the directors haven't a clue what intelligence is.
Will complains about Clark being unoriginal, but the only way his supposed brilliance is portrayed throughout the film is via his machine-like ability to quote from texts he himself has read. That and a robot-like ability to effortlessly solve maths problems.
So it just perpetuates a damaging high school myth, the idea that intelligence is something effortless, that the really clever people are the (non-existent) ones for whom solving problems is as easy as blinking.
In fact, the truly brilliant are the ones who, in addition to being highly creative or having laser-sharp analytical skills, are also extremely dedicated and energetic with the ability to keep working on a problem for as long as it takes to solve it.
Any geeks on Slashdot should be furious about Good Will Hunting - it subscribes to the myth that true success is effortless and that anybody who works for something is a dork. Not an appealing ideology.
