Why shouldn't I work for the NSA? (Good Will Hunting)

[ehrnst]

[geckosfeet]

1. North Atlantic scrod with Quaker State - prescient - turned out to be Gulf shrimp with BP oil

[Dustlawyer]

5. Which BP won't clean up, that causes the oyster's to die and puts 2,500 Oystermen in

Apalachicola out of the only job that they, their Dads, grandfathers and great-grandfathers had. Now they are thrust into the work force except they cannot read because when you drop out in 6th grade to oyster with your dad, you don't pay much attention for those years. So the state of Florida has to put the whole town on welfare and they get to choose b/w getting a GED, welding school, or truck driving school, all at taxpayer, not BP's, expense! Meanwhile, BP plays the same BS commercial on all channels 24/7/365 telling people to, "Come on down to the Coast..." Except that these folks are already at the coast b/c they live there. BP becomes the biggest advertiser on TV, radio and print on the coast so those media outlets would never write or show the story of the Oystermen of Apalachicola b/c they don't want to lose the ad money! Sad it's all true and that this is just one small part of the Gulf Coast!

[idwiyo]

2. K&R

[Stardust]

3. Watched this recently and was blown away by this rant. Matt Damon is right on. nt

[truebluegreen]

7. I read somewhere that Howard Zinn was his neighbor

when he was growing up...

This is an actor I would be happy to vote into office.

[Stardust]

8. Well, that's definitely a fun fact! I heard them mention Chomsky in the film, but

did not hear Zinn. Maybe they did and I just missed it.

Agreed, Matt would get my vote, too.

[truebluegreen]

9. I watched it again recently and they did drop his name:

After schooling the Harvard brat about history and historians Will advises him to read Zinn...

[Stardust]

11. Excellent! Thank you for schooling me! nt

[mattclearing]

15. He tells Robin Williams that he has all the wrong books.

And then says he should have the People's History.

[Stardust]

18. Right! I forgot about that line...

[Ilsa]

4. What amazes me is how far in advance of 2000 this was.

1997. Geez, Shrub had been governor for about four years. and Will describes the RW agenda and future perfectly.

[Brother Buzz]

6. So what did I think? I'm holdin' out for somethin' better.

So what did I think? I'm holdin' out for somethin' better. I figure fuck it, while I'm at it why not just shoot my buddy, take his job, give it to his sworn enemy, hike up gas prices, bomb a village, club a baby seal, hit the hash pipe and join the National Guard? I could be elected president.

[Stardust]

10. Incredible, isn't it? Three years before W was installed! nt

[Brother Buzz]

12. I first saw Good Will Hunting during W's National Guard kerfuffle

The hairs on the back of my neck stood on end.

[Stardust]

14. So I'm wondering if they (Damon & Affeck) were prescient or was it a coincidence?

I'd love to think that they were savvy enough to see W looming on the horizon in Texas.

[Brother Buzz]

16. Smart money says Howard Zinn put the buzz in Damon's mind

[Stardust]

17. Ohhhhhh, how cool is that?!?!?!

[Brother Buzz]

19. I'm not saying he did

If anyone could have connected the dots, Howard Zinn would have been the one; he was most likely the wisest sage Matt encountered.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

13. Most excellent.