Good Will Hunting

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Film style includes numerous techniques such as sound, mise-en-scene, dialogue, cinematography or attitude. In the film Good Will Hunting, directed by Gus Van Sant, you can easily see these aspects. They give off a specific vibe or mood adding change and value to the director's work. Van Sant's use of color and distortion really portray the mise-en-scene feature. The use of camera switch movement was very creative and different in this movie. As his use of angles and shots show the mood, attitude and overall feeling of what the scene will be like. Good Will Hunting is a story about young Will Hunting who has had a troublesome and unsteady past. Will who is played by Matt Damon was an orphan as a child never having a steady person in his life.…show more content…
For instance, the scene where Will and Sean are at the park sitting by the pond talking. Most of the scene is shot at eye level on Sean until he gets to his point which is explaining to Will that he knows nothing about love. Once he talks about love, the camera slowly starts to pan still at eye level over to the right still including Will in the shot. A pan is a camera movement with the body turning to the right or left. On screen, it produces a mobile framing that scans the space horizontally. With that technique it creates the sense that Will is finally being exposed by Seans wisdom. You can tell just by Wills expression that he sits there and soaks in everything Sean has to say and realizes that maybe he does not know…show more content…
While looking up reviews about the film I did not read too many negative comments or reviews. On the very popular movie review site called Rotten Tomatoes, their average rating was 8 out of 10. Also out of 70 people who rated and reviewed the movie there were only 2 “rotten” reviews and 68 “fresh” reviews. Rotten meaning the movie was disliked, giving a negative overlook and fresh meaning they thought it was great with positive things to say. Some positive top critics said “Towering performance by Matt Damon as a troubled working class who needs to address his creative genius elevates this drama way above its therapeutic approach, resulting in a zeitgeist film that may touch chord with young viewers the way The Graduate did.” (Emanuel Levy, top critic for
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