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...film adaptations of Greene works are created equal. Tellingly, Wood cites that the most successful Greene film interpretation is “the one that Greene [himself intentionally] wrote as a script, The Third...
...absolutely delightful and deliciously spiteful,” Mindy Kaling and Brenda Withers’s “Matt and Ben” follows the lives of Hollywood icons Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, pre-Tinseltown. The two must decide whether to pass off the script for “Good Will Hunting” as their own, after it falls from the ceiling. This tongue-in-cheek play is a two-woman show, and is not to miss. Tickets $25 general; $15 undergraduates. Through Nov. 6. 7 & 9:30 p.m. Winthrop JCR, 966 Mill Street...
...unlikely, and as good, as any: the Winthrop House Junior Common Room. This is where, Harvardwood lore has it, the illustrious Mr. Damon emoted his last emotion as a babyfaced undergrad actor, just before leaving to begin a now fabled campaign to write and sell Good Will Hunting, a script he began in an English department playwriting class (reportedly...
...other big joke is also dropped on our heads, and on Ben’s coffee table, as the lights go up: the script for Good Will Hunting was not the product of late-night improv sessions but a gift from the heavens. As much as this confirms our most delectable suspicion that even the real Matt and Ben can’t be for real (ok, I’m speaking for myself here), it is also the deus ex machina that sets in motion a test of friendship that jumps from one joke to the next, happily with...
Watching the two fret like babies over the script miracle is as funny as watching them fret like babies over who gets more credit, over whether Catcher in the Rye is a better idea, over whether to work together. The friendship’s defining moment is a talent show in high school (Cambridge’s Ringe and Latin) when Ben’s goofy dancing turns Matt’s serious Simon and Garfunkel rendition into a shtick. The incident defines the characters too, who haven’t much outlived that immaturity, and the play itself, whose...