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Mike Miller wrote:
On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
I will briefly say that I thought that "Good Will Hunting" was a
really trashy movie.
It was ridiculous. They had to make the guy unbelievably, ridiculously
smart, which made it silly.
I think that such people who are that unbelievably, ridiculously smart
really do exist. Ramanujan, from India, is one such example, as is
Mozart in the field of music. Where the movie really fell flat is that
such people are also terribly hard working and obsessed about
mathematics or music or whatever. The idea that they casually do great
things while living otherwise normal second rate lives is what is
ridiculous. I can see that a caretaker might really be a genius, but he
would typically have a really nerdy, almost autistic, personality, and
when he goes home, he would read books rather than going to bars and
picking up girls.
Stephen
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