Matt Damon’s good will to the goodwill presented a cameo of a controversial director

At the beginning of the film Oscar by Gun Van Sant, “Good Will Hunting”, Will (Matt Damon) found himself in prison, having violated his parole after a gang fight. The fight has become a little uncontrollable when Will hit a cop, you see. Despite the desperate situation, the generally positive will calls Skylar (Minnie Driver) of the prison’s salary phone, in the hope of catching up after their brief previous meeting in a bar. Skylar is still charmed by Will, but she doesn’t realize where he is. She is also about to obtain her Harvard diploma and hopes to attend a medical school. Meanwhile, Will is a remarkable Math-Whiz who constantly sabotated his shot during an intellectual career with his temperament and his tendency to get in trouble with the law.

While Will calls Skylar, another prisoner is fired by a door and dragged into the corridor behind him. The prisoner seems a little zoned and begins to scream strange and attractive things at will. It offers sexual favors. There is something coated on his eyebrows. Will – Once again, very positive – smiles to the prisoner, grateful to him as the player, someone he knew of the juvenile room at the time. Jerve is then dragged out of camera and, still determined, continues his flirt with Skyler (which is clearly interested).

The prisoner, as some independent films lovers could be aware, was none other than Harmony Korine. When “Good Will Hunting” was released, Korine was best known as the young writer of the film JD shocking by Larry Clark in 1995 “Kids”. This film was known for its frank representations of the sexuality of adolescents and the amorality of the characters. The beginnings of director of Korine, “Gummo”, were then published in theaters less than two months before “Good Will Hunting”, and he also shocked the public with his free representations of poverty, assault and sex. Korine has continued to be deliberately stiff and artistically aggressive in her career since then, making films like “Julien Donkey-Boy”, “Trash Humpers” and “Spring Breakers”.

Yeah, he was in prison.

Korine has long remained a terrible child in the world of independent film, often trying to get angry or indicate the public. It was the man who made a 40 -minute short film called “The Diary of Anne Frank, Part II”, who presented Satanist characters vomiting on a Bible and a black character. His style of confrontation was exhilarating for public members who, in the 1990s, estimated that it was high time to stop being polite and starting to become real. The “children” can be divided to date, and he is certainly not recommended for anyone under the age of 18 (or 38 years old, by the way).

Van Sant, who had already exploded on the independent scene in the early 1990s with films like “Drugstore Cowboy” and “My Own Private Idaho”, began to reach the consumer renown in 1995 thanks to the release of her film by Nicole Kidman “To Die for”. He already helped other independent notable stars, after being an executive producer of “Kids”. Obviously, Van Sant and the young Korine became friends after that. Van Sant did not produce “Gummo” by Korine, but he sang his praises when he made his debut in Telluride in August 1997. The two filmmakers have always stolen in the same herds, so it is not entirely illogical for Van Sant to have offered Korine a cameo in “Good Will Hunting”. Van Sant’s film is as sweet and intelligent as “Gummo” was aggressive and ladle, but the two artists have always seen eyes.

Indeed, Korine would do another cameo – playing “Guy in Club” – in the “last days” of Van Sant, more experimental Kurt Cobain “Van Sant has not yet made a cameo in any of Korine’s films, but the two filmmakers are always active, and the possibility remains palpable.