NSA monologue from GOOD WILL HUNTING

[laststeamtrain]

I was thinking of this because people are talking about ENEMY OF THE STATE which was on ABC last night. (First time I saw it. I liked it.)This is a pretty nifty piece of writing I think.

Good Will Hunting
written by Matt Damon & Ben Affleck


Will: Why shouldn't I work for the N.S.A.? That's a tough one, but I'll take a shot. Say I'm working at the N.S.A. Somebody puts a code on my desk, something nobody else can break. Maybe I take a shot at it and maybe I break it. And I'm real happy with myself, 'cause I did my job well. But maybe that code was the location of some rebel army in North Africa or the Middle East. Once they have that location, they bomb the village where the rebels were hiding and fifteen hundred people that I never met and that I never had no problem with get killed. Now the politicians are sayin', "Send in the marines to secure the area" 'cause they don't give a shit. It won't be their kid over there, gettin' shot. Just like it wasn't them when their number was called, 'cause they were pullin' a tour in the National Guard. It'll be some kid from Southie takin' shrapnel in the ass. And he comes home to find that the plant he used to work at got exported to the country he just got back from. And the guy who put the shrapnel in his ass got his old job, 'cause he'll work for fifteen cents a day and no bathroom breaks. Meanwhile he realizes the only reason he was over there in the first place was so we could install a government that would sell us oil at a good price. And of course the oil companies used the skirmish over there to scare up domestic oil prices. A cute little ancillary benefit for them but it ain't helping my buddy at two-fifty a gallon. They're takin' their sweet time bringin' the oil back, and maybe even took the liberty of hiring an alcoholic skipper who likes to drink martinis and fuckin' play slalom with the icebergs, and it ain't too long 'til he hits one, spills the oil and kills all the sea life in the North Atlantic. So now my buddy's out of work and he can't afford to drive, so he's walking to the fuckin' job interviews, which sucks 'cause the schrapnel in his ass is givin' him chronic hemorroids. And meanwhile he's starvin' 'cause every time he tries to get a bite to eat the only blue plate special they're servin' is North Atlantic scrod with Quaker State. 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 and 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.

[Metta]

1. How prescient.

Thanks for posting. A first class movie.

[PretzelWarrior]

2. Yeah. I loved it. Mercury Rising shows mentality of the current

bunch too. The Alec Baldwin character is classic.

[IndyOp]

3. Isn't that incredible - got my attention when I wasn't yet political (nt)

:kick:

[justabob]

4. I saw that movie for the first time a few months ago

and remember that scene very clearly. Its great stuff summed up nicely so anyone with two brain cells to rub together could understand.

Thanks for posting it.

[LynzM]

5. Love that movie....

So many great things said in the course of it, that one definitely amongst them...

[OneBlueSky]

6. I loved that monologue . . . half of that writing team, btw . . .

should stick to writing and forget acting . . . in Ben's case, the muse has left the building . . .

[Hardrada]

7. I bought the book of the movie

and I read this part every so often. The book leaves out a few of Robin Williams's improvisations however. Like when he remarks about the bartender saving for his sex change operation or the fact his wife used to fart in her sleep!!