- Oct 28, 2002
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WILLYou're a first year grad student. You just got finished reading some Marxian historian -- Pete Garrison, probably -- you gunna' be convinced of that till next month when you get to James Lemon, then you're gunna' be talkin' about how the economies of Virginia and Pennsylvania were entrepreneurial and capitalist way back in 1740. That's gunna' last until next year, you're gunna' be in here regurgitatin' Gordon Wood. Talkin' about, you know, the pre-Revolutionary Utopia and the capital forming effects of military mobilization.
CLARK Well, as a matter of fact I won't because Wood drastically underestimates the impact of social di--
WILL Wood drastically...Wood drastically underestimates the impact of social distinctions predicated upon wealth, especially inherited wealth. You got that from Vickers. Work in Essex County, page 98, right? Yeah, I read that, too. You gunna' plagiarize the whole thing for us? Do you have any thoughts that...of your own on this matter? Or do you-- is that your thing? You come into a bar, you read some obscure passage, and then pretend you, you..pawn it off as your own..as your own idea just to impress some girls..? Embarrass my friend? See, the sad thing about a guy like you is in fifty years you're gunna start doing some thinkin' on your own, and you're gunna' come up with the fact that there are two certainties in life: one, don't do that, and, two, you dropped a hundred and fifty grand on a fuckin' education you coulda' got for a dollar fifty in late charges at the public library.
CLARK Yeah, but I will have a degree. and you'll be serving my kids fries at a drive-thru on our way to a skiing trip.
WILL Yeah, maybe. eh, but at least I won't be unoriginal. Pardon me, if you have a problem like that, you and me could just outside 'n we could figure it out.
CLARK No, man, there's no problem..It's cool.
WILL It's cool?
CLARKYeah.
WILL Cool.
From good will hunting... the bar scene
WILLYou're a first year grad student. You just got finished reading some Marxian historian -- Pete Garrison, probably -- you gunna' be convinced of that till next month when you get to James Lemon, then you're gunna' be talkin' about how the economies of Virginia and Pennsylvania were entrepreneurial and capitalist way back in 1740. That's gunna' last until next year, you're gunna' be in here regurgitatin' Gordon Wood. Talkin' about, you know, the pre-Revolutionary Utopia and the capital forming effects of military mobilization.
CLARK Well, as a matter of fact I won't because Wood drastically underestimates the impact of social di--
WILL Wood drastically...Wood drastically underestimates the impact of social distinctions predicated upon wealth, especially inherited wealth. You got that from Vickers. Work in Essex County, page 98, right? Yeah, I read that, too. You gunna' plagiarize the whole thing for us? Do you have any thoughts that...of your own on this matter? Or do you-- is that your thing? You come into a bar, you read some obscure passage, and then pretend you, you..pawn it off as your own..as your own idea just to impress some girls..? Embarrass my friend? See, the sad thing about a guy like you is in fifty years you're gunna start doing some thinkin' on your own, and you're gunna' come up with the fact that there are two certainties in life: one, don't do that, and, two, you dropped a hundred and fifty grand on a fuckin' education you coulda' got for a dollar fifty in late charges at the public library.
CLARK Yeah, but I will have a degree. and you'll be serving my kids fries at a drive-thru on our way to a skiing trip.
WILL Yeah, maybe. eh, but at least I won't be unoriginal. Pardon me, if you have a problem like that, you and me could just outside 'n we could figure it out.
CLARK No, man, there's no problem..It's cool.
WILL It's cool?
CLARKYeah.
WILL Cool.
From good will hunting... the bar scene