Inspired by Howard Zinn’s movement to hear the people’s version of history, Big Hollywood now asks the the people to challenge the powerful (Damon, WGA) and finally have their voices heard over the ongoing controversy involving the true authorship of the Oscar-winning film that launched Matt Damon to fame and fortune.
For years, rumors have swirled that Matt Damon and his co-writer Ben Affleck received more than just advice and “notes” from Kevin Smith and/or Oscar-winning screenwriter William Goldman, but did you know Damon grew up next door to Zinn — the same Zinn mentioned in the film?
So connect the “Good Will Hunting” dots and tell us how you like them apples…
UPDATE From Andrew Breitbart:
I liked ‘Gone Baby Gone’ a lot. Affleck comes across as a lovable Marxist. Same with this Chris Moore guy, who I interviewed at the UCLA ‘People Speak’ event. As far as I can tell a truly likable bloke. He was very forthright that he’s not the most informed guy in the world. He seemed like a smart-ish guy, though. Wish he’d think through these issues. I’d love to have a guy like him on the sane side.
Anyway, I just can’t imagine how 20-something hotshot dudes from Boston would be obsessed on the ‘military industrial complex’ as Will Hunting was. Will Hunting would rather work as a janitor than use his genius as a scientist to help ‘the man’. That was the gist of the plot. Zinn’s spiritual soul mate Noam Chomsky — also a 9/11USA-blamer — famously caveated 9/11 by claiming it was a tragedy because of the janitors and the waiters in the restaurant in the top of the restaurant died. The implication, of course, was the others who were killed were rightful targets given their place in the American capitalist system that the WTC represented.
So you see the Zinn/Chomsky/Celeb left embracing ‘truther-ism’ around the fetishism of the lower classes, hatred of the banker class, and the justification of the WTC being a righteous target given its immense symbolism in the western economy and culture. When Damon attacked Bill Kristol — and I offered him $100k to debate him — one could see Damon channeling Zinn again. Zinn, Chomsky & Soros all represent a bizarre power axis of Israel bashing and Jewish self-loathing that is eerily represented in the cocky-in-their-lack-of-education Zinn-promoting Hollywood left. Glad there’s finally a place we can call out this crap.