Matt & Ben was first presented Off-Broadway by Victoria Lang and Pier Piccoli, Stephen Pevner and Jason Hsiao, at P.S. 122 in New York City on July 27, 2003, where it played until May 2004. It was directed by David Warren and starred the authors, Mindy Kaling and Brenda Withers. Good Will Hunting Original Script by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck an Original Script by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck The following is Matt Damon and Ben Affleck's Award Winning Script for Good Will Hunting. It is what Matt Damon and Ben Affleck originally wrote on paper before the movie was made. FADE IN: EXT. SOUTH BOSTON ST. ![]() ALTHOUGH her name is not mentioned in any of its forms -- J. Lo, Jenny, Jen --the inescapable image of Jennifer Lopez hovers over the clever Off Off Broadway satire 'Matt & Ben.' ' Set in 1995, when Matt Damon and Ben Affleck were struggling actors, the play has Ben fantasize about being famous. 'I'm going to meet Daisy Fuentes,' he says. 'I like Latin women.' ' The line gets a huge, easy laugh because we are all saturated with too much information about the couple sometimes known as Bennifer. Lagu allah huma labaikala hjj mp3. Mindy Kaling and Brenda Withers, the women who wrote the play and also appear as Ben and Matt, turn celebrity overload to their advantage, embracing our shared image of the actors -- Matt is the smart one, Ben is cute but dumb -- even as they send up the embarrassing amount of trivia we carry around about movie stars. The play shrewdly connects to its audience by tapping into our encyclopedic knowledge of pop culture. 'Matt & Ben' (now running at P.S. 122 in the East Village) had its premiere a year ago at the New York International Fringe Festival, at the very moment when the Ben and Jen Show was about to overshadow the Legend of Matt and Ben. Despite the hovering spirit of J. Lo (the line about Latin women has been added since the Fringe performances), it's the Legend that is central to the play. We all know the story, of how two best friends came out of nowhere to win an Oscar for writing 'Good Will Hunting,' their first and so far last script together. 'Matt & Ben' depicts the only plausible explanation: the screenplay fell from the sky. Actually, here it falls from the ceiling into Ben's shabby apartment, cluttered with beer cans, nachos and a framed head shot of himself. 'Gigli' is a bad, boring movie. Any romantic comedy about a smart lesbian mob enforcer who falls for a bumbling male mob enforcer who has kidnapped a brain-damaged young man is probably going to stink. But it's not unwatchably, off-the-charts, 'Showgirls' bad. It's 'Hollywood Homicide' bad. Like this summer's excruciatingly dull Harrison Ford film -- a widely panned box-office dud -- 'Gigli' is the kind of big-budget turkey that's never hard to find. Only Ben and Jen overload can account for the savage critical response. The heads of critics and audiences are bursting with icky echoes of the couple's hourlong 'Dateline' interview, in which they pretended to be surprised at the media attention, and with images of her flashing what is inevitably described as her 6.1-carat pink diamond engagement ring custom made by Harry Winston.
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