What kind of drugs are you on? Hahaha

John Wayne is horrible. I can understand why ppl like him, but as far as acting goes, he’s corny

Americans didnt have much love for the french when they tried to assimilate every french speaker between 1860 and 1960 in New England and Louisiana. Hollywood perhaps. America ? You got it backwards. Everytime an french person (or worse, french canadian) is portrayed in cinema, he's either a killer, a murderer, a snob, a duplicitous evildoer or a naive clown.

great video being narrated by jesse eisenberg

Why play 80s music for a late 90s video smh

The puss in boots scene always makes me cry every time I see it because I had extreme social anxiety for a while and trained my own dog for service to help prevent panic attacks in public with deep pressure therapy and blocking behaviors used to create space. And that is exactly what it feels like. They pull you back. Just by being there. Their warmth. Their weight. The softness of their fur. Knowing they're quietly there and want to help.

They come from all the native Bostonians, none of whom actually live in Boston itself, but all these Massholes live in the greater Boston area - aka the rest of Massachusetts and half of the rest of New England, while Boston is a multicultural hub.

Could have just put contagion and call it a day.

there’s a reason the dolly zoom is so cliche when portraying anxiety because, suffering from attacks myself, let me tell you that the dramatic sinking feeling you get right as it begins to happen feels EXACTLY like what a dolly zoom looks like

Right off the bat you make the mistake of claiming South Boston is THE historic Irish enclave of Boston. It is not. Many early Irish immigrants settled in the North & West Ends. South Boston was originally planned as a rich suburb BTW. South Boston was & to a certain extent still is Lithuanian, Albania & Polish as well as Irish & a few others. These films are a fiction, they created a stereotype that has run amok. I had to laugh when you showed clips of East Boston & the inner harbor claiming it was the divide, the Charles, between South Boston & Cambridge. I would recommend going a little further back into the history of Boston movies. "The Verdict", "Charlie", "Six Bridges" to Cross & "The Last Hurrah" to get a little idea of the history of the WASP/Immigrant conflict in Boston. It has more to do with Beacon Hill than Cambridge. "Charlie" in particular is an amazing snap shot of the rich/poor divide at a moment in Boston's long history; the historic Progressive "we know what's good for you" attitude.

I’ve lived here for 61 years. It’s all changed. Southie and Charlestown are all yuppies now. Gone are the days of southie Irish bars or armored car robberies from C Town kids.

My favorite neighborhood is THE NORTH END which you never mentioned.

Im from those South Boston Irish families. It’s so weird seeing this all spelled out like it’s National Geographic.

I’m from Lowell and we are tougher than Boston

We need a reboot where Bonnie and Clyde are blue-haired land-whale baristas who get tired of slinging drinks and having their pronouns ignored.

I'd give everything I have to go back to the boring old 90's.

Puss in boots was my movie of the year because of how real it is, it was brilliant

Boston guys are smart and capable. On “Survivor,” Boston Rob built a shelter including a hammock.

You need to have someone from Boston with you when you talk about Boston. The Irish are no longer the prominent ethnicity in Boston. South Boston is now gentrified with the fancy breweries replacing the corner taverns. The Bulgers, Billy, president of the Massachusetts State Senate, and Jimmy, head of the Boston underworld have both been gone for over 20 years. The Mayor of Boston last name is Wu. The discrimination in the 19th century was more to do with being Irish than being Catholic, thus the signs on the doors, "Irish Need Not Apply". My grandfather faced this when he emigrated from Ireland in 1915. The difference was that due to that discrimination, the Irish stuck together more than others and when the Irish began to run for political office, they knew they could count on the entire Irish vote in the city. "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald was when the real change began, when he was elected Mayor of Boston in 1910. Unlike the Brahmans, the Irish needed jobs so the patronage began, locking in support. The way South Boston is portrayed in Good Will Hunting was the real South Boston, all the way to the L Street Tavern which still stands today.

It's not the same. Fascists kill people because of their characteristics. Those who fought fascism in ww2 were stopping fascists. Fascists can't be stopped with words. Try stopping them with words. It won't work. You would not be able to negotiate with the gestapo. Read some history and learn from it. Ffs.

It so sad I grew up in south Boston all my life and nobody cared about south Boston .. people would look at us like we was nothing boy how life in south Boston changed now they all want to be a south Boston person .. my question is why ??

"Everyone knows the Charles River is crucial to Boston" immediately shows a scene from Mystic River, staring out at the… Mystic River

Actors are overrated. They spend their time playing pretend….. That’s all. “Gift to the world” ????? No. Mainly, narcissistic spoiled brats, or just brats. I could live without them.

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A lot of details in this video are misleading. For example, the Charles River does not in any way define the borders of Southie (as implied at 1:18). The claim that the Charles River separates the rich in Cambridge and the poor in Boston (6:37) is in no way true today or even historically, with longstanding affluent neighborhoods such as Beacon Hill and Back Bay sitting right against the water on the Boston side of the river. The shot at 6:52 is from the north of Boston (I.e. the Cambridge side of the Charles) looking south towards downtown Boston. Equating drinking Dunkin and being from Southie (6:19) is a bit of a stretch. A more realistic claim would be that it is a sign of being working class, which is what all these movies are about. Southie epitomizes the working class, just as Cambridge epitomizes the elites, and while there very much was and continues to be some friction between the two in Boston, there is no explicit rivalry between these two neighborhoods as this video would have you believe. The main points of Catholic vs Protestant, blue vs white collar, and Irish vs British ancestry are true. But, I think the video tried a little too hard to explain Boston motifs in movies that are just there because they are synonymous with the city regardless of whether or not you’re Irish and from Southie.

Best video essay

im Dutch and did fotography in school and for fun never heard of this or i forgot, i used to smoke a lot of Dutch stuff back then love from Rotterdamn man

Until we were attacked by the communist progressives, our reputation in Boston as individuals willing to fight for that they believe was well deserved. Since we've been attacked, we now have sanctuary cities, a lesbian governor, a black Congress woman who skins her head, and a Chinese Mayor of Boston who expressly stated no white people allowed at her Christmas party. Gimme back my Boston!

Dunkin’s is started here in MA. So it’s a staple here more than anywhere else

Get artah here.

Thanks to the Irish, Boston is the only place in America where us Italians are the "model minority".

a generation of kids stopped swearing after this movie lol

The irony is Damon and Affleck are from Cambridge and cashed in on ppl thinking they are from boston. Cambridge ISNT Boston, you can see the difference in the people if you are from Boston.

As a Somerville resident who barely knows shit about Boston, its obvious from watching this that this guy knows nothing about Boston

I dont think this guy knows about the geography of boston

5:51 what music is this?

Good video. I never quite looked at these movies in that way. Very insightful.

The Irish colours are Green, White, and, Gold. NOT orange.

Then get this the Irish became oppressors

I'm a non-American who was just searching for funny Boston accents and stumbled across this, this is beyond fascinating! Revealed a whole new side to Good Will Hunting to me as well as a piece of American history I was ignorant to.

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At this point in my life, I have no experienced a panic attack, but I have had an anxiety attack. I was at work. I didn't know it was an anxiety attack. I couldn't concentrate or breathe. Manager let me sit down between customers and got me a drink of water to help me. I can't express how glad I am that so far it's the only one I've ever had.

I am totally blown away by the amount of subliminal messages and predictive programming that is in Good Will Hunting.

“Working class Catholics” should be a movie title 😂

also there's never a girl as hot as Minnie anywhere NEAR a boston bar.

"i know what you ah, ok" is not boston accent. it's "i know whatchou arrrok" - you have to connect the vowels with consonants.

the gritty irish bars and ben's sweatsuit are dead on 1970s Boston. also the skullies (tam o'shanters) that's exactly what boston looked like

I know that the Irish had a tough time then.

Yeah, they escaped to suppress those who became marginalized.