Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the smartest of them all? You are. That’s why you’re writing the script – I hope – because you believe in its potential excellence. And in the beginning, this confidence is easy. You have enough passion and excitement to fill the National Mall as you speak from your pulpit at The Lincoln Memorial to rally your inner troops. The problem occurs months later. You battled in the trenches doing story and character research, outlining the screenplay, and now you’re stuck somewhere in the second act. It’s all just a big nightmare mess. Your…

Screenplay Genre: Drama Movie Time: 126 minutes 1. INCITING INCIDENT Professor Gerald Lambeau (Stellan Skarsgard) catches Will Hunting (Matt Damon) writing on a chalkboard that contains a math problem Lambeau worked on for two years. He follows Thinking Will is guilty of graffiti, Lambeau follows Will down the hall, but Will eludes him. When Lambeau returns to the problem on the board, however, he is astonished to discover that Will has actually solved the problem. (00:14:00)