Matt Damon already has more than 50 feature films in his filmography. On his birthday, we offer a quiz on eight of them. Will you have a quiz under your skin?
After dropping out of literary studies at Harvard in 1992, a young Matt Damon – who had taken acting lessons in his youth – took to the stage for the first time for the play The Speed of Darkness, which had a definite hit.
He then embarked on a cinematic adventure with a few extras, then supporting roles in Mystic Pizza alongside Julia Roberts, or Geronimo with Walter Hill, before experiencing his first respectable success in Trial by Fire, sharing posters with Meg Ryan and Denzel Washington.
But Matt Damon, who has yet to land a real lead role, decides to start writing and calls his childhood friend Ben Affleck. Together, they write the screenplay for what will become the film Will Hunting, the story of a gifted young mathematician who had a difficult childhood and whose erratic behavior leads him to see a psychologist.
The film will be directed by Gus Van Sant, and the young actor will manage to keep the main role of his own story when the studios insisted on hiring Leonardo DiCaprio. It would star the moving Robin Williams and the film would be a critical success, winning the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay and the Golden Bear in Berlin.
Will Hunting will be a real springboard for Matt Damon, who will then attach successful films and direct such great filmmakers as Steven Spielberg (Saving Ryan), Steven Soderbergh (Ocean series) or Martin Scorsese (Infiltrators).
Today, at the age of 52, Matt Damon can be proud of an already complete filmography, with more than fifty films to his credit. What we offer is a quiz where you have to try to identify eight of them using one picture.
Source: allocine
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