The picture hanging in Professor Thorne's office was painted by director gus van sant.
Thorne and Will are in the office. When Thorne told some funny stories about his dead wife, those lines were freely played by robin williams, which may be the reason why Matt Damon laughed so hard. The lens of the film is shaking at this time, which is also the reason.
4. The last line of the subtitle at the end of the movie reads "In memory of allen ginsberg and William S. Burroughs". They are both representatives of the "Beat Generation" writers.
Robin williams's last line in this movie, "That son of a bitch, he stole my line", was improvised by him.
6. The phone number of the construction company in the film is real, it is the phone number of a construction company located in Fort Worth, Massachusetts, USA. After graduating from high school, Matt Damon worked in this company for some time.
7. In the first classroom scene, the blackboard itself moved up and down several times.
8. The questions and answers about arrangement written on the blackboard are very basic, not the kind of questions that can bother Fields Prize winners for many years.
9. Will walked into the subway after he got out of prison. The scar left by the fight disappeared on his face, but it reappeared in the following scene.
10. In the scene where Will gets his new car, you can clearly see the microphone hidden by him in the lower right corner of the screen through the reflection of the rearview mirror.
1 1. When Will and Chuck are chatting in a bar, Chuck holds a beer can in his right hand in the first shot, but when he takes the last sip, the beer can appears on his left hand like an artifact.