Charlie Hebdo Tribute Posters in LA Feature Nod to Ben Affleck-Matt Damon's 'Good Will Hunting' (Photos)

While Hollywood’s film and television stars were honoring the lives lost in France at the offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo inside the Golden Globe Awards, a different kind of tribute was happening outside in Los Angeles. Anonymous street artists posted a series of images throughout the Pacific Palisades and Brentwood areas of West L.A. The images featured one of Charlie Hebdo’s controversial covers framed by the words “Goodwill Hunting?”

Considering where this took place, the words appear to be a play on the title of the 1997 feature film “Good Will Hunting,” which earned co-writers Matt Damon and Ben Affleck Academy Awards. Both stars also live in the neighborhood.

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The inclusion of the words may mean more than the obvious connotation of simply seeking goodwill in light of the violent attacks. But there could be a deeper meaning as well, considering the posters come a month after Affleck got into a notable argument with Bill Maher, accusing the “Real Time” host of generalizing the Muslim world, calling his comments “gross,” “racist,” and “like saying you’re a shifty Jew.”

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The Charlie Hebdo cover featured in the posters features an Egyptian man being killed in a hale of gunfire. He is holding a copy of the Koran in front of him, with bullets ripping through it as well. The translation of the words on the cover read, “The Koran is shit” and “It can’t even stop these bullets.”

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The deadly terror attack on French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo is shocking but, sadly, not unprecedented.
1998: Novelist Salman Rushdie received death threats after the publication of his book "The Satanic Verses," which was seen by some Muslims as insulting to Muhammad.
2002: Whether because he was a journalist or American, Wall Street Journal's Daniel Pearl was beheaded by al-Qaida. The Committee to Protect Journalists reports 731 members of the media have been murdered since 1992.
2004: Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh angered Muslims with his film "Submission," which was critical of the way women are treated in Islam. He was murdered by Dutch-Moroccan Muslim Mohammed Bouyen.
2005: The Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published a number of controversial cartoons depicting the Islamic prophet Muhammad, leading to protests and violent demonstrations in some Muslim countries.
2011: CBS journalist Lara Logan was beaten and sexually assaulted while covering the celebrations in Egypt's Tahrir Square over the resignation of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak.
2014: After being threatened by Israelis in Sderot, CNN's Diana Magnay caused an uproar by calling them "scum" on Twitter. Magnay was then pulled off of her assignment near the Gaza border and reassigned to Moscow.
2013: Al Jazeera journalists Peter Greste, Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed were arrested and later convicted in Egypt of aiding and abetting the Muslim Brotherhood, receiving prison sentences ranging from seven to 10 years. While an Egyptian court has accepted the trio's appeal, the journalists were not released on bail, meaning they'll remain imprisoned until their retrial.
2014: The theatrical release of the comedy "The Interview," which depicted an assassination plot against North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, was temporarily canceled after Sony suffered a massive cyberattack, in which North Korea reportedly played a part.