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7 de jun. de 2021 · Aaron Sorkin: 11 of Aaron Sorkin’s Best Screenplays. Written by MasterClass. Last updated: Jun 7, 2021 • 4 min read. American screenwriter, playwright, and director Aaron Sorkin is known for his quick-witted dialogue and rousing monologues.
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31 de oct. de 2023 · Probably best known for his primetime drama The West Wing, the sound of a Sorkin screenplay is unmistakable—witty, fast-talking dialogue or monologue, intelligent-but-acerbic male protagonists, and morality tales with politically liberal messages.
- A Few Good Men
- The West Wing
- The Trial of The Chicago 7
- Molly’s Game
- Moneyball
- The Social Network
- The Newsroom
Having scraped by in New York City as an actor and playwright while working odd jobs for years — his hard work eventually paid off. His first play was staged at his alma mater, which was followed by Hidden in This Picture, which debuted in an off-off-Broadway basement theatre bar. The quality of his first two plays helped him land a theatrical agen...
The West Wingwas Sorkin’s second foray into television after Sports Night. The West Wingcarried on the tradition of rapid-fire dialogue from the latter. The long shots of characters walking from one location of the wing to another while talking excitedly became the show’s signature style. Most of the action takes place inside of the Oval Office and...
Sometimes, the timing isn’t right until it is. The Trial of the Chicago 7 is no different. Sorkin wrote the screenplay in 2007 with Steven Spielberg initially attached to direct. Then the WGA Strike hit and Spielberg dropped out over budget concerns. The script waited for its turn, gaining heat then getting cold again until Spielberg saw Sorkin’s d...
Molly’s Game is Aaron Sorkin’s directorial debut and was adapted from the 2014 memoir of the same name by the real-life protagonist, Molly Bloom. The narrative is told through her perspective with voiceover. The fast-paced action is broken up by interrogations and legal dealings, all the hallmark staples of a Sorkin screenplay. Sorkin has proven to...
Moneyball was originally written bySteven Zaillian, who has written iconic works such asSchindler’s List,Mission: Impossible,Gangs of New York, to name a few. The screenplay was adapted from Michael Lewis’s nonfiction book Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game. Sorkin was hired to rewrite the script, but he would only agree with Zaillan’s bl...
Sorkin received a fourteen-page book proposal from Ben Mezrich’s publisher for his 2009 book The Accidental Billionaires and said yes on page three. “It was the fastest I said yes to anything.” What attracted him to the story wasn’t necessarily the invention aspect or the fame, but the relationships between the main players. The loyalty and distrus...
If you read the pilot for The Newsroom, titled We Just Decided To, you’ll notice that the famous opening monologue is missing. Jeff Daniels spoke with GQ Magazine and said that Aaron approached him two weeks before the shoot. They couldn’t just talk about what happened, they had to show what happened when Daniels’s character Will McAvoy delivers a ...
27 de abr. de 2023 · The New York-born screenwriter, Aaron Sorkin, is one of the most prolific of his time. His penmanship is marked by a shrewd feel and sense for real-time scenes and zany, rapid-flowing dialogue exchanges between characters.
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Sorkin has gone on to write for many movies and TV shows. Besides A Few Good Men (1992) , he has written The American President (1995) and Malice (1993) , as well as cooperating on Enemy of the State (1998) , The Rock (1996) and Excess Baggage (1997) .
