Aaron Sorkin: Difference between revisions

The man behind ''[[Studio 60 On the Sunset Strip]]'', ''[[Sports Night]]'' and ''[[The West Wing (TV)|The West Wing]]''. His scripts have many distinctive traits, including a dialogue style known for timing and finesse that has garnered the moniker "Sorkinese". His shows are also notorious for characters walking down hallways while [[Exposition|expositing]] at high speed.

Also has a habit of projecting [[Author On Board|his personal life]] into his shows -- duly lampooned on ''[[Saturday Night Live (TV)|Saturday Night Live]]'' (a sketch in which ''[[The West Wing (TV)|The West Wing]]'''s characters reenact Sorkin's [[Mushroom Samba|marijuana hallucinations]]).

Sorkin also wrote several plays, such as ''[[A Few Good Men]]'' and screenplays such as the film adaptation of ''A Few Good Men'', ''[[The American President]]'', ''[[Charlie Wilsons War|Charlie Wilson's War]]'', ''[[The Social Network]]'', for which he won an [[Academy Award|Oscar]] for Best Adapted Screenplay, and ''[[Moneyball]]''.