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pooka_madness

I told many, many people

Dec 21, 2005 13:45

So for no other reason than Because Its Wednesday, allow me to ask: what the Hell happened to Aaron Sorkin?

For no particular reason A Few Good Men keeps showing up on my premium cable channels, mostly during the week, after 10:00 at night, presumably under the rationale that no one is watching. I'm watching, obviously, but generally because there ( Read more... )

because it's wednesday, fanboy squee

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playinggodagain December 21 2005, 20:11:09 UTC

I never knew who this Sorkin person was before your little rant here ( ... )

pooka_madness December 22 2005, 03:46:35 UTC

I didn't mean to imply I didn't enjoy the earlier part of the movie, just that it wasn't particularly enthralling. Entertaining, yes. Good, even. But none of it grabs me the way the action of the trial does.

The thing is, nowadays when I watch the movie, a lot of the stuff in that part sounds off. Not so much the things you quoted, but a lot of the quips and barbs traded by Cruise and Moore resonate really weirdly in my ears. Because they're so clearly early West Wing dialogue, only the tempo is too slow, and the actors are wrong -- it should be Allison Janney and Bradley Whitford, or Martin Sheen, or Rob Lowe.

playinggodagain December 22 2005, 05:42:16 UTC

But West Wing came after A Few Good Men.

pooka_madness December 22 2005, 14:13:11 UTC

Yes, yes that's true.

Totally beside the point, but true.

yeppiagree December 21 2005, 20:22:36 UTC

I have a friend who was interning in the casting offices at NBC in New York, and she tells me that Sorkin is indeed making a pilot but without any input by NBC. The way he figures it, according to her, is that if they want his shows so badly, he can go off and do whatever he wants and then when it's finished they can take a look at it themselves and air it. She's read the script but I asked her not to tell me what it's about. All I can recall is that Felicity Huffman is specifically in it as herself. So don't worry, he's working.

pooka_madness December 22 2005, 03:49:59 UTC

Felicty "Dana Whitaker" Huffman?!

Superb. Thanks for passing that along.

demiurgent December 21 2005, 20:53:02 UTC

NEW! SORKIN! TELEVISION! SHOW! NEXT! YEAR!

"Studio Seven on the Sunset Strip."

It's Sorkin/Schlamme doing their magic behind the scenes at an SNL clone, a la Sports Night.

http://imdb.com/title/tt0485842/ has some sketchy details. NBC picked it up already, and are going to dump a lot of money into it (and already have dumped a lot of money into Sorkin. That's right. NBC. The ones who forced Sorkin off the West Wing. They've seen how WW has hemorrhaged ratings, and now they're going back to the go-to kid.)

2006. We will have long shots of people walking through hallways while bantering. We will have banter between the sexes that amounts to "smart funny people get laid more than you do." We will have a clear viewpoint character who will be younger and idealistic and who needs an older, sagelike presence to temper him.

And Josh Molina will have a job after WW gets cancelled.

:-D pooka_madness December 22 2005, 03:48:37 UTC

Good to know, thank you for the update.

I knew as I was posting this rant that if you read it you would understand.