Sorkinisms - A Supercut 

Time to add newsroom? ;P

Social Network and Charlie Wilson's War are well written. The Steve Jobs film is decent as a dialogue film. That movie is a perfect example of how Sorkin can make conversation contain all the tension needed for an audience to feel invested. Nonetheless, a lot of the content he has made is trite lol.

@@drlca6601 At least he has written. And for that we are all thankful!

@@drlca6601 Throwing rocks is cheap and easy. Try uncovering beauty - that's _much_ more interesting.

@@WillBravoNotEvil true and yet valid criticism is also the driving force of many of the beautiful things we see.

Apt given his penchant for self-insertion (apologies if my writing seems pretentious - I think I've been watching too many Sorkin clips)

+Kyle Burbank Same here. "You can complain about memory or you can complain about price, but you can't do both at the same time" or the line about creating the universe and how he did it already appeared on TWW S04E01/02 :P

YES! That was pretty early on in the movie, and I saw it coming as soon as he started talking. I said it along with him and my husband looked at me like i was crazy.

His daughter also said "not for nothing but..."

Steve Jobs would have been a better movie with someone other than Michael Fassbender.

@@tiaaaron3278 Agreed. Fassbender's a talented actor but the role just wasn't for him.

+Andres Meza Valdes Really?

+Richard Strong I'd post a reply, but I've already moved on to other things in my head.

***** Okay... But you just posted a reply so you clearly haven't moved on.

+Richard Strong It's not the lighting, it's analogue.

+Robin Gray It's shot on 35mm film and not digital video.

I seem to remember his dialogue without knowing I'd done it and find myself using Sorkinisms in conversations all the time! Why not? If your going to get someones attention it's wise to use the finest words to accomplish that goal. Thanks Aaron If I ever met the man I'd be forced to ask him what the hell is up with you and three things that all mean the same thing? 😂

Seth rogan - Steve jobs

@@jimmy2k4o I'm pretty sure Rogan wasn't Steve Jobs (Steve Wozniak IMS) 😉

@@smokerjim pretty sure they meant it was in the movie steve jobs

@@blew1t thanks - re-reading my comment it did look a bit rude / snarky.

I feel like "un oeuf is un ouef" is actually wittier but I'm not Aaron Sorkin.

Yeah, that and also the "levitate the Pentagon" thing from the Newsroom and Chicago 7

Also, it had a "don't be ridiculous" in it ("don't be ridiculous, they've already phoned the DOJ" - or whatever it was), AND a "that's nothing compared to the contempt which my government has for me", which I'm pretty sure was in WW, though not in this compilation - maybe this was the first time he re-used that line.

Yep.

@@owenthomas6337 Lionel Tribbey says something like this - "Which is nothing compared to the contempt I will have if this keeps happening!"

You’re really quite something

@@Toribot ya think?!?

The egg joke is in newsroom too…

Just saw Being The Ricardos. Nicole Kidman does that throughout

How did you cut your hand, Josh?

ya think

Yeah, it truly must be said. Aaron Sorkin knows how to recycle.

Yeah but this is probably the same with every director. Every one has his own style and favourite lines

That said, the dude knows how to recycle.

Said it to must how be, recycle the dude knows how.

😂

Oh, hell yes. Go outside, turn around three times and SPIT!

@@geofffleming12 and curse!

good one

Joe Zaydon I didn’t know you couldn’t feed chicken... to the chicken...

buckaa, buck b-b-b-b-bucka

@@LloydWaldo DON'T FISH EAT OTHER FISH???? THE MARLINS AND THE TROUT??!!

or just download all scripts from sorkin on the internet

oh no.. he just searched for same keywords in subtitle files and made a note of timings and then edited and glued them together. hell of a task but way too much systematic.

Believe it or not there are enterprise media services which provide transcripts of everything said on television by everyone all the time. They even allow you to grab the video of the words being spoken. That’s how they find clips of people contradicting themselves so much.

Please post these softwares that transcribes quotes from movies/TV/media!!

@@hernerwerzog1278I was actually looking for something like this for a very long time. They are few and far between for personal end users. I think if you search for "Peter Fonda Picking Blueberries" or "Strawberries" (I did this when I searched for the film from which a Norm MacDonald quote) you might find one service that exists but is still in development. I know they were transcribing films and video content to text, and allowing dialogue / vocalised moments in films to searched like text. I remember doing it. I just don't recall the name of the service. What I do remember is they were in development, and not just as enterprise software but for personal users. It's gotta be one of the next step in scrubbing video, so to speak. But fundamentally necessary and important.

You bet your ass!

Y

West wing was so good

+Fr. Victor Feltes You think?

Really?

And Okeys

Maybe both. She delivered her lines extremely well and so did John Spencer.

I think an excellent case can be made that John and Stockard are the two best actors in this piece.

I think most of them delivered, most of the time.

*You're just biased.*

She really did. There is no game. I enjoyed her delivery on a total another level.

Your mum doesn t treat u like other people

Can you make a program to compare scripts? (The problem the lines are not identical in both scripts)

well, that was predictable.

* back of the head slap*

You think?

Was that supposed to be funny?

Buck-buck-bu-caaaaaaaa!

Oh you bet

I know. So untrue IMO

DysnomiaFilms Except Jack Bauer.

Dammit! You're wrong!

DysnomiaFilms "What do you suggest we do with the river?" "Dam it!"

Dammit Janet!

+RogersBase Hey Roger! What if Aaron Sorkin directed One Piece?

You think?

Did not think I'd run into Rogersbase comment on a video from 2012

From Sam Seaborn: "Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright."

And T.S. Eliot wrote, “Good writers borrow, great writers steal.” a long time ago....

​@@Johnboydownunder A great writer to steal from!

Its funny how we get taken in by words as if they are so sincere. Seeing this makes me realize how much people idolize people that are saying someone else's words.

@@Johnboydownunder "Great writers take inspiration. Bad writers steal." --Me. Fuck Sorkin.

Ya think?

Love the common english idiom of making chicken noises

Really?

Not for nothin', but...

Don’t talk to me like I’m other people!

Yah....while some of those made me do a double take, the you think one is lame. People use that phrase all the time. The fact that it's used in more than one show by the same person doesn't make it any kind of -ism.

Maybe because most of his movies are biopic of real people, like Mark Zuckerberg, Molly Bloom, Steve Jobs and Charlie Wilson?

Agreed. Few Good Men is real characters, West Wing was the same person putting on different costumes and talking to themselves,

The participles dangled, the dialogue became snappier.

Oh *you think?*

Which is why I watched all of these, and the Newsroom, too, and the lines were still perfect in each setting, and never felt or sounded “recycled.” It takes just as much creativity and genius to do that.

+alejandroalartiz Clearly you havent seen these shows

Yes. Most work conversations in the state of Wisconsin contain "you bet" and "hey" in them.

...is "hey" not a thing people say outside of Wisconsin?

David Lewis

Well OK, maybe Minnesota too

"You bet" is common enough, but "You think?!" is a definite Sorkinism. He's not the only writer that uses it, but he uses it more than any other writer (that I'm aware of, anyway).

virtualpigmaster to be fair, he was on cocaine for about 10 years in there. And he has written more televisions scripts than almost anyone in history.

@@LloydWaldo Also to be fair, he was writing one of the Sportsnight seasons at the same time as the West Wing. The Stackhouse Filibuster episode of WW was structurally identical to an episode of Sportsnight where some unknown takes Pete Sampras to five sets, and no one can go home until it's over, so they all start writing emails to their families. It was pretty brazen at times, but ... what with the whole two series at once thing, and enough cocaine to kill a small horse...