Aaron Sorkin - 'Molly's Game'

Awards Chatter

Scott Feinberg

Tv & Film, Film Interviews

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2017

⏱️ 78 minutes

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On the occasion of his first foray into directing, the greatest screenwriter of the last 25 years — for screens small ('The West Wing') and big ('The Social Network') — opens up about his unlikely journey from actor/bartender to writer, dissects his strengths (dialogue) and weaknesses (story) and opens up about past controversies (drugs, the Sony hack) and criticsms (how he handles female characters). But first: THR reviews editor Jon Frosch joins Scott to discuss critics' feelings about 2017 films, including how he and other members of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association recently arrived at their picks for the 43rd LAFCA Awards. Credits: Hosted by Scott Feinberg, recorded and produced by Matthew Whitehurst. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi everyone and thank you for tuning in to episode 191 of awards chatter, The Hollywood Reporters Awards
0:13.8	podcast. I'm the host Scott Feinberg and my guest today is for my
0:17.7	money the greatest screenwriter for screens big and small of the last 25 years at least. During that time span he wrote a
0:25.9	few good men, malice, the American president, sports night, the West Wing, Studio
0:30.6	60 on the Sunset Strip, Charlie Wilson's War, the Social Network, Moneyball, the newsroom, Steve
0:35.7	Jobs, and now Molly's game, which also marks his very impressive directorial debut.
0:41.4	And I would venture to say that there is nobody who can match those credits
0:44.8	within that time span. The average Joe or Jane doesn't know the names or work of
0:49.7	many writers but they know the name Sorkin and they know it's synonymous with quality and style.
0:55.5	His style of exploring provocative moral dilemmas through smart and fast-paced dialogue, soaring
1:00.9	speeches, and romantic idealism. Heck, at this point his last name has even been turned
1:05.9	into a verb with eyes as a suffix. Of course, I'm talking about the truly extraordinary Aaron
1:12.0	Sorkin.
1:13.0	But first I was joined at the offices of the Hollywood reporter by John Frush,
1:16.3	THR's reviews editor who oversees our stable of critics,
1:19.5	among them Todd McCarthy for film,
1:20.9	Tim Goodman for TV, and David Rooney for Theater, and also
1:24.4	reviews films himself. Frost previously spent a number of years in Paris,
1:28.0	first as an online editor and contributing writer at the International Herald Tribune and
1:31.9	then at France 24 where he ultimately became
1:34.2	film editor and critic.
1:36.0	He also contributed criticism to the Atlantic, the Village Voice, and other major publications
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