Aaron Sorkin

Close Up

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4.1 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Aaron Sorkin’s writing style is iconic – dialogue is quippy, fast-paced, and robust – the kind you got in West Wing, Newsroom, and Sports Night. And Sorkin gives us all of that in his latest film – Being the Ricardos – a Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz biopic for which both Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem are nominated for Oscars this season. Host Kelley Carter sits down with the writer/ director Aaron Sorkin to talk about what makes this biopic different from the Lucille Ball biopic you might expect, why he made the Kidman casting choice (it was a controversial one), and how script writing is both thrilling and agonizing all at the same time. Then, Senior Culture Critic for Andscape, Soraya McDonald, and award-winning poet, essayist, and cultural critic Kimberly Reyes, join Kelley to talk about what they thought of the film, and their feelings on the controversy from the Critics Choices Awards – spoiler: they’re not happy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Tonight, siblings will squabble, couples will clash, bodies will brawl, over dominoes.
0:06.2	When the doorbell rings, the only thing you'll hear is betrayal.
0:09.9	Because the best brings out the worst in us.
0:12.6	Dominoes, tearing loved ones apart since 1985.
0:17.9	Cause a commotion tonight with a tasty trio deal.
0:20.6	Large pizza, classic side and a drink, only 1999.
0:25.0	In 12th November 23, delivery charges may apply, TZC dominoes.com.uk.
0:30.5	Welcome to Close Up, I'm Kelly Carter, and man, do I love a TV lover.
0:39.2	Aaron Sorkin, I feel it's safe to say, is a TV lover.
0:44.0	I mean, only a TV lover would make a film about TV, am I right?
0:49.3	Aaron wrote and directed this season's Oscar nominated
0:52.7	Lucille Ball and Desi Arne as biopic, being the Ricardos, and honestly,
0:57.2	this film feels exactly like a Sorkin TV show.
1:00.4	You got it, it's plain.
1:01.5	You're being funny.
1:02.3	I'm Lucille Ball, and I'm being funny, you'll know.
1:04.7	We get his signature style, lots of juicy, snappy, robust dialogue that's really well thought out.
1:11.8	And that's something that he mastered in his iconic TV shows.
1:14.6	So what you've just described is impossible.
1:17.5	Only if you think an overwhelming majority of Americans are pre-tenant,
1:20.6	not really stupid, I don't, and if you let me, I can prove it.
1:24.8	But if somehow you miss the West Wing or the newsroom,
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