Episode 58: A Few Good Men

Beyond the Screenplay

Michael Tucker

Tv & Film

4.7 • 626 Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2020

⏱️ 81 minutes

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The LFTS team discusses A Few Good Men’s ostentatious character intros, the complexities of Aaron Sorkin’s dialogue, and what makes Col. Jessep such an intimidating villain.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Michael and welcome to Beyond the Screenplay.
0:08.9	Today we are talking about a few good men, the 1992 film directed by Rob Reiner, screenplay by Aaron Sorkin, based on his play of the same name.
0:18.2	I'm joined by the lessons from the Screenplay team, Trisha Arand.
0:21.6	Hello, everybody.
0:22.5	Brian Bittner.
0:23.3	Hello, hello.
0:23.9	And Alex Coyotes.
0:25.2	Hi.
0:25.9	So my first question for you guys is, do you guys remember how we came to be making a video for
0:35.0	Lessons from the Screenplay about a few good men?
0:37.3	Because I cannot remember how it started. Tricia. Yeah, that's... came to be making a video for a lesson from the screenplay about a few good men, because I
0:37.6	cannot remember how it started.
0:39.4	Tricia.
0:40.5	Yeah, that's on me.
0:43.1	It was a regular pitch during just like a meeting where we were taking new pitches.
0:48.1	I don't know why I thought of it.
0:49.3	I mean, this is one of my favorite movies, and I've probably seen it.
0:52.6	It feels like 20 times.
0:56.3	But I thought it was really interesting how, like, well contained the climaxes. And of course, as a courtroom drama,
1:04.3	we expect that. And I just thought it was a really interesting example of essentially what is a final battle, which is, you know,
1:12.6	and how we ended up talking, what sort of the framework we used to talk about it in the video.
1:17.0	I don't know. I didn't, it wasn't meant to be like just like sort of a softball right into your
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