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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 Oct 2020

    1. Speaking of Sacha Baron Cohen, I'll confess that I was partly wrong in anticipating the worst from Sorkin's Chicago 7 movie (where Cohen plays Abbie Hoffman). I thought Sorkin's earnest liberalism would completely miss the anarchic spirit of 1960s.

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      2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 Oct 2020

        2. Sorkin is the most 1990s sensibility imaginable, a real distillation of a kind of Clintonian politics that idealizes elite comity. The Chicago 7 trial was the most 1960s event possible -- a moment where the revolt against racism & imperialism destroyed comity.

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      3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 Oct 2020

        3. But it's that tension between Sorkin's politics and the politics of the Chicago 7 defendants (not to mention Bobby Seale) that makes the movie worth watching. It's interesting to see how Sorking grapples with the gap & tries to do justice to people who give him the willies

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      4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 Oct 2020

        4. Having said that, the main way Sorkin deals with 1960s radicals is to sanitize and Sorkinism them. The Yippies come off as scruffy Democratic operatives with long hair and everyone talks with that blustery Sorkin voice.

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      5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 Oct 2020

        Jeet Heer Retweeted sean

        5. As I've said before, the most striking thing is the actual court transcripts of Chicgo 7 trial are much, much funnier than Sorkin's script. Actual trial was close to Marx Brothers, Sorkin turned it into 12 Angry men. Here's a sample.https://twitter.com/DilettanteryPod/status/1318792997643808770 …

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        This is so good pic.twitter.com/NDP3MqtgjZ
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      6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 Oct 2020

        6. In real life, Abbie Hoffman did a lot of trolling by attacking his namesake Judge Julius Hoffman. Abbie said the judge was “Shande fur de Goyim" which he hilariously translated as “front man for the WASP power elite.” Imagine not using that.

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      7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 Oct 2020

        7. Some more thoughts on The Trial of the Chicago 7, which is pretty decent as entertainment but not good history.https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/chicago-7-trial-film/ …

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      1. Thomas Paine  ✊ 🇺🇦‏ @TomPaineToday 21 Oct 2020
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        ya, the movie was quite good. very well done

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      2. Skip Intro‏ @pglover 21 Oct 2020
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        It’s actually quite good. A trial movie works with Sorkin-isms because characters really do soliloquies during trials.

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      2. constans‏ @constans 21 Oct 2020
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        Sasha Baron Cohen is such a good actor that he can improve the underlying material

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      3. Greg Chernack, CEO, Four Seasons Total Landscaping‏ @GChernack 21 Oct 2020
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        Highly recommend the spy on Netflix.

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