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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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. 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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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. 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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Is there a scene when Hoffman is literally like “neoliberal institutions rock”?
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also having hoffman read the names at the end instead of dellinger and ignoring the fact they also read viet-cong soldiers names was maximum cope by sorkin
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Sorkin has always tried to present those with him he disagrees in a reasonable way. Far better than most do.
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He does this for Republicans, but The West Wing is constantly misunderstanding and infantilizing Democrats to the Bartlet Administration’s left.
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I thought he set up Hayden as his surrogate, but had the grace to make him the movie's goat--aside from Hayden's prophecy about future election losses.
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