Aaron Sorkin, a man who built his career on American politics cosplay, had never even heard of the DNC '68 protests until Steven Spielberg asked him to a write the screenplay in 2006. When Sorkin was 45.https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1309289012289560577 …
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To put it mildly and charitably: If you're a contemporary American storyteller who has any interest in politics, knowledge of the American New Left, including the '68 Democratic Convention and its aftermath, is a basic necessity.
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Sorkin not knowing about the shit until he was in his 40s? There's no better word for that than "pathetic." I'm a Canadian, I was born in '78, I'm not a professional political storyteller, and I knew about it in some detail by my mid-teens.
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