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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Replying to @TomKhruisehchev
Imagine after 14 years he knows the subject better than most. In 1968 Sorkin was a 7 year old.
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Replying to @Truth_Quest30
Again: a man who had established himself as a leading figure in political pop culture and had never heard of one of the most famous political events of the famously political 1960s.
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Replying to @TomKhruisehchev
So are you also an expert on the Weather Underground, Bill Ayers, his wife Bernardine Dohrn, and her praise for Manson family murders? 60s radicals were a strange bunch. Ayers & Dohrn adopted
@chesaboudin because his parents, comrades of theirs, went to prison for murder.pic.twitter.com/NGGYomKYLW
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Replying to @Truth_Quest30 @chesaboudin
Yes, I am fully aware of all of these things. Not sure what that has to do with Aaron Sorkin being a hack uniquely unqualified to tell this story about the New Left, though.
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Replying to @TomKhruisehchev @chesaboudin
You may not like the guy (not really a fan,but liked Social Network) but a
@variety thinks it's a good movie that takes the Chicago 7's side. Even if it is written by a rich limousine liberal. Guess limousine Marxist@KatrinaNation was too busy to write it https://variety.com/2020/film/reviews/the-trial-of-the-chicago-7-review-aaron-sorkin-sacha-baron-cohen-eddie-redmayne-1234781640/ …1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
The approval of Owen Gleiberman does not move me.
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