DP/30: The Social Network, screenwriter Aaron Sorkin

[Silverwire100]

Aaron Sorkin is a plagiarist. He has stolen many other screenwriters' work, including THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT and THE WEST WING.

[collectivevolution]

YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!!! Of what really happened with Mark and the lawsuits...

[WestWing2008]

Excellent. This is one of the best interviews Mr. Sorkin has done for TSN. He usually just repeats the same answers, but this interview got into some other issues. I liked hearing about AFGM and working with Rob Reiner.

[asintnegral]

This was great. But was there more that got cut off at the end?

[fahnon]

Very educational. I loved his honest annoyance/defense at the idea that he fabricated parts of the story in The Social Network. Loved even more hearing a bit about his process, which mirrors in a lot of ways the instruction of Robert McKee. I bet a lot of great artist (not just writers) have a similar process. Well done.

[Silverwire100]

@fahnon

Ironically, Aaron Sorkin is a plagiarist. He has stolen many other screenwriters' work, including THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT and THE WEST WING.

See my channel for evidence.

[pchiekrie]

@Silverwire100 they said the same about Zuckerberg and facebook, it's not the inventor that matters but the visionary who has the genius to carry it through and give it wings.

[Silverwire100]

@pchiekrie

Legally and morally, the inventor of an idea MATTERS. When Aaron Sorkin stole William Richert's script and refused to give him ANY credit, this was not an act or "genius". Rather, it was an act of greed.

[pchiekrie]

@Silverwire100 absolutely, the number of great projects he's been a part of he could not have had any talent with any of them, I mean the founders of My______ were there first with a great idea. They should have 500 million users and billions of dollars not MarkZuck. Hey I run a SN website it only has a few hundred users. M Zuckerberg stole that idea and brought none of his soul to it. I'm a struggling website designer and talented dude. That douche bag. I'm so jealous of his success.

[Silverwire100]

@pchiekrie

What you're saying is contradictory. You have not explained how Aaron Sorkin is in the right for stealing another writer's work and passing it off as his own. He read THE PRESIDENT ELOPES prior to "writing" THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT. He stole William Richert's script. He should be punished by law.

[thestoneagepodcast]

@Silverwire100

Yes, Aaron Sorkin stole from William Richerts Script. The studio bought the rights to William Richert's script, and Aaron Sorkin might possibly have read it. However, it doesn't matter. Why? Because the studio owned the rights to the script, they could do whatever they wanted to with it! I'm a screenwriter myself and yes sometimes you sell scripts that get changed by the studios, tough shit. Apparently, he didn't read the contract when he signed over his screenplay to the studio.

[thestoneagepodcast]

@Silverwire100 Even so, @pchiekrie was right, a script is not an idea in and of itself, ergo William Richert could not invent it. By Aaron Sorkin writing a similar script even based on a similar concept (which Richert himself probably got from various books) as the formers he is still creating something anew. "a guy who builds a nice chair doesn't owe money to everyone who ever has built a chair" Hence, why similarity is the quality of LIKENESS not BEING THE SAME AS.

[Silverwire100]

@pchiekrie

Aaron Sorkin didn't do any real work at all on THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT. He merely stole William Richert's script. He profited on someone else's hard work.

[lucas27]

A genius, truly.