Sorkinisms - A Supercut

Edited by Kevin Porter (follow me on Twitter @KevinTPorter)

This video is a tribute to the work of Aaron Sorkin: the recycled dialogue, recurring phrases, and familiar plot lines. This is not intended as a critique but rather a playful excursion through Sorkin's wonderful world of words.

Scenes taken from:

Malice
A Few Good Men
Bulworth
Sports Night
The West Wing
Studio 60
Charlie Wilson's War
The Social Network
& Tom Hanks 1993 Oscar Speech for some reason

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[Marcy Barbeau]

Is that really an oscar speech? It looks like he's talking to a college.

[Kevin Porter]

Tom Hanks is the Oscar speech. Aaron is indeed giving a commencement speech.

[dimka7g]

Good writers borrow from other writers. Great ones steal from them outright. Sorkin borrows only from Sorkin

[Kevin Porter]

Short answer: on and off 2 years. Long answer: the last 10 years of being a fan and absorbing it, listening to The West Wing while falling asleep in middle school, watching episodes over and over again. Thanks for watching!

[Michael Wille]

I have been waiting for something like this for years. I am in your debt, sir!

[Nils Franco]

with the sorkinism of "do this, don't do this, it's entirely up to you" ( 00:30 ish)

"You can go to juvie, or you can be at cosmo's, 9:00 saturday morning. It's entirely up to you"

(6:50 in /watch?v=KDu2qbZbeQg )

[Liana Kaplan]

Defiantly one of the best editing job on youtube!!! I'm waiting for an updated version with The Newsroom :)

[ddovey]

You could probably fill another seven minutes with just "the thing" alone

[mhstheatre]

Try to get all the "Don't worry about it" there's at least one in almost every other episode of all his series.

[orangeseaturtle11]

This is perfect

[Vahktang]

Somebody has a good editing sense and a love of Aaron Sorkin.

Good job.

[Omgonthe123]

Damn you!

You ruined Sorkin for me!

[Jonathan Garner]

What these scenes have in common is they're all brilliant writing, Make us happy or sad or make us like the characters more. So what if there was a little bit of recycling?.....10 years has passed between some of these clips, I'd be bound to use some powerful or memorable sentences again. But good video though.

[XubenLGen]

So, Kevin....have you been watching The News Room to see if there are Sorkinisms there? You could probably add another two minutes to this... Great job.