How to Write Great Dialogue with Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin

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In this video, learn How to Write Great Dialogue like Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin!
Aaron Sorkin is an award-winning screenwriter, playwright, television writer, actor, television producer, and film director.
Aaron Sorkin’s screenwriting credits include The Social Network, A Few Good Men, The West Wing, The Trial of the Chicago 7, and Molly’s Game.
Sorkin started acting before discovering his passion for screenwriting, this passion started when his parents took him to watch plays as a child and Sorkin loved listening to the dialogue. Hence why his screenplays are now known for being dialogue intense, The Social Network is an example of this.
In 1992 A Few Good Men was released to the big screen, making Aaron Sorkin a major Hollywood player in the film industry.
If you are a screenwriter or filmmaker looking for tips on how to tell a story, then you've come to the right place!
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@ScreenwritersNetwork 2 жыл бұрын

Screenwriting tips from the master of dialogue! What screenwriter/filmmaker would you like us to cover?👇

@user-mt6hr4qf9n Жыл бұрын

I love this channel - some filmmakers/screenwriters I'd love to see you cover: Michael Haneke, Andrea Arnold, Coen Brothers, Roy Andersson, Mike Leigh, Lynne Ramsay ... some TV writers too: Vince Gilligan + Peter Gould, Sally Wainright, David Chase, Alan Bennett, Nic Pizzolatto.Thanks again for a wonderful channel!

@pal54321 Жыл бұрын

Darabont, the master

@moniquedurant2289 Жыл бұрын

Odenkirk

@marknewbold2583 Жыл бұрын

Yorgi

@Claudg2008 11 ай бұрын

David E. Kelly, Fréderic Raphael, and Joseph L. Mankiewicz (if you find someone to evaluate him)

@JustSomeCanadianGuy Жыл бұрын

The key to Sorkin dialog is to have a dumb character say something and have the other character have the absolute most perfect retort a human being could possibly come up with.

@alexandersargeaunt2643 8 ай бұрын

Another way of putting it is to have one character come into the conversation with the upper hand. The point of it all is to reveal who has the upper hand. And what I love about Sorkin, is that he often has his main characters lose these battles.

@benrosn8154 8 ай бұрын

Yo, damn, you just figure it out this man's whole career

@ginc31 6 ай бұрын

congrats, you just found out the key for 99% of the scripts lmao

@missajimas675 5 ай бұрын

Wow good advice 👍🏼

@hinduismwithpremananddasbhagat Жыл бұрын

I've heard this bit of advice from others - to act the dialogue while writing it. I started doing that years ago. It changed how I wrote. If you're writing a monologue and out of breathe and bored in your living room, than no reason to think your audience isn't going to be bored. LOL I haven't written many plays, and am more focused on fiction. I do this with fiction now. I go through a character's lines and read them like a play, ignoring the rest of the writing. I recommend doing this. ....... I have a friend who wrote a novel I read a draft of last summer. I swear he didn't read the dialogue out loud. Everyone spoke the same, nothing was realistic, things were horrible. Everything sounds good in your head. Read it out loud and see how it really sounds.

@laluenbaires Жыл бұрын

After watching "The trial of the Chicago 7" I thought "THIS is storytelling!" What a genius.

@kadeemk4679 Жыл бұрын

Same literally watched it for the first time last night

@QuintonKappel Жыл бұрын

The way he layers things is incredible. Steve Jobs is also exquisitely composed.

@theexpresidents 6 ай бұрын

Weird, TotC7 is the only script I thought was mediocre.

@ObnoxiouslyFrench 2 жыл бұрын

Ducking the soundtrack under the dialogue would have been a great idea. Even more so on a video about dialogue and Sorkin's emphasis over the actual sound of dialogue.

@RattledPan 2 ай бұрын

TY! I have hearing aids, which I can Bluetooth to my monitor. I'm mostly deaf, so if I hear something weird, I tend to look for a source outside of a film I am watching that sounds very out of place. That said, I can't pee on much of anything else. The film, editing, the flow, were all top notch.

@oldsoul3576 11 ай бұрын

Sorkin & Sheridan should do Writers on Writers (Actors on Actors), that would be priceless. i'd love to watch those two...and he is write about dialog being Music. my youngest son & i had this conversation yesterday about him taking up Hebrew, he could hear me smiling as I said non-English languages were like Music to my ears as a lil kid and it still was. He knew i spoke some Spanish/Italian as a child not how much. Growing up i spent just as much if not more time in the homes of Jewish, Italian, Spanish, Korean, Middle Eastern, et al family/friends/neighbors as my own, got to live with the World because 1-by-1 bordered w/families like my grandparents to attend/work at/visit Howard Unv/Freedmans Hosp because back then they couldn't stay in hotels

@theexpresidents 6 ай бұрын

Who the fuck is Sheridan?

@baylee8659 2 жыл бұрын

Hey this was delightful, thank you very much for making this.

@adamtheblondie Жыл бұрын

this is a treasure trove of screenwriting

@johnphares3358 10 ай бұрын

This was exactly what I needed to hear. Thank you. Amazing channel.

@judichristopher4604 Ай бұрын

"BRAVO Darling... BRAVO"

@M2BzombieBait Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the upload. I really needed the inspiration. Wrote my first feature length film and after a couple of drafts the dialogue is still trash. This gives me some new ways of attacking each scene. Thank you!

@ClarkPotter Жыл бұрын

Have ChatGPT rewrite parts you don't like in the style of Sorkin ;)

@ladyheroin.v4143 Жыл бұрын

@@ClarkPotter lame

@ClarkPotter Жыл бұрын

@Ladyheroin .v4 I don't disagree, hence the winky. It's ubiquitous use is inevitable tho, however "lame."

@ladyheroin.v4143 Жыл бұрын

@@ClarkPotter You're right. My bad

@theexpresidents 6 ай бұрын

@@ClarkPotterChat GPT will never be used for anything meaningful. Only novelty, like that episode of _South Park_ (that sucked).

@NIKONGUY1960 Жыл бұрын

Duffer Brothers. That show!!!!! Monster high on crack. So beautifully done.

@Cowgirl77Hikes Жыл бұрын

I heart Aaron Sorkin!

@Hedyeh32 Жыл бұрын

This is great. I'd love to see one with Susannah Grant and/or Steven Knight. Thank you!

@mxjokereh 2 жыл бұрын

This video is so great man, keep it up !

@ScreenwritersNetwork 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much :)

@jq8974 Жыл бұрын

I'm in my 50's, just a little younger than Aaron, and studied acting and directing (theatre & film) in the 90's. Everyone was enamored with Mamet in the 80's with his direct, terse, tough talking characters constantly interrupting one another. It was ALL dialogue. Knowing S's background after this compilation, I can certainly hear him in Sorkin. Too funny - it all makes so much sense now! But Sorkin's female characters (I'm a woman) are faaaaarrrrr superior. Much more humour and depth in his stuff, too. But Mamet definitely was an influence in Aaron's combative, interruptive, dialogue rhythm. 😉♥

@mickeyaugrec7560 Жыл бұрын

Agree - I came up on Mamet dialogue too, love the fits and starts, percussive / staccato utterances (American Buffalo; Speed-The-Plow; Sexual Perversity in Chicago; Glengarry Glen Ross). And Mamet pretty much cannot write women; Oleanna was practically two different plays between Act 1 and Act 2. To Mamet's credit, the great Charlotte Rampling's character in movie The Verdict (as well the ex-nurse character Kaitlyn Costello Price) had something of an identifiable-to-strong arc.

@theexpresidents 6 ай бұрын

@@mickeyaugrec7560Try _Boston Marriage._

@williampowell3378 Жыл бұрын

2:32 Four beats of measure

@RattledPan 2 ай бұрын

Gosh, I LOVE a YT that gets me pumped up! I'm not the jump up and dance kinda guy. No, serious. Jumping up and down because I was excited was thirty years ago. That doesn't mean the passion isn't there, it's redirected. Sometimes screaming "I love you" as I whiz by someone going fast the wrong way on a one way street. Shut up! I've never hit anyone yet and the reactions from people are worth writing down. It's not that easy to get people to react fast, blurt out what their first thought is and will share with you what they look like in a fetal position, which few dare to show. That's the type of dialogue and character action that is hard for me to write myself. I'm a Stone Pacifist. My Scandinavian side of the family considers raising their eyebrows as harsh words. I need dialogue for people's reaction after the subway just came down on the back end of their car, what would be the reaction? Probably like a car barreling at them, donchathink? I'd write more, but I feel a trip to the mall and stir up a group of shoppers. Macys is good for that. Thank you for this wonderful step into the thinking of Sorkin! Great stuff!!💋

@KP-zd3hc Жыл бұрын

I loved Newsroom :))

@paulschrum4727 Жыл бұрын

Here is some sample dialog: Wife: Do you want to see such and such a movie? Me: Did Aaron Sorkin write it? Wife: Yes. Me: Yes.

@abhijiththampi Жыл бұрын

The dialogue was too brief, Paul 😂

@benjamintaylor7950 Жыл бұрын

And it sounds like dialogue normal people would say.

@josealfredo1987 Жыл бұрын

Great vídeo, thanks

@ryanweaver962 10 ай бұрын

Arts and beyond. The scope and values… process and real life intersections with arts.

@lanceevans1689 Жыл бұрын

Just....great!

@christopherwatkins6342 2 жыл бұрын

Can you guys do one on Jordan peele

@ScreenwritersNetwork 2 жыл бұрын

Yes of course! We will cover Jordan Peele soon 🤎

@jfrancis6191 Жыл бұрын

Not sure if this will help you or not, but it certainly helped me. Remember that everyone is living under a shadow.

@KnightEnterprises 6 ай бұрын

Amazing video. Please cover Terrence Malick!!!

@ShutUpWesley 10 ай бұрын

Here I came, and I was so sure this would be another short useless KZfaq video about writing, with no substance at all... Man I was wrong. Thank you, finally a video that was useful.❤❤❤

@murrayr7703 Жыл бұрын

Considering almost all his shows and movies are trite Hollywood formula pieces I will choose to learn from the best

@jayashreechakravarthy4949 8 ай бұрын

Aaron Sorkin is head-writer. And he’s hired.

@TVproducerLA Жыл бұрын

Loved this. I’m a television producer and I’m in awe of how good scripted tv has become in the last decade plus. Would love to see more coverage of this.

@theexpresidents 6 ай бұрын

What? It's gotten worse, apart from Sorkin or certain HBO shows.

@cynthiahamil9801 Жыл бұрын

Which film maker should you cover next? (You asked this at the end of your video): Steven Spielberg, Lucas, M. Night Shyamalan

@murrayr7703 Жыл бұрын

WOW Good job you just named three awful filmmakers. Just add Scorsese, Eastwood, and Tarantino and you have the Mt Rushmore of Lowbrow Filmmakers

@tytanrosencrans3249 Жыл бұрын

⁠@@murrayr7703Hey, man. It’s okay to like popular things. I’m sure you’re cool enough deep down that you can find a distinguishing character trait outside of “Everybody else likes it, so I have to hate it.” Originality and individualism doesn’t equal contrarianism.

@murrayr7703 Жыл бұрын

@@tytanrosencrans3249 Wow so you can read minds since you know why I don't like those filmmakers. I don't know if you're aware of this but I am free to dislike what I dislike and you are not courageous for telling me that I should like what you like. You're a dimwitted fool, similar to an Eastwood or Spielberg. so I can see why you like them. There are hundreds of directors and thousands of movies. Must I like them all? I suggest you avoid commenting on things you don't understand and maybe when you grow up you will see how foolish you've bee. Just to be clear Scorcese made a couple of good movies 30 years ago, and Spielberg made 1 Jaws, and they were very popular movies and I like them silly boy. Now go help your mommy clean your room and please watch something other than the most popular.

@viviensfilms3604 Жыл бұрын

Excellent video except for the music, which is very distracting.

@howardkoor9365 Жыл бұрын

Crashing into each other..

@crazycatzmum Жыл бұрын

I fully agree. Both my screenplays we're written in one night. I was charged. Then I go back and spend a few months editing, but only to fix grammar and to make sure all objects mentioned are actually relevant and necessary as with all the words. So far only two screenplays since my BA and two years of film school. Literary agent wanted.

@theexpresidents 6 ай бұрын

Give it up.

@howardkoor9365 Жыл бұрын

👍👍👍👍

@sibusisokumalo9374 Жыл бұрын

Antoine Fuqua please

@34jared Жыл бұрын

John Weisskopf of the Aeolian Film Group, Inc. He's hanging out at the American University teaching film, these days, I think. Ask him when I'm going to get my money back. Todd.

@theelderskatesman4417 Жыл бұрын

the title is oxymoronic to the greatest possible degree

@Miki-jn4vr Жыл бұрын

Music?

@ozgurergul9693 Жыл бұрын

I can't properly hear what people are saying because the background music is too loud

@moonshinefilms Жыл бұрын

sean baker, mike leigh. vincent gallo.

@theexpresidents 6 ай бұрын

I love Sean Baker!!! His last 3 movies are top-notch indie filmmaking.

@southlondon86 Жыл бұрын

Cover James Cameron

@sallyreno6296 Жыл бұрын

Sam Mendes

@explainingpolitics Жыл бұрын

this is already what I do. But I cant bring myself to write. I think that storytellers require an audience or else they wont create anything. perhaps for other writers being your own audience is enough. Sadly I fear I wont write unless I know who Im writing to first

@theexpresidents 6 ай бұрын

Yourself.

@explainingpolitics 6 ай бұрын

@@theexpresidents bad advice

@jayashreechakravarthy4949 8 ай бұрын

Benny is hired as an assistant to Aaron.

@hughegentry8255 Жыл бұрын

Bloke can write!

@sergeybagrov8624 2 жыл бұрын

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@ScreenwritersNetwork 2 жыл бұрын

!!!!! :)

@rickved 4 ай бұрын

The video is not a semi-automatic typewriter. It's an IBM Selectric which is automatic because you don't have to use your hand to return the carriage.

@jboling513 Жыл бұрын

Mamet!

@DFMoray 8 ай бұрын

Where was the “how to” part?

@Mdautkreix Жыл бұрын

Aarambic Sorkameter, if you will.

@crazycatzmum Жыл бұрын

Nice Shakespearean play on

@ryanweaver962 10 ай бұрын

Movies matter

@Crux_Riajuu 2 жыл бұрын

Ok so what? Make a dialogue have cadence?

@user-yb8vr2ip2t Жыл бұрын

For Starters.

@Kormac80 Жыл бұрын

The music playing during the dialog in this video shows the person who made the video doesn't understand what Sorkin actually means.

@kuziokundera Жыл бұрын

To write better, you watch any scene Sorkin has ever written, and never do what he does. The man writes the perfect dialogue that would never happen in real life.

@nomecognome8737 Жыл бұрын

Yeah that's kinda true, not always, but it's true. It's cool cause it's a movie and the characters are always somehow extraordinary people even while being passed as apparantely normal, but it's just FILM DIALOGUE, not great dialogue. I think Paul Thomas Anderson is the more realistic dialogue writer, and he also manages to have great lines in doing that

@michaelr3583 Жыл бұрын

The newsroom didnt work because all of the characters sounded like they were the same person having a conversation with themselves with the same wit and cadence.

@kstrazz3552 Жыл бұрын

that literally every sorkin movie

@theexpresidents 6 ай бұрын

Cadence.

@2424rocket Жыл бұрын

The video is too short and you didn’t go into enough detail with Aaron Sorkin. It’s a nice glossy piece… But it could’ve been so much more depth. Don’t be afraid to make things longer.

@rainereece5640 Жыл бұрын

Well, sure, with Sorkin, longer would've been better, but just that 7min. 44 sec. was so nourishing, fun & insightful it made my day. As for this being a "nice, glossy piece", I dunno...I thought it was absolutely atomic! I found it interesting that he & his parents & sibs conversed, like, all the time, and everyone seemed to enjoy using words & voice to Change People's Minds." He basically work-shopped dialogue from childhood on. That's what I call great parenting! I love how Sorkin's use of language is so attuned to music & poetry. No wonder he's not enthralled when actors take liberties and ad lib. It's not that I'm anti-free speech...I'm just pro-writer 😅 Anyway, thanks for the tight video and to my fellow viewers for their comments.

@bobpowers9637 9 ай бұрын

You can do that rocket

@ZEKEDAWG23 Жыл бұрын

scorsese

@ClarkPotter Жыл бұрын

Big Sorkin fan, as I'm sure most of you are. The only problem I have with being a Sorkin fan is that all his characters just sound like him talking to himself in his head. Caught some Chicago 7 when a friend was watching it and two mins in said, this sounds like Sorkin dialogue. He's like, "What's that?" I'm like, you know, he wrote the West Wing and Social Network. He's like, how can you tell that? Well, the most obvious giveaway is that all characters sound the same and speak with an IQ of 140-160 and respond instantly to each other with clever stuff that would only occur to you the next day to have said in that moment. But really, you just watch enough knowing that it's him and it just jumps out at you eventually.

@kilgoretrout321 7 ай бұрын

Step 1. Find a great coke dealer Step 2. Snort lots of good coke Step 3. Never stop either writing dialogue or talking

@SpizawkDaKizowz Жыл бұрын

Ironic that a piece about writing has music that's too loud over the dialogue. Great writing doesn't need music to 'punch it up'.

@makoshark69x96 10 ай бұрын

ESPECIALLY BAD MUSIC !

@danieldoble669 21 күн бұрын

The background music is TOO LOUD!

@saulshennan6825 Жыл бұрын

The majority of those who want to be screenwriters and who try to be screenwriters just aren't cut out for it.

@rudetc Жыл бұрын

Narrator - "The answer....was cocaine."

@bencheshire Жыл бұрын

Oh please, give me James M Cain and then ill listen.

@richardv.7826 2 жыл бұрын

Those who came here are a special type of IQ :)

@jaysonp9426 Жыл бұрын

Forest Gump level

@douglasphillips9381 Жыл бұрын

Back ground music is driving me away.

@malloryscinematography7021 Жыл бұрын

@senzanome7801 Жыл бұрын

This video celebrates great dialogues but doesn't explain anything. So, what use?

@jayashreechakravarthy4949 8 ай бұрын

20% of the work I can do, I think. I don’t remember exactly what I asked the fact-checkers, Abhigel. I really shouldn’t care too much about that.

@kentallard8852 11 ай бұрын

I hope this is a joke, have you never seen the Sorkinisms video?

@stevewight6563 Жыл бұрын

Pretty much everything Aaron Sorkin has to say about writing and movie making is worthwhile. This would be a great video without the pointless, annoying "music," which makes it unwatchable for me. Sorry to sound like a troll. But what is this attachment to generic music-as-noise accompanying videos like this?

@timnewton62 6 ай бұрын

Very interesting content but the music you gave pumping through the whole video is sooo unnecessary IMHO

@RickAGauna Жыл бұрын

Love your site but stop with the loud music it’s annoying.

@matthewsanger6482 Жыл бұрын

It's ironic. You make a video about the Art of Dialogue, then put in wall-to-wall music mixed so loud that one can't hear what anybody's saying.

@jacobambos3885 Жыл бұрын

Aaron Sorkin's school of writing is to write a one-sided political rant and have the character representing your real life opponent look down in shame. I can't count how many times I've seen him do that.

@bigoj7917 Жыл бұрын

But it’s entertaining as hell to watch

@murrayr7703 Жыл бұрын

@@bigoj7917 Yes it is if you haven''t read a real piece of literature in your life or you find everything on Netflix is AMAZING!!

@willpeony5534 Жыл бұрын

Sort of on the same point, I've discovered from KZfaq videos that most of the great minds of the last century captured on video didn't speak like a Sorkin puppet. Very often fast talking word salad is a cover for having nothing original to say.

@murrayr7703 Жыл бұрын

@@willpeony5534 USA RIP 2023.

@jaysonp9426 Жыл бұрын

And then everyone will praise you as a great writer

@SaneSociety1 Жыл бұрын

This would have been a really great video without the needless, too-loud, over-busy background music. A shame!

@djdavehall 6 ай бұрын

To the edior: you don't need epic inspirational music, its distracting and takes away from the real content.

@Blackmuseops 27 күн бұрын

Completely agree

@thetiktokman 2 жыл бұрын

Jesus fuck, cut the background music FFS!!!

@inkwyvern5171 Жыл бұрын

It's always a funny coincidence when rich boys portray themselves as "just a poor kid down on his luck", who happens to have a friend's/relative's typewriter handy as if they're A. a common household item and B. writing is something someone poor would have the time for. Considering they're writers you'd think they'd come up with something original

@scratchy996 Жыл бұрын

I was a poor kid who had a typewriter in the house, when I was growing un in Communist Romania during the '80s. That's because my father worked in the mayor's office and he got a typewriter. Also poor people have more spare time than rich people.

@scratchy996 Жыл бұрын

@@Antonio-Gransci Rich people hustle all the time, they have to work in corporate jobs with overtime, to climb the corporate ladder. Poor people just hang out, live on social welfare , or have part time jobs and spend their time drinking beer.

@theexpresidents 6 ай бұрын

@@Antonio-GransciI'm poor, and I spend all day thinking and writing. I don't want a job, or money, because that saps creative energies. I think _you're_ the gullible one.

@ElectricLabel Жыл бұрын

Aaron Sorkin has never done anything interesting.

@jaysonp9426 Жыл бұрын

Finally found the comment that makes sense.

@SCharlesDennicon Жыл бұрын

So... Sorkin, not a big fan of improv.

@benjamintaylor7950 Жыл бұрын

I just hopped on here to laugh as Sorkins writing is insufferable (not as insufferable as people who enjoy his work).

@theexpresidents 6 ай бұрын

Was this before or after your shift at What-a-Burger?

@ethanmulvihill7177 Жыл бұрын

Really just cringe to be honest. Basically just saying "errr der something magical about GOOD dialogue" (doesn't explain how to implement or even recognize it), tells basic tips that my second grade english teacher told me, and says that if you're easily writing the dialogue you're doing it wrong. Buddy, you are not everyone, and many of the greats would disagree with you on a bunch of these subjects. Snobbery like this makes aspiring artists think that competence is unattainable and I think it's uncalled for.

@theexpresidents 6 ай бұрын

Dialogue can't be taught. You still haven't learned that? Give it up. Go ....."teach" or something.

@ethanmulvihill7177 6 ай бұрын

@@theexpresidents I've taught piano for 5 years. Not sure where your nutcase take came from. Maybe a faulty definition of the word "teach"?

@marknewbold2583 Жыл бұрын

How not to write

@maucaduto 3 ай бұрын

What's with the annoying soundtrack? Is his voice not good enough? What he says not interesting enough? I'm half way and I'm sorry, can't listen to it any longer.

@ShowCat1 4 ай бұрын

How about this... Do NOT add loud music during narration! Annoying and rediculous. Evidently you have no confidence in your narration.

@jaysonp9426 Жыл бұрын

Rule number 1 to writing great dialogue. Don't be Aaron Sorkin.

@oscarless3227 Жыл бұрын

With all due respect his Masterclass sucked. I wish they got Tarantino.

@crazycatzmum Жыл бұрын

If you don't get Sorkin you really don't belong in this craft

@oscarless3227 Жыл бұрын

@@crazycatzmum another one of those pathetic fan babies, nice. Did I say his work sucked? This masterclass sucked.

@TomEyeTheSFMguy Жыл бұрын

How did his masterclass suck?

@theexpresidents 6 ай бұрын

@@oscarless3227His actual Masterclass or this video? I liked his actual one, but Mamet's is _way_ better.

@StraLo90 Жыл бұрын

The most exhausting and pretentious dialogue there is.

@hampusheh Жыл бұрын

Sorkin's dialogue is often awful though, in my opinion. But I guess that's due to overexposure to it...

@blaisetelfer8499 Жыл бұрын

I wouldn't say the lines themselves are awful, but his scripts are definitely ones where everyone sounds the same and everyone has these constant, Hollywood-ized mic-drop moments. Sometimes it works, sometimes not. I've never been too fond of A Few Good Men, but I love Moneyball.

@hampusheh Жыл бұрын

@@blaisetelfer8499 Yeah, he's written plenty, so it's unfair to call it all awful. But Newsroom and, to be honest, The Social Network all have TERRIBLE dialogue. I can't stand the tone of those.

@TomEyeTheSFMguy Жыл бұрын

How so, asking all of you

@hampusheh Жыл бұрын

@@TomEyeTheSFMguy I don't like that smart aleck tone, I mean his characters sound all the same. It's just Aaron Sorkin all the way down. No distinction. And if he goes outside of his comfort zone, he can't hide to contempt for any character who doesn't sound like or think like Aaron Sorkin.

@TomEyeTheSFMguy Жыл бұрын

@@hampusheh how do they sound the same?