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
[...] What makes Hallmark’s Holiday Movies so successful is their unwavering adherence to the seemingly magical formula: Give the Audience What It Wants. While there are those who complain about the recurrence of plot points or emotional turns in Hallmark’s seasonal fare, such complaints miss the point that repetition is entirely intentional on behalf of the people making the movies. Instead of approaching Hallmark’s various holiday-centric entertainments as individual, stand-alone stories — admittedly, that is the way that Hallmark itself promotes them — far more can be gleaned by taking the movies as a whole and recognizing the patterns therein. Think of them less as repetitive one-off narratives, and more as a series of meditations on the same theme, over and over again, heading towards some ideal of holiday entertainment in the same way that Aaron Sorkin refines and reuses his earlier material as he hones it towards perfect Sorkinity. [...]