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re: Aaron Sorkin has always used literary license
Posted by: waterfall 01:37 pm EDT 04/02/23
In reply to: re: Aaron Sorkin had no respect for Harper Lee' why would he for Alan Jay Lerner and TH White? - NewtonUK 10:51 am EDT 04/02/23

Sorkin often writes thing that are "wrong", in the interests of a bigger picture. It doesn't necessarily have anything to do with his beliefs.

Case in point: the finale of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip featured the producer, alone in his theater. The last thing he does before he leaves is to turn OFF the ghost light. Anyone who has ever worked in a theater knows that you turn ON the ghost light on the way out. Sorkin surely knows this - but 90% of America does not.

Given that, turning on the light made more sense.
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re: Aaron Sorkin has always used literary license
Posted by: Chazwaza 08:10 pm EDT 04/02/23
In reply to: re: Aaron Sorkin has always used literary license - waterfall 01:37 pm EDT 04/02/23

I'm not sure the one case that can be made is that turning the ghost light off made more sense... i think it's kind of lazy, and a good director would also have been able to see turning it on and walking out in a way that felt like an end, in a beautiful way.

I don't remember the end of the show, but I bet there is an even better way to end it that makes actual sense in the context of the world the characters are in. Turning off the lights of the writers room, for example, or the work lights of the theater, or unplugging the countdown-to-show clock, whatever it is.
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