Aaron Sorkin

knowing what we Americans see in them in today’s society. “Americans Success wasn’t always a foregone conclusion” as Ellis mentions grabbing the reader’s attention to the Founding Fathers. Ellis opens up the book by clarifying Alexander Hamilton’s and Aaron Burs arrival in meeting each other on July 11, 1804 close to New Jersey. He explains to readers the importance of personal prominence in the growing government. Thomas Jefferson got together with James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton in…

Hamilton Rising up to the top, Alexander Hamilton, in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s made a spectacular performance. Hamilton: The Musical, Hamilton was an orphan and was forgotten in the caribbean. He writes his way out bad situations then he started a goal to become a treasury for the government. Hamilton was made into a leader and help washington to come up with a couple of strategies for war. Burr and Hamilton’s turbulent relationship lead them to their inevitable fate, which was that they were…

Hamilton is a revolutionary work of Art: It Should Be Encouraged Not Criticized. Everything that comes new, often encounters criticism. Some critique flashes out its fallacies, pointing out its room for improvement. On the contrary, some are just motivated to demean the significance of others. A recently released musical Hamilton holds true to this. It succeeded to amass prolific attention - Never seen before in American music history, it, however, also received criticisms from all over the…

HBO propagate social position like gender within their plots and characters, where older, white men hold esteem and power over their minority and female counterparts. An example is Aaron Sorkin’s HBO political drama series The Newsroom that ran from 2012 to 2014. Known well as an outspoken writer in Hollywood, Aaron Sorkin delivered Newsroom much in the same spirit of…

Film Reaction Paper: The Newsroom In 2012, creator Aaron Sorkin’s television series The Newsroom aired on HBO cable network. Actor Jeff Daniels portrays Will McAvoy, News Night’s anchor and managing editor, with impeccable style and realism. The newscast McAvoy and his staff produces is notorious for being soft news (Dominick 2013) but that is about to change. The pilot episode begins at a forum at Northwestern University. McAvoy consistently avoids questions of political party allegiance and…

piece as other films would it simply narrows his life to three acts. Intertwined in between the scenes are flashbacks that highlight the rise of Steve Jobs. Michael Fassbender’s intense commitment to the role of playing Jobs is a great match with Aaron Sorkin’s writing and Dann Boyle’s directing style. This Is Not A Bio Pic…

He criticized the film, and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, for embellishing his life story by including instances that never occurred as well as inaccurately depicting relationships. To those who have seen The Social Network, it seems as if the entire premise on which Zuckerberg based his idea for Facebook was that of revenge and his quest to join a prestigious social club. In reality however, this is completely false. While it is reasonable that Sorkin would change different aspects of the real…

reader. Joe Nocera is an American business journalist who expands his writing spectrum and presents his deep knowledge over a plethora of miscellaneous topics and rhetorical skills as depicted from his op-ed articles “Zuckerberg’s Expensive lesson”, “Aaron Sorkin’s ‘Steve Jobs’ Con”, and “Can E-cigarettes Save Lives” in the New York Times. “Zuckerberg’s Expensive Lesson” is mainly a critical stance on the topic of Mark Zuckerberg’s generous grant to reform the educational systems in Newark…

. In director David Finchers ' and screenwriter Aaron Sorkins ' film The Social Network we see how the lust for power and cultural class corrupts many involved in the founding of Facebook. Through the progression of the film the audience is aware of each character grain more power, preserve their power, or searching to remove another individual from power. Based on true events, The Social Network maps the foundation of Facebook, the relationship between its co-founders Mark Zuckerberg and…

Adorno and Horkeimer many years ago claimed “culture today is infecting everything with sameness” (94). The Social Network and The Truman Show are films made 12 years apart focusing on different mediums one being reality television the other being social networking, yet they both contain the same ideologies regarding gender. Both films promote the same ideologies from the base of its makers to the characters within he film. Each film features and is created by white men, while women are shown as…