Me and the Money Printer

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Garrett Baldwin
Dec 08, 2024
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Dear Fellow Expat:

As a writer, I have a “hit or miss” relationship with the work of Aaron Sorkin.

His “walk and talk” style of story writing can be fantastic…

And it can be preachy…

Moneyball is my favorite baseball movie (after decades of The Natural as my favorite film overall).

I loved the writing in The Social Network, and it’s hard not to watch A Few Good Men whenever it is on.

Of course, I couldn’t stand An American President and find West Wing to be the most preachy, overrated television show ever, and one from which he consistently plagiarized his own written work in remaking other content.

“YOU THINK!!!”

The HBO vehicle Newsroom appealed to me at first.

I quickly realized that I was being manipulated by the subjects and stories that the “journalist” characters covered - and that this show was seriously bad.

This brings me to what I think is his third-best moment as a writer (the first two are both Colonel Jessup's moments in A Few Good Men).

This is the “We’ll See” moment in C…

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