Aaron Sorkin is a famous American screenwriter who has earned fame thanks to several famous films and television series. His manner of displaying realism from different angles is appealing to many movie fans and critics alike. His work earned him an Oscar in many categories. He is a laureate of other famous awards, and his biography deserves to be known to all fans of good movies.
Childhood and learning
Rarely does the ordinary screenwriter become the hero of various reports, because they rarely mention this person when working on a film. However, Aaron Sorkin is an exception. He was born into a Jewish family in Manhattan. His mother was a simple teacher, and his father worked as a lawyer. From a young age, the boy was interested in dramatic productions, and he was an active member of the theater circle.
After school, he entered the University of Syracuse without problems, where he received a bachelor of arts degree. For a long time he could not find his place in the industry until he began to write plays. It was they who brought him popularity.
Style and first works
Aaron Sorkin is not in vain considered one of the best and most famous screenwriters of our time. The concept of "Sorkinsky style" has already been established in cinema. It means that in the picture there will be a protagonist with a powerful intellect and strong eloquence. Venomous phrases can be heard more than once in the films of this author, because this is part of his style. At twenty-three, Sorkin began to write plays, and from that time on, almost all of them had been staged in the theater or in the form of a film. It was he who was chosen by Stephen Spielberg in order to correct the script of one of the most popular paintings of all time under the name Schindler's List.
His first known script was a story called "Some Good Guys." He wrote it under the impression of his sister's case (she worked as a lawyer) about the bullying of marines by a colleague. He sold this play for a lot of money, and a movie was made on it with Tom Cruise and Jack Nicholson.
Next works
In Hollywood, everyone agrees that Aaron Sorkin makes films really exciting with his script. After writing the script for the film “Some Good Guys”, the author signs a contract with Castle Rock and starts working on the thriller “Ready for Anything”. Nicole Kidman and Alec Baldwin along with an interesting storyline brought good box office. Under the same contract, Aaron Sorkin wrote the script for another picture called "The American President." Excellent cast and a mixture of two genres brought fame to the writer among all the directors of Hollywood. Personalities such as Michael Bay and Tony Scott began to hire him, so that he reviewed the scripts of their films and corrected if necessary.
After success with the paintings, Sorkin decided to try himself in sitcoms and launched the series Sports Night, which tells about the life of athletes outside the cameras.
Famous TV shows
The production of “The West Wing” is the greatest success in the direction of the television series that Aaron Sorkin was able to achieve. The filmography of a famous person at a new level begins precisely with this scenario about political intrigues in the administration of the American government. The plot lasted for seven seasons, until the audience got tired. It was told about the mechanisms of influence of power on the people, terrorism, the struggle for the presidency and much more. At the same time, Sorkin was detained with drugs at the airport and sent for treatment. Soon, the author recovered and began work on the new series, Studio 60 on Sunset Street, as West Wing turned. This multi-part picture was recognized as the worst series of the year, but subsequently it was she who was included in the list of cults. The fame of the scriptwriter was only gaining momentum, and soon he had the largest contracts.
