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The West Wing Script Book
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Aaron Sorkin
The volume contains six scripts from the hit NBC show The West Wing - winner of 17 Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Drama Series. The show has won the Producers Guild Award, Directors Guild Award, Writers Guild Award, Screen Actors Guild Award, Golden Globe, Humanitas Prize and the Peabody.
Paperback, 406 pages
Published
June 3rd 2002
by Newmarket Press
(first published June 2002)
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Loved, LOVED The West Wing (the Sorkin years). Besides being smart entertainment, it really helped me hold on to my political idealism through the soul-destroying Bush administration.
Aaron Sorkin is my god. "Two Cathedrals" just gives me chills. You can tell how much his writing drove the show - even in this bare bones form, the personalities and the action come blazing through. While I don't generally condone recreational drug use, if that's what Sorkin needs to write like this, I say let him h...more
Aaron Sorkin is my god. "Two Cathedrals" just gives me chills. You can tell how much his writing drove the show - even in this bare bones form, the personalities and the action come blazing through. While I don't generally condone recreational drug use, if that's what Sorkin needs to write like this, I say let him h...more
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i feel like i'm in a minority of people who enjoy reading scripts for recreation.
i loved the show & figured that there was no reason i wouldn't enjoy reading the shooting scripts themselves & i was right. it's like watching the tv show when you don't have a tv; you can hear the episodes play out as you read each meticulously crafted line. there are also chapters where sorking explains rather candidly, what was going on during the writing & production of the episodes contained in the...more
i loved the show & figured that there was no reason i wouldn't enjoy reading the shooting scripts themselves & i was right. it's like watching the tv show when you don't have a tv; you can hear the episodes play out as you read each meticulously crafted line. there are also chapters where sorking explains rather candidly, what was going on during the writing & production of the episodes contained in the...more
Aaron Sorkin has famously remarked that a writer's job is to captivate you for however long he (or she) has asked for your attention. Consider us captivated, sir. The West Wing Script Book is a selection of the best teleplays from the series' first two seasons (including the masterful "Two Cathedrals," which James Lipton once described without too much hyperbole as "the finest hour of television ever produced"). These then are the polished, elegant drafts of those hours - the crisp, perfectly pa...more
I absolutely love, love The West Wing. So when I got the two script books for Christmas, they were immediately on my to-be-read pile. I've seen the episodes so many times I could hear the voices in my head, which I guess is a little scary. But an amazing book of scripts.
That Sorkin can write! I read these scripts and watch this show over and over again. I hope one day to be able to write this well, but for now all I can do is imitate, and poorly at that.
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Great book. Seen all the episodes, but it was still great to read Aaron's short-but-witty little intros to each script. Also loved his dedication, especially, "And Tommy did some things". Great snippet of a conversation he had with Martin Sheen, haha XD
I dunno, it was a good read, but I do wish we'd had more background info, you know, random trivia, what was going through his mind as he wrote it.
I also noticed some errors, so I take it these weren't the edited scripts? (Seeing as Charlie appea...more
I dunno, it was a good read, but I do wish we'd had more background info, you know, random trivia, what was going through his mind as he wrote it.
I also noticed some errors, so I take it these weren't the edited scripts? (Seeing as Charlie appea...more
One word... superb. A master class in the art of TV writing.
Sorkin at his best vol. 1
Gift from my friend Raymond and Evie. Contains eight episode from Season 1 and 2 --Pilot (Season 1) and In The Shadow of Two Gunmen (2 parts, Season 2). The introduction slipped in a short conversation between Sorkin and Sheen --funny conversation.
When I bought the book, I thought it was about bird watching! The title is confusing to readers.
This book is a collection of scripts. A great read, shows how good the writing to this series was.
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Aaron Benjamin Sorkin is an American screenwriter, producer and playwright, whose works include A Few Good Men, The American President, The West Wing, Sports Night and The Farnsworth Invention.
After graduating from Syracuse University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Musical Theatre in 1983, Sorkin spent much of the 1980s in New York as a struggling, largely unemployed actor. He found his pa...more
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After graduating from Syracuse University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Musical Theatre in 1983, Sorkin spent much of the 1980s in New York as a struggling, largely unemployed actor. He found his pa...more
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