If you’re an Aaron Sorkin fan, you know he has favorite phrases and plot lines. He especially recycled a bunch between Sports Night and The West Wing which, for one year, he was writing at the same time. In fact, both of the last episodes of their first seasons were titled What Kind of Day Has it Been?
Writers are mere mortals after all, so stuff like this isn’t surprising, and in fact it’s kind of a signature they leave in their work. In the seven minute video below, some of Sorkin’s signatures taken from A Few Good Men, Malice, Bulworth, Sports Night, The West Wing, Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip, Charlie Wilson’s War, The Social Network, and Tom Hanks’ 1993 Oscar Speech “for some reason”:
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