The “you can’t handle the truth” scene in A Few Good Men. Mark Zuckerberg dismissing the Winklevoss twins as the “Winklevi” in The Social Network. Whether it’s high drama, screwball zing or dizzying gravitas you want, Aaron Sorkin is the screenwriter of his generation. People may not talk like that in real life, but boy you wish they did. Over the past 30 years Sorkin has put words into the mouths of Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Nicole Kidman, Tom Hanks, Brad Pitt and Kate Winslet, plus, as an uncredited script doctor, Sean Connery (The Rock), Will Smith (

Source: The Times February 25, 2021 17:01 UTC