Hello readers, it’s Aaron Sorkin week over at In Media Res!
Posted today is my brief analysis of Sorkin’s (weirdo) 2011 Golden Globes speech about the “elite smart girls” of Hollywood. You remember, right? Those awkward 15 seconds The Social Network‘s screenwriter devotes to his 11-year-old daughter, Roxy?
“I want to thank all the female nominees tonight for helping demonstrate to my young daughter that elite is not a bad word; it’s an aspirational one. Honey, look around. Smart girls have more fun, and you’re one of them.”
So if you’re a Sorkin fan or a The Social Network fan, please check it out.
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Anyone with half a brain watching THE SOCIAL NETWORK would realize that Zuckerberg's misogyny is set up in the very first scene when he treats his obviously very smart girlfriend like crap and is completely clueless as to why she's upset with him. For anyone to assume that the movie would then be populated with smart or empowered females is to prove that they're not paying attention. I don't think Sorkin was apologizing and I don't think he has a thing to apologize for. He portrayed a world as it existed. Which is all any of us can ask from a writer.