Steve Jobs: The Perfect Aaron Sorkin Character For Anyone But Aaron Sorkin →
Genius is almost always the driving quality of a misunderstood protagonist in all but one of Sorkin’s screenplays, The Social Network, where the invention is a manifestation of the great Sorkin villain: the tyranny of the masses. Jobs built something that enabled the masses, but not without being the complex—and some would argue, not-so-saintly—man we’re continuing to learn he was.
As is the case with anything Sorkin-related, obligatory potted plants shoutout:
[Sorkin, by the way, was once arrested for possession of psychedelic mushrooms and used to write The West Wing surrounded by potted plants, high on crack.]
