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If youre familiar with its source material, its easy to spend large portions ofJason ReitmansSaturday Nightdrawing mental comparisons.
But echoes like this are trivial compared to the more obvious areas of overlap between Sorkins oeuvre andSaturday Night.
(See: this2014Late Night With Seth Meyerssketch.)
Dating you is like dating a StairMaster, she says.
When it lands which it does frequently his ping-pong repartee is his writings greatest strength.
Theyre pretty formal here, Ebersol replies.
The Heavy-Handed Metaphors
Saturday Nightdoes not suffer from an excess of subtlety.
Overly precious metaphors like these are a page ripped straight from Sorkins playbook.
Its indicative of a broader theme in Reitmans work.
Sorkin, too, has struggled in the past with this limitation.
Shuster was a writer in real life, butSaturday Nightnever shows her writing.
She does everything but bat her eyes at him and say, Wont you do it for … me?
Throughout the movie, hes asked repeatedly to define his vision of the show and fails to articulate it.
Men be they industry disruptors or screenwriters are rarely as unprecedented as they think.
