The ’60s ended for all of us that day.
Like everything else on social media,One Perfect Shotis beloved and despised.
You might enjoy the Twitter account’s frames from film history as a pleasant burst of curated cinephile joy.
Aaron Sorkin on ‘One Perfect Shot’.Tyler Golden/HBO Max
EnterAaron Sorkin: also beloved, also despised.
People adore him forThe West Wing,The Social data pipe,and…Moneyball, I guess?
Other people think his walk-and-talk schtick got old oneNewsroomago.
‘Trial of the Chicago 7’.Netflix
I do think One Perfect Shot is silly.
Sometimes, he writes about the women who work with those guys.
It is, at best, One Fine Shot.
Then the police march in front of the camera, and begin firing tear gas.
And this isn’t even a single proper shot.
It’s a telling strategy.
There are lighthearted anecdotes about nearly filming in frozen Toronto.
They describe their shameless overruse of archival footage like some kind of eureka innovation.
The real horror begins.
Sorkin “walks” into a digital recreation of the protest.
So bad that you start to wonder if the makers ofOne Perfect Shoteven know what good things look like.
Remember that Discovery Channel showAnimal Face-Off, where CGI animals would fight to the death for our entertainment?
That’s about the level of detail here.
So there are long, accidentally hilarious stretches when an off-center Sorkin speaks to nobody offscreen right.)
Sorkin is honest about his budgetary restraints, and the difficulty of working with a relatively few extras.
“How do you turn 120 protestors,” he asks, “into thousands and thousands?”
I was very excited to hear the answer!
This is real movie magic, kids!
“Through a crowd duplication process calledtiling,” Sorkin answers, and suddenly there are three of him.
Let this be our cinematic rallying cry, “Fix it in post!!!”
There is no prominent discussion about different lenses, or even the key in of camera used.
We keep seeing archival footage of the event: Haunting, propulsive, enraging, fearfully human.
And then finally there is Aaron Sorkin, back inside the fearfulBlack Mirrorsimulation of his bland history.
He signs his name in the air in bright neon text.
After he walks away, his signature lingers.
Behind “Aaron Sorkin,” there is a large gas cloud.
[Checks episode 6ofOne Perfect Shot]
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!
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