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Aaron Benjamin Sorkin (born June 9, 1961) is an American screenwriter, producer, and playwright. His works include the Broadway plays ''A Few Good Men'' and ''The Farnsworth Invention''; the television series ''Sports Night'', ''The West Wing'', ''Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip'', and ''The Newsroom''; and the films ''A Few Good Men'', ''The American President'', ''Charlie Wilson's War'', ''The Social Network'', ''Moneyball'', and ''Steve Jobs''. Sorkin's trademark rapid-fire dialogue and extended monologues are complemented, in television, by frequent collaborator Thomas Schlamme's characteristic directing technique called the "walk and talk". These sequences consist of single tracking shots of long duration involving multiple characters engaging in conversation as they move through the set; characters enter and exit the conversation as the shot continues without any cuts. ==Early years== Sorkin was born in Manhattan, New York City,〔 to a Jewish family,〔(Jewish Journal: "A small glimpse into Aaron Sorkin’s Jewish story" by Danielle Berrin ) July 17, 2012 | "''I’m Jewish but have never had any religious training. I never went to Hebrew school."''〕 and was raised in the NY suburb of Scarsdale. His mother was a schoolteacher and his father a copyright lawyer who had fought in WWII and put himself through college on the G.I. Bill; both his older sister and brother went on to become lawyers.〔 His paternal grandfather was one of the founders of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU).〔 Sorkin took an early interest in acting. Before he reached his teenage years, his parents were taking him to the theatre to see shows such as ''Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'' and ''That Championship Season''.〔 Sorkin attended Scarsdale High School where he became involved in the drama and theatre club. In eighth grade he played General Bullmoose in the musical ''Li'l Abner''.〔 In Scarsdale High's senior class production of ''Once Upon a Mattress'', Sorkin played Sir Harry. He served as vice president in his junior and senior year at Scarsdale High School and graduated in 1979.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Aaron Sorkin (SHS 1979) )〕 In 1979, Sorkin attended Syracuse University. In his freshman year he failed a class that was a core requirement. It was a devastating setback because he wanted to be an actor, and the drama department did not allow students to take the stage until they completed all the core freshman classes. Determined to do better, he returned in his sophomore year, and graduated in 1983. Recalling the influence on him at college of drama teacher Arthur Storch, Sorkin recalled, after Storch's death in March 2013, that "Arthur's reputation as a director, and as a disciple of Lee Strasberg, was a big reason why a lot of us went to (). "You have the capacity to be so much better than you are", he started saying to me in September of my senior year. He was still saying it in May. On the last day of classes, he said it again, and I said, "How?", and he answered, "Dare to fail". I've been coming through on his admonition ever since". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Aaron Sorkin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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