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At first, shes the ultimate male fantasy: Im the woman all of you have always dreamed of.
I encourage your gambling, she tells one dreamy-eyed player.
Throughout, though, its all classic Sorkin: depositions, courtroom arguments, and smarty-pants snark.
(Sorkin evenwent to 1Oakto nail the movies only club scene.)
Sorkins trademarks run through all his work, fromThe West WingtoMoneyball, and his fingerprints are all overMollys Game.
Below, weve broken down the most Aaron Sorkin-y things about the movie.
Is her desperation for controlling powerful men related to her anger over her parents broken marriage?
Remember Will McAvoys lecture to a female gossip columnist duringThe Newsrooms (brilliant?
The tabloids crown Bloom Hollywoods poker princess, but she wants no part of the celeb gossip mill.
I have gossip, Molly explains to her attorney.
Im here to sell tickets.
Random literary references.Sorkin loves a literary reference.
These references almost never come during an academic scene, or coupled with a recommendation of some kind.
Theyre dropped in the middle of a conversation, usually one thats tense.
Theyre a shorthand that boosts Sorkins writing into some quasi-academic, intellectual sphere.
(A loose interpretation.)
InThe American President, it was Dr. Seuss.The Newsroomname-droppedDon Quixotereferences in every other scene.
InMollys Game,itsUlyssesand Arthur Miller.
mentions the Joyce connection to Molly as evidence of her secret Irish heritage.
(Bloom says shes a Russian Jew.)
Because I cannot ever have another!
Now you readThe Crucible?
Yeah, she passed freshman-year Language Arts.
American exceptionalism.Sorkin believes in America, and his characters do too, even if theypretend otherwise.
And yet, by the end ofMollys Game, Mollys still a whip-smart would-be law student at heart.
For her final court appearance, she swaps herusual sheath dress and stiletto uniformfor a sweater set and pearls.
The walk and talk.The biggie.
Has Aaron Sorkin ever walked without talking, or talked without walking?
A walk and talk across a newsroom, or to and from the Oval Office adds some flair.
In most ofMollys Game, Chastain is trapped behind a bar or desk, carefully eyeing her game.
Its not as long as the ones Sorkin pulled off on television, but well take it.
