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Aaron Sorkin on making ‘The West Wing’ today: “It would be implausible to show Republicans as reasonable”
The West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin has suggested how the show would be made differently in today’s political climate.The classic political drama, which ran between 1999 and 2006, focuses on the fictitious administration of President Josiah Bartlet (Martin Sheen).Speaking at an event to promote new book What’s Next: A Backstage Pass to The West Wing, Its Cast and Crew, and Its Enduring Legacy of Service, Sorkin admitted that it would be “implausible” to make the Republican Party look “reasonable” today.“Honestly, I think it would [work] for roughly the same reason it worked when it did, which is that, first of all, it was a good show, just good stories well told by a great group of people,” he said (via The Hollywood Reporter).“But by and large, in popular culture, our leaders are portrayed either as Machiavellian or as dolts, right? It’s either a House of Cards or Veep.“The idea behind The West Wing was what if they were as competent and as dedicated as the doctors and nurses on hospital shows, the cops on the cop shows, the lawyers on a legal drama? That kind of thing. And the result was something that was idealistic and it was aspirational,” he explained.“What would be different [today] would be this, and I don’t want to get a rumble started over anything.
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