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Is Deadpool “high concept”? What about Midnight in Paris? Or The Purge?
The fact that you can ask ten different writers and get ten different opinions, kind of sums up how confusing the notion of a “high concept” has become.
Yes, the TV and film writing world is still talking about – and learning from – Aaron Sorkin’s work in terms of his finest work – the script for The Social Network. Although just between us, we believe the first two seasons of The West Wing were even better.
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A few weeks ago, Simpsons executive producer Matt Selman tweeted a list of the show’s writers room terminology, explaining how he and his colleagues use terms like “wacky stack” to describe “too much silliness at once”:
The Journey.
In two words: it sucks.
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