John and Craig consider a new master class in screenwriting taught by Aaron Sorkin, and a very old Greek word (anagnorisis) championed by Aristotle. Both are useful!

Then it’s a look at what we mean by “originality,” including a very useful litmus test provided by Lindsay Doran.

Reminder that the 250-epsiode Scriptnotes USB drives are now available. Find the link below.

Links:

• Scriptnotes, 255: New and Old Hollywood, with guest Billy Ray
• ‘Hatton Garden Job’ Beats Other Pics About Famed UK Heist To Production on Deadline, and our discussion in episode 234
• Our bonus episode with Simon Kinberg
• Scriptnotes, 235: The one with Jason Bateman and the Game of Thrones guys
• 250-episode Scriptnotes USB drives are now available for purchase from the John August Store
• The Verge on Aaron Sorkin’s screenwriting MasterClass
• Our bonus episode featuring Aaron Sorkin
• Anagnorisis, and how to pronounce it
• John Oliver on Brexit, before the vote
• Steve Yedlin On Color Science
• Codenames on Board Game Geek, and A Fake Artist Goes to New York
• Outro by Rajesh Naroth (send us yours!)

You can download the episode here.