What matters

Toby I turned it on just as they got to the scene when Richard, Geoffrey and John were locked in the dungeon and Henry was coming down to execute them. Richard tells his brothers not to cower but to take it like men. And Geoffrey says, "You fool! As if it matters how a man falls down." And Richard says... Both "When the fall is all that's left... Bartlet ...it matters a great deal." As I often do after finishing a movie I loved, I have spent the past few days burning spare compute (as they say) turning Network over in my head and situating it within the other works that I love. Network's influence is vast. But my personal canon implicates one writer in particular, above the rest: Aaron Sorkin. Sorkin's love of Chayefsky is broad and obvious. You do not need to listen to him speak to hear it; the series premiere of the ill-fated and ill-conceived Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip opens in direct homage and reference to the film. At first glance, it's easy to be disingenuous about this…