Matthew Weiner discusses "Roger's war", World War II

Matthew Weiner was selected as one of the Kelly Writers House's 2016 Fellows. After meeting in class with students who had been studying his work for a third of their semester, he attended two programs open to the public at the Writers House, moderated by Al Filreis. In this clip Matthew and Al discuss two scenes from seasons three and four of "Mad Men" related to Roger Sterling and his memories of World War II.

Matthew Weiner is a screenwriter, director and producer born in Baltimore, Maryland and raised in Los Angeles, California. His first major writing and producing breakthrough was with the HBO series "The Sopranos", where he was a co-executive producer on the sixth season in 2006 and an executive producer in the sixth season in 2007, and received solo or joint writing credit for twelve episodes. Weiner completed the pilot spec script for the show "Mad Men" in 2000, and it was picked up by AMC network for its first of seven seasons in 2007. Under Weiner's direction as head writer, showrunner and executive producer, "Mad Men" went on to win four Golden Globe awards and fifteen Emmy awards before its final episode aired in spring of 2015. Over its seven years the show received consistent critical acclaim for, seemingly, every aspect of its production -- from costumes and set design to acting and writing across several seasons. Weiner has also been a professor of screenwriting, at USC's prestigious School of Cinematic Arts

Funded by a grant from Paul Kelly, the Kelly Writers House Fellows program enables us to realize two unusual goals. We want to make it possible for the youngest writers and writer-critics to have sustained contact with authors of great accomplishment in an informal atmosphere. We also want to resist the time-honored distinction — more honored in practice than in theory — between working with eminent writers on the one hand and studying literature on the other.

Follow this link to watch both of Matt Weiner's KWH Fellows programs in full:
http://writing.upenn.edu/wh/calendar/...