Messrs Sorkin and Boyle try so hard to rationalise away Jobs’s awkward quirks-using the fact that he was adopted to help explain why he was such a control-freak as an adult, for example-but such armchair psychologising serves to diminish his fascinating complexity, rather than revel in it. Steve Jobs was a remarkable man: difficult, driven, exacting and trailblazing. His comedy The Interview had incited the wrath of North Korea, and Sony Pictures was being hacked in the fallout, with millions of e-mails being dumped online-including plenty of Rogen’s own. “I would never send an e-mail that positive to the studio”, Rogen swears. “I was there and I don’t need to read all this stuff”. Far from the argumentative, cussing Wozniak that Seth Rogen portrays in the new movie, the real Wozniak is breezy and easy to get along with, nearly to a fault. “Steve Jobs built an iPhone and talked about [how] every little detail had to be right for him”.
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Even though the real-world events did not happen the way they do in the movie Steve Jobs, said Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, the latest biopic to tackle the Silicon Valley legend’s life is the best depiction of Apple yet.
In spite of these criticisms, Wozniak praised Fassbender for capturing the “brilliance” of Jobs. “The movie is not about reality”. The film is the third one focused on the tech guru’s life and, like its predecessors, has been met with protests from insiders who say it presents an unduly harsh portrait.
Mr Sculley echoed those concerns, saying the film, which delves into Mr Jobs’ strained relationship with his daughter, shows just one side of a complicated man.
ANewDomain – Apple inventor and cofounder Steve Wozniak is way, way nicer than this namesake in the new “Steve Jobs” movie opening in U.S. theatres this month.
Steve Jobs is slated to open in Singapore on Jan 21.
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If there’s a catch with Steve, it’s his predilection for playing pranks while you’re trying to get work done. “We shared the” vision” that now famous commercial communicated so well, he said. Four years later we witness a knock-down, drag-out fight at the launch of the NeXT computer with John Sculley (Jeff Daniels), Apple’s then-CEO, who had forced Jobs out of the company after the Mac was deemed a failure. This provides the ideal aesthetic in which to pull back the curtain on his off-stage life where he both charmed and isolated those around him, denying he is the father of Lisa Brennan-Jobs, infuriating coworkers to the point where they throw him out of the company, insisting the red exit signs be blocked so the stage is better illuminated (fire marshall be damned). I’d love a look beyond the computer and into the birth of Apple’s mobile line which have largely become how we interact with computing today, plus his likely journey to grace in the face of terminal illness.
