A few of my favorite scenes are of less-mentioned moments in the life of Jobs, including his taking a calligraphy class at Reed College in Portland with a pop-up quote by Jobs saying if he had not taken the class, the Apple computers may not have had a variety of typefaces.
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While Jobs won’t be a dad to his daughter, he tries to be one to Steve Wozniak (Seth Rogen), the engineer who actually built the board that launched Apple computers.
Despite this, “Steve Jobs” is a package stuffed and wrapped tightly with incredible talent, boasting a quartet of masterful performances, all of which are easily among the best of the year.
Here’s what happened next.
Meanwhile, “Steve Jobs” follows not just the Kutcher movie but Walter Isaacson’s lauded Jobs biography, which Sorkin used as the basis for his screenplay.
Nowadays, Apple is the most valuable company in the world, thanks in huge part to the vision of late co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs. “So much so that if you dropped or changed a single word, the whole thing would unravel, like a lovely handmade jumper disintegrating into a pile of wool”. He structures his story around three landmark product launches: 1984’s unveiling of the original Macintosh, the presentation of the NeXT computer in 1988 and the 1998 introduction of the iMac.
Just to be clear, Steve Jobs is not a biopic.
As soon as Winslet met Hoffman, she understood precisely why she was the character that Sorkin had chosen to hang the film’s heart on.
Yet when the Danny Boyle-directed film opened across the United States at the weekend, Americans stayed away in droves.
As per theguardian.com, director Danny Boyle truly believes that this film and other movies about powerful people and issues have to be made. “There has been much finger pointing about what should have been done differently, and whether Universal should even have stepped up to make the movie after Christian Bale fell out and Michael Fassbender took the starring role”, a writer from the respected film website Deadline wrote on Monday.
Still, O’Neil said the film could have utilized a catchier title.
There’s a lot that can be blamed: for instance, Michael Fassbender is a brilliant actor, but he’s not the audience-magnet that Leonardo DiCaprio is, who was originally considered for the role. “I want to go rocketing towards 40”, she says.
“In a amusing kind of way, Michael [Fassbender] and I are cut from the same cloth”.
But screenwriter Aaron Sorkin wasn’t looking to make a page-by-page film based on the book. While “Birdman” scored with its cinematic tricks, “Steve Jobs” pops to life with its written ones.
“The hours and the hard work were punishing”.
The biographical movie “Steve Jobs” premiered earlier last week, and unfortunately is has been dubbed as “one of the worst opening weekends in box office history”, earning only $7.3 million on its opening weekend according to The Guardian.
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“Steve Jobs” has been rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America for language.
