Watch “Steve Jobs” to see the powerful, heartbreaking story of a man driven by an equal combination of passion and fear, who saw the visions of a brand-new world but had no idea how to hold onto the world he’d already been given. I can’t recall a film that so beautifully gets right the complicated but still creative mess one person’s life can be, or manages it in such a deeply satisfying way. During all three launches, Jobs deals with various colleagues, such as his loyal assistant, Joanna Hoffman (played by Kate Winslet), Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak (played by Seth Rogen), and Apple CEO John Sculley (played by Jeff Daniels). “Was Steve really a tenor in real life?'” “I would have had a lot questions for him”. Interwoven between these are short flashbacks to other key scenes, such as the mythical garage in which Apple was formed along with Steve Wozniak, here played with convincing – if unfairly bumbling – warmth by Seth Rogen.
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Daniel Kottke knew Steve Jobs before he was Steve Jobs. In contrast to screenwriter Aaron Sorkin’s previous take on technology, The Social Network, which debuted to a cool $22 million back when Facebook was on the rise and your mom had never heard of Mark Zuckerberg, the life of Steve Jobs is a road well traveled.
– The movie isn’t adapted from the biography Becoming Steve Jobs, but that’s also worth reading – it focuses more on who Jobs was at the end than who he was at the beginning. The depiction of Apple’s co-founder by writer Aaron Sorkin failed to draw interest when it was released nationally raking in $7.3 million on a budget of $30 million. It’s an unintentional echo of a scene in the film, when Jobs’s ex-wife asks why the money Jobs made off the Mac isn’t supporting his daughter, and he says Apple is donating trucks full of computers to poor and underserved kids – if his daughter was someone else, the Mac would be helping her. (“I feel like I just gave away a seminal movie like Citizen Kane for our time”, she wrote in an email.) There’s no way to know definitively how Sony, with its own production team and marketing strategy, would have fared with this version or any other.
Sorkin admits that he doesn’t actually remember any of the product launches that provide the structure to the film — the 1984 Macintosh launch, the unveiling of the NeXT box in 1988, or the iMac in 1998.
Alex Gibney, the Oscar-winning filmmaker who made a well-regarded documentary about Steve Jobs that came out last month, said scripted movies need to be upfront about their intentions.
Unfortunately, Lisa’s character is not developed at all in the movie, so it is hard to feel connected to the story when she just pops up and says a couple of words here and there. He did take the time to consult the major people being portrayed in the film, aside from Jobs, and received major feedback. In fact, the movie has only earned a few $500,000 more than “Jobs”, the critically condemned bio-movie starring Aston Kutcher.
“It was all complete fiction”, Kottke said last week after watching the movie – which he nonetheless enjoyed and admired – at a private screening in Mountain View, Calif. “The film was mythologizing in action”.
Still, I wish the man who created the iPhone had been able to see more eye to eye with those with whom he personally interacted. “I had huge admiration for him as a friend”. The engineer says that it’s impossible, but Jobs refuses to accept that for an answer.
” “Steve Jobs” doesn’t fall into the same genre” as other fact-based films, Sorkin said. So I thought, “I should talk to her”.
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In this image released by Universal Pictures, Michael Fassbender, left, and Makenzie Moss appear in a scene from, “Steve Jobs”.
