In the new movie “Steve Jobs”, the story of the Apple co-founder’s life is told.
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ANewDomain – Apple inventor and cofounder Steve Wozniak is way, way nicer than this namesake in the new “Steve Jobs” movie opening in United States theatres this month. “It’s about personalities”, Wozniak said. “Every scene that I’m in, I wasn’t talking to Steve Jobs at those events”.
Rogen said when he works on a film he sees himself as part of the entire team and not above anyone else on set.
When Apple’s board of directors refused to pay the $800K it would take to create a gorgeous, Orwellian “1984” themed Apple commercial for the Superbowl, Wozniak said he agreed to split the cost 50-50 with Jobs.
“Maybe everything in the movie didn’t happen, but they’re all based on things that did happen”, Wozniak told Bloomberg. 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. 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.
Sculley echoed those concerns, saying the film, which delves into Jobs’ strained relationship with his daughter, shows just one side of a complicated man.
“I knew the young Steve Jobs really well and he was a much bigger, better person than one could come to the conclusion if they only saw the movie”, he said.
I wanted to avoid posting any more of the Steve Jobs retrospectives, but I thought Jean-Louis Gassée did a great job at summing up the outpouring of support for Jobs at the time of his death, and a good assesment of his legacy, Apple. “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.
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“I’ve always looked for opportunities to fill design gaps”, he said. This provides the flawless 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 said, ‘No, I love the life I have, ‘” Wozniak recalled.
