Trevor Noah continued his impressive first month at the helm of “The Daily Show” by addressing the backlash over the upcoming movie about Apple co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs with screenwriter Aaron Sorkin on Tuesday night.
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Like the computers he sold so brilliantly, Steve Jobs was complicated, charismatic and coldly inhuman. The film was subject to many snags before filming began – David Fincher was originally on board to direct and both Leonardo DiCaprio and Christian Bale passed on the role of Jobs before new director Danny Boyle offered it to Fassbender. At lightning speeds, the talk details reams of biographical information, internal and external character dynamics, and tectonic sociocultural-evolutionary shifts with a sharp sense of humor and an incisive understanding that reality and legend are often hopelessly intertwined-and that a man’s shortcomings can elucidate, without diminishing, his visionary greatness.
The 38-year-old star credits director Danny Boyle for urging him to take the part. “It was going to be a big challenge, the volume of words alone”.
Can anyone tame this perfectionist beast? As played by the glorious Kate Winslet, award-caliber and radiating grit and grace, Hoffman is the one person ready to give shit to the boss.
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This October, another film simply called “Steve Jobs” will be released in theaters all over the world. But Fassbender lets us see flickers of humanity. I saw this very amusing trailer the other day for the Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse. Meanwhile he is dunned by an ex-girlfriend (Katherine Waterston) who wants Jobs to recognize their daughter Lisa (played by three actors at different ages). Harsh? Yes. But essential to a film about a pioneer who created products with a slick, spotless veneer to hide all the tangled circuits inside.
