Script was fantastic, Fassbender was fantastic reading it. The choice to make the film take place in 3 real-time scenes was spot on, with the different styles of film being a nice touch. But if you want to feel what it was like to be him, watch this movie. If you want the complete and factual run-down, please give the Isaacson book a read. It's definitely unsentimental but it does give you understanding. Some might say that the film might be incomplete in that so little of his life is technically covered but I think we got a complete and thorough examination of who he was and a little bit of why he was the way he was. Really, this is just another exhibit of the power of movies how they can make something like a launch of an Apple products be more exciting than Vin Diesel hunting witches. High emotions, high conflicts, high drama. Everything in this film was set to 12th gear and just roared. It's a very humanistic film, which always scores big points with me. His style has always been so dynamic, so powered on the high emotions of the scenes and the characters, it's a joy to watch and he does some of his best work here.
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Boyle can seem to turn anything into a movie with the same intensity as an action film. Let's not forget that this also feels very much like a Boyle-directed film, specifically 127 Hours and Slumdog Millionaire. I've read the Walter Isaacson biography (which is a fantastic read) and this film is a perfect companion to that and a great film on its own. I really really really hope if we get more Sorkin-scripted films, Jeff Daniels will be there somewhere. Jeff Daniels is such a natural fit for Aaron Sorkin. I'm so glad this film got made despite all the problems it faced, and absolutely overjoyed that it turned out to be as good as it is. The scene sums up everything that I think is central to making Macs what they really are - distractions that let people make random, often useless stuff that is somehow appealing, and which works for some odd reason.
Jobs, who loves art, is obviously enamored whereas Liane is stunned. And what does she end up showing Jobs on the screen? A nonsensical abstract. Her mom is breaking down, and her Dad is yelling that he isn't her father, but the computer ensures that instead of having to face that situation, Lisa, and people in general, can have an easy escape. One of my favorite moments was when Liane asks Jobs what his computer, after all the time he's devoted to it, can actually do, and he simply points to it and says, "that." He's half pointing at Lisa, who's managed to escape her parents' argument by opening up Apple paint. Saw this film last month, and I wish more biopics would take liberties with style and story the way this one does, instead of sticking to generic structures and facts that I could otherwise get from just watching a bbc documentary.Īlso, my favorite part about the writing, and the thing that makes me appreciate Sorkin despite knowing that no real person ever talks like his characters, is that his dialogue works on multiple levels, all at the same time, and in the same scene. Boyle comes through, and Sorkin shines through the script. Overall I think it's one of the best biopics you can make, giving a 2 hour glance into who Steve was, without assuming to understand the whole picture. It works for the film, but leaves out a big part in Steve's life. Sorkin basically filled in Joanna Hoffman, who worked closely with Steve, for that role. The one big mistake of the film is the omission of Jobs' wife of 20 years. I think this movie will help people see that. He was an asshole, but not just an asshole. Jobs is a leader who sacrificed many personal relationships for his work. But it's not as simple, or as simply morally reprehensible as "you're not my daughter, I deny it". I mean the dude pretty much wavered in and out during 19 years of his daughter's life. You can tell Sorkin was hung up on the daughter thing. Sorkin did the same sort of thing in The Social Network, but even better here. Jobs definitely has the tone of an asshole, but the complexity in the relationships is not simply glossed over as "He was a nice guy here, and a terrible guy here". One of the most complex moral schemes I've ever seen in what is basically a Shakespearen epic.