BY AUSTIN COLLINS
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Although Steve Jobs is not the first biography that has been released since the death of Former Apple CEO, Steven Paul Jobs, this Danny Boyle directed iteration of the man behind the turtleneck is by far the most well written and most intense entry of them all.
While the 2013 Biography,“Jobs,” starring Ashton Kutcher told the story of how Apple came to be, following the technological visionary from his days in the garage with Steve Wozniak (Josh Gad) all the way to his unveiling the the iPod, this movie dodges that monotonous storyline and instead
focuses on why Steve Jobs was the way he was, rather than how he was so successful.The film consists of 3 Acts,each take place moments before a
product launch. While this movie is all about the dialogue between the characters rather than any real action or violence, Aaron Sorkin’s writing insures that the dialogue alone is enough to keep you glued to your seat.The dialogue between the characters is witty and memorable, complete with more than a few intense arguments during the entirety of Jobs’s interactions with his co workers and other acquaintances.Although Sorkin’s writing was clever and powerful, this film is not an accurate depiction of Steve Jobs, but like many other mediums of art, is inspired by these events that took place during Steve Jobs’s career.
What Sorkin did was take everything he knew about Steve Jobs and chose to display that as a whole in his own styling and pace. I feel that movies like this tend to get a bad wrap. Whenever a movie is “based on a true story or true events” people tend to toss aside the actual movie and instead pick apart all of its inaccuracies in contrast to the story or event the film is based on. When in reality movies are a form of art. And art tends to reflect thing going on around us. This is why when Adele releases a song about a breakup, she doesn’t just record herself explaining the incident and talking about what exactly happened, but instead tries to capture and convey the feelings she experienced in her song. And although the details of the event she is singing about may not match up, it is her jobs as an artist to interpret things happening to and around her into her own iteration.And this is what Sorkin has done with Steve Jobs.
Michael Fassbender gives a stunning performance as Steve Jobs with a more mature tone than Ashton Kutcher’s portrayal, as this iteration received an R rating due entirely to the amount of pervasive language Fassbender’s Jobs delivered.Seth Rogen gave a great supporting performance as Steve
Wozniak and Jeff Daniels was also brilliant as Former Apple CEO, John Sculley. All of this star power, along with the ever so talented writing of Aaron Sorkin create a memorable film that did the late Apple Founder far more justice than the 2013 iteration.
Although the movie mainly focuses on explaining the psychological reasons for Steve Jobs brilliance yet insubordinate and short temperament, it also told the story of his daughter, and their complex relationship as he attempts to change the way the world viewed personal computing.
