I like the idea. I think it would be cool to have one before the Macintosh is released though, like a young, YOUNG, smelly, hippie Steve Jobs pitching an Apple II or something.
Name a documentary that takes place in real time.
I just can't help feel that having it feature solely on three product launches belittles the work Isaacson put into writing the book and just tosses aside so much more about Jobs that could be shown on screen.
To base a movie, based on a biography, around nothing more than product launches and backstage action just seems like a huge waste of some fantastic source material.
What about Sculley? What about NeXT? What about Pixar? What about his close bond with Ive? Do we really have to see three keynotes reenacted as nothing more than backstage footage?
This is stupid. Pirates of Silicon Valley is a mediocre TV movie that even Steve Jobs didn't think very highly of.
Robert Redford is looking tan.
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What you're saying still makes no sense and this "real time" (ugh, I'm tired of this term already) aspect has nothing to do with documentaries.
What's being described for Aaron Sorkin's approach is like the television show "24" or Alfred Hitchcock's "Rope". In an episode of 24, there are no jumps in time (ignore the commercial breaks). An hour of the show represents an hour passing in the world of that show's characters.
This no. This is not something that describes any documentary that I can think of.
Veering off -- I think that this is a pretty exciting approach for the film. It sounds like a simple approach toward a dialogue driven character study, with Jobs probably being the only character to appear in all three acts.
It sounds minimal and simply designed in order to deliver a (hopefully) satisfying finished product that drives straight to the point of what it wants to say. I'm pretty sure that was the intention, and I think it's a great idea.
Name a documentary that takes place in real time.
Original Mac, NeXT and iPod would be very good choices as they are not so much the most important products per se, but they are the products related with Jobs' personal development. This is a biopic after all. The Mac was a hippie product, the NeXT was more a vision/ego product than even the Mac and the iPod was the first product that signaled his 'consumer experience' focus. There are also other personal things that come to a max around these products.Why those three? (Just curious). Another post I saw mentioned a NeXT event as being one the three. Did he say which three or is everyone just guessing?
Because it will be 30 minutes of interaction with people around him. That interaction, both style and content defines the man even more than a storyline where you see things 'happen' (like meeting his wife, etc.)I hate to bag on Sorkin as he's done some great work......but this sounds like utter ****.
30 minutes in real time of steve before a product launch? How does that tell us anything about his life that viewers might cling to and gain a better understanding of what made him "steve".
Sounds like a bomb waiting to happen.
Good to see all of the writers and directors of MacRumors coming out to weigh in here. Sorkin clearly has no idea how to write good stories and produce great works.
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And since when was a biopic not detailing someone's life? It's just in a not-so-used not-quite-as-boring format as most others. I for one am looking forward to it.This is movie based on the biography? I somehow thought there will be a movie detailing his life.
Sounds good to me.
As much as I love Jobs, face it, he's not George Washington or some big war hero.
I like the idea. I think it would be cool to have one before the Macintosh is released though, like a young, YOUNG, smelly, hippie Steve Jobs pitching an Apple II or something.
Thats why only pop up books and scratch and sniff for me
As much as I love Jobs, face it, he's not George Washington or some big war hero.
And since when was a biopic not detailing someone's life? It's just in a not-so-used not-quite-as-boring format as most others. I for one am looking forward to it.
30-minute scenes will take place backstage before a major product launch. Sorkin seems to have written a rather unique film.
The class of documentaries known as "Cinema Verité" or "Direct Cinema" is known for taking place in real time, and portraying real life as accurately and unobtrusively as possible. Shots are really quite long most of the time, as much as 10 minutes or more.
In all fairness, they can cover a relatively long period of time with cuts in between, but it's composed of sections of real time, much like I would expect Jobs' three product launches to be.
An example is "Don't Look Back," a chronicle by D.A. Pennebaker of Bob Dylan's 1965 tour of Great Britain.
I'm in a documentary film class now...
You can't modify a superlative. It is commonly done (e.g. "very unique"), but it's still a no-no.
Yes, the grammar pedant is here.
(I don't like the commonly used phrase...I don't think the word "Nazi" should be used casually)