I'd be enthusiastic too if I got paid $200K to look over the script.
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Aaron Sorkin Blasts Tim Cook for Calling Steve Jobs Films 'Opportunistic'
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Firstly, 200K is no doubt a pittance to Woz.
Secondly, I've been in the computer industry since the 70's, and I've never seen the slightest touch of BS come from Woz himself. He doesn't have it in him. And there aren't many I'd say that about.
According to Andy Hertzfeld, one of the original members of the Macintosh team, the Sorkin film "deviates from reality everywhere — almost nothing in it is like it really happened".
Your quote is out of context . The whole quote
I have seen the film, but not a finished version — it was still a work in progress when they showed it to me in August. Again, I am in a poor position to judge it, since I am too close to it and my experience with the underlying reality distracts me from appreciating it as a film.
That said, I think it’s a fine movie, brilliantly written and performed and full of humor and feeling. It deviates from reality everywhere — almost nothing in it is like it really happened — but ultimately that doesn’t matter that much. The purpose of the film is to entertain, inspire and move the audience, not to portray reality. It is cavalier about the facts but aspires to explore and expose the deeper truths behind Steve’s unusual personality and behavior, and it often but not always succeeds at that.
It's not a documentary .
"Arrogant and misinformed". That's Sorkin summed up right there
You could be right, but my opinion is very different. I've seen many interviews with him and I've always perceived him as charming. engaging, and brilliant. Just like his films and TV shows.
I've been an apple fan and a jobs fan since the 80s when I developed my first successful software application, for the Mac. Given the glowing comments by Andy Hertzfeld, and Steve Wozniak (both of whom continue to to express their love for Jobs) I'm absolutely looking forward to this film.
Yeah, I've appreciated much of his work as well. But his latest blowouts on this project hasn't portrayed him in a good light.
Here is the trailer for biopic Michael Dell, opening Friday against Sorkin's Steve Jobs:
It actually makes a lot of sense. It's what happens in reality, unless you're into the "let's live in a world made up in our own minds" thing.