I remember the same reactions before The Social Network was released. It now has a 96% on Rotten Tomatoes.
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Aaron Sorkin on Jobs Biopic: Casting Announcement Imminent, 'Heroine' Will Be Daughter Lisa
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How would Lisa be a heroine and lead character? I read the biography, and she didn't seem that important compared to other people. Just one of his family relationships.
Well nothing so far has gone the big, big time in terms of showing in *most* US theaters or being a top-3 ticket seller, etc. I think that it would be cool to see an Apple-based movie that hits big with the widespread mainstream audience nationwide instead of remaining a niche movie only in select theaters. I think this movie will do that.
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IDK, it sounds like a classic 3-act structure with his daughter as the motivation that takes the hero (Jobs) through his story arc of internal challenges while his career takes him through his external challenges.
The hero has to overcome challenges for there to be any drama.
Sounds boring
Haven't we already had a lame movie about Jobs?
Yes Steve Jobs turned Apple around and led the creation of some very cool consumer products. But lets get real, these products have a shelf life of a couple years, are made by exploited workers China, not upgradable, overprice, and Apple hoards its profits overseas to avoid paying taxes. At the same time Jobs, while driven, was not a very good person and by many accounts a complete *******.
Unless you load in a whole bunch of fictional content, there isn't much meat for an interesting plot.
Haven't we already had a lame movie about Jobs?
Yes Steve Jobs turned Apple around and led the creation of some very cool consumer products. But lets get real, these products have a shelf life of a couple years, are made by exploited workers China, not upgradable, overprice, and Apple hoards its profits overseas to avoid paying taxes. At the same time Jobs, while driven, was not a very good person and by many accounts a complete *******.
Unless you load in a whole bunch of fictional content, there isn't much meat for an interesting plot.
Steve Jobs came back to Apple when it was on the very brink of bankruptcy...Apple was literally about to tank at that time...and under Steve's leadership of streamlining operations at Apple, innovating the product line, and opening brick-and-mortar Apple stores worldwide, he transformed the company into the largest, most profitable company in the world. Without his leadership, guidance, and ideas on how to transform and grow the company, we likely would not be where we are today. It was not just iPhone and iPod, but yes, those products gave Apple name recognition in every household worldwide. EVERYONE knows about Apple and what the company is about today. And Apple has never been financially better-off than they are today.
Trust me, Steve wasn't mean to people like you and I...I have met him and talked with him. Very friendly and not mean at all. He welcomed me to San Francisco and was even interested in my user group and getting to know me. His personality on the job with his employees was where he got the most criticism, not in his dealings with everyday people. He was two different people in that regards.
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I think the critisism of Jobs as a man with difficult temper comes from his business dealings and management. You can't be nice and smile all time: when times are tough, you have to act tough and its when people get offended, but the business is business. You have to cut in order to survive, an art of management Jobs learned perfectly. It seems that Lisa did indeed impacted his father's life though we don't know exact extent of the impact. I think that the movie will have two axes: Jobs as businessman; Jobs as a human. It requires two axes of story: company and family (daughter).
The three key parts of this relationship is, I think as follows:
Born in 1978 she was small girl in 1986 when she met her famous father, who had hard time being left out of Apple; he is arrogant and doesn't accept Lisa fully.
By 1996 Jobs comes as savior to Apple and its also time when Lisa and her father fully reconcile; she lives in Jobs family. Jobs is no longer seen as arrogant, but is accepted back at Apple.
2001 is time when Apple is destined to to become in 12 years a single most valued company in the world, a path made by Jobs; he also devotes much more time to his family and this is around time when his illness first appears. Lisa grows up and leaves him for Harvard, her tuition is being paid by her father who 20 years ago rejected her and had court to undergo DNA test to accept Lisa. Jobs is much wiser as prepares for his famous Stanford speech later. In other words, both Apple and Lisa graduate and launch their new lives both leading to success.
So, yes, their lives intersect at some most crucial times, each time in a different way.
Moment 1. The departure: Young, rich and arrogant Jobs; small and poor Lisa; Apple parts with Jobs as Jobs is distant with his daughter.
Moment 2. The peace. Jobs as savior of the company and teenage Lisa come to peace, same as Apple and Jobs also make peace;
Moment 3. 2001. The launch of new path. Grand finale: Jobs and Apple both become as one; Jobs will give rest of his life to the company; this time its Lisa who leaves him. But she parts with him loving and missing and this shows how much they both have changed themselves, Apple and world. Apple will also leave Jobs, going ahead at full speed in mobile world at trajectory first charted by Jobs and iPod in 2001.
thats' how I see the arch of the story.
The three key parts of this relationship is, I think as follows:
Born in 1978 she was small girl in 1986 when she met her famous father, who had hard time being left out of Apple; he is arrogant and doesn't accept Lisa fully.
By 1996 Jobs comes as savior to Apple and its also time when Lisa and her father fully reconcile; she lives in Jobs family. Jobs is no longer seen as arrogant, but is accepted back at Apple.
2001 is time when Apple is destined to to become in 12 years a single most valued company in the world, a path made by Jobs; he also devotes much more time to his family and this is around time when his illness first appears. Lisa grows up and leaves him for Harvard, her tuition is being paid by her father who 20 years ago rejected her and had court to undergo DNA test to accept Lisa. Jobs is much wiser as prepares for his famous Stanford speech later. In other words, both Apple and Lisa graduate and launch their new lives both leading to success.
So, yes, their lives intersect at some most crucial times, each time in a different way.
Moment 1. The departure: Young, rich and arrogant Jobs; small and poor Lisa; Apple parts with Jobs as Jobs is distant with his daughter.
Moment 2. The peace. Jobs as savior of the company and teenage Lisa come to peace, same as Apple and Jobs also make peace;
Moment 3. 2001. The launch of new path. Grand finale: Jobs and Apple both become as one; Jobs will give rest of his life to the company; this time its Lisa who leaves him. But she parts with him loving and missing and this shows how much they both have changed themselves, Apple and world. Apple will also leave Jobs, going ahead at full speed in mobile world at trajectory first charted by Jobs and iPod in 2001.
thats' how I see the arch of the story.
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That's a boring idea. It's not a documentary. It's a movie.
You build a movie by telling the story around a conflict.
I'm sure they'll incorporate in a lot of his life elements around that.