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Aaron Sorkin on Jobs Biopic: Casting Announcement Imminent, 'Heroine' Will Be Daughter Lisa
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Don't forget there were several moments in The Social Network that shed Mark Zuckerberg in a negative light.
Its not literature tho.
Its screenwriting.
And it could be considered an extension of regular vocabulary.
Just like you could use the everyday phrases like "Hi, how are you" in multiple movies because thats how people talk.
You're allowed to re-use dialogue and language because thats how we communicate.
We say the same things over and over in real life too, with only the context changing.
Same with dialogue and even a specific quirk of our dialogue.
And besides that its irrelevant because I never noticed before it was doctored/edited in order like that and I have seen most of his works and never once thought, oh i heard that before...
Is no one familiar with Aaron Sorkin or Danny Boyle's work??
This movie will focus on 3 product launches the way Slumdog Millionaire was focused on one episode of Who wants to be a millionaire and the way The social network was focused on a single deposition hearing.
WOW, you have really stumbled onto something there... someone who is tasked with writing hundreds of hours of dialogue sometimes reuses common quips, quotes & phrases in his own work.
Half of the things in that video were just extremely common everyday phrases.
I agree. I always wondered why none of these films include the iPhone launch. That's the product that most Apple fans of today are most familiar with.
The Ashton Jobs movie is boring. I hope the Sorkin's one will not. Pirates of the Silicon Valley is a pretty average movie, but it's currently the best we have in terms of Jobs' biography.
Movie about Jobs is not movie about technology; its about emotion and human life behind the great technology Apple brought to masses. Someone had to pay for that, every good deed is punishable. Maybe this was private life of Steve Jobs almost destroyed by his devotion to business and that was what he almost lost: his daughter.
Who is provoding the catering for this movie? Is John T. Martin still in for the Gaffer / Key Grip position?
Oh, look. A bag of rice just fell over in the Northeast of China.
Oh, look. A bag of rice just fell over in the Northeast of China.
Pirates is still the best biography we have so far. But its unfinished. The story ended before the real finish line. (iPhone release lol)
At this point I would rather just see a long fully fleshed out "cradle to the grave" story with Justin Long lol
At this point I would rather just see a long fully fleshed out "cradle to the grave" story with Justin Long lol
I agree, especially since it seems like they are still deciding on film details with all these news items about it.
Because the timing doesn't matter. They make good and interesting movies about people who are still alive even. There is no paticular timing that needs to be in place for something in paricular.
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It's important and all but more of a sequel to iPod essentially as that was what truly revolutionized it all for Apple and the industry really with the iPhone and iPad being important and game changing but more of evolutionary professions from that iPod revolution.
I'd personally like to see iPhone included there too, but I think that might be how they are seeing it all and why it might not necessarily be something that they feel is really needed.
I didn't say it wasn't. It just sounds boring. These major actors are pulling out for a reason, and honestly it's comedic to think it's because of the "sheer demands of the role."
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That' pretty much exactly it. Just because the premise focuses on one situation or in this case three doesn't mean that a whole lot of storytelling won't be involved and tied into it all creating a much bigger world with a whole lot more in it that that one singluar situation (or three).
I for one am not denying it will be something good.
Its just that I still want a properly done cradle to grave thing.
Because a big part of what makes Steve so awesome is the unique series of events over the course of his life, one of which is the birth of all computers as we know them, (mouse, desktop, windows) and then with the ultimate comeback of all time and space on any level for the most exciting and brilliant reasons.
And I care about the part of the man that made all this greatness possible, not so much in the traditional sense of human relationships.
His whole existence was Godlike in a way, that his life played out like an epic legend of greatness by many measures.
So there are other lesser people in scope who could benefit from exploring their relationships.
But this man in particular was even bigger than that. And his story would be served best from a bigger epic.
yaaaaaaaawn...
sounds really boring. But hey! you've gotta milk and monetize Job's early age death... to death, right?
Hopefully/thankfully?... the family gets its cut...?
Because... since there's a heroine in the movie, which makes it more of a drama, or a dramatized version of reality aimed to entertain (because, Aaron Sorking) - rather than a tribute/biography movie aimed to educate - that would be only fair. Specially when some media company will make money off of it.
And in the same way Apple used Steve's image and personality as a marketing tool, I guess the family can/should benefit from it also after his death.
SO...Start preparing yourself for an over acted, over produced, Steve Jobs drama-mentary, in the vein of The Newsroom.
Ahhhh... American modern capitalism at its finest !!!
Cheers...?
sounds really boring. But hey! you've gotta milk and monetize Job's early age death... to death, right?
Hopefully/thankfully?... the family gets its cut...?
Because... since there's a heroine in the movie, which makes it more of a drama, or a dramatized version of reality aimed to entertain (because, Aaron Sorking) - rather than a tribute/biography movie aimed to educate - that would be only fair. Specially when some media company will make money off of it.
And in the same way Apple used Steve's image and personality as a marketing tool, I guess the family can/should benefit from it also after his death.
SO...Start preparing yourself for an over acted, over produced, Steve Jobs drama-mentary, in the vein of The Newsroom.
Ahhhh... American modern capitalism at its finest !!!
Cheers...?
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