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Michael Stuhlbarg Speaks on Filming Steve Jobs Movie: 'Unlike Anything I've Ever Done'

Its all for the money....

Hey, now days movies don't even have to make sense, or stick to accurate detail always.... we can still go off at a tangent that never took place, and we'll still love it.. just because someone named "jobs" is there..

Isn't life grand.. I like some to some of these movies, but will see more and more...

If i've had enough, i won't watch it.
 
deviant said:
how many of the apologist comments do we need?
me and people like me are tired of seeing the world trying to make money on a dead person making ****** movies about him.
mine was a rhetorical question on a public forum board. you don't have to actually answer to everybody you don't agree with, ya know.
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How many of these whiny posts do we need?
 
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Mac Fly (film) said:
I think history will look back on Fassbender as the wrong choice for this role.
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I agree, Christian Bale would have been perfect, but I'm sure he had his reasons. I don't think I can watch this film because my mind would remind me that he's not really Steve, in which the experience will be ruined.
 
I'm thrilled about this film. Sorkin is great: Sports Night, West Wing, the Social Network, etc. And it's a biopic about a man who has shaped the world of technology beyond what anyone thought possible. Jobs may not have ever "kicked a dent in the universe", but he certainly tried. I'm also looking forward to seeing the motivation for the three product releases that the writers and director chose. Could be very interesting.
 
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Sloppy.Joe said:
"The film is centered around three product launches for the original Mac, the NeXT Computer, and the iMac."

The iMac introducetion over the iPhone? Why?
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Because the iMac was the product that was make or break for Apple when Jobs returned. It was the product that changed Apple into the company we know today and the one that completely transformed the way people thought about desktop computers.

The iPhone was just an iPod Touch with a 2G capability at a time when all phone manufacturers were introducing touch screen phones in some form. It also wasn't a make or break product for Apple as a company and is therefore a really boring story for a Feature film.
 
wikiverse said:
Because the iMac was the product that was make or break for Apple when Jobs returned. It was the product that changed Apple into the company we know today and the one that completely transformed the way people thought about desktop computers.

The iPhone was just an iPod Touch with a 2G capability at a time when all phone manufacturers were introducing touch screen phones in some form. It also wasn't a make or break product for Apple as a company and is therefore a really boring story for a Feature film.
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While I agree about the importance of the iMac then and its effects now, there's quite a bit more to the iPhone and its influence than just that. Certainly far from a being less significant or more boring than the iMac or something like that.
 
wikiverse said:
Because the iMac was the product that was make or break for Apple when Jobs returned. It was the product that changed Apple into the company we know today and the one that completely transformed the way people thought about desktop computers.

The iPhone was just an iPod Touch with a 2G capability at a time when all phone manufacturers were introducing touch screen phones in some form. It also wasn't a make or break product for Apple as a company and is therefore a really boring story for a Feature film.
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My guess is the director is aiming for the significant product launches for Steve (verses Apple) and I feel the iPhone has more of Steves soul than the iMac.
 
From the beginning this project has appeared to be, essentially, a three act play on film. This information about the filming process pretty much confirms this. I've always preferred live theater to movies, I hope they've managed to duplicate the essence of live theater on film.
 
Sloppy.Joe said:
"The film is centered around three product launches for the original Mac, the NeXT Computer, and the iMac."

The iMac introducetion over the iPhone? Why?
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Apple was seen as an almost dead company around the time of the iMac. The iMac both signalled the resurgence of Apple as a company as well as Steve Jobs return to the company, which no doubt plays into the fact that act 2 is during his time of 'exile' at Next. As far as drama goes, it was a more turbulent time for the company as opposed to the announcement of the iPhone which came off the back of the extremely well received iPods which were still selling like hotcakes in 2007 and Apples financials were really no longer in doubt.

Personally if I was to go with something other than the iMac, I think the iPod could be a more interesting given it was the device along with the iMac that got Apple back on the map, and in many ways assured the success of the iPhone.

As for the film, I'm interested to see how it's filmed. It focus on three product unveilings sounds a bit limited, but The Social Network was great and it didn't get that bogged down on the two court cases that the film was anchored on, with most of the film being dedicated to things happening around the primary plot point.
 
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The guy in the video should of been Steve Jobs! Looks just like him! (Well, a lot better than the guy who is playing Jobs)
 
StyxMaker said:
From the beginning this project has appeared to be, essentially, a three act play on film. This information about the filming process pretty much confirms this. I've always preferred live theater to movies, I hope they've managed to duplicate the essence of live theater on film.
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I hate to break this to you, but 99.9% of all fiction is structured around three acts.
 
ginkobiloba said:
I have a very good feeling about this film. I think it's going to pleasantly surprise a lot of people.
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It won't get the opportunity to surprise a lot of people since that carries the prerequisite of a lot of people having to watch it in the first place. [Almost] nobody cares. SJ isn't news an longer.
 
2IS said:
It won't get the opportunity to surprise a lot of people since that carries the prerequisite of a lot of people having to watch it in the first place. [Almost] nobody cares. SJ isn't news an longer.
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If people only wanted to watch movies about current living characters who are still in the news, 99% of theaters would be empty all year long.
 
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ginkobiloba said:
If people only wanted to watch movies about current living characters who are still in the news, 99% of theaters would be empty all year long.
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Which changes nothing of what I said. He's not a martyr. He had great ideas and great vision as it relates to certain aspects of technology. He isn't the figure to much of the rest of the world as he is to you and a small group of diehards. This movie will be a bust, doesn't matter how hard you want it to be a blockbuster, it wont because most people just don't give a ****. The story has been told. I mean how many times do you need to watch a movie about how he started in his garage, wasn't all that tech savvy but had great ideas, some boring **** happens, then he creates Apple, gets kicked out, comes back, brings it from the brink of bankruptcy, wasn't a nice guy, then dies.

Everyone knows it, and it's not even an interesting story. Sorry
 
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