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Universal Releases First Trailer for 'Steve Jobs' Movie
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I'm glad Sorken had the line about "you're not an engineer, don't write code," etc. He wasn't and he didn't. Without Woz, and a bunch of people from PARC no one ever heard of, Jobs would have had nothing to sell. Still, he knew what he liked and rode people to the breaking point to get it, which made him, I think, a sort of psychopathic visionary.
As for Fassbender not looking like Jobs, so what? This is movie, not a celebrity lookalike contest. As long as whoever they find to play a known person is close enough to pass for him running down a park alley, it's good enough if he can deliver the role.
As for Fassbender not looking like Jobs, so what? This is movie, not a celebrity lookalike contest. As long as whoever they find to play a known person is close enough to pass for him running down a park alley, it's good enough if he can deliver the role.
And I hope people enjoy it. I've seen Jobs so much on screen that I know I would be disappointed by any movie. He's too well known.
I'd love to see a documentary putting together footage from the keynotes and interviews. I think there's a great story to be told that way.
I am just not that interested in the movie. I read the Isaacson book with interest but I don't think it will make a good movie.
Anybody else think Daniel Day Lewis would have been the guy for this? The resemblance is there, but he would have absolutely nailed Steve's voice. He would have no interest in doing this movie of course.
Why wait for October, when the best (and most authentic) movie about Steve Jobs is out already?!
So, if you feel sad about Steve not being around any more, just go back and live again some historical moments with him..
like in 2007, the keynote for the original iPhone
Sorry for all those talented actors, but no one will ever a better Steve than himself. With all those movies luckily around, I only wish these videos end up in some museum about him actually, maybe inside Apple new campus.
So, if you feel sad about Steve not being around any more, just go back and live again some historical moments with him..
like in 2007, the keynote for the original iPhone
Sorry for all those talented actors, but no one will ever a better Steve than himself. With all those movies luckily around, I only wish these videos end up in some museum about him actually, maybe inside Apple new campus.
Really? Do the writers and producers really think the public is that interested in this story line? I wasn't interested before, but now I really have no desire to see this movie.
It's about Jobs, not Apple. Apple is critical. But a movie about Steve Jobs would and SHOULD be a movie about a human being, not a computer or a company. Lord knows Jobs has had an especially dramatic life, even without embellishment.
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If you have read the entire screenplay, you must have a contractual non-disclosure business relationship with the producers. And if you are revealing details of the script, you should be hunted down and sued.
Wow, the trailer looks very exciting !
Fassbender is hands down one of the best actors alive. His performance in "Shame" was one of the best performances of the decade ! He is so much more talented than Kutcher it's not even funny, and yes, even a better actor than Bale.
And even though I would have preferred David Fincher, Boyle is a virtuoso.
A good actor is supposed to projects the PERSONALITY of the character he impersonates, not his physical looks. If all you want is physical resemblance, go watch a keynote, because no actor in the world will look 100% like Jobs ( unless he is a twin brother ).
The film looks over the top and controversial, just like Jobs himself. The last phrase of the trailer ( "No one sees the world as you do") is interesting because it's very ambiguous. And Fassbender is at his best when he plays ambiguous characters.
This movie is not made for Apple Geeks. It's made for people who wants to see a good film. I can't wait to see this film.
Fassbender is hands down one of the best actors alive. His performance in "Shame" was one of the best performances of the decade ! He is so much more talented than Kutcher it's not even funny, and yes, even a better actor than Bale.
And even though I would have preferred David Fincher, Boyle is a virtuoso.
A good actor is supposed to projects the PERSONALITY of the character he impersonates, not his physical looks. If all you want is physical resemblance, go watch a keynote, because no actor in the world will look 100% like Jobs ( unless he is a twin brother ).
The film looks over the top and controversial, just like Jobs himself. The last phrase of the trailer ( "No one sees the world as you do") is interesting because it's very ambiguous. And Fassbender is at his best when he plays ambiguous characters.
This movie is not made for Apple Geeks. It's made for people who wants to see a good film. I can't wait to see this film.
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Understandable but I found it to be profoundly meaningful. Sorkin isn't Tyler Perry. He knows how to write. The Social Network sounds idiotic on paper but I thought it was a compelling drama and I have fundamentally no interest in Facebook nor its founding fathers.
Steve Jobs was complex man and Sorkin did an outstanding job distilling the man through his relationships with Sculley, Hoffman, Hertzfeld, Woz, Chirissann, and most of all, his daughter Lisa.
There is an Apple/NeXT-related subplot but we're all pretty much familiar with that narrative ground. The conflict and his mercurial relationship with Lisa portrays a coming-of-age story but also reflects how that maturation affected his job at being, I guess, Steve Jobs.
I'm sure this isn't the movie that Apple fans want to see but as a drama it's better than anything an Apple fan would want to see. "We can make a better computer than the hobbyists, that's why they're buying them from us and not the other way around."
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They should start with Sorkin first.
http://www.theverge.com/2014/11/17/...ter-lisa-is-the-heroine-of-aaron-sorkins-film
http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood...-jobs-biopic-general-petraeus-paula-broadwell
thanks
is this a famous line? i dont recall having heard about it or read about it before.
It could have been the lighting but it looks like they didn't even dye his hair black.
It actually sounds like a host in a tv interview to me. It's a typical question from an interviewer.
The way Steve looks in the teaser during what looks like the iMac keynote, is not how Steve looked in the original introduction. The iconic black turtle neck and grey hair (the way we remember him best) came later. They probably used some creative liberty there.
Looks more like Robin Williams
I see. This is going to be about the old Steve Jobs.
That might work, as all old people look alike to young people.
(sarc off)
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Who's playing Mulder?
I see. This is going to be about the old Steve Jobs.
That might work, as all old people look alike to young people.
(sarc off)
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Who's playing Mulder?