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2015 film directed by Danny Boyle

This article is about the 2015 film. For other films about Steve Jobs, see List of artistic depictions of Steve Jobs.

Steve Jobs is a 2015 biographicaldrama film directed by Danny Boyle and written by Aaron Sorkin. A British-American co-production, it was adapted from the 2011 biography by Walter Isaacson and interviews conducted by Sorkin. The film covers fourteen years in the life of Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs, specifically ahead of three press conferences he gave during that time - the formal unveiling of the Macintosh 128K on January 24, 1984, the unveiling of the NeXT Computer on October 12, 1988, and the unveiling of the iMac G3 on May 6, 1998. Jobs is portrayed by Michael Fassbender, with Kate Winslet as Joanna Hoffman, Seth Rogen as Steve Wozniak, and Jeff Daniels as John Sculley in supporting roles.

Development began in 2011 after the rights to Isaacson's book were acquired. Filming began in January 2015. A variety of actors were considered and cast before Fassbender eventually took the role. Editing was extensive on the project, with editor Elliot Graham starting while the film was still shooting. Daniel Pemberton served as composer, with a focus on dividing the score into three distinguishable sections.

Steve Jobs premiered at the 2015 Telluride Film Festival on September 5, 2015, and began a limited release in New York City and Los Angeles on October 9, 2015. It opened nationwide in the United States on October 23, 2015, to widespread critical acclaim, with Boyle's direction, visual style, Sorkin's screenplay, musical score, cinematography, editing and the acting of Fassbender, Winslet, Rogen and Daniels garnering unanimous acclaim. However, it was a financial disappointment, grossing only $34 million worldwide against a budget of $30 million. People close to Jobs such as Steve Wozniak and John Sculley praised the performances, but the film also received criticism for historical

The second the credits started rolling at the end of “Steve Jobs,” I reached into my purse and did what so many other people in the theater did: I turned on my iPhone. Currently, I’m writing this review on my MacBook Pro. Later this afternoon, once I’ve brought my six-year-old son home from school, I’ll try to deflect his demands to play “Angry Birds Star Wars” on the iPad. So yes, Steve Jobs has changed my life just as he’s changed many millions of others’ on the planet. The devices he devised do what he hoped they would do: They make our lives easier. They are aesthetically appealing. They are our friends.

Danny Boyle’s thrilling film, which takes place behind the scenes at three key product launches during the late Jobs’ career, begins with the Apple co-founder freaking out minutes before introducing the Macintosh in 1984 because his team couldn’t get it to say “hello.” It was nitpicky and obsessive—qualities he was famous for—but he was also onto something, as we now know: this idea of technology serving as a constant and comforting companion.

All of which makes the fact that he was so coldly dismissive to the real-life people closest to him—the people who actually loved him—such a fascinating contradiction, one of many that Boyle, writer Aaron Sorkin and star Michael Fassbender explore with great ambition and élan.

He insisted on micromanaging the tiniest details of his presentations—making sure the console was a perfect black cube, down to the millimeter, at the 1988 launch of his failed company, NeXT, or cajoling underlings to ignore fire code by shutting off the exit signs in the theater in hopes of achieving a dramatic darkness for his unveilings. But he couldn’t control who was going to come at him in the moments before he took the stage, or what they would say, or what they would want, or how they would dare to invade his formidable brain to wreak havoc when all he wanted to do was maintain his carefully crafted façade of Zen cool.

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Has Jobs been a source of inspiration for Michael Fassbender and Kate Winslet in their own personal lives?

I have to confess, I am a ‘Sorkonite’; a fan of the American screenwriter, Aaron Sorkin. His scripts are dialogue-driven, featuring outspoken personalities with strong verbal skills trying to overpower each other with words. The stories are set in the worlds of journalism, the US army, politics and business. Articulate characters deliver the most memorable monologues including, “It’s [America] not the greatest country in the world, Professor, that’s my answer.” (Will McAvoy, in ‘The Newsroom’), “You can’t handle the truth!” (Nathan R. Jessup in ‘A few Good Men’) and “You have part of my attention. You have the minimum amount” (Mark Zuckerberg in ‘The Social Network’).

It was one of the reasons I was eager to view Sorkin’s take on the story of Steve Jobs, the charismatic founder of Apple. Firstly, Sorkin is on familiar ground as he wrote the excellent script about another ruthless tech entrepreneur in ‘The Social Network’ showing that a film set in Silicon Valley could be as exciting as a thriller. Secondly, Michael Fassbender, who plays Jobs, has built up a reputation most notably with ‘Hunger’ and ‘Shame’, as an uncompromising actor. Finally, to be honest, a character like Jobs, deserves a better film than the one that was made on him in 2013, ‘Jobs’, with Ashton Kutcher playing Jobs.

Although Fassbender doesn’t look as similar to Jobs as Ashton Kutcher does, the German born actor is magnetic and shows sparks of genius, just like the man he portrays. He is exhilarating in his portrayal of Jobs as an unreasonable man, able to alienate people, make them feel miserable and be an unbearable jerk. Winslet plays Joanna Hoffman, Apple’s head of marketing. She is Jobs’s confidante and is able to talk some sense into him when he is being unreasonable. She also steps in as a referee in the ugly confrontations he has with his a

2013 American biographical drama film by Joshua Michael Stern

Jobs is a 2013 American biographicaldrama film based on the life of Steve Jobs, from 1974 while a student at Reed College to the introduction of the iPod in 2001. It is directed by Joshua Michael Stern, written by Matt Whiteley, and produced by Stern and Mark Hulme. Steve Jobs is portrayed by Ashton Kutcher, with Josh Gad as Apple Computer's co-founder Steve Wozniak. Jobs was chosen to close the 2013 Sundance Film Festival.

Plot

In Reed College, in 1974, the high tuition costs force Steve Jobs to drop out, but Dean Jack Dudman allows him to sit in on classes. Jobs is particularly interested in a calligraphy course. Influenced by Baba Ram Dass's book Be Here Now and their experiences with LSD, Jobs and his friend Daniel Kottke spend time in India. His philosophical ideas lead Jobs to the decision not to wear any footwear.

Two years later, Jobs is back in Los Altos, California, living with his adoptive parents Paul and Clara. While working for Atari as a video game developer, Jobs develops a partnership with his friend Steve "Woz" Wozniak. Jobs is charged by his boss Al Alcorn to re-develop arcade gameBreakout, which he ends up having Wozniak build in his place. The job is such a success that Alcorn presents it to President Nolan Bushnell, but Jobs inequitably distributes the salary for Breakout's development between Wozniak and himself.

Later, Jobs discovers that Wozniak built a prototype for the Apple I, a "personalhome computer" which he expresses interest in commercializing. They name their new company Apple Computer. After a failed sale at his employer company HP, Wozniak reluctantly demonstrates the Apple I at the Homebrew Computer Club to a bored audience. Jobs is later approached by store owner Paul Terrell who shows interest in the Apple I. Jobs persuades his father Paul to let them set up their new company in the family'