Steve Jobs (2015)

"Can a great man be a good man?"

Directed by Danny Boyle
Produced by Danny Boyle, Guymon Casady, Christian Colson, Mark Gordon, Scott Rudin
Screenplay by Aaron Sorkin
Based on "Steve Jobs" by Walter Isaacson
Starring: Michael Fassbender, Kate Winslet, Seth Rogen, Jeff Daniels
Music by Daniel Pemberton
Cinematography: Alwin H. Küchler
Edited by Elliot Graham
Production companies: Legendary Pictures, Scott Rudin Productions, Mark Gordon Company, Entertainment 360, Decibel Films, Cloud Eight Films
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Release date: 9 October 2015 (United States)
Running time: 122 minutes
Country: United States
Budget: $30 million
Box office: $31 million

"Steve Jobs" is a biographical drama film directed by Danny Boyle and written by Aaron Sorkin, based on Walter Isaacson's 2011 biography of the same name and interviews conducted by Sorkin. It tells the story of Steve Jobs who takes us behind the scenes of the digital revolution, to paint a portrait of the man at its epicenter.

Cast

• Michael Fassbender as Steve Jobs
• Kate Winslet as Joanna Hoffman
• Seth Rogen as Steve Wozniak
• Jeff Daniels as John Sculley
• Katherine Waterston as Chrisann Brennan
• Michael Stuhlbarg as Andy Hertzfeld
• Makenzie Moss, Ripley Sobo, and Perla Haney-Jardine as Lisa Brennan-Jobs
• Sarah Snook as Andrea "Andy" Cunningham
• Adam Shapiro as Avie Tevanian
• John Ortiz as Joel Pforzheimer
• Stan Roth as George Coates

Frankly speaking, I don't really like all these Steve-Jobs-movies as I'm not sure they may truly show something interesting. However, this "Steve Jobs" doesn't seem very bad but too slow moving, yes, it's so.

What can you wait from the film? Michael Fassbender and his charming acting; and that's the only cause to watch "Steve Jobs", I actually can't name anything else.

Advantages

• Michael Fassbender as Steve Jobs
• Kate Winslet as Joanna Hoffman
• Seth Rogen as Steve Wozniak

Disadvantages

• The main theme of the film is Steve Jobs' private life

"Strangenesses"

• "Can a great man be a good man?"

Clue Moments

• 1984
• Macintosh 512K computer
• A Time magazine article
• Lisa
• Steve Wozniak
• 1998
• NeXT
• The War Memorial Opera House
• Jobs CEO
• Lisa's tuition
• iMac

Steve Jobs was born in San Francisco, California, on February 24, 1955, to two University of Wisconsin graduate students who gave him up for adoption. Smart but directionless, Jobs experimented with different pursuits before starting Apple Computer with Steve Wozniak in 1976. Apple's revolutionary products, which include the iPod, iPhone and iPad, are now seen as dictating the evolution of modern technology, with Jobs having left the company in 1985 and returning more than a decade later. He died in 2011, following a long battle with pancreatic cancer.

Soundtracks

1. Daniel Pemberton - The Musicians Play Their Instruments?
2. Daniel Pemberton - It’s Not Working
3. Daniel Pemberton - Child (Father)
4. Daniel Pemberton - Jack It Up
5. Daniel Pemberton - The Circus Of Machines I (Overture)
6. Daniel Pemberton - Russian Roulette
7. Daniel Pemberton - Change The World
8. Daniel Pemberton - The Skylab Plan
9. Daniel Pemberton - Don’t Look Back Into The Sun – The Libertines
10. Daniel Pemberton - …I Play The Orchestra
11. Daniel Pemberton - The Circus Of Machines II (Allegro)
12. Daniel Pemberton - Revenge
13. Daniel Pemberton - Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 – Bob Dylan
14. Daniel Pemberton - It’s An Abstract
15. Daniel Pemberton - Life Out Of Balance
16. Daniel Pemberton - I Wrote Ticket To Ride
17. Daniel Pemberton - The Nature Of People
18. Daniel Pemberton - 1998. The New Mac
19. Daniel Pemberton - Father (Child)
20. Daniel Pemberton - Remember
21. Daniel Pemberton - Grew Up At Midnight – The Maccabees
22. Daniel Pemberton - Shelter From The Storm – Bob Dylan

Quotations

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Steve Wozniak: What do you do? You're not an engineer. You're not a designer. You can't put a hammer to a nail. I built the circuit board! The graphical interface was stolen! So how come ten times in a day I read Steve Jobs is a genius? What do you do?

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Steve Jobs: God sent his only son on a suicide mission, but people like him because he made trees.

* * *

Joanna Hoffman: I'm begging you to manage expectations.
Steve Jobs: Have I ever let you down?
Joanna Hoffman: Every single goddamn time.
Steve Jobs: Then I'm due.

* * *

John Sculley: You're gonna end me, aren't you?
Steve Jobs: You're being ridiculous. I'm gonna sit center court and watch you do it yourself.

* * *

Steve Jobs: What if the computer was a beautiful object? Something you wanted to look at and have in your home. And what if instead of it being in the right hands, it was in everyone's hands?
John Sculley: We'd be talking about the most tectonic shift in the status quo since...
Steve Jobs: ...ever.

* * *

Steve Jobs: The two most significant events of the twentieth century: the Allies win the war, and this.

* * *

Andy Hertzfeld: It's a system error.
Steve Jobs: [annoyed] Fix it!
Andy Hertzfeld: [incredulous] Fix it?
Steve Jobs: Yeah!
Andy Hertzfeld: We're not a pit crew at Daytona. This can't be fixed in seconds.
Steve Jobs: You didn't have seconds. You had three weeks. The universe was created in a third of that time.
Andy Hertzfeld: Well, someday, you'll have to tell us how you did it.

* * *

Steve Wozniak: We will know soon enough if you are Leonardo da Vinci or just think you are.

* * *

Steve Jobs: [On Bill Gates] He dropped out of a better school than I dropped out of.

* * *

Steve Jobs: I'm gonna put music in your pocket.
Lisa Brennan: What?
Steve Jobs: A hundred songs. A thousand songs. Five hundred songs. Somewhere between five hundred and a thousand songs. Right in your pocket. Because I can't stand looking at that ridiculous Walkman anymore. You're carrying around a brick playing a cassette tape. We're not savages. I'm gonna put a thousand songs in your pocket.
Lisa Brennan: You can do that?
Steve Jobs: We're very close. All I have to do really is wipe out the record business as we know it and we'll be all set.

* * *

Steve Jobs: If a fire causes a stampede to the unmarked exits, it'll have been well worth it for those who survive.

* * *

John Sculley: The board believes you're no longer necessary to this company.
Steve Jobs: I sat in a garage and invented the future because artists lead and hacks ask for a show of hands!

* * *

Steve Jobs: What is your problem?
Joanna Hoffman: I don't know, but I'm sure it can be traced directly back to you.

* * *

Steve Jobs: I don't want people to dislike me. I'm indifferent to whether they dislike me.

* * *

Steve Jobs: Skip over - everything else is working, skip over the voice demo.
Steve Jobs: Fix it.
Andy Hertzfeld: In forty minutes.
Steve Jobs: Fix it.
Andy Hertzfeld: I can't.
Steve Jobs: Who's the person who can?
Andy Hertzfeld: I'm the person who can, and I can't.

* * *

Steve Jobs: They won't know what they're looking at or why they like it but they'll know they want it.

* * *

Steve Jobs: The musicians play their instruments. I play the orchestra.

* * *

John Sculley: You're issuing contradictory instructions, you're insubordinate, you make people miserable.
Steve Jobs: Even if that were true, it doesn't sound that diabolical to me.

* * *

Steve Jobs: [gesturing to his desktop computer] You see how this reminds you of a friendly face? It's warm and it's playful and inviting and it needs to say, "Hello!"
Joanna Hoffman: If you keep alienating people for no reason, there'll be no one left for it to say "Hello!" to.

* * *

Steve Jobs: Hey, Steve Wozniak is sitting out there. Give yourselves a treat and ask if he happens to have the correct time.
Joanna Hoffman: I have the correct time, and we're running out of it.

* * *

Steve Jobs: Everyone, everyone, everyone. Everyone is waiting for the mac.

* * *

Joanna Hoffman: I love that you don't care how much money a person makes, you care what they make. But what you make isn't supposed to be the part of you.

* * *

Lisa Brennan: My mother may be a troubled woman, but what's your excuse? That's why I'm not impressed with your story, dad.

* * *

Steve Jobs: Who are you hiding from, me or your mom?

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You may see the trailer here.

Plot: 6/10

Entertainment: 7/10

Acting: 7/10

Originality: 7/10

Music and Sound: 6/10

6/10