Danny Boyle: ‘I didn’t recognise Michael Fassbender when he was playing Steve

“I play the orchestra”. People who were close to Jobs have leveled the same criticism against this film that they lobbed at Isaacson’s biography, claiming that these portraits of Jobs paint him in a cruel light. “I felt like I was actually watching Steve Jobs”, he said. Boyle shoots the first section in 16 millimeter, the second in considerably less grainy 35 millimeter, the third in glossy, crystalline high-def – a visual echo for the technical advances Jobs is talking so passionately about. “And that’s when I knew there was a point of friction that I absolutely wanted to write about”. The film “Steve Jobs” shrinks the man to fit the heartwarming Hollywood biopic template.

The film’s director, Danny Boyle, who was originally believed to be in conversation with DiCaprio regarding the role, admitted Jobs Powell and Apple “haven’t helped”, with CEO Tim Cook even labelling the film’s screenwriter Aaron Sorkin “opportunistic” for writing the film.

It also has very little to do with reality.

And we’ll all – millions of us – line up, happily, to buy it.

And with Steve, it comes out of [the fact that] he made products that people fall in love with in a way that I think we never really imagined it would ever be possible – to literally have a romance with a piece of equipment. Steve Jobs is getting very positive feedback with a current Rotten Tomato rating trending above the 90 percent mark.

Aaron Sorkin has come clean about his opposition to the casting of Michael Fassbender in new movie Steve Jobs after his emails about the film were exposed during last year’s Sony database hack. Viewers will leave the movie with a skewed perception of what Jobs was really like.

And all three of these actors embody the parts they play.

The film has won early praise from critics in a sign that it may deliver compelling insights into Jobs that were lacking in earlier efforts to portray him on the big screen. Besides Seth Rogen and Michael Fassbender, you’ve got Kate Winslet, Jeff Daniels.

Ive’s hackles have been raised by Danny Boyle’s Steve Jobs and Alex Gibney’s Steve Jobs: the Man in the Machine which have depicted the Apple icon as a cutthroat businessman who could be ruthless to his own employees.

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