Should have been a Pixar production. They could have made a virtual Steve and probably even synthesized his voice.
If they are telling the story of the history of Steve then they are going to have to make him appear aging. Why not just make him look like Steve while they are at it?
Not a bad idea at all since Steve helped pioneer Pixar! Doesn't have to be cartoony and could easily be more adult oriented.
As for the actors, they seem to just be representing Steve and Woz as actors and not the true characterization of the people they play. Makes no sense! Its like Brad Pitt playing Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything looking like himself in a wheelchair. Makes you wonder about Hollywood?!?
Are techies really so ignorant that they can't separate the appearance of an actor from the actual craft of (wait for it) ACTING?
How about we wait and see what the performance is like people. Acting <> impersonation.
You are right, to a degree, but there are limits. When an actor's physical appearance is at too great a difference from a real person he is portraying that the audience has known in their lives, the "willing suspension of disbelief" can be broken. Not so with fictional characters, or real people from the distant past we know only from still pictures or paintings. I am both a techie and a retired acting teacher.
Several have wondered about why so many books and movies about Steve. Just as Apple products command so much attention because of the mystery and privacy that Apple cultivates as a part of its culture, so too the guy that lived that way. I believe that Steve took that obsession with secrecy from his personal life and applied it to his company. It's only natural that people want to know more about him, just as they can't get enough of his products. One of the most influential men of our times, who shunned publicity except on his terms when it benefitted him. Kind of Howard Hughes on steroids.
Why are we being subjected to yet another Jobs bio. The guy was a sells man. Woz did all the damn technical work in the early years. Woz actually created the first Apple at HP. A pc they rejected! He was the REAL WIZKID!
But today it's all about God Steve. You Job zealots should be happy Woz doesn't step up and demand his props. That would really deflate the Jobs as Messiah ideal.
Go back to posting "engineers == gods" on Slashdot.
Woz was the wis kid in VERY beginning. Like Jobs or not, after the very beginning it was Steve Jobs who determined the fate of Apple. No other person comes close to deserving as much recognition, including Woz.
Wow, he looks nothing like him. Add in the bad source material, and PASS.
It's utterly bizarre. Everyone in the world knows what Jobs looked like. This is such a strange direction they're taking. I hope they like losing money.
Just one of the pictures. We had all sorts of media displays throughout Redwood City Chesapeake Drive Campus and across campuses. I'm assuming they are attempting to shoot on Stanford, San Fran and Redwood City.
The problem with doing the main campus is some idiot turned the front lawn where we played Volleyball into a piece of shit concrete block.
You didn't have to do a fucking thing to those buildings. Just move in and your company would be cool.
Oh and throw in some quality leather Italian furnishings, as the Kitchen was awesome, the glass doors everywhere with waist level frost looks and more made the place a dream spot for work.
Woz was the wis kid in VERY beginning. Like Jobs or not, after the very beginning it was Steve Jobs who determined the fate of Apple. No other person comes close to deserving as much recognition, including Woz.
Woz was done by 1986. NeXT was born and the reason Apple exists is solely with Steve and NeXT. Wozniak could look but not touch a goddamn thing around Cupertino when we merged. He doesn't know his head from his ass about advanced manufacturing to modern industrial design, etc.
It doesn't matter how good this movie is might be, Fassbender looking so different from the character he's playing will severely effect the success (meaning lack of) that many are going to find it hard to take seriously.
Fassbender looks and sounds nothing like Steve Job. I know he is a great actor but they couldn't find anyone better?
Fassbender is a fantastic actor, so the real issue is he neither looks nor is being made up to look like Jobs. There will probably be a lot of advance promotion addressing this fact by spinning the movie as "getting the attitude right" or some such nonsense.
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Should have been a Pixar production. They could have made a virtual Steve and probably even synthesized his voice.
If they are telling the story of the history of Steve then they are going to have to make him appear aging. Why not just make him look like Steve while they are at it?
Not a bad idea at all since Steve helped pioneer Pixar! Doesn't have to be cartoony and could easily be more adult oriented.
As for the actors, they seem to just be representing Steve and Woz as actors and not the true characterization of the people they play. Makes no sense! Its like Brad Pitt playing Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything looking like himself in a wheelchair. Makes you wonder about Hollywood?!?
Hey, look!
Swan Lake without real swans and a lake:
Madame Butterfly but she's not really in Japan:
Shakespeare without swords!
Whaddya know! Everything DOES have to be authentic and exact to be successful!
I'm surprised that nobody hasn't complained that they guy playing Steve Jobs ISN'T ACTUALLY STEVE JOBS!
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I don't know about that.
Wozniak seems to have learned the importance of focus.
See the contents of his backpack for proof.
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The original I'm presuming..
http://gizmodo.com/5926598/the-amazing-contents-of-steve-wozniaks-travel-backpack
I must admit though.
He does understand that technology can definitely improve a person's quality of life.
Go back to posting "engineers == gods" on Slashdot.
It's utterly bizarre. Everyone in the world knows what Jobs looked like. This is such a strange direction they're taking. I hope they like losing money.
Just one of the pictures. We had all sorts of media displays throughout Redwood City Chesapeake Drive Campus and across campuses. I'm assuming they are attempting to shoot on Stanford, San Fran and Redwood City.
The problem with doing the main campus is some idiot turned the front lawn where we played Volleyball into a piece of shit concrete block.
You didn't have to do a fucking thing to those buildings. Just move in and your company would be cool.
Oh and throw in some quality leather Italian furnishings, as the Kitchen was awesome, the glass doors everywhere with waist level frost looks and more made the place a dream spot for work.
It's now owned and run by http://www.oncomed.com/Overview.html
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Oncomed+Pharmaceuticals,+Inc./@37.501094,-122.213143,218m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x0000000000000000:0xc820d0695a8eef49
They turned 900 Chesapeake Dr over to a split office space [2nd Floor Support.com] and the adjoining 800 Chesapeake Dr into Oncomed.
Just sad.
We had Sega and others inside that complex.
Woz was done by 1986. NeXT was born and the reason Apple exists is solely with Steve and NeXT. Wozniak could look but not touch a goddamn thing around Cupertino when we merged. He doesn't know his head from his ass about advanced manufacturing to modern industrial design, etc.
He has lived off his name for decades.
It doesn't matter how good this movie is might be, Fassbender looking so different from the character he's playing will severely effect the success (meaning lack of) that many are going to find it hard to take seriously.
The only movie about Steve Jobs that I want to see is Pirates of Silicon Valley II: Electric Googleoo, starring Noah Wyle again.
+1 for the early AM "lol". Well played sir.
Fassbender looks and sounds nothing like Steve Job. I know he is a great actor but they couldn't find anyone better?
Fassbender is a fantastic actor, so the real issue is he neither looks nor is being made up to look like Jobs. There will probably be a lot of advance promotion addressing this fact by spinning the movie as "getting the attitude right" or some such nonsense.