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Re: Steve Wozniak on Steve Jobs Movie

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Post by exodust » Thu, Sep 10, 2015, 6:37 AM UTC

Joeboy wrote: post #6

exodust wrote: post #2

How many Jobs/Apple movies do we need? Seems to be nothing more than cashing in on the iPhone generation's obsession and hype with one particular brand. Why don't we have a decent Tesla movie? His life and events surrounding his inventions are remarkable, truly engrossing. World-changing in a way that blows Apple Computers or any internal corporate bullshit story or personal Steve Jobs issues out of the park. Yet, wh…

> FFS Hollywood, get it done! The man had visions of AC motors and dreams of generators at the base of Niagara Falls. Then he moves to America and actually achieves those dreams against all odds. I don't know a whole lot about Tesla's life, but those don't particularly strike me as elements of a great / saleable screenplay. Not that that necessarily matters, the established way around that is to just make shit up. I…

I don't understand. The Tesla story has drama, betrayal, dreams realised, dreams broken, tragedy, near-death, exploitation, private and public feuds, genius, globally significant inventions still used today.. the list goes on.

The Jobs story has nothing more interesting, it's just current and fuelled by high-fiving consumer drones.

What next? A movie about Beats By Dre?

What we need from cinema and art is TRUTH. I'd like to see a movie centered around a completely unknown Apple factory worker in China. Film makers are such pussies going for the obvious Jobs story..

Re: Steve Wozniak on Steve Jobs Movie

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Post by exodust » Thu, Sep 10, 2015, 6:50 AM UTC

wuschel wrote: post #30

exodust wrote: post #2

How many Jobs/Apple movies do we need? Seems to be nothing more than cashing in on the iPhone generation's obsession and hype with one particular brand. Why don't we have a decent Tesla movie? His life and events surrounding his inventions are remarkable, truly engrossing. World-changing in a way that blows Apple Computers or any internal corporate bullshit story or personal Steve Jobs issues out of the park. Yet, wh…

Well, the question is, apart from money, what is the motivation for the movie? For sure, Woz would like to set some things straight and tell his perspective on things. I once stumbled about a comment from Woz regarding the Steve Jobs movie. He was not very pleased with the narrative of the Jobs film. The comment is an interesting read, and it can be found at: https://plus.google.com/+CarmsPerez/posts/GnVTvQNgvpf

I hadn't seen that, yes interesting, and the further comments from him down the page.

Well, let's hope this new movie paints a more accurate picture then. I still don't think it's worth a big screen treatment, but I never thought the Facebook movie needed to exist yet either. At least wait until it gets intro trouble.

Re: Steve Wozniak on Steve Jobs Movie

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Post by teh_klev » Fri, Sep 11, 2015, 10:02 AM UTC

croon wrote: post #38

teh_klev wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>How many Jobs/Apple movies do we need? I know, and mostly agree with your sentiment. But I think this one has been in the pipeline for a good while (four years [0]), and is probably the one I've been waiting for because of the Boyle/Sorkin collaboration. The others seemed rushed out just to cash in on Job's life. That said I'm still particularly fond of "Pirates of Silicon Valley"[1], I thought Noah Wiley as a young…

The Boyle part I can get on board with, but I have a hard time coming up with a more overestimated writer than Sorkin. All of his characters are the exact same person. Agreed on the Pirates... movie though, it was a great effort for a DTV movie.

I dunno, I like most of Sorkin's work. However I couldn't watch "The Newsroom" past four or five episodes. You're right, it seems like The West Wing's characters all re-hashed into TV news characters and it was too cloying.

I still go back and re-watch The West Wing every couple of years. Yes some of it is cringe-worthy, but as a non-US citiizen when first broadcast I learned a few things about US politics and it caused me find out more, especially from a historical point of view. He also does some nice things such as dropping in interesting educational nuggets such as the Peters Projection cartography stuff in the second "Big Block of Cheese" episode (S2E16) [0].

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVX-PrBRtTY