In the coming days leading up the theatrical release of Danny Boyle 's Steve Jobs, I am sure you will hear/read the phrase "artful presentation" in some form or another. This post is no different :)
MICHAEL FASSBENDER portrays the pioneering founder of Apple in ?Steve Jobs?, directed by Academy Award? winner Danny Boyle and written by Academy Award? winner Aaron Sorkin. Set backstage in the minutes before three iconic product launches spanning Jobs? career?beginning with the Macintosh in 1984, and ending with the unveiling of the iMac in 1998?the film takes us behind the scenes of the digital revolution to paint an intimate portrait of the brilliant man at its epicenter. MICHAEL FASSBENDER portrays the pioneering founder of Apple in Steve
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As Joanna Hoffman, Jobs ' right-hand-woman, she delivers another solid performance. And the same can be said for all of the ensemble - they all deserve a round of applause for their work.
Steve Jobs (MICHAEL FASSBENDER) with Joanna Hoffman (KATE WINSLET) in ?Steve Jobs?, directed by Academy Award? winner Danny Boyle and written by Academy Award? winner Aaron Sorkin. Set backstage in the minutes before three iconic product launches spanning Jobs? career?beginning with the Macintosh in 1984, and ending with the unveiling of the iMac in 1998?the film takes us behind the scenes of the digital revolution to paint an intimate portrait of the brilliant man at its epicenter. Steve Jobs (MICHAEL FASSBENDER) with Joanna Hoffman (KATE WINSLET) in Steve
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Sorkin 's trademark voice is clearly in the dialogue, but this is not at all in an intrusive way. Because of the way the story is told, Sorkin has structured Steve Jobs very similar to a play. In its execution it does not come off as stage-y at all. It 's an accomplishment to be sure and a wonder to observe.
Earlier, I used the term "artful" for a reason. As anyone familiar with the work of Danny Boyle knows, that while the stories and emotions surrounding his films are all too real and grounded, there are often moments during his film that enter a fantastical realm. And as in other examples of his oeuvre show, instead of taking you out of the story, this approach keeps you engaged.
My praise for the film does come with a warning however - if you are expecting a straightforward recounting of Jobs ' life, you will not find it here. That said, I am willing to wager that in Steve Jobs, you will find no better telling of Steve Jobs ' life and times that captures the spirit of a complicated and complex man.
Steve Jobs comes out October in select theaters with wider release a couple of weeks later.
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Consequently the film is immensely successful and undoubtedly most of it is down to how he considered mise en scene, sound and cinematography. Naturally this essay couldn't include all scenes from the opening extract but there are the main ones down. Overall the film is overawing, overbearing and overflowing with hatred, rivalry and love.
Steve Jobs left the world inspiring millions, and touching the hearts of anyone that appreciates technology. Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different, written by Karen Blumenthal, is an inspiring book about the extraordinary life of Steve Jobs. It tells a very interesting story and provides an abundant amount of information about Steve Jobs that others would not have known. Many people can identify Steve Jobs, but not everyone knows exactly what he did, how he did it, the struggles he went through, the great things he did, and his outrageous personality. People mainly know him as “the man who created apple” but he plays a bigger role and character than that. He changed the face of technology and inspired a generation. This book outlines the important events and details of Steve Jobs’ life. Blumenthal describes the ups and downs in Jobs’ life, and explains how he became one of the most influential people in the world. It shows how Jobs’ changed the world. It portrays an inspiring story
One aspect of the film that the reviewers found to be positive was the performance of Matthew McConaughey. Carpenter states that, McConaughey does a “credible job
He later on told his biographer Walter Isaacson that he used to be so tired after his work that he wouldn’t even feel like talking. Managing Pixar and Apple simultaneously was no easy feat. He reviewed every exiting team at Apple and asked them to justify what role they played towards the future of the company. If they couldn’t justify their existence in the company, not only would their product be cancelled but the chances were high that they would be axed as well. Jobs brought along with him his team of executives from NeXT and allocated them to key positions at Apple. Critics started to believe in Jobs once again, when he unveiled the iMac, his greatest product till then. This was Apple’s first innovative product after the Macintosh and it was unveiled in 1998. The translucent design of the iMac took the PC world by storm, the previous models were all dull boxes either black or beige in color. This product sold like hotcakes and it also brought back loads of developers to the Mac platform. Apple was on an innovation upswing through 1998 and 1999 and they unveiled colored iMacs, iBooks and the consumer notebooks as well. After a mere three years of being in charge of Apple, Jobs had managed to restore the Apple as a “cool” tech
This same approach can be seen with the music, which draws on our uneasiness with dead noise throughout the movie. The film creates its effects essentially out of visuals and music and lack thereof. This film is not for everyone, but if you're the type who spends casual time pondering humankind's destiny, this is a must see. In the end, this film, and its music, is inspiring, meditative, and an almost a spiritual experience. After watching it nearly ten years later, it has still not dated; and I hope it never does.
Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation”, that had the audience laughing in their stiff chairs (Stanford, 2008). While the audience may have reciprocated accordingly during this starting humor, the same could not be said throughout the rest of the speech. Humor effectively used can liven up and gain the audience approval, however poorly executed jokes may turn the audience away, causing some awkward moments. Jobs included several punchlines through the speech that were setup to be comedic relief from a serious subject. However with no pause before or after, and no change in vocal intonation - keeping everything monotone - the joke’s where not received by the audience. These ‘jokes’ such as “I didn’t even know what a Pancreas was,” may have not even been jokes, but a way for Jobs to express just how out of his element he was when speaking about his near death. Still reiterating my previous point, whether it was a joke or a access to the inside of Jobs thinking, the lack of tone makes this hard to say. There was an improvement as the speech became more somber and serious, with Jobs speaking out about the topic of death, the audience death. This broke “the first rule of contemporary American culture- never talk about death”, attract the audience attention, having them shift nervously in their seats (Naughton, 2011). This coupled with an improved use of timing, enabled his horrid humor to be received. At the very minimum Jobs deserves a pat on the back for staying professional as expected, not stumbling over silent pauses or floundering with the follow up, as well as employing humor as a good method to reach the specific
In one particular scene, director was truly a great one, featuring special focus on his dad life and the Colorado River. It was so cool to highlights of the movie by one of his favorite poem written by his dad when he was born, the Important Place. Also, this film was a good length, not excessively long but long enough to tell the story. This is really important today there were no such unwanted scene in the film, which literary the most closely and accurately delivered. In my opinion, this film is forced to possess the characters of a great aspect, and turns to make for quite the adventurous. There was no special character encounter rather than his dad, learned something from the secret Colorado River. Another great aspect of the film was the special footage that were introduce in this film was an enjoyable aspect to be a good documentary film, and that’s how this film is different from the rest.
Also the cinematography of the whole of film as well as its positive direction of the film really inspirational and it also works at a role in communicating both of the relationships between the characters and all the concerned their individual psychologies.
Connecting the dots of life: Steve Jobs Steve Jobs, founder of Apple, gave the commencement speech to the 2005 graduating class of Stanford University on how you may not know it now, but everything connects in the end, even dropping out of college. In his short 15-minute speech, Jobs outlines the ways that his college struggles, company losses, and cancer challenges motivated him and how the graduates can learn from his life. "You can't connect the looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards," Jobs told the graduates.
It was Steve Jobs who made Apple leave the garage and make leaps and bounds in the world of technology. Steve Wozniak made the first prototype, but it was Jobs who “saw the potential” in his computer and persuaded Wozniak to sell it (Peterson 106). Even though that first computer saw very little success, Jobs knew that Apple had potential and so released the Apple II. From the beginning Jobs knew what the consumers wanted, and where computers were going to take the world; he had a vision of the opportunities in technology and saw that Apple needed to move in a different direction. In 1984, one year before he left, Jobs finished the Macintosh computer system. He was pushed from his original computer design project, “the Lisa”, and then raced to release the Mac first, but the Lisa was released to the public first. Although the Lisa came out first, the Mac “[became] synonymous with Apple, mark[ing] a…revolution in…personal computing,” (Peterson 106).
During senior year in high school, Jobs signed up for an electronics class taught by John McCollum. While in the class in 1969, Jobs met a man named Steve Wozniak, a former graduate of McCollum’s class. Like Jobs, Wozniak was a huge electronics “geek” and the two instantly bonded (Romain Moisescot).
...movie that I fell in love with. But most of all I love how the story line is a great overlap into the cinematically engaging movie. There is a great use of camera, timing, shots and story line that are portrayed in this movie without being too overwhelming. This allows the audience to relax during the movie and just take in the scenes as a story from reality. To this day, and even still doing this paper I still come to find different aspects of the movie that I missed the previous times I have watched it.
“Art” is an interesting and complex term. When evaluating the subject and trying to have a general understanding of what art is, one has to have a clear awareness of basic art theory and common art-related knowledge. In a textbook, art could be described as the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power; it could also be bluntly described as various branches of creative activity, such as painting, music, literature, and dance. I agree with this definition to an extent—art is more than just a medium of appreciation. Art, in my opinion, is more about the message between the artist and the viewer.
The film I have chosen is “Steve Jobs” a 2015 biography film directed by Danny Boyle and was written by Aaron Sorkin. The entire film spans from 1984 to 1998 of Steve Jobs’ early career into Apple, turning it around from rock bottom to one of the leading technological industries of today. Majority of the film seems to show off the early build of the Macintosh and how it would compete against other computers on the market. While at the same time, it shows the lowest point in Apple’s financial career and one of their highest points as well. In the early moments of the film, Steve Jobs hustling with his crew to get his first Macintosh demo up and working in front of the press, while at the same time dealing with family issues with his ex-girlfriend
By watched through Jobs the Film (2013), I found out that the acting that done by all the characters in the film was good especially Ashton Kutcher who act as Steve Jobs the main character of the film as he manage to shows out the life of Steve Jobs who dedicated in revolutionize that the way we use computers. Besides that, the writing that done by Matt Whitely who was the screenwriter fir Jobs the Film (2013) was clearly express the storyline and make the audience could easily get the point that shows in the film. Lastly, the music was perfectly matched with the storyline and all the beautiful scenes in the