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Aaron Sorkin's new biopic on Steve Jobs

Avatar Mark Ford
This is the full interview with Sorkin - The Today Programme on Radio 4 played an edited version yesterday.
A trailer for the film can be found here

Re: Aaron Sorkin's new biopic on Steve Jobs

Avatar Tony Still
Mark,

Did you enjoy the film?

Here's my two minute review: I thought it was well made and quite powerful at times. It contains a lot of true events but they have been rearranged to fit into the "three act" structure. We see SJ just before each of three major product launches and it's a bit like Dickens' Christmas Carol: he gets visited by a number of significant people each time just before he goes on stage. The discussions with these visitors seem, if memory serves, to cover real events but I presume various liberties have been taken. I found I could believe the single-minded drive and neglect of others that drove him to build such success.

All in all, I enjoyed it but it shouldn't be taken as literal truth. It probably helps to have a rough time line in your head when you go (SJ founds Apple, launches Mac, gets ousted, launches NeXT, returns to rescue Apple, launches iMac).
 
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