Wonderful film ｜ Steve Jobs： If he is your boss, you may not last three days.
Special feature of 1905 film network There is a kind of movie that you can never create suspense, a kind of movie audience won’t worry about the protagonist, and a kind of movie that you can’t modify everything in the script at will. This is a biographical movie. You can’t let Lincoln lose the Civil War, you can’t let Kennedy survive the shooting, and you can’t let Bruce Lee enjoy his old age.
Therefore, it is difficult to get high marks for biographical films. Even Morgan Freeman can’t save biographical films. In that year, Mandela, starring him, made the audience sleepy, but Steve Jobs, starring Michael Fassbender in 2015, became a rare boutique in biographical films.
Throughout the whole film Steve Jobs, there is no plot to waste the audience’s time, no time-consuming and laborious narration of Steve Jobs’s life, and no description of the obvious fact of how Apple succeeded. The film only tells the fragments of three press conferences.
And put all his energy into portraying Jobs’ rather extreme personal character.
The first press conference about the film was the first generation of Macintosh computers. At that time, when Jobs was in his prime, he denied that Lisa was his daughter, and even gave the surprising conclusion that 28% of men in the United States might be the father of his daughter Lisa.
His expectation of product sales is also extremely outrageous, which is ten times or even a hundred times larger than the actual sales. His attitude towards technicians and business partners is extremely bad, and he even threatens others by destroying his reputation in order to achieve the demonstration effect.
Joanna, who followed him around all the time, couldn’t have imagined that this housekeeper was played by Kate Winslet, a beautiful woman. Of course, if you look closely, it is still beautiful, and the later the film, the more beautiful Kate becomes.
Another highlight of this film is that the director didn’t shoot the official demo clips of each conference. Although all the props, venues and audiences were in place, he just didn’t shoot the actual release, which is what makes this film amazing.
Because you don’t need to shoot it, you don’t need film and television language to describe it. Everyone knows that Jobs’ press conference has never failed, his company has failed, and he has failed as a man. But it is the press conference that he reached 30 years ago, and no one has yet surpassed it. Even ten years after his death, Apple’s new product launch is still the focus of the world.
The second press conference in the film was after Jobs was kicked out of Apple. At that time, in order to return to Apple, the ambitious Jobs released a competitive product of Apple computer and named it the Black Box.
Half an hour before the press conference, it was the same partners and the familiar mom Joanna. This time, Jobs, as paranoid as a few years ago, was entangled in every detail and even began to challenge the laws of physics for a perfect cube.
However, in some things, he is more mature than a few years ago, at least now he won’t humiliate programmers anymore. Unfortunately, the formal suit at this conference was a bit of a steal. After all, Michael Fassbender’s beauty is really beyond Jobs’ comparison, and with a slim black suit, I believe the female fans are screaming inside.
Time went by in 1998, and the third press conference of this film began. This time, Jobs had returned to Apple and once again took control of everything. In business, his ambition for many years was finally realized. Even on the eve of the press conference, he was qualified to call Bill Gates a useless bastard.
Unfortunately, from the colleague’s point of view, Jobs is the complete jerk, even if he is a genius, he can’t hide it.
Treat friends for many years, treat partners who silently support him every time. He is still the heartless person ten years ago. The only thing that has changed is his attitude towards his daughter. In fact, his paranoid personality is also related to his tortuous life experience and unfortunate childhood experience.
Jobs finally had a soft side in his heart. He finally decided to make a music product called ipod for his daughter to replace the ugly walkman.
Now, Steve Jobs has been dead for ten years, and the iphone has finally got rid of the panel design when he was alive. Apple is still the unique unicorn company in the world, but it is still too early to comment on Steve Jobs’ contribution to the whole world. Maybe a century later, people will feel completely different when they come to see this film again.