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December 6, 2024 • 14 mins
Danny Boyle directed a good film that was written by Aaron Sorkin called "Steve Jobs". It's a biographical film depicting Apple Computers Co-Founder and Visionary Tech Giant, Steve Jobs. The film centers around three key moments in Jobs' life and in each of the periods shows us who this guy Steve Jobs is and we should care about him and the people who surround him. The scenes really give out a clear but complex picture of Steve Jobs. To be a visionary such as himself, you must some type of complication, something that stand out in your life. I dig the film for its intense dialog concerning the task at hand, which is basically making the unveiling of the future is as perfect as it can try to be. I dig the cinematography, where the space of a setting is used. Boyle gave us the feeling of a play of sorts because characters spent their time in closed doors in a public venue. Interesting to see how actors can use their space and setting for their effective skills. the use of editing where characters appear and disappear in the film and how we get the reaction shots from the characters which relates as how WE would react to a certain exchange of dialog and/or action. The flaw I would give for this film is partially on the type of character this version of Steve jobs is. Almost an egomaniac. It has a bit hard to swallow that pill.

Three and a half out of four tokes.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is Morning Real three to four to one hundred
minute or so podcast of films that I review. If
I see it, I review it. Hosted by yours truly,
Ray Salazar. Listen, I've never owned an iPhone ever, ever, ever, ever.
The closest thing I owned to an Apple product was
an iPod that lasted to like, I don't know, man,

(00:22):
two thousand and six. And then that was it. Once
that iPod was gone, that was it. There is no
way of me like getting another one, because I think
I got it for free or something like that. Either way, man,
I saw this film called Steve Jobs. It's a twenty
fifteen biographical drama film directed by Danny Boyle. If you
know who Danny Boyle is, He's directed a lot of

(00:43):
good films, such as Trainspotting and the Academy Award winning
film slum Dog Millionaire. Screenplay written by Aaron Sorkin, who's
a genius writer. Man, I mean, if you know about
Erin Sorkin, he writes pretty intense, semi ten semi political dramas,

(01:03):
you know, like period pieces, and it's usually modern. I
like to say almost that. Aaron Sorkin's almost a new
or noir type of writer, man like, it's not exactly
all the way to the tech, but the drama's there
either way. This is adapta from betweenty eleven biography by
Walter Isaacson, and there was interviews that were actually conducted

(01:27):
by Aaron Sorkin to pretty much set up the whole
treatment of the film. Now, I've seen this film maybe
like three times already in my life. You know, it's
not that old, but it's pretty old enough to like
revisit it and to actually talk about it, man like.
This is a film about a man who pretty much
saw the future in the garage with his homie Steve Wozniak,

(01:50):
who was actually played very very well by Seth Rogen.
Man Like, yeah, Seth Rogan's hilarious and all that stuff
with you know, four year old virgin knocked up in
all those other films. But this man does have a
lot to offer in the dramatic side of things. You know,
Steve Wozniak was basically the ringo star of the Beatles.

(02:12):
Not actually no, he was not Ringo as you would claim.
He He was Paul, dude. He was Paul, and Steve
jobs was John. And you can't have Paul without John
and John without Paul, as you can see by the Beatles, right,
and this guy pretty much invented the computer. Like this
guy was behind it all. He built the circuit board,
he built the things that you would plug into the

(02:35):
actual computer itself. And there was differences into those two
people like Wozniak really wanted something that people can easily
access to, you know, and Steve Jobs was like, fuck
that shit, bro, Like, I don't want no third party
hands digging into my fucking products, man, Like that's not
what it's all about. Which for anny, like entrepreneur, or

(02:57):
for any businessman, or just like any inventor, you want
to have that absolute control of your product, of your baby.
And these two had a baby together, and there's differences,
but they don't forget like that they're brothers at the
end of the day, not actual brothers, but they're like,
you know, brothers in arms. You know, they basically invented
the future, and it's like they knew certain points of it,

(03:21):
but there was just so much more that they couldn't
fathom of thinking, you know, like iPads, power books, things
of that nature, cell phones, things that people could have
at the home, you know, and that was the ultimate
goal between these two people that they knew that they
wanted something that was mobile, They wanted something that people

(03:42):
could not have to get out of the house and
look at us right now when you compare like the
early seventies to like twenty twenty four going on twenty
twenty five, where everything's in the palm of our fucking hands.
Like literally, right now, as I'm holding this Mike, the
other hand is holding my phone and it's not an iPhone,
but like it's because of the mac dude, because of

(04:06):
the Apple Tude, the Apple Lisa, the Macintosh that pretty
much set everything forward. Like who would have thought that
a window with round corners would be a bucking big
ass deal. Who would have thought that turning on the
computer and having the computer actually make a human like sound,
Like who would have thought something like that could ever happen?

(04:29):
And the film's not really much about the computers, about
the man behind the computer, but the man and the
computer are like almost like one being itself. You know,
Steve Jobs, he's he's a guy who always likes to
be in control. You know, he's very indifferent about people
and about people's feelings, Like he hates to acknowledge the
fact that he's actually a father to a kid which

(04:50):
had to take a paternity test, and the paternity test
told him that, hey, you are ninety four point three
percent the father, and he's like, nah, but dude, you
pay for the I get tested to show you the
result of you're still saying that. He's like, nah, Steve
Jobs had a vision, man, and honestly, a child was
not in that fucking vision. But let's not forget he

(05:11):
named the first computer after Lisa, which is his daughter.
And there's a pretty there's a pretty key scene in
this film where his ex, his ex baby mom and
his and his kids there and the Macintosh is right there,
sitting on the table and Lisa's playing with it, and

(05:32):
Steve doesn't really care about what she's doing, really, but
he did notice something. He noticed that that kid was focused,
that kid was drawn to this machine that even at
that time was like it's like seeing the television for
the first time ever, you know, but with capabilities, right,
And he knew there was something there as soon as

(05:53):
he saw Lisa making something on mac paint, which, as
you can probably kind of tell, that ended up being
the the G three mac that everybody loves everybody owns
at one point with many different colors. Like nobody saw
that coming, you know, but he did, especially at that moment,
even we didn't see it in the audience. Now, Danny

(06:14):
Boyl was pretty good at directing this film because he
took three key points of Steve jobs life and the
people who support basically the bloodline of Apple, the bloodline
of the Macintosh computer invention itself. And it's very tense,
it's very dramatic. There's politics in it. Not like worldwide politics,

(06:35):
I mean that always plays into question, right, but like
politics within like the company. Like Steve was like a
maverick dude. Like he didn't listen to anybody. It's kind
of like Elon Musk, you know, like he just listened
to himself. He knew what he was up to. He
just needed a team and that was it. He just
needed a team, and he told the team what to do,
and honestly, the team did what he wanted to do
and eventually it worked out. It wasn't success overnight. It

(06:59):
wasn't a success in ten years. It took him like
almost thirty years to pretty much nail it with that
nineties launch towards the end of the third act, which is, honestly,
it's a really good third act because everything pays off.
All the characters tie in their problems between each other,
especially Steve Jobs, And it's kind of crazy to see

(07:22):
an older Steve Jobs, much more wiser, much more smart,
really about himself and about how people treat him and
how he treats people. Because if you're inventing something or
making something that you know for sure is going to
actually benefit mankind, you know for the next like lifetime.

(07:45):
Even Steve Jobs knew that the people who were purchasing
these mac computers, these power books, these iPads, these iPods,
iPhones and all that crap. Man, it was gonna lead
to one thing, access to the Internet, access to worldwide shit.
And it's pretty ironic because like he invented something that's
pretty end to end, where like let's say I have
an iPhone. Let's say let's say life was programmed by iPhones, right,

(08:08):
everybody had an iPhone and then there was this one amaz,
this one android guy. That android guy would have no
communication towards anybody else except pretty much himself. But what's hilarious,
and like, when you think about it, in the long run,
he invented something that people were gonna like basically jail
break it. Either way, people were gonna pretty much go

(08:30):
out of their way to like communicate with others. There
was no way that you could really hold on to
something that like, it's just bound to be accessible by everybody,
so like, why deprive yourself from it. It's just gonna
make you more money at the end of the day,
and it's gonna make you look like a tech god,
which he kind of was, man like towards the end

(08:50):
of the film where he tells Lisa, like, Hey, I'm
gonna put music in that little pocket or whatever like that,
right basically saying like, you know, I'm inventing this thing
called quote unquote an iPod or whatever because he was
tired of seeing his d carry that big, gigantic late
eighties walk. Man. I don't know, it's just those things
that like, I guess a guy like him just thought

(09:11):
about it and he's like, you know what, like there's
something that we could do to fit in the size
of your hand or whatever, you know, And the cinematography
is pretty good too, I don't know. Danny Boy was
kind of weird with those like arch type of angles.
You know, it kind of works what he was doing
with this film in particular. I like how he shows

(09:31):
people in masses, you know, because that's what like what
the whole film was about, like feeding into the masses
and acquiring from the masses at the same time. You know,
and you see all these people who are and it's
not even that it's it's like a building's worth of people.
But we all know that, Like there was millions and
billings who wanted to see that launch, who wanted to

(09:52):
be physically present for something like that, because people kind
of knew at that point. Man, like this guy like
pretty much made history about making a pretty what at
that time was a badass innovative machine that actually was
affordable that every school, public, private, whatever, can actually afford

(10:13):
to supply it to people or to people who are underprivileged.
You know, Like say you can say about how much
of a dick he was to his own family or
to the people who worked very closely with him. I
don't know, man, It's like that Michael Jordan thing where
like he wanted everybody to be at the top of
their game because that was the only thing you could do,

(10:33):
Like there's no other way around it. You know, like,
if you want to be the best, you got to
be the best, no matter what. You know, I'm the best.
You guys got to be the best because if you're
not the best, there's nothing I can do with you.
And he saw it, kind of saw things like that,
not to that grant of a scale, but the way
that film depicted this type of this version of Steve Jobs,

(10:55):
like he was just about fucking business because he just
knew what he was doing. He saw the future. It's
some weird nonstra doma shit and you can call it,
you can kind of call it cornball. I don't know, man,
I just I do like the intensity, and I like
the intensity between all the characters who would converse with him,

(11:15):
converse about him. You know, those people were key to
his success. Really, you know, there wouldn't be a Steve
Jobs without Steve Wozniak or Joanna Hoffman or Andy Hertzberg
and all those little players, you know, like they just
got it going. And Danny Boyle did a pretty good

(11:36):
job depicting a film that pretty much makes you think
about how like fuck man, like it took all of this,
It took these type of events to pretty much kind
of like make something like a Macintosh happen or an
iMac happened period and when you think about it, it's
a it's a very important event and like in our

(11:57):
human history, like this guy like then to something that
we still use today, and like it's gonna get far
more better, scarier, accessible, and just greater in its advancement
in technology. Man. And it's a pretty good biographical film too,
because it really doesn't miss as to how you could

(12:21):
really relate to this person, because at the end of
the day, he is a relatable person. You know, like
he did grow up without parents. You know, his parents
basically threw him away. It's kind of crazy how he
would like talk about it. And you can tell, you
can tell that it was something that was very hard
for him to talk about, which kind of led to
kind of who he is or who he was as

(12:41):
a person, especially to his own family, to his own
baby mom, his own daughter. You know, Like there's a
key line that he says towards the end of the
of the film really where he says, you know, I'm
poorly made, and that shit hits man, because it takes
really it pretty much does us take a big man
or a big person to kind of have that accountability

(13:02):
about who you are and how you treat folks, and
not that you could just like blame it on your
parents or whatever, but like it's the first step to
all kinds of things, right, which the Apple computer was
the first step to what we have now, man, especially
the shit that I'm talking right now on this microphone
following me on Morningshall, Films, IG and YouTube. I give

(13:23):
this film a three and a half out of four
tokes really really because of some of the corniness between
the dialogue and like this Steve Jobs version is you
can tell he's very full of himself. I can't really say,
I can't. I'm not fully convinced that this guy was
really like that, like that like godly, like you know

(13:45):
where like it's my ware, the highway to the to
the t you know. But either either or Man, Aaron
Sorkin's a really good screenwriter. Man, he got me hooked
in the first twelve minutes. It's films like this that
kind of make you think about like what you want
out of life or what you want to put into society,
what you want to introduce to the world, not just

(14:06):
necessarily the world, but like your own world, your peers,
you know, because that's a good start out of anything else.
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