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Sorkin talks Jobs: 'you could make another 10 movies about his life'
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Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, who has penned the screenplay for the forthcoming Sony-backed movie about Steve Jobs, was interviewed on the project by Emily Chang of Bloomberg and revealed that he had met and spoken on the phone to Jobs a few times, along with some minor details about the upcoming film. Sorkin told Chang that the movie will follow Jobs' interactions with a number of key people, including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and former CEO John Sculley. He also detailed his encounters with Jobs. Sorkin first spoke to Jobs on the phone on a couple of occasions, the first time after praising the Macintosh in an interview. Jobs thanked Sorkin for the plug and sent him a notebook (model unspecified) to "play around with." Later, Jobs contacted Sorkin to explore the idea of the writer working on a Pixar project. The third call was to help Jobs write the commencement address at Stanford, a role previously unconfirmed. Sorkin went out of his way to emphasize that his role turned out to be "fixing a couple of typos" and that all the sentiments expressed in the speech were purely from Jobs.
Jobs has previously been largely responsible for the "Here's to the crazy ones" mission statement when he returned to Apple, but collaborated with ad writers from Chiat/Day to polish his original vision for the speech, which he performed in the first draft the now-famous TV ad before asking that his voice be replaced with Richard Dreyfuss. Chang noted that she had been in the audience for Jobs' speech, and considered it life-changing.
Although the Sony film has run into its share of pre-production problems, with the original director being replaced by Oscar winner Danny Boyle and the lead role of the movie still uncast after two actors under consideration dropped out of the project, Sorkin did not address those issues in the released clip. As he has previously said, the movie will consist of three half-hour segments (presumably with flashbacks and other devices) that take place just prior to three of Jobs' most pivotal keynotes: introducing the original Macintosh in 1984, the original NeXT computer in 1988, and the third before the introduction of the iPod in 2001.
Sorkin also mentioned that he had talked with all the key people in Jobs' life, including Steve Wozniak (who is acting as a consultant on the film). He did not give an estimate of when the film might be released.
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I'm sure there will ba a lot of fictional parts to the film, given Sorkin's history. He takes bare bones facts, and then puts an entire story around them, making up things as he goes. Just look at "The Social Network" - he basically started with the facts that Zuckerberg had a girlfriend and got sued over the creation of Facebook. Then he created an entire narrative from there, with little or no regard to what actually happened. The fact that he uses real poeple to populate his fictional stories is troublesome to me.
I can imagind this movie, with Jobs getting ready for those three keynotes, stopping to reminisce about the past - where he came from, how the Apple I was started, his personal relatioships, etc. Obviously total BS. The events might be based in fact, but when Jobs was preparing a keynote, he didn't stop and think about his life. This movie may show events in Jobs' life, but I certainly wouldn't trust it to be accurate, or to give insight into his thought process and his character.
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There are more parts to The Social Network that are based in reality than you give credit for.
Then again, you must bear in mind that Aaron Sorkin is writing *movies*, not documentaries. The things you think he's guilty of every screenwriter is guilty of. Would you accuse Shakespeare of the same things for his Julius Caesar, and Antony and Cleopatra productions?
Movies (and plays) are for entertainment, not for a factual account of historical events -- that would be a documentary.
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