It
would drive SteveJobs nuts to
know that the new movie about his life has all the sex appeal of a
PowerPoint presentation. It isn’t only that PowerPoint has become
synonymous with the dry, dreary, droning of corporate meetings or
that it’s an application developed by Microsoft, itself a favorite
target of Jobs. (“The only problem with Microsoft,” he said, “is
they just have no taste.”
Also: “They just make really third-rate
products.”) Jobs, who died in 2011 at 56 from complications of
pancreatic cancer, thought of himself as an artist, one who, in
talking about the design of the Macintosh, said, “Great art
stretches the taste, it doesn’t follow tastes.”
The
historical record is all that’s stretched in “Jobs,” which
stars Ashton Kutcher and
was directed by Joshua Michael Stern. Compression and omissions are
part of any biography. So it’s to be expected that a two-hour movie
about one of the most important public figures in recent times leaves
out a lot, including famous feuds, forgotten colleagues and
even significant business ventures.
The point isn’t that there are
gaps; the point is what and who have been left out. It’s
understandable that a movie that concentrates on Jobs’s earlier
years would overlook his involvement with Pixar, which
he capitalized in
1986; given the filmmakers’ difficulties dealing
with his difficulties
it’s also understandable that they slide over a little player
called the Xerox Corporation. See more...
Source:
nytimes
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