Tomas Chlebek A new film to classic cinema distribution Steve Jobs won't get until October (in the Czech Republic in November), but had its premiere at the Telluride Film Festival a few days ago. It was here that journalists saw it, from whom the first reviews came.
Although the director is Danny Boyle, who in the past has directed films such as Trainspotting a Sunshine, in connection with the film Steve Jobs Aaron Sorkin, who wrote screenplays for, for example, was talked about more often The Social Network a moneyball. One of the reasons for this is probably the template, which is the "official" biography of Walter Isaacson, as well as the unusual division of the film into three parts associated with the introduction of three important products: the Macintosh, the NeXT computer and the iMac.
The first reviews also mention the script, alongside the acting performance of Michael Fassbender in the role of Jobs, as the dominant component of the film - they compare it to stage plays and speak very positively about it.
Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter it describes, rather than evaluates, the way in which the fates of individual characters are intertwined and how they all serve as catalysts for the conflicts occurring behind the scenes before Jobs' presentations. Still, it's clear from his words that watching the dynamics of the relationships and the way they reveal different aspects of Steve's personality was interesting to him, to say the least.
[do action="citation"]Fassbender's performance has great Oscar potential.[/do]
He then describes Boyle's style with the sentence: "Boyle's sophisticated, but pragmatic, visual approach evoking a sense of whirlwind of activity stands somewhere between this (the extremely continuous style of Birdman, editor's note) and the more conventional cinema-verite (documentary style, editor's note). […]" Finally, with the greatest excitement, he mentions the actors and singles out not only Michael Fassbender, who does not look like Jobs, but his acting perfectly captures his personality, as well as the rest of the cast. "The actors are all great," he says.
Also Kristopher Tapley of Variety states that Steve Jobs is more of a character study than a typical biographical film showing important points in the main character's life. It mainly focuses on dialogues and rather hectic editing, which not only dynamizes the action on the screen, but also turns the film into a kind of set of vignettes, which together form a picture of Jobs' character and the environment in which he moved. He then declares without hesitation about Fassbender's performance that it has great Oscar potential.
The magazine also highlighted the importance of Sorkin's screenplay Deadline, described the film as "an action movie driven almost entirely by words, a truly exceptional affair in today's visually driven cinema". However, the editor's more extensive opinion was not presented here, with director Danny Boyle presenting the film as "work in progress" at the festival. Instead, the author of the article, Pete Hammond, reported on his encounters with people associated with the film that he met at the festival.
Of them, the most interesting to us is probably Steve Wozniak, who was enthusiastic about the film. While to the slide JOBS with Ashton Kutcher byl very critical: To Steve Jobs he said it was "absolutely authentic". "I saw a rough cut and it felt like I was really watching Steve Jobs and others, not actors playing them," said the Apple co-founder.
A less enthusiastic opinion was expressed by Benjamin Lee of The Guardian, who acknowledged the film's craftsmanship and Fassbender's confident acting, added in the same sentence that despite the realistic and unsentimental portrayal of Steve Jobs, it is more of a fan film that will not convince the current detractors of his main character.
Or the other The Social Network, which is also by Sorkin?