The movie "Steve Jobs" was released with mixed reviews and arguments on its accuracy last Oct. 9, Friday.
According to the film's producers, the adaptation was not meant to exactly inform audiences of the life of the late Steve Jobs. Instead of a traditional movie biography, the film-makers decided to exaggerate and dramatize the scenes, while still maintaining that the events did occur in real life.
With Jobs' slogan "Think different" in mind, writer Aaron Sorkin integrated the facts with fiction, aiming to provide a different and more artistic view of the Apple co-founder's life. Sorkin divided the movie into three parts with each part focused on the years Jobs' had major product releases.
Set in 1984, 1988 and 1998, Steve Jobs and Steve "Woz" Wozniak were shown to be getting ready for the first launch of the Macintosh. Jobs and Wozniak released the Macintosh in 1984, the NeXT box in 1988 and then the iMac in 1998. The life of Jobs after those three momentous years were not included in the production.
In addition to the criticisms received by the movie, Jobs' widow Laurene Powell, also disapproves of the film by calling it fiction in her twitter post, as reported by Entertainment Weekly. Other loyalists and twitter users shared in her sentiment by sharing their personal experiences with the late co-founder.
Although the eldest daughter of Jobs', Brennan Jobs contributed to the film, Sorkin did not want to make the movie a biography similar to that of the best-selling book of Walter Isaacson. Also, according to Engadget, Brennan Jobs did not talk to Isaacson during the time he was writing her father's official biography.
Though under criticisms from those personally involved in the real life events of Steve Jobs, the movie has a star-studded cast with "Macbeth" star Michael Fassbender, "The Dressmaker" actress Kate Winslet, "The Interview" actor Seth Rogen and "Dumb and Dumber To" star Jeff Daniels.
With a budget of $30 million, the production only earned $2.7 million in the Box office. "Steve Jobs" was only released in the United States and there are no further details on the movie's availability in other countries.