Before the filming of the film, Jobs's wife Laurenna tried to stop, contacting Leonardo DiCaprio and Christian Bale, hoping that they would not take the role. It also contacted Sony and strongly requested not to produce the film. After failure, it tried to persuade the distributor Universal Pictures not to allow it to be released (
).
After the film was released, it caused dissatisfaction among industry insiders, including Apple CEO Tim Cook, and even senior technology reporters. They believe that the film distorted the facts and deliberately magnified the shortcomings of Steve Jobs, and did not show the Jobs they knew (
). There are still many unreal scenes in the film. For example, after Jobs left Apple, he never interacted with Scully. When Jobs returned to Apple and released the iMac, Joanna Hoffman had left Apple for a long time (
). In addition, the audience is also easy to be misled, thinking that NeXT is just a strategy for Jobs to return to Apple. In fact, NeXT has existed for 12 years and has attracted many investors. After Jobs bought Pixar again, although all failed, the changes he took in the process were far more exciting and complicated than the movie. Camel () believes that the biggest failure of the film is that it hides some of Jobs's seemingly boring, but at the same time essential life experience, blindly pursuing drama ().
In this regard, Alan Sorkin said that although these characters and the press conference are real, most of the dialogue in the film is fictitious. This is the difference between news and art. Screenwriters have subjective rights. And his changes to the relationship between Jobs and Scully do not harm anyone (
).
