We all know that these big guys are energetic, intellectually curious, and stubborn guys when they are young, and the characters in "Jobs Biography" are simply dead fish compared to "Silicon Valley Legends", making people unable to experience them. Excited. The film begins with the appearance of Jobs at the iPod conference that year. This was a speech that shocked the audience, but as soon as Jobs appeared on the stage, the camera switched to the scene of the audience applauding, followed by a hasty scene switching back to To Steve Jobs when he was still on campus. Such an unrestrained and fast-moving story is the pointless narrative rhythm of the whole film. The film is almost purely showing Jobs's life history, but what audiences want to know is not how successful Jobs was, but why he succeeded. It's a pity that we can't find the answer in such a crude film at all.
In fact, the plot of the whole film only focuses on the initial development of Steve Jobs and Apple, which is understandable. After all, compared with the story of Apple in the 21st century that everyone is familiar with, the growth process itself is more narrated than the development after success. Strange Stories also has more room for adaptation. The most important part is the story of Jobs and his friends starting Apple from scratch in their garage, and then being pushed out of Apple. Both of these are the climax of the dramatic conflict, but neither of them are mediocre in the film. Starting a company in a garage is a very inspirational and passionate thing, and in the film we can only see a few otakus making computers without haste in a simple setting, the enthusiasm and nervousness of starting a business The feeling is lost in the dull atmosphere. Including when Steve Jobs was recognized by everyone at the press conference, he still quickly cut to the applause scene. Before the audience and the protagonist could experience the joy of success together, the film jumped to the next innocuous plot. I finally waited for the episode of Apple that Jobs was forced to leave. I originally expected that the ups and downs of life would bring some inner struggles to the story, but the movie casually made Jobs quarrel a few words, followed by boring research and development. A picture of a new computer.
The film's failure also lies in the portrayal of the actor's image. The protagonist Ashton Kutcher does have a high degree of similarity with the young Jobs, but he deliberately learned the way Jobs walked was too deliberately awkward, and even gave people a sense of scumbag and wretchedness. Moreover, the paranoid and passionate character of Jobs in real life, the frightening but all-absorbing eyes were not shown in the movie at all. Most of the time, Jobs is more like a salesman with constant calculations, and what people say is his unique "reality-bending stance" is shown in the film as moody, like an uncontrolled neurosis. The original film wanted to focus more on Jobs' private life, but several passages about his wife and daughter were completely inserted into it, which made the originally centerless script even more fractured.
After all, biographical films require not only physical resemblance, but also spiritual resemblance. Don't delusionally imagine that a similar actor can imitate a legend. The failure of "Jobs Biography" is that it expounds Jobs' life too positively, fails to focus on the focus and fails to find an eye-catching narrative perspective. When everything is just plain and straightforward, no matter how thrilling life is, it will become mediocre.
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