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An Insanely Great Throwback Thursday
Saying “hello” has rarely been so profound.
In the spirit of “Throwback Thursday” and the Steve Jobs trailer that debuted yesterday, today’s blog post will take you back to the real Steve Jobs presenting the first Macintosh computer in 1984 to an audience in awe of a personal machine they and the world had never seen live before.
There are events in life when you instantly know everything’s about to change forever.
This was one of those moments.
The Quintessential iMovie?
For better and for worse, rightly or wrongly, there is one name that rises above the rest in the public’s current vernacular who has defined and inspired entire generations with his technological vision:
Steve Jobs.
From a crowded garage to a revolutionary empire in the new center of the universe, Steve Jobs managed to get his voice heard with a reverberating force years after his death. According to screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, the movie Steve Jobs consists of three scenes/pivotal moments in his life and career. Three scenes doesn’t seem sufficient for such a cultural giant, but the verdict will remain undecided until it premieres. Strangely, Michael Fassbender (who plays Jobs) looks nothing like him. Not even close. For such a star-studded cast, writer, director and admired figure, that remains a very odd choice. His casting makes no sense considering Jobs was a real person with distinguishable attributes. At least Ashton Kutcher looked, walked and acted like him.
To think that Christian Bale was so close to accepting this role, but I/the world continues to digress with a collective sigh.
From this trailer, it appears the film will be accurate (based on his acclaimed biopic), intense and insightful for those interested in his excitingly playful presentation skills, combative nature and mysterious family conflicts behind-the-scenes. Will fans take a big, long line around the corner bite out of the latest Steve Jobs film? Only if this version reveals a major surprise at the end, like Jobs did so many times throughout his tumultuous life and career.
Steve Jobs should leave us hungry and dreaming of something creatively foolish.
Happy Monday!
Do you own an Apple product?
Sorry, foolish question.
The surreal impact that Steve Jobs and Steve “The Woz” Wozniak have had on our realities will always be remembered and cherished. This is true for the multiple generations of people who have come together to join this astonishing, once-in-a-lifetime movement…especially the employees at the Apple Store.
And for good reason.
These two visionaries (for different reasons) mastered the complexities of technology and business while they added cool, groundbreaking innovations that forever altered personal communication and information gathering in our modern society. Aside from the alpha roll-out of their Apple Watch, what’s the next big headline for this tech company?
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the first teaser trailer for the long-awaited Steve Jobs movie with an adapted screenplay by Aaron Sorkin.
Change the World This Week!
The Dark Apple
“Stay hungry. Stay foolish.”
(emphasis on the latter here)
Rumor is that acclaimed actor Christian Bale is the leading candidate for portraying the late Steve Jobs in the major motion picture based on Walter Isaacson’s biography of the technology icon, with a screenplay penned by Aaron Sorkin. Fans of Bale, especially for his role as Batman in Christopher Nolan’s epic Dark Knight trilogy, cannot help but dream about the prospects of the actor bringing the same kind of intelligent, conflicted and controversial edge to the Apple co-founder (who was also intelligent, conflicted and controversial) as he did with Bruce Wayne and his alter-ego.
Every once in a while, Conan O’Brien and his team does something entertaining. The video clip below is one of those moments:
Steve Jobs’ black turtlenecks apparently had more armor than I realized…
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