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I just watched the trailer for Sorkin and Fassbender's new film, Steve Jobs, and... well, maybe it's this new strain of weed I picked up this afternoon, but it just hit me that Josh's character in August, Tom Sterling, is a gloss on Steve Jobs. The parallels are numerous: pushy, narcisstic, ego-driven, insensitive, demanding, unreasonable, wounding. He talks but never listens, demands everything but won't give an inch, has a vision that's so out there it's almost incomprehensible to anyone else. He shows no love whatsoever to his family, and I'm sure if his brother weren't the linchpin of his company, he'd have cut off contact with them entirely. (The only really stark difference I detected was that there's no way that ditzoid receptionist would have lasted ten seconds around Jobs, let alone weeks or months.)
What made this AHA moment happen was the point in the trailer where Jobs is fired from Apple, and is told the board wants him out. I instantly flashed to Bowie so witheringly telling Josh much the same thing - that the company he founded would be better off without him. (Oh, OUCH.) Light bulb! "Oh hello, Tom," I thought, and then followed that train of thought and realized that I should have thought, "Oh hello, Steve," the first time I saw August. Not sure why I didn't see it until just now, for the Goddess knows I've never had even a gram of love for Steve Jobs. (Steve Wozniak, on the other hand, always seemed like a cool guy. You wouldn't catch Jobs dead throwing a $25M party open to anyone and everyone.**)
So that's another interesting layer of thought surrounding that character. An oddly fascinating guy. And yeah, a prick of truly Jobsian proportions. Whew.
Oh, and I'm so going to see this. It looks really good.
Trailer for Steve Jobs, starring Michael Fassbender and Seth Rogen
** That would be the US Festival, in September of '82. I remember being livid that I wouldn't be able to go.
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I just watched the trailer for Sorkin and Fassbender's new film, Steve Jobs, and... well, maybe it's this new strain of weed I picked up this afternoon, but it just hit me that Josh's character in August, Tom Sterling, is a gloss on Steve Jobs. The parallels are numerous: pushy, narcisstic, ego-driven, insensitive, demanding, unreasonable, wounding. He talks but never listens, demands everything but won't give an inch, has a vision that's so out there it's almost incomprehensible to anyone else. He shows no love whatsoever to his family, and I'm sure if his brother weren't the linchpin of his company, he'd have cut off contact with them entirely. (The only really stark difference I detected was that there's no way that ditzoid receptionist would have lasted ten seconds around Jobs, let alone weeks or months.)
What made this AHA moment happen was the point in the trailer where Jobs is fired from Apple, and is told the board wants him out. I instantly flashed to Bowie so witheringly telling Josh much the same thing - that the company he founded would be better off without him. (Oh, OUCH.) Light bulb! "Oh hello, Tom," I thought, and then followed that train of thought and realized that I should have thought, "Oh hello, Steve," the first time I saw August. Not sure why I didn't see it until just now, for the Goddess knows I've never had even a gram of love for Steve Jobs. (Steve Wozniak, on the other hand, always seemed like a cool guy. You wouldn't catch Jobs dead throwing a $25M party open to anyone and everyone.**)
So that's another interesting layer of thought surrounding that character. An oddly fascinating guy. And yeah, a prick of truly Jobsian proportions. Whew.
Oh, and I'm so going to see this. It looks really good.
Trailer for Steve Jobs, starring Michael Fassbender and Seth Rogen
** That would be the US Festival, in September of '82. I remember being livid that I wouldn't be able to go.
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