Comment by artursapek | Hacker News Reader

Comment by artursapek | Hacker News Reader

It was clear when it was announced that this was going to be the inaccurate, sexy, mainstream Hollywood version of a Jobs film. It stars Ashton Kutcher for god's sake.

I think everyone on HN is unanimously looking more forward to Aaron Sorkin's film. Most of the mainstream non-tech-world Hollywood-Ashton-Kutcher audience has not seen the actual product announcements nor do they even know they exist. For most people, the iPod announcement was word of mouth and TV ads. Meanwhile a lot of the type of people who read HN somewhat worship the Steve Jobs keynotes. I know I've watched nearly all of them.

In fact I'm sure there will be a spike in "everyone else" watching them for the first time if Sorkin's movie is popular and brings them to the mainstream. For now they've just been a total geek thing to indulge in. :)

Why would we look forward to Aaron Sorkin's film if we don't want an "inaccurate, sexy, mainstream Hollywood version"? Did we forget The Social Network that easily?

Aaron's won't be that. I don't think his goal is the same as was with The Social Network.

But Aaron Sorkin did write The Social Network. Any evidence to point that he is working on a truer rendition for the Jobs' movie ?

Well, Woz is involved, and he seems optimistic.

Woz has also been out of the picture in Apple since before the Mac. He's been an outsider for close to 30 years, and has publicly stated that he was not close to Jobs.

It's not clear that his involvement means much in terms of making it an accurate portrayal.

Yeah...but Woz was very close to Jobs pre-Macintosh. Considering Apple's early years consisted mostly of Woz, Jobs, and Mike Markkula, I think Woz would be essentially to understanding the early part of Jobs' success, without which the post-Macintosh days would've never happened.

Different source material.

"a lot of the type of people who read HN somewhat worship the Steve Jobs keynotes"

I don't. I'm not sure why so many people in this readership should love them. Most probably just don't care.

"A lot" of people can still like them if you don't. Jobs was, undeniably, a master of presentation, so even if you don't like him, or apple at all, there are still a lot of reasons to respect his stage presence.

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