Sorkin's film, which opens nationally Friday, will seem like a factual, holistic portrait of a great man, despite the screenwriter's continuing protests that it's no such thing and wasn't meant to be a "biopic." It's called Steve Jobs and is based in part on Walter Isaacson's authorized biography of the man.Īs a result, for the multitudes of people who didn't know the real Steve Jobs, Mr. But, his entertaining work of fiction isn't labeled for what it is.
He, too, took artistic liberties with the character, and with events. In 2015, the brilliant writer Aaron Sorkin made a movie loosely based on a famous, powerful, contemporary American business figure - the technology innovator Steve Jobs - that showed him in a bad light. He called it Citizen Kane, and it's now regarded by many as the best film ever made. But he didn't call the movie Citizen Hearst. He took artistic liberties with the character. In 1941, the brilliant writer and director Orson Welles made a movie loosely based on a famous, powerful, contemporary American business figure - the newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst - that showed him in a bad light. Welcome to Mossberg, a new weekly commentary and reviews column on The Verge and Re/code by veteran tech journalist Walt Mossberg, now an Executive Editor at The Verge and Editor at Large of Re/code.
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