#Steve jobs 2015 watch code#

They include Apple co-founder and old friend Steve Wozniak (played with great intelligence and pathos by Seth Rogen) Apple CEO John Sculley ( Jeff Daniels), the one-time father figure who would gain infamy for eventually firing Jobs and Chrisann Brennan ( Katherine Waterston), JobsвЂ™ ex-girlfriend and the mother of his daughter, Lisa, whom he long refused to acknowledge as his or support financially. But he couldnвЂ™t control who was going to come at him in the moments before he took the stage, or what they would say, or what they would want, or how they would dare to invade his formidable brain to wreak havoc when all he wanted to do was maintain his carefully crafted faГ§ade of Zen cool.

#Steve jobs 2015 watch code#

He insisted on micromanaging the tiniest details of his presentations-making sure the console was a perfect black cube, down to the millimeter, at the 1988 launch of his failed company, NeXT, or cajoling underlings to ignore fire code by shutting off the exit signs in the theater in hopes of achieving a dramatic darkness for his unveilings. Danny BoyleвЂ™s thrilling film, which takes place behind the scenes at three key product launches during the late JobsвЂ™ career, begins with the Apple co-founder freaking out minutes before introducing the Macintosh in 1984 because his team couldnвЂ™t get it to say вЂњhello.вЂќ It was nitpicky and obsessive-qualities he was famous for-but he was also onto something, as we now know: this idea of technology serving as a constant and comforting companion.ДЄll of which makes the fact that he was so coldly dismissive to the real-life people closest to him-the people who actually loved him-such a fascinating contradiction, one of many that Boyle, writer Aaron Sorkin and star Michael Fassbender explore with great ambition and Г©lan.