The Steve Jobs movie it does not present the reality of the life of the former CEO of the company Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC),, or at least that's what he tells us Andy Hertzfield, one of those who developed the first version of Macintosh for the Apple company many decades ago.
In the image above you can see on the right Andy Hertzfeld and on the left the actor Michael Stuhlbarg who interprets him in the movie Steve Jobs, the two having a few meetings to discuss the details of the interpretation made in the Universal film.
According to Hertzfeld, the movie Steve Jobs deviates from reality in every scene directed by Danny Boyle, but he still presents some of the hidden but true parts of the character of the former CEO of the Apple company, Steve Jobs.
It deviates from reality everywhere — almost nothing in it is like it really happened — but ultimately that doesn't matter that much. The purpose of the film is to entertain, inspire and move the audience, not to portray reality. It is cavalier about the facts but aspires to explore and expose the deeper truths behind Steve's unusual personality and behavior, and it often but not always succeeds at that.
Hertzfeld says that screenwriter Aaron Sorkin asked him how Steve Jobs would have reacted in reality in some of the moments presented in the film and although he explained that in reality the former Apple CEO did not react as shown in the script, the artistic part mattered more .
[Sorkin] asked me how Steve would react to a specific situation, involving the speech demo failing. I pointed out that it didn't happen in reality, and we had a lengthy discussion about artistic license, about how okay it is to diverge from reality. Basically, he convinced me it was not a documentary, so veracity is secondary to artistic considerations, and "it's a painting, not a photograph.
Basically, Hertzfeld tells us that most of the Steve Jobs movie is pure fiction and that many of Steve Jobs' actions are presented in an exaggerated way to be attractive to the general public, but that some parts of the former Apple CEO's personality are real.
