'Jobs' Movie, Steve Wozniak Reaction: Apple Co-founder Takes Another Jab at Film, Suggests Kutcher’s Portrayal is Off The Mark [VIDEO]
Steve Wozniak has passed his final verdict on the Steve Jobs biopic, Jobs. The co-founder of Apple, unflinchingly points his finger at Ashton Kutcher's portrayal of the Silicon-Valley legend, for most of what's wrong with the film.
On Friday evening, Wozniak posted his thoughts about the film in the discussion section of a rather negative Gizmodo review about the film.
"I was attentive and entertained but not greatly enough to recommend the movie. One friend who is in the movie said he didn't want to watch fiction so he wasn't interested in seeing it. I suspect a lot of what was wrong with the film came from Ashton's own image of Jobs. Ashton made some disingenuous and wrong statements about me recently (including my supposedly having said that the 'movie' was bad, which was probably Ashton believing pop press headlines) and that I didn't like the movie because I'm paid to consult on another one. These are examples of Ashton still being in character," he wrote.
This has not been the first time Wozniak has been critical of the film, he has suggested that the film is partly fictional and is not accurate in its representation of Jobs or the Apple story.
In an interview with AP, earlier this week, Kutcher gave his explanations for why Wozniak was being critical of the film. The 35-year-old actor said:
"Steve Wozniak is being paid by another company to support their Steve Jobs film. It's personal for him, but it's also business. We have to keep that in mind. He was also extremely unavailable to us when producing this film."
Wozniak is a consultant on Sony Pictures' Steve Jobs biopic, which is based on Walter Isaacson's biography, and will be written by Aaron Sorkin (The Social Network). He suggested that he could've consulted for either movie, but that he was "turned off by the Jobs script."
Kutcher also defended the film against Wozniak's earlier accusations in an interview with the Hollywood Reporter last week:
"The biggest criticism that I've ultimately heard is that he wanted it to be represented -- his contribution to Apple -- fairly. And, in all fairness, the movie's called Jobs. And it's about Steve Jobs and the legacy of Steve Jobs, and so I think it focuses more ... on what his contribution to Apple was."
While the Gizmodo critic doesn't mince his words while panning the film, other critics have also been quite unsparing in their criticisms of the film. The opener of Manohla Dargis', the New York Times film critic, review offered the bleakest of reactions to the film:
"It would drive Steve Jobs nuts to know that the new movie about his life has all the sex appeal of a PowerPoint presentation. It isn't only that Microsoft PowerPoint has become synonymous with the dry, dreary, droning of corporate meetings, it's also that Microsoft was itself a favorite target of Jobs."
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