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Ashton Kutcher plays Steve Jobs in the new movie and did a crazy amount of research for the role. He listened to hundreds of Steve's talks, studied art & topic
by pud 13y ago
Ashton Kutcher plays Steve Jobs in the new movie and did a crazy amount of research for the role.
He listened to hundreds of Steve's talks, studied art & topics that influenced Jobs, read Jobs' favorite books, obsessed over him for months, ate Jobs' diet, even learned to walk like Jobs (who has an odd gait, likely due to years of walking barefoot).
I got to see a screening of the movie yesterday with subsequent QA by Kutcher. Even though he's humble and doesn't claim to be an expert, it was borderline freaky how well Kutcher seems to understand Jobs. At least, from the point-of-view of someone who wasn't friends or family.
I consider him an expert.
Related: I like when RapGenius branches out from rap. I wonder if it will always be called RapGenius for non-rap content, or if they'll come up with a more general brand name. I think it'd be neat if RapGenius became as broad as Wikipedia.
- dombili 13y agoHe also talked about Jobs extensively on here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4GB-2l9_kc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4GB-2l9_kc. It really looks like he studied everything Jobs had done, as well as he can. His reasons for accepting the role is kind of funny, but I liked that he was being honest about it.
- wikiburner 13y agoHey Pud, there was actually a chapter on this in the YC book: http://www.amazon.com/The-Launch-Pad-Combinator-Exclusive/dp/B00D9TCIBI http://www.amazon.com/The-Launch-Pad-Combinator-Exclusive/dp... - with a ton of interesting debate between them and Harj Taggar on it. Anyone who has ever tried to name a startup can definitely relate. I believe they're eventually planning on silos, like Stack Exchange, but are focusing on the main brand initially. Their thinking could have obviously changed since launch, though.
- fsck--off 13y ago> I consider him an expert. What do you make of this Wozniak's comments [1]: "It's so awful and atrocious," said Wozniak, who said he got access to a copy of the movie's script. "Unlike the way Steve and I really dealt with each other. "I didn't want to have much to do with that movie." [1] http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/30/tech/innovation/wozniak-jobs-movie/index.html?hpt=hp_bn5 http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/30/tech/innovation/wozniak-jobs-m... news.yc discussion of [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5157396 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5157396
- tvon 13y agoWoz is not commenting on the script, not on Ashton Kutcher.
- tvon 13y ago(Note this should have been "Woz is commenting on the script, not on Ashton Kutcher.")
- Oculus 13y agoI'd imagine (haven't seen the movie yet) that Wozniak has a problem with the way they potrayed him in the movie. It's not to far out there that the movie would try to showcase him as a quite, naive, computer guy. Hollywood tends to always do that when portraying hackers.
- Kiro 13y agoHas anyone ever approved of a portrait of themselves?
- mietek 13y agoYes. More to the point, Woz has approved of the way people were portrayed in "Pirates of Silicon Valley", including himself. "It's funny, but even with all the things that aren't said outright, a great number of people, like yourself, saw a lot of things in that movie that are totally true. The personalities were very accurately portrayed." "The personalities and incidents are accurate in the sense that they all occured but they are often with the wrong parties (Bill Fernandez, Apple employee #4, was with me and the computer that burned up in 1970) and at the wrong dates (when John Sculley joined, he had to redirect attention from the Apple III, not the Mac, to the Apple ][ ) and places (Homebrew Computer Club was at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center)." http://www.woz.org/taxonomy/term/2 http://www.woz.org/taxonomy/term/2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirates_of_Silicon_Valley http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirates_of_Silicon_Valley
- wilfra 13y ago>>I wonder if it will always be called RapGenius for non-rap content, or if they'll come up with a more general brand name They appear to have decided to keep it all on the rapgenius.com domain but are calling the different verticals "_____ Genius" If you hover over 'rap' in the navbar you see a dropdown with the following: -rock -> links to rock.rapgenius.com -poetry -> links to poetry.rapgenius.com -news -> links to news.rapgenius.com On those subdomains the logo reads 'rock genius' 'poetry genius' or 'news genius'. I checked and they own the .com for each of those as well, which redirect to the subdomains. They also have corresponding Facebook and Twitter accounts. Tech Genius next please!
- OGC 13y ago> I think it'd be neat if RapGenius became as broad as Wikipedia. Yeah, i think it's pretty trivial for the wikipedia folks to implement a modal popup...
- shiftb 13y agoSecond this. I've been wanting to use RapGenius for our engineering blog.
- jonursenbach 13y agoCurious, but why?
- simplegeek 13y agoI am just curious, how can I get the following - Job's favorite books - Arts that Jobs liked Any help/pointers will be appreciated?