Steve Jobs, the latest film from academy award winning director Danny Boyle, is in theatres now. The movie, which stars Michael Fassbender as the titular Apple co-founder and tech visionary, promises to be a different kind of biopic.
The movie centers on three pivotal Apple product launches and makes use of a unique visual style with each era being shot in a different film format. What's interesting to note is that, the version screened for critics earlier this year at the Telluride Film Festival has a different ending from the version that movie goers are experiencing now.
Speaking with Cinema Blend, Boyle said he tweaked the ending to give it a more redemptive feeling.
"We've been doing a little bit of work on the very, very end, because there's a redemptive quality at the end, which is very important. Raymond Chandler said, 'In any work of art, there is a quality of redemption. There always will be,' and I think it's very true that you go on a journey and you want some kind of sense of moving towards redemption."
Boyle also shows the relationship between Jobs and his estranged daughter Lisa, whom he named one of Apple's earliest computers after.
When he can acknowledge that towards his daughter, who you seen how he's behaved to her earlier on in her life, it's a moment when he achieves true reconciliation and a true moment of grace. And it was how much we emphasized that, either in a triumphant way or actually in a slightly more personal way. And we moved it slightly more towards the personal and less public. So that was one of the things we were working on.
To see whether Boyle's last minute edits helped the film, check out Steve Jobs, in cinemas now.
