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Interview: Danny Boyle
Danny Boyle is reminiscing about the dark old days when computers were banks of walls with blinking lights and huge reels of tapes. âMost Time Out readers wonât remember. They were intimidating,â he says, with that lovely Radcliffe burr of his. âEvery time there was a breakthrough, when a computer beat a chess master, everybody would be like, âThe end cometh.â But instead of the end, Apple came, shrinking technology to pocket size with the iPhone.â The architect of this digital revolution is the subject of Boyleâs new movie Steve Jobs, an unconventional biopic starring Michael Fassbender. Based on a forensically detailed script by Aaron Sorkin (The Social Network), it unfolds practically in real time, backstage before three major product launches â in â84, â88 and â98. Â In the film Steve Jobs says heâs not a musician â he plays the orchestra. Does that strike a chord with you, as a director?âItâs bizarre, isnât it? Steve Jobs had no coding skills, no engineering skills to speak of. He wasnât even a designer. He just had a taste that he wanted to impose on everyone. He had a vision, and, really, thatâs what you do as a film director.â Were you interested in Jobs before?âNot really. I had some of his products and I knew about the presentations he did. They made world news. Nowadays, every CEO, whether theyâre comfortable or not, has to dress up casually, put a microphone on and walk out in front of the press to introduce the latest toothbrush.â What was the appeal of making th

Danny Boyle habla sobre Steve Jobs
El director de Trainspotting, Danny Boyle, recuerda aquellos tiempos oscuros cuando las computadoras eran del tamaño de una pared, tenĂan luces parpadeantes y grandes rollos de cintas. âLa mayorĂa de los lectores de Time Out no lo recordarĂĄn. Pero era algo intimidanteâ, dice. âCada que habĂa un avance o una mĂĄquina le ganaba a un equipo de ajedrez todo el mundo decĂa âesto es el finâ. Pero en lugar del final, vino Apple para reducir la tecnologĂa a tamaño bolsillo". El arquitecto de esta revoluciĂłn digital es el tema de la nueva pelĂcula de Boyle, Steve Jobs, una biopic convencional protagonizada por Michael Fassbender (Macbeth). En el filme, Steve Jobs dice que no es un mĂșsico pero dirige una orquesta. ÂżCĂłmo se relaciona esto en su trabajo?Es extraño, Âżno crees? Steve Jobs no tenĂa conocimientos de codificaciĂłn ni de ingenierĂa como para hablar al respecto. Tampoco era diseñador. Ăl sĂłlo tenĂa una aficiĂłn que querĂa imponer a todo el mundo. TenĂa una visiĂłn y, de hecho, eso es lo que haces como director. ÂżAntes te interesaba la vida de Jobs? No realmente. Tuve algunos de sus productos y sabĂa sobre las grandes presentaciones que hacĂa. LogrĂł noticias a nivel mundial. Hoy en dĂa, cada CEO, cualquiera que sea su estilo, tiene que vestirse de manera casual, ponerse ante un micrĂłfono y caminar frente a la prensa para mostrar su nuevo âcepillo de dientesâ. ÂżQuĂ© te atrajo para hacer esta pelĂcula si no fue el propio Jobs? La utilizaciĂłn del lenguaje como un dispositivo cinematogrĂĄ

Danny Boyle talks âSteve Jobsâ, casting Fassbender and working on a âTrainspottingâ sequel
Danny Boyle is reminiscing about the dark old days when computers were banks of walls with blinking lights and huge reels of tapes. âMost Time Out readers wonât remember. They were intimidating,â he says, with that lovely Radcliffe burr of his. âEvery time there was a breakthrough, when a computer beat a chess master, everybody would be like: âThe end cometh.â But instead of the end, Apple came, shrinking technology to pocket size with the iPhone. The architect of this digital revolution is the subject of Boyleâs new movie âSteve Jobsâ, an unconventional biopic starring Michael Fassbender. Based on a forensically detailed script by Aaron Sorkin (âThe Social Networkâ), it unfolds practically in real time, backstage before three major product launches â in â84, â88 and â98. âšâšIn the film Steve Jobs says heâs not a musician â he plays the orchestra. Does that strike a chord with you, as a director?âš âItâs bizarre, isnât it? Steve Jobs had no coding skills, no engineering skills to speak of. He wasnât even a designer. He just has a taste that he wanted to impose on everyone. He had a vision, and, really, thatâs what you do as a film director.â âšâšWere you interested in Jobs before?âšâNot really. I had some of his products and I knew about the presentations he did. They made world news. Nowadays, every CEO, whether theyâre comfortable or not, has to dress up casually, put a microphone on and walk out in front of the press to introduce the latest toothbrush.â âšWhat was the appeal of