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behind the scenes of the Steve Jobs movie there was controversy and magic I'm Bridget Carey this is your scene that update Steve Jobs had a profound impact on the technology we carry in our pockets today and in the movie that bears his name screenwriter Aaron Sorkin paints a picture of the difficult to do with genius by going behind the scenes of three of his major product launches starring Michael Fassbender his jobs the entire movie in all dialogue with major people in his life happens 30 minutes before he's about to get on stage three different times to present the first Macintosh in 1984 the next black cube computer in 1988 and the imac ten years later in 1998 I got to see a screening of the film and Sorkin's writing makes it an intellectual entertaining movie but his template makes it implausible that jobs would have all these amazing conflicting conversations that sum up his life and personal character flaws with all these key people including his daughter 30 minutes before showtime but hey that's how serkan makes you feel the pressure and drama at a Q&A with the audience after the screening Sorkin and director danny boyle shared some interesting tidbits from making the movie and the drama going on with pushback from people who knew jobs the movie is releasing friday in a cloud of controversy with several high profile people who knew and work with jobs speaking out against the film including tim cook and jony ive of apple and there are leaked emails and reports about jobs as widow trying to stop the release of the movie to that note Sorkin says he doesn't begrudge jobs his wife laureen for what she's feeling after all jobs died four years ago this week but Sorkin says these people have not seen the movie or read the screenplay and says if they do he thinks they'd be pleasantly surprised Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak agreed to help out with the movie as a paid consultant and as Sorkin and Boyle described he's a sweet guy that's really into magic tricks these days in the movie he was played by actor Seth Rogen so to get to know him better Rogen went with was to a mecca for magicians the magic castle in Los Angeles it's a club for magicians in the area and woz road they're on a Segway but not just any Segway it was apparently the first Segway ever made but the headlight was busted so he had to tape a flashlight to the yeah what a character woz also perform magic tricks at dinner with the film's creators but as Boyle said he quote didn't do them particularly well and sore can also shared his perspective on jobs the man and that he shares something in common with facebook founder mark zuckerberg Sorkin said he believes that deep down Steve Jobs felt he was irreparably damaged in some way and was not worthy of being liked or loved and that these computers were something jobs needed to resolve those issues Sorkin who also wrote the movie the social network said Zuckerberg also created something he needed at the time a way for an uncomfortable 19 year old to socialize Steve Jobs is in select theaters Friday opening nationwide on october 23rd and that's it for this tech news update there's more at cnet com from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey