Joanna Hoffman was shown as Steve Jobs' executive assistant or personal secretary. She wasn't. She was the marketing head at Apple and then at Next.
Also, why would Joanna throw a tantrum to Jobs to make him get back to his daughter? Sounds unrealistic.
Wasn't meant to be historically accurate. It was a dramatization.
Accuracy is an attribute, not a necessity. Many great fact-based movies take major liberties with events.
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What's the point of telling a story that's so far removed from the truth? You're not educating the audience exactly. Why use the persons' real names if you're not showing what really happened (this was not even an approximation)?
shareBecause art doesn't adhere to concrete rules. This movie was meant to explore Steve Jobs, his personality, and how he interacted with others by distilling his relationships into three major events.
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What's the point of telling a story that's so far removed from the truth?
Because Hollywood knows women control what movies are seen and they want a story they think women would want to see.
shareWell thats the difference between a movie and a documentary. A movie based on real events is supposed to educate some but entertainment still is the most important of its jobs. So if you want historical accuracy, go read en effin book.
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I'm sure that was totally Sorkin's idea. He calls her "marketing executive" but he wanted her mostly as Steve Jobs' main handler/therapist/moral compass/object of some sexual tension.
I never recall Hoffman being referred to as his assistant. She clearly talks to Jobs as head of marketing numerous times in the movie.
shareYeah, she was the head of Marketing. The movie is a series of huge key marketing events, and her job is to make sure they go smoothly. She's the head of Marketing, but she's also working for Steve Jobs the big cheese, so he orders her around. If you didn't noctice, she doesn't exactly kiss his ass. She stands up to him and tells him what to do as well. (He usually ignores her, but that's not the point.) They clearly had some issues with personal boundaries, they even said so at one point I think.
Anyway, it's not as inaccurate as you say.
In the Walter Isaacson book or maybe Becoming Steve Jobs it says Joana Hoffman also had an estranged father so she often encouraged Steve to be a better father to Lisa, this was mostly while he was at NeXT but because it's a MOVIE a lot of the facts are condensed and Joana likely was assigned things that came from other people in Steve's life.
With the exception of Chrissan all of the characters appear in all 3 acts and it's for continuity reasons, it makes for better more focused drama movies based on history will almost always do things like this.