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* AbilityOverAppearance: Michael Fassbender is nobody's idea of what Steve Jobs looked like, but his performance has been unanimously acclaimed.
* AcclaimedFlop: The film was met with massive praise from critics and audiences, but failed to leave a mark at the box office, opening at just $7 million on its opening weekend nationwide, losing out to ''Film/TheMartian'' and ''Film/{{Goosebumps|2015}}''. The 2013 ''Jobs'' film starring Ashton Kutcher was met with a weak box office final tally of $16.1 million domestically, along with tepid critical reception wondering what a crew worth its salt could do with the subject. Enter Danny Boyle, Aaron Sorkin, an AllStarCast, and a rapturous critical response, and in the end, its final U.S. total was $17.7 million, nearly identical to its counterpart.

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* AbilityOverAppearance: Michael Fassbender Creator/MichaelFassbender is nobody's idea of what Steve Jobs UsefulNotes/SteveJobs looked like, but his performance has been was unanimously acclaimed.
* AcclaimedFlop: The film was met with massive praise from critics and audiences, but failed to leave a mark at the box office, opening at just $7 million on its opening weekend nationwide, losing out to ''Film/TheMartian'' and ''Film/{{Goosebumps|2015}}''. The 2013 ''Jobs'' film starring Ashton Kutcher was met with a weak box office final tally of $16.1 million domestically, along with tepid critical reception wondering what a crew worth its salt could do with the subject. Enter Danny Boyle, Aaron Sorkin, Creator/DannyBoyle, Creator/AaronSorkin, an AllStarCast, and a rapturous critical response, and in the end, its final U.S. total was $17.7 million, nearly identical to its counterpart.



* DisownedAdaptation: Apple CEO Tim Cook and Jobs' widow Laurene Powell Jobs both lambasted the movie as an unfairly negative portrayal of Jobs, and the latter even personally called Christian Bale and Leonardo [=DiCaprio=] to beg them not to take the part before production began. It must be said, though, that neither of them had actually ''seen'' the movie at the time they made their complaints. Backlash also happened with Creator/{{Disney}}/Creator/{{Pixar}} boss [[Creator/PixarRegulars Ed Catmull]], who was one of Jobs's biggest protégés in his life; he stated Jobs would be "appalled".

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* DisownedAdaptation: Apple CEO Tim Cook and Jobs' widow Laurene Powell Jobs both lambasted the movie as an unfairly negative portrayal of Jobs, and the latter even personally called Christian Bale Creator/ChristianBale and Leonardo [=DiCaprio=] Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio to beg them not to take the part before production began. It must be said, though, that neither of them had actually ''seen'' the movie at the time they made their complaints. Backlash also happened with Creator/{{Disney}}/Creator/{{Pixar}} boss [[Creator/PixarRegulars Ed Catmull]], who was one of Jobs's biggest protégés in his life; he stated Jobs would be "appalled".



* IronyAsSheIsCast: Despite playing arguably the most famous tech icon on history, Michael Fassbender has said he's [[HopelessWithTech terrible with such devices]] and avoids them as much as possible.

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* IronyAsSheIsCast: Despite playing arguably the most famous tech icon on in history, Michael Fassbender has said he's [[HopelessWithTech terrible with such devices]] and avoids them as much as possible.



* TroubledProduction: The e-mails leaked by the Sony Hack revealed a good deal of debate between Aaron Sorkin, potential directors, and the studio heads over which direction to take the film in, and the project was eventually dumped by Sony altogether before being rescued by Universal. Once the cast and crew was finally in place, however, everything went smoothly.

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* TroubledProduction: The e-mails leaked by in the 2014 Sony Hack hack revealed a good deal of debate between Aaron Sorkin, potential directors, and the studio heads over which direction to take the film in, and the project was eventually dumped by Sony altogether before being rescued by Universal. Once the cast and crew was finally in place, however, everything went smoothly.
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* AcclaimedFlop: The film was met with massive praise from critics and audiences, but failed to leave a mark at the box office, opening at just $7 million on its opening weekend nationwide, losing out to ''Film/TheMartian'' and ''Film/{{Goosebumps}}''. The 2013 ''Jobs'' film starring Ashton Kutcher was met with a weak box office final tally of $16.1 million domestically, along with tepid critical reception wondering what a crew worth its salt could do with the subject. Enter Danny Boyle, Aaron Sorkin, an AllStarCast, and a rapturous critical response, and in the end, its final U.S. total was $17.7 million, nearly identical to its counterpart.

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* AcclaimedFlop: The film was met with massive praise from critics and audiences, but failed to leave a mark at the box office, opening at just $7 million on its opening weekend nationwide, losing out to ''Film/TheMartian'' and ''Film/{{Goosebumps}}''.''Film/{{Goosebumps|2015}}''. The 2013 ''Jobs'' film starring Ashton Kutcher was met with a weak box office final tally of $16.1 million domestically, along with tepid critical reception wondering what a crew worth its salt could do with the subject. Enter Danny Boyle, Aaron Sorkin, an AllStarCast, and a rapturous critical response, and in the end, its final U.S. total was $17.7 million, nearly identical to its counterpart.
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Jobs was half-Syrian on his biological father's side.


* FakeNationality: German-Irish Fassbender as the American Jobs, Canadian Seth Rogen as Polish-American Steve Wozniak, and Brit Kate Winslet as the Polish-Armenian-American Joanna Hoffman.

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* FakeNationality: German-Irish Fassbender as the American Syrian-American Jobs, Canadian Seth Rogen as Polish-American Steve Wozniak, and Brit Kate Winslet as the Polish-Armenian-American Joanna Hoffman.

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* PlayingAgainstType: Seth Rogen, best known for stoner comedies, as tech genius Steve Wozniak.
* RetroactiveRecognition: Creator/SarahSnook (Shiv in ''Series/{{Succession}}'') is in the movie for around two scenes (as Andrea).

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* PlayingAgainstType: Seth Rogen, best known for stoner comedies, as plays tech genius Steve Wozniak.
* RetroactiveRecognition: Creator/SarahSnook (Shiv in ''Series/{{Succession}}'') is in the movie for around two scenes (as Andrea).
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* RetroactiveRecognition: Creator/SarahSnook (Shiv in ''Series/{{Succession}}'') is in the movie for around two scenes (as Andrea).
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* TheOtherMarty: Creator/ChristianBale was the first actor attached to the lead role, but he ended up dropping out ''twice'' (first when Fincher left, then again later after re-signing under Danny Boyle). Bale was replaced by Michael Fassbender.

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* TheOtherMarty: Creator/ChristianBale was the first actor attached to the lead role, but he ended up dropping out ''twice'' (first when Fincher left, then again later after re-signing under Danny Boyle). Bale was replaced by Michael Fassbender.Fassbender ended up replacing Bale after he left the film.
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** Besides Christian Bale, Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio was also offered the part but turned it down in order to do ''Film/TheRevenant'' instead. Creator/GeorgeClooney and Creator/NoahWyle (who previously portrayed Jobs in ''Film/PiratesOfSiliconValley'') were also considered for the role.

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** Besides Christian Bale, Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio was also offered the part but turned it down in order to do ''Film/TheRevenant'' instead. Creator/GeorgeClooney and Creator/GeorgeClooney, Creator/NoahWyle (who previously portrayed Jobs in ''Film/PiratesOfSiliconValley'') ''Film/PiratesOfSiliconValley''), Creator/MattDamon, Creator/BenAffleck and Creator/BradleyCooper were also considered for the role.
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** Besides Christian Bale, Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio was also offered the part but turned it down in order to do ''Film/TheRevenant'' instead. Creator/GeorgeClooney and Creator/NoahWyle (who previously portrayed Jobs in ''Film/PiratesOfSiliconValley'') were also considered for the role of Steve Jobs.

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** Besides Christian Bale, Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio was also offered the part but turned it down in order to do ''Film/TheRevenant'' instead. Creator/GeorgeClooney and Creator/NoahWyle (who previously portrayed Jobs in ''Film/PiratesOfSiliconValley'') were also considered for the role of Steve Jobs.role.
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** Besides Christian Bale, Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio was also offered the part but turned it down in order to do ** ''Film/TheRevenant'' instead. Creator/GeorgeClooney and Creator/NoahWyle (who previously portrayed Jobs in ''Film/PiratesOfSiliconValley'') were also considered for the role of Steve Jobs.

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** Besides Christian Bale, Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio was also offered the part but turned it down in order to do ** ''Film/TheRevenant'' instead. Creator/GeorgeClooney and Creator/NoahWyle (who previously portrayed Jobs in ''Film/PiratesOfSiliconValley'') were also considered for the role of Steve Jobs.

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