The New York Film Festival for the record has been a major film festival which saw its beginning in 1963 in New York. It has been said that it is dramatically distinguished from other types of film festivals for the prestige of being accepted is considered as a prize in its own. That is why for a film being selected by the Film Society of Lincoln Center, the selecting body of the festival, let alone be a center piece, would be beyond every directors imagination.
That is why, Danny Boyle, the director the upcoming movie Steve Jobs, is deeply honored for being graced to screen as the centerpiece film for the 53rd New York film festival. As to his statement he said;
"I am honored that our film has been selected as the centrepiece of this year's festival. And thrilled and terrified too, unlike the subject of our film, who would have taken the whole thing very much in his stride."
The subject of the film, obviously Steve Jobs, if alive would be expecting something great from this film. Especially that it was written by the Oscar-winning screenwriter and playwright Aaron Benjamin Sorkin. And to put justice on being a centerpiece film, actors Michael Fassbender who plays the role of Steve Jobs together with Kate Winslet as Joanna Hoffman, Seth Rogen as Steve Wozniak, Jeff Daniels as John Sculley would be displaying their best on screen.
Putting the director, writer and actors into consideration it would be a film to watch. It would surely give us more idea about the life of Steve Jobs which were not highlighted on the previous films. For Steve Jobs' life is so multi-faceted that one film cannot contain it. As described by director Danny Boyle, Jobs is,
"[He's] the kind of brilliant, flawed character that Shakespeare would have relished writing about, and storytellers of all kinds will be fashioning and re-fashioning the mythology of the digital revolution for generations to come"
In sense, somehow Steve Jobs himself is inviting us to watch the film, as he somehow offers a new perspective of his life in the film in consonance with his famous line;
"Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently..." - Steve Jobs
