That's plot as opposed to fraught back stories and defining quirks and kinks, which are established here in gradual, evocative detail in a series of quick-take scenes.
Sorkin revealed in 2012 that he envisaged an unusual structure for the film: three single-take scenes, each one following a major Apple product launch.
Sorkin, who remains on board as screenwriter, said he envisaged an unusual structure for the biopic: three single-take scenes, each one following a major Apple product launch.
One of her daring single-take scenes is set in a subway car, where a young hipsterish man and woman brazenly, even cheerfully set in motion a plot to kidnap the woman's own sister, in order to extort money from her father, whom she despises.
And while the cast's energy and the brisk direction of Talya Klein propel the 20 quick-take scenes (the play would benefit by being shorter, with one easy cut the optional intermission), the story is a familiar one, the principals verging on types.
For the experiments we used the Boss Dataset and also we built a violence dataset, taking scenes from surveillance cameras.
And the Siren, yet again: "Taking scenes out of context is what ideologues do.
He freely took scenes and language from earlier epics, but also salted the pastiche with then-current Alexandrianisms.
One of the other recurring motifs in films this year is the use of long takes, scenes uninterrupted by edits.
Levine has taken scenes from different films and asked actors to restage each of them, over and over, for six hours on Fridays and Saturdays.
