Arts: The Jobs Trailer Gives Steve Jobs the Full Hero Treatment

	Now playing: Slate V, a video-only site from the world's leading online magazine. Visit Slate V at www.slatev.com. Brow Beat The Jobs Trailer Gives Steve Jobs the Full Hero Treatment By David Haglund Posted Friday, Jun 21, 2013, at 05:21 PM ET Our first glimpse at Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs was not especially inspiring. This new trailer, on the other hand, does everything it can to be inspirational: the soaring music, the underdog storyline, the quotable aphorisms. This is Steve Jobs, Epic Hero, complete with (corporate) villains to slay and a spiritual quest. Will it work at feature length? I have my doubts. Kutcher still looks the part—and still feels rather unconvincing. And this looks like a very straightforward biopic, a genre that rarely succeeds when done this traditionally. I will continue to hold out for the Aaron Sorkin version. To continue reading, click here. Also In Slate Going Courtless Everything You Thought You Knew About Age and Fertility Was Wrong Play the Slate News Quiz Manage your newsletters subscription: Unsubscribe | Forward to a Friend | Advertising Information Ideas on how to make something better? Send an e-mail to slatenewsletter@nl.slate.com. Copyright 2013 The Slate Group | Privacy Policy The Slate Group | c/o E-mail Customer Care | 1350 Connecticut Ave NW Suite 410 | Washington, D.C. 20036