Date 09/10/2015 - News People
"The Reality Distortion Field." Anyone who's had an ambitious boss has likely used the phrase. Few probably realize that it was coined at Apple Computer in the early '80s to describe the impossible demands emanating from Steve Jobs. The RDF makes a few appearances in director Danny Boyle and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin's film. And like Jobs' insistence on bending reason to fit his will, the result is something pretty spectacular, Boyle's stylish eye and Sorkin's tart tongue makes it a creation of elegant, user-friendly bliss, despite its unusual structure.