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The article presents a screenwriting master class in three act on how screenwriter Aaron Sorkin assembled the movie "Steve Jobs." It discusses the screenwriting approach to the movie that include building the movie toward a scene that has nothing to do with technology, making sure that the disagreement between Apple co-founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak shows that both are right, and playing out the ouster of Jobs in crosscuts.

The article relates how screenwriter Aaron Sorkin assembled the biographical film "Steve Jobs," about Apple cofounder Steve Jobs. Topics covered include the way by which the film is structured like a close-quarters play, how Sorkin assembled the three discrete acts that comprised the movie and the crosscuts for the depiction of Jobs' ouster from Apple.