The preview was so badly staged and acted that I thought it was a horror movie. Watch "Pirates" if you want a good film about Apple.
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...poetic?
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'JOBS' Movie Clip 'Totally Wrong', Says Steve Wozniak
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The same can also be said about Pirates of Silicon Valley - there are a lot of inaccuracies in that too.
I agree with Woz, I thought the clip was really dumbed down, inaccurate and over dramatic, and I expect the entire movie to be the same.
Forget about this movie... I wish they would release the audiobook version of Fire In The Valley. I bought the reissue back in the late 1990s/early 2000s when they added some content to it. Great book. That is the gold standard when it comes to books about how the PC was born.
He has done nothing...I should have put sarcasm on that when I wrote it. Aside from appearing on TV shows and what not, he just seems to exist, yet everyone goes all crazy over him...almost like Justin Bieber
Sure, artistic licenses will be made with movies, but if it's a movie based on someone's life (and you're marketing it as a movie on someone's life), you can only go so far. Things like who's idea was it or if someone's a social extravert versus being a loner should stay the same.
What's interesting is that people bash Ashton Kutcher for what seems to be him trying his best to be Steve Jobs and probably only missing a few points here and there, yet they are fine when Woz says that the scene is largely being portrayed incorrectly, brushing it off as "it's a movie"?
What's interesting is that people bash Ashton Kutcher for what seems to be him trying his best to be Steve Jobs and probably only missing a few points here and there, yet they are fine when Woz says that the scene is largely being portrayed incorrectly, brushing it off as "it's a movie"?
In other news, Apple has it's best quarter ever? Wall Street's reaction, chop off $50 billion of market cap. That's just what I would have thought...
Where did all this Woz hate come from?
Woz brought it back to reality. Good to have input from one of the two guys who actually was there at the true beginning! And without Woz, none of us would even be here on an "Apple" forum. So show some respect for the Woz!
Woz brought it back to reality. Good to have input from one of the two guys who actually was there at the true beginning! And without Woz, none of us would even be here on an "Apple" forum. So show some respect for the Woz!
The movie ends with Steve Jobs riding off on a dragon to Valhalla after defeating the world serpent in a battle of wits.
POETIC!
Here is a the dialogue from that actual scene.
SJ: "Look here, Ive found this 486 motherboard behind the cushion of this futon sofa bed that we just carried up here into this converted loft area"
BW: "And what do you intend to do with that, man?"
SJ: "Ive made a computer casing with 'Mac' on the front an' that. And Ive got a 4mb hard disk drive, a cd player and a box of spare memory chips and a Soundblaster card .. and .."
BW: "For chrissakes, Steve - thats the most preposterous idea I've ever heard .. it'll never catch on"
SJ: "Perhaps not intiially - but once we get around to the iPod, iMac and eventual iPad production in full - THEN world domination will be ours, possibly"
BW: "Hmmm .. well, now you put it like that, alright then - where's our nearest Apple store?"
Ok - historically the script isn't 100% accurate but lets not stop that from ruining a great story ... everybody ready? Aaaaand .. action!
SJ: "Look here, Ive found this 486 motherboard behind the cushion of this futon sofa bed that we just carried up here into this converted loft area"
BW: "And what do you intend to do with that, man?"
SJ: "Ive made a computer casing with 'Mac' on the front an' that. And Ive got a 4mb hard disk drive, a cd player and a box of spare memory chips and a Soundblaster card .. and .."
BW: "For chrissakes, Steve - thats the most preposterous idea I've ever heard .. it'll never catch on"
SJ: "Perhaps not intiially - but once we get around to the iPod, iMac and eventual iPad production in full - THEN world domination will be ours, possibly"
BW: "Hmmm .. well, now you put it like that, alright then - where's our nearest Apple store?"
Ok - historically the script isn't 100% accurate but lets not stop that from ruining a great story ... everybody ready? Aaaaand .. action!
The clip feels wrong. Even Woz looks wrong. The character is hunched over and looks like a shy geek that was pushed around by Steve Jobs when in reality I think they were pretty much equals. Woz certainly strikes me as much more confident than the character in this clip suggests.
The one who needs to get a better understanding before shooting his mouth off is you. From the snippet above it seems Woz gets that the goal is entertainment just fine:
What's your point?
Mine was that movies based on real events/people often delineate from the truth and/or compress time events.
Wasn't Woz in a plane crash that scrambled his memory? I was under the impression he doesn't really remember things Pre-crash first-hand, but second-hand based on what others told him post-crash?
Look, Woz wrote his book. He's had his say. He's done. Is he going to pic apart every single biopic from now until the end of time? He needs to give it rest already.