Talk:Pirates of Silicon Valley

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I've removed the amazingly badly written "Soundtrack" section. If anyone knows more about the film than I do, feel free to restore it (with heavy corrections.) The Zaniak 15:01, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

I often wondered how Jobs felt about this movie. It puts him in a very unflattering light, particularly with regards to his daughter, Lisa.

The exchange between him and Gates at the end reminded me of a story about an American colonel overseeing the ceasefire in Vietnam (Jobs seemed to like to use warlike comparisons when describing his vision). The colonel told his NVA counterpart that "there was never a time when you beat us on the battlefield." The officer replied, "That may be so, but it is irrelevant." It was almost exactly the same as Jobs and Gates going at it: "We are still better than you guys; we have better stuff." "You don't get it: THAT DOESN'T MATTER."

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"The central story of the film begins in the early 1970s and ends in 1985 when Steve Jobs resigned from Apple Computer. The film is also structured by a set of "book ends": it begins and ends with Jobs' return to Apple in 1997." The movie actually begins when they are filming the 1984 apple commercial but then has a brief cut into 1997 before going to the begining of the story in 1971. I guess it's no big deal.

Disagree. Removed the "bookend" comment as it is not correct and there is no such "bookend". 24.57.195.9 22:53, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Hm, I distinctly remember the image at the end of the movie where Jobs is back on stage and Gates is looking down like Big Brother from a huge screen. That would seem to indicate that "modern" 1997-ish events were depicted at the end. Hopefully I can watch this tonight and confirm.... Jeff schiller 17:52, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Hi.Pirates of Silicon Valley(the article) doesn't tell much about the plot. We should expand it! Yashtulsyan 23:34, 17 December 2006 (UTC)