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If Gates has become synonymous with corporate conquest at its most striking, Pirates' interest lies more with Jobs, given a nervous energy and flashes of adolescent selfishness by Noah Wyle, who benefits from a reasonable physical resemblance to the Apple chief. Eyewear and a comb-over do nearly as well for Anthony Michael Hall, who also grafts some of Bill Gates's better-known mannerisms onto his performance and renders Gates as a smart if socially maladroit entrepreneur who, like Jobs, provides the ambition and business savvy to exploit his partner's computing talents. There are a few fanciful touches (Ballmer and Wozniak become Greek choruses, addressing the viewer as they comment on the principals), but the story plays out in straightforward fashion. It's tantalizing to consider how the Apple/PC melodrama might have fared with an edgier, more openly satirical script. --Sam Sutherland
| CATEGORY: | Video |
| DIRECTOR: | Martyn Burke |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 20 June, 1999 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Turner Home Ent |
| MPAA RATING: | Unrated |
| FEATURES: | Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Drama, Feature Film-drama, Movie |
| MEDIA: | VHS Tape |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 053939659337 |
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outrageous An outrageously funny look at the inception of two of the giants of home computing, Apple and Microsoft, in particular the idiosyncratic personalities behind the two megafirms. Hilariously done with plenty of excellent parody and Anthony Michael Hall and Noah Wyle at the top of their game.
Essential Business tips from Billy Gates and Stevie Jobs !!!
I built my business in large part thanks to the lessons taken from this movie. A couple of personal highlights :
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>1) Steve Jobs shaving off his beard , cutting his shoulder length hair and buying a tacky brown business suit to the disapproving stares of his hippie friends. Why ? " Cuz banks don't like hippies "
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>2) Steve Jobs on why he thought it was OK to rip off Xerox PARC Labs (which led Apple to develop the mouse and GUI technologies) : "In the words of Picasso : 'Good artists copy. Great artists steal!'"
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>3) Bill Gates staring blankly at a computer monitor suddenly realizing why Microsoft was hitting the skids. They had no choice but to do business with the much hated IBM corp: " Like they say in the MOB : Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer "
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>4) This one's a classic. Bill Gates sitting in the IBM boardroom with their top execs. Gates promises to deliver a much improved OS for IBM's new personal computer : The DOS . All of this with one catch :
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>Bill Gates (in his annoyingly whinny voice) : "We think its best if we owned the OS. In order to further develop system improvements for you guys..."
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>IBM Exec : " Sure. After all our business is in the hardware..."
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>Well, needless to say, right there and then, the world's single largest personal fortune was created. Billions upon billions.
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>If you like the fast paced wheelin'and dealin' years of early Silicon Valley and would like to learn more about Steve Jobs and Bill Gates: Get this DVD.
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Well acted popular history
Just as with the urban legend there are legends as how Microsoft and Apple came to being. This story based on a book by Paul Freiberger and Michael Swaine, is about the story of two parallel personalities; one wants to make a dent I the universe, the other wants to keep his enemies close.
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>Many realities and key players were glossed over not to mention the CPM operating system. However if we delve into two may diverse parts of this story we would loose our focus and cohesion.
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>It is fun to watch the parallel growth of Apple's Steve Jobs (Noah Wyle) and Microsoft's Bill Gates (Anthony Michael Hall). Especially the ability to get into their heads and the many exacerbations or the other guy.
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>As a previous owner of an Altair, Commodore, TRS-80, and Apple among others this movie had a special interest for me.
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