Steve Jobs Page #11

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STEVE:

Any chance I could get you to go

out there instead of me?

WOZ:

I love you, Steve.

STEVE:

I love you too, Woz.

WOZ:

You know--some things were said-

STEVE:

They were.

WOZ:

They were.

(pause)

I’m clumsy at this. I guess-

STEVE:

They were said in public.

WOZ:

(beat)

Yeah.

STEVE:

They were published. You knew you

were talking to a reporter from

Fortune, right? You weren’t

tricked?

WOZ:

No.

STEVE:

(pointing)

Watch your step.

WOZ:

Look, I don’t even remember exactly

what I said. I know it was-

STEVE:

(no problem)

“Steve can be an insulting and

hurtful guy.”

WOZ:

Yeah.

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STEVE:

(no problem)

“I look forward to a great product

and I wish him success-

WOZ:

Yeah.

STEVE:

(problem)

“--but his integrity I cannot

trust.” Wait here a second.

They’re backstage now and STEVE walks onto the stage where

there’s a new pool of light waiting for him. We stay on WOZ

backstage for a moment, who now understands that Steve’s

version of wiping the slate clean and his are two different

things.

GEORGE COATES calls from out in the house-

GEORGE:

Good?

STEVE looks at the floor, at the edges of the pool of light-

STEVE:

Good. Where do you want to pick it

up?

GEORGE:

The thesaurus.

STEVE:

A word that’s sometimes used to

describe me-

GEORGE:

Hold please, they’re not cued up.

STEVE:

We’ve got about 10 minutes before

we have to clear the house.

GEORGE:

I doubt we’re starting on time.

STEVE:

I promise you we are.

GEORGE:

We still have to get through-

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STEVE:

We make computers, we’re--I’ve had

this conversation before--we’re

starting on time.

The giant screen behind Steve is showing the NeXT desktop as

STEVE demonstrates the thesaurus feature.

GEORGE:

Go ahead.

STEVE:

A word that’s sometimes used to

describe me is “mercurial.”

GEORGE:

Hold for laugh.

STEVE:

Let’s look at the dictionary

definitions.

(scrolling to it)

“Of or relating to or born under

the planet Mercury.”

(scrolling down)

I think the third one is what they

mean.

STEVE glances offstage where he sees that LISA is now

watching a few feet from WOZ.

STEVE (CONT’D)

“Characterized by unpredictable

changeableness of mood.”

GEORGE:

Hold for laugh.

STEVE:

If we scroll down the thesaurus,

though, we see the antonym is

“saturnine.” By simply double-

clicking on it we immediately look

that up in the dictionary and here

it is:
“Cold and steady in moods.

Slow to act or change. Of a gloomy

or surly disposition.”

GEORGE:

Hold for laugh.

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STEVE:

So I don’t think “mercurial” is so

bad after all.

GEORGE:

Let’s jump to 141.

STEVE:

Gimme just a second.

STEVE walks to the wings-STEVE

(CONT’D)

(to LISA)

It’s against the law for you not tobe in school.

LISA:

My mom said I could watch.

STEVE:

Where is she?

STEVE leads LISA and WOZ back into-35

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LISA:

Why did mercurial end up not beinga bad word?

STEVE:

Do you remember asking me that thenight before last when you werehaving dinner at my house?

LISA:

I forgot the answer.

STEVE:

The word that was the opposite ofmercurial was bad, which meant

mercurial was good.

LISA:

I don’t get it.

STEVE:

I think you do get it.

I don’t.

LISA:

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STEVE:

‘Cause we also talked about it when

you came to the rehearsal last

week.

LISA:

Why aren’t the angles straight?

STEVE:

The angles?

LISA:

On the Cube.

STEVE:

The angles are straight.

LISA:

I meant why aren’t they straight on

other things?

STEVE:

Why does it feel like you’re

working me?

LISA:

I’m not.

STEVE:

Woz? Why aren’t the angles straight

on other things?

WOZ:

(to LISA)

When the manufacturers make things

with 90 degree angles, they cheat

the angle a little bit--89, 91--so

that it’s easier to get the object

out of the mold. Like getting a

cake out of a pan. But on your

dad’s new computer he insisted the

angles be exactly 90 degrees.

LISA:

Why?

WOZ:

He’s a perfectionist.

LISA:

Cool.

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STEVE:

Some people don’t mean cool when

they use that word.

WOZ:

(to LISA)

I did.

STEVE opens the door to -

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--where CHRISANN is waiting.

STEVE:

I thought you guys left an hour

ago.

CHRISANN:

She wants to watch her father’s

presentation.

STEVE:

(to LISA)

Wait in here, I’ll be right back.

LISA:

(to CHRISANN)

I saw the thesaurus.

STEVE closes the door behind her and stands alone in the hall

with WOZ-

STEVE:

Were you pressured to do it?

WOZ:

(pause)

What do you mean?

STEVE looks around...then WOZ follows him through a double-

door marked “Authorized Personnel Only” and into-

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Empty chairs and empty music stands are arranged in a semicircle

facing an empty conductor’s podium.

STEVE looks around at it for a moment...WOZ doesn’t really

know what they’re doing there. STEVE begins walking around

slowly...

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STEVE:

Check it out. It’s the orchestra

pit for the San Francisco Opera.

WOZ:

Was I pressured to do it?

STEVE:

I once met Seiji Ozawa at

Tanglewood. Thunderous conductor.

Ungodly artfulness and nuance. And

I asked him what exactly a

conductor does that a metronome

can’t do. Surprisingly-

WOZ:

--he didn’t beat the sh*t out of

you?

STEVE:

(laughing at Woz’s joke)

That’s right. No, he said, “The

musicians play their instruments. I

play the orchestra.”

WOZ:

That feels like something that

sounds good but doesn’t mean

anything.

STEVE:

Markkula, Sculley, did they ask you

to slag me off in the press?

WOZ:

I had reason (to be angry).

STEVE:

(over)

Did they?

WOZ:

Absolutely not.

STEVE:

But they asked you to talk.

WOZ:

Apple was under siege, you’d just

left the company, somebody had to

talk to the press.

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STEVE:

(old time producer)

I’m right here, Woz, the company

left me.

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