Steve Jobs Page #15

STEVE (CONT’D)

(to LISA)

You have to be in school is all.

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LISA:

(to CHRISANN)

I’m committing a crime right now, I

don’t want to get in trouble.

STEVE:

You’re not in trouble, I was

kidding.

LISA:

(nodding)

Okay.

STEVE’s feeling the pull of not really wanting her to go.

STEVE:

(pause)

Hey what was the second version?

You said the first version was

girlish, what was the second

version?

LISA:

(pause--thinks)

I can’t really think of the word.

STEVE:

(beat)

Okay, well have a good day at

(school).

LISA:

(over “school”)

Regretful.

STEVE:

What?

LISA:

Like wishing you could go back and

do things over again.

STEVE:

(pause)

You’re too young to be regretful.

LISA:

Not me, the person singing the

song.

STEVE:

(beat--nods)

Got it. Regretful.

(MORE)

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STEVE (CONT'D)

(beat)

That makes sense because of-

She puts her arms around her father’s waist and hugs him-

LISA:

Good luck.

CHRISANN and LISA head off as STEVE stands there with JOANNA

looking on. STEVE turns and looks at JOANNA and she looks at

a spot on the floor and shakes her head.

STEVE’s thinking about a lot of things but all that comes out

of his mouth is-

STEVE:

Clouds.

JOANNA:

(pause)

Six minutes. You want to see

Sculley?

STEVE:

No.

JOANNA:

That wasn’t a question.

STEVE:

It sounded exactly like a question

to me. I’ll see him after.

Steve walks down the corridor alone.

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Steve surveys the crowd for a moment then walks out into--

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--Steve stops when he hears the voice of John Sculley

SCULLEY:

You know all those times I told you

you needed security? Here’s why.

STEVE’s looking at SCULLEY. SCULLEY’s a sworn enemy now but

STEVE’s not going to show him that. He has bigger plans.

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STEVE:

(pause)

I don’t know how it is I’ve gotten

older and you haven’t. Some deal

with the devil I was never offered.

SCULLEY:

So you know what I’ve been thinking

for the last four years?

STEVE:

As it turns out I’ve never known

what you were thinking.

SCULLEY:

No newborn baby has control, do you

know what I’m talking about? In

‘84, before the Mac launch, you

said-

STEVE:

Yeah.

SCULLEY:

You said that being adopted meant

you didn’t have control.

STEVE:

(pause)

We’re starting in a minute so-

SCULLEY:

Why do people think I fired you?

STEVE:

It’s fine, John, it’s all behind

us.

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46 INT. STEVE’S LIVING ROOM - NIGHT 46

It’s a beautiful house but it’s almost entirely unfurnished.

There’s a very nice floor lamp, a framed photograph of

Einstein on the wall...and that’s about it. Except for a Mac

that sits in the middle of the floor.

The DOORBELL RINGS--STEVE looks at the door-

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SCULLEY:

Is it?

STEVE:

Hm?

SCULLEY:

Don’t play stupid, you can’t pull

it off.

STEVE:

You came here to ask me-

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STEVE opens the door and SCULLEY is standing there.

SCULLEY:

Sorry to come by unannounced.

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STEVE:

--why people think you fired me?

SCULLEY:

Yeah.

STEVE:

Seriously?

SCULLEY:

Yeah.

STEVE:

I haven’t seen or spoken to you in

three years.

SCULLEY:

Why do people think I fired you?

STEVE:

(pause)

Just confirm something for me,

okay? You liked the ad, right?

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STEVE (CONT'D)

The commercial. “1984.” You liked

it?

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SCULLEY:

When are you gonna get furniture?

STEVE:

It’s not an easy process.

SCULLEY:

It is, you buy a couch and take it

from there.

STEVE:

I’ve been thinking a lot about

couches. What do we use them for?

SCULLEY:

Steve-

STEVE:

I’d be really surprised if you came

here to talk about interior

decorating.

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SCULLEY:

I liked the ad very much.

STEVE:

You did.

SCULLEY:

You know I did, now please answer

my question.

STEVE:

You’re lying, son of a b*tch, you

tried to kill it.

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52 INT. STEVE’S LIVING ROOM - NIGHT 52

SCULLEY:

It’s time to take a hard look at

the Mac.

STEVE:

It’s past time. It’s overpriced, we

need to drop it to nineteen ninety-

five. We need to double the

marketing budget, put more bodies

on an internal hard drive and

invest in FileServer.

SCULLEY:

Where would that money come from?

STEVE:

It would come from finally getting

rid of the Apple II.

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SCULLEY:

Where the hell did you get the idea

I tried (to kill the ad?)

STEVE:

Lee Clow.

SCULLEY:

Lee’s wrong.

STEVE:

He’s lying?

SCULLEY:

He’s mistaken.

STEVE:

You agreed with the board.

SCULLEY:

I understood the board’s concerns

but I certainly did not (try to

kill--)

STEVE:

The board’s concern that we didn’t

show the product.

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SCULLEY:

Among other things, but my

(question was--)

STEVE:

(over)

What other things? You said among

other things.

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SCULLEY:

The Apple II is the only thing

making money.

STEVE:

That’s because we keep selling it.

SCULLEY:

(pause--this is awkward

and hard)

I can’t diagram that logic but-

STEVE:

We keep making it so people keep-the

Mac needs to sell for $1995.

SCULLEY:

There is no market research telling

us the Mac is failing because it’s

overpriced. It’s telling us that

people don’t like it because they

think it doesn’t DO anything, it’s

closed end to end. We didn’t know

it wasn’t what people wanted but it

isn’t, they want slots, they want

choices, they want options. The way

we buy stereos, mix and match

components.

STEVE:

John, listen to me. Whoever said

the customer is always right was, I

promise you, a customer.

SCULLEY:

My job is to make a recommendation

to the board.

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STEVE:

Recommend that we drop the price,

double the marketing-

SCULLEY:

I can’t.

STEVE:

Well what are you gonna do,

recommend that we kill the Mac?

SCULLEY:

I already have, Steve.

STEVE:

(pause)

What?

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SCULLEY:

Among other things, it was set in a

dystopian galaxy, it took place on

a planet where we don’t live, it

was dark and the opposite of our

brand. And we didn’t show the

product. People talked about the ad

but most of them didn’t know what

we were selling.

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