Steve Jobs Page #16

56 INT. STEVE’S LIVING ROOM - NIGHT 56

STEVE:

When?

SCULLEY:

Just now. An hour ago. I’m coming

from Markkula’s house.

STEVE:

And what did he say?

(beat)

What did he say?

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SCULLEY:

What do you want the headache for?

Moving money around, figuring out

what--invent something new. I’ll

give you a team, you can sit in

Maui, the resorts come with

couches.

STEVE:

(beat)

Wait a minute--are you saying you

recommended terminating the Mac or

you recommended taking me off the

Mac team?

SCULLEY:

(pause)

Figure out what’s next.

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57 INT. BALCONY LOBBY - SAME TIME 57

STEVE:

You thought it was dark?

SCULLEY:

(beat)

They thought it was--it had

skinheads in it but that’s (not the

point).

STEVE:

(over)

She was liberating them.

SCULLEY:

Liberating the skinheads.

STEVE:

The ad didn’t have anything to do

with f***ing skinheads! We used

them as f***ing extras! Nobody even

knows they were skinheads!

SCULLEY:

I’m saying the board-

STEVE:

You invented lifestyle advertising

and “our brand” was my brand.

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SCULLEY:

We showed a lot of happy people

drinking Pepsi, we didn’t say the

world was gonna come to an end if

you bought a Dr. Pepper. And we

showed the product! We showed it

being opened, we showed it being

poured, being consumed-

STEVE:

You think the secret to your

success was not assuming people

knew what they were supposed to do

with a can of soda?

SCULLEY:

I didn’t kill the ad, Steve! I’m

the only reason it made it on the

air!

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58 INT. STEVE’S LIVING ROOM - NIGHT 58

STEVE:

If we drop the price and (double

the budget)-

SCULLEY:

Steve! You can’t drop the price and

double a budget! The only way to do

that is to take money out of the

Apple II and-

STEVE:

The Apple II should embarrass you.

It embarrasses me. If you had any

pride at all-

SCULLEY:

It doesn’t embarrass the

shareholders, Steve, (the share)-

STEVE:

(over)

I don’t give a sh*t about--the

shareholders are your problem,

that’s why I hired you, so I don’t

ever have to hear about-

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SCULLEY:

The shareholders are my problem and

the board represents the

shareholders. That’s how it

works.

STEVE:

(figuring it out)

You’re doing both. You’re moving me

off the Mac and phasing it out.

SCULLEY:

Yes.

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59 INT. BALCONY LOBBY - SAME TIME 59

STEVE:

Woz and I offered to put up our own

money and you’re the only reason

the ad was on the air?

SCULLEY:

Yes.

STEVE:

How do you figure?

SCULLEY:

We’d bought three spots in the

Super Bowl--two 30’s and a 60--for

six-hundred thousand and after we

screened it the board wanted that

money back and they asked me to

sell off the spots. Chiat/Day sold

off the two 30’s but not the 60 and

I let it be known to Lee Clow that

if he didn’t try very hard to sell

the last spot I wouldn’t be

unhappy. And that’s how the ad got

on the air. Maybe remember that the

next time someone tells you you

were brilliant to only run the ad

once.

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60 INT. STEVE’S LIVING ROOM - NIGHT 60

STEVE:

You’re really talking about killing

the Mac.

SCULLEY:

I’m euthanizing the Mac, it’s a

mercy killing.

STEVE:

I’m gonna take this to the board

myself.

SCULLEY:

Don’t do that.

STEVE:

I am doing that.

SCULLEY:

You can’t.

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STEVE:

You sure it wasn’t Lee Clow who

dragged his feet selling the 60?

SCULLEY:

At my direction, Steve, you think

he would have done that on his

own?! Taken it on himself?!

STEVE:

Yes, I think he would have done

what it took to save it from you!

SCULLEY:

I was the only thing protecting it!

STEVE:

You didn’t want the ad because you

were trying to kill the Mac two

months before it launched!

SCULLEY:

You are f***ing delusional!

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And now it’s like two boxers unclench after a furious series

of punches, move apart and take a breath...

STEVE:

Can I mention something to you? I

have no earthly idea why you’re

here.

SCULLEY:

The story...of why and how you left

Apple...which is quickly becoming

mythologized...isn’t true.

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INT. STEVE’S LIVING ROOM - NIGHT 62

STEVE:

I’m going to the board.

SCULLEY:

Don’t press it with the board,

Steve. I’m imploring you.

STEVE:

Why?

SCULLEY:

They believe you’re no longer

necessary to this company.

We stay with STEVE being silent for a long moment before we-

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INT. BALCONY LOBBY - SAME TIME 63

STEVE:

I’m not your publicist.

SCULLEY:

I get hate mail. Death threats.

STEVE:

And I’m not your employee.

SCULLEY:

I get death threats. My kids get

taunted. Why do people think I

fired you?

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STEVE:

(pause)

Joanna’s gonna call my name in a

second.

JOANNA (O.S.)

Steve?

STEVE:

That was unrehearsed.

(calling out)

Yeah, I’ll be just a second.

SCULLEY:

I gave you your day in court.

STEVE:

You gave me-

SCULLEY:

I gave the board a clear choice. I

said do you want to invest in the

Apple II or the Mac and they chose

the Apple II-

STEVE:

The same people who wanted to dump

the Super Bowl spot-

SCULLEY:

(rides over STEVE)

--and then I got on a plane to

China.

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64 INT. CATHAY PACIFIC AIRLINES FIRST CLASS LOUNGE - NIGHT 64

RAIN BEATS AGAINST THE WINDOW as we see SCULLEY sitting at

the bar. A CONCIERGE steps up-

CONCIERGE:

Mr. Sculley?

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65 INT. BALCONY LOBBY - SAME TIME 65

SCULLEY:

Or I almost got on but I got a call

in the lounge.

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STEVE:

Who made that call?

SCULLEY:

It doesn’t matter.

STEVE:

It matters to me. Who made the

call?

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66 INT. CATHAY PACIFIC AIRLINES FIRST CLASS LOUNGE - NIGHT 66

SCULLEY is on the phone at the desk, listening to the voice

at the other end.

MALE VOICE (V.O.)

If you get on that plane you’ll

have lost your job by the time you

land. He’s starting a civil war.

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67 INT. BALCONY LOBBY - SAME TIME 67

SCULLEY:

I left my bags on the plane--my

sh*t’s still somewhere in Beijing-I

took a car back to Cupertino in

the middle of the f***ing-

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68 INT. SCULLEY’S OFFICE - NIGHT 68

RAIN BEATS AGAINST THE OFFICE WINDOWS as SCULLEY speaks on

the phone-

SCULLEY:

I know what time it is, I need a

quorum here in one hour. And I want

Steve here too.

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69 INT. BALCONY LOBBY - SAME TIME 69

STEVE:

You took me off the Mac and it was

bad business. The quorum call was a

homicide.

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