Steve Jobs Page #21

STEVE:

Thank you. And if you see Hertzfeld-

There’s a KNOCK at the door-

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STEVE (CONT’D)

(quietly)

Speak of the devil’s chief

engineer.

ANDY (O.S.)

It’s Andy.

STEVE:

(to JOANNA)

Go.

(calling)

Come on in.

ANDY comes in as JOANNA’s leaving-

ANDY:

(to JOANNA)

You look great today.

JOANNA:

Thank you.

ANDY:

(to STEVE)

Doesn’t she?

STEVE:

She looks fantastic, always does.

(to JOANNA)

Get out.

JOANNA exits and closes the door behind her.

ANDY:

I think I know why I’m here.

STEVE:

Do ya?

ANDY:

Steve-

STEVE:

Did you send the check yet?

ANDY:

Yes.

STEVE:

So Harvard got a tuition check from

Andy Hertzfeld to pay for Lisa?

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ANDY:

I don’t think they look that

carefully, I don’t think they’d

notice the check didn’t come from

you.

STEVE:

Close one. This was almost

embarrassing for me.

ANDY:

I understand how-

STEVE:

I’ll wire you the money today.

ANDY:

I understand how you feel and I do

apologize, I do, but let me tell

you my thinking.

STEVE:

I can’t even think of an

appropriate analogy to describe

(what you did).

ANDY:

I knew you guys would fix things,

you always do, but in the meantime

if the money wasn’t there she’d

miss a semester of school.

STEVE:

Yeah.

ANDY:

And she’d have to tell her friends

why. And she needed things, she

needed socks.

STEVE:

(beat)

What?

ANDY:

It’s cold in Cambridge, she needed

warm socks.

STEVE:

You gave her socks.

ANDY:

Well I gave her money for socks.

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STEVE:

You don’t get to deputize yourself

as her interim-

(beat)

--you don’t get to override my

decisions. Do you understand? You

don’t get to act like you’re her

father.

ANDY:

Somebody had to.

STEVE:

The f*** did you just say to me?!

ANDY:

I’ve known her since she was six. I

also consider--Chrisann’s a friend

outside of what you and I--outside

of our (relationship).

STEVE:

So you’re like a family advisor.

ANDY:

I’m a family friend.

STEVE:

Then you probably know Lisa’s been

seeing a therapist.

ANDY:

Yeah.

STEVE:

For many years.

ANDY:

Yeah.

STEVE:

Without my knowledge.

ANDY:

That really wasn’t my business.

STEVE:

I’m fascinated by what you think is

and isn’t your business.

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ANDY:

Lisa’s been going to a therapist

and she likes it and would love for

you and Chrisann to go with her.

STEVE:

And the reason you know that is

that you’re the one who recommended

the therapist.

ANDY:

I know a guy, he specializes in-

STEVE:

No, I mean, you’re the one who

recommended that she see a

therapist.

ANDY:

I--you know what, it was a while

ago and I don’t remember how the

whole--who said what to-

STEVE:

You told Chrisann that Lisa should

see a therapist.

ANDY:

Steve, you’re stigmatizing--it’s

not--my thing was how can it hurt?

STEVE:

Let’s find out.

ANDY:

Chrisann is my friend.

STEVE:

What was the reason you gave?

ANDY:

(pause)

You mean-

STEVE:

What was the reason you gave

Chrisann why Lisa should see a

therapist?

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ANDY:

I don’t remember. We were talking

and I said--it was pretty much what

I just said, that it certainly

couldn’t hurt.

STEVE:

You didn’t say Lisa needed a strong

male role model?

ANDY:

(pause)

I did.

(pause)

I think it’s a miracle she’s not

robbing banks with the Symbionese

Liberation Army. There is no reason

in the world why she should be

nice. But she is. So I helped.

Because somebody had to.

STEVE:

(pause)

I’ll wire the money to you this

afternoon.

ANDY gets up and heads to the door...

ANDY:

You threatened me a long time ago.

STEVE:

I’m sorry?

ANDY:

A long time ago. You threatened me

once.

STEVE:

People are attracted to people with

talent and people without it find

that threatening. Maybe you should

see a therapist. It certainly

couldn’t hurt.

ANDY:

(pause)

I meant you literally threatened

me. At Flint, right before the Mac

launch.

(MORE)

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ANDY (CONT'D)

I was recompiling, I was trying to

debug the voice demo and you said

if I couldn’t find a solution you’d

call me out in front of the

audience.

STEVE:

Did it say “Hello”?

ANDY:

It did.

STEVE:

No need to thank me.

ANDY:

(beat)

Why do you want people to dislike

you?

STEVE:

I don’t want people to dislike me.

I’m indifferent to whether they

dislike me.

ANDY:

Well...since it doesn’t matter? I

always have.

STEVE:

(pause)

Really? I’ve always liked you a

lot. That’s too bad.

ANDY:

Knock ‘em dead.

STEVE:

Thank you.

ANDY exits.

STEVE stands there a moment...then launches into a practice

run of a section of the presentation so he can wipe away what

just happened.

STEVE (CONT’D)

What is remarkable, what’s hard to

fathom but true is that for a given

clock rate a power PC chip is twice

as fast as a Pentium II chip.

(MORE)

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STEVE (CONT’D)

In other words a 266 Megahertz G3

is twice as fast as a 266 Megahertz

Pentium II or a 266 G3 is equal to

about 500 Megahertz. Take a look at

BYTE Magazine’s BYTE Marks, the

gold standard for-

There’s a KNOCK at the door-

STEVE (CONT’D)

Come in.

JOANNA enters.

JOANNA:

I sent someone into the lobby. They

found her and-

STEVE:

Where is she?

JOANNA:

She said she’d rather not come

back.

STEVE:

Why?

JOANNA:

That was it.

STEVE:

(heading for the door)

I’m going out there myself.

JOANNA:

You can’t. You can’t, you can’t.

It’ll be a scene out of Hard Day’s

Night.

STEVE:

(pause)

Will you-

JOEL PFORZHEIMER knocks on the open door-

JOEL:

Excuse me.

STEVE:

Hey Joel.

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JOEL:

Andy said it was okay to come back.

STEVE:

Which one?

JOEL:

Andy Cunningham.

STEVE:

(to JOANNA)

I need one of them to change their

name, I can’t do this forever.

JOANNA:

You call Andy Cunningham Andrea.

STEVE:

It doesn’t matter what I call them.

I know who I’m talking about when

I’m talking. I need everyone else

to call them different names.

(to JOEL)

Gimme one second.

STEVE takes JOANNA out into-

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--and out of hearing distance where he speaks quietly.

STEVE:

(whispering)

Go get her for me please. I just

talked to Andy...Hertzfeld...and

I’m just trying to scrub this out

of my brain with Drano but I do

want to talk to Lisa.

JOANNA:

(whispering)

Yeah, just stay cool.

JOANNA heads down the corridor and STEVE watches her go.

Without turning around, JOANNA points to the two doors as she

passes them-

JOANNA (CONT’D)

(pointing)

Stage. Parking lot.

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STEVE:

Thank you.

He goes back into-98

INT. STEVE’S DRESSING ROOM - CONTINUOUS 98

JOEL:

How are you feeling?

STEVE:

I’m feeling good, Joel, how about

you?

JOEL:

I don’t think I could be in your

business. It changes too quickly.

STEVE:

Well I’d hang on ‘cause yours is

about to start changing prettyquickly too.

JOEL:

This is the third time in 14 yearsI’m writing about you.

STEVE:

(pause)

What do you think so far?

ANDREA CUNNINGHAM sticks her head in the door-ANDREA

Excuse me. Avie’s asking for you,

he has a new shark slide.

STEVE:

Okay.

(to JOEL)

You want to come backstage for asecond?

Sure.

JOEL:

They head out into-

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