Steve Jobs Page #24

SCULLEY:

My pleasure.

JOANNA:

If you want I can slip you in the

back once the house lights go out.

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SCULLEY:

I’m just here to say good luck.

JOANNA:

Okay.

(to STEVE)

You’ve just got a couple of

minutes.

STEVE:

Would you try to find-

JOANNA:

Yeah.

JOANNA gives SCULLEY a kiss on the cheek, then wipes off any

lipstick marks. She loves that he came.

JOANNA (CONT’D)

You’re a good man, John.

She exits.

SCULLEY:

So I brought you a present.

SCULLEY hands STEVE a box...STEVE smiles...

STEVE:

A Newton.

SCULLEY:

Don’t take it out of the box.

You’ll be able to sell it. Which is

more than I can say.

(pause)

Everything alright there?

STEVE:

(beat)

What? Yeah. No, it’s just something

Joanna pointed out to me. I missed

something so obvious about--it

doesn’t matter.

SCULLEY:

(pause)

Look, Wall Street’s gonna sit back

and wait to see how you do as CEO,

don’t let any fluctuation bother

you for the first 12 months. Day

traders are gonna respond to every-I

don’t need to school you.

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STEVE:

(meaning the Newton)

Is this your way of telling me I

shouldn’t have killed the Newton?

SCULLEY:

Well you shouldn’t have killed it

for spite. That’s bad business,

don’t do that.

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103 INT. ESPRESSO ROMA CAFE - NIGHT (1983) 103

An unimpressive-looking Mediterranean restaurant in Berkeley.

STEVE and SCULLEY sit at a booth.

STEVE:

Alright 1957, and IBM passes up the

chance to buy a young company

that’s just developed a technology

called xerography.

SCULLEY:

Yes.

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104 INT. STEVE’S DRESSING ROOM - DAY 104

STEVE:

(pause)

I was given back.

SCULLEY:

I’m sorry?

STEVE:

I don’t know why you’ve always been

interested in my adoption history

but you said it’s not like someone

looked at me and gave me back but

that is what happened.

SCULLEY:

(pause)

Yeah?

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105 INT. ESPRESSO ROMA CAFE - NIGHT 105

STEVE:

Then 10 years later, DEC invents

the mini-computer and IBM dismisses

it as too small to do serious

computing.

SCULLEY:

They weren’t close enough to the

future to see it by then?

STEVE:

DEC becomes a billion dollar

corporation and IBM decides they

should maybe get into the computer

business.

The owner of the restaurant, a balding Syrian-American named

JANDALI comes over to the table.

JANDALI:

Mr. Steve Jobs.

STEVE:

Jandali, say hello to John Sculley.

Jandali owns this place and John’s

the CEO of Pepsi but I’m trying to

get him to move to Cupertino and

put a dent in the universe.

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106 INT. STEVE’S DRESSING ROOM - SAME TIME 106

SCULLEY:

You never told me that.

STEVE:

A lawyer couple adopted me first

and then gave me back after a

month. They changed their mind.

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107 INT. ESPRESSO ROMA CAFE - NIGHT 107

JANDALI:

(to SCULLEY)

Do you eat vegan as well?

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SCULLEY:

No, I’ll eat anything.

STEVE:

Why don’t you start us off with a

Mediterranean lettuce salad with

purslane, mint, cucumbers-

JANDALI:

And the sumac-lemon vinaigrette?

STEVE:

Thanks.

JANDALI heads away as STEVE continues-

STEVE (CONT’D)

Ten years later, 1977, and another

young company called Apple invents

the first personal computer-

SCULLEY:

--and IBM dismisses it as

unimportant to their business.

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108 INT. STEVE’S DRESSING ROOM - SAME TIME 108

STEVE:

Then my parents adopted me. My

biological mother had stipulated

that whoever took me had to be

college educated, wealthy and

Catholic. Paul and Clara Jobs were

none of those things so my

biological mother wouldn’t sign the

adoption papers.

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109 INT. ESPRESSO ROMA CAFE - NIGHT 109

SCULLEY:

In ‘81 the Apple II becomes the

world’s most popular computer and

now IBM gets into the game with the

PC.

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STEVE:

Apple and IBM each invest upwards

of 50 million in R&D and another 50

million in advertising.

SCULLEY:

It’s a shake down. They want to get

rid of the weaker companies.

STEVE:

The weaker companies are going

bankrupt. IBM wants it all.

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110 INT. STEVE’S DRESSING ROOM - SAME TIME 110

SCULLEY:

What happened?

STEVE:

There was a legal battle that went

on for a while and my mother said

she refused to love me for the

first year, you know in case they

had to give me back.

SCULLEY:

You can’t refuse to love someone,

Steve.

STEVE:

Yeah it turns out you can.

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111 INT. ESPRESSO ROMA CAFE - NIGHT 111

SCULLEY:

And now IBM’s got its guns trained

on you.

STEVE:

Apple is the only thing standing

between Blue and industry

domination.

SCULLEY:

You said you were going to tell me

what you have in the testing stage.

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STEVE:

The most efficient animal on the

planet is a condor. The most

inefficient animals on the planet

are humans. But a human with a

bicycle becomes the most efficient

animal. And the right computer--a

friendly, easy computer that isn’t

an eyesore but rather sits on your

desk with the beauty of a tensor

lamp--the right computer will be a

bicycle for the mind. A beautiful

object--perfect geometry, perfect

finish, something you want to look

at and have in your home. Flawless.

And then a personal computer

becomes an interpersonal computer.

And what if instead of it being in

the right hands, it was in

everyone’s hands? Everyone in the

world.

SCULLEY:

(pause)

We’d be talking about the most

tectonic shift in the status quo

since-

STEVE:

Ever.

SCULLEY:

(pause)

And you’re telling me you have the

right computer?

STEVE:

It’s called the Macintosh. You and

I can see to it that IBM doesn’t

control the information age. We can

see to it that Orwell was wrong.

JANDALI comes over and sets down some food.

SCULLEY:

There’s the spot. “1984 doesn’t

have to be like ‘1984.’”

STEVE:

Come be our CEO.

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SCULLEY:

(pause)

Yeah okay.

STEVE and SCULLEY look at each other...the beginning of a

great adventure.

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112 INT. STEVE’S DRESSING ROOM - SAME TIME 112

STEVE:

(pause)

What the hell can a one month old

do that’s so bad his parents give

him back?

SCULLEY:

Nothing. There’s nothing a one

month old can do.

(beat)

Have you ever thought about trying

to find your biological father?

STEVE:

I’ve met my biological father. For

that matter, so have you.

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113 INT. ESPRESSO ROMA CAFE - NIGHT 113

And we see an earlier moment all over again-

JANDALI:

Mr. Steve Jobs.

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