Pirates of Silicon Valley Sypnosis
The movie starts by revealing the core of Steve Job’s personality. He speaks to the camera saying, "I don't want you to think of this as just a film - some process of converting electrons and magnetic impulses into shapes and figures and sounds - no. Listen to me. We're here to make a dent in the universe. Otherwise, why even be here? We're creating a completely new consciousness, like an artist or a poet. We're rewriting the history of human thought with what we're doing. That's how you have to think of this." His best friend, Steve "the Woz" Wozniak follows this with a narration describing how everything Steve Jobs ever did was something "between a religious experience and some sort of crusade."
Both the opening lines and the narration are spoken over the back drop of the filming of Apples 1984 Super Bowl commercial. Final touches and preparations where made before the commercial was aired.
The filming of the commercial fades to the actual ad where slave-looking individuals bow before a Big Brother figure preaching from a giant TV screen. Then, from the back of the auditorium and being chased by storm-troopers, a lone woman runs to the screen and hurls a hammer to the screen, shattering and making it explode.
The movie then transitions to a stage thirteen years later, where Steve Jobs is just announcing "the business deal that will turn Apple around," to a gathered audience, and introduces the other protagonist in the movie, Bill Gates who is currently being projected, via live feed, to a screen looming over the audience, in a very Big Brother manner, a not-so-subtle portent for events in the movie.
The scene cuts to the University of Berkley campus, 1971, amidst a tear gas and students rioting, a young Jobs and Wozniak dash to safety. Once away from the crowd Jobs scornfully says, "Those guys think they're revolutionaries. They're not revolutionaries, we are." Wozniak resumes his narration, relaying that Jobs was never like, "you or me, he always saw
Both the opening lines and the narration are spoken over the back drop of the filming of Apples 1984 Super Bowl commercial. Final touches and preparations where made before the commercial was aired.
The filming of the commercial fades to the actual ad where slave-looking individuals bow before a Big Brother figure preaching from a giant TV screen. Then, from the back of the auditorium and being chased by storm-troopers, a lone woman runs to the screen and hurls a hammer to the screen, shattering and making it explode.
The movie then transitions to a stage thirteen years later, where Steve Jobs is just announcing "the business deal that will turn Apple around," to a gathered audience, and introduces the other protagonist in the movie, Bill Gates who is currently being projected, via live feed, to a screen looming over the audience, in a very Big Brother manner, a not-so-subtle portent for events in the movie.
The scene cuts to the University of Berkley campus, 1971, amidst a tear gas and students rioting, a young Jobs and Wozniak dash to safety. Once away from the crowd Jobs scornfully says, "Those guys think they're revolutionaries. They're not revolutionaries, we are." Wozniak resumes his narration, relaying that Jobs was never like, "you or me, he always saw