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Very last line of dialogue

posted 8 years ago by Greg24710
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What's the very last line of dialogue about? It occurs when Jobs is on stage taking in the applause and Woz is watching in the auditorium, and there's like a four-second flashback to Woz working at the bench in the garage and Jobs is pacing at the garage door, and he just kind of turns to him and says, "...Woz?" And then it flash forwards back to Woz watching in the auditorium.

What's that about? What does it mean? And why is it the very last line in this dialogue-heavy film?

[–] broforcesquad 8 years ago

I was wondering the same thing. After he and Woz publicly engaged each other regarding the Apple 2 and Jobs constant belittling of it I wondered if it didn't illustrate how he regretted letting his ego get in the way of his personal relationships i.e. Lisa for all these years.

Maybe I'm way off though...

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[–] Greg24710 8 years ago

That's what I was thinking originally, but then I rewatched it and noticed he's saying, "...Woz?" in the past. It might have been the moment he gave in to Woz on the ports issue, which arguably made the Apple I, and therefore Apple, a success. Maybe it's supposed to be Woz's memory, and so as he's watching Steve stand on stage and get all the praise, he's remembering that he had a big hand in that.

I glanced at the shooting script, and that flashback isn't there at the end, but I haven't looked at it again to see if it's elsewhere and just got moved in editing. If it's there it might provide some context.

[–] lx_factor_86 8 years ago

My interpretation of that line has to do with the song played over the last few scenes of the film called 'grew up at midnight'. My interpretation from the song is that Jobs 'compassionate' side has barely stemmed in his life but that moment where we gave in to Woz about the ports helped him mend things with his daughter. That clip of woz was almost a tipping of the hat to woz of how important his role was for Steve in learning to 'give in' to the moments in your life where you are truly neede to admit your faults and not defend them, and show vulnerability but revealing how much you care and need others who are important to you...

[–] Greg24710 8 years ago

Well put.

[–] joann-markon 8 years ago

The last line was to Lisa,"Do you remember the drawing you did on the original Mac? I do". I just watched the movie. Woz enters the auditorium but that's it, no dialogue, inferred or otherwise.
Steve then starts to walk towards Lisa amidst thunderous applause, cut applause cue a louder soundtrack. 'we grew up at midnight", perfect. Bravo Mr. Fassbender.

[–] Greg24710 8 years ago

Nope, you missed it. Watch it again: https://youtu.be/5668lshpYJo?t=2m23s 😃

[–] ExTechOp (2770) 7 years ago

Someone on that youtube link posted an excellent summary:

In context, both scenes the iMac product launch and the garage moment were preceded by arguments between Steve and Woz. Both fights were about who is right and who is wrong (and technically they're both right and wrong in both instances).
The reason why this flashback scene is key is because

1. it bookends the film in a chronological sense. The furthest we go back in Steve's life in this film is to the garage days, and we end on the iMac launch.

2. it bookends Jobs' and Wozniak's partnership. Both their egos have clashed many times over the years but they have continuosuly stuck together. And it shows that even when they disagree, Steve always turns back to make sure that his friend is still there. We see Woz re-enter the auditorium moments before, which I believe is also a sign of him never abandoning his friend regardless of what has happened.

In addition to Steve previously reconciling with Lisa, these two moments together redeem Steve's character (at least little); because ultimately, if the faces missing from the crowd are of the people he actually cares about then the auditorium may as well be empty.

When we audibly hear him call out to Woz in front of the garage, he figuratively is doing the same on stage in that moment.

I'm not saying this coincides with Jobs' and Wozniak's real life relationship -I know this movie took liberties with the stories of the people depicted. I'm also not saying this ending would have been terrible without that insert.

It just perfectly completes Steve's character arc with a very simple edit.