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I hate screenwriters trying to rewrite history

posted 9 years ago by bbagnall
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In reality Jobs started NeXT computer because he really wanted to make a new computer and thought he could make it the most popular computer around. At some point after it was deemed a failure, Apple was in trouble and wanted him back.

So the screenwriters give us this BS monologue when he's launching the NeXT Computer in 1988 where he reveals his grand master plan about how Apple is going to need an OS and they are going to have to come to him of course, buy NeXT for half a billion in stock and give him end to end product control. Just to be clear, Apple hired him and bought NeXT for $427 million in 1996!!!

What?! Were they high when they wrote this thing? That makes like zero sense and certainly wasn't the way it actually happened. What a fantasy. It's like Monday morning quarterback revisionism making Jobs to be some sort of Machiavelli-Nostradamus hybrid.

[–] lordDEMAXUS 8 years ago

This is a movie, not a *beep* documentary. Sorkin got the same criticisms for the social network and what he said is that he knew that it was not accurate but he sacrificed accuracy for a good script. that is what any scriptwriter would do. A good script is much more important than an accurate one. From what you said, the film being accurate would have lost some of it's meat.

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[–] theunopeneddoor-697-442391 8 years ago

Name a narrative film that is accurate. Any.

Did you knwo A Beautiful Mind ignored the fact John Nash was bisexual?

Did you know that Glory ignored the fact that Fredrick DOuglas' son was in the batlion the movie was about?

Did you know Braveheart ignored the fact that William Wallace was nobility and was barbaric in his killings? Oh and kilts didn't exist at that time period. And where the hell did they get the affair with the queen of France?

Don't even get me started on Amadeus!

How about the fact in Love and mercy the recent Brian Wilson biography it showed his wife saving him from his shrink ripping him off when it was his brother that did?

How about The Door when Jim Morrison NEVER emphasized the word "higher" when he sang on the Ed Sullivan show?

Speaking of Ed Sullivan...Buddy Holly never performed "Maybe Baby" on there.

There was never any poll to dump Andy Kaufman present by Lorn Michaels...but Man on the Moon shows one...

So yeah, every biopic is BS. EVERY. SINGLE. ONE.

Also I think that you will soon realize this is my signature.

[–] Jes' Sayin' (6398) 4 years ago

And it didn't happen in the Opera House either. (Davies Symphony Hall)

But it makes for a more novelistic story.