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Synopsis: In his signature black turtleneck and blue jeans, shrouded in shadows below a milky apple, Steve Jobs' image was ubiquitous. But who was the man on the stage? What accounted for the grief of so many across the world when he died? From Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney, 'Steve Jobs: The Man In The Machine' is a critical examination of Jobs who was at once revered as an iconoclastic genius and a barbed-tongued tyrant. A candid look at Jobs' legacy featuring interviews with a handful of those close to him at different stages in his life, the film is evocative and nuanced in capturing the essence of the Apple legend and his values which shape the culture of Silicon Valley to this day.
Genre: Documentary
Director(s): Alex Gibney
Production: Magnolia Pictures
 
IMDB:
6.9
Metacritic:
72
Rotten Tomatoes:
77%
R
Year:
2015
128 min
Website
622 Views


research lab every Tuesday night,

and I spent every spare moment I had

trying to write programs for it.

I was so fascinated by this.

We have a pointing device

called a mouse.

I don't know why we call it a mouse.

By 1968, Stanford's

Doug Engelbart, inventor of the mouse,

was asking new questions

about the essential nature of our

changing relationship with computers.

If in your office,

you as an intellectual worker

were supplied with a computer display

backed up by a computer

that was alive for you all day

and was instantly responsible,

responsive,

instantly responsive

to every action you had,

how much value

could you derive from that?

We needed a guide to help us

navigate this new relationship.

My whole adult life has been spent

building personal computers.

So, the history of my vocation

and my avocations

and, you know,

my growing up are all the same,

and it's very hard

to separate one from the other.

I come from a place called

Silicon Valley, California,

and you'll find there are

a lot of electronics kits around.

My electronics teacher realized

that I had a lot of computer ability

that went beyond anything he could

possibly teach me in school.

He knew that as long as I was in class,

I was just going to sit around,

playing pranks on the other students

like wrapping little hair wires

around certain circuits

so when they plugged in their radio,

it would blow up.

As hard as I think about it,

I don't think I ever had one friend

who was not one of the tech kids.

I met Woz when I was maybe

12 years old, 13 years old.

He was the first person I met

that knew more electronics than I did.

And one of the things that Woz and I did

was we built blue boxes.

One day I picked up a magazine,

and I started reading a story

about phone phreaks and blue boxes.

When phone phreaks

have a convention,

as they did in the ballroom

of a seedy New York hotel lately,

masks are given out at the door.

People don't give their right names.

The blue box was a little device that

put special tones into anybody's phone

and those tones would connect you

anywhere you wanted.

Halfway through reading this,

I called Steve Jobs over

and started reading it to him

over the phone.

There's a way to fool

the entire telephone system

into thinking you were

a telephone computer

and to open up itself and let you call

anywhere in the world for free.

You could call from a pay phone,

go to White Plains, New York,

take a satellite to Europe.

And you'd go around the world

and call the pay phone next door.

Shout in the phone,

be about 30 seconds,

it'd come out the other end

of the other phone.

And he's like, "Hello,"

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Alex Gibney

Philip Alexander "Alex" Gibney (born October 23, 1953) is an American documentary film director and producer. In 2010, Esquire magazine said Gibney "is becoming the most important documentarian of our time".His works as director include Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief (winner of three Emmys in 2015), We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks, Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God (the winner of three primetime Emmy awards), Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (nominated in 2005 for Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature); Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer (short-listed in 2011 for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature); Casino Jack and the United States of Money; and Taxi to the Dark Side (winner of the 2007 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature), focusing on a taxi driver in Afghanistan who was tortured and killed at Bagram Air Force Base in 2002. more…

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