- Year:
- 2015
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From a BLACK SCREEN
--we’re in the middle of a confidential conversation.
ANDY (V.O.)
The screen says it’s an
unimplemented trap but the dialogue
box is wrong, it’s a system error.
JOANNA (V.O.)
When did it happen?
ANDY (V.O.)
About 10 minutes ago, we’ve been
working it.
JOANNA (V.O.)
An unimplemented trap?
ANDY (V.O.)
It’s a system error.
FADE IN:
1 INT. AUDITORIUM - MORNING/CONTINUOUS 1
We’ll get our bearings in a moment but right now we’re in the
middle of a conversation taking place on a stage between
STEVE JOBS, JOANNA HOFFMAN and ANDY HERTZFELD--all late20’
s/early 30’s.
JOANNA:
So what’s the upshot?
ANDY:
It’s not gonna say “Hello.”
STEVE:
It absolutely is gonna say “Hello.”
ANDY:
It’s nobody’s fault, (it’s a system
error).
STEVE:
(over)
ANDY:
Look-
STEVE JOBS - Shooting Script 03/19/15 2.
1 CONTINUED:
1JOANNA:
Keep your voices down.
ANDY:
The voice demo is flaky. I’ve been
telling you that for--this thing is
overbuilt.
TITLE:
1984
Flint Auditorium
DeAnza Community College
STEVE:
It worked last night, it worked the
night before that, it worked three
hours ago.
ANDY:
It’s not working now so just skip
(over the)-
STEVE:
(over)
Fuck you.
JOANNA:
Shh.
ANDY:
Skip over--everything else is
working. Skip over the voice demo.
STEVE:
We need it to say “Hello.”
ANDY:
You’re not hearing me, it’s (not
gonna)-
STEVE:
(over)
Fix it.
ANDY:
Fix it?
STEVE:
Yeah.
STEVE JOBS - Shooting Script 03/19/15 3.
1 CONTINUED:
1ANDY:
(are you serious?)
In 40 minutes.
STEVE:
Fix it.
ANDY:
I can’t.
STEVE:
Who’s the person who can?
ANDY:
I’m the person who can and I can’t.
STEVE:
How bad are you saying?
ANDY:
It’s pretty bad.
STEVE:
I don’t know what that means.
ANDY:
It means (the demo is more than
likely gonna crash).
JOANNA:
(over)
You have to keep your voices down,
Joel Pforzheimer is sitting out in
the house.
STEVE:
I don’t care if--who’s Joel
Pforzheimer?
JOANNA:
GQ. He’s been shadowing you for a
week, did you notice?
STEVE:
Alright.
JOANNA:
Just look like everything’s fine,
he’s sitting out in the house.
We reveal the 2,600 seat house which in 40 minutes will be
filled to capacity. We’re at the launch of the Mac.
STEVE JOBS - Shooting Script 03/19/15 4.
1 CONTINUED:
1There are hundreds of seats with “Reserved For” signs on them
for the various Apple teams--”Macintosh”, “Apple II”, “Lisa”-as
well as hundreds of members of the press--”New York
Times”, “Newsweek”, “Wall Street Journal”, “Financial Times
of London”, “Le Monde”, etc. JOEL PFORZHEIMER is out there,
credentials around his neck, and he gives a small wave to
Steve and so are 50 or 60 ENGINEERS, DESIGNERS and MARKETERS
who are observing the rehearsal from various vantage points.
Way in the back is CHRISANN BRENNAN, 31, and her daughter,
LISA BRENNAN, 5, who’s tucked in a big coat.
STEVE, JOANNA and ANDY are standing in front of a giant
screen showing a slide of the Mac. JOANNA is a beautiful,
brilliant, dryly-funny Polish immigrant who speaks with a
slight trace of an accent. ANDY is a sweet, cherubic young
guy--if you put a bow and arrow in his hands he’d look like
Cupid. Nobody has slept for days.
STEVE:
(to ANDY)
Alright, what are your guys saying?
ANDY:
Some kind of race condition but we
haven’t been able to track it down
yet.
STEVE:
Is the synthesizer sampling fast
enough?
ANDY:
No, so the rates are off and it
keeps crashing.
JOANNA:
(to STEVE)
It’s 20 seconds out of a two-hour
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