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JOBS, directed by Joshua Michael Stern and starring Ashton
Kutcher, is not what you think. That is,
it is not what you think if you are thinking it is going to be a spicy movie,
like the kind of movie Linda Lovelace was in.
Get your mind out of the gutter!
It is about a compulsive guy named Steve who started a new
company he named APPLE. APPLE became
known as a very innovative computer manufacturer. Steve hired a lot people and fired people if
they didn't share his enthusiasm. There
were a lot of JOBS coming and going.
Then it went public and it became a corporation with a board of
directors. And suddenly Steve was fired
from his own company - he lost his JOB - and APPLE was ran like a corporation
it was and lost its reputation for being
fearless, innovative, exploring new ground.
The stock began to fall and people were laid off - JOBS lost!
Steve and some friends started their company in his parents'
garage. Walt Disney started his Walt Disney productions in a garage. Maybe like Disney Steve relied on the technical
know-how of his geek friends, which the movie hinted Steve did not share the monetary awards
property. The movie did not mention it,
but it appears that Steve might have had the Asperger syndrome - completely
able to focus on one subject and could care less about the human distractions
around him.
The board of directors knew they needed Steve's reckless
dreaming leadership, so they gave him his own JOB back as CEO. And he got rid of many of his old buddies -
in a separation packages he bought the
controlling JOBS.
Is it no wonder the movie was called JOBS? Oh, and another thing, Steve's last name
was JOBS. I say "was" because he died.
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