We are Family

Monica 2022-04-20 09:02:35

Genius can change the material, and mediocrity can ruin the good material. Pirates of Silicon Valley, shot in 1999, is more philosophical and insightful than Jobs' talk of Steve in 2013. This is not the strength gap between the director and the screenwriter, what else could it be?

Steve scolds Gates for betraying the family, but forgets that he is also a prodigal son who abandoned his daughter;
Steve blames Gates for not stealing his programming language, but ignores that he also steals his mountain pirate.
The short confrontation at the end actually runs through the reconstruction foundation of the entire movie.

Who are the pirates in the titled Xigu?
Is it Steve who plundered IBM,
or Gates who plundered Steve?
I am afraid that only future historians can decide.

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Extended Reading
  • Jacklyn 2022-03-16 09:01:08

    My evaluation of this film can basically be applied to the end of my other film review - "You are all asshole": I believe that Ma Huateng, Zhou Hongyi, Li Yanhong, Wang Zhidong, Cao Guowei, Ding Sanshi, Chen Tianqiao, Yang Jieyuan, Jobs, Bill Gates, Buffett, Pan Shiyi, Wang Shi, Wang Jianlin, Yang Guoqiang, There are also on the Hurun and Forbes list, there is no good thing.

  • Winston 2022-03-21 09:03:17

    Downloaded and watched on YouTube. Success doesn't depend on technology alone. Have business acumen.

Pirates of Silicon Valley quotes

  • Paul Allen: Bill, why did you tell them we had an operating system? We don't have a thing to sell them now, you know? We're dead!

    Bill Gates: We're not dead, you're going to give us that miracle, right, Paul?

    Paul Allen: Huh? Oh yeah, right...

    Bill Gates: Come on, I thought you said you knew a guy we could buy an operating system from!

    Paul Allen: I said I "sort of" know one.

    Bill Gates: Sort of? Don't tell me "sort of"! I just told IBM!

    Paul Allen: Sort of...

  • Steve Jobs: Are you sure this thing is even gonna work?

    Steve Wozniak: If it doesn't catch fire.

    Steve Jobs: Don't even joke.