When it comes to martial arts, I don't know who is tall in the secular world

"Pirates of Silicon Valley" (Silicon Valley legend) is a relatively rare film based on the development history of Apple and Microsoft. It tells the legendary story of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, two famous giants in the history of IT. There are similar factors for their success. Both have particularly sensitive market insights; they can accurately capture customer needs and persuade each other eloquently; they are informal and unscrupulous when necessary to achieve their goals. If the movie is true, then the proud works (Apple's graphical interface and Microsoft's Windows system) that made the two big names famous in the IT world are not their originals. In the movie, a sentence that SJ and BG both quoted is their interpretation of the so-called innovation - It's like Picasso said: good artists copy, great artists steal. However, the original creators may not be able to truly recognize the value of these technologies, and may not be able to play the functions of the technologies. As Qian Zhongshu said, if you eat eggs and feel delicious, do you still need to know the hen that lays the eggs? For the general public who eat eggs, being able to make delicious dishes with eggs is often more important than raising hens for raw eggs. We may not be able to innovate, but we can learn to use innovative technologies to change our existing lives.

However, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs' disparate personalities led them to embark on very different but brilliant life trajectories. Bill Gates is both internal and external, who understands both technology and business. He has amazing market insight and never gives up any market opportunities; he also has the ability to talk and laugh, and he knows when to join forces and when to attack the enemy, so he can create a huge business empire and become a Shaolin of IT arena. Steve Jobs is a man of temperament, showing emotions and anger, and has an unusual paranoia about things and people. But it is precisely because of his contradictions and perseverance that he is often able to distinguish himself and lead the trend. Steve Jobs is more like a swordsman who practiced the Nine Swords of Dugu. Don't you see that Shaolin has been inherited for thousands of years, and Dugu Nine Swords often only have a few unearthly geniuses flashed, and future generations are just looking up to them. Between the two big bulls, no one can replace the other, and they both exerted their abilities to the extreme in their respective fields. Bill Gates retreated to benefit the world with charity, while Jobs devastated and burned his life violently to the end. Apple, which has lost Steve Jobs, is still an IT aircraft carrier, but it may follow the path of Xiao Guicao and move forward steadily, but its peerless elegance may not recur.

The plot of the movie should be exaggerated, but the characters' personalities are very distinct through artistic magnification. The coherence of the plot benefits from a unique narrative technique: switching the career development of the two big men through an interview with Woz, one of the founders of Apple. Woz is a third party who is indifferent to fame and fortune, and at the same time is a witness to many important events. His indifference and objectivity can not only cause a strong contrast with the two protagonists, but also make the audience understand the two protagonists in a deeper way. promotion of its business. The film ends with a video of Bill Gates appearing at the Macworld conference in 1997, where Steve Jobs announces a partnership between the two companies, and the reunion of these two sympathetic rivals is truly intriguing and leaves a lingering impression on the film.

A movie worth watching, once again remembering the ups and downs of Steve Jobs' life.

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