CLIP FILM JOBS GENRE: Biography / dramatic DIRECTOR: Joshua Michael Stern YEAR: 2013 CHARACTERS: Ashton Kutcher (Steve Jobs), Josh Gad (Steve Wozniak), Lukas Haas (Daniel Kottke), Matthew Modine (John Sculley), Abby Brammell (Laurene Powell Jobs) SYNOPSIS Jobs is an American film released in 2013 based on the biography of charismatic Steve Jobs, founder and CEO of Apple. The film opens with Steve Jobs introducing the iPod at the Apple Town Hall meeting in 2001, then the film goes back to Steve s college years, in the 1970 s, during which he is interested in calligraphy courses and influenced by a trip to India and LSD experiences. Two years later, when Steve is back in California and works as a game developer for Atari, he develops a partnership with his friend Steve Woz Wozniack, who makes a prototype for a personal home computer (the Apple I). They decide to commercialise it and call their company Apple Computer. Jobs convinces his father Paul to let them set up their new company in the family s garage. He also recruits Kottke, his college friend, engineer Bill Fernandez and young neighbour Chris Espinosa to the Apple team. Unfortunately, Apple I is not a success, so Steve decides to restart with a new model he calls Apple II, which is launched at the 1977 west Coast Computer Faire, where it is a great success. The success causes Steve growing problems with his friends and team members. In 1984, he moves from Apple Lisa (a desktop computer released in 1983) to Macintosh Group, but in 1985 John Sculley, CEO of the company, forces him out of the group. Then the film jumps to 1996: Steve is married to Laurene Powell Jobs, has a son and a daughter and is also running NeXT. When Apple buys NeXT, CEO Gil Amelio asks Jobs to return to Apple as a consultant. Steve is soon named the new CEO, then he fires Amelio and relieves the Board of Directors. He then reinvents Apple. The film ends with Jobs recording the dialogue for the Think Different commercial, an advertising slogan used by Apple Computer, Inc. from 1997 to 2002. accomplishment: traguardo, risultato board: consiglio to fire: licenziare to force someone out: mandare via founder: fondatore on the spot: all istante to realise: rendersi conto to recruit: assumere to relieve: sollevare to run: gestire to set up: sistemare, assemblare 170 iNforMaTioN TechNology Elettronica-Informatica.indb 170 25/01/24 16:09