And it was really the case? The first Apple employees about the film "Jobs: Empire of temptation"

Daniel Kottke and Bill Fernandez personally seen the birth of the personal computer industry and the first clumsy steps the company, which later became one of the most expensive in the world. Both men were employees of Apple in the beginning of its existence. In those days, Kottke has worked on iron, and Fernandez has been developing user interfaces.

The interesting thing is that Daniel, unlike Bill, is directly related to the creation of the recently published pictures of "Jobs: Empire of temptation." He advised the film crew in the early stages of drafting the script and attended a private screening of the film under the Sundance Film Festival in February. Apparently he liked the movie because it was listed in the plans Kottke repeated hike to the "Jobs". Fernandez - the complete opposite. He did not attend the premiere at the festival early and did not express a desire to go to a movie in the cinema. According to him, "Empire of temptation" - pure fiction, and certainly cause his only disappointment. During an interview with the resource SlashDot Kottke and Fernandez took on the role of whistleblowers, separating fantasy writers of objective history, the direct participants of which they once It was.

Kottke (left) and Jobs (right)

DK (Daniel Kottke) Bill, you have not seen the movie?

BF (Fernandez Bill): No, I have not seen him.

DC: You'll laugh! He seems to you funny.

BF: I do not want to watch it. For me it is somehow strange. Besides, I do not want to see someone in the role of Steve Jobs.

DC: Well, Ashton is very good. I have no comments at all to him and the way he played Jobs. What really can and should complain about people - the image of Boaz, whose vision of the film is different from the Steve Jobs that do not correspond to the truth. Woz himself He said this morning that if he will gather to watch a movie, you will do it alone. The reason for this could serve as already the first trailer from YouTube, which inspired Jobs argues that everyone wants a new computer home, that receives a pessimistic answer Woz "nobody wants it buy". It really smacks of a lie.

SD (SlashDot): What about things beyond this particular episode?

DC: The film is very clearly and strongly conveys the emotional essence of the Apple co-founder (Woz) and his feelings when he felt betrayed by Steve. This is a true story, and in the life of Woz really behaved magnanimously forgave Jobs.

SD: Daniel, observed many similarities between this film and "The Social Network" in 2010, and it seems the writers just put the image of Eduardo Saverin in the characters, playing your role and the role of Woz.

DC: Yes, and I'd like to meet Eduardo. Bill, do you ever heard about the story? I think it was the summer of 1980, a very difficult period in my life. All I wanted then - to talk with Steve, but he simply ignored me. He made me wait for him on the street in front, several times the office for a few hours. It was very cold. And he endlessly hanging on the phone before I went away. He just did not want to talk to me.

SD: And yet the film has a very dramatic scene Woz care of Apple.

DC: Yes, but it never happened. Never ever. This is pure fiction.

SD: True? His sentences in those episodes are hardly the most acute in the entire movie.

DC: Yes, and I think it makes sense within the film, even if it never happened in my life. The truth is that Woz was fascinated Macintosh project and pleased to participate in it. Bill Atkinson, very well said about the film. He noticed that the picture is not entirely peculiar to the cart sense of humor.

BF: If this is true, then it is very sad. That sense of humor Woz is an important part of his personality.

DC: You know, now that I think about it again, it seems to me that the film has a good scene in which Woz Jobs shows his "telephone joke."

SD: Yes, the film does present a few jokes with his participation.

DC: The Chronicle was an interesting article about a biographical film as a whole, as well as how this is a difficult genre. If you are well known to have made a film about, what we usually are talking about tens of years of human life. Writers trying to cram in such films too much, and as a result they lose the emotion and relationships between events. By the way, in the same article notes that Sorkin's script for the upcoming film about Jobs from Sony plays in all three stages. Three scenes!

SD: What do you think about the fact that right now removed another movie about Jobs?

DC: I dont know. Someone needs to make a film about Bose, and I expect that this will happen in the future.

BF: Probably, it will be an independent project.

SD: In the biography of Jobs by Isaacson we liked the description Prank that they held. For example, lime brochure at the Fair West Coast Computer.

DC: The film is dedicated to the big stage. They spent a few days at the shooting of the scene and spent an incredible job of recreating the atmosphere of the fair. Then there were 50 different booths with computer pieces - a huge space. A film crew recreated all the little details from photographs of the event.

BF: Wow.

DC: It really struck me. But in any case, it Ashton "Ladies and gentlemen, I - Steve Jobs, and I want to introduce you to Apple II, blah-blah-blah" - it has never been, [laughing] we were just one of the booths at the fair.

BF: There is another aspect, which generally has not been touched: the personal computer industry at the time. Commodore PET computer came, and we were seriously worried that he will lose. And yet Radio Shack TRS-80. As I understand it, in the film it is not mentioned. A lot of people were doing personal computers, and Apple has not been the absolute leader in this race.

SD: It looks of your workplace in the garage?

DC: Well, I'll tell you, it did not look - just as it was shown in this film in the "Pirates of Silicon Valley." You've seen him, Bill?

BF: No, I have not seen.

DC: Not? Oh, would you like that. A lot of people working in the garage shifting back and forth different things, and range oscilloscopes.

BF laughed.

DC: In fact, I was the only person working in the garage. Woz showed up there once a week with the latest developments for testing, and Steve Jobs spent much time in the kitchen for the phone. In this film, too, have those scenes. You, Bill, me and Randy and Chris, our whole gang, and Bill Atkinson, and Rod Holt. We are all in the garage.

BF: [Laughing] we have never had so many people in the garage at the same time.

DC: But here is what finally dobilo us, so this is the moment when the first Rhode arrives. Rhode pirezzhaet in the skin, on a motorcycle, with long hair.

BF: WHAT?!

DC: He is something like a biker.

BF: [Laughing] WHAT ?!

DC: Rod thought it was fun.

BF: He ever ridden a motorcycle?

DC: He liked stories. I've never seen it on a motorcycle, but he always spoke about them. And the author just put his character on a motorcycle. I liked the guy, I met him on the set. I had no idea who he was, because he was not a campaign against Roda. He was a long straight hair and skin.

BF: [Laughing] And you wondered who it could be in the Apple universe?

SD: Who do you think undeservedly did not get into the film, and what actor would you choose on his part?

DC: Vendell Sander or Mike Scott.

BF: Yes, and for good reason. Vendell was the second WHO and Mike was the guy, thanks to which the company has earned.

SD: And who would you take on these roles?

BF: How about the guy who played the dock in the movie "Back to the Future"? And in general, he would have left a great Rhode, right?

DC: You mean Christopher Lloyd?

BF: There are many fanfics by Apple Computer and motives of Steve Jobs, and I think this is the most striking example of this fanfic today.

Lukas Haas (left) and Kottke (right)

DC: I did not think of it as fanfic, because I was involved in filming an early stage and saw how they tried to re-create everything as accurately as possible.

BF: This is partly why I do not want to see this movie. In it all thought out, and I do not want to be disappointed by the things that were born in the head writer and do not reflect the truth.

DC: You came to the set during filming?

BF: Oh no. Victor Rasuk, the guy who played me several times consulted with me on the phone, and it is my only contribution to the film.

DC: The early version of the script was terrible, just terrible. I sent the first version of Mike Markkula, because the film crew wanted to get away from it fidbek. Mike's reaction was so negative that he no longer wished to participate in any way in the project. By the time I received the fourth version, things got better. However, the script continues to present a scene where I argued with Steve, that never happened. But all this is a tribute to entertainment. In 1980, Steve simply ceased to communicate with me, and it's not spectacular - controversy on the screen where spectacular.

BF: I spoke with Victor, the actor who played me and he asked me if something happened or that event in my life, and I answered "no." In the end, I realized that they did not create the historical adaptation. They do drama. They have a project, and this project aims to create something entertaining based on the popular theme. If they were even able to invest in the film only the truth, it would not be interesting to the audience. Daniel rightly said that when someone stops to talk to you, where is the drama? As you will present it on the screen?

SD: The persuasiveness of Steve Jobs is often compared to a kind of "reality distortion field". Can we say that this field surrounds this film?

BF: Oh, it's always there, around any film, especially around such biographical paintings.

DC: I think filmmakers dream of a reality distortion field, the ability to make their film a success.