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Blackberry
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Blackberry is a 2023 film about the rise and fall of the Blackberry, the mobile device that changed telecommunications, directed by Matt Johnson. It stars Jay Baruchel, Glenn Howerton, and Johnson.The film follows Blackberry's rise in the mid-'90s to its collapse in the late '00s as it becomes embroiled in legal problems and heightened competition. | |
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It Will Never Catch On | |
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It Will Never Catch On: Jim's first pitch to Verizon gets shot down because, based on their own attempts to develop a mobile device, the Verizon board doesn't believe that their network can handle it. Mike repeatedly says that the iPhone won't take off because it's too expensive and has no keyboard, although it's clear that it actually has him very worried. | |
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Character Development: Mike starts out as incredibly socially awkward and someone who needs to be hounded by others to get any business done. As the years pass and Blackberry is a success, Mike becomes a lot more confident but also standoffish, and even has the grit to get Balsillie arrested alone for financial crimes while he gets of free. Though in this case Balsillie is actually the only who committed the crime, but whereas the old Mike may have been convinced to take the fall through sheer pressure, the new Mike has none of it. | |
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Noodle Incident: We never find out why Jim Balsillie got fired. He merely says his bosses are a bunch of idiots. | |
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Book Ends: The film begins with Laziridis fiddling with a cheap piece of Chinese-made electronics, and ends with him doing the same (but this time manufactured by his own company). | |
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Artistic License – History | |
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Artistic License – History: Ooh boy, where to begin: The main trio were noted to have almost nothing to do with their real-life counterparts. Mike Lazaridis is portrayed as a deeply socially awkward nerd who needs Doug and Jim to constantly coach him on how to do the most basic of business interactions. In real life, Lazardis has been a described as a fairly savvy and astute businessman, in addition to his skills as an engineer, who could run the company fine without either's help. As the years go by however, he does finally lose the socially awkwardness and is portrayed as more ruthless businessman. Doug Fregin is shown as a headband-wearing dork who constantly disrupts company activities, wears geeky t-shirts 24/7 and is openly accused of "doing nothing" by Lazarides. Fregin is an extremely private person, so little is known about him, but those who've talked about him describe him as a serious, no-nonsense engineer who would be appalled by his fictional counterpart's behavior. In the movie, Jim is a bully who constantly yells at his employees and his competitors and cares about little other than his self-advancement. The real Balsillie (the only member of the main trio who actually commented on the film) was noted to be a strict but still agreeable business partner who respected his peers. RIM at the beginning of the film is a barely-functional strip mall startup with a nonexistent work ethic that gets scammed out of its first deal. When Balsillie actually met Lazaridis and Fregin, the company had several years of experience working for major companies with little issue. Lazaridis had even won a technical Academy Award for his contributions to film editing. The first Blackberry prototype looked much like the eventual finished product, rather than the Frankenstein-gameboy contraption shown in the movie. The movie makes it seem like the Blackberry name came from a stain on Mike's shirt, when in fact, it was conceived by an advertising agency. Fregin's departure from BlackBerry is portrayed as a personal, acrimonious dispute between him and Lazarides. In reality, both Fregin and Lazarides were openly considering selling their stakes in the company by 2007 simply due to its dwindling prospects, and the two of them went into future ventures together once they had both left the company. One of the ways Blackberry goes down in the film is that Jim constantly skips work in order to buy the Pittsburgh Penguins and move them to Hamilton. While Balsillie's attempts to buy an NHL team were a fairly big news story at the time, he notes that it never was a serious venture for him, and he spent a lot more time training for triathlons than trying to get a team (though he was as big of a fan of hockey as it is portrayed in the film). | |
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Hair-Trigger Temper: This is Balsillie's primary characterization. He's prone to losing his temper at the slightest provocation, in stark contrast to the meek Lazaridis and affable Fregin. | |
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Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure | |
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Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure: Doug explains that there's an unused Internet signal floating around everywhere, like "The Force," which prompts only a blank expression from Jim. Doug asks if he's seen Star Wars and Jim says no. | |
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Holding the Floor | |
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Holding the Floor: Laziridis accidentally leaves their prototype in the cab right before their pitch to Verizon. Balsillie tells him to make the pitch without it, but Laziridis abandons him to go retrieve it. Left alone, Balsillie manages to give a presentation on his own, which doesn't impress the Verizon board without the tech specs but does stall long enough for Laziridis to return. | |
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Stealing the Credit | |
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Stealing the Credit: We first meet Balsillie as he's researching someone else's presentation so that he can present it himself and take the credit. | |
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Berserk Button | |
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Berserk Button: Suggesting that Blackberry move its manufacturing to China is a major one for Mike. By the end however, as Blackberry becomes more desperate to compete with the iPhone, the company caves in and the Blackberry Storm is made in China. Much to Mike's fears, the Storm is glitchy and a total mess that he has to fix, exactly akin to a cheap Chinese device he fixed decades ago at the start of the film. | |
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Informed Attribute: Fregin states that his recreational "movie nights" and other in-office activities are the reason why the rank and file engineers are willing to work "eighty-hour work weeks." However, we only see the main characters working long hours, while the rest of the engineers do nothing but goof off at work, with one whole sequence dedicated to showing how their office looks like an arcade. | |
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Corrupt Corporate Executive: Balsillie is willing to do whatever it takes to make RiM a success, including committing stock fraud in order to poach talent from bigger companies. | |
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The Perfectionist | |
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The Perfectionist: Laziridis often butts head with Balsillie since he refuses to do shoddy work. | |
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Very Loosely Based on a True Story | |
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Very Loosely Based on a True Story: The general beats of the Blackberry story are respected, but the characters and individual events are greatly exaggerated to make for a more dramatic story. | |
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The Load | |
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The Load: Fregin is portrayed as a fairly useless lackey of Lazarides who spends his time planning recreational activities at work. During their final argument, Lazarides accuses him of being useless. | |
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