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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Pirates of Silicon Valley is a 1999 made-for-TV docudrama. Based off of the book Fire in the Valley: The Making of The Personal Computer by Paul Freiberger, it documents the creation and rise of Apple Computers (later Apple Inc.) and Microsoft through the lives of each company's co-founder, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. The story is told In Medias Res and narrated by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak (when focusing on Jobs and Apple) and Microsoft executive Steve Ballmer (when focusing on Gates and Microsoft). Noah Wyle stars as Steve Jobs, Anthony Michael Hall as Bill Gates, and John DiMaggio appears as Steve Ballmer.The film made its debut on television on June 20, 1999 on TNT and was later released on VHS and DVD.Compare Jobs, another film about the early days of Steve Jobs & Apple, and Steve Jobs, a third Jobs "biopic" of sorts.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })
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Breaking the Fourth Wall: During a pivotal meeting between Bill Gates and IBM, the scene freezes and Steve Ballmer gets up and directly addresses the audiences to deliver an exposition.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); })
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Book-Ends: Sort of. The movie begins with the 1984 Macintosh commercial with the Big Brother screen, and ends with Bill Gates on a massive video screen, just like the commercial at a Stevenote. The movie even lampshades it.
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