APPLE INKS NEW MOVIE DEAL
PowerBooks to appear in Cameron's Titanic
San Helifino, CA /DenounceNewswire/
-- February 25, 1997 --
Apple Computer announced today it has signed a major
new promotional deal with 20th Century Fox, makers of
director and screenwriter James Cameron's upcoming film, Titanic.
The deal specifies that Apple's PowerBook notebook computers
will be used by the characters of the film throughout
the entire script.
Apple's computers have lately been seen in a number
of feature films, most prominently "Mission: Impossible".
"We feel that we were able to get our message across
in 'Mission:Impossible' very well," said Gilbert
Amelio, Chief Executive Officer of Apple. "Just look at our
stock price since that movie came out."
"It's a sci-fi version of the Titanic story," said
Jim Cameron, who appeared at Apple's press conference.
"In my story, computer experts from present day travel
back in time to the Titanic in order to rescue it
from destruction. And of course, they bring their
PowerBook 3400 computers with them."
Asked for how the PowerBooks save the day in the
movie, Cameron smiled, replying that they don't.
"While we're injecting some science fiction aspects
into the story, we are trying to be as historically
accurate as possible, and we all know what ultimately
happened to the Titanic."
In a twist of fate, the movie ends with remote robotic
devices recovering two PowerBook 3400 notebook computers
from the dark depths of the North Atlantic, where the
mighty ship went down in 1912. Salvagers are amazed
to discover that the computers still work, but when they
try to reboot them, they're astonished to find that up comes
not the MacOS, but Windows NT, with the digitally-recorded
voice from Bill Gates, saying over and over again, "A computer
on every desk, and in every home, and on every ocean floor..."
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