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FEbruarY 2016 BCBusiness 59
Once again Oscar season highlights
the lms of the past year —a year that
brought its fair share of space movies,
like The Martian and the return of Star
Wars. But if you wanted to see the ick
with the most launches, that would be
Steve Jobs. Almost the whole movie is
set in the minutes before one product
unveiling or another.
Spread sheets may never com-
pete with light sabres for cinematic
excitement, but business movies are a
legitimate genre. They tend to fall into
di•erent categories—the superstar
CEO/
boy genius variety exemplied by Steve
Jobs and The Social Network (both writ-
ten by Aaron Sorkin); the nancial melt-
down/skullduggery type such as Too Big
to Fail, Barbarians at the Gate and the
upcoming Wizard of Lies with Robert De
Niro as cherubic con man Bernie Mado•;
tales of greed and excess at the top like
The Wolf of Wall Street and Wall Street;
and depictions of Darwinian struggle in
the trenches like Glengarry Glen Ross,
Margin Call and Boiler Room.
Meanwhile Dragons' Den and Shark
Tank have made business deals into
hit TV (never likely to be green-lit: Due
Diligence: The Series). Business as
Power
Points
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IllustratIon: KEnnY ParK
W a t e r c o o l e r
What lms about
business, and corporate
skulduggery, reveal
about leadership
by Steve Burgess
INSIDE
A "robust" discussion ... How to bike to the boardroom ... Scott Larson's next move + more
f e b r u a r y 2 0 1 6
"People have always had a
romance with leadership,
be it in books or film. They
become infatuated with very
powerful leaders" –p.60
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