Geez, a little cocky on Jobs part, don't you think?. Honestly, if I were Disney, if that is the way the man really talked during negotations I would want to distance myself from him and call off future negotiations. An attitude of such superiority is bound to lead Pixar into some trouble. They will begin to think nothing they do can fail and eventually the quality will falter as they stop "trying" so hard. Its happened to lots and lots of people/companies before and is scarily happening over at Disney too. Its one thing to say your movies are creatively wonderful and yadda, yadda but to take such crude and uncalled for jabs at Disney's animation department like that seems quite unprofessional. How do you think that makes all the wonderful animators that still do work for WDFA feel? Even Brother Bear didn't quite 'flop', it was just a very mild success. I noticed Jobs conveniently left out Lilo and Stitch in describing how all recent Disney animation films are flops.
Then again, what he is saying is nearly identical to what Roy is saying too in lines of the lack of creativity at Disney nowadays. Makes me wonder if the rumors about Jobs and Roy working together in some larger scheme to remove Eisner are true. Perhaps the remarks were not necessarily directed at Disney as a whole (although that is how he said it) but perhaps more remarks on Eisner's mishandling of the company. Now we've got another man saying the same things that Roy and Stanley Gold are saying and pushing for.
On that note, I am very proud of Roy's efforts. I figured he would leave the company and say he would try something to oust Eisner but he would be quickly forgotten. But he really has started a remarkable movement through exceptional word of mouth and has really got something rolling here. If I was Eisner right now I would really be feeling the heat....either to resign or to do some big changes and show the world everything that is being said about Disney and him are wrong. As Eisner hates to lose, I'm betting on the latter.
