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The Social Network · written by Aaron Sorkin · 2010
Scene 101 of 189 · ≈ 2 min on screen · Act two
Mark Zuckerberg wants status and belonging Harvard's final clubs won't give him, so he builds a website that gives the world both — and loses his best friend and co-founder to the company he built to prove he mattered.
Mark at the campus bar: brilliant, status-obsessed, unable to read the room he's sitting in.
He wants to matter — to be let into the final clubs, to be exceptional enough that Erica's verdict is wrong — and Facemash is the first proof-of-concept.
He takes the Winklevoss pitch as a springboard, builds theFacebook in its place, and launches it into a world he can't control.
Gretchen corrects Sy for calling Eduardo and Mark best friends, since Eduardo is now suing Mark for $600 million.
Divya testifies that theFacebook became a campus-wide phenomenon within two weeks, with 'Facebook me' entering the vocabulary.
A speaker's voiceover recalls the light-bulb moment of seeing the MITS Altair Kit in Popular Electronics.
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There’s a lower-level and a balcony and both are full.
MARK and EDUARDO are sitting in the second to last row of the balcony.
We’ll hear the SPEAKER but we’ll only get to see him in a slightly blurry image as our attention is on MARK and EDUARDO.
SPEAKER
It was a beautiful day and I was in my
room at Radcliffe and he brought me the
magazine and he said, “Look, it’s going
to happen without us, we’ve got to start
it now.” And so I said, “Okay, you’re
right. Let’s get BASIC out there.”
He gets an appreciative LAUGH from the STUDENTS.
SPEAKER (CONT’D)
Most of you think you know the rest of
the story but you may not.
(beat)
The beginnings of this industry were very
humble. That kit computer on the cover of
that magazine--
We HEAR a little muffled giggling coming from the row behind MARK and EDUARDO. MARK is too into the speech to notice but the giggling registers as a slight annoyance on EDUARDO’s face.
SPEAKER (CONT’D)
--had an 8080 microprocessor in it,
unless you paid extra for a 1K memory
board, you had 256 bytes.
EDUARDO hears the giggling again and turns around.
In the row behind them and a few seats over are two beautiful Asian students--ALICE and CHRISTY. They’re a little overly made-up for a lecture. CHRISTY, the one sitting closest to EDUARDO, is wearing a short skirt with a white shirt open one button too far down the front and we can see a hint of the red bra she’s wearing underneath.
She leans forward and whispers to EDUARDO--
CHRISTY
(whispering)
Your friend--is that Mark Zuckerberg?
EDUARDO
(beat)
Uh...yes.
CHRISTY
He made theFacebook.
EDUARDO smiles a little...this has just never happened--
EDUARDO
Yeah. I mean it’s both of ours--but, yeah
we--yes.
CHRISTY
(still whispering)
Cool. I’m Christy. This is Alice.
EDUARDO can’t help noticing--just because it’s in his line of sight--that down the row from the girls, someone else is pointing at them and whispering to a friend.
Then back to the girls--
EDUARDO
(whispering)
Very nice to meet you.
CHRISTY
(whispering)
Facebook me when you get home. Maybe we
can all go out and grab a drink later.
EDUARDO
(whispering)
Certainly. Absolutely I will do that.
EDUARDO turns back to the speaker, who MARK hasn’t taken his eyes off of--
SPEAKER
There were a number of machines that came
next--the TRS-80, Apple II, Commodore Pet--
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