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The Social Network · written by Aaron Sorkin · 2010
Scene 106 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.
Back in the dorm, Eduardo pushes Mark to start monetizing theFacebook and discovers a cease-and-desist letter from the Winklevosses' lawyer that Mark had hidden for ten days.
Gage reads from the cease-and-desist letter documenting doubts Mark allegedly raised about HarvardConnection's readiness.
Eduardo continues reading the letter's account of unresolved site issues.
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GAGE
This was the first time you raised any of
those concerns, right?
MARK
I’d raised concerns before.
DIVYA/TYLER (NOT CAMERON)
Bullshit./Not to us.
GAGE
(quieting)
Gentlemen.
(back to MARK)
I’m talking about at the meeting in
January to which this letter is
referring.
MARK
Yeah.
GAGE
Let me re-phrase this. You sent my
clients 16 e-mails. In the first 15, you
didn’t raise any concerns.
MARK
(beat)
Is that a question?
GAGE
In the 16th e-mail you raised concerns
about the site’s functionality. Were you
leading them on for six weeks?
MARK
No.
GAGE
Why hadn’t you raised any of these
concerns before?
MARK
(quietly)
It’s raining.
GAGE
I’m sorry?
MARK
It just started raining.
GAGE
Mr. Zuckerberg, do I have your full
attention?
MARK
No.
GAGE
(beat)
Do you think I deserve it?
MARK
What.
GAGE
Do you think I deserve your full
attention?
MARK
I had to swear an oath before we began
this deposition and I don’t want to
perjure myself so I have a legal
obligation to say no.
GAGE
attention.
MARK
I think if your clients want to sit on my
shoulders and call themselves tall they
have a right to give it a try. But
there’s no requirement that I enjoy
sitting here listening to people lie. You
have part of my attention--you have the
minimum amount. The rest of my attention
is back at the offices of Facebook where
my colleagues and I are doing things that
no one in this room, including and
especially your clients, are
intellectually or creatively capable of
doing. Did I adequately answer your
condescending question?
GAGE just looks casually at MARK. MARK doesn’t meet his gaze, or the looks from DIVYA, TYLER and CAMERON...
SY
(beat)
I’ve got 12:45. Why don’t we say that’s
lunch.
GAGE
Back at 2:30?
Everyone gets up and we
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