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The Social Network · written by Aaron Sorkin · 2010
Scene 112 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.
Standing guard outside the men's room, Mark spots Erica at a booth and awkwardly tries to tell her about theFacebook, but she rebuffs him over his old blog post and wishes him luck with his 'video game.'
Mark lays out Facebook's expansion to Yale, Columbia and Stanford and assigns roles to Dustin and Chris, while Eduardo pushes to add Stanford too.
In deposition recess, Marylin tries to make small talk with Mark, who deflects with a joke about Bosnia before coldly explaining the Winklevosses are suing him because things didn't go their way for once.
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TYLER and CAMERON are both studying when DIVYA busts in.
DIVYA
He’s expanding.
TYLER
What?
DIVYA
He’s expanding to Yale, Columbia and
Stanford, it’ll be in the Crimson
tomorrow.
TYLER
(beat)
Really.
DIVYA
Yeah.
TYLER
So that Cease and Desist letter really
scared the shit out of him, huh?
DIVYA
I want to hire a lawyer to file for
injunctive relief and get this website
taken down now!
CAMERON
Look--
DIVYA
Every minute the site is up, Harvard
Connection becomes less valuable. I want
an injunction, I want damages, I want
punitive relief and I want him dead.
CAMERON
I want those things too!
DIVYA
Then why aren’t we doing anything about
it?! Because we’re gentlemen of Harvard?!
CAMERON
Because you’re not thinking about how
it’ll look.
DIVYA
How’ll it look?
CAMERON
Like my brother and I are in skeleton
costumes chasing the Karate Kid around a
high school gym.
DIVYA
He’s violated Massachusetts state law.
When he goes to Connecticut, New York and
California he’ll have violated federal
law. And by the way, he’s in violation of
Harvard law.
CAMERON
There’s no such thing as Harvard Law.
TYLER
(pause--realizing)
Wait. Yes there is.
TYLER (CONT’D)
Harvard Student Handbook. Every freshman
is issued one of these. Somewhere in this
book it says--
CAMERON
(eureka)
--you can’t steal from another student.
This is what we needed. We’re going to
Summers.
DIVYA
You can’t get a meeting with Larry
Summers.
CAMERON
My brother and I pay tuition at this
school, we carry a 3.9 GPA at this
school, we’ve won trophies for this
school and we’ll be rowing in the
Olympics for this school. I want a
meeting with the goddam president of this
school.
(pause)
Why Stanford?
DIVYA
Why do you think?
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