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The Social Network · written by Aaron Sorkin · 2010
Scene 114 of 189 · ≈ 1 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.
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.
Divya reports the expansion news to Tyler and Cameron, and the group discovers Harvard's student handbook language on theft, deciding to take their case to president Larry Summers.
In Palo Alto, Sean Parker charms a Stanford student, Amy, the morning after a hookup, then spots theFacebook open on her laptop and immediately fixates on finding Mark Zuckerberg.
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CAMERON and TYLER, in dark suits, are waiting to see the president of Harvard.
The President’s office is in one of the two oldest university buildings in the country, and the SECRETARY sitting at the desk is even older. You get the sense that she thinks Harvard would be a better place if it weren’t for all these students.
CAMERON
(just making small talk)
I’ve never been in this building before.
SECRETARY
(without really looking up)
This building’s a hundred years older
than the country it’s in. So do be
careful.
TYLER
We’re sitting in chairs.
SECRETARY
(into phone)
Yes.
(into phone)
Very good.
She hangs up the phone.
SECRETARY (CONT’D)
You can go in now.
She points to a door and CAMERON and TYLER get up, quickly straighten themselves, and walk into