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The Social Network · written by Aaron Sorkin · 2010
Scene 120 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, Eduardo recalls a spring-break trip to New York to pitch advertisers, which went terribly because Mark fell asleep in the meetings.
Eduardo pitches an ad executive on theFacebook's stats while a checked-out Mark makes a strange noise that tanks the meeting.
Eduardo tells Gretchen that Mark was unusually excited about one particular dinner meeting set up through his girlfriend.
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66 is a hip and trendy restaurant in Tribeca. The young crowd is drinking cocktails of all different colors and wearing Prada. We FIND EDUARDO in a three-piece suit and MARK in his hoodie and flip-flops, along with EDUARDO’s now-girlfriend, CHRISTY, sitting at a table with an empty seat waiting.
CHRISTY
They’re not gonna card us.
EDUARDO
They might.
CHRISTY
Look around.
EDUARDO
It’ll be embarrassing.
CHRISTY
(to MARK)
Tell him they’re not gonna card us.
MARK
They’re not gonna card us.
EDUARDO
Mark--
MARK
Are you gonna talk about ads again?
EDUARDO
Unless you’re the Ballet Theatre of
Hartford, the purpose of a business is to
make a profit.
MARK
This isn’t a business yet.
EDUARDO
That’s tough for me because my job is to--
nevermind.
MARK says nothing...
EDUARDO (CONT’D)
(pause)
He’s 25 minutes late.
MARK
He founded Napster when he was 19, he can
be late.
EDUARDO
He’s not a god.
MARK
What is he?
EDUARDO
25 minutes late.
CHRISTY
I think Wardo’s jealous.
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