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The Social Network · written by Aaron Sorkin · 2010
Scene 124 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.
Sean Parker enters at the 66 dinner and becomes the relationship — equal parts mentor and corrupter — that carries the story's real theme about loyalty and ambition.
Eduardo admits in deposition he was nervous, not jealous, having heard Sean Parker was a wild card.
Sean Parker finally arrives at 66, working the room like a celebrity, and Eduardo half-jokes about his reputation with drugs and company crashes.
Eduardo tells the lawyers dinner became the Sean-a-thon, starting with the Napster story.
This scene
The CAMERA is moving around the table as SEAN--in and out of MOS--is telling story after story while food is brought, drinks put down, more food brought and more drinks put down. MARK is enthralled, CHRISTY is sexy and EDUARDO is polite.
SEAN
I didn’t want to spend my 20’s as a
professional defendant. Who knew--the
music industry doesn’t have a sense of
humor. We tried to sell the company to
pay the 35 million they said we owed in
royalties but I guess to them that was a
little like selling a stolen car to pay
for the stolen gas. So we said screw it
and declared bankruptcy.
CHRISTY
But you made a name for yourself.
SEAN
And you are dry. Tori?
CHRISTY
No, I’m good.