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The Social Network · written by Aaron Sorkin · 2010
Scene 127 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.
Sean recounts Napster's collapse into bankruptcy over royalty lawsuits while charming the table.
Eduardo's voiceover recaps Sean's second failed venture, an online rolodex pushed out by Case Equity investors.
Sean describes trying to play it straight at his second startup and getting no respect for his age.
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EDUARDO
I’m not a psychiatrist, but--
SY
I’m glad we’ve got that on the record.
GRETCHEN
You’re not a psychiatrist but what?
EDUARDO
A psychiatrist would say he was paranoid.
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