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The Social Network · written by Aaron Sorkin · 2010
Scene 128 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'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.
Eduardo tells the lawyers a psychiatrist would call Sean paranoid.
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SEAN
They’ll hire private detectives who’ll
follow you day and night. You’re a target
for high priced escorts. I can’t prove it
but I know they tapped my phones.
Whatever it is that’s gonna trip you up
you’ve done already. Private behavior is
a relic of a time gone by. And if
somehow, someway, you’ve managed to live
your life like the Dalai Lama then
they’ll make shit up. Because they don’t
want you, they want your idea and then
they want you to say thank you while you--
excuse me--wipe your chin and walk away.
MARK
That’s what happened to you?
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