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The Social Network · written by Aaron Sorkin · 2010
Scene 131 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 delivers a paranoid monologue about VCs, private detectives, and being pushed out of your own company.
Eduardo adds 'delusional' to his read on Sean.
Sean predicts payback against Case Equity for pushing him out.
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EDUARDO (V.O.)
And he told story after story about life
in Silicon Valley, and parties at Stanford
and down in LA, and friends who’d become
millionaires, but mostly how Mark had to--
had to come to California. And then he got
around to theFacebook.