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The Social Network · written by Aaron Sorkin · 2010
Scene 135 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 corrects Eduardo's growth pitch with the 'Little Big Horn' expansion strategy credited to Mark, then argues against selling out to advertising too soon.
Eduardo tells the deposition room that Sean's talk of a billion-dollar valuation silenced everyone at the table.
Sean spins his marlin-versus-trout metaphor for going big, with Christy and Eduardo needling the logic while Sean stays above it all.
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EDUARDO
He owned Mark after that dinner.
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