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The Social Network · written by Aaron Sorkin · 2010
Scene 136 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 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.
Eduardo tells the lawyers Sean owned Mark after that dinner.
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SEAN’s signing the check.
EDUARDO (V.O.)
He picked up the check, he told Mark
they’d talk again soon and he was gone.
But not before he made his biggest
contribution to the company.
SEAN
(signing the check)
Drop the “the”. Just Facebook. It’s
cleaner.
And SEAN heads out, patting backs and kissing waitresses along the way.
After a moment...
MARK
(knocked out)
Shit.