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The Social Network · written by Aaron Sorkin · 2010
Scene 140 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.
The dinner at 66 with Sean Parker — "a billion dollars, that's cool" — reframes the company's ambition and pulls Mark irreversibly toward Sean's orbit.
In the cab home, Mark and Eduardo debate Sean's pitch, with Eduardo skeptical and Mark taken by the marlin idea.
Gretchen enters Facebook's incorporation papers into the record, confirming the original 65-30-5 ownership split, before Sy pivots to accuse Eduardo of an animal-cruelty incident.
Back in the dorm, Mark confronts Eduardo about a damaging Crimson article referencing a live chicken tied to his Phoenix pledge duties.
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EDUARDO
I’d gotten into the Phoenix. I’d been
accepted and as part of my initiation I
had to, for one week, carry with me at
all times and take of, a chicken.
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