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The Social Network · written by Aaron Sorkin · 2010
Scene 144 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.
Mark worries the animal-cruelty story, crediting Eduardo as a Facebook founder, will hurt the company's image.
Eduardo insists to the lawyers he never tortured the chicken.
Mark calls the article scathing while Dustin, absorbed, counts rising membership numbers aloud.
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EDUARDO
(trying to be calm)
I was having dinner in the Kirkland
Dining Hall with Mark and I had the
chicken with me because I had to have the
chicken with me at all times. This was
college.
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