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The Social Network · written by Aaron Sorkin · 2010
Scene 146 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 calls the article scathing while Dustin, absorbed, counts rising membership numbers aloud.
Eduardo explains he'd brought the chicken to dinner because pledge rules required him to keep it with him at all times.
Mark presses that someone needs to answer for the story while Dustin keeps counting members.
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EDUARDO
The dining hall was serving chicken for
dinner and I had to feed my chicken so I
just...I took little pieces of chicken
and I gave it to the chicken. Someone
must have seen me because the next thing
I knew I was being accused of forced
cannibalism.
At the end of the table, MARYLIN tries but fails to stifle a small laugh.
EDUARDO looks down the table...MARYLIN does her best to look serious.
EDUARDO (CONT’D)
I didn’t know you can’t do that. I dealt
with the various animal rights groups, I
dealt with the Associate Dean of the
College, this was all resolved.
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