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The Social Network · written by Aaron Sorkin · 2010
Scene 148 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 presses that someone needs to answer for the story while Dustin keeps counting members.
Eduardo explains the chicken-feeding incident that spiraled into a forced-cannibalism accusation, drawing a stifled laugh from Marylin at the deposition table.
Eduardo suspects a rival club leaked the chicken story, then discovers Mark has been running an anonymous Facebook page to stir debate for his own art history final.
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GRETCHEN
Mr. Zuckerberg was cheating on his final
exam?
EDUARDO
I’d rather not answer that, Gretchen.
GRETCHEN
Why not?
EDUARDO
Because I’m not suing him for cheating on
his final exam that’s not what friends
do.
GRETCHEN
Well you just told us he was cheating.
EDUARDO
Oops.
(to MARK)
You told your lawyers I was torturing
animals?!
SY
No, he didn’t tell us about it at all.
Our litigators are capable of finding a
Crimson article. In fact when we raised
the subject with him he defended you.
MARK
(beat)
Oops.
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