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The Social Network · written by Aaron Sorkin · 2010
Scene 149 of 189 · ≈ 2 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.
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.
Gretchen gets Eduardo to admit under questioning that Mark was cheating on his final exam via the anonymous Facebook page.
This scene
DUSTIN
Nine ninety-three, we are so close.
MARK
That reminds me, we’re gonna need more
money, Wardo.
EDUARDO
Yeah, no, I agree. More servers, more
help--
MARK
--I’m interviewing two interns to come to
Palo Alto and we’re gonna have to pay
them something.
EDUARDO
What?
MARK
I already found a house for rent on a
street two blocks from the Stanford
campus. It’s perfect and it’s got a pool.
EDUARDO
When did you decide to go to California
for the summer?
MARK
(beat)
You mean when did I actually decide?
EDUARDO
Somewhere in the middle of The Sean
Parker Variety Hour?
MARK
He was right. California’s the place
we’ve gotta be.
EDUARDO
You’re Jed Clampett?
MARK
I didn’t know you guys got The Beverly
Hillbillies in Bra--
EDUARDO
Yes, we got the show in Brazil, it was
genius.
MARK
What’s your problem with Sean?
EDUARDO
He doesn’t bring anything to the table.
He doesn’t have money, Dustin’s a better
programmer--
MARK
He’s got connections to VCs.
EDUARDO
We don’t need VCs, we need advertisers
and I’ve got connections to VCs.
MARK
The real players and--
EDUARDO
Look--
MARK
--as someone who’s just really
embarrassed the company in a bad way I
wouldn’t--
EDUARDO
It was the Winklevosses, Mark!
MARK
Hang on.
(to DUSTIN)
Hit refresh.
DUSTIN hits “refresh” on the desk-top computer. Then smiles...
DUSTIN
150,004.
MARK
150,000 members, Wardo.
EDUARDO
(beat--sincerely)
Congratulations, dude.
MARK
Congratulations.
EDUARDO
(beat)
You don’t think it was strange that he
was followed by private detectives?
MARK
Who came up with nothing.
EDUARDO
Enough to get him out of the company. The
drugs, the girls--
MARK
We don’t know any of that’s true.
EDUARDO
You can read about it.
MARK
And I can read about you torturing birds.
Since when does reading something--
EDUARDO
Don’t fish eat other fish?! The marlins
and the trout?!
DUSTIN
What’s he talking about?
MARK
I’m interviewing interns at 10 tomorrow
night in the CS lab. Get on board with
this, man. You know, I don’t know what
else to say.
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