The Social Network · written by Aaron Sorkin · 2010

Amid the club's body shots and dancing, Mark's voiceover races through hacking Adams, Quincy, Dunster and Leverett's house facebooks one by one.

Scene 15 of 189 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act one

Mark

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Begins 14 min into a 2:44 film

The story so farBefore scene 15

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.

Scene 1
Mark at the campus bar: brilliant, status-obsessed, unable to read the room he's sitting in.
Just before
Scene 12
Mark works through Elliot's facebook, exploiting its lack of search limits to scrape every image at once.
Scene 13
Bartenders and a DJ work an exclusive final club party while club members size up the crowd.
Scene 14
Mark notes Lowell's password protection is toothless against Harvard's own network.
Scene 15
This scene

15INT. FINAL CLUB - NIGHT

It’s on. Body shots. A couple making out in the corner. A matchbox gets slid open by perfectly manicured fingers that take out a few white pills. Two girls are dancing with each other and move into a kiss.

MARK’s voiceovers are starting to overlap and cascade into each other--

MARK (V.O.) (CONT’D)

Adams has no security but limits the

number of results to twenty a page. All I

need to do is break out the same script I

used on Lowell and we’re set.

MARK (V.O.) (CONT’D)

Quincy has no online facebook, what a

sham. Nothing I can do about that.

CUT TO:

MARK’S DORM ROOM - NIGHT

Instructions and images fly across MARK’s screen--

MARK (V.O.)

Dunster is intense. Not only is there no

public directory but there’s no--

MARK (V.O.) (CONT’D)

Leverett is a little better. It’s

slightly obnoxious that they only let you

view one picture at a time and I’m not

about to--

MARK (V.O.) (CONT’D)

--definitely necessary to break out the

emacs and modify that perl script with--