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The Social Network · written by Aaron Sorkin · 2010
Scene 150 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.
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.
Dustin announces the site is nearing a thousand members as Mark reveals he's already renting a summer house near Stanford and hiring paid interns, setting off a fight with Eduardo over Sean Parker's influence.
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EDUARDO steps through double doors and stops for a moment as he HEARS an odd sound--RAUCOUS CHEERING from a CROWD that’s gathered in one of the classrooms.
EDUARDO walks down to the classroom, opens the door and walks into--