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The Social Network · written by Aaron Sorkin · 2010
Scene 152 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.
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.
Eduardo, arriving at the CS building, hears raucous cheering coming from a classroom and heads toward it.
Mark runs a drunken hacking contest to select summer interns, and after two candidates crack the server simultaneously, hands Eduardo an envelope with $18,000 to fund the summer.
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GRETCHEN
$18,000.
EDUARDO
Yes.
GRETCHEN
In addition to the $1000 you’d already
put up.
EDUARDO
Yes.
GRETCHEN
A total of $19,000 now.
EDUARDO
Yes.
MARK
Hang on.
MARK’s scratching something out on a pad...
MARK (CONT’D)
I’m just checking your math on that. Yes,
I got the same thing.
GRETCHEN
May I continue?
MARK motions “yes”...
GRETCHEN (CONT’D)
(to EDUARDO)
After expressing misgivings about Mr.
Zuckerberg taking the company and moving
it to California for the summer, why did
you put $18,000 in an account for his
use?
EDUARDO
I figured we were partners and I wanted
to be a team player. I figured Mark,
Dustin and the new interns could work on
the site while I was generating
advertiser interest in New York. But
mostly I figured...how much could go
wrong in three months?
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