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The Social Network · written by Aaron Sorkin · 2010
Scene 153 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, 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.
Gretchen gets Eduardo to confirm he put a total of $19,000 into the company despite his misgivings about the California move, hoping the risk would be worth it.
This scene
We’re outside of this small, campus-area house as LOUD MUSIC plays. A zip line is tied from the chimney and runs down over a small swimming pool where it’s attached to a telephone pole on the other side.
MARK is standing in the pool and video taping as DUSTIN, who’s on the roof, grabs the handle, takes off and jumps into the pool to everyone’s cheers.
We HEAR the GUYS joke about the quality of the jump.
The handle gets pulled back on a rope, an INTERN grabs it, jumps--
--and the brick chimney comes crashing down.
The INTERN drops into patio furniture as bricks from the chimney come cascading down.
No one moves--
INTERN [ERIC]
I’m okay.
MARK
You sure?
ERIC
Yeah.
DUSTIN
Yikes.
And at that moment a stray brick drops from the roof and crashes through a glass patio table.
From inside the DOORBELL RINGS--
DUSTIN (CONT’D)
That’s the doorbell.
MARK
I didn’t know we had a doorbell.
DUSTIN
(shouting inside)
Andrew! Get the door!
MARK
No, he’s wired in.
INTERN [IAN]
That’s gonna cut into the security
deposit.
MARK walks into--