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The Social Network · written by Aaron Sorkin · 2010
Scene 154 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.
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.
At the Palo Alto rental house, a backyard zip-line stunt ends with the chimney collapsing near the pool as an intern narrowly avoids injury.
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The place is computer geek paradise. Computers are everywhere, along with some of the empty boxes they came in. Pizza boxes, Chinese food containers, empty beer bottles and white boards filled with indecipherable code fill the room. There are a couple of large mattresses on the floor and a large map of the U.S. with pins and tags showing the schools where they’ve already put Facebook and different pins showing the schools they’re going for.
As MARK walks to the door, he walks past ANDREW, who’s sitting at a computer, writing code and completely oblivious to everything around him.
MARK
(snapping his fingers)
Andrew.
ANDREW
Not now.
MARK
Good boy.
MARK gets to the door and opens it.
He’s stunned to see SEAN PARKER standing there with his girlfriend, SHARON.
They all look at each other for a moment--
MARK (CONT’D)
Sean?
SEAN
Mark? Do you live here?
MARK
Yeah. Do you?
SEAN
We were right across the street, we saw
the chimney come--
MARK
Yeah.
SEAN
Is anybody hurt?
MARK
No. You live across the street?
SHARON
I’m Sharon.
SEAN
This is my--Sharon. She lives across the
street I was helping her move out when we
saw the chimney--
MARK
Yeah, we had a zip line to the pool.
SEAN
You came to California.
MARK
Yeah.
SEAN
You made the right choice.
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