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The Social Network · written by Aaron Sorkin · 2010
Scene 155 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.
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.
Mark walks through the wrecked, geek-paradise interior of the summer house, greeting a coding-obsessed intern named Andrew, when Sean Parker turns up at the door with his girlfriend Sharon.
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SEAN’s looking around the place. DUSTIN and the INTERNS are standing off to the side, happy to be in the presence of Sean Parker. ANDREW’s still locked into his computer. MARK’s off in the kitchen.
MARK (OS)
Here you go.
A beer comes flying out of the kitchen and SEAN catches it.
MARK (OS) (CONT’D)
Sharon.
Another beer comes flying out which SHARON had no idea was coming and so it smashes into the fireplace.
SHARON
(pause)
I’m so sorry. I didn’t know you were--
MARK (OS)
(calling)
No problem. Here you go.
SHARON
Wait--
And another bottle comes flying out that SHARON isn’t ready for and it crashes to the floor.
SEAN
This house and this team are great. It’s
exactly what it should be.
(to ANDREW)
I’m Sean Parker.
ANDREW pays no attention as MARK comes out of the kitchen--
MARK
He’s wired in.
SEAN
That’s what I’m talkin’ about. Where’s
Eduardo?
MARK
He’s got an internship in New York.
SEAN
(beat)
Eduardo didn’t come out?
MARK shakes his head, “No.”
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