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The Social Network · written by Aaron Sorkin · 2010
Scene 159 of 189 · ≈ 4 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.
Expansion to Yale, Columbia, Stanford; the move to Palo Alto; the costs mount — Eduardo sidelined, the twins circling, the company outgrowing its dorm-room shape.
At the Ruby Skye nightclub, Sean delivers a searing pitch to Mark about ambition, VCs, and never settling for a good idea when Facebook could be a billion-dollar one — and needles Mark about excluding Eduardo.
At the Henley Royal Regatta, Cameron and Tyler lose the closest race of the competition to a Dutch crew by a fraction of a second.
Cameron and Tyler watch the Dutch team's trophy photo before Tyler steps away into the reception.
This scene
Where an AIDE greets him--
AIDE
Mr. Winklevoss.
TYLER
Tyler.
AIDE
Tremendous race.
TYLER
Thank you.
CAMERON comes along.
TYLER (CONT’D)
This is my brother, Cameron.
AIDE
Excellent.
(to the blue-blazered man behind him)
Sir. His Royal Highness, Prince Albert.
PRINCE ALBERT
Ah.
AIDE
Your highness, this is Cameron and Tyler
Winklevoss.
PRINCE ALBERT
Of course. Brilliant race. I’ve never
seen a race that close.
TYLER
(beat)
Yes, sir.
PRINCE ALBERT
My grandfather, Jack Kelly, was one of
the premiere rowers of his day. I’ve been
coming to Henley for 30 years and I’ve
never seen a race that close. Have you
seen a race that close?
CAMERON is thinking about starting a war with Monaco right now so he lets his brother do the talking.
TYLER
(beat)
No, Your Highness. Mile and a half races
are more commonly won by a boat length or
two.
PRINCE ALBERT
Yes, that’s absolutely right. Brutally
close.
TYLER
May I introduce my teammates? This is
Dave, he’s our--
AIDE
(quietly to PRINCE ALBERT)
I’m sorry, you’ll have to excuse us.
PRINCE ALBERT
On to the Dutch!
CAMERON and TYLER step over to DIVYA who’s waiting near the bar--
TYLER
I’m sorry you had to fly all the way over
to see that.
DIVYA
I wouldn’t have missed it, brother. How
was the royalty?
CAMERON
I just wanted him to tell me a couple
more times how close the race was a
couple of more times. Brutal. It was
brutally close. Excruciatingly brutal.
Never seen a race so excruciatingly
JESUS!
That was an unusual outburst from CAMERON...
DIVYA
Cam, the guy’s the prince of a country
the size of Nantucket, relax it’s fine--
MR. WINKLEVOSS has made his way over--
MR. WINKLEVOSS
Boys.
TYLER
Dad.
MR. WINKLEVOSS
Divya.
DIVYA
Mr. Winklevoss.
MR. WINKLEVOSS
That was a tough beat.
CAMERON
I’m sorry, that you and mom flew all the--
MR. WINKLEVOSS
No, don’t you ever apologize to me for
losing a race like that. Don’t ever
apologize to anyone for losing a race
like that.
Another man comes along, MR. KENWRIGHT.
KENWRIGHT
Boys.
TYLER
Oh. Mr. Kenwright. Dad, this is Mr.
Kenwright, the head of our host family
this week.
KENWRIGHT
Pleasure to meet you.
MR. WINKLEVOSS
Good to meet you.
KENWRIGHT
I just had a phone chat with my daughter.
She told me that she and her friends are
already talking about the race, which
they’ve seen via their computers. A new
website called Facebook. Do you have this
in America?
Everyone is frozen...
MR. WINKLEVOSS
I’m going to find your mother.
KENWRIGHT
(pause)
Have I said something wrong?
DIVYA
(pause)
Your daughter doesn’t go to school in the
States?
KENWRIGHT
No no. Cambridge. Majoring in French
Literature, though I wasn’t aware there
was such a thing.
TYLER
(pause)
They have Facebook at Cambridge?
KENWRIGHT
And apparently Oxford and the London
School of Economics--that’s where her
friends are.
DIVYA
That’s awesome.
KENWRIGHT
Good race, boys. Take the bitter with the
better.
The men leave and CAMERON, TYLER and DIVYA are alone. CAMERON looks at them for a moment...
CAMERON
(pause)
I’m gonna watch the race film. If this
online I wanna see it.
TYLER
Stop it. Stop it, Cameron. Knock it off.
I don’t mind that we lost to the Dutch
today by less than a second. That was a
good race, that was a fair race and
they’ll see us again. What I mind--and
what you should mind--is showing up on
Monday for a race that was run on Sunday.
(beat)
We tried talking to him ourselves, we
tried writing a letter, we tried the Ad
Board, and we tried the president of the
University. Now I’m asking you. For the
last time! Let’s take the considerable
resources at our disposal and sue him in
federal court!
CAMERON looks at his brother and DIVYA...
DIVYA
Come on.
CAMERON
(pause)
I need a real drink.
CAMERON takes a few steps away as TYLER and DIVYA drop their heads in surrender but then CAMERON turns right back--
CAMERON (CONT’D)
Screw it. Let’s gut the freakin’ nerd.
DIVYA grabs CAMERON and hugs him.
TYLER
That’s what I’m talking about.