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The Social Network · written by Aaron Sorkin · 2010
Scene 160 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.
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 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.
After meeting Prince Albert, the Winklevosses learn from a host family that Facebook has already spread to Cambridge and Oxford, and Tyler finally convinces Cameron to sue Mark in federal court.
This scene
There’s a thunderstorm going on outside and rain is beating hard against the windows. DUSTIN, ANDREW and the INTERNS are hard at work writing code. Green Day is pumping from the speakers.
SEAN is pacing the house on a cordless phone while two YOUNG WOMEN--dressed to go out for a party--are at the moment each on a free computer playing each other in a game of Counter- Strike. Basically they’re shooting at each other and missing and laughing their heads off.
It wouldn’t appear as if the house has been cleaned since the last time we saw it and in fact there are signs of more wreckage as well as futons, pillows and blankets on the floor.
There’s also a 12-foot bong that reaches the middle landing of the staircase.
SEAN
(into phone)
Check it out, I saw him today.
(beat)
Manningham, Mitchell Manningham, my Case
Equity guy--hang on.
(to the girls)
Are you guys using spikes or ghost
missiles?
GIRL #1
We don’t know, we’re just shooting at
each other.
The DOORBELL RINGS but no one pays attention--
SEAN
Use sweet kamakazis.
GIRL #1
Like we know what that is.
Now there’s a KNOCKING at the door and we
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