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The Social Network · written by Aaron Sorkin · 2010
Scene 161 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.
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.
In the increasingly trashed Palo Alto house, Sean works the phone plotting revenge on Case Equity while interns code through a thunderstorm, and someone knocks unheeded at the door.
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Rain is soaking down on EDUARDO as he stands at the front door with a suitcase in his hand. A taxi is turning around in the driveway and heading off. EDUARDO knocks on the front door again as we
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