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The Social Network · written by Aaron Sorkin · 2010
Scene 164 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.
Eduardo stands soaked at the front door of the Palo Alto house after a taxi drops him off, knocking to be let in.
Sean finally answers the door to a drenched, furious Eduardo, who's been left waiting an hour at the airport, and the two clash over Sean's judgment and the house's underage-looking guests.
In the kitchen, Mark deflects Eduardo's frustration by pushing him to move to California, revealing the company now has 300,000 members across 160 schools and that Sean has been setting up outside meetings without him.
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EDUARDO comes through the doors with single-minded intent, heads past the tellers and straight to a desk where he takes a bankbook out of his pocket and slaps it on the desk.
BANKER
(beat)
Can I help you?
EDUARDO
I’d like to freeze this bank account and
cancel all existing checks and lines of
credit.
BANKER
May I see some ID, please?
EDUARDO
Yeah, sure.
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