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The Social Network · written by Aaron Sorkin · 2010
Scene 168 of 189 · ≈ 2 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.
Establishing shot of a San Francisco skyscraper.
Mark and Sean wait to meet investor Peter Thiel, trading small talk about the building's film history.
Peter Thiel commits a $500,000 angel investment and Maurice outlines a corporate restructuring, before Thiel asks pointedly who Eduardo Saverin is.
This scene
A summer sub-let. A studio apartment the size of a small tool shed.
EDUARDO is asleep on top of the covers in the un-air conditioned apartment when he wakes up to the sound of a key in the door.
One lock un-locks, then another--
--and then the last.
The door opens and CHRISTY is framed by the dingy light of the hallway.
EDUARDO
Jesus Christ.
CHRISTY
When did you get back?
EDUARDO
You scared me. I need you to knock.
CHRISTY
When did you get back?
EDUARDO
I got back this afternoon.
CHRISTY
And when were you going to call me?
EDUARDO
Chris, it was kind of a rough trip and I
was tired and--
CHRISTY
Or answer one of my 47 texts? Did you
know I sent 47 texts?
EDUARDO
I did, and I thought that was incredibly
normal behavior.
CHRISTY
Are you mocking me?
EDUARDO
I brought you a present.
CHRISTY
Why does your status say “single” on your
Facebook page?
EDUARDO
(beat)
What?
CHRISTY
Why does your relationship status say
“single” on your Facebook page?
EDUARDO
I was single when I set up the page.
CHRISTY
And you just never bothered to change it?
EDUARDO
(beat)
I--
CHRISTY
What?!
EDUARDO
CHRISTY
Do I look stupid to you?
EDUARDO
No. Calm down.
CHRISTY
You’re asking me to believe that the CFO
of Facebook doesn’t know how to change
his relationship status on Facebook?
EDUARDO
It’s a little embarrassing so you should
take it as a sign of trust that I would
tell you that.
CHRISTY
Go to hell.
EDUARDO
(calming)
Take it easy.
CHRISTY
No, you didn’t change it so you could
screw Silicon Valley sluts every time you
go out to see Mark.
EDUARDO
That is not even remotely true and I can
promise you that the Silicon Valley sluts
don’t care what anyone’s relationship
status is on Facebook. Please, open your
present.
EDUARDO’s cell phone RINGS--
CHRISTY
Oh, your phone does work.
EDUARDO reaches for his cell but CHRISTY grabs it first to check the ID.
CHRISTY (CONT’D)
It’s Mark.
CHRISTY tosses the still ringing phone back to him--
EDUARDO
Okay, this is gonna be tricky. Here, open
your present. It’s a silk scarf.
CHRISTY
Have you ever seen me wear a scarf?
EDUARDO
This’ll be your first.
EDUARDO’s gotten the gift box out of his half un-packed suitcase, tossed it to CHRISTY and finally answered the phone.
EDUARDO (CONT’D)
(into phone)
Yeah.
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