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The Social Network · written by Aaron Sorkin · 2010
Scene 175 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.
Mark tells Eduardo to come back for the party celebrating Facebook's millionth member, and Eduardo agrees, recalling the algorithm on Mark's dorm window.
Sean coaches Mark on how to snub Case Equity's investment pitch as payback for pushing him out of his last company.
Eduardo testifies that Mark's e-mail inviting him back mentioned a revenge stunt on Case Equity and a hard-to-refuse investment offer.
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EDUARDO (V.O.)
I went out to California and I went
straight to the new offices.
And it’s clear that we’re in the offices of a new, high-tech, very successful internet company. The Facebook logo in blue metallic letters on the wall, the maple desks, new computer monitors, carpeting, a wall covered in graffiti by an artist commissioned for the job and tons of young employees.
EDUARDO (V.O.)
I didn’t know whether to dress for the
party or for the business meeting so I
kind of dressed for both.
We see that most of the employees, especially the women, are dressed to go to an after-work, late-night party.
EDUARDO (V.O.)
But it didn’t matter.
GRETCHEN (V.O.)
Why not?
EDUARDO (V.O.)
Because I wasn’t called out there for
either one.
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