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The Social Network · written by Aaron Sorkin · 2010
Scene 177 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 testifies that Mark's e-mail inviting him back mentioned a revenge stunt on Case Equity and a hard-to-refuse investment offer.
Eduardo arrives at Facebook's flashy new offices dressed for both a party and a business meeting, only to realize via voiceover he was called there for neither.
Eduardo tells Gretchen he was called to the office for an ambush.
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LAWYER
Mr. Saverin, hey.
EDUARDO turns to see the LAWYER he dealt with earlier standing by the door to a glass conference room.
LAWYER (CONT’D)
In here. Right over here.
EDUARDO walks across the bullpen, where no one makes eye contact, and into--