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The Social Network · written by Aaron Sorkin · 2010
Scene 179 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 tells Gretchen he was called to the office for an ambush.
A lawyer leads Eduardo into a glass conference room at the new offices.
Eduardo begins reading new documents in the conference room while Mark stays fixed on his computer and Sean looms nearby.
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EDUARDO
Mark?
MARK doesn’t look up from his computer--
EDUARDO (CONT’D)
Mark.
MARK still doesn’t look up--
SEAN
He’s wired in.
EDUARDO
(pause)
I’m sorry?
SEAN
He’s wired in.
EDUARDO
Is he?
SEAN
Yes.
EDUARDO picks up MARK’s laptop over his head and smashes it down on the desk, breaking it into pieces.
EDUARDO
How ‘bout now, are you still wired in?
SEAN
(to the girl at the desk he’s leaning against)
Call security.
Everyone in the office is frozen, silent and watching.
EDUARDO
You issued over 24-million new shares of
stock.
MARK
You were told that if new investors came
along--
EDUARDO
How much were your shares diluted? How
much were his?!
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