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The Social Network · written by Aaron Sorkin · 2010
Scene 185 of 189 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act three
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.
Thiel's angel investment and the re-incorporation give Mark the company he wanted — total control, real money, a real office.
The price is Eduardo: diluted to 0.03% and walked out by security, the cost of the company Mark built is his oldest friendship.
College kids spill out onto the lawn of a sorority house mid-party.
Partygoers dance in the dark, packed sorority house.
Upstairs, Sean pitches an intoxicated crowd on Facebook's next feature, photo tagging, while sorority girls do coke off each other until the music outside abruptly stops.
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And out the window he sees a fleet of police cars with their lights flashing parked in front of the house. Then before he can react, the front door flies open--
POLICE with flashlights walk in--the beams of light streaking across the darkened party floor and the faces.
We HEAR muffled murmurs from the cops of “party’s over” and “step to the side” and “nobody’s leaving just yet”, etc.
SEAN bolts back into--