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The Social Network · written by Aaron Sorkin · 2010
Scene 187 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.
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.
Sean looks out to see police cars surrounding the house before officers burst through the front door.
Police catch Sean and the partygoers mid-cleanup, find cocaine residue on his hand, and arrest him as underage guests admit their real ages.
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A digital LED clock on the wall tells us it’s 4:40AM.
MARK is sitting at his computer alone. No one else is in the office. The San Francisco skyline is beautiful outside the floor-to-ceiling glass.
His cell phone RINGS and he answers.
MARK
(into phone)
Hello?
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