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The Social Network · written by Aaron Sorkin · 2010
Scene 21 of 189 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act one
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.
Eduardo chalks out the Elo-style ranking equation on Mark's window while Mark presses him to formalize it into code.
Two girls who were let into the club dance on a table in their underwear.
Mark launches Facemash, and the group votes hotter-or-not on photo pairs before mailing the link out to see how far it spreads.
This scene
We move to a room where there’s a co-ed poker game underway with the girls smoking cigars. A bra and a couple of pairs of stockings are out on the table. As we move through the poker room, we see a computer behind one of the players. The computer is indicating that there’s e-mail.
A PLAYER turns around and opens the e-mail as the poker game and the party go on behind him.
He hits a link and FACEMASH opens. He looks at it, then--
PLAYER
(to another player)
Check this out.
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