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The Social Network · written by Aaron Sorkin · 2010
Scene 42 of 189 · ≈ 2 min on screen
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.
Mark's internet connection freezes and the group realizes Facemash has taken down the whole Harvard network.
Three years later in deposition, Mark bristles at Gretchen reading Erica's testimony about the bar breakup, and Marylin quietly clocks that Facemash pulled 22,000 hits in two hours.
The Winklevoss twins pull away from the rest of the Harvard crew in an early-morning scull practice, effortlessly outclassing their teammates.
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The room’s a couple of hundred years old and magnificent. Long, heavy mahogany tables are dotted with club members having breakfast. A PORTER in a white jacket is setting copies of The Crimson, Harvard’s student newspaper, at the table occupied by CAMERON and TYLER whose trays are loaded with mountains of eggs and pancakes and carbs.
DIVYA NARENDRA, a nice looking Indian student, sits down next to them holding a copy of the Crimson.
CAMERON
What’s up?
DIVYA
You guys hear about this?
CAMERON
What?
DIVYA
Two nights ago a sophomore choked the
network from a laptop at Kirkland.
CAMERON
Really?
DIVYA
At 4AM.
TYLER picks up a copy of the Crimson and begins reading while his brother and DIVYA keep talking.
CAMERON
How?
DIVYA
He set up a website where you vote on the
hotness of female undergrads. What were
we doing that none of us heard about
this?
CAMERON
I don’t know, a three hour low-rate
technical row before breakfast, a full
course load, studying, another three
hours in the tank and then studying. I
don’t know how we missed it. How much
activity was there on this thing that he--
TYLER
(reading)
22,000 page requests.
CAMERON
22,000?!
TYLER
Cam, this guy hacked the into facebooks
of seven houses. He set up the whole
website in one night and he did it while
he was drunk.
CAMERON
22,000.
TYLER
Yeah.
CAMERON
How do you know he was drunk?
DIVYA
He was blogging simultaneously. You know
what I think?
TYLER
I’m way ahead of you.
DIVYA
This is our guy.
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