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The Social Network · written by Aaron Sorkin · 2010
Scene 56 of 189 · ≈ 1 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.
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.
Cameron, Tyler, and Divya recruit Mark to build HarvardConnection — the idea that becomes Facebook arrives from outside him.
Gage asks Mark whether he remembers answering the Winklevosses in the affirmative.
Gretchen asks Eduardo when Mark pitched him on the Facebook idea; Eduardo notes it was still called TheFacebook then.
Gage presses Mark on whether he'd agreed to build HarvardConnection; Mark says he only agreed to help.
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GRETCHEN
When did you approach Mr. Saverin with
the idea for TheFacebook?
MARK
I wouldn’t say I approached him.
GRETCHEN
Sy?
SY
You can answer the question.
MARK
At a party at Alpha Epsilon Pi.
GRETCHEN
What’s that?
MARK
The Jewish fraternity. It was Caribbean
Night.
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