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The Social Network · written by Aaron Sorkin · 2010
Scene 57 of 189 · ≈ 3 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.
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.
Gretchen asks Eduardo when Mark approached him with the idea, and Eduardo places it at an Alpha Epsilon Pi Caribbean Night party.
This scene
The hall has been converted into “Alpha Epsilon Pi Caribbean Night, 2003” and the party is about as lame as it sounds. What’s important is that this couldn’t be less like the final club party we saw at the beginning if they were playing Pin the Tail on the Donkey.
Some potted palm trees have been brought in along with a steel drum set. The man playing the steel drum set has a yarmulke bobby pinned to his thinning hair. A table with a punch bowl and assorted cookies is nearby.
EDUARDO, in baggy cargo shorts and a Hawaiian shirt buttoned up to the top, is standing with a few similarly dressed friends, including DUSTIN MOSKOVITZ and CHRIS HUGHES, in the sparsely populated room. On the other side of the room are a few girls--all Asian. One of the girls is wearing a bikini over her clothes. A television monitor has been set up with a DVD running of Niagara Falls.
EDUARDO
It’s not that guys like me are generally
attracted to Asian girls. It’s that Asian
girls are generally attracted to guys
like me.
DUSTIN
I’m developing an algorithm to define the
connection between Jewish guys and Asian
girls.
EDUARDO
I don’t think it’s that complicated.
They’re hot, they’re smart, they’re not
Jewish and they can’t dance.
CHRIS
Mark’s here.
They see MARK come in and look around. EDUARDO waves him over...
EDUARDO
(calling)
Mark.
MARK sees EDUARDO and waves him over to where he is. He wants to talk privately.
EDUARDO (CONT’D)
I’ll be right back.
EDUARDO joins MARK in the back of the room and they take up a
MARK
I think I’ve come up with something.
EDUARDO
Hang on, I’ve gotta tell you something
you’re not going to believe.
MARK
What?
EDUARDO
I got punched by the Phoenix.
MARK
(beat)
Are you kidding?
EDUARDO
No. I mean it’s just the first of the
four step process but they slipped the
invitation under my door tonight. I go to
the first punch party tomorrow and if
they like me--
MARK
You got punched by the Phoenix.
EDUARDO
(pause)
It was, you know...it was probably just a
diversity thing. It was just a diversity
thing. I’ll just ride that horse until--
what did you want to talk to me about?
(pause)
Mark?
MARK
Yeah.
EDUARDO
You said you’ve come up with something.
It seems like MARK’s just made a small decision in his head.
MARK
(pause)
Yeah. I think I’ve come up with
something. Come outside.
EDUARDO
It’s 20 degrees outside.
MARK
I can’t stare at that loop of Niagara
Falls which has nothing to do with the
Caribbean.
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