The Social Network · written by Aaron Sorkin · 2010

Billy Olson pitches rating Kirkland facebook photos against farm animals; Mark, blogging and drinking, latches onto the idea of comparing two people's hotness.

Scene 6 of 189 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act one

Mark

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Begins 9 min into a 2:44 film

The story so farBefore scene 6

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.

Scene 1
Mark at the campus bar: brilliant, status-obsessed, unable to read the room he's sitting in.
Just before
Scene 3
Mark strides through campus past happy, well-adjusted students on his way back to his dorm.
Scene 4
Mark bursts into Kirkland House and heads upstairs without acknowledging anyone.
Scene 5
Drunk and stung, Mark starts a blog post trashing Erica's looks and family name while cracking open a beer.
Scene 6
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6INT. MARK’S DORM ROOM - NIGHT

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9:48 PM

MARK (V.O.)

The truth is she has a nice face. I need

to do something to help me take my mind

off her. Easy enough, except I need an

idea.

MARK takes out a keyboard for his desktop computer takes a drink from his beer.

BILLY OLSON walks into the room carrying a six pack. He sits on the bed behind MARK and opens one for himself.

MARK has moved his mouse to an icon on his desktop labeled “Kirkland Facebook”. He clicks and opens it. A menu of photos appear. He blogs again.

MARK (V.O.) (CONT’D)

I’m a little intoxicated, I’m not gonna

lie. So what if it’s not even 10PM and

it’s a Tuesday night? The Kirkland

facebook is open on my desktop and some

of these people have pretty horrendous

facebook pics.

MARK (V.O.) (CONT’D)

Billy Olson’s sitting here and had the

idea of putting some of these next to

pictures of farm animals and have people

vote on who’s hotter.

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