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The Social Network · written by Aaron Sorkin · 2010
Scene 60 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.
At the lackluster Jewish-fraternity Caribbean party, Eduardo reveals he's been punched by the Phoenix before Mark pulls him outside to pitch a new idea.
In the freezing quad, Mark pitches Eduardo on a site that puts Harvard's whole social experience online, built around people you already know.
In deposition, Eduardo confirms the site's founding principle: exclusivity.
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MARK
You’d have to know the people on the site
to get past your own page. Like getting
punched.
EDUARDO
That’s good, that’s new.
MARK
Wardo, it’s like a Final Club except
we’re the president.
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