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The Social Network · written by Aaron Sorkin · 2010
Scene 68 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.
Eduardo confirms in deposition that he agreed to the arrangement on the spot.
Mark dismisses Eduardo's Phoenix punch as a diversity move, unbothered.
Gretchen suggests jealousy over Eduardo's Phoenix punch drove Mark's plan, and Mark shuts her down by pointing out his own wealth now dwarfs the club's cachet.
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EDUARDO’s walking away and calls back to MARK--
EDUARDO
(calling)
I’ll let you know how the party is.
We stay on MARK for a moment longer, his wheels turning, before we
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