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The Social Network · written by Aaron Sorkin · 2010
Scene 69 of 189 · ≈ 2 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.
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.
Eduardo heads off to his Phoenix party, leaving Mark alone with his thoughts.
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EDUARDO’s in different clothes and being questioned by GAGE.
GAGE
We recognize that you’re a plaintiff in
one suit involving Facebook and a witness
in another.
EDUARDO
Yes sir.
GAGE
At any time in the weeks prior to Mark’s
telling you his idea, did he mention
Tyler Winklevoss, Cameron Winklevoss,
Divya Narendra or HarvardConnection?
EDUARDO
Yes. He said they’d asked him to work on
their site but that he’d looked at what
they had and decided it wasn’t worth his
time. He said even his most pathetic
friends knew more about getting people
interested in a website than these guys.
GAGE
“These guys” meaning my clients.
EDUARDO
Yes. He resented--Mark resented that they--
your clients, thought he needed to
rehabilitate his image after Facemash but
Mark didn’t want to rehabilitate anything.
With Facemash he’d hacked into the Harvard
computers, he’d thumbed his nose at the Ad
Board, he’d gotten a lot of notoriety.
Facemash did exactly what he wanted it to
do.
MARK kind of nods a little to himself.
It should be noted that these depositions have an extra element of discomfort as everything is being said within a few feet of the people being talked about.
GAGE
Were you aware that while Mr. Zuckerberg
was building TheFacebook he was also
communicating with the plaintiffs?
EDUARDO
Not at the time I wasn’t, but it really
didn’t have much to do with the
Winklevoss’s dating--
TYLER
You weren’t there!
GAGE
Ty.
(to EDUARDO)
Were you aware that while Mr. Zuckerberg
was building TheFacebook, he was leading
the plaintiffs to believe he was building
Harvard Connection?
SY
You’re offering a conclusion not found in
evidence.
GAGE
We’re about to find it in evidence.
MUSIC kicks in that will tie this next section together as we
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