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The Social Network · written by Aaron Sorkin · 2010
Scene 89 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.
Mark registers the domain name theFacebook.com.
Eduardo confirms to Gage that, to his knowledge, Mark had never actually begun work on HarvardConnection.
Cameron reads an e-mail from Mark expressing doubts about HarvardConnection's ability to draw critical mass.
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GAGE
This is the first time he mentioned any
problem?
DIVYA
Yes it was.
GAGE
You’d sent 36 e-mails to Mr. Zuckerberg
and received 16 return e-mails and this
was the first time he indicated he was
not happy.
DIVYA
That’s correct. He had 42 days to study
our system and get out ahead on--
MARK
Do you see any of your code on Facebook?
GAGE
(help me)
Sy, could you--
SY
(calming him)
Mark--
MARK
Did I use any of your code?
DIVYA
You stole our whole goddam idea!
SY
Fellas.
MARK
Match-dot-com for Harvard guys?
GAGE
Can I continue with my deposition?
MARK
You know you really don’t need a forensic
team to get to the bottom of this. If you
guys were the inventors of Facebook you’d
have invented Facebook.
DIVYA
I can’t wait to stand over your shoulder
and watch you write us a check.
MARK
No shit?
SY
(to GAGE)
Let’s continue.
DIVYA’s still staring at MARK, who just smiles a little as he looks down.
GAGE
(beat)
February 4th, 2004--
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