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The Social Network · written by Aaron Sorkin · 2010
Scene 9 of 189 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act one
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.
Billy Olson pitches rating Kirkland facebook photos against farm animals; Mark, blogging and drinking, latches onto the idea of comparing two people's hotness.
A busload of college girls heads to a party, oblivious to what Mark is cooking up.
Mark decides against the farm-animal gag but keeps the head-to-head comparison, liking its Turing-test feel.
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A bouncer--a townie in a tuxedo and a headset--is manning the velvet rope that guards the thick, wooden, red double-doors that lead to, believe it or not, one of the most exclusive clubs in the world.
Four college girls are already waiting in line but that number’s about to grow as the bus pulls up and opens its doors.
MARK (VO)
--will be more implicit than, say,
choosing a number to represent each
person’s hotness like they do on
hotornot.com. The first thing we’re going
to need is a lot of pictures.
Unfortunately, Harvard doesn’t keep a
public centralized facebook so I’m going
to have to get all the images from the
individual houses that people are in. Let
the hacking begin.
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