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The Social Network · written by Aaron Sorkin · 2010
Scene 93 of 189 · ≈ 2 min on screen · First scene of act two
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.
He takes the Winklevoss pitch as a springboard, builds theFacebook in its place, and launches it into a world he can't control.
Working through exhaustion on theFacebook's profile page, Mark is asked by Dustin whether a girl in his art class has a boyfriend — and the exchange sparks Mark's idea for a relationship-status field.
Mark bolts out of the CS building into the snow, backpack stuffed, chasing his new idea.
Mark shows Eduardo the finished theFacebook homepage, adds a Relationship Status field on the spot, and the two of them e-mail the launch link to the Phoenix listserv, putting the site live.
This scene
THE KROKODILOES, Harvard’s oldest male a Capella group, are singing at the front of the hall in their usual uniform of white tie and tails for a packed crowd of students and parents.
Incongruously, but with surprisingly nice results, the group is covering a song from All-4-One--”I Swear”--and the pub full of students is loving it.
We find a table in the back where DIVYA is sitting with his girlfriend and some of their friends who are having a nice time. Divya’s girlfriend, K.C., has her laptop open.
MALE FRIEND
What ever happened to Cole Porter and
Irving Berlin?
FEMALE FRIEND
It’s a Valentine’s theme. They’re playing
love songs.
MALE FRIEND
Good point, ‘cause Cole Porter and Irving
Berlin never wrote any love songs.
DIVYA
Honey, you should put the laptop away.
K.C.
Seven different people spammed me the
same link.
DIVYA
K.C.--
She clicks on the link--
FEMALE FRIEND
What is it?
K.C.
(dryly)
I don’t know, but I’m really hoping it’s
cats that look like Hitler ‘cause I can
never get enough of that.
(beat)
It’s not.
DIVYA takes K.C.’s hand and turns his focus back to the singers but only for just a second because whatever was on the screen gets his attention in a hurry.
He swivels the laptop toward himself--
He starts quickly scrolling and reading it and we PUSH IN on his face as the blood starts draining away...
K.C. (CONT’D)
Div!
What?
DIVYA shuts the laptop, grabs it off the table--
Puts it back--
People are starting to turn and see what the commotion is about as the singing continues.
K.C. (CONT’D)
What is wrong?
DIVYA starts to bolt out of the pub. His foot gets caught on a chair leg and he falls hard face-first to the floor.
DIVYA
It’s fine.
He starts out again, then comes back for his coat, grabs it, starts out and falls down all over again.
Finally he’s got it together and flies out of the pub and we
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