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The Social Network · written by Aaron Sorkin · 2010
Scene 97 of 189 · ≈ 2 min on screen · 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.
Divya sprints across the Charles River in the cold, laptop and Crimson in hand.
Divya bursts into the boathouse to tell Cameron and Tyler mid-practice that Zuckerberg stole their website and it's already been live 36 hours.
The twins and Divya scramble to respond, reading press coverage of theFacebook's rapid signups, discovering the site credits itself as A Mark Zuckerberg Production, and clashing over whether to go to the press or the courts.
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GAGE
During the time when you say you had this
idea, did you know Tyler and Cameron came
from a family of means?
MARK
(pause)
A family of means?
GAGE
Did you know that his father was wealthy.
MARK
(pause)
I’m not sure why you’re asking me that.
GAGE
It’s not important that you be sure why
I’m asking you.
MARK
It’s not important to you.
GAGE
(asking for help again)
Sy.
SY
(to MARK)
Did you know that they came from money?
MARK
I had no idea whether they came from
money or not.
GAGE
In one of your e-mails to Mr. Narendra
you referenced Howard Winklevoss’
consulting firm.
MARK
(beat)
If you say so.
GAGE
Howard Winklevoss founded a firm whose
assets are in the hundreds of millions.
MARK
Mm-hm...
GAGE
You also knew that Cameron and Tyler were
members of a Harvard final club called
the Porcellian.
MARK
They pointed that out.
TYLER
Excuse us for inviting you in.
MARK
To the bike room.
GAGE
(to TYLER)
Please.
(to MARK)
So it’s safe to say you were aware that
my clients had money?
MARK
Yes.
GAGE
Let me tell you why I’m asking. I’m
wondering why, if you needed a thousand
dollars for an internet venture, you
didn’t ask my clients for it.
They’d demonstrated to you an interest in
this kind of thing so--
MARK
I went to my friend for the money because
that’s who I wanted to be partners with.
Eduardo was the president of the Harvard
Investors Association and he was my best
friend.
GAGE
Your best friend is suing you for 600-
million dollars.
MARK
I didn’t know that, tell me more.
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