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The Social Network · written by Aaron Sorkin · 2010
Scene 99 of 189 · ≈ 1 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.
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.
Gage presses Mark in deposition about whether he knew the Winklevosses came from money, building toward the accusation that Mark went to Eduardo for funding instead of them.
Gretchen corrects Sy for calling Eduardo and Mark best friends, since Eduardo is now suing Mark for $600 million.
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DIVYA
Everyone on campus was using it.
“Facebook me” was a common expression
after two weeks.
SY
And Mark?
DIVYA
Mark was the biggest thing on a campus
that included 19 Nobel Laureates, 15
Pulitzer Prize winners, two future
Olympians and a movie star.
SY
Who’s the movie star?
DIVYA
(pause)
Does it matter?
SY
No.
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