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Storyline
On a fall night in 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea. In a fury of blogging and programming, what begins in his dorm room soon becomes a global social network and a revolution in communication. A mere six years and 500 million friends later, Mark Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire in history... but for this entrepreneur, success leads to both personal and legal complications. Written by Columbia PicturesThe Social Network is a 2010 drama film about the founding of the Internet social networking website Facebook. The film was directed by David Fincher and features an ensemble cast—Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake, Brenda Song, Max Minghella, Rooney Mara, and Armie Hammer.
Aaron Sorkin adapted his screenplay from Ben Mezrich's nonfiction novel The Accidental Billionaires (2009). No Facebook staff or employees, including founder Mark Zuckerberg, were involved with the project, although Eduardo Saverin was a consultant for Mezrich's story. The film is distributed by Columbia Pictures and was released on October 1, 2010, in the United States to positive reviews.
Mark Zuckerberg, a student at Harvard University and Erica Albright, a student at Boston University, are having drinks at a Cambridge bar. During their conversation, Mark insults Erica more than once, and she breaks up with him. She predicts he will go on to great success, thinking women don't like him because he is a nerd, but in reality women will not like him because he is "an asshole". Back at his dorm room, he gets the idea to create a website to rate the attractiveness of female Harvard undergraduates, since Harvard lacked a unified database of student names and pictures. Mark hacks into the databases of various residence halls and downloads pictures and names. Using an algorithm supplied by his best friend Eduardo Saverin, Mark creates a page called "Face Mash", where people choose which of two women is more attractive. The site quickly becomes highly popular among male students and scandalous among female students. By the next morning, the "Face Mash" site has received thousands of hits an hour and crashes the Harvard web servers.
Mark faced charges of violating personal privacy and disrupting campus security at Harvard. As a result, he is punished with six months of academic probation and becomes vilified among most of Harvard's female community. However, the popularity of "Face Mash" and the fact that he created it in one night, while drunk, brings him to the attention of Cameron Winklevoss and Tyler Winklevoss, identical twins and members of Harvard's rowing team, and their business partner Divya Narendra. The three explain to Mark that they are looking for a programmer to help bring to life their idea for a new website ConnectU. Mark agrees to helping them. Soon afterwards, Mark approaches Eduardo, who has recently been invited to pledge the Phoenix S-K Final Club, with an idea for what he calls "The Facebook", an online social networking tool exclusive to invited Harvard University students, where people can display personal information. He explains this as being the best aspects of "Face Mash" which he argues was successful because the women were people who site visitors knew, and removing the worst aspects of it: the invasion of privacy. Eduardo agrees to help Mark, giving a thousand dollars to help start the site. The Winklevosses and Narendra become angered by Zuckerberg because he dodges them while working on the programming for his new site. Mark and Eduardo eventually launch Facebook, distributing the link to Eduardo's connections at the Phoenix S-K. The site quickly becomes popular throughout the student body. When Narendra learns about the launch of The Facebook, he tells the Winklevoss twins that Mark stole their idea. The Winklevoss brothers believe Mark is deliberately flaunting the stealing of their idea; Cameron and Divya want to sue Mark for intellectual property theft.
At a lecture by Bill Gates, a fellow Harvard University female student, Christy Lee, introduces herself and her best friend Alice to Eduardo and Mark, and asks that the boys "Facebook us". Christy becomes impressed to meet the Facebook creators and invites them for drinks at a bar, and they agreed to join them. While the women straighten up, Mark and Eduardo marvel that they now have "groupies". When Christy and Eduardo decide to meet in the bar's public toilet to have sex, Christy's friend Alice and Mark decide to do the same thing. Christy, Mark and Eduardo later return to Mark's room where they outline the structure of the company and their plan for moving forward. As Facebook grows in popularity, they expand to other schools in the Northeast, initially Yale and Columbia but soon afterwards Stanford as well, while the Winklevoss twins and Narendra become angrier at seeing "their idea" advance without them. Tyler refuses to sue them, instead accusing Mark of violating the Harvard student Code of Conduct. Through their father's connections they arrange a meeting with then-Harvard President Larry Summers, who is dismissive and sees no potential value in either a disciplinary action or in Facebook the website.
Through Christy Lee, who was at the time Eduardo's girlfriend, Eduardo and Mark arrange a meeting with Napster founder Sean Parker. When Christy, Mark and Eduardo meet Parker, Eduardo became skeptical of Parker, noting his problematic personal and professional history. Mark, however, supports Parker since he presented a similar vision of Facebook.
While Eduardo stayed in New York for advertising support, Mark (now a 30% owner of the new company) and Dustin Moskovitz (a 5% owner) move the company's base of operation to Palo Alto. When Eduardo visited from New York, he was angered that Sean Parker is living at the house and is making business decisions for Facebook. After an argument with Mark, Eduardo freezes the bank account which he had set up for the company and returns to New York. Upon returning to New York, Christy and Eduardo began arguing, Eduardo previously claimed Christy is 'insanely jealous' of his success and fears that he cheats on her. The argument was caused because Christy refuses to believe Eduardo does not know how to update his Facebook profile, which still lists him as "single", Christy accused Eduardo of cheating on her citing the "single" status as evidence. As a result, Christy and Eduardo break up. Further on, Christy furiously sets fire to his room by burning a gift Eduardo gave her due to jealousy. As Eduardo extinguished the fire Christy caused, Marks revealed to him they have secured money from an angel investor.
In England, the Winklevoss twins became outraged that Facebook has expanded to universities in the United Kingdom thus decide to sue Facebook. Meanwhile Eduardo learns that Mark and Sean have reduced his share of the company from a third to less than one percent thus decides to sue them after a physical confrontation with Mark and Sean. At a party to celebrate the one millionth subscriber milestone, Sean and several Facebook interns prepared to snort cocaine, and presumably have sex, however the police arrived at the raucous party after responding to a noise complaint. The police arrested Parker and the interns after finding the cocaine. Mark then presented depositions in the two lawsuits, further on a junior lawyer for the firm informs him they will be settling with Eduardo, since the sordid details of Facebook's founding will make Mark unsympathetic to a jury trial. The final scene is of Mark making a friend request to Erica Albright on Facebook.
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