INTRODUCTION
The Social Network (The Movie about Facebook), starring Jesse Eisenberg as the multi-billionaire and the creator/founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg.
Also including supporting roles with Andrew Garfield as Eduardo Saverin the Co-Founder/CFO of Facebook. Justin Timberlake as the Founder/Creator of Napster, Sean Parker. Brenda Song as Christy Lee, Mark’s love interest.
Armie Hammer and Josh Pense as Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, The Winklevoss Twins. And including an uncredited role by Aaron Sorkin the Screenwriter of The Social Network.
THE FILMMAKERS
THE SOCIAL NETWORK
The great thing about this film is how we get to see Mark Zuckerberg testifying in two different lawsuits: One filed by the Winklevoss Twins and the other is filed by his former best friend and CFO/Co-Founds of Facebook, Eduardo Saverin.
The Social Network starts of with Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) and Erica Albright (Rooney Mara) going through a lengthy conversation which eventually leads to the break up, which also begins the film.
Mark rushes back to his dorm room to write about what happened with Erica in his blog while he is drunk, he writes a lot of means things, of course firstly about her fake breaste size, her weird last night and just her in-general. He gets some sort of motivation to make a website called FaceSmash.com which let’s you rate which out of the two girls are hotter than the other.
He hacks into the databases of various residence halls, downloads pictures and names of female students and, in a few hours, using an algorithm for ranking supplied by his best friend, Eduardo Saverin (CFO/Co-Founder of Facebook). Mark receives six months of academic probation after the traffic to the site brings down parts of Harvard’s network, and becomes vilified among most of Harvard’s female community. However, FaceMash’s popularity and its one-night creation, while drunk, brings him to the attention of Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, identical twins, and their business partner Divya Narendra. As a result, he gains a job working for the Winklevoss twins as the programmer of their website, Harvard Connection.
Soon afterward, Mark approaches Eduardo and tells him of his idea for what he calls “Thefacebook”, an online social networking website exclusive to Harvard University students. He explains this would let people share personal and social information securely. Eduardo agrees to help Mark, providing $1,000 to help start the site. They distribute the link to Eduardo’s connections at the Phoenix S-K final club, and it quickly becomes popular throughout the student body. When they learn of Thefacebook, the Winklevoss twins and Narendra believe Zuckerberg had stolen their idea while stalling on their website. Tyler and Divya want to sue Mark for intellectual property theft, but Cameron convinces them they can settle the matter as “gentlemen of Harvard” without the courts.
In 2004, At a visiting lecture by Bill Gates, fellow Harvard University student Christy Lee introduces herself and her friend Alice Cantwel to Eduardo and Mark. She asks the boys “Facebook us”; Christy’s use of this phrase impresses both of them. Christy invites them to a bar where Mark runs into Erica, who is not aware of Thefacebook because she is not a Harvard student. Mark decides to expand the site to more schools. As Thefacebook grows in popularity, they expand to other schools in the Northeastern United States, while the Winklevoss twins and Narendra become angrier at seeing “their idea” advance without them. Cameron 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 Harvard President Larry Summers, who is dismissive and sees no potential value in either a disciplinary action or in Thefacebook website itself.
Through Christy, now Eduardo’s girlfriend, Eduardo and Mark arrange a meeting with Napster co-founder Sean Parker. When Christy, Mark, and Eduardo meet Sean, Eduardo becomes skeptical noting Sean’s problematic personal and professional history. Christy thinks Eduardo is jealous of Sean, and attempts to calm him to avoid a scene. Sean presents a vision for Facebook similar to Mark’s and impresses him. In a parting comment, Sean suggests they drop the “The” from Thefacebook.
At Sean’s suggestion, Mark moves the company to Palo Alto, while Eduardo remains in New York seeking advertising support.
Meanwhile in England, while competing in the Henley Royal Regatta for Harvard, the Winklevoss twins discover Facebook has expanded to a number of universities there. Cameron finally relents and they decide to sue. When Eduardo visits from New York, he is angered to find Sean is living at the house they have rented and is making business decisions for Facebook. After arguing with Mark, Eduardo freezes the company’s bank account and returns to New York. Upon returning, Christy argues with Eduardo about his Facebook profile, which still lists him as “single”. When Christy questions Eduardo about why he has not changed his Facebook profile, he tells her he does not know how to, further infuriating Christy because she believes he is lying. She cites his profile as evidence he cheated on her with promiscuous women in Silicon Valley and sets fire to a scarf he has given to her as a gift. While Eduardo extinguishes the fire, Mark reveals on the phone that they have secured money from an angel investor through Parker’s contacts. As a result of Christy’s behavior, Eduardo ends his relationship with her.
Eduardo soon discovers the deal he signed with Sean’s investors has allowed them to dilute his share of the company from thirty-four percent to three hundredths of a percent, while maintaining the ownership percentage of all other parties. He confronts Mark and announces his intention to sue him. Later that night, during a party celebrating Facebook’s 1 millionth member, Sean and a number of Facebook interns are arrested for possession of cocaine.
In the final scene, a junior lawyer for the defense informs Mark they should settle with Eduardo, since the sordid details of Facebook’s founding and Mark’s personality will make a jury highly unsympathetic. The film ends with Mark sending a friend request to Erica on Facebook, and refreshing the page every few seconds waiting for a response.
FINAL NOTE/SCORE
The Social Network was a fantastic film, i really enjoyed it, Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg did a fantastic job in this movie, he is a great talent… in all honestly i really think he should have won best actor at the Oscars.
I personally think this movie was great… 5/5 from me.
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