The Social Network

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The Social Network is a 2010 film about the founding of Facebook, the social-networking Web site, and the resulting lawsuits.

Directed by David Fincher. Written by Aaron Sorkin, adapted from Ben Mezrich's 2009 nonfiction book The Accidental Billionaires.
You don't get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies.

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[edit] Mark Zuckerberg

  • A guy who makes a nice chair doesn't owe money to everyone who has ever built a chair.
  • People want to go online and check out their friends, so why not build a website that offers that? Friends, pictures, profiles, whatever you can visit, browse around, maybe it's someone you just met at a party. Eduardo, I'm not talking about a dating site, I'm talking about taking the entire social experience of college and putting it online.
  • Ma'am, I know you've done your homework, so you know that money isn't a big part of my life. But at the moment I could buy Mount Auburn Street, take the Phoenix Club and turn it into my ping-pong room.
  • You know, you really don't need a forensics team to get to the bottom of this. If you guys were the inventors of Facebook, you'd have invented Facebook.

[edit] Sean Parker

  • A Stanford MBA named Roy Raymond wants to buy his wife some lingerie, but he's too embarrassed to shop for it at a department store. He comes up with an idea for a high end place that doesn't make you feel like a pervert. He gets a $40,000 bank loan, borrows another $40,000 from his in-laws, opens a store, and calls it Victoria's Secret. Makes a half million dollars his first year. He starts a catalog, opens three more stores, and after five years, he sells the company to Leslie Wexner and the Limited for four million dollars. Happy ending, right? Except two years later, the company's worth 500 million dollars, and Roy Raymond jumps off the Golden Gate Bridge. Poor guy just wanted to buy his wife a pair of thigh highs.
  • We lived on farms, then we lived in cities, and now we're going to live on the Internet!
  • A million dollars aren't cool. You know what's cool? A billion dollars.

[edit] Eduardo Saverin

  • [About his "animal cruelty incident"] I'd gotten into the Phoenix. I'd been accepted, and as part of my initiation, I had to, for one week, carry with me at all times and take care of a chicken. I was having dinner in the Kirkland dining hall with Mark, and I had the chicken with me, because I had to have the chicken with me at all times. This was college. And the dining hall was serving chicken for dinner, and I had to feed my chicken, so I … well, I took little pieces of chicken and I gave it to the chicken. Someone must have seen me, because the next thing I knew, I was being accused of forced cannibalism.

[edit] Larry Summers

  • Harvard undergraduates believe that inventing a job is better than finding a job.

[edit] Dialogue

Gage: Mr. Zuckerberg, do I have your full attention?
Mark Zuckerberg: [stares out the window] No.
Gage: Do you think I deserve it?
Mark Zuckerberg: [looks at the lawyer] What?
Gage: Do you think I deserve your full attention?
Mark Zuckerberg: I had to swear an oath before we began this deposition, and I don't want to perjure myself, so I have a legal obligation to say no.
Gage: Okay – no. You don't think I deserve your attention.
Mark Zuckerberg: I think if your clients want to sit on my shoulders and call themselves tall, they have the right to give it a try, but there's no requirement that I enjoy sitting here listening to people lie. You have part of my attention – you have the minimum amount. The rest of my attention is back at the offices of Facebook, where my colleagues and I are doing things that no one in this room, including and especially your clients, are intellectually or creatively capable of doing. [pauses] Did I adequately answer your condescending question?
Sean Parker: I founded an internet company where people could download and share music for free.
Amy: You mean like Napster?
Sean Parker: Exactly like Napster.
Amy: What do you mean?
Sean Parker: I founded Napster.
Amy: Sean Parker founded Napster.
Sean Parker: Nice to meet you.
Amy: [pause] You're Sean Parker?
Sean Parker: You see, the shoe's on the other table now … which has turned.
Amy: I just slept with Sean Parker?
Sean Parker: You just slept on Sean Parker. And your name is Amy.
Amy: You're good.
Sean Parker: Do I pass?
Amy: You did. [pause] You're a zillionaire.
Sean Parker: Not technically.
Amy: What are you then?
Sean Parker: Broke. There's not a lot of money in free music. Even less when you're being sued by everyone who's ever been invited to the Grammys.
[At Caribbean Night at AEPi]
Eduardo Saverin: It's not that guys like me are generally attracted to Asian girls, it's that Asian girls are generally attracted to guys like me.
Dustin Moskovitz: I'm developing an algorithm to define the connection between Jewish guys and Asian girls.
Eduardo Saverin: I don't think it's that complicated. They're hot, they're smart, they're not Jewish, and they can't dance.
[After finding out that Mark is expanding his website to Yale and Columbia]
Divya Narendra: I wanna hire a lawyer to file for injunctive relief and get this site taken down now!
Cameron Winklevoss: Look …
Divya Narendra: Every minute this site is up, HarvardConnection becomes less valuable. I want an injunction, I want damages, I want punitive relief, and I want him dead.
Cameron Winklevoss: Yeah, I want those things too.
Divya Narendra: Then why aren't we doing anything about it? Because we're gentlemen of Harvard?!
Cameron Winklevoss: No, because you're not thinking how it's gonna look.
Divya Narendra: How's it gonna look?
Cameron Winklevoss: Like my brother and I are in skeleton costumes chasing the Karate Kid around the high school gym.
Cameron Winklevoss: What, do you want to hire an IP lawyer and sue him?
Divya Narendra: No, I want to hire the Sopranos to beat the shit out of him with a hammer!
Tyler Winklevoss: We don't even have to do that.
Cameron Winklevoss: That's right.
Tyler Winklevoss: We can do that ourselves. I'm 6'5", 220, and there's two of me.
[At the deposition with the Winklevoss brothers]
Divya Narendra: Everyone on campus was using it. "Facebook me" was a common expression after two weeks.
Sy: And, uh, Mark?
Divya Narendra: And Mark was the biggest thing on campus that included nineteen Nobel Laureates, fifteen Pulitzer Prize winners, two future Olympians and a movie star.
Sy: [curious] Who's the movie star?
Divya Narendra: Does it matter?
Sy: No.
Gretchen: Eighteen thousand dollars?
Eduardo Saverin: Yes.
Gretchen: In addition to the one thousand dollars you'd already put up.
Eduardo Saverin: Yes.
Gretchen: A total of nineteen thousand dollars, now.
Eduardo Saverin: Yes.
Mark Zuckerberg: Hang on …
[He starts writing on his notepad]
Mark Zuckerberg: I'm just checking your math on that. Yes, I got the same thing.
Marylin Delpy: What are you doing?
Mark Zuckerberg: [on his laptop] Checking in to see how it's going in Bosnia.
Marylin Delpy: Bosnia. They don't have roads, but they have Facebook.
[Mark says nothing]
Marylin Delpy: You must really hate the Winklevosses.
Mark Zuckerberg: I don't hate anybody. The "Winklevii" aren't suing me for intellectual property theft. They're suing me because for the first time in their lives, things didn't go exactly the way they were supposed to for them.
Christy Lee: When did you get back?
Eduardo Saverin: I got back this afternoon.
Christy Lee: And when were you going to call me?
Eduardo Saverin: Chris, it was kind of a rough trip and I was tired and...
Christy Lee: Or answer one of my 47 texts? Did you know I sent 47 texts?
Eduardo Saverin: I did, and I thought that was incredibly normal behavior.
Christy Lee: Why does your status say "single" on your Facebook page?
Eduardo Saverin: What?
Christy Lee: Why does your relationship status say "single" on your Facebook page?!
Eduardo Saverin: I was single when I set up the page.
Christy Lee: And you somehow never bothered to change it?
Eduardo Saverin: I –
Christy Lee: [looks at him sternly] What?
Eduardo Saverin: I don't know how.
Christy Lee: Do I look stupid to you?
Eduardo Saverin: No. Calm down.
Christy Lee: You're asking me to believe that the CFO of Facebook doesn't know how to change his relationship status on Facebook?
Eduardo Saverin: It's a little embarassing, so you should take it as a sign of trust that I would tell you that.
Christy Lee: Go to hell.
Eduardo Saverin: Take it easy.
Christy Lee: No! You didn't change it so you could screw those Silicon Valley sluts every time you got to see Mark.
Eduardo Saverin: It's not even remotely true, and I can promise you that the Silicon Valley sluts don't care what anyone's relationship status is on Facebook. Please open your present. It's a silk scarf.
Christy Lee: Have you ever seen me wear a scarf?
Eduardo Saverin: This will be your first.
Eduardo Saverin: [answering his cell phone] Yeah?
Mark Zuckerberg: You froze our account?
Eduardo Saverin: I did.
Mark Zuckerberg: You froze the account!
Eduardo Saverin: I had to get your attention, Mark.
Mark Zuckerberg: Do you realize that you jeopardized the entire company? Do you realize that your actions could have permanently destroyed everything I've been working on?
Eduardo Saverin: We have been working on!
Mark Zuckerberg: [speaking frantically, almost hysterical] Without money, the site can't function. Okay, let me tell you the difference between Facebook and everyone else: we don't crash, ever! If those servers are down for even a day, our entire reputation is irreversibly destroyed! Users are fickle, Friendster has proved that. Even a few people leaving would reverberate through the entire userbase. The users are interconnected, that is the whole point. College kids are online because their friends are online, and if one domino goes, the other dominoes go, don't you get that? I am not going back to the Caribbean Night at AEPi!
Gretchen: What was Mr. Zuckerberg's ownership share diluted down to?
Eduardo Saverin: It wasn't.
Gretchen: What was Mr. Moskovitz's ownership share diluted down to?
Eduardo Saverin: It wasn't.
Gretchen: What was Sean Parker's ownership share diluted down to?
Eduardo Saverin: It wasn't.
Gretchen: What was Peter Thiel's ownership share diluted down to?
Eduardo Saverin: It wasn't.
Gretchen: And what was your ownership share diluted down to?
Eduardo Saverin: .03 percent.
Mark Zuckerberg: You signed the papers.
Eduardo Saverin: You set me up.
Mark Zuckerberg: You're gonna blame me because you were the business head of the company and you made a bad business deal with your own company?
Eduardo Saverin: This is gonna be like I'm not a part of Facebook.
Sean Parker: It won't be like you're not a part of Facebook. You're not a part of Facebook.
Eduardo Saverin: My name's on the masthead.
Sean Parker: You might wanna check again.
Eduardo Saverin: This because I froze the account?
Sean Parker: Did you think we were going to let you parade around in your ridiculous suits thinking you were running this company?
Eduardo Saverin: Sorry! My Prada's at the cleaners, along with my hoodie and my "fuck you" flip-flops, you pretentious douchebag!
Sean Parker: Security's here, you'll be leaving now.
Eduardo Saverin: I'm not signing those papers.
Sean Parker: We will get the signature.
Eduardo Saverin: Tell me this isn't about me getting into the Phoenix.
[Mark scoffs]
Eduardo Saverin: You did it, I knew you did it! You planted the story about me and the chicken.
Mark Zuckerberg: I didn't plant the story about the chicken.
Sean Parker: What's he talking about?
Eduardo Saverin: You had me accused of animal cruelty.
Sean Parker: Seriously, what the hell's the chicken?
Eduardo Saverin: And I'll bet what you hated the most was that they identified me as a co-founder of Facebook, which I am. You better lawyer up, asshole, because I'm not just coming back for 30%, I'm coming back for everything.
Erica Albright : You are probably going to be a very successful computer person. But you're going to go through life thinking that girls don't like you because you're a nerd. And I want you to know, from the bottom of my heart, that that won't be true. It'll be because you're an asshole.

[edit] Cast

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