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Director: Spike Jonze Edit 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 Pictures You don't get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies Genres: Rated PG-13 for sexual content, drug and alcohol use and language | See all certifications » Parents Guide: 1 October 2010 (USA) See more » Also Known As: $22,445,653 (USA) (2 October 2010) Gross: Did You Know? Trivia In Zombieland (2009), Jesse Eisenberg 's character said that the best part of the zombie apocalypse was not having to worry about updating his Facebook status.

While making that film, he had to have the directors and cast explain to him what a Facebook status was. See more » Goofs Towards the beginning when Mark is putting FaceSmash together, Chris states that Shark Week is broadcasting on the Discovery Channel. The scene takes place during the fall semester of 2003; Shark Week broadcasts annually in July-August. See more » Quotes [first lines] Mark Zuckerberg : Did you know there are more people with genius IQs living in China than there are people of any kind living in the United States? Erica Albright : That can't possibly be true. Mark Zuckerberg : It is. Erica Albright : What would account for that? Mark Zuckerberg : Well first, an awful lot of people live in China. But, here's my question: how do you distinguish yourself in a population of people who all got 1600 on their SATs? Erica Albright : I didn't know they take SATs in China. Mark Zuckerberg : They don't. I wasn't talking about China anymore, I was talking about me.

Soundtracks California Uber Alles See more (Spoiler Alert!) » User Reviews Just as Fincher gave us the definitive Generation X film with "Fight Club", he and Aaron Sorkin give us a definitive Generation Y film... 11 October 2010 | by KennethWasHere (United States) – See all my reviews ...and that's "The Social Network". It joins the ranks of his best, and just like many of his his previous works, has been reviled before it was properly understood. For months before it came out, it was the laughing stock of people who were off-put by the idea of a "movie about Facebook" (even though it's easy to look and see that it's about the founding of Facebook and the people behind it), just like "Fight Club" is dismissed as a violent film about people fighting, or that "Se7en" is just a serial killer movie. Not to get sidetracked, though. "The Social Network" is filmmaking and storytelling of a high order, that shows the grand irony of a socially inept Harvard student named Mark Zuckerberg who ended up creating one of the largest social phenomena of the twenty-first century (and love Facebook or hate it, it most certainly is that).

The story works as an engaging, fascinating character study; at the beginning of the story, Mark is a socially maladjusted reject, and even after several million 'friends' and a few billion dollars later, he remains pretty much the same. The outstanding acting, style and direction, as well as the great script armed to the teeth with sharp dialogue is what people are likely to miss by dismissing it as a mere 'Facebook movie'. Even if it were just a "movie about Facebook", why is such subject matter off-limits? Things that have become a large part of our culture shouldn't be reflected in our art? Or, is it because of that? That technology is such a scary thing and needs to be dismissed? The indisputable fact is that everything that's going on with social networking and the world of the Internet is incorporated into the ideas of a certain corner of history, this one, which will be remembered as such, and "The Social Network" may very well be remembered as a film to define that era. So please, this is one of the films to see this year. Don't get hung up on the idea that it's just a silly "Facebook movie", or else you'll be missing out on an excellent picture.

119 of 207 people found this review helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes The Top 25 Movies About Social Media - Search Engine Journal The Top 25 Movies About Social Media 305SHARES 97.1KREADS It’s no secret that Hollywood and technology go hand-in-hand. Whether it’s the advanced weapons of aliens from outer space in sci-fi movies of the 1950s or the advancements in special effects, both on and off-screen, technology is a key factor in film-making. Then, this thing called the Internet came along. A lot of the time, the Internet has a dark side that means potential disaster for our protagonists. Remember 1983’s WarGames? A young Ferris Bueller almost starts WWIII after hacking into WOPR. And, of course, there’s the outrageous 1995 Sandra Bullock vehicle The Net where her identity is completely wiped clean.

However, as more and more people accessed the Internet, Hollywood jumped on the bandwagon with more realistic plots and documentaries that reflect society’s 24/7 wired connection and explore everything from virtual reality, email, online chat rooms, blogging, and sites like Facebook and Twitter. With that in mind, we decided to share the top 25 movies about social media. Are there are even 25 films about social media? After hours upon hours, we can firmly say absolutely. Get the popcorn ready and check out the list below to see for yourself. 1. The Social Network Image Source: Wikipedia What else would be at the top of the list? After all, The Social Network is arguably the most modern film of our generation. Starring Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg, the 2010 film may not exactly be a 100 percent accurate depiction of Facebook’s founding, but it does perfectly use Zuckerberg’s life as a metaphor about communication and alienation in the modern age. Even if fictionalized slightly, The Social Network has a great script by Aaron Sorkin, flawless directing by David Fincher, and a hypnotic score by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. 2.

We Live in Public Image Source: Wikipedia We Live In Public profiles Internet pioneer Josh Harris, a former dot-com millionaire who lost everything during Web 2.0. Following his success in Silicon Valley, Harris turned his attention to controversial human experiments, such as tests which showed the effects of media and technology on individuals, which resulted in him losing his fortune. An extremely fascinating documentary that deserves a viewing. 3. Catfish Image Source: Wikipedia Catfish begins in late 2007 as filmmakers Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost felt a story in-progress while filming the life of Ariel’s brother, Nev. The filmmakers didn’t know that their project would lead some of the most unsettling months of their lives. This reality thriller has all the qualities of a great film, like love and betrayal. The 2010 film has since inspired a series a MTV. 4. Terms And Conditions May Apply Image Source: Terms and Conditions May Apply/Facebook Terms And Conditions May Apply is a documentary that examines the real cost of ‘free’ services and vanishing online privacy. What do people really think they give up after clicking on ‘I Agree’ for companies like Facebook and Google? The answer may shock you. 5.

#chicagoGirl: The Social Network Takes on A Dictator Image Source: Chicagogirlmovie/Facebook A fascinating journey of a teenage girl, who from her childhood bedroom in a Chicago suburb, uses social media to assist in the revolution in Syria. Armed with just Facebook, Twitter, Skype, and camera phones, she helps her social network in Damascus and Homs survive snipers and shelling. As the revolution against Syria’s dictator continues, the network has a decision to make: What’s a more effective way to fight – social media or AK-47s? 6. Startup.com Image Source: Wikipedia Startup.com is a gripping 2001 documentary that chronicles the dot-com start-up phenomenon, as well as, its downfall. The film tracks the e-commerce website govWorks (which was a service that allowed people to pay city fees through their Internet portal) and its founders Kaleil Isaza Tuzman and Tom Herman from 1999-2000 as the Internet bubble was bursting. Definitely worth viewing for anyone wanting to launch their own startup. 7.

The Pirates of Silicon Valley Image Source: Wikipedia This was a 1999 made-for-TV movie starring Noah Wyle and Anthony Michael Hall as young tech entrepreneurs Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. The Pirates of Silicon Valley isn’t necessarily a “classic,” but its honesty and brutal portrayal of how Jobs and Gates rose to dominance is worth viewing. How’s that related to social media? Well, just ask yourself this: Where are we now if not for Steve Jobs and Bill Gates? Probably not updating your Facebook status on your iPhone. 8. Tron Tron is an absolute classic that showed and inspire, audiences in 1982 to the potential of technology. In case you haven’t seen it, Tron focuses on Jeff Bridges, who winds up living in a virtual world that he created. 9. Inside Image Source: Wikipedia Inside is a 2011 social film thriller brought by Intel in partnership with Toshiba. It was directed and written by D. J. Caruso and starred Emmy Rossum as Christina. The film was broken into several segments across multiple social media platforms, including Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter. Viewers were then challenged to help Christina successfully survive her predicament.

The first part of the series premiered on July 25, 2011 for anyone participating in the “real-time experience”. The whole film became available for online viewing on September 6, 2011. 10. Me and You and Everyone We Know This 2005 romantic-comedy follows a group of intertwined characters, like a lonely shoe salesman and an eccentric performance artist, as they attempt to connect with others in this refreshing take on contemporary life. 11. Disconnect Image Source: Wikipedia Disconnect follows the lives of several characters struggling with the modern world: A lawyer attached to his cell phone, but who can’t find the time to communicate with his family; a couple who has their secrets exposed online; an ex-cop raising a mischievous son who cyber-bullies a classmate; and an ambitious journalist working on a career-making story regarding a teen that performs on an adult-only site. 12. #140 Characters: A Documentary About Twitter Image Source: #140Characters: A documentary about Twitter/Facebook Since Twitter has been dubbed the pulse of the planet, it only makes sense that a documentary would take a closer look at the impact of the social media service.

This short doc, in particular, explores how Twitter has changed the lives of four ordinary people. 13. The Matrix Image Source: Wikipedia Most of us are familiar with the trippy story involving a computer hacker who learns from rebels the truth of his reality, along with his role in the war against its controllers. It pretty much changed special effects in film. And, it took virtual reality to a whole new level. 14. Adoration A high school student weaves the tragic history of his family, which involves terrorism, for his French-class assignment. However, after the invitation to an Internet audience, the family story stirs up controversy. 15. Julie & Julia Image Source: Wikipedia Instead of telling just Julia Child’s story and the start of her cooking profession, her story is intertwined with blogger Julie Powell and her 2002 challenge to cook all the recipes in Child’s first book in this 2009 film starring Meryl Streep and Amy Adams. 16. Hard Candy Image Source: Wikipedia This 2005 thriller focuses on a teenage girl (Ellen Page) who invades a man’s home (Patrick Wilson) because she suspects he is a pedophile after spending several weeks chatting together online.

Ellen Page gives an outstanding performance in this roller-coaster ride of a film. 17. You’ve Got Mail Image Source: Wikipedia Although outdated by now, there was a time when everyone used AOL for their email, which is where the title of this 1998 film starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan romcom originated. You’ve Got Mail follows two business rivals who hate each other at the office, but fall in love over the internet. 18. UnFRIEND Image Source: YouTube This Filipino film recently made headlines during its debut at the Berlin Film Festival. The film follows David, who after breaking up with his lover before Christmas, turns to his mobile phone, iPad, and computer in order to stay connected with his 17-year-old ex Jonathan. After his phone calls, text messages and Skype calls go unanswered, David begins to form a horrible plan in his head while walking through the streets of Manila. 19. State of Play Image Source: Wikipedia Based on a British television series, State of Play follows a traditional journalist (Russell Crowe) and his inquiries into the suspicious death of a congressman’s (Ben Affleck) mistress.

Not only does the film explore the privatization of American Homeland Security, it also discusses journalistic independence, traditional journalism vs. blogging, and the relationship between politicians and the press. 20. InRealLife InRealLife/Facebook Did you ever wonder what the internet and constantly being connected is doing to teenagers? If so, the 2013 documentary InRealLife is a must-watch. It takes viewers from the bedrooms of British teenagers to the world of Silicon Valley, to find out what exactly the internet is doing to our children. 21. 140 Image Source: 140/Facebook What’s extremely unique about this film is that it features 140 filmmakers located in 140 locations across the globe who were synchronized through Twitter to film 140 seconds at the same time. Filmmakers had to film whatever it is that connects them to their home and do it in only 140 seconds of continuous footage. 22. Noah This intriguing 17-minute short debuted at the 2013 Toronto Film Festival and was created by Canadian film students Walter Woodman and Patrick Cederberg. Noah focuses on a high school senior communicating with his girlfriend on Facebook and Skype.

However, things get interesting after Noah hacks into his girlfriend’s Facebook account. Oh yeah. The entire breakup occurs through a computer screen. 23. The Internship Image Source: Wikipedia While the latest pairing of Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson isn’t as hysterical as Wedding Crashers, it is one long ad for Google. After watching this story about two salesmen who land themselves into a coveted internship at Google, we also want to compete for an internship at Google. 24. XOXO In this upcoming thriller from George Nolfi (The Adjustment Bureau) and Black Swan screenwriter Mark Heyman, a businessman cheats on his fiancée with a woman from Facebook. Unfortunately, he discovers that his new crush is not at all what she seems to be. 25. Generation Social: A Documentary Film This documentary from 2012 explores how the ingrained social nature in humans can drive cultural change through the view of some of the most important players in the Vancouver social media world. What is your favorite movie about social media?

Influencing People - The New Yorker Influencing People David Fincher and “The Social Network.” By David Denby Armie Hammer, Jesse Eisenberg, and Max Minghella (from left) in a film directed by Fincher and written by Aaron Sorkin.CreditPhotograph by Merrick Morton / Columbia Pictures “The Social Network,” directed by David Fincher and written by Aaron Sorkin, rushes through a coruscating series of exhilarations and desolations, triumphs and betrayals, and ends with what feels like darkness closing in on an isolated soul. This brilliantly entertaining and emotionally wrenching movie is built around a melancholy paradox: in 2003, Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg), a nineteen-year-old Harvard sophomore, invents Facebook and eventually creates a five-hundred-million-strong network of “friends,” but Zuckerberg is so egotistical, work-obsessed, and withdrawn that he can’t stay close to anyone; he blows off his only real pal, Eduardo Saverin (Andrew Garfield), a fellow Jewish student at Harvard, who helps him launch the site.

The movie is not a conventionally priggish tale of youthful innocence corrupted by riches; nor is it merely a sarcastic arrow shot into the heart of a poor little rich boy. Both themes are there, but the dramatic development of the material pushes beyond simplicities, and the portrait of Zuckerberg is many-sided and ambiguous; no two viewers will see him in quite the same way. The debate about the movie’s accuracy has already begun, but Fincher and Sorkin, selecting from known facts and then freely interpreting them, have created a work of art. Accuracy is now a secondary issue. In this extraordinary collaboration, the portrait of Zuckerberg, I would guess, was produced by a happy tension, even an opposition, between the two men—a tug-of-war between Fincher’s gleeful appreciation of an outsider who overturns the social order and Sorkin’s old-fashioned, humanist distaste for electronic friend-making and a world of virtual emotions. The result is a movie that is absolutely emblematic of its time and place. “The Social Network” is shrewdly perceptive about such things as class, manners, ethics, and the emptying out of self that accompanies a genius’s absorption in his work.

It has the hard-charging excitement of a very recent revolution, the surge and sweep of big money moving fast and chewing people up in its wake. We know from “The West Wing” that Sorkin can write the smartest and swiftest dialogue since Ben Hecht and Preston Sturges. His adrenaline-pumped men and women anticipate one another’s best shots; they fill out or overturn one another’s half-finished sentences, answering what’s implied rather than simply what’s said. Sorkin’s script for “The Social Network” is his best work yet—incisive and witty from moment to moment but expansive over all as a picture of college social life, hipster business enterprise, friendship, and rivalry. But Sorkin’s particular skills in “The Social Network” are familiar. The unexpected element is David Fincher’s work. The director of “Fight Club,” “Zodiac,” and “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” is a master of sullen menace, convulsive violence; he loves creating an aura of the magical and the uncanny. Yet he treats Sorkin’s real-world situations with extreme delicacy and precision.

Fincher has always been obsessed with outsiders and rebels, but now, in mid-career, he has transferred that obsession into a subtler, more telling form, with both comic and tragic implications. “The Social Network” draws on a 2009 book, “The Accidental Billionaires,” by Ben Mezrich. Mezrich also went to Harvard, and in both the book and the movie the Harvard lore is laid on a little thick. The eager suburban co-eds trucked in for parties, the rabbity competitiveness and status-seeking among the men, the terrific excitement of being “punched” for one of the all-male “final clubs” (off-campus social sites for the chosen élite)—to outsiders, all this frenzied self-importance seems slightly mad. Yet the filmmakers don’t satirize Harvard, and you can see why: they needed to re-create the pressures and the social stratifications that led to Zuckerberg’s revolt. Fincher has often worked within a frantic boys’ world—by way of having fun in “Fight Club,” guys literally punch one another, to a pulp—but here the violence is emotional, not physical.

Watching Zuckerberg and his friends toss beer-bottle caps and ideas at one another in the dorm, we’re meant to think that they really are the brightest (and perhaps the most obnoxious) kids in the country. In the opening scene, Zuckerberg tells his lovely and intelligent girlfriend, Erica (Rooney Mara), that he could introduce her, a mere Boston University student, to important people if he gets into one of the clubs. He’s prickly, overprecise, condescending; he keeps wrong-footing her and then scolding her for not keeping up. Yet, even as he acts like a jerk, you feel for him, because at some level he wants Erica, and the harder he tries to impress her the faster he drives her away. Sorkin created an emotionally stunted, closed-off young man, and Fincher pulled something touching out of Jesse Eisenberg. Slender, with curly light-brown hair and dark-blue eyes, Eisenberg pauses, stares, then rushes ahead, talking in bristling clumps, like a computer spilling bytes. The self-assurance he gives Zuckerberg is audacious and funny. It’s also breathtakingly hostile.

Yet, after many of Zuckerberg’s haughtiest riffs, a tiny impulse of regret quivers across his lips. As Zuckerberg and his friends lay siege to computers in marathon sessions—the pace is giddy, Beck’s-enhanced—they turn women into objects, even prey. In the end, Facebook becomes gender neutral, but the movie is sparked by a bitterly comic irony: a worldwide social revolution, capable of rattling authoritarian governments, began with nothing more urgent than the desire of two middle-class Jewish boys to be considered cool at college and meet girls without having to endure the humiliation of campus mixers. By focussing on the moment of creation, Fincher and Sorkin are getting at something new. From the first scene to the last, “The Social Network” hints at a psychological shift produced by the Information Age, a new impersonality that affects almost everyone. After all, Facebook, like Zuckerberg, is a paradox: a Web site that celebrates the aura of intimacy while providing the relief of distance, substituting bodiless sharing and the thrills of self-created celebrityhood for close encounters of the first kind. Karl Marx suggested that, in the capitalist age, we began to treat one another as commodities.

“The Social Network” suggests that we now treat one another as packets of information. Mark Zuckerberg, as interpreted by this film, comes off as a binary personality. As far as he’s concerned, either you’re for him or you’re against him. Either you have information that he can use or you don’t. Apart from that, he’s not interested. At Harvard, Zuckerberg hacks into the university’s computer system, a stunt that gets him into trouble with the administration but also brings him to the attention of the seniors Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, who are identical twins and American aristocrats. In a weird touch, balanced between derision and awe, both brothers are played by the dazzlingly handsome Armie Hammer. Devoted to physical cultivation, civility, and fair play, the twins row at dawn on the Charles River; they’re headed for the Olympics. Yet the Winklevosses—or Winklevi, as Zuckerberg calls them—want to get into the social-media business. Zuckerberg strings them along while he and Saverin develop the prototype of Facebook; that’s the root of his eventual legal troubles.

The movie is framed by the two civil suits brought against Zuckerberg a few years later—one by the Winklevosses, who claim that he stole an idea that they had developed with their partner, Divya Narendra (Max Minghella), the other by Saverin, whom Zuckerberg may have aced out of the company. The movie is a tightly fitted mosaic of agitated fragments. As the lawyers and the disputants throw verbal darts at one another across a conference-room table, the filmmakers repeatedly cut, sometimes in mid-sentence, first back to Harvard and then to Palo Alto, where Zuckerberg lands in the summer of 2004, enticed by the siren song of Sean Parker (Justin Timberlake), the co-founder of Napster. “Well, I’m an optimist—I still think peace can be avoided.” Buy a cartoon When Zuckerberg first gets to Silicon Valley, he’s as unworldly as a cloistered monk. Surrounded by pizza boxes and beer cans, and dressed in gray sweats, flip-flops, and a hoodie, he even looks like a monk. But Sean Parker, a hustler of genius, says to him, “A million dollars isn’t cool. You know what’s cool?

A billion dollars.” And though the hoodie remains, everything else changes. Parker, who foresees the universal success of Facebook, comes off as intelligent but reckless and dissolute—a candy man who brings the goods (venture capital, mainly, but drugs, too). Justin Timberlake, with his charm and his physical dynamism, and with a wicked visionary gleam in his eye, torques the movie even higher. The colors in Jeff Cronenweth’s cinematography change from Harvard crimson to the electric pink of a San Francisco night club. Yet, no matter how quickly the film moves, Fincher, working with the editors Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall, pauses within the fast tempo and lets the emotional power of the moment expand. Relying on nothing more than tiny shifts of emphasis and inflection, the director, to an amazing degree, makes us care about the split between the unyielding Zuckerberg and Saverin, who’s a decent guy but unimaginative and perhaps a little timid. As Saverin, Andrew Garfield has the emotional fluency—the fear, the indignation, and the hurt feelings—that Eisenberg has to suppress.

In the legal dispute, a college prank that was once a joke between them is recalled and used as ammunition, and the moment rips what is left of their youth to shreds. “The Social Network” is a linear accelerator that breathes, and Fincher is the one who created the breathing room. Fincher has been a bit of an outsider himself, working at the edge and celebrating inspired screw-ups, marginal eccentrics, and monsters. Born in Denver in 1962, he grew up in Oregon and Northern California, skipped college, and, at the age of seventeen, went to work as a camera operator for the San Francisco independent filmmaker John Korty, the director of “The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman” and other gentle movies. A few years later, Fincher moved to George Lucas’s Industrial Light & Magic, where he worked on the special effects for “Return of the Jedi” (1983) and “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” (1984).

By his late twenties, Fincher had found his own cinematic style in razory, provocative, and beautiful music videos—for singers like George Michael and, most notably, Madonna—and in a series of commercials that added exciting and disturbing images to the collective unconscious: increasingly fast speed demons (a dog, a runner, a horse, a bullet train) racing across a sunbaked desert, for Nike; a fetus slowly and thoughtfully taking a drag on a cigarette, for the American Cancer Society. Fincher was never an outsider in the way that, say, an independent filmmaker like Jim Jarmusch is. But he may be one of the few directors who can flourish as an idiosyncratic artist amid the quarterly-return mentality of the conglomerate-controlled studios. There’s no indication from his work that he has read much, or that he has lived much outside the movie world, yet he’s not, thank God, another director obsessed with the movie past, like the pop-scholastic Quentin Tarantino, whose virtuosity with camera, mood, and tone Fincher more than equals. Fincher has his own obsessions.

The 1993 video for Madonna’s “Bad Girl” is Fincher’s work in miniature: The police enter and examine a corpse (Madonna’s)—a visual motif that he returned to in the grisly “Se7en” (1995), in which cops repeatedly walk in on deliquescing or bloody corpses. In “Bad Girl,” Madonna is murdered by a serial killer, and both “Se7en” and “Zodiac” (2007) are about serial killers. Outside Madonna’s apartment, Christopher Walken, as some sort of angel of death, looks at his watch, which is running backward. That image became the key visual idea in “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (2008). Fincher is now a demon on the set, controlling everything, demanding, in “The Social Network,” seventy or eighty takes of a single shot. But, like any director working in the mainstream, he has to fight to impose himself. He was only twenty-eight when he started on his first feature, “Alien 3” (1992), and he got pushed around on the set by the studio, Fox, which then recut the movie.

Still, there’s a peculiar look to this noir sci-fi horror movie, with the camera often positioned beneath the actors and tilting up at black or mucky ceilings. It’s a look that could have been produced only by a man ornery enough to attempt to have his own way with a prized studio franchise. In “Se7en,” the first real Fincher film, there’s a prolonged philosophical dialogue between a pessimistic, isolated older cop (Morgan Freeman) and an idealistic, life-loving younger one (Brad Pitt). But then, at the end, a surprise: the killer, a religious-fundamentalist nut calling himself John Doe, shows up in the hyper-articulate person of Kevin Spacey, and he turns out to be cogent and comprehensive in his disgust for the world and most of the people in it. Fincher almost makes John Doe a sympathetic character. Sympathy for the devil has always been a productive mood for an artist, and particularly for Fincher; he could probably make a thrilling version of Milton’s “Paradise Lost,” with Satan reigning heroically in Hell.

Spacey’s killer boasts of his ability as a murderer to overturn everyone’s complacency, to disrupt the bourgeois order, and a version of that disruption is enacted upon the body and the spirit of Michael Douglas’s wealthy and pleasureless banker, Nicholas Van Orton, in Fincher’s “The Game” (1997). Terrible things happen to Van Orton, and it turns out that they are all part of an elaborate prank, a kind of benevolent shock therapy administered by his kid brother (Sean Penn) in order to jolt him out of middle-aged rigor mortis. Yet what one remembers from the film isn’t the reassuring hugs at the end but the way the world falls apart for Van Orton—his pen leaks, staining his shirt; bullets whiz around his head; a taxi races down a hill and tosses him into San Francisco Bay. The banker is toyed with—terrorized, really. Fincher’s mischief was taking on a malevolent edge. Genuine terrorism shows up in “Fight Club” (1999), which begins with another rant against bourgeois order and conformity.

Hoping to escape mediocrity and boredom, a depressed corporate worker (Edward Norton) joins a sub-fascist group of disaffected men, a band of bloody brothers, which grows larger and more organized, finally planting bombs. The movie has a wacko happy ending in which the bombs go off, bringing down office towers. (It’s pre-9/11.) Towers remain standing in “The Social Network,” but barriers fall; the barbarians not only enter by the gates but destroy them. Every Facebook user, Zuckerberg tells Saverin, becomes the president of the club, and the reign of the Winklevi and their kind is over. At last, Fincher has made a movie about a revolution that succeeded. Despite the half-craziness of the themes, the early Fincher movies have a visual distinction that makes them galvanic, irresistible. Even Fincher’s patented junk and mess, first seen in “Alien 3” and then in the rubbishy, derelict rooms in “Se7en” and “Fight Club,” has a perversely attractive appeal, a glowing awfulness, as if it were lit from within.

He doesn’t hide the disintegrating walls, the sordid beds; we are meant to see the ugly poetry in them. Whatever locations he uses, Fincher brings out their special character. At the beginning of “The Social Network,” Zuckerberg runs across the campus to his room at night, and Harvard, its many enclaves lit with intellectual industry, looks glamorous, like an imaginary city. The scenes of the Winklevosses in their boat, crisply cutting through the water, are ineffably beautiful; the twins are at ease in their bodies and in nature, while the Zuckerberg gang slouch over their computers in the kind of trashed rooms that Fincher’s anarchists and killers live in. The revolution brews amid garbage. In the early movies, and in “Panic Room” (2002), a well-made but meaningless B movie, Fincher worked in overdetermined forms, with plot arcs as rigid as steel. Formally, the outlier in Fincher’s work is “Zodiac,” based on the investigation of an actual serial killer in Northern California.

Jake Gyllenhaal’s Robert Graysmith, who pursues the murderer for years, is another of Fincher’s inspired outsiders, an obsessive who so thoroughly gives himself over to his task that he almost destroys his own life. Graysmith comes very close to cracking the case, but, in the end, proof falls maddeningly out of his grasp. “Zodiac” feels open-ended. It lasts more than two and a half hours, but it might have gone on for hours more; it accumulates a series of suspicions rather than working toward a simple resolution. The truth, Fincher seems to be saying, is best approached with data, impressions, and interpretations. The double-deposition scenes in “The Social Network” would also seem to be a way of attaining proof, but, again, truth slips away. Fincher and Sorkin have turned a philosophical position into a dramatic strategy. We see the events of 2003 and 2004 from different sides—Zuckerberg’s, Saverin’s, the Winklevosses’—and all the self-serving versions have a degree of validity. The movie’s evenhandedness forces us to make our own judgments.

For instance, Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, despite their hilarious double perfection, are never caricatured as muscle-bound jocks. They understand the idea of a social-dating site. What they lack is Zuckerberg and Parker’s intuitive apprehension of it as a new form of virtual social life. Fincher and Sorkin treat the brothers as squarely honorable traditionalists. They go to see Larry Summers (Douglas Urbanski), then the president of Harvard, to complain about Zuckerberg, and one can feel, in this seemingly unimportant scene, history falling into place, a shift from one kind of capitalism to another. Fincher and Sorkin wickedly imply that Summers is Zuckerberg thirty years older and many pounds heavier. He has the same kind of brightest-guy-in-the-room arrogance, and little sympathy for entitled young men talking about ethics when they’ve been left behind by a faster innovator. Zuckerberg’s tragedy, of course, is that he leaves behind his friends as well as his intellectual inferiors. It may not be fair to Zuckerberg, but Sorkin and Fincher have set him up as a symbolic man of the age, a supremely functional prince of dysfunction.

Charles Foster Kane was convivial and outgoing; Zuckerberg engages only the world he is creating. But those viewers who think of him as nothing more than a vindictive little shit will be responding to only one part of him. He’s a revolutionary because he broods on his personal grievances and, as insensitive as he is, reaches the aggrieved element in everyone, the human desire for response. He’s meant to be a hero—certainly he’s Fincher’s hero, an artist working in code who sticks to his vision and is helpless to prevent himself from suffering the most wounding personal loss. ♦ David Denby has been a staff writer and film critic at The New Yorker since 1998. The Real People Behind The Social Network Movie - BuzzFeed News Tech The Real People Behind The Social Network Movie Sorry for the lame title of this post! Moving on: I just watched The Social Network. It’s really good, and it made me want to know what all the people in the movie looked like IRL, and what they’re up to nowadays. So I looked it up, and now you’re reading about it! Here’s some background on the relevant people from the story.

Mark Zuckerberg (played by Jesse Eisenberg) Mark Zuckerberg is Mark Zuckerberg. You know who he is. Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss (played by Armie Hammer) Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss , the identical twin Olympic rowers who founded ConnectU - Cameron later cofounded Guest Of A Guest - received a reported $65 million settlement from Facebook in a suit that alleged Zuckerberg had broken an oral contract with them and stolen their idea. The Winklevosses placed sixth in the men’s coxless pairs in the 2008 Beijing Olympics, and they’re currently busy still suing Facebook . They seem nice. Eduardo Saverin (played by Andrew Garfield) Eduardo Saverin was one of the co-founders of Facebook and currently owns a 5 percent share in the company. He likes Greek Yogurt and lives in New York. The Internet does not seem to know what he’s currently doing for a living. Divya Narenda (played by Max Minghella) Divya Narenda (the third partner in ConnectU) went on to cofound SumZero , a social network for investors working at hedge funds.

Based on my extensive research into SumZero during the last 25 seconds, it does not seem like it is a whole lot of fun. Sean Parker (played by Justin Timberlake) First of all, who knew that Sean Parker was so involved in the beginnings of Facebook? Did you guys know that? I totally missed that. In case you missed that era, Parker got famous and made the RIAA really grumpy and litigious in the process by creating Napster. He went on to found Plaxo , an online rolodex to help people keep track of changing contact info in their networks. It was acquired by Comcast in 2008 for $150 million. In 2007, Parker also cofounded Causes - a Facebook platform that helps people donate to their favorite nonprofits and which currently has 90 million users. Parker was pushed out of his position as Facebook President in 2006 after being arrested for cocaine possession, although charges were never filed. You should totally read this Vanity Fair profile of him.

Dustin Moskovitz (played by Joseph Mazzello) Dustin Moskovitz , who shared a room with the other Facebook cofounders (Zuckerberg, Chris Hughes , and Eduardo Saverin ) at Harvard continued to work at Facebook as Vice President in charge of the technical staff until 2008. He has since raised a $9 million series A round of funding from investors (including Peter Thiel and Sean Parker ) for his startup Asana , which - apparently? - will create “collaborative task and project management software.” So they can jump right into the gaping hole that Google Wave left behind after that project drowned in a tidal wave of public indifference. Chris Hughes (played by Patrick Mapel) Facebook cofounder and Zuckerberg roomie number 2 Chris Hughes left Faceook to manage online organizing of Barack Obama’s social networking efforts during the 2008 campaign. In hindsight, that actually went really well, so nice job, Chris Hughes. He’s currently executive Director of Jumo , a startup that connects philanthropists and donors to charitable causes.

Erica Albright (played by Rooney Mara) Erica Albright probably doesn’t exist DOES exist, in a roundabout kind of way: those LiveJournal entries were actually (apparently) about someone called Jessica Alona . After all, it’s not entirely unlikely that Mark Zuckerberg had a real live actual girlfriend before meeting his current ladyfriend (and probably future wife, if the recent New Yorker profile on him is to be believed) Priscilla Chan in college. Either way, Rooney Mara’s very pretty! She will be playing Lisbeth Salander in the upcoming Dragon Tattoo movie, also based around the concept of a computer nerd who pisses everyone off. the social network - Was Erica Albright real? - Movies & TV Stack Exchange Was Erica Albright real? up vote 11 down vote favorite In the film The Social Network Mark breaks up with Erica Albright early on, this (through a series of steps) leads to him creating The Facebook. However in real life Mark is married to Priscilla Chan who he met at Jewish fraternity at Harvard University in 2003 (Facebook was founded in 2004). Does Erica Albright exist? If not why is she featured in the film and not Priscilla Chan?

up vote 7 down vote accepted You can find your answer on ericaalbright.com : I know that Mark has another girlfriend and the two of them seem very happy together. I’ve actually met her a few times when Mark and I were dating and she’s very nice. But since “The Social Network” came out, people are still asking me if him and I are going to get back together. So for once and for all, I’m going to set the record straight. I do not want to get back together with Mark. Not that there is anything wrong with him I just don’t have much in common with him. We do talk every once in a while but we’re not Facebook friends or anything. I’m not friends on FB with him mainly because I don’t want a gazillion friends on FB. (I’m not Erica Albright on FB) A lot of you have been writing to me and... So definitely a real person (unless the website is a hoax). EDIT (because of further reading on the website) ... So usually I don’t read all the blogs and news sites that talk about ‘The Social Network’, but today, one just caught my attention.

Maybe I’m being overly sensitive today for some reason but I just need to get a few things out in the open. The movie ‘The Social Network’ really depicts me as being a b*tch. Yeah, I know that Mark wrote that in in public HTML code which is now totally public, but I’m not really a b*tch! Do you want to know the REAL story about me, the EX Girlfriend of Mark Zuckerberg? Even though it is really cool that someone played ME in a movie, I am completely the opposite of how I am depicted in the movie. I am smart, funny, sweet (although I do have a naughty side), and I was really in LOVE with... up vote 8 down vote The existance of not withstanding, the name of the girl portrayed as "Erica Albright" in the film was certainly not "Erica Albright". Sorkin basically admits to this in a few interviews, where he claims to have changed three specific names and that Erica's was one of those.

The person who most fits that character's depiction is a girl names Jessica Alona, but literally all anyone knows about her publicly is that Zuckerberg insulted her on LiveJournal in a drunken rant that seems to have been the start of FaceMash. The actual LiveJournal post is still available, and you can clearly see the original name in the source code for the famous "bitch" post: Note that this directly contradicts the statements made on the Erica Albright web site, which suggests that either 1) that's a fake web page, or 2) Jessica Alona has decided to go with Sorkin's pseudonym to maintain her own identity. According to the slashfilm article, as of late 2010, no one named Jessica Alona had come forward to identify herself as the subject of that particular blog post. Also, nothing in that post necessarily claims that Zuckerberg was dating Mrs. Alona, merely that she had somehow angered him, but that does seem most likely. Note that he did not begin dating his current wife until after Facebook was already up and running, which would likely have been years after any possible relationship with the girl that inspired Facebook in the first place.

up vote 3 down vote While not having any background information if she really existed in the way written in the movie/book or how his relationship with Priscilla actually was, I'll attempt an answer based on mere reason. I'd say his relationship to Priscilla maybe didn't provide the same conflicts as his (maybe fictitious) relationship with Erica. While it would be wrong to say he's done everything just because of Erica, his break-up with her still serves as a major background influence to his character and the movie's story. See this related question and this one for some insight on her role in the movie. Maybe Priscilla just didn't provide those interesting developments for the story. If Erica was not real, then you have more freedom in fitting her to the story of the movie than if she had been real, like Priscilla. EDIT: Seeing Paulster2's answer, she was indeed real. But I still stand by my reasoning, that his unsuccessful relationship with Erica was probably prefered by the writers for providing more conflict to the story and the character. In fact the movie (as well as the book) doesn't seem to be an accurate (or at least not complete) rendition of the real circumstances and characters anyway.

So leaving out a character or emphasizing another one for the sake of story-telling isn't that unreasonable. The Social Network (2010) - Quotes - IMDb The Social Network (2010) 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 Gage] 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] [Mark sarcastically adds up the 2 amounts on his notepad] Mark Zuckerberg : I'm just checking your math on that. Yes, I got the same thing. Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options 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. Mark Zuckerberg : You signed the papers. Eduardo Saverin : [almost in tears] 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 : Just because I froze the account?

Sean Parker : Did you think we were going to let you parade around in your ridiculous suits pretending you were running this company? Eduardo Saverin : [cutting him off; screaming] 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 : [to Mark] Tell me this isn't about me getting into the Phoenix. [Mark scoffs] Eduardo Saverin : [in disbelief] You... You did it! I knew you did it! You planted that story about 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 : [leans down close to Mark, his voice low and dangerous] 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 coming back for 30%, I'm coming back for EVERYTHING. [backs away from Mark slowly, still looking at him] The Real Story Behind The Social Network, The Facebook Movie - Business Insider On October 1, Columbia Pictures will release The Social Network, a film that portrays Facebook's CEO and cofounder, Mark Zuckerberg, as an arrogant nerd-punk who betrays friends and classmates in order to get what he wants – sex, money, and power. The movie is fiction. So is the book it's based on – Ben Mezrich's The Accidental Billionaires. Facebook hates the movie. Zuckerberg says he will not watch it. Based on the early reviews of the movie, this makes sense. According to sources – sources who despise Mark Zuckerberg and sources who admire him – the only reason The Accidental Billionaires exists is because one of Mark's Facebook cofounders pitched the book to Mezrich in an attempt to permanently damage Mark's reputation.

According to those sources, that cofounder and Harvard student is Eduardo Saverin. This is the story of how Eduardo got so angry at Mark -- how, from Eduardo's perspective, Mark screwed him out of a huge chunk of Facebook stock . It's also the story of how Mark solved an early problem at Facebook, one that could potentially have prevented the company from becoming the global behemoth it is today. The story is sourced from people involved in the founding year of Facebook, people close to Facebook, and documents viewed by Business Insider. It includes previously unpublished emails and instant messages between Mark Zuckerberg and early Facebook colleagues and confidants. Movies Based on True Stories - Real People - REEL FACES at ChasingtheFrog View Up-to-Date True Story Research at Our New Site History vs. Hollywood Latest Addition: The Conjuring MOVIE: "The Conjuring", The Film vs. The History It's hard not to be possessed by a good scary movie, especially when it claims to be based on a true story. Join us as we summon the truth and dig through the facts behind the supernatural horror flick The Conjuring.

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Question: What real-life person was the subject of the movie "The Social Network"?
Answer: Mark Zuckerburg