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The Social Network

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The Social Network	comment	The Social Network is a 2010 film directed by David Fincher and written by Aaron Sorkin. Adapted from Ben Mezrich's 2009 book The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, a Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal, it tells the story (largely in flashback) of the founding of the phenomenally successful friending network Facebook and the rise of its founder, Mark Zuckerberg, to the status of the youngest billionaire in history (with some artistic liberties).The film stars Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg and Andrew Garfield as Eduardo Saverin (a Facebook co-founder and one-time friend of Mark's), with a stacked supporting cast including Armie Hammer, Justin Timberlake, Max Minghella, Rooney Mara, Rashida Jones, Brenda Song and Dakota Johnson. None of the Facebook staff, including Mark, were involved with the project, although Eduardo Saverin was a consultant for Mezrich's book.In the fall of 2003 at Harvard, a 19-year-old Mark develops a student "hotness" rating website (using illegally obtained pictures) that becomes so popular that it crashes the school's servers. His resulting publicity catches the attention of twin brothers Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss (both played by Hammernote The effect was achieved through a mix of split-screen photography and Hammer acting alongside body double Josh Pence, whose face was then changed to Hammer's in post via Digital Head Swap), who conscribe him to develop a Harvard-exclusive networking website. Mark takes that idea and works out a related networking website with his close friend Eduardo, who fronts the money for the start-up costs."The Facebook" becomes an instant hit, with neither Mark nor Eduardo knowing exactly where to go from there. Along comes Napster co-founder Sean Parker (Timberlake), who wiggles himself into the business and outlines how big this project is going to end up. Mark is enraptured by Parker's vision, but Eduardo is constantly worried that Parker is leading his friend and their company in the wrong direction. On another front, the Winklevoss twins are enraged that Mark effectively "stole" their idea, and begin a legal pursuit of him which raises the questions of how closely The Facebook matches their original idea and the validity of intellectual property.For its examination of the alienating price of fame and success, The Social Network has frequently been called "the Citizen Kane of the 21st century". It further tackles the question of what it really means to be "connected" (or rather disconnected) in modern society in a way that has helped the film simultaneously capture the spirit of the time it was made and only become more relevant as Facebook has continued to grow (although Fincher sees it more as a Black Sheep Hit).The film won three Oscars — Best Adapted Screenplay (for Aaron Sorkin), Best Film Editing, and Best Original Score (Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross) — but lost Best Picture and Director to The King's Speech.
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The Social Network / int_10dd8619	type	Tag Team Twins
The Social Network / int_10dd8619	comment	Tag Team Twins: The Winklevosses.
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The Social Network / int_1235f055	type	Dirty Coward
The Social Network / int_1235f055	comment	Dirty Coward: Sean flinches like a sissy when Eduardo fakes like he's going to hit him after Sean and Mark screw him out of the company. For a moment, Eduardo gets to grin like a smug bastard, commenting that Sean's cowardice makes him feel "tough".
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The Social Network / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
The Social Network / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: Writer Aaron Sorkin as a potential business investor. In the DVD commentary, he describes it as the one scene he encouraged Fincher to cut.
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The Social Network / int_1282bf4f	type	No Celebrities Were Harmed
The Social Network / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: Erica Albright is a stand-in for Jessica Alona. Whether she and Mark were dating or or just friends has never been revealed.
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The Social Network / int_129749df	type	All Men Are Perverts
The Social Network / int_129749df	comment	All Men Are Perverts: The principle Facemash operates on in the film, exclusively using pictures of female students for people to rank by attractiveness. In real life, however, Facemash featured comparison of male faces as well as female ones.
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The Social Network / int_12f078f3	type	Artistic License – Linguistics
The Social Network / int_12f078f3	comment	Artistic License â€“ Linguistics: The French literature major who sleeps with Sean Parker speaks grammatically correct French, but her pronunciation is preeeeetty rocky.
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The Social Network / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
The Social Network / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Eduardo experiences a brief one after his shares in Facebook are diluted to .03%.
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The Social Network / int_143939c1	type	Trailers Always Spoil
The Social Network / int_143939c1	comment	Trailers Always Spoil: True, it's based on real events, but multiple events from the final act (the party; Eduardo's last scene; reaching 1,000,000 members on the website) are featured prominently as money shots in the trailer. It can leave a "That's it?" effect when the "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue begins.
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The Social Network / int_1501e2dd	type	Hero Antagonist
The Social Network / int_1501e2dd	comment	Hero Antagonist: The Winklevoss twins may be this. Eduardo counts in his opposition of Mark, to a extent.
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The Social Network / int_1779f10e	type	"Well Done, Son" Guy
The Social Network / int_1779f10e	comment	"Well Done, Son" Guy: It's a subtle detail, but a recurring trait of Eduardo's is his longing for acceptance from his father. When he first receives the title of "Co-Founder and CFO" of Facebook, he beams about how much it'll mean to his father. When he is accused of animal cruelty, he only casually notes having to resolve things with various animal rights groups and the associate dean of Harvard, but speaks about having to explain the situation to his father with a great anxiety. After Mark and Eduardo's friendship falls apart, Eduardo glumly states that his father won't even look at him now.
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The Social Network / int_1869b4b1	type	Unreliable Narrator
The Social Network / int_1869b4b1	comment	Unreliable Narrator: Potentially, as many of the flashbacks are suggested to reflect character's beliefs more than what actually happened. See "Rashomon"-Style above.
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The Social Network / int_19851b86	type	The Sociopath
The Social Network / int_19851b86	comment	The Sociopath: Mark and Sean both get turned into examples. Mark is a bit worse given his seeming disdain for everyone around him though Sean nearly edges him out with his treatment of Eduardo.
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The Social Network / int_1a8dc238	type	Underestimating Badassery
The Social Network / int_1a8dc238	comment	Underestimating Badassery: Mark and Sean both believed they could get away with forcing Eduardo out of the company without any consequences... only to have Eduardo file a lawsuit against them. Similarly, Mark blithely ignored the Winklevoss twins attempts to do things nicely with their cease-and-desist efforts, fully convinced they didn't have the guts to take him to court. Boy, was he wrong...
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The Social Network / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
The Social Network / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: An unaltered Josh Pence (who played the body of one of the Winklevoss twins) as the guy asking if the bathroom's busy after Mark and Eduardo hook up with Alice and Christy inside.
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The Social Network / int_1d2400e9	type	Green-Eyed Monster
The Social Network / int_1d2400e9	comment	Green-Eyed Monster: Mark is jealous of Eduardo for securing a place in the Phoenix Club, and Eduardo's lawyer suggests this might have been part of the reason he cut Eduardo out of the company. It's also suggested that Eduardo is jealous of Sean and his success.
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The Social Network / int_1e1afc1b	type	Framing Device
The Social Network / int_1e1afc1b	comment	Framing Device: Dual depositions, one of Zuckerberg v. Saverin, and the other Zuckerberg v. the Winklevoss twins.
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The Social Network / int_1ee42f1b	type	Instant Web Hit
The Social Network / int_1ee42f1b	comment	Instant Web Hit: Mark Zuckerberg's site "Facemash", created while drunk, gets enough hits within a matter of hours to shut down the Harvard University servers. Truth in Television, as this actually happened and is likely the most accurately-depicted event in the movie.
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The Social Network / int_22a60f6a	type	Nepotism
The Social Network / int_22a60f6a	comment	When the Winklevoss twins go to Larry Summers, the President of Harvard, to try to get him to do something about Mark plagiarizing their social media website idea, Summers parries every single thing they say, finds out that this whole meeting was arranged through family connections, and ends by telling them that this meeting shouldn't be happening in the first place and that if they want to talk stolen projects, they should take it to the courts (indeed, two court cases against Zuckerberg, one laid down by the Winklevii, make up the Framing Device of the film). The two brothers can only end with a humbled "Thank you very much for your time" before leaving.
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The Social Network / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
The Social Network / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: Many subtle instances. The first scene ends with a woman accusing Mark of being an asshole. The final scene includes a woman reassuring Mark he isn't an asshole, but he's trying hard to be one. Mark claims he would bring Erica to final club events to help her meet a higher caliber of people. She seems to respond sincerely "You would do that for me?", but immediately breaks up with him, having considered his offer an insult. When the Winklevosses and Divya pitch the Harvard Connection project to Mark, they offer it as a chance to rehabilitate his image after Facemash.com. He responds "You would do that for me?", and proceeds to create a similar website without them. Eduardo notes he does so because he found the idea that he'd need to rehabilitate his image insulting, since Facemash gave him the notoriety he wanted. As to Mark assuring Erica that he'd introduce her to a better class of people, contrast their companies the next time they see each other: she's sipping wine and enjoying dinner and conversation with polite and intelligent-looking people, and he's just gotten a semi-anonymous blowjob in the men's room. Mark and later Sean complain that the larger organizations they've upset don't "have a sense of humor." The latter says this when the two first meet, which seems to earn Mark's admiration and loyalty.
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The Social Network / int_24cf8a0e	type	Speech-Centric Work
The Social Network / int_24cf8a0e	comment	Speech-Centric Work: The screenplay's by Aaron Sorkin, what did you expect?
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The Social Network / int_25b05c04	type	Hitler Cam
The Social Network / int_25b05c04	comment	Hitler Cam: A famous shot of Eduardo angrily storming towards Mark after he finds out that he's been essentially screwed out of Facebook is shot from a low angle, giving him a menacing quality.
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The Social Network / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
The Social Network / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: Dustin is in the background during Mark and Eduardo's first onscreen conversation. His particular reaction to what could be construed as minor Ho Yay ("I need you." "I'm here for you.") and the correction ("No, I need the algorithm you use to rank chess players.") is to roll over laughing.
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The Social Network / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
The Social Network / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: Amy's line "Tu fais l'amour a la jolie fille" ("You've just made love to a pretty girl").
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The Social Network / int_2be271c7	type	Hollywood Hacking
The Social Network / int_2be271c7	comment	Hollywood Hacking: Largely averted, with some lapses. The hacking shown in-film is, as in real life, a process of reading code and trying out strategies based off of the security settings of the target. The character's progress through the Harvard databases is even shown through on-screen time markers to match up with what really happened in 2003. This sequence is lifted verbatim from Zuckerberg's diary and is thus very accurate. However, later in the film, Zuckerberg tests potential interns with a hacking challenge, described with a burst of incoherent jargon and to be performed while drinking shots in front of a cheering audience. Zuckerberg's real diary was not on LiveJournal, but is depicted there in the film. (Brad was amused.) LiveJournal is depicted with a derivative of the Xcolibur site scheme, which did exist in 2003, although the default was still Dystopia. The page closely resembles the actual light version of update.bml, though the movie version lacked LJ's actual automatic timestamping.
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The Social Network / int_30d4f2a	type	Narcissist
The Social Network / int_30d4f2a	comment	Narcissist: Mark is textbook.
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The Social Network / int_3126c34a	type	Insufferable Genius
The Social Network / int_3126c34a	comment	Insufferable Genius: Mark fits this to a capital T.
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The Social Network / int_337a0f4	type	TrailersAlwaysLie
The Social Network / int_337a0f4	comment	Trailers Always Lie: The soundbite in the trailer of Mark being read his charges ("You are being accused of intentionally breaching security, violating copyrights, violating individual privacy...") gives the impression that he's being accused of doing all of this by making Facebook. It's actually the Harvard Ad Board referring to Facemash, an unrelated website that he created before Facebook.
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The Social Network / int_33d5b7f2	type	Adapted Out
The Social Network / int_33d5b7f2	comment	Adapted Out: Of all of this movie's instances of Artistic License, probably the biggest is that there's never any mention of Mark Zuckerberg's then-girlfriend (now his wife) Priscilla Chan. Of course, if the filmmakers had depicted Zuckerberg as having a stable love life, it probably wouldn't have made the whole Lonely at the Top theme quite so dramatic, and they wouldn't have been able to portray his breakup with Erica Albright as such a defining moment in his life.
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The Social Network / int_340575a7	type	Girl on Girl Is Hot
The Social Network / int_340575a7	comment	Girl on Girl Is Hot: Two women are shown kissing at the Phoenix Club party during the FaceMash montage. Partially justified; it's open for interpretation whether it's actually happening in the elite clubs or simply a figment of the characters' imagination.
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The Social Network / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
The Social Network / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Sean handing Eduardo his paltry check to rub salt in his wounds after the company ditched him. It almost got him punched, and even Mark called him out on it.
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The Social Network / int_35e5a546	type	Digital Head Swap
The Social Network / int_35e5a546	comment	Digital Head Swap: To portray the Winklevoss twins, using two different actors with the first actor's head placed on the other's body.
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The Social Network / int_36215b80	type	Sex Sells
The Social Network / int_36215b80	comment	Sex Sells: Obviously, the "Stanford" butt shot just had to be in the trailer, even if Amy (the girl the butt belongs to) is only in the movie for about three minutes.
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The Social Network / int_3684532f	type	Never Heard That One Before
The Social Network / int_3684532f	comment	Never Heard That One Before: Mark, upon meeting the literally identical Winklevoss twins and hearing them introduce themselves under the same surname, asks if they're related. It's not clear if he's being serious, and their verbatim name-drop of this trope is friendly enough that it's not clear if they're being serious, either.
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The Social Network / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
The Social Network / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: Even ignoring the fact that the film is (loosely) based on true events, the opening scenes make it apparent that Eduardo has been screwed out of Facebook and is suing Mark for that reason.
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The Social Network / int_3e8d9cd3	type	Historical Hero Upgrade
The Social Network / int_3e8d9cd3	comment	Historical Hero Upgrade: Eduardo Saverin is on record saying that he was indifferent to being part of Facebook's company operations—his removal from Facebook was due to Saverin ignoring his duties as co-founder and CFO, especially when he was needed to sign for crucial business deals. His lawsuit was just because he wanted to keep his agreed-upon financial stake. Additionally, the film leaves out the incident where Saverin went behind Zuckerberg's back and began running ads for another startup he was involved with on the Facebook site. Downplayed with the Winklevoss twins. Some say the real twins were not quite like the ones the film put in a quasi-sympathetic light. Larry Summers has said that the two of them acted a lot more entitled during their real-life meeting with him and his hostility towards them was more of a response to their attitudes. However, the film doesn't really go out its way to depict them as all that decent either and even showcases some of their minor Jerkass tendencies.
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The Social Network / int_4063acfd	type	Woman Scorned
The Social Network / int_4063acfd	comment	Woman Scorned: Christy, though her behavior is only in reaction to thinking that Eduardo is cheating on her. Mark's behavior after Erica dumps him is an inversion of the trope usually applying to women.
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The Social Network / int_40c57041	type	Manipulative Bastard
The Social Network / int_40c57041	comment	Manipulative Bastard: Sean is good at emotionally manipulating Mark into doing some things.
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The Social Network / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Social Network / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Mark succeeds in creating Facebook and becomes the world's youngest billionaire, but he's lost his best friend, his hero, and everyone else important to him. At least he's realized the consequences of his actions... maybe. The Winklevoss twins received a $65 million settlement under a non-disclosure agreement, and rowed in the Olympics in Beijing placing 6th, while Eduardo received an unknown settlement and was restored as a co-founder of Facebook.
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The Social Network / int_424d15ad	type	Love Hurts
The Social Network / int_424d15ad	comment	Love Hurts: Erica breaking up with Mark sends him home to get drunk and blog his angry feelings, which leads to the creation of Facebook.
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The Social Network / int_43dc2b3f	type	I Can't Feel My Legs!
The Social Network / int_43dc2b3f	comment	I Can't Feel My Legs!: Played for laughs when Mark drags Eduardo outside in the freezing cold to talk about his early ideas for Facebook. When Eduardo says the line verbatim, Mark obliviously replies, "I know; I'm totally psyched about this, too."
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The Social Network / int_44fc28e8	type	Honor Before Reason
The Social Network / int_44fc28e8	comment	Honor Before Reason: Tyler and Divya want to sue Mark after they find out he started his own social network site. Cameron refuses to at first because they're "gentlemen of Harvard", which the others immediately scoff at.
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The Social Network / int_4733b5a5	type	Saying Too Much
The Social Network / int_4733b5a5	comment	Saying Too Much: Small example. When the Winklevosses meet with Larry Summers regarding Mark's use of their idea, he asks if they've spoken to Mark directly, to which Cameron states that the closest they've come to interacting was he "saw him on the quad and chased him through Harvard Square." Yes, he phrases it like that, yes, Summers notices, and yes, Cameron immediately gets up to some Verbal Backpedaling.
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The Social Network / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
The Social Network / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: The Winklevoss twins have nothing go right for them the entire film and are largely treated as a joke by everyone. For starters, Mark steals their website idea, and while he doesn't use any of their code and Facebook would extend beyond just Harvard, he still wouldn't have gotten that far without using them as a springboard. Every appeal the twins make to try and have the matter settled internally is shot down and mocked by the institution they so admire, and they even lose a major rowing race near the end of the film. This is ultimately somewhat subverted as we learn that they received a settlement in the end, but the Winklevoss twins will always be known as the guys who Mark Zuckerberg stole Facebook from.
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The Social Network / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
The Social Network / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: The amazing views of Harvard in winter can make a viewer wish he or she had studied a ludicrous amount and was born much, much richer. Ironically, a majority of the film was actually shot at Johns Hopkins University, as Harvard has refused most filming permits for decades. The crew was allowed to shoot at Harvard only for select, uncomplicated shots.
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The Social Network / int_4a3e547f	type	Leaning on the Fourth Wall
The Social Network / int_4a3e547f	comment	Leaning on the Fourth Wall: In the final scene, Marilyn explains to Mark how easy it would be for her to win the cases against him. She doesn't have to prove anything — she just needs to ask the right questions so people will form their own answers regardless of what he says. This is very much the trick the film uses when it's making more serious implications about the actions of the characters, especially considering the varied and disputed accounts heard in the film. Did Mark steal Facebook? Did Mark try to cheat Eduardo out of Facebook, or leak the story about the chicken, or call the cops on Sean's party? Is he an asshole? Is he trying so hard to be? The film never outright answers anything, just gets you wondering...
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The Social Network / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
The Social Network / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: Played with when Eduardo reveals just how much his shares in the company were diluted down to. Before he gives her a number, he responds to his lawyer asking what percentage of the other Facebook heads' salaries was deducted when the company expanded with an increasingly frustrated "It wasn't," slowly revealing that he was budgeted out of his own company, but it turns out to be the wind-up to the reveal of just how devastatingly little he was left with.
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The Social Network / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
The Social Network / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: Eduardo very clearly considers Sean to be this. Sean seems to be a subversion of the trope though, as despite being a jerkass who does himself in eventually, his ideas about what direction to take Facebook are all correct from a business sense. To this end, Dustin Moskovitz said the following about the real-life Parker: "He deserves less credit for making Facebook what it is than he thinks he does, but more than anyone else thinks he does."
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The Social Network / int_51a3ba7	type	We Used to Be Friends
The Social Network / int_51a3ba7	comment	We Used to Be Friends: Mark and Eduardo were good friends as they worked together to make Facebook. When Mark kicks Eduardo out of the company, things go downhill.
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The Social Network / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
The Social Network / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: The beginning and ending scenes feature Zuckerberg being assessed by a more grounded female character, specifically in regards to whether he is an "asshole". Also, an Ironic Echo version. The movie begins with Mark working with Eduardo on Facemash after being dumped by Erica, and ends with Mark trying to friend Erica on Facebook after seeing just how much of a chasm is now between him and Eduardo.
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The Social Network / int_535865be	type	I Resemble That Remark!
The Social Network / int_535865be	comment	I Resemble That Remark!: Mark answers a subjectively demeaning question (whether or not the Winklevoss' attorney deserves his attention) with an objectively demeaning response (no, he doesn't, since Mark's too busy thinking about the ideas at Facebook that are intellectually beyond everyone else in the room).
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The Social Network / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
The Social Network / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil: Sean is just as big a Jerkass as Mark but manages to be far more charming while doing so.
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The Social Network / int_53c9fc92	type	Flashback
The Social Network / int_53c9fc92	comment	Flashback: The majority of the film is told through these as the characters testify in their depositions.
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The Social Network / int_5a3b8032	type	The Un-Reveal
The Social Network / int_5a3b8032	comment	The Unreveal: During the deposition scenes, Divya mentions that after Facebook was launched, "Mark was the biggest thing on a campus that included 19 Nobel Laureates, 15 Pulitzer Prize winners, two future Olympians (the Winklevoss twins) and a movie star." Mark's lawyer asks who the movie star was, but Divya says it doesn't matter. For those wondering, the movie star was Natalie Portman.
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The Social Network / int_603f1a80	type	Pragmatic Adaptation
The Social Network / int_603f1a80	comment	Pragmatic Adaptation: The film deviates from what actually happened in Real Life (see Very Loosely Based on a True Story), but the overall film is more of an interpretive look at the events and people behind Facebook.
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The Social Network / int_60f567f1	type	Lonely Piano Piece
The Social Network / int_60f567f1	comment	Lonely Piano Piece: Mark's leitmotif "Hand Covers Bruise," played in scenes where he's either ruined a relationship or in the process of doing so. In an incredibly subtle metaphor for Mark's growing isolation, each successive version of the tune within the score was recorded with the microphone further and further away from the cabinet of the upright piano on which it was recorded.
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The Social Network / int_627264e0	type	Death Glare
The Social Network / int_627264e0	comment	Death Glare: In the opening scene, Erica's eyes progressively turn into an incensed, dagger-staring glare as Mark unwittingly insults her more and more.
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The Social Network / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
The Social Network / int_62f9d08e	comment	Freeze-Frame Bonus: At one point during the millionth-member party, the screen is refreshed to show the number of Facebook users rolling over into seven digits — specifically 1,000,046. This is at exactly 1 hour, 46 minutes, and 46 seconds into the movie.
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The Social Network / int_658f7193	type	Lack of Empathy
The Social Network / int_658f7193	comment	Lack of Empathy: Mark, Mark, and did we perhaps mention Mark? Interestingly, he's seldom overtly malicious. It's just that he doesn't generally know or care about the damage he's causing. Even after his Heel Realization, it's still implied that he doesn't quite get it.
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The Social Network / int_69fb91e8	type	Chewing the Scenery
The Social Network / int_69fb91e8	comment	Chewing the Scenery: Eduardo's confrontation of Mark at the Facebook offices, with mannerisms that can be summarized as a verbal table-flipping:
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The Social Network / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
The Social Network / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: While Sean is morally reprehensible, his business advice actually seems to work. Namely, while Eduardo is focused on trying to get advertisers for the site, Sean is more experienced in the tech industry and knows that the best way to maximize Facebook's value is to get venture capitalists like Peter Thiel to invest in the site and grow its user base to the millions before monetizing it with ads. During their dinner, Eduardo refutes Sean's claim that he beat the record companies with Napster, pointing out that the record companies successfully sued Napster and shut down the website. Sean counters if Eduardo would be willing to invest in a Tower Records store nowadaysnote Tower Records went bankrupt in 2004, 2 years after Napster shut down. Eduardo concedes the point. Larry Summers is openly dismissive and condescending of the Winklevoss twins during their meeting, but he's right that another student stealing their business idea is more suited for suing him in court than asking the university president to do something about it. The most he can do is to expel Mark, which wouldn't in any way help the Winklevosses recoup their losses. Eduardo is wary of Sean being involved with Facebook because of things he's researched and read about the latter in articles and voices his concerns to Mark. Mark points out that people could do 'research' about Eduardo and conclude that he tortures birds because of the Crimson article. While his dislike is largely personal, Eduardo is also right that Sean's illicit habits do not make him a great business partner and he could easily end up being a liability to the company, which later turns out to be true.
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The Social Network / int_6b3c357e	type	Ivy League for Everyone
The Social Network / int_6b3c357e	comment	Ivy League for Everyone: Subverted, and that's kind of the point. Originally, Mark only intended the website to be for Harvard students, and then after that only to top-tier schools like Stanford, and for it to be invite-only, with exclusivity considered being part of the appeal like the Ivy League clubs he desperately wanted to join. He only opens it up when it becomes clear just how popular the idea of Facebook would be.
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The Social Network / int_6d871385	type	Villainous BSoD
The Social Network / int_6d871385	comment	Villainous BSoD: Mark does when on the phone with Eduardo, and Sean gives a somewhat calm but clearly shaky one speaking on the phone with Mark during his arrest.
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The Social Network / int_6ea4cf8c	type	Jailbait Taboo
The Social Network / int_6ea4cf8c	comment	Jailbait Taboo: A recurring part of Sean's character is engaging in reckless behavior with likely under-aged girls. He sleeps with Amy and gets nervous about her age the morning after. He has a glut of female interns doing drugs and partying in his California house, and says that it's "not polite to ask" their ages when Eduardo presses him on it before quickly changing the subject. He gets into legal trouble for doing drugs with the interns.
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The Social Network / int_71268450	type	Adaptation Title Change
The Social Network / int_71268450	comment	Adaptation Title Change: The film is based off a book called The Accidental Billionaires.
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The Social Network / int_7335ffa9	type	Grey-and-Gray Morality
The Social Network / int_7335ffa9	comment	Grey-and-Gray Morality: None of the main characters are presented as either totally sympathetic or despicable. Mark is an arrogant Jerkass, but a smart one with shades of a tragic hero. The Winklevosses are just as arrogant and jerk-y rich boys who seem to think the world owes them success because of their privileged background, but they don't want to drag Mark through the court system and are honestly convinced that he stole their idea for Facebook; Divya is right up there with them. Sean is selfish and obnoxious, but more of a weakling than a straight-up asshole and he does know what he's talking about business-wise. Christy is just bat-shit crazy rather than truly malicious. Even Eduardo, who comes the closest to being a straight up good guy, can be incredibly passive-aggressive and vindictive when someone crosses him. While it comes off as a CMOA, his reaction after Mark and Sean dilute his shares to nothing is essentially that of a child who has been told he can't play in the sandbox anymore.
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The Social Network / int_740f59b4	type	ColorCodedForYourConvenience
The Social Network / int_740f59b4	comment	Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Downplayed. In most scenes with the Winklevoss twins, usually one or both of them will be wearing a specific color so the audience can tell them apart (green for Cameron, red for Tyler.) This is best seen during their meeting with Harvard president Larry Summers, where they are wearing green and red ties, respectively. This also connects to their differing personalities; Tyler (red) is the more hotheaded and snarky of the brothers, whereas Cameron (green) is more calm and reserved.
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The Social Network / int_76468dfa	type	Internet Jerk
The Social Network / int_76468dfa	comment	Internet Jerk: Mark, absolutely. While obnoxious enough in person, he becomes even worse behind a computer screen, as his drunken blog rant on Erica towards the start of the film show. When he approaches Erica later in the film to try and apologize, she uses the aforementioned rant to further accuse Mark of being this.
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The Social Network / int_78270847	type	Curse Cut Short
The Social Network / int_78270847	comment	Curse Cut Short: After Summers dismisses the Winklevoss brothers' arguments, he asks if there's anything else he can do for them.
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The Social Network / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
The Social Network / int_7a12aabf	comment	New Media Are Evil: Some reviewers have argued that this is one of the underlying messages of the film.
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The Social Network / int_7b6e47a5	type	Armor-Piercing Question
The Social Network / int_7b6e47a5	comment	Armor-Piercing Question: Sean Parker argues that the music industry lost against Napster. Eduardo pointed out that the music industry won in court. However, Sean's subsequent question about a former records store shuts Eduardo up.
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The Social Network / int_7bb1296b	type	"Rashomon"-Style
The Social Network / int_7bb1296b	comment	"Rashomon"-Style: Sorkin specifically mentioned the namesake film as the way he wrote the screenplay, though we never see the same events twice. Instead, it's subtly implied that segments of the film may be from the viewpoint of whichever party (Mark, Eduardo, or the Winklevoss twins) is currently testifying in the deposition Framing Device. Mark rebuffs the retold events of multiple scenes (namely Erica dumping him and him agreeing to work with the Winklevosses & Divya). This exchange after the Eduardo deposition:
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The Social Network / int_7c862b8a	type	Chronic Backstabbing Disorder
The Social Network / int_7c862b8a	comment	Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Mark, to a varying extent and with varying degrees of justification, ends up screwing over everyone else involved in the creation process of Facebook.
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The Social Network / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
The Social Network / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Erica officially cuts her ties with Mark with a devastating one (see top page quote). When the Winklevoss twins go to Larry Summers, the President of Harvard, to try to get him to do something about Mark plagiarizing their social media website idea, Summers parries every single thing they say, finds out that this whole meeting was arranged through family connections, and ends by telling them that this meeting shouldn't be happening in the first place and that if they want to talk stolen projects, they should take it to the courts (indeed, two court cases against Zuckerberg, one laid down by the Winklevii, make up the Framing Device of the film). The two brothers can only end with a humbled "Thank you very much for your time" before leaving.
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The Social Network / int_7f8fd503	type	Lonely at the Top
The Social Network / int_7f8fd503	comment	At the end of the film, Mark Zuckerberg has, as the text narration explains, become the youngest billionare in the world...after having lost all of his friends.
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The Social Network / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
The Social Network / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: The now-iconic opening scene establishes Mark's character as a somewhat arrogant Insufferable Genius with a legitimate motive: distinguishing himself from the rest of the geniuses at Harvard. As his dialogue with Erica unfolds, it becomes clear that holding a conversation with him is incredibly difficult, as his train of thought has zero brakes and he talks quickly and rather tangentially. His condescending response to the question "Do I have your full attention?" is another popular one. Eduardo is introduced arriving at Mark's dorm while he's creating Facemash because he wants to give him support after Erica dumps him. When Mark then informs him what it is the group is doing and asks him for his help, he shows hesitance at the idea before ultimately lending his assistance because he wants to be a team player. The Winklevoss twins are first seen during a Harvard crew practice, where they quickly jump out ahead of their teammates. The two of them express their regret at showing up the others in a condescending way before opening up an even wider lead, demonstrating both their arrogance and sense of fair play. Sean is first introduced as he's waking up in a much younger college student's bed after a one-night stand with her. His first lines have him listing off every detail about said college student from memory, just to prove that he didn't, in fact, forget her name.
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The Social Network / int_82518cf7	type	Motor Mouth
The Social Network / int_82518cf7	comment	Motor Mouth: Both Mark and to a greater degree, Sean. Eduardo even remarks that the latter must have set some sort of record. Of course, any Aaron Sorkin character at least comes close to this at some point; Fincher directed the actors to talk faster, as the script was a little too long.
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The Social Network / int_82f14228	type	Slash Fic
The Social Network / int_82f14228	comment	Slash Fic: A lot. Most of it is, predictably, Mark/Eduardo.
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The Social Network / int_8411ab92	type	Red Oni, Blue Oni
The Social Network / int_8411ab92	comment	Red Oni, Blue Oni: The main defining factor of the Winklevoss twins' dynamic. Tyler (red) wants to take action to sue Mark immediately, while Cameron (blue) consistently has cold feet regarding the idea, being too concerned about their image as gentlemen of Harvard.
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The Social Network / int_85f0f0fb	type	World of Snark
The Social Network / int_85f0f0fb	comment	World of Snark: The screenplay's by Aaron Sorkin, what did you expect?
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The Social Network / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
The Social Network / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: After the deposition with Eduardo is over, Marilyn asks Mark what happened to Sean after he was kicked out of Facebook following his arrest. Mark just answers that Sean still owns 7% of the company.
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The Social Network / int_868409c	type	Broken Pedestal
The Social Network / int_868409c	comment	Broken Pedestal: Mark is quite admiring of Sean's power and ideas, but his faith in him wavers when he finds out about Sean's arrest. Or possibly earlier, when Sean helped force out Eduardo — it's implied that Mark may have been responsible for the arrest.
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The Social Network / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
The Social Network / int_86b21114	comment	Badass Boast: At one point, Mark gets tired of the suggestions of Gretchen (Eduardo's lawyer) and silences her with a pretty epic one.
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The Social Network / int_875615dd	type	Truth in Television
The Social Network / int_875615dd	comment	Truth in Television: Those familiar with intercollegiate relations amongst Boston-area schools may find themselves seeing the standard stereotypes of those students quite easily in the characters. Since they get the most screen time, those familiar with the stereotypes of Harvard students find themselves feeling like they're really dealing with Harvard students while watching. Whether that's a good thing or not depends on which Harvard students you're familiar with. Christy's overreaction to Eduardo not changing his relationship status is similar to actual reactions based on Facebook settings.
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The Social Network / int_87ab7f69	type	Sharp-Dressed Man
The Social Network / int_87ab7f69	comment	Sharp-Dressed Man: The Winklevoss twins when they meet with President Summers. Lampshaded by Summers:
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The Social Network / int_87c7f99d	type	Sidetracked by the Analogy
The Social Network / int_87c7f99d	comment	Sidetracked by the Analogy: In mapping out the potential billion-dollar valuation Facebook is headed towards, Sean Parker uses the metaphor of a fisherman wanting to show off his photo with a thousand-pound marlin instead of 15 trout. Eduardo goes into all the technical concerns of the hypothetical marlin's weight, like how much a marlin could weigh in real life and how strong the fisherman would have to be.
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The Social Network / int_8ace85ef	type	Audience Surrogate
The Social Network / int_8ace85ef	comment	Audience Surrogate: Marilyn, the junior lawyer, as the one party who is least familiar with the details of the lawsuits, and reacts to them in real time much like the audience would.
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The Social Network / int_8fdd68fc	type	Self-Serving Memory
The Social Network / int_8fdd68fc	comment	Self-Serving Memory: See "Rashomon"-Style. Mark, Eduardo, and the Winklevosses all offer testimony that is based more on how they felt and thought about events than what anyone could prove actually transpired. Lampshaded by Marilyn.
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The Social Network / int_928ca2cc	type	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
The Social Network / int_928ca2cc	comment	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Mark may or may not have pulled this on Sean, by possibly calling the cops on Sean's party, thus creating a situation where Sean would have to be fired to avoid embarrassing the company. He also essentially did this to Eduardo when he diluted Eduardo's stake in Facebook down to a pittance.
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The Social Network / int_94680696	type	Shaped Like Itself
The Social Network / int_94680696	comment	Shaped Like Itself: After Christy invites Eduardo and Mark to join her and Alice for a drink after the speech:
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The Social Network / int_9591377d	type	Heel Realization
The Social Network / int_9591377d	comment	Heel Realization: Mark experiences this, after Eduardo berates him and Sean in the office, along with Marilyn's speech towards him.
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The Social Network / int_95b875b1	type	Not Me This Time
The Social Network / int_95b875b1	comment	Not Me This Time: Mark did lots of bad things, but planting the story about the chicken was not one of them... Maybe.
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The Social Network / int_9710c9a7	type	Biopic
The Social Network / int_9710c9a7	comment	Biopic: Of Mark Zuckerberg, detailing how he developed one of the most influential websites in the world and ascended to the status of youngest billionaire in the world, at a great personal cost to him.
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The Social Network / int_973d220f	type	Never My Fault
The Social Network / int_973d220f	comment	Never My Fault: Sean in particular has this problem, blaming the Winklevoss twins and/or Manningham for planting the coke and calling the cops even though it's pretty clear Sean had no problem with the coke before the cops arrived. He also doesn't seem to understand how record companies would be pissed to see you take money away from them, chalking it up to them not having a sense of humor. Mark has some of this too. He can't fathom why Harvard is angry that he hacked into their records and believes they should give him credit for pointing out flaws in their system. He also seems angry with Eduardo for suing him even though he brought it entirely on himself. His intro has him writing horrible things about his girlfriend after she dumped him for being a complete jerk to her; he doesn't see his own culpability and does not apologize the next time he sees her.
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The Social Network / int_977ab629	type	Let's Just Be Friends
The Social Network / int_977ab629	comment	Let's Just Be Friends: Erica tries going this route when breaking it off with Mark. When he replies that he doesn't want friends, she says she was just being polite and has no intention of actually staying friends with someone like him.
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The Social Network / int_97980a6e	type	First Law of Tragicomedies
The Social Network / int_97980a6e	comment	First Law of Tragicomedies: The film's last act is more serious in tone.
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The Social Network / int_98a19d7f	type	Money, Dear Boy
The Social Network / int_98a19d7f	comment	Eduardo Saverin is on record saying that he was indifferent to being part of Facebook's company operations—his removal from Facebook was due to Saverin ignoring his duties as co-founder and CFO, especially when he was needed to sign for crucial business deals. His lawsuit was just because he wanted to keep his agreed-upon financial stake. Additionally, the film leaves out the incident where Saverin went behind Zuckerberg's back and began running ads for another startup he was involved with on the Facebook site.
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The Social Network / int_9ab3da1a	type	Evil Mentor
The Social Network / int_9ab3da1a	comment	Evil Mentor: Sean Parker for Mark. Although he's not actually actively mentoring Mark in being evil, he's just a morally reprehensible person giving business advice.
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The Social Network / int_9bcd82c0	type	Took a Level in Badass
The Social Network / int_9bcd82c0	comment	Took a Level in Badass: The somewhat passive Marylin effectively tells Mark what she thinks of him at the end.
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The Social Network / int_9e0c3153	type	Punctuated! For! Emphasis!
The Social Network / int_9e0c3153	comment	Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: Eduardo makes a very distinct emphasis when he reveals that he was negotiated out of Facebook.
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The Social Network / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
The Social Network / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Mark, after seeing Eduardo's breakdown in the office. He's so shaken that he can hardly celebrate when the Facebook member count rolls over into seven digits.
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The Social Network / int_a3912d0e	type	Sexy Discretion Shot
The Social Network / int_a3912d0e	comment	Sexy Discretion Shot: After Facebook starts taking off, Mark and Eduardo manage to hook up with two girls — essentially "groupies", as they're once referred to — that end up going down on them in bathroom stalls. The most visual aid we receive is a shot of the stall doors gently rocking.
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The Social Network / int_a5f0752f	type	Rule of Drama
The Social Network / int_a5f0752f	comment	Rule of Drama: Yes, the filmmakers have freely admitted to making scenes up and playing around with the date of events, but their purpose was to make a Citizen Kane-esque story of success-with-tragedy. The screenwriter has done this before. That's not to mention how the final exchange between Mark and Marilyn casts doubt on the authenticity of the testimonies concerning Mark's alleged wrongdoings. The film is not trying to be a just-the-facts story of the minds behind Facebook, because some of those minds may not be telling the truth.
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The Social Network / int_a939d96a	type	Adults Are Useless
The Social Network / int_a939d96a	comment	Adults Are Useless: Granted, the main characters aren't small children, but all the adults they go to for help simply blow them off — the lawyers (one can almost forgive Mark for his Jerkass behaviors towards them), New York advertisers, and especially Harvard president Larry Summers.
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The Social Network / int_aa8d0ef0	type	Spell My Name with a "The"
The Social Network / int_aa8d0ef0	comment	Spell My Name with a "The": Facebook starts out as The Facebook when it's created. Sean's the one to advise Mark to take out the "the" to make it "cleaner", and Eduardo credits it as his most important contribution to the company.
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The Social Network / int_ab9311f0	type	Closer to Earth
The Social Network / int_ab9311f0	comment	Closer to Earth: Eduardo, who is concerned with monetizing their business rather than pursuing the paradigm shift that Mark and Sean are after. Also the junior lawyer Marilyn, who is the only character who addresses what the characters are actually feeling.
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The Social Network / int_aba8065b	type	Fatal Flaw
The Social Network / int_aba8065b	comment	Fatal Flaw: While the whole story is likely an exaggeration of actual events, Marylin is correct in stating that Mark's Insufferable Genius act would make him lose in the actual court case, so he should just cut his losses and settle.
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The Social Network / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
The Social Network / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Sean when the cops break up the party at the end and catch him with cocaine, which leads to his being fired from the company.
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The Social Network / int_ad9fbc1e	type	Pyrrhic Victory
The Social Network / int_ad9fbc1e	comment	Pyrrhic Victory: Sean Parker considers his past with Napster and the music industry to be this. Yes, they successfully sued him and got Napster shut down, but Napster's popularity caused a seismic shift in the music industry that led to consumers adopting online music stores and file sharing sites at the expense of the traditional record stores that were far more profitable for the music companies. At the end of the film, Mark Zuckerberg has, as the text narration explains, become the youngest billionare in the world...after having lost all of his friends.
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The Social Network / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
The Social Network / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Almost everyone at one point or another, but especially Mark, as well as Harvard President Larry Summers in his verbal beatdown of the Winklevoss brothers.
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The Social Network / int_afc6df04	type	What You Are in the Dark
The Social Network / int_afc6df04	comment	What You Are in the Dark: Erica compares Mark's online insults to this.
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The Social Network / int_b4a6ae4c	type	Everyone Has Standards
The Social Network / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Everyone Has Standards: Mark is clearly made out to be a smug, antisocial Jerkass with a huge head, but he's clearly not happy with Sean picking on Eduardo while firing him. And while he has a notoriously low opinion of women, Sean partying and doing drugs with a group of underage interns repulses him. Whether or not Mark ratted on him, it would clearly have been more than just as an executive decision. Upon hearing exactly how much Eduardo's ownership share of Facebook was diluted down whilst everyone else's remained the same, the two lawyers defending Mark, even if their job is to help him win the lawsuit, can't help but look at him with faces that clearly say "that was a pretty messed up thing to do".
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The Social Network / int_b506c9ff	type	Hide Your Lesbians
The Social Network / int_b506c9ff	comment	Hide Your Lesbians: Perhaps an inadvertent consequence of the film's focus on the characters' misogynistic world, or deliberate because of the chosen narrative. Of the four Facebook founders (and Sean Parker), the openly gay Chris Hughes is the only one whose romantic life or sexuality isn't depicted in any way (on the other hand, he simply didn't have many lines at all). However, nameless women are shown kissing each other during the FaceMash montage.
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The Social Network / int_b5788780	type	Jewish and Nerdy
The Social Network / int_b5788780	comment	Jewish and Nerdy: All of the Jewish Harvard students. The Jewish fraternity's party is pretty lame and filled with nerdy looking guys.
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The Social Network / int_b6af057e	type	Double Vision
The Social Network / int_b6af057e	comment	Double Vision: Did you know that the Winklevoss twins were played on set by two actors (Armie Hammer as Cameron and Josh Pence as Tyler), but Hammer's face was digitally superimposed in post-production onto Pence's body, so that the twins would look exactly alike? No, you didn't. Because it is seamless.
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The Social Network / int_b6ec7566	type	Twofer Token Minority
The Social Network / int_b6ec7566	comment	Twofer Token Minority: In-universe — Eduardo, trying not to get his hopes up too soon, suggests that he only got punched by the Phoenix for diversity purposes (Eduardo is both Jewish and half-Brazilian), and Mark snidely agrees with him.
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The Social Network / int_b7042372	type	Cycle of Revenge
The Social Network / int_b7042372	comment	Cycle of Revenge: If the main characters would lose some resentment and learn some forgiveness, Mark and Eduardo's friendship could have been saved instead of being destroyed by escalating vengeful acts.
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The Social Network / int_b707726f	type	Hypocritical Humor
The Social Network / int_b707726f	comment	Hypocritical Humor: The girl Sean was sleeping with in his introductory scene started to get angry when he jokingly pretended to have forgotten her name, but clearly didn't know his name given her surprise when he reveals that he's Sean Parker.
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The Social Network / int_b77808f2	type	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue
The Social Network / int_b77808f2	comment	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue: Presented in text only over the final shot, disclosing what became of the Winklevoss twins, Eduardo, and Mark, as well as detailing Facebook's growth since the events depicted in the movie.
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The Social Network / int_b8e3f20a	type	Demoted to Extra
The Social Network / int_b8e3f20a	comment	Demoted to Extra: Chris Hughes, and to a lesser extent, Dustin Moskovitz.
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The Social Network / int_b8e4684a	type	Demand Overload
The Social Network / int_b8e4684a	comment	Demand Overload: In-universe. Facemash was a basic "attractiveness rating" website piggybacking on Harvard servers which was so unexpectedly popular it crashed the servers despite going live late at night. Mark at one point states that it got 22,000 hits in 2 hours, and the volume of traffic he produced is summarized elsewhere with an apt analogy: it's not just "unusual for 4 in the morning", it's "unusual for halftime at the Super Bowl."
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The Social Network / int_b9af5ef3	type	The Film of the Book
The Social Network / int_b9af5ef3	comment	The Film of the Book: Of Ben Mezrich's The Accidental Billionaires... sort of. See In Name Only.
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The Social Network / int_bb18a227	type	It's All About Me
The Social Network / int_bb18a227	comment	It's All About Me: Mark, full force. He sees everyone only for their use to him and is incapable of understanding why he should care about anyone else but himself. Shown tellingly when he angrily admonishes Eduardo for nearly destroying what he has been working on, before Eduardo corrects him with "we have been working on".
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The Social Network / int_bb35f8b6	type	Mixed Metaphor
The Social Network / int_bb35f8b6	comment	Mixed Metaphor:
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The Social Network / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
The Social Network / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: Sean instructs Mark before he meets a music executive he once crossed paths with. Eduardo earns the film's second F-bomb: A similarly effective line comes when, upon hearing of Mark's expanding Facebook, Divya says that he wants to hire the Sopranos to "beat the shit out of him with a hammer." Also subverted to maintain the PG-13 rating; see Bowdlerise above.
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The Social Network / int_bd0d6395	type	No Social Skills
The Social Network / int_bd0d6395	comment	No Social Skills: Mark. According to Marilyn, the only reason they most likely can't win the case if they go to court is because Mark is just too mean and arrogant for the jury to sympathize with him.
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The Social Network / int_bd4050d2	type	The Team Benefactor
The Social Network / int_bd4050d2	comment	The Team Benefactor: Eduardo Saverin is the team member who repeatedly steps in with the checkbook before the money starts rolling in.
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The Social Network / int_c0e3994b	type	Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male
The Social Network / int_c0e3994b	comment	Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male: Christy's crazy possessiveness over Eduardo is Played for Laughs, with Eduardo having to juggle a phone call while she sets his gift on fire treated in a goofy light. A common occurrence in Sorkin's works, a comedy scene with the genders inverted is nigh-unthinkable.
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The Social Network / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
The Social Network / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: The entire movie is this. The creation of a social media behemoth that millions use to stay in touch with friends has its founders' friendships falling apart with every major character alienated from the others at the end of the story. Erica's statement that Mark acts "as if every thought that tumbles through [his] head was so clever it would be a crime for it not to be shared" mirrors a common complaint of Facebook (and also Twitter) detractors. First scene has Mark telling Erica "I don't want to be friends." Final scene has Mark requesting her as a friend on Facebook and waiting for her to accept.
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The Social Network / int_c3b51bb3	type	You Are Better Than You Think You Are
The Social Network / int_c3b51bb3	comment	You Are Better Than You Think You Are: The Winklevoss twins' father to them, after they get pretty salty after finishing second in a high-profile boat race by inches.
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The Social Network / int_c49935fa	type	20 Minutes into the Past
The Social Network / int_c49935fa	comment	20 Minutes into the Past: Released in 2010 but set mostly in 2003; watch for clunkier old laptops, out-of-date web interfaces and operating systems, and way too many North Face jackets.
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The Social Network / int_c4c9bb40	type	Inner Monologue
The Social Network / int_c4c9bb40	comment	Inner Monologue: Mark hears his voice in his head while typing.
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The Social Network / int_c514c2c4	type	Gentleman and a Scholar
The Social Network / int_c514c2c4	comment	Gentleman and a Scholar: Cameron Winklevoss is very reluctant to sue initially because "gentlemen of Harvard" do not drag other students through the courts.
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The Social Network / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Social Network / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: This line, derived straight from the Mezrich book: This line: The unidentified movie star at Harvard in 2003 was Natalie Portman, who was a consultant on the film. During the scene where Eduardo finds out he's been accused of animal cruelty, Mark tells him he's created an alias account on Facebook to help him cheat on his final. Looking at Mark's computer shows the name he has decided on: Tyler Durden.
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The Social Network / int_c8b3e136	type	Moody Trailer Cover Song
The Social Network / int_c8b3e136	comment	Moody Trailer Cover Song: The trailer, which many consider to be the Trope Codifier, makes use of a children choir singing Radiohead's "Creep". Unlike most later examples, however, the original is not very upbeat.
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The Social Network / int_cb83d23b	type	I Just Want to Be Special
The Social Network / int_cb83d23b	comment	I Just Want to Be Special: At the start of the film, in his third line of dialogue, Mark Zuckerberg announces his motive: doing something noteworthy in a school full of thousands of incredibly smart people. Come the end, the film is hardly subtle in demonstrating the irony of a man (or man-boy) creating a revolutionary tool for connecting friends and in the process driving away his own. Fittingly, the film's official trailer utilized a cover of Radiohead's "Creep", one of the most famous musical examples of this trope.
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The Social Network / int_cdad4b25	type	Toxic Friend Influence
The Social Network / int_cdad4b25	comment	Toxic Friend Influence: Eduardo initially tries to dissuade Mark from creating Facemash, but out of friendship, helps him finish the website and gets caught up in testing and circulating it throughout Harvard.
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The Social Network / int_cec8b87a	type	This Is for Emphasis, Bitch!
The Social Network / int_cec8b87a	comment	This Is for Emphasis, Bitch!: Mark's business card as Facebook CEO that simply reads "I'm CEO, bitch." Serves also as a stealth Ironic Echo — and yes, out of all the instances of artistic license in the story, this was one of the outlandish elements that actually happened in real lifenote albeit, with different origins than what the film leads you to believe.
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The Social Network / int_cef6a167	comment	Second Place Is for Losers: The Winklevoss twins get pretty miffed when they lose the boat race by a few inches. When they see the winning team celebrate their victory, they just scoff and turn back towards the doors into the main hall to apologize to their father for having to witness that, only for him to tell them never to "apologize for losing a race like that".
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The Social Network / int_d129e13e	comment	"Eureka!" Moment: When Dustin asks if a girl in his class is in a relationship, Mark begins to respond that girls don't walk around with signs announcing if they're single. He stops, has this realization, and bolts out of class to give Facebook the relationship status.
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The Social Network / int_d148b019	comment	Mundane Made Awesome: Slightly downplayed with the Winklevosses' rowing finals against a Dutch club in the Henley Royal Regatta. Rowing isn't exactly super-mundane by itself, per se, but the combination of direction, cinematography, and Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross' rendition of "In the Hall of Mountain King" make a seemingly simple scene one of the tensest and most exciting in the whole movie. Played straight with Mark hacking in to Harvard's various directories. With great music and a contrast with a party, Mark doing mundane computer commands becomes awesome.
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The Social Network / int_d246d18b	comment	Historical Relationship Overhaul: Mark Zuckerberg is shown to have an ex-girlfriend, Erica, who breaks up with him in the first scene of the film and for whom he still harbors feelings. In reality, he was in a relationship with Priscilla Chan at the time, who he went on to marry (and to whom he's still married today).
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The Social Network / int_d394829d	comment	Frivolous Lawsuit: Mark considers the Winklevoss's and Divya's lawsuit to be one of these, and Marilyn freely admits that they could probably win the case against them if Mark himself was not so socially awkward and unfriendly. Fincher and Sorkin have in fact been criticized by writers such as this one for presenting their case in an overly sympathetic light (Larry Summers's epic verbal beatdown of them notwithstanding).
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The Social Network / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: See I Resemble That Remark! below.
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The Social Network / int_dd6ce5db	comment	Artistic License: Aaron Sorkin has gone on record saying, "I don't want my fidelity to be to the truth; I want it to be to storytelling," and just about every important person depicted in the movie has commented on how it strays from the actual events it's based on, with varying levels of approval.
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The Social Network / int_dec54a8c	comment	Avoid the Dreaded G Rating: Inverted. The DVD Commentary mentions that the note that says "u dick" was originally supposed to say something else. Also, strong language and shots of drug use were cut for the PG-13 rating, and scenes with more nudity were filmed. Movie news websites said that the filmmakers were deliberating whether to keep or cut them.
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The Social Network / int_dfb71617	comment	Male Gaze: There are quite a few shots of attractive women walking away from the camera. It's most notable with Amy, whose sole three-minute scene consists almost entirely of lingering shots of her butt in a pair of Stanford panties (to the point that she's just known as "Stanford" to many viewers). And, of course, one of these lingering shots was prominently featured in the trailer.
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The Social Network / int_e01c3d03	comment	Black Comedy Animal Cruelty: Eduardo being accused of animal crueltynote He had to carry a live chicken with him for a week. At one of his dinners, chicken was served; not wanting to starve the live chicken, he cut pieces of his chicken meat up and fed it to the live chicken. This was perceived as forced cannibalism. is not portrayed in the most serious light. At one point, he remarks that it's a worse crime to be accused of than necrophilia, to which Mark agrees.
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The Social Network / int_e150c4c7	comment	Manchild: Sean is quite childish in the way he expresses himself. Mark too has shades of this. Many of his actions, such as slagging off his ex-girlfriend after she dumped him, are immature and other characters seem to be aware of how disturbing his personality is on a young adult. Hell, his dismissal of the Winklevoss twins' initial cease and desist letter threatening court action over Facebook — "they had an idea, I had a better one" — is not only flippant but incredibly childish.
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The Social Network / int_e16217f8	comment	Historical Villain Upgrade: Possibly being made a Villain Protagonist, Mark Zuckerberg is portrayed in the movie as obnoxious, condescending and ridiculously arrogant. In reality, Mark was said to be quite the opposite, often regarded as "shy" and "relatively modest" despite the handful of claims of him occasionally holding a Jerkass Ball ("facemash.com" comes to mind). Facemash itself contributes to exaggerating Mark's portrayal as a misogynist since the real version of the site included pictures of male and female students, not just girls.
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The Social Network / int_e2f13529	comment	World of Jerkass: The few genuinely decent characters (namely Eduardo and Erica) suffer because most of the ensemble, especially Mark Zuckerberg, are totally abhorrent.
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The Social Network / int_e3b0cd87	comment	Morality Pet: Eduardo and Erica are this to Mark.
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The Social Network / int_e3cee2e7	comment	Empathic Environment: As Mark learns about Sean's arrest, the lights begin to go out in the Facebook offices, mirroring his despondency.
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The Social Network / int_e4965307	comment	Composite Character: Prior to the movie, Shawn Fanning was the most well-known person behind Napster, with many unaware of his business partner Sean Parker. The film frames Parker, not Fanning, as the well-recognized sole founder of Napster. It's been argued that the film's Sean Parker is intended as a composite of Parker and Fanning, even though Fanning was the one who actually founded the company.
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The Social Network / int_e4b69188	comment	Very Loosely Based on a True Story: Many of those depicted have spoken about how inaccurate they felt the film was. Zuckerberg, for instance, did break up with his girlfriend and create Facemash, but she was not really a motivating factor for the creation of Facebook, as in the movie. Sorkin openly acknowledged that the film is not accurate, saying: "I donâ€™t want my fidelity to be to the truth; I want it to be to storytelling." Perhaps most egregiously, Mark Zuckerberg actually had a girlfriend during most of the events depicted in the film. Her name is Priscilla Chan, and they've been together since 2003, marrying in 2012. Much of the movie hinges on depicting Mark as a lonely nerd who never got over losing his college girlfriend. Facemash.com included guys of Harvard, not just women. Examined more seriously here and here.
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The Social Network / int_e4bb68b8	comment	Sean is first introduced as he's waking up in a much younger college student's bed after a one-night stand with her. His first lines have him listing off every detail about said college student from memory, just to prove that he didn't, in fact, forget her name.
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The Social Network / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator: Eduardo, spending 14 hours a day riding subways in New York so that he can go around trying to attract advertisers for the site. And getting almost no name-brand takers.
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The Social Network / int_e5fd8bc2	comment	Hate Sink: Sean Parker. In a story full of Gray-and-Gray Morality, he's the closest character portrayed as an outright villain due to how much of a Jerkass he is. Mark himself isn't far off either, due to just how remarkably insufferable he is (or maybe "tries" to be) in virtually every scene he's in,
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The Social Network / int_e8cae797	comment	Freudian Trio: Tyler Winklevoss (Id), Cameron Winklevoss (Superego), and Divya Narendra (Ego).
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The Social Network / int_e9db9908	comment	Younger Than They Look: Discussed briefly for laughs.
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The Social Network / int_eb5b71fe	comment	Clingy Jealous Girl: Christy. Made evident when she questions Eduardo having his Facebook relationship status as "single" and then sets his gift for her (a silk scarf) on fire in a trash bin and drops it on his bed. And then she has the audacity to ask him if he's going back already — with a pouty face and great big puppy-dog eyes. Yikes.
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The Social Network / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: It is hypothesized by Marilyn regarding Mark in the final line of the film: she thinks he's not an asshole, but "[tries] so hard to be"). The audience, meanwhile, is left to reach their own conclusions. Even compared to the assholish things Mark did, Sean is a true jerk.
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The Social Network / int_ed874c14	comment	Self-Made Man: A Deconstructed Character Archetype, by depicting Zuckerberg achieving massive success and fortune but at the cost of his friends and relationships.
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The Social Network / int_eef90616	comment	Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: Divya has this to say after he finds out that Mark is expanding.
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The Social Network / int_ef3d1b57	comment	Technician Versus Performer: Mark considers himself both a technician and a performer in CS (in his "Do I have your full attention?" speech, he claims that some of the things he is doing with Facebook are things that no one else in the room is intellectually or creatively capable of doing). Eduardo's focus on playing the company safe and not taking any large financial risks places him more at the technician end of the scale, whereas Sean freely acknowledges he's more akin to a performer than a technician, which compensates for his lack of expertise.
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The Social Network / int_f6507695	comment	Everything Is Online: Played with: in the beginning of the movie, Mark specifically mentions that because a certain college house's database isn't online, he can't access any of their photos for Facemash. However, this is a movie about Facebook, so one of the major themes is, of course, everything (from angry drunken break-up rants to the dreaded relationship status) becoming available online. One of Sean's big lines is how society has moved to bigger and bigger communities; first farms, then cities, and now, everyone will live "on the internet."
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The Social Network / int_f6b698ac	comment	Complexity Addiction: Invoked; during the hearing with Harvard Cybersecurity, Zuckerberg points out that their supposedly sophisticated Harvard network security that led them to catch him in four hours was unnecessary since the equation that would have achieved the same result was written on his dorm room window, and would have done that work in minutes. His knowledge leads to six months probation.
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The Social Network / int_f740a274	comment	Historical Beauty Update: Played straight with several of characters, notably Eduardo and Sean. Somewhat with Mark.
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The Social Network / int_fac4ff79	comment	Meta Casting: The co-founder of Napster, a site specializing in illegal downloading of music, is played by pop star Justin Timberlake; also, Parker is Famed In-Story, and Timberlake was, at the time, by far the biggest name in the cast. Several members of the cast, including Armie Hammer, Max Minghella, and (ironically) Rooney Mara, come from the type of wealthy families the film's Mark Zuckerberg resents.
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The Social Network / int_fbb7e624	comment	Tech Bro: Sean Parker, founder of Napster, as depicted in this film. While he's a nerd in that he's a self-taught programmer and tech entrepreneur, he's also portrayed by Justin Timberlake, and is suitably suave, charming, well-dressed and The Casanova.
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The Social Network / int_fc151e9d	comment	Department of Redundancy Department: Played with. At one point in a deposition between Mark and the Winklevoss twins, Mark tells them, "If you guys were the inventors of Facebook, you'd have invented Facebook." On the surface, it seems like this trope played straight, but is really saying that if the twins were the true creators of the Facebook idea, they would have been able to create the website themselves — but they didn't, so Mark is.
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The Social Network / int_fc1d7df0	comment	Cyberbullying: Mark's blog after Erica dumps him indulges in this, as it's a place for him to spill all his feelings towards her in the moment, repercussions be damned. This comes back to haunt him when he tries apologizing to her later in the film and she doesn't bite, noting a fundamental aspect of the very platform his blog was on. Marilyn also notes at the end that the blog contents will make him unsympathetic to the jury if they go to court instead of settling with Eduardo.
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The Social Network / int_fccd06b6	comment	Beware the Nice Ones: Eduardo when he decides to seek revenge on Mark and Sean, first by blocking them out of the business' main bank account, then by suing them for all their worth after they stab him in the back and nearly force him out of the company he founded.
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The Social Network / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: At one point, Sean advises Mark to get himself a business card that simply says "I'm CEO, bitch." Eventually, after Mark ends up severing his ties with Sean after his drug bust, it's revealed that he actually did get the card. Of course, given the context of the second scene, it's not as funny as it should be.
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The Social Network / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: No matter what happened, Mark seemed to genuinely appreciate Eduardo for his contributions ("I need you!") and even after their split would apparently defend him on reputation-destroying evidence his lawyers dug up. The biggest moment was Mark telling Sean that he went too far whilst kicking out Eduardo from the company; it's the only time in the film that he shows any sign of regret.
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The Social Network / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: Yes, this film does run on Rule of Drama, but the filmmakers do get a good amount of real-life details in there. Once David Fincher discovered in his own research that Mark was actually drinking a specific brand of beer when he created Facemash, Fincher insisted on changing the drink for the movie (over Sorkin's protests). Of course, given Fincher's reputation as a perfectionist, this is to be expected. Also, for a completely different campus dressed up using set decoration (a majority of filming for the Harvard scenes took place at Johns Hopkins University, due to Harvard's refusal to allow much filming on campus), they put much care in trying to replicate the look and feel of Harvard. The real Mark Zuckerberg, although he's been understandably quiet about his portrayal or the film's plot in general, has seen the film and has publicly expressed that it was extremely accurate in its depiction of his wardrobe. Every pullover or T-shirt Zuckerberg is seen wearing is something that the real Mark Zuckerberg actually wore in college. Larry Summers has confirmed that the scene in which he dismisses the Winklevosses is not too far from the truth, even going so far to as to call them a pair of "assholes". Upon discovering that Mark Zuckerberg fenced through his personal research, Jesse Eisenberg based his posture on a fencer's. In both depositions, many accuracies are noteworthy about how they're structured. In both cases, they're in conference rooms, with the defendant and his counsel on one side, and the plaintiff and his counsel on the other, and a court reporter with a special phonetic keyboard sitting at the head of the table. Much of the dialogue appears to be lifted directly from the depositions, as shown by an instance in the Winklevoss deposition where Zuckerberg's lawyer asks for a short break and at no point do any of the lawyers ask the court reporter to go "off the record" and stop taking down the dialogue.
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The Social Network	hasFeature	Never Heard That One Before / int_1b1c2c8a
The Social Network	hasFeature	New Media Are Evil / int_1b1c2c8a
The Social Network	hasFeature	Old Money / int_1b1c2c8a
The Social Network	hasFeature	Personal Arcade / int_1b1c2c8a
The Social Network	hasFeature	Present-Day Past / int_1b1c2c8a
The Social Network	hasFeature	Race Fetish / int_1b1c2c8a
The Social Network	hasFeature	Real-Person Fic / int_1b1c2c8a
The Social Network	hasFeature	Second Place Is for Losers / int_1b1c2c8a
The Social Network	hasFeature	Sexiness Score / int_1b1c2c8a
The Social Network	hasFeature	Shiksa Goddess / int_1b1c2c8a
The Social Network	hasFeature	Sorkin Relationship Moment / int_1b1c2c8a
The Social Network	hasFeature	Speech-Centric Work / int_1b1c2c8a
The Social Network	hasFeature	Strawman U / int_1b1c2c8a
The Social Network	hasFeature	Tech Bro / int_1b1c2c8a
The Social Network	hasFeature	The Big Board / int_1b1c2c8a
The Social Network	hasFeature	The Pete Best / int_1b1c2c8a
The Social Network	seeAlso	The Social Network
The Social Network	hasFeature	The Team Benefactor / int_1b1c2c8a
The Social Network	hasFeature	The "The" Title Confusion / int_1b1c2c8a
The Social Network	hasFeature	This Is for Emphasis, Bitch! / int_1b1c2c8a
The Social Network	hasFeature	Totally 18 / int_1b1c2c8a
The Social Network	hasFeature	Turn of the Millennium / int_1b1c2c8a
The Social Network	hasFeature	20 Minutes into the Past / int_1b1c2c8a
The Social Network	hasFeature	We Used to Be Friends / int_1b1c2c8a
The Social Network	hasFeature	World of Snark / int_1b1c2c8a

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