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==Cast==
==Cast==
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* [[Jesse Eisenberg]] as [[Mark Zuckerberg]]
* [[Andrew Garfield]] as [[Eduardo Saverin]]
* [[Justin Timberlake]] as [[Sean Parker]]
* [[Brenda Song]] as Christy Lee
* [[Rooney Mara]] as Erica Albright
* [[Armie Hammer]] as [[Cameron Winklevoss]]/[[Tyler Winklevoss]]
* [[Max Minghella]] as [[Divya Narendra]]
* [[Dustin Fitzsimons]] as [[The Phoenix – S K Club|The Phoenix S-K Club]] President
* [[Joseph Mazzello]] as [[Dustin Moskovitz]]
* [[Rashida Jones]] as Marylin Delpy<ref>Tomio, Jay (December 9, 2009)."[http://www.bscreview.com/2009/12/rashida-jones-in-finchers-the-social-network/ Rashida Jones in Fincher's The Social Network]". ''BSCreview''. Retrieved on February 5, 2010.</ref><ref>Nemiroff, Perri (July 8, 2010)."[http://www.shockya.com/news/2010/07/08/the-social-networks-second-teaser-trailer-makes-its-point-via-status-updates/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter The Social Network's Second Teaser Trailer Makes Its Point Via Status Updates]". ''Shockya''. Retrieved on July 9, 2010.</ref>
* Patrick Mapel as [[Chris Hughes (entrepreneur)|Chris Hughes]]
* [[Douglas Urbanski]] as [[Larry Summers]]
* Josh Pence as [[Cameron Winklevoss]]/[[Tyler Winklevoss]] (Body Double)
* [[Malese Jow]] as Alice Cantwell
* Denise Grayson as Gretchen
* [[Dakota Johnson]] as Leslie Brown
* [[Trevor Wright]] as Josh Thompson
* [[John Getz]] as Sy
* [[Shelby Young]] as K.C.


==Production==
==Production==

Revision as of 15:46, 5 October 2010

The Social Network
File:Social network film poster.jpg
Teaser poster
Directed byDavid Fincher
Screenplay byAaron Sorkin
Story byBen Mezrich (book)
Produced byScott Rudin
Kevin Spacey
Dana Brunetti
Michael De Luca
Ceán Chaffin
StarringJesse Eisenberg
Andrew Garfield
Justin Timberlake
Brenda Song
Rooney Mara
Armie Hammer
Max Minghella
CinematographyJeff Cronenweth
Edited byKirk Baxter
Angus Wall
Music byTrent Reznor
Atticus Ross
Production
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Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Release date
  • October 1, 2010 (2010-10-01)
Running time
121 minutes[1]
CountryTemplate:Film US
LanguageEnglish
Budget$50 million[2][3]
Box office$23,000,000[4]

The Social Network is a 2010 drama film about the founding of the Internet social networking website Facebook. The film was directed by David Fincher and features an ensemble cast—Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake, Brenda Song, Max Minghella, Rooney Mara, and Armie Hammer.

Aaron Sorkin adapted his screenplay from Ben Mezrich's nonfiction novel The Accidental Billionaires (2009). No Facebook staff or employees, including founder Mark Zuckerberg, were involved with the project, although Eduardo Saverin was a consultant for Mezrich's story.[3] The film is distributed by Columbia Pictures and was released on October 1, 2010, in the United States to positive reviews.

Plot

Mark Zuckerberg, a student at Harvard University and Erica Albright, a student at Boston University, are having drinks at a Cambridge bar. During their conversation, Mark insults Erica more than once, and she breaks up with him. She predicts he will go on to great success, thinking women don't like him because he is a nerd, but in reality women will not like him because he is "an asshole". Back at his dorm room, he gets the idea to create a website to rate the attractiveness of female Harvard undergraduates, since Harvard lacked a unified database of student names and pictures. Mark hacks into the databases of various residence halls and downloads pictures and names. Using an algorithm supplied by his best friend Eduardo Saverin, Mark creates a page called "Face Mash", where people choose which of two women is more attractive. The site quickly becomes highly popular among male students and scandalous among female students. By the next morning, the "Face Mash" site has received thousands of hits an hour and crashes the Harvard web servers.

Mark faced charges of violating personal privacy and disrupting campus security at Harvard. As a result, he is punished with six months of academic probation and becomes vilified among most of Harvard's female community. However, the popularity of "Face Mash" and the fact that he created it in one night, while drunk, brings him to the attention of Cameron Winklevoss and Tyler Winklevoss, identical twins and members of Harvard's rowing team, and their business partner Divya Narendra. The three explain to Mark that they are looking for a programmer to help bring to life their idea for a new website ConnectU. Mark agrees to helping them. Soon afterwards, Mark approaches Eduardo, who has recently been invited to pledge the Phoenix S-K Final Club, with an idea for what he calls "The Facebook", an online social networking tool exclusive to invited Harvard University students, where people can display personal information. He explains this as being the best aspects of "Face Mash" which he argues was successful because the women were people who site visitors knew, and removing the worst aspects of it: the invasion of privacy. Eduardo agrees to help Mark, giving a thousand dollars to help start the site. The Winklevosses and Narendra become angered by Zuckerberg because he dodges them while working on the programming for his new site. Mark and Eduardo eventually launch Facebook, distributing the link to Eduardo's connections at the Phoenix S-K. The site quickly becomes popular throughout the student body. When Narendra learns about the launch of The Facebook, he tells the Winklevoss twins that Mark stole their idea. The Winklevoss brothers believe Mark is deliberately flaunting the stealing of their idea; Cameron and Divya want to sue Mark for intellectual property theft.

At a lecture by Bill Gates, a fellow Harvard University female student, Christy Lee, introduces herself and her best friend Alice to Eduardo and Mark, and asks that the boys "Facebook us". Christy becomes impressed to meet the Facebook creators and invites them for drinks at a bar, and they agreed to join them. While the women straighten up, Mark and Eduardo marvel that they now have "groupies". When Christy and Eduardo decide to meet in the bar's public toilet to have sex, Christy's friend Alice and Mark decide to do the same thing. Christy, Mark and Eduardo later return to Mark's room where they outline the structure of the company and their plan for moving forward. As Facebook grows in popularity, they expand to other schools in the Northeast, initially Yale and Columbia but soon afterwards Stanford as well, while the Winklevoss twins and Narendra become angrier at seeing "their idea" advance without them. Tyler refuses to sue them, instead accusing Mark of violating the Harvard student Code of Conduct. Through their father's connections they arrange a meeting with then-Harvard President Larry Summers, who is dismissive and sees no potential value in either a disciplinary action or in Facebook the website.

Through Christy Lee, who was at the time Eduardo's girlfriend, Eduardo and Mark arrange a meeting with Napster founder Sean Parker. When Christy, Mark and Eduardo meet Parker, Eduardo became skeptical of Parker, noting his problematic personal and professional history. Mark, however, supports Parker since he presented a similar vision of Facebook. Parker suggests that they drop "The" from The Facebook to make it simply Facebook.

While Eduardo stayed in New York for advertising support, Mark (now a 30% owner of the new company) and Dustin Moskovitz (a 5% owner) move the company's base of operation to Palo Alto. When Eduardo visited from New York, he was angered that Sean Parker is living at the house and is making business decisions for Facebook. After an argument with Mark, Eduardo freezes the bank account which he had set up for the company and returns to New York. Upon returning to New York, Christy and Eduardo began arguing, Eduardo previously claimed Christy is 'insanely jealous' of his success and fears that he cheats on her. The argument was caused because Christy refuses to believe Eduardo does not know how to update his Facebook profile, which still lists him as "single", Christy accused Eduardo of cheating on her citing the "single" status as evidence. As a result, Christy and Eduardo break up. Further on, Christy furiously sets fire to his room by burning a gift Eduardo gave her due to jealousy. As Eduardo extinguished the fire Christy caused, Marks revealed to him they have secured money from an angel investor.

In England, the Winklevoss twins became outraged that Facebook has expanded to universities in the United Kingdom thus decide to sue Facebook. Meanwhile Eduardo learns that Mark and Sean have reduced his share of the company from a third to less than one percent thus decides to sue them after a physical confrontation with Mark and Sean. At a party to celebrate the one millionth subscriber milestone, Sean and several Facebook interns prepared to snort cocaine, and presumably have sex, however the police arrived at the raucous party after responding to a noise complaint. The police arrested Parker and the interns after finding the cocaine. Mark then presented depositions in the two lawsuits, further on a junior lawyer for the firm informs him they will be settling with Eduardo, since the sordid details of Facebook's founding will make Mark unsympathetic to a jury trial. The final scene is of Mark making a friend request to Erica Albright on Facebook and refreshing his profile page, awaiting a response from her.

Cast

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Production

Casting

Casting began in early August 2009, and open auditions were held in various states. Jesse Eisenberg was first announced to be attached to the project in September 2009.[5] (Coincidentally, in an interview with Diane Sawyer on ABC's World News with Diane Sawyer, Zuckerberg revealed that Eisenberg's cousin, Eric Fisher, was a Facebook product designer. He and Jesse also created a wordplay site together called OneUpMe.com) Several days later, Justin Timberlake and Andrew Garfield were confirmed to portray the roles of Sean Parker and Eduardo Saverin. In October 2009, Brenda Song, Rooney Mara, Armie Hammer, Shelby Young, and Josh Pence were cast. [6] Max Minghella and Dakota Johnson were also confirmed to star in the film.[6] In a 2009 interview with The Baltimore Sun, Eisenberg said, "Even though I've gotten to be in some wonderful movies, this character seems so much more overtly insensitive in so many ways that seem more real to me in the best way. I don't often get cast as insensitive people, so it feels very comfortable: fresh and exciting, as if you never have to worry about the audience. Not that I worry about the audience anyway - it should be just the furthest thing from your mind. The Social Network is the biggest relief I've ever had in a movie."[7]

Filming

Filming for The Social Network began in October 2009 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[8] Scenes were filmed around the campuses of two Massachusetts prep schools, Phillips Academy and Milton Academy.[9] Additional scenes were filmed on the campus of Wheelock College, which was set up to be Harvard's campus.[10] (Harvard has turned down most requests for on-location filming ever since the filming of Love Story (1970), which caused significant physical damage to the campus.[11]) Filming took place on the Keyser and Wyman quadrangles in the Homewood campus of Johns Hopkins University from November 2–4,[12] which also doubled for Harvard in the film.[13] From November 16–22, scenes were filmed at California State University, Dominguez Hills.[citation needed]. The first scene in the film, where Zuckerberg is with his girlfriend, took 99 takes to finish.[3] The film was shot on the Red One camera at 4K resolution.[14] The rowing scenes with the Winklevoss brothers were filmed at Community Rowing Inc. in Newton, MA.[15] Although a significant portion of the latter half of the film is set in Silicon Valley, the filmmakers opted to shoot those scenes in Los Angeles and Pasadena.

Soundtrack

Main article: The Social Network (soundtrack)

On June 1, 2010, it was announced that Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross would score the film.[16] The soundtrack was released September 28 in various formats under the Null Corporation label.[17] Leading up to the release of the soundtrack, a free 5-track EP was made available for download.[18]

Marketing

The first theatrical poster was released on June 18, 2010.[19] The film's first teaser trailer was released on June 25, 2010.[20] The second teaser was released on July 8.[21] The full length theatrical trailer debuted on July 15, 2010, which plays an edited version of the song "Creep", originally by Radiohead, covered by the Belgian choir group Scala & Kolacny Brothers.[22] The trailer was then shown in theaters, prior to the films Inception, Dinner for Schmucks, Salt, Easy A and The Other Guys.[23]

Response

The film's script was leaked on the Internet in July 2009.[24][25] In November 2009, executive producer Kevin Spacey said, "The Social Network is probably going to be a lot funnier than people might expect it to be."[26] The Cardinal Courier stated that the film was about "greed, obsession, unpredictability and sex" and asked "although there are over 500 million Facebook users, does this mean Facebook can become a profitable blockbuster movie?".[27] At the D8 conference hosted by D: All Things Digital on June 2, 2010, host Kara Swisher told Zuckerberg she knew he was not happy with The Social Network being based on him, to which he replied, "I just wished that nobody made a movie of me while I was still alive."[28] He stated to Oprah Winfrey that the drama and partying of the film is mostly fiction. He also pointed out that he has worked much harder than in the on-screen depiction.[citation needed]

Facebook programmer Dustin Moskovitz called the film a "dramatization of history ... it is interesting to see my past rewritten in a way that emphasizes things that didn't matter," he said. According to Moskovitz, "A lot of exciting things happened in 2004, but mostly we just worked a lot and stressed out about things; the version in the trailer seems a lot more exciting, so I'm just going to choose to remember that we drank ourselves silly and had a lot of sex with coeds.... The plot of the book/script unabashedly attacked [Zuckerberg], but I actually felt like a lot of his positive qualities come out truthfully in the trailer (soundtrack aside). At the end of the day, they cannot help but portray him as the driven, forward-thinking genius that he is."[29]

Much of the negative response to The Social Network has come from technology writers, some of whom saw the film as an attack on new technologies and those responsible for them. Journalist Jeff Jarvis acknowledged the film was "well-crafted" but called it "the anti-social movie", objecting to Sorkin's decision to change various events and characters for dramatic effect, and dismissing it as "the story that those who resist the change society is undergoing want to see."[30] Technology broadcaster Leo Laporte concurred, calling the film "anti-geek and misogynistic".[31]

Reception

Critical response

The Social Network has been received with critical praise. Review aggregate Rotten Tomatoes reports that 97% of critics have given the film a positive review based on 168 reviews, with an average score of 9.2/10 and a critical consensus of: "Impeccably scripted, beautifully directed, and filled with fine performances, The Social Network is a riveting, ambitious example of modern filmmaking at its finest."[32] The film also holds a score of 97 based on 40 reviews on Metacritic, indicating "universal acclaim" and making it one of the site's highest rated movies of all time.[33] Film critic Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times, giving it four stars wrote: "David Fincher's film has the rare quality of being not only as smart as its brilliant hero, but in the same way. It is cocksure, impatient, cold, exciting and instinctively perceptive." [34] Peter Travers of Rolling Stone, gave the film his first full four star rating of the year and said: "The Social Network is the movie of the year. But Fincher and Sorkin triumph by taking it further. Lacing their scathing wit with an aching sadness, they define the dark irony of the past decade."[35] The Harvard Crimson review called it "flawless" and gave it five stars.[36]

Box office

During its debut weekend in the United States, the film opened at #1 with an estimated $23 million in 2,771 theaters.[37]

See also

References

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  2. ^ Lovece, Frank. "Friends or Faux?: Truth and fiction collide in 'The Social Network,' about the creation of Facebook", Newsday, September 26, 2010, p. C8. Online version (requires subscription). "[Director David Fincher's] concerns were more simply logistical after getting the script and agreeing to do the movie — which, [producer [Scott] Rudin says, discrediting Internet rumors, cost 'substantially under $40 million' to make."
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  18. ^ Previous post Next post. "Download Trent Reznor's Social Network Sampler for Free | Underwire". Wired.com. Retrieved 2010-09-23.
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