One of the lawyers then asks, "Who was the movie star?" and the response is, "Does it matter?" This movie star was, in fact, Natalie Portman, who was enrolled at Harvard from 1999 to 2003 and helped screenwriter Aaron Sorkin by providing him insider information about goings-on at Harvard at the time Facebook first appeared there.
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The Social Network: Directed by David Fincher. With Jesse Eisenberg, Rooney Mara, Bryan Barter, Dustin Fitzsimons. As Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg creates the social networking site that would become known as Facebook, he is sued by the twins who claimed he stole their idea, and by the co-founder who was later squeezed out of the business.
The Social Network is thoroughly intelligent and engaging as a modern biopic and as an examination of evolving cultural currency, and it's also one of my favorite films this year. -TK 10/1/10 Is 'The Social Network' based on a book?
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As Xeni Jardin noted in Boing Boing, the film fails the Bechdel test. Others have asked why screenwriter Aaron Sorkin didn't create a role for Priscilla Chan, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's longtime girlfriend, who was in the picture (although, apparently, not romantically so) during the timespan of the film.
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The only close friend of Mark Zuckerberg before Facebook was Eduardo. Eduardo had sued Mark for diluting his shares in Facebook. So Mark's lawyers were looking for arguments against Eduardo which supports the fact that his actions jeopardized the company. They found out that Eduardo was accused of animal cruelty.
EricaAlbright.com is a hoax web site. It is just someone trying to get attention on the Internet with a "famous" name. Erica Albright is a fictitious person created for the sake of drama, because movies need a romantic plot to make them more interesting to some audience.
When David Fincher and team couldn't find actual twin actors to play the formidable antagonists of the Winklevoss brothers, they opted instead to cast both Armie Hammer and Josh Pence. And though the two share roughly the same build, they couldn't necessarily pass as identical twins.
Mark Zuckerberg was floored by this detail in The Social Network. Without getting into everything "The Social Network" got wrong about the true story, it's fair to say Zuckerberg sees it as a deeply flawed portrayal of himself and the history of his company. When the movie came out, he tried to play it cool.
In real life, he had been with current girlfriend Priscilla Chan since before the advent of Facebook, while in the film he is rejected by an invented character called Erica Albright, he said. "The whole framing of the movie is I'm with this girl (who doesn't exist in real life) ...
23Mark Zuckerberg In 2007, Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, now called Meta, became the world's youngest self-made billionaire at the age of 23.
On October 28, 2003, 19-year-old Harvard University sophomore Mark Zuckerberg is dumped by his girlfriend, Erica Albright.
The Social Network is a 2010 American biographical drama film directed by David Fincher and written by Aaron Sorkin. Adapted from Ben Mezrich 's 2009 book The Accidental Billionaires, it portrays the founding of social networking website Facebook and the resulting lawsuits.
In October 2003, 19-year-old Harvard University sophomore Mark Zuckerberg is dumped by his girlfriend Erica Albright. Returning to his dorm, Zuckerberg writes an insulting post about Albright on his LiveJournal blog. He creates a campus website called Facemash by hacking into college databases to steal photos of female students, then allowing site visitors to rate their attractiveness. After traffic to the site crashes parts of Harvard's computer network, Zuckerberg is given six months of academic probation. However, Facemash's popularity attracts the attention of twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss and their business partner Divya Narendra. The trio invites Zuckerberg to work on Harvard Connection, a social network exclusive to Harvard students and aimed at dating.
While competing in the Henley Royal Regatta for Harvard against the Hollandia Roeiclub, the Winklevoss twins discover that Facebook has expanded to Europe with Oxford, Cambridge and LSE, and decide to sue the company for theft of intellectual property.
None of the cast rowing extras for the Henley Royal Regatta racing scene appeared in the film; filming for the race was originally planned to take place in Los Angeles, but Fincher decided to film in England during production.
However, Facemash's popularity attracts the attention of twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss and their business partner Divya Narendra. The trio invites Zuckerberg to work on Harvard Connection, a social network exclusive to Harvard students and aimed at dating.
Out of the critics, 22 ranked the film first, and 12 ranked the film second. Out of the films of 2010, The Social Network appeared on the most top-ten lists. In 2016, The Social Network was voted the 27th-best film of the 21st century by the BBC, as voted on by 177 film critics from around the world.
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.
On a fall night in 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea. In a fury of blogging and programming, what begins in his dorm room soon becomes a global social network and a revolution in communication.
During one of the depositions, it is mentioned that the invention of Facebook made Mark Zuckerberg "the biggest thing on a campus that included nineteen Nobel Laureates, fifteen Pulitzer Prize winners, two future Olympians, and a movie star." One of the lawyers then asks, "Who was the movie star?" and the response is, "Does it matter?" This movie star was, in fact, Natalie Portman, who was enrolled at Harvard from 1999 to 2003 and helped screenwriter Aaron Sorkin by providing him insider information about goings-on at Harvard at the time Facebook first appeared there..
Creates a foundation for an even deeper analysis of the story. Today: The Social Network, screenplay by Aaron Sorkin, book by Ben Mezrich. IMDb plot summary: Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg creates the social networking site that would become known as Facebook, but is later sued by two brothers who claimed he stole their idea, ...
Mark displays his arrogance by stating the board should thank him for exposing the weaknesses of their system. Outside, Mark explains to Eduardo he got put on probation. 29–35: The Winklevoss twins are waiting for Mark outside his programming class and invite him to discuss their idea.
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