Erica Albright: Bryan Barter ... Billy Olson: Dustin Fitzsimons ... Phoenix Club President: Joseph Mazzello ... Dustin Moskovitz: Patrick Mapel ... Chris Hughes: Andrew Garfield ... Eduardo …
Erica Albright (Rooney Mara) is a young female student from (BU) Boston University, who at the beginning of the film is dating Mark Zuckerberg. She is first seen in the very first scene of the film where she is at a bar with Mark having a conversation. The conversation, which starts out about final clubs, starts normally but descends into an argument where Mark insults her intelligence …
Despite the "Erica Albright" subplot and Mark's depiction in this movie as being generally maladroit with women, during much of the period covered by the film, the real Mark Zuckerberg was actually dating fellow Harvard student Priscilla Chan. Chan, who was one of the very first people ever to join Facebook (on February 5, 2004), graduated from ...
The opening scene, a blistering back-and-forth between Mark and a girl named Erica (Rooney Mara) whom he has been dating, establishes the tone. The dialogue ricochets unpredictably among several subjects at once, Erica gamely trying to keep up with Zuckerberg’s mental acrobatics, Mark oblivious to Erica’s emotional responses. It’s all about Mark.
Oct 20, 2010 · Rooney Mara as Erica Albright with Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network – Zuckerberg rejects this portrayal. Photograph: Merrick Morton Ben Child
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.
Principal photography began in October 2009 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Scenes were filmed around the campuses of two Massachusetts prep schools, Phillips Academy and Milton Academy. Additional scenes were filmed on the campus of Wheelock College , which was set up to be Harvard's campus. (Harvard has turned down most requests for on-location filming ever since the filming of Love Story (1970), which caused significant physical damage to trees on campus.) Filming took place on the Keyser and Wyman quadrangles in the Homewood campus of Johns Hopkins University from November 2–4, which also doubled for Harvard in the film. The first scene in the film, where Zuckerberg is with his girlfriend, took 99 takes to finish. The film was shot on the Red One digital cinema camera. The rowing scenes with the Winklevoss brothers were filmed at Community Rowing Inc. in Newton, Massachusetts and at the Henley Royal Regatta; miniature faking process was used in a sequence showing a rowing event at the latter. 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 .
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.
Character Analysis - Mark Zuckerburg. Mark Zuckerberg the protagonist in The Social Network, played by Jesse Elsenberg, is a character the audience absolutely loves because of his witty and sharp attitude that makes him a hateable person to other characters within the film. Mark is a very sarcastic person which can be perceive from speech ...
1) Sean is straight forward and clear about his point. When he meets Mark and Eduardo and is leaving after their discussion he tells Mark “Drop the "The.". Just "Facebook.". It's cleaner”. 2) Sean is condescending when he feels he is in a state of power. This is revealed when he mocks Eduardo saying “Hang on.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg says The Social Network has got him all wrong ... apart from his on-screen wardrobe. Face-off ... Rooney Mara as Erica Albright with Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network – Zuckerberg rejects this portrayal. Photograph: Merrick Morton. Face-off ... Rooney Mara as Erica Albright with Jesse ...
Bloggers have called into question Zuckerberg's claims that Albright is not based on a real person.
The on-screen bar where Zuckerberg, portrayed with cold-eyed, chip-on-shoulder precision by Jesse Eisenberg, engages in exhausting rapport with his poor girlfriend Erica Albright, played by Rooney Mara? It’s a real place near Harvard called The Thirsty Scholar, a name that also describes Zuckerberg’s behavior.
Eisenberg, for example, says in the documentary that filming the opening scene of the film was his “greatest experience as an actor” and that the process left him “sated at the end of the day.”.
It took Wall, who has collaborated with Fincher since he worked on the title scene for Se7en in 1995, three whole weeks to edit The Social Network’s opening scene alone.
They speak quickly and sharply about pressing student concerns: SAT scores, summer jobs, a cappella groups, and whether one of them used to sleep with the establishment’s bouncer. (He’s just a friend named Bobby, she insists.)
By Katie Baker Sep 21, 2020, 8:10am EDT.
Last week, the New York Times reporter Taylor Lorenz, who covers online culture and frequently writes about the social network du jour, TikTok, expressed frustration about the way her beat was sometimes looked down upon. “Like, yes,” she wrote.
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.
Eduardo is baffled by the display but gives Mark the money to fund his summer operation. At the deposition, Eduardo says he just wanted to be a team player. 117–124: The gang is partying in the new Palo Alto house. Parker shows up, Mark gives him the tour and explains that Eduardo stayed back east.
The Social Network opens with Mark getting dumped by his girlfriend, Erica Albright (Rooney Mara). Upset over the breakup, Mark goes back to his Harvard dorm room and blogs about Erica, including many insulting remarks about her. Soon after blogging, Mark begins working on a website called Facemash, created to compare the physical features of female campus students, after hacking into the university's database. The website blows up in popularity, grabbing the attention of twin brothers Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss (Armie Hammer). They approach Mark about helping them with a social networking site exclusive to Harvard students. Mark agrees to help them, but instead works on his own similar project, which becomes Facebook.
Written by Aaron Sorkin and directed by David Fincher, The Social Network came out in 2010 to major acclaim. The National Board of Review named it the best film of the year, and the film nabbed several Oscar nominations and three wins, including Sorkin winning for Best Adapted Screenplay. Moreover, it's also considered one of the best films ...
Eduardo's story is more complicated. In the film, Eduardo Saverin (Andrew Garfield) is a victim. A close friend of Mark's, the two co-found Facebook together, with Eduardo providing the funds to get started. As the film progresses, Mark begins to go against Eduardo's input, making key decisions without him.
The reality of what happened is slightly more complicated than how it's presented in the film — namely, Eduardo isn't a simple victim.
With this in mind, The Social Network isn't entirely accurate, ...
Details changed about Sean Parker. Sean Parker (Justin Timberlake), the entrepreneur who becomes a mentor to Mark and the eventual president of the company, is introduced to Facebook after a female companion has the site displayed on her laptop.
During a Q&A session, Zuckerberg claims he did not create Facebook to "attract girls.". He brings up how he's known his wife, Priscilla Chan, since before he started Facebook.
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. It stars Jesse Eisenberg as founder Mark Zuckerberg, along with Andrew Garfield as Eduardo Saverin, Justin Timberlake as Sean …
On October 28, 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 Facemashby 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 …
• Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg
• Andrew Garfield as Eduardo Saverin
• Justin Timberlake as Sean Parker
• Armie Hammer as Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss
• Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg
• Andrew Garfield as Eduardo Saverin
• Justin Timberlake as Sean Parker
• Armie Hammer as Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss
The first theatrical poster, designed by Neil Kellerhouse, was released on June 18, 2010. As Kellerhouse previously designed posters for the films of Steven Soderbergh, director David Fincher's friend, he was contacted by Ceán Chaffin in late 2009 to work on the key artfor The Social Network, which had to make sole use of one approved photograph, that of Eisenberg's head. As he wanted to highlight the tremendous drama that went with Mark Zuckerberg's succe…
The Social Network won the Best Motion Picture – Drama Golden Globe at the 68th Golden Globe Awards on January 16, 2011. The film also won the awards for Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Original Score, making it the film with the most wins of the night.
The film was nominated for seven British Academy Film Awards, including Best Film, Best Actor in a Leading Role (Jesse Eisenberg), Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Andrew Garfield), and Rising St…