Saverin provides $1,000 in seed funding, allowing Zuckerberg to build the website, which quickly becomes popular. "Trent Reznor To Score Facebook Movie. It really is one of the best films to come along in a while and you will not be disappointed! 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When they learn of Thefacebook, the Winklevoss twins and Narendra are incensed, believing that Zuckerberg stole their idea while keeping them in the dark by stalling on developing the Harvard Connection website. What is the big deal about accuracy purely for accuracy's sake, and can we not have the true be the enemy of the good? [86] Sorkin said: "I don't want my fidelity to be to the truth; I want it to be to storytelling. Clark added, "I'm not sure whether Mark Zuckerberg is a punk, a genius or both. Watch it in 2010 and it might feel much … Whether you watch weekly or want to join in for the big finish, get ready for these big Spring TV and streaming finales. To get the university this wrong in this movie is no small matter. [59][60], Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times, giving it four stars and naming it the best film of the year, wrote: "David Fincher's film has the rare quality of being not only as smart as its brilliant hero, but in the same way. ...and that's "The Social Network".It joins the ranks of his best, and just like many of his his previous works, has been reviled before it was properly understood.For months before it came out, it was the laughing stock of people who were off-put by the idea of a "movie about Facebook" (even though it's easy to look and see that it's about the founding of Facebook and the people behind it), just like "Fight Club" is dismissed as a violent film about people fighting, or that "Se7en" is just a serial killer movie.Not to get sidetracked, though. [114] On July 18, 2019, Eisenberg expressed his interests in starring in the proposed sequel, stating that "Sorkin is a genius, and if he chooses to write about something, I'll obviously be interested". [73], 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 Star Award (Andrew Garfield). "[61] 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. Watch trailers & learn more. "[82] Zuckerberg stated to Oprah Winfrey that the drama and partying of the film is mostly fiction, and that he had spent most of the past six years focusing, working hard, and coding Facebook. They wanted me to start right away. The Social Network is the biggest relief I've ever had in a movie". "[108] ScreenCrush ranked The Social Network eighth, referring to it as "[Fincher's] spiritual sequel to Fight Club, another story of a embittered, lonely man who discovers unleashing his rage at society has unexpected consequences". Use the HTML below. Did he steal a trade secret? Absolutely not. Instead of choosing one and deciding that's the truest one or choosing one and deciding that's the juiciest one, I decided to dramatize the idea that there were three different versions of the story being told. "[20] Sorkin elaborated: There's a lot of available research, and I also did a lot of first person research with a number of the people that were involved in the story. Did Zuckerberg breach his contract? A major critical and commercial success, the film grossed $224 million on a $40 million budget and was widely acclaimed by critics, who praised Fincher's direction, the performances (particularly those of Eisenberg and Garfield), screenplay, editing and score. It was also chosen by the National Board of Review as the best film of 2010. "[62] The Harvard Crimson review called it "flawless" and gave it five stars. His name is Mark Zuckerberg, he created Facebook, he became a billionaire in his early 20s, and he reminds me of the chess prodigy Bobby Fischer. Production of the film began in 2009, when Eisenberg, Timberlake, and Garfield were all announced to star. [24] Max Minghella and Dakota Johnson were also confirmed. The Thirsty Scholar, 70 Beacon Street, Sommerville, Massachusetts, USA. [52], The Social Network had its first screening at the New York Film Festival on September 24, 2010. [68], In 2018, IndieWire writers ranked the script the fourth best American screenplay of the 21st century, with Michael Nordine arguing that "everything came together nearly perfectly on the film, thanks in large part to Aaron Sorkin’s Oscar-winning screenplay. "[100] In one such instance, the co-founders of Wall Street Magnate confirmed that they were inspired to create the fantasy trading community after watching The Social Network. 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. [41] The White Stripes' song "Ball and Biscuit" can be heard in the opening of the film and The Beatles' song "Baby, You're a Rich Man" concludes the film. )[29] Filming took place on the Keyser and Wyman quadrangles in the Homewood campus of Johns Hopkins University from November 2–4,[30] which also doubled for Harvard in the film. The Social Network is about the establishment of one very popular site, but because of the way it is done, the film is as personal as movies get. A social networking service is an online platform that people use to build social networks or social relationships with other people who share similar personal or career interests, activities, backgrounds or real-life connections.. [75] It won three for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, and Best Film Editing at the 83rd Academy Awards on February 27, 2011. Confidential (1997)—to sweep the "Big Four" critics awards. He also suggests renaming the site Facebook. 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. But after nearly a decade of watching Facebook 'move fast and break things,' including news websites, social video, politics, etc., the movie's tangible sense of tension can easily be reinterpreted as foreboding for what comes after you make a billion friends. "[91] Jessi Hempel, a technology writer for Fortune who says she's known Zuckerberg "for a long time", wrote of the film: The real-life Zuckerberg was maniacally focused on building a web site that could potentially connect everyone on the planet...By contrast, in the film he seems more obsessed with achieving the largesse that bad boy Sean Parker, an original Napster founder, portrays when he arrives to meet Zuckerberg at a New York restaurant.[92]. It also received awards for Best Motion Picture – Drama, Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Original Score at the 68th Golden Globe Awards. Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. He said he read an unfinished draft of The Accidental Billionaires when the publisher began "shopping it around" for a film adaptation. According to Sorkin, "I was reading it and somewhere on page three I said yes. Co-founder Eduardo Saverin said "the movie was clearly intended to be entertainment and not a fact-based documentary". During World War II, the English mathematical genius Alan Turing tries to crack the German Enigma code with help from fellow mathematicians. [25] In 2010, it was mentioned that Rashida Jones would appear as Marylin Delpy.[11]. After everything we have heard Zuckerberg doing with Facebook, The … [47] The second teaser was released on July 8. [55], From TheGuardian.com, Peter Bradshaw gave the film four stars, praising David Fincher's directing as the "right intensity and claustrophobia for a story that takes place largely in a stupefyingly male environment at Harvard University in 2003". 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. The Social Network (2010) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. It stars Jesse Eisenberg as founder Mark Zuckerberg, along with Andrew Garfield as Eduardo Saverin, Justin Timberlake as Sean Parker, Armie Hammer as Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, and Max Minghella as Divya Narendra. "The Social Network" is filmmaking and storytelling of a high order, that shows the grand irony of a socially inept Harvard student named Mark Zuckerberg who ended up creating one of the largest social phenomena of the twenty-first century (and love Facebook or hate it, it most certainly is that). [93], In an onstage discussion with The Huffington Post co-founder Arianna Huffington, during Advertising Week 2010 in New York, Facebook's Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg said she had seen the film and it was "very Hollywood" and mainly "fiction". Lacing their scathing wit with an aching sadness, they define the dark irony of the past decade. 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. That technology is such a scary thing and needs to be dismissed? "[57] The film's editing by Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall was also lauded by critics, leading to their win of the Academy Award for Best Film Editing. Did Mark really do all those things Eduardo implied he did in the confrontation? Sorkin’s portrayal of Mark Zuckerberg was hardly flattering, but recent headlines suggest it may have been too sympathetic. Neither Zuckerberg nor any other Facebook staff were involved with the project, although Saverin was a consultant for Mezrich's book.[4]. Sorkin has been upfront about the fact that there are fabrications aplenty lacing the story. [39] The soundtrack was released September 28 in various formats under the Null Corporation label. "[81], 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. A mere six years and 500 million friends later, Mark Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire in history... but for this entrepreneur, success leads to both personal and legal complications. 169 wins & 186 nominations. [44] Kellerhouse's poster has been praised for its unique and "striking" design, and alongside his work for the film I'm Still Here, has since become highly influential in film marketing; posters for The King's Speech and The Armstrong Lie strongly evoked the poster's design format. 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