Running time 120 minutes Country United States Language English Budget $40 million Box office $224.9 million The Social Network is a 2010 American film directed by and written. Adapted from 's 2009 book, the film portrays the founding of website and the resulting lawsuits. It stars as founder, along with as, as, and as. Neither Zuckerberg nor any other Facebook staff were involved with the project, although Saverin was a consultant for Mezrich's book. The film was released in the United States by on October 1, 2010.
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The Social Network garnered considerable acclaim, with critics praising its direction, screenplay, acting, editing and score. The film appeared on 78 critics' Top 10 lists for 2010; of those, 22 had the film in their number-one spot, the most of any film in its year. The film was also chosen by the as the.
At the, the film received eight nominations, including for, and for Eisenberg, and won three:,. The film also received awards for, and at the. In 2016, it was voted 27th among 100 films considered the by 117 film critics from around the world. Contents. Plot In October 2003, 19-year-old student is dumped by his girlfriend Erica Albright. Returning to his dorm, Zuckerberg writes an insulting entry about Albright on his blog and then creates a campus website called 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.
However, Facemash's popularity attracts the attention of Harvard upperclassmen and twins and and their business partner. The trio invites Zuckerberg to work on, a social network featuring the exclusive nature of Harvard students and aimed at dating. After agreeing to work on the Winklevoss twins' concept, Zuckerberg approaches his friend with an idea for what he calls Thefacebook, an online social networking website that would be exclusive to students. Saverin provides $1,000 in seed funding, allowing Mark to build the website, which quickly becomes popular. When they learn of Thefacebook, the Winklevoss twins and Narendra are incensed, believing that Zuckerberg stole their idea while keeping them deliberately in the dark by stalling on developing the Harvard Connection website. They raise their complaint with Harvard President, who is dismissive and sees no value in either disciplinary action or Thefacebook website itself.
Saverin and Zuckerberg meet fellow student Christy Lee, who asks them to 'Facebook me', a phrase which impresses both of them. As Thefacebook grows in popularity, Zuckerberg extends the network to,. Lee arranges for Saverin and Zuckerberg to meet co-founder, who presents a 'billion-dollar' vision for the company that impresses Zuckerberg. He also suggests dropping 'The' from Thefacebook, just calling it Facebook.
At Parker's suggestion, the company moves to, with Saverin remaining in New York to work on business development. After Parker promises to expand Facebook to two continents, Zuckerberg invites him to live at the house he is using as company headquarters. While competing in the for Harvard against the, the Winklevoss twins discover that Facebook has expanded to, and, and decide to sue the company for theft of. Meanwhile, Saverin objects to Parker making business decisions for Facebook and freezes the company's bank account in the resulting dispute. He later relents when Zuckerberg reveals that they have secured $500,000 from. However, Saverin becomes enraged when he discovers that the new investment deal allows his share of Facebook to be from 34% to 0.03%, while maintaining the ownership percentage of all other parties. He confronts Zuckerberg and Parker, and Saverin vows to sue Zuckerberg for all the company's shares before being ejected from the building.
Subsequently, Saverin's name is removed from the masthead as co-founder. Later, a cocaine possession incident involving Parker and his attempt to place the blame on Saverin finally convinces Zuckerberg to cut ties with him. Throughout the film, the narrative is intercut with scenes from taken in the Winklevoss twins' and Saverin's respective lawsuits against Zuckerberg and Facebook. The Winklevoss twins claim that Zuckerberg stole their idea, while Saverin claims his shares of Facebook were unfairly diluted when the company was incorporated.
At the end, Marylin Delpy, a junior lawyer for the defense, informs Zuckerberg that they will settle with Saverin, since the sordid details of Facebook's founding and Zuckerberg's own callous attitude will make him highly unsympathetic to a jury. After everyone leaves, Zuckerberg is shown sending a friend request to Albright on Facebook and then refreshing the webpage every few seconds as he waits for her response. The epilogue states that Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss received a of $65 million, signed a, and rowed in the, placing sixth; Eduardo Saverin received a settlement of an unknown amount and his name was restored to the Facebook masthead as a co-founder; the website has over 500 million members in 207 countries and is valued at $25 billion; and Mark Zuckerberg is the world's youngest self-made billionaire. Harvard's famous rowing tradition is depicted in the film Community Rowing Inc. Held a casting call and a tryout for 20 rowing extras; some were graduates from Harvard, and, as well as local club rowers from.
None of the cast rowing extras for the 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 during production. Hired coach Dawn Reagan to help train Josh Pence and Armie Hammer. While Hammer was new to the sport, Pence rowed previously at. The indoor rowing scene was filmed at Boston University's indoor rowing tanks. All of BU's blue oars in the scene were repainted to Harvard's crimson color for filming. Dan Boyne was the official rowing consultant for the film both in the US and the UK.
Soundtrack. Main article: On June 1, 2010, it was announced that and would score the film. The soundtrack was released September 28 in various formats under the label. Leading up to the release of the soundtrack, a free five-track was made available for download. ' song ' can be heard in the opening of the film and ' song ' concludes the film. Neither song appears on the soundtrack.
Reznor and Ross won the award for at the 2011, as well as the 2011 for. Release Promotion The first theatrical poster was released on June 18, 2010. The film's first was released on June 25, 2010.
The second teaser was released on July 8. The full length theatrical trailer debuted on July 16, 2010, which plays an edited version of the song ', originally by, covered by the Belgian choir group. The trailer was then shown in theaters, prior to the films,. The theatrical trailer, put together by Mark Woollen & Associates, won the Grand Key Art award at the 2011, sponsored by, and was also featured on The Film Informant 's Perfect 10 Trailers in 2010. Home media The Social Network was released on and January 11, 2011. In its first week of release, DVD sales totaled $13,470,305 and it was the number-one-sold DVD of the week.
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The DVD includes an with director, and a second commentary with writer and the cast. The Blu-ray and two-disc DVD releases include the commentaries, along with a feature-length documentary, How Did They Ever Make a Movie of Facebook?, featurettes, Angus Wall, Kirk Baxter and Ren Klyce on Post, Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross and David Fincher on the Score, In the Hall of the Mountain King: Reznor's First Draft, Jeff Cronenweth and David Fincher on the Visuals, and a Ruby Skye VIP Room: Multi-Angle Scene Breakdown feature. Reception Box office During its opening weekend in the United States, the film debuted at No. 1, grossing $22.4 million in 2,771 theaters. The film retained the top spot in its second weekend, dropping only 31.2%, breaking 's 32.0% record as the smallest second weekend drop for any number-one film of 2010, while being the third-smallest overall behind 's 25.1% drop and 's 28.6% drop. At the end of its theatrical run, the film grossed $97 million in the United States and $128 million in other territories for a worldwide total of $224.9 million.
Critical response On review aggregator, the film has an approval rating of 96% based on 304 reviews, with an average rating of 9/10. The site's critical consensus reads, 'Impeccably scripted, beautifully directed, and filled with fine performances, The Social Network is a riveting, ambitious example of modern filmmaking at its finest.'
On, the film holds a score of 95 out of 100, based on 42 critics, indicating 'universal acclaim' and making it one of the site's highest-rated movies of all time. Audiences polled by gave the film an average grade of 'B+' on an A+ to F scale.
Of the, 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. It is cocksure, impatient, cold, exciting and instinctively perceptive.'
Of 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.' Review called it 'flawless' and gave it five stars.
Listed The Social Network as one of his favorite 20 movies of the year, second to. In praised the film as exhilarating but noted: 'The biographical part takes liberties with its subject. Aaron Sorkin based his screenplay on a contentious book, Ben Mezrich's, so everything that's seen isn't necessarily to be believed.' The film won Best Picture from the, and, making it only the third film in history—after (1993) and (1997)—to sweep the 'Big Four' critics awards. The film also won the 'Hollywood Ensemble Award' from the.
The Social Network appeared on 78 critics' top 10 lists for 2010; of those critics 22 had the film in their number one spot. In August 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. Top ten lists The Social Network appeared on over 70 critics' top-ten lists of the best films of 2010. Over a dozen publications ranked the film first in their lists, including the British film magazine. Facebook founder expressed his dissatisfaction with a film being made about him and noted that much of the film's plot was not factual The script was online in July 2009.
In November 2009, executive producer said, ' The Social Network is probably going to be a lot funnier than people might expect it to be.' 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?' At the D8 conference hosted by on June 2, 2010, host 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.' Zuckerberg stated to that the drama and partying of the film is mostly fiction, explaining 'this is my life, so I know it's not so dramatic,' and that he spent most of the past six years focusing, working hard, and Facebook. Speaking to an audience at, Zuckerberg stated that the film portrayed his motivations for creating Facebook inaccurately; instead of an effort to 'get girls', he says he created the site because he enjoys 'building things'.
However, he added that the film accurately depicted his real-life wardrobe, saying, 'It's interesting the stuff that they focused on getting right—like every single shirt and fleece they had in that movie is actually a shirt or fleece that I own.' Facebook co-founder 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, (like the, who I've still never even met and had no part in the work we did to create the site over the past 6 years) and leaves out things that really did (like the many other people in our lives at the time, who supported us in innumerable ways)'.
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.
” Co-founder said of the film, '. the movie was clearly intended to be entertainment and not a fact-based documentary.' Sorkin has stated that 'I don't want my fidelity to be to the truth; I want it to be to storytelling.
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?' Journalist 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.' Technology broadcaster concurred, calling the film 'anti-geek and '. Sorkin responded to these allegations by saying, 'I was writing about a very angry and deeply misogynistic group of people'. Andrew Clark of wrote that 'there's something insidious about this genre of docudrama scriptwriting,' wondering if 'a 26-year-old businessman really deserves to have his name dragged through the mud in a murky mixture of fact and imagination for the general entertainment of the movie-viewing public?'
Clark added, 'I'm not sure whether Mark Zuckerberg is a punk, a genius or both. But I won't be seeing The Social Network to find out.' Several noteworthy tech journalists and bloggers voiced their opinions of how the film portrays its real-life characters. Founder and CEO, blogging for, said: 'If the Facebook founder Zuckerberg is concerned about being represented as anything but a genius with an industrious work ethic, he can breathe a sigh of relief.'
Jessi Hempel, a technology writer for 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, an original founder, portrays when he arrives to meet Zuckerberg at a New York restaurant. ” professor wrote in that Sorkin's screenplay does not acknowledge the 'real villain' of the story: “ The total and absolute absurdity of the world where the engines of a federal lawsuit get cranked up to adjudicate the hurt feelings (because 'our idea was stolen!' ) of entitled Harvard undergraduates is completely missed by Sorkin. We can't know enough from the film to know whether there was actually any substantial legal claim here. Sorkin has been upfront about the fact that there are fabrications aplenty lacing the story. But from the story as told, we certainly know enough to know that any legal system that would allow these kids to extort $65 million from the most successful business this century should be ashamed of itself.
Did Zuckerberg breach his contract? Maybe, for which the damages are more like $650, not $65 million. Did he steal a trade secret? Absolutely not. Did he steal any other 'property'?
Absolutely not—the code for Facebook was his, and the 'idea' of a social network is not a patent. It wasn't justice that gave the twins $65 million; it was the fear of a random and inefficient system of law. That system is a tax on innovation and creativity.
That tax is the real villain here, not the innovator it burdened. ” In an onstage discussion with co-founder, during Advertising Week 2010 in New York, Facebook's Chief Operating Officer said she had seen the film and it was 'very Hollywood' and mainly 'fiction'. 'In real life, he Zuckerberg was just sitting around with his friends in front of his computer, ordering pizza,' she declared.
'Who wants to go see that for two hours?' Said that he was 'initially surprised' to see himself portrayed by the non-Indian actor, but also admitted that the actor did a 'good job in pushing the dialogue forward and creating a sense of urgency in what was a very frustrating period.' Impact Since its release, The Social Network has been cited as inspiring involvement in start-ups and social media. Has stated that: 'watching this movie makes you want to run from the theatre, grab your laptop and build your own empire,' noting that The Social Network has helped fuel an emerging perception that 'techies have become the new rock stars.' This has led Dave Knox to comment that: 'fifteen years from now we might just look back and realize this movie inspired our next great generation of entrepreneurs.'
After seeing the movie, Zuckerberg was quoted as saying he is 'interested to see what effect The Social Network has on entrepreneurship', noting that he gets 'lots of messages from people who claim that they have been very much inspired. To start their own company.' Saverin echoed these sentiments, stating that the film may inspire 'countless others to create and take that leap to start a new business.' In one such instance, the co-founders of confirmed that they were inspired to create the fantasy trading community after watching The Social Network. Following his success with the film, Sorkin became attached to another project about a technology company, writing the script for the 2015 biopic, which used a similar format.
Another Facebook film may be produced, as the company's COO, has signed a deal with to develop her new book, into a movie. Sequel In January 2019, Sorkin sat down for an interview with AP Entertainment and revealed Rudin has been consistently pushing for the development of a screenplay for a sequel, saying, 'First of all, I know a lot more about Facebook in 2005 than I do in 2018, but I know enough to know that there should be a sequel. A lot of very interesting, dramatic stuff has happened since the movie ends with settling the lawsuit from the Winklevoss twins and Eduardo Saverin.'
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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. 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. Quotes first lines: Did you know there are more people with genius IQs living in China than there are people of any kind living in the United States?: That can't possibly be true.: It is.: What would account for that?: Well first, an awful lot of people live in China. But, here's my question: how do you distinguish yourself in a population of people who all got 1600 on their SATs?: I didn't know they take SATs in China.: They don't. I wasn't talking about China anymore, I was talking about me.
Let's start with the script. Written by soon-to-be-best- adapted-screenplay-nominee/winner Aaron Sorkin, The Social Network's writing is intelligent and demanding on multiple levels: most obviously, the story is cleverly structured across dual lawsuits, but there's an equal amount of sophistication to Sorkin's character work-Zuckerberg is never quite capable of maintaining a dialog, Eduardo always stops just short of explicating his emotions. Those two characters are wonderfully played by inevitable acting award nominees Jesse Eisenberg and Andrew Garfield-Eisenberg owns the brisk pace of the film while Garfield brings most of the humanity-who anchor a terrific ensemble-SAG best ensemble, perhaps? The film's score is a perfectly atmospheric concoction of electronica from edgy dark horse best original score nominees Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, and it's all united under the name and vision of David Fincher, who did not win an Oscar for Fight Club or Zodiac or Benjamin Button. All of this is to say two things: this is a really great movie from a phenomenal creative team, and also there are times when the film feels somewhat calculated for accolades-never in the repugnantly safe, crowd- pleasing, middle-brow Benjamin Button sense, but in the sweetly transparent sense of a kid who did all his chores and is suggesting that he might deserve a cookie.
You know what? Give David Fincher a cookie. 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.