The Social Network
Drama

The Social Network

Logline

The true story of how Mark Zuckerburg developed Facebook and the personal and legal fallout of his creation.

Scene Slides

Theme

Success earned at the cost of friendship, loyalty, and one's own integrity is hollow and isolating.

Characters

Credits

Aaron Sorkin
Ben Mezrich
©2010, Columbia Pictures
Structure
Media
Heading
Body
Summary
Notes
Characters
Mark Zuckerberg
Eduardo Saverin
Tyler Winklevoss
Cameron Winklevoss
Sean Parker
Divya Narendra
Erica Albright
Sy
Gretchen
Gage
Christy Lee
Marylin Delpy
Dustin Moskovitz
Alice
Mr. Cox
Phoenix Club President
Peter Thiel
Larry Summers
Facebook Lawyer
Ashleigh Intern
Ad Executive
College Girl Extras
College Student Extras
Theme
Dynamics
Tone -/+
Plot Threads
Erica
Rowing Crew
Harvard Society
Eduardo & Mark
Sean Parker
Crimson Chicken Story
: Theme Stated
INT. bar, harvard Campus - EVENING
Mark and Erica are out on a date. Mark goes on and on about getting into a final club. Erica does her best to indulge him. He is obsessed with being accepted by the Harvard elite. When Erica shows that she doesn't share these same feelings, Mark resorts to belittling her. She breaks up with him on the spot and makes sure he knows why. Mark is an asshole.
Marks core motivation tends to alienate those who care for him.
Mark Zuckerberg
Erica Albright
Mark Zuckerberg
Erica Albright
Stated
Erica dumps Mark.
Guys who row crew.
: Opening Image
EXT. harvard Campus - NIGHT
Mark walks through the campus quad. He appears guarded and alone.
Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg
Symbolized
: Set-up
INT. MARK'S DORM ROOM - NIGHT
Mark gets home, cracks open a beer, and starts live blogging. He talks shit about Erica, insulting her family history, breast size, and education. To keep his mind off her, he starts a late night coding project. He begins hacking into individual student housing databases to create FaceSmash.
Mark is an extremely capable programmer.
Mark Zuckerberg
Dustin Moskovitz
Mark Zuckerberg
Dustin Moskovitz
INT. bus - NIGHT
Two-dozen college girls in cocktail dresses check their makeup and prepare to deboard a luxury bus.
College Girl Extras
College Girl Extras
I/E. Final Club - NIGHT
The college girls wait in line to get in. There's a bouncer outside, a uniformed female bartender and a DJ inside. The final club president welcomes the ladies to the most exclusive gathering of the semester.
Cut between this location and Mark as he codes FaceSmash.
Phoenix Club President
College Girl Extras
Phoenix Club President
College Girl Extras
Explored
Showing the luxurious life of a final club member
INT. MARK'S DORM ROOM - NIGHT
Mark continues his work on FaceSmash. He's basically done but he's missing a crucial piece. That piece just walked in the door. His friend Eduardo Saverin arrives, curious about Mark's project. Mark needs his ranking algorithm. Eduardo reluctantly agrees. They begin ranking some girls and send the link to a few people, hoping it will go viral.
Eduardo provides interdiction. He cares for Mark.
Mark Zuckerberg
Eduardo Saverin
Mark Zuckerberg
Eduardo Saverin
Eduardo writes the algorithm on the window.
INT. various dorms across campus - CONTINUOUS
Male students checkout FaceSmash, ranking girls and forwarding it on. Female students find it disgusting. It's catching fire across Harvard and BU.
College Student Extras
College Student Extras
INT. ERica's Dorm - CONTINUOUS
Erica's roommate shows her Mark's blog post. A male student comes to her door and teases her about her breast size. She is mortified.
Erica Albright
Erica Albright
Mark humiliates Erica.
INT. BEDROOM - CONTINUOUS
Mr. Cox, Harvard's IT Director, is called up in the middle of the night to deal with the influx of network activity caused by FaceSmash. The network is about to crash.
Mr. Cox
Mr. Cox
: Catalyst
INT. Mark's Dorm Room - CONTINUOUS
The boys watch the results pour in. Suddenly the internet goes down. They crashed the network. Mark is proud. Eduardo is worried about the trouble they'll be in.
Mark Zuckerberg
Eduardo Saverin
Dustin Moskovitz
Mark Zuckerberg
Eduardo Saverin
Dustin Moskovitz
INT. Deposition Room - DAY
Mark and his attorney Sy sit opposite Eduardo and his attorney Gretchen. She's been reading him witness testimony. Rather than focus on the details most pertinent to the case, Mark is more concerned with Erica's false testimony. He is still bitter. They take all take a break. Mark sits alone and his paralegal inquires about FaceSmash's traffic number. She's impressed that it was upwards of 200,000.
Mark Zuckerberg
Eduardo Saverin
Sy
Gretchen
Marylin Delpy
Mark Zuckerberg
Eduardo Saverin
Sy
Gretchen
Marylin Delpy
EXT. Charles River - MORNING
The Harvard Crew rows along the river. Identical twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss are 50 yards ahead of the rest.
They are a formidable pair. They are used to winning with little effort.
Tyler Winklevoss
Cameron Winklevoss
Tyler Winklevoss
Cameron Winklevoss
The twins row crew.
INT. PFORZHEIMER DINING HALL - MORNING
Divya meets Cameron and Tyler for breakfast. He shows them an article in The Crimson about a sophomore who took down Harvard's network with a website he made in a matter of hours while drunk. They think Mark could be the guy to bring their website idea to life.
Tyler Winklevoss
Cameron Winklevoss
Divya Narendra
Tyler Winklevoss
Cameron Winklevoss
Divya Narendra
INT. SECOND DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY
Mark and Sy sit opposite the Winklevosses and their attorney Gage.
Quick shot to show how they relate to the overall story.
Mark Zuckerberg
Tyler Winklevoss
Cameron Winklevoss
Sy
Gage
Mark Zuckerberg
Tyler Winklevoss
Cameron Winklevoss
Sy
Gage
INT. ADMINISTRATIVE HEARING ROOM - DAY
Mark sits before a room of Harvard admins. They read off a list of his offenses. They expect an apology but instead Mark demands recognition for pointing out their network's security flaws. He insults Mr. Cox in front of the Ad Board.
Mark Zuckerberg
Mr. Cox
Mark Zuckerberg
Mr. Cox
Mark mentions the algorithm on his window.
EXT. QUAD - CONTINUOUS
Mark meets Eduardo and tells him he got six months academic probation.
Mark Zuckerberg
Eduardo Saverin
Mark Zuckerberg
Eduardo Saverin
INT. LECTURE HALL - DAY
Mark and other students listen to the professor layout a complex networking solution problem. A girl passes a note to Mark which reads "u dick." He gets up and walks out of class. The professor condescendingly accuses him of leaving because the class is too challenging. Mark answers his complex question while exiting the lecture hall.
Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg
INT. ACADEMIC BUILDING - DAY
The Winklevoss twins approach Mark. They introduce themselves and ask if he would be willing to discuss an idea. Mark agrees.
Cameron is the more cordial of the two.
Mark Zuckerberg
Tyler Winklevoss
Cameron Winklevoss
Mark Zuckerberg
Tyler Winklevoss
Cameron Winklevoss
: Break Into Two
I/E. PORCELLIAN CLub - DAY
Mark and the twins enter the Porcellian. They make it clear to Mark that they can't let him inside. Divya waits in the entrance, ready to talk business. They tell Mark about Harvard Connection, an exclusive social network that requires a harvard.edu email to join. Divya acts as if they're doing him a favor by giving him a project that might rehabilitate his image on campus. Mark resents this.
When the meeting begins Mark is more interested in the photos of past Porcellian members than what Divya has to say. His obsession with status.
Mark Zuckerberg
Tyler Winklevoss
Cameron Winklevoss
Divya Narendra
Mark Zuckerberg
Tyler Winklevoss
Cameron Winklevoss
Divya Narendra
Explored
The exclusivity of a final club.
INT. First and Second DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY
The plaintiffs' attorneys grill Mark on the sequence of events, trying to determine if he spoke to the twins prior to approaching Eduardo about his Facebook idea.
Cutting between first and second depositions.
Mark Zuckerberg
Sy
Gretchen
Gage
Mark Zuckerberg
Sy
Gretchen
Gage
: B Story
I/E. LARGE MULTI-PURPOSE ROOM - NIGHT
Eduardo and and Dustin hang at the Alpha Epsilon Pi Caribbean Night. Mark enters looking for Eduardo. Eduardo tells him that he got punched by the Phoenix. Mark is clearly jealous. Mark pulls him outside to discuss "his" idea for a social network, explaining how the core feature is exclusivity. Eduardo realizes Mark is only including him so he'll bankroll all the server fees. He agrees anyway.
This scene cuts between the Eduardo deposition.
Mark Zuckerberg
Eduardo Saverin
Mark Zuckerberg
Eduardo Saverin
Eduardo got punched by the Phoenix.
INT. DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY
Eduardo recounts his discussion with Mark the night of the party. Gretchen challenges Mark with the notion that he may have been jealous of Eduardo having been punched by the Phoenix.
Mark Zuckerberg
Eduardo Saverin
Sy
Gretchen
Mark Zuckerberg
Eduardo Saverin
Sy
Gretchen
INT. SECOND DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY
Eduardo is present at the Winklevoss deposition, testifying as a witness. He verifies that Mark did indeed tell him he was suppose to be working on Harvard Connection but stopped because it wasn't worth his time. They prove Mark lead the twins to believe he was working on their site through a series of emails. Gage reads the emails aloud one by one.
Mark Zuckerberg
Eduardo Saverin
Tyler Winklevoss
Cameron Winklevoss
Gage
Mark Zuckerberg
Eduardo Saverin
Tyler Winklevoss
Cameron Winklevoss
Gage
: Promise of the Premise
INT. MARK'S DORM ROOM - NIGHT
Mark maps out his ideas for his social network. Using a whiteboard and wireframes, he begins laying out out the core functionality and navigation.
Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg
INT. Eduardo's Dorm - NIGHT
Eduardo is studying when a large envelope is slipped under his door. He examines it with cautious optimism.
Eduardo Saverin
Eduardo Saverin
Eduardo makes it to the second round.
INT. MARK'S DORM ROOM - NIGHT
Eduardo enters. Mark greets him with an immediate request for more money. Eduardo agrees only to learn that Mark has already spent the money without consulting him. He tells Mark he made the second cut with The Phoenix. Mark again is jealous but does his best to hide it.
Eduardo wishes he could share his excitement with his friend.
Mark Zuckerberg
Eduardo Saverin
Mark Zuckerberg
Eduardo Saverin
He tells Mark.
INT. SECOND DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY
Gage continues to read the emails Mark sent to Divya that continuously push the deadline back and excuse his lack of progress on the site
Cut this over scenes of Divya reading the emails to the twins in various locations across campus.
Tyler Winklevoss
Cameron Winklevoss
Divya Narendra
Gage
Tyler Winklevoss
Cameron Winklevoss
Divya Narendra
Gage
EXT. HARVARD YARD - NIGHT
It's snowing. Eduardo stands in a lineup of prospective members. They're forced to stand in the freezing cold and answer trivia questions about Harvard University. If you answer wrong, you remove an item of clothing. Eduardo's done his homework, he answers a three-part question about the statue behind them.
Eduardo Saverin
College Student Extras
Eduardo Saverin
College Student Extras
Eduardo has what it takes to be in a Final Club.
INT. SECOND DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY
Gage brings into evidence the record of domain registration for thefacebook.com. Eduardo can't confirm that Mark had every written a line of code for Harvard Connection.
Show scene with mark registering domain name at his computer.
Mark Zuckerberg
Eduardo Saverin
Tyler Winklevoss
Cameron Winklevoss
Gage
Mark Zuckerberg
Eduardo Saverin
Tyler Winklevoss
Cameron Winklevoss
Gage
INT. PORCELLIAN - NIGHT
Cameron reads an email he received from Mark about the site claiming the feature set was insufficient to draw an audience upon launch.
Scenes with Tyler and Cameron often show how each of them react to the situation differently. Cameron is more thoughtful and diplomatic, Tyler doesn't take any shit from anyone.
Tyler Winklevoss
Cameron Winklevoss
Tyler Winklevoss
Cameron Winklevoss
INT. SECOND DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY
Gage continues outlining the email history between Divya and Mark. Clearly showing that Mark led them on, Mark interrupts claiming it's all a waste of time, and that if they had any right to the idea, they'd have done actually work on the project.
"If you guys were the inventors of Facebook, you'd have invented Facebook." Mic drop. Mark is also doodling on his legal pad during the deposition, he has no time for this.
Mark Zuckerberg
Divya Narendra
Gage
Mark Zuckerberg
Divya Narendra
Gage
INT. COMPUTER SCIENCE LAB - DAY
Mark sits at a computer, struggling to stay awake. Dustin comes in and wakes him up. He wants to know if a girl in his Art History class has a boyfriend. Mark has no clue. "People walk around with a sign on them that says I'm..." Eureka!! Mark bolts out of the lab and sprints out into the snow.
Mark Zuckerberg
Dustin Moskovitz
Mark Zuckerberg
Dustin Moskovitz
INT. MARK'S DORM ROOM - DAY
Eduardo waits for him outside his door. They enter and Mark goes straight to his computer. Eduardo sees The Facebook for the first time. He loves it. With a few keystrokes, Mark adds in the Relationship Status feature. With another he launches the site. Mark expects Eduardo to spam the link to the members of the Phoenix. Eduardo reluctantly gives up the email address. Eduardo suggests they go celebrate with a drink. Mark doesn't respond, he's fallen asleep.
Mark Zuckerberg
Eduardo Saverin
Mark Zuckerberg
Eduardo Saverin
INT. DINING HALL - NIGHT
Divya sits with his girlfriend in the middle of an acapella concert. She's on her laptop and she's just been sent the same link from seven different people. She shows the site to Divya. Realizing the site is ripping off Harvard Connection, he hurries out of the dining hall, tripping over chairs and falling to the floor on his way out.
Divya Narendra
Divya Narendra
INT. BOATHOUSE - NIGHT
Cameron and Tyler are rowing in a large practice tank. Divya tries to get their attention but they are laser focussed. Telling them Mark Zuckerberg stole their website does the trick. Tyler slams his row down.
Tyler Winklevoss
Cameron Winklevoss
Divya Narendra
Tyler Winklevoss
Cameron Winklevoss
Divya Narendra
They're always practicing.
INT. CAMERON AND TYLER’S DORM ROOM - NIGHT
Cameron, Tyler, and Divya sit around the coffee table. Cameron gets his dad and their family attorney on the phone while Tyler checks out thefacebook.com. Divya's on his phone trying to reach Mark. They read that 650 students signed up on the first day. Cameron gives their attorney all the information they have and in closing says Mark is a good guy and must not have meant to do this. Divya is floored by this and reminds Cameron that they've been beaten first to market. Divya wants to sue and plant a story in the Crimson to fight back. Cameron refuses because they are "gentlement of Harvard."
Tyler Winklevoss
Cameron Winklevoss
Divya Narendra
Tyler Winklevoss
Cameron Winklevoss
Divya Narendra
INT. SECOND DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY
Gage proves that Mark knew the Winklevosses were wealthy and could easily afford to pay upfront server costs. He asks mark why he went to Eduardo for the funds. The reason is that Eduardo was his best friend and the person he wanted to partner with. Sy asks what happened next. Divya explains how thefacebook.com blew up. Facebook me was a common expression on campus within a few days. Mark was the biggest thing on campus.
Show the empty chair where Eduardo was sitting in previous scene. Symbolism.
Mark Zuckerberg
Tyler Winklevoss
Cameron Winklevoss
Gage
Mark Zuckerberg
Tyler Winklevoss
Cameron Winklevoss
Gage
Symbolized
INT. AUDITORIUM - NIGHT
Mark and Eduardo are attending a lecture by Bill Gates. Two attractive asian girls, Christie Lee and Alice are sitting one row behind and to the right. She recognizes Mark and introduces herself to Eduardo. She tells him to "Facebook" her sometime and maybe they can all go grab a drink.
Mark Zuckerberg
Eduardo Saverin
Christy Lee
Alice
Mark Zuckerberg
Eduardo Saverin
Christy Lee
Alice
EXT. AUDITORIUM - MOMENTS LATER
Mark and Eduardo leave the building. Eduardo is ecstatic about Christy and Alice. Three fellow CS majors approach Mark and compliment him on Facebook. Mark is unmoved.
A lost opportunity to make actual human connection.
Mark Zuckerberg
Eduardo Saverin
College Student Extras
Mark Zuckerberg
Eduardo Saverin
College Student Extras
Challenged
INT. MARK'S DORM ROOM - LATER
Eduardo thinks it's time to monetize the site. Mark disagrees, he thinks it's too soon. Eduardo finds a cease and desist letter from the Winklevosses sitting on the mantle. He is very alarmed, Mark finds it "mildly annoying." Mark is more concerned with the names of the girls Eduardo just met at the lecture. He prods Mark until he tells him more.
CUT TO deposition to explain what happened.
Mark Zuckerberg
Eduardo Saverin
Mark Zuckerberg
Eduardo Saverin
INT. SECOND DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY
Gage reads aloud the email from Mark to the Winklevosses in which he first expresses concern about the viability of Harvard Connection. Mark begins to drift and look out the window. "It's raining." Gage asks Mark if he feels he deserves his full attention. Mark responds in a rude, condescending manner, calling into question the IQ of not only the twins but everyone else in the room. Gage gives his clients a wink as he's successfully forced Mark to show his ass.
Mark Zuckerberg
Tyler Winklevoss
Cameron Winklevoss
Gage
Mark Zuckerberg
Tyler Winklevoss
Cameron Winklevoss
Gage
INT. MARK'S DORM ROOM - CONTINUOUS
Now that Eduardo's gotten all the information about the letter, Mark asks yet again. What were the girls' names? To which he responds, "Christy and Alice and they want to have drinks tonight."
Mark Zuckerberg
Eduardo Saverin
Mark Zuckerberg
Eduardo Saverin
INT. MEN’S ROOM - NIGHT
Christy and Alice pull Eduardo and Mark into the stalls of a local bar to perform sexual acts on them.
Mark Zuckerberg
Eduardo Saverin
Christy Lee
Alice
Mark Zuckerberg
Eduardo Saverin
Christy Lee
Alice
Challenged
INT. CLUB/MEN’S ROOM - NIGHT
Mark and Eduardo stand guard at the men's room door. The girl are freshening up. They're both grinning and glowing from their recent encounters. Mark spots Erica sitting at a table with a group of friends. He approaches her and attempts to pull her aside to talk. She won't give him the time of day aside from listing all the ways he's hurt her, then proceeding to ignore him. Mark, feeling rejected tells Eduardo they have to expand.
Erica is Mark's white whale. He wants her to regret dumping him, but as of now she regrets ever meeting him. The ultimate example of how Mark just doesn't understand real human connection.
Mark Zuckerberg
Eduardo Saverin
Erica Albright
Mark Zuckerberg
Eduardo Saverin
Erica Albright
Explored
Erica shoots Mark down regardless of his success.
INT. MARK'S DORM ROOM - LATER
Mark, Eduardo, Christy, Alice and Dustin sit in front of a white board. Mark wants to expand to Yale and Columbia, and - for some reason - publish a story about it in BU's student paper. Eduardo insists that they expand to Stanford to gain exposure in Palo Alto.
Mark Zuckerberg
Eduardo Saverin
Christy Lee
Dustin Moskovitz
Alice
Mark Zuckerberg
Eduardo Saverin
Christy Lee
Dustin Moskovitz
Alice
INT. DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY
Marilyn finds Mark in the conference room, working alone on his laptop. She comments on how much he must hate the Winklevosses. Mark doesn't hate anybody. He feels their real problem is that things didn't go their way for the first time in their lives.
Mark Zuckerberg
Marylin Delpy
Mark Zuckerberg
Marylin Delpy
Challenged
INT. CAMERON AND TYLER’S DORM ROOM - NIGHT
Divya has learned that Facebook is expanding to Yale, Columbia and Stanford and must file an injunction to take the site down immediately. Cameron feels that's too aggressive. Remembering the Harvard by-law dictate that a student cannot steal from another student, they decide to get a meeting with Larry Summers, the President of Harvard. "Why Stanford?" - "Why do you think?"
Tyler Winklevoss
Cameron Winklevoss
Divya Narendra
Tyler Winklevoss
Cameron Winklevoss
Divya Narendra
: Midpoint
INT. PALO ALTO, A GIRL’S COLLEGE APARTMENT - MORNING
Sean Parker wakes up in a random Stanford girl's apartment. She's surprised to learn that she just slept with the founder of Napster. She needs to get to class so she tells him to make himself at home while she showers. He grabs her laptop to check his email and browser is open to thefacebook.com. Sean immediately seeing seeing dollar signs, asks her about it. She says it's new, popular, and super addictive. Sean decides to track down Mark.
Sean Parker
Sean Parker
Sean discovers Mark.
INT. SUMMERS’ OFFICE - DAY
The Winklevosses wait to meet with the President of Harvard University. The receptionist is extremely snobbish and condescending. They enter the office of Larry Summers. They attempt to plead their case with Mr. Summers but are shot down and reprimanded for using their father's connections to try and receive special treatment.
Tyler Winklevoss
Cameron Winklevoss
Larry Summers
Tyler Winklevoss
Cameron Winklevoss
Larry Summers
INT. DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY
Eduardo answers questions about a trip him and Mark took to New York to meet potential advertisers. At that point in the companies history, Eduardo was the only person who had funded the company. He says the meetings went horribly due to Mark's behavior.
Mark Zuckerberg
Eduardo Saverin
Gretchen
Mark Zuckerberg
Eduardo Saverin
Gretchen
INT. AD EXECUTIVE’S OFFICE - DAY
Eduardo does his best to pitch Facebook to an ad exec. Mark ruins the whole thing with his disinterest and rude, childish behavior.
Mark Zuckerberg
Eduardo Saverin
Ad Executive
Mark Zuckerberg
Eduardo Saverin
Ad Executive
INT. Fancy Restaurant - Day
Mark, Eduardo and Christy wait for Sean Parker. Eduardo points out that he's 25 minutes late. Sean finally arrives, hobnobbing with the wait staff as he makes way to their table. After introducing himself he orders them food and drinks, and proceeds to charm everyone with the exception of Eduardo. By the end of the meeting Sean has a hold of Mark and has begun the process of pushing Eduardo out. Sean tells him to drop the "The" and make it just "Facebook."
Mark Zuckerberg
Eduardo Saverin
Sean Parker
Christy Lee
Mark Zuckerberg
Eduardo Saverin
Sean Parker
Christy Lee
Sean woos Mark.
INT. cab - LATER
Now entirely against Eduardo's plan to monetize the site with ads, Mark accuses Eduardo of wanting to "end the party at a 11pm". A callback to an analogy Sean used in their meeting.
Mark Zuckerberg
Eduardo Saverin
Christy Lee
Mark Zuckerberg
Eduardo Saverin
Christy Lee
Challenged
Mark sides with Sean.
INT. DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY
Sy cross-examines Eduardo. He introduces into evidence an article from The Crimson accusing him of animal cruelty, an embarrassment to the company and potentially harmful to the success of Facebook.
Cut into next scene starting with Mark discussing the article with Eduardo.
Mark Zuckerberg
Eduardo Saverin
Sy
Gretchen
Mark Zuckerberg
Eduardo Saverin
Sy
Gretchen
Crimson chicken article.
INT. MARK'S DORM ROOM - DAY
Mark grills Eduardo over the scathing Crimson article. Dustin periodically calls out the updated user numbers for Facebook (956,000). Mark decides to let the animal cruelty thing go, then informs Mark that he's going to setup shop in Palo Alto for the summer (969,000). He'll be interviewing interns later than night (993,000). Eduardo knows this is Sean's influence and begs Mark not to listen to him (150,000). Mark just tells him he better get on board.
Dustin reading off the numbers portrays the runaway success of Facebook.
Mark Zuckerberg
Eduardo Saverin
Dustin Moskovitz
Mark Zuckerberg
Eduardo Saverin
Dustin Moskovitz
Mark reprimands Eduardo.
INT. COMPUTER SCIENCE BUILDING, BASEMENT CORRIDOR - NIGHT
Mark is hosting a wild drinking party/coding competition to select the next Facebook interns. Eduardo shows up, he loves it. He hands mark an envelope with everything needed to access a bank account holding $18k to fund Mark's summer in California. One of the contestants finishes. Mark checks his work. "Welcome to Facebook." The room goes wild.
Mark likes having power.
Mark Zuckerberg
Eduardo Saverin
Dustin Moskovitz
Mark Zuckerberg
Eduardo Saverin
Dustin Moskovitz
INT. DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY
Gretchen totals all ups money Eduardo put into the company, $19k. Mark makes a flippant comment about her basic math skills. Eduardo explains why he chose to fund Mark's summer satellite operation in California. He wanted to be a team player. He didn't realize how much could go wrong in just 3 months...
Mark Zuckerberg
Eduardo Saverin
Gretchen
Mark Zuckerberg
Eduardo Saverin
Gretchen
: Bad Guys Close In
EXT. PALO ALTO HOUSE - DAY
The Facebook team hangout by the pool. They've hooked a zip-line from the chimney to the other end of the pool and Mark is videotaping them sliding down into the pool. The next intern lets go of the handle too late, his weight to break off the top portion of the chimney and the bricks comedown shattering the glass patio furniture. The doorbell rings, it's Sean Parker? He heard the crash of the chimney and thought he'd check to see if everything was okay. Surprised to see him, he invites him and his lady friend inside for a tour. Sean loves the whole scene and is pleased to remind Mark that Eduardo didn't come out for the summer.
Sean is moving in, pushing Eduardo further out.
Mark Zuckerberg
Sean Parker
Dustin Moskovitz
Mark Zuckerberg
Sean Parker
Dustin Moskovitz
Sean mysteriously shows up.
INT. san Francisco Night CluB - NIGHT
Mark, Sean and his date hangout in the VIP area above the crowd. The girls hit the bathroom. Mark says his date looks familiar. Sean launches into a story about the founder of Victoria Secret and how he sold his company too soon and lost out big, revealing by the end that his date is in fact a VS model. Sean works on Mark, molding him into the type of CEO that doesn't take shit from anyone and steps on his friends to get ahead. The whole reason he started Napster was to impress a girl. Mark asks if he still thinks about her? "No way!"
Marks curiosity about the girl Sean started Napster for shows that deep down, what he really wants is meaningful human connection.
Mark Zuckerberg
Sean Parker
Mark Zuckerberg
Sean Parker
Explored
Mark still thinks about Erica.
Sean manipulates Mark.
EXT. THE THAMES - DAY
The Winklevosses compete in the ancient and prestigious Henley Royal Regatta. They give it their all but in the end lose to the Dutch Hollandia Roeiclub.
The twins, as we've seen so far, play fair and lose.
Tyler Winklevoss
Cameron Winklevoss
Tyler Winklevoss
Cameron Winklevoss
Symbolized
The twins compete and lose.
INT. AWARD CEREMONY - DAY
The twins and Divya stand and watch miserably as the Hollandia Roeiclub are honored for their victory. They're introduced to Prince Albert of Monaco who essentially rubs the loss in their faces. They apologize to their father for losing the race. He assures them there's no need to apologize to anyone for losing a race that close. They're approached by, Mr. Kenwright, the head of their host family for the week, who informs them that his daughter at Cambridge has just watched video of the race on a website called Facebook. Mark has taken Facebook to international. Cameron storms out.
Tyler Winklevoss
Cameron Winklevoss
Divya Narendra
Tyler Winklevoss
Cameron Winklevoss
Divya Narendra
Symbolized
INT. AWARD CEREMONY, Back Room - CONTINUOUS
Cameron sits down at a laptop, looking for footage of the race on Facebook. Tyler tells him to knock it off and to quit being such a gentleman in their fight against Zuckerberg and sue him in federal court. Cameron decides Tyler is right, "Let's gut the freakin' nerd."
Tyler Winklevoss
Cameron Winklevoss
Divya Narendra
Tyler Winklevoss
Cameron Winklevoss
Divya Narendra
INT. PALO ALTO HOUSE - NIGHT
It's storming outside. Interns sit around coding on laptops including Dustin at his own station in the living room where two young girls play video games and smoke pot. Sean's is on the phone while talking business, mixing drinks, and playing boss. There's a knock at the door, it's Eduardo, standing in the rain, disappointed to see Sean is on the other side. He enters, taking in the rundown condition of the house, and apparent lack of professionalism. One of the girls takes a hit from a 6-foot bong. He asks Sean to explain. They fall quickly into their usual contentious dynamic. Mark taps Eduardo on the shoulder. He wants to show Eduardo some new Facebook features. Sean wants to talk about the meeting he setup with a major VC. Eduardo is furious that Sean is having anything to do with the business end of the company. Sean dismisses Eduardos efforts to find advertisers for the site. He pulls Mark aside.
Mark Zuckerberg
Eduardo Saverin
Sean Parker
Mark Zuckerberg
Eduardo Saverin
Sean Parker
Sean has become part of the company.
INT. PALO ALTO HOUSE, HALLWAY - NIGHT
Mark and Eduardo find some privacy in the hallway. Mark asks about Eduardo's internship. Eduardo slams the door and reminds Mark that he quit his internship the first day. Mark asks about Christy Lee. Eduardo thinks she's crazy and he's scared of her. They argue over Sean's being too involved in the company. Mark defends Sean and calls Eduardo's contribution in to question. He tells Eduardo he should move out to California or else he's afraid he'll be left behind.
When Mark pivots the conversation to Eduardo's relationship, we see that Eduardo has not entirely given up on their friendship.
Mark Zuckerberg
Eduardo Saverin
Mark Zuckerberg
Eduardo Saverin
Challenged
INT. BANK OF AMERICA BRANCH - DAY
Eduardo approaches the bank teller. He freezes the bank account Mark uses to pay rent and cancel all checks and existing lines of credit.
Eduardo Saverin
Eduardo Saverin
INT. THIEL’S OFFICE - DAY
Mark and Sean wait to meet with Peter Thiel. They're called back into his office. Peter has good news, they've decided to invest $500k in Facebook. They would, however, like to do some corporate restructuring and need to know a bit more about Eduardo Saverin.
Mark Zuckerberg
Sean Parker
Peter Thiel
Mark Zuckerberg
Sean Parker
Peter Thiel
INT. eduardo's Apartment, NYC - NIGHT
Eduardo's in bed staring at the ceiling. Someone's comes to the door and turns the handle, trying to get in. Eduardo is alarmed. The door opens, it's Christy Lee. She's pissed because he hasn't responded to her non-stop calling and texting. He gives her a present from his trip, a silk scarf. She's more interested in why his Facebook relationship status is still set to single. She thinks he's banging Silicon Valley sluts when he visits Mark. His phone rings. Mark's on the other end of the line, furious over Eduardo freezing their account and putting the company in jeopardy. He's trying to calm Mark down and explain why he did it, when Christy sets her new silk scarf on fire and drops it in a garbage can on the bed. Eduardo puts Mark on speaker and frantically searches the cupboards for a fire extinguisher. He finds one and puts out the fire. Eduardo apologizes. Mark forgives him and gives him some good news. They've secured their first round of funding. He needs Eduardo to fly out first thing to sign the paperwork. He needs his CFO.
Mark Zuckerberg
Eduardo Saverin
Christy Lee
Mark Zuckerberg
Eduardo Saverin
Christy Lee
INT. FACEBOOK OFFICE - DAY
Mark meets with Facebook attorneys. They explain the new share structure and how Eduardo will soon own over a million shares. Eduardo is well versed in the concept of dilution, which pleases the attorneys because they won't have to go into detail. They read through the company breakdown. It includes Sean Parker who owns 6.47%. Eduardo can live with that but he makes sure to mention that Mark doesn't care about money and *needs to be protected.
Eduardo Saverin
Facebook Lawyer
Eduardo Saverin
Facebook Lawyer
Eduardo reminds Mark of the algorithm. Where it all started.
INT. DEPOSITION ROOM - EVENING
Eduardo sits with back to Mark. The court reporter reads back to most recent question: "When you were signing, did you realize you were signing your own death certificate?" Eduardo believed that the men in that meeting were, in fact, his attorneys. He looks over his shoulder to mark. Wrecked. "I was your only friend."
Mark Zuckerberg
Eduardo Saverin
Mark Zuckerberg
Eduardo Saverin
Stated
EXT. SAN FRANCISCO STREET - DAY
Mark and Sean pull up in a brand new black Escalade. Mark's wearing a bathrobe and pajamas. Sean prepares him for an investor meeting. The goal, however, is not to attract new investment, but to have Mark do Sean's bidding and tell the head partner, Mitchel Manningham, that "Sean Parker says fuck you!", then immediately walk out.
Mark is becoming a pawn in Sean's petty squabbles with those who've burned him in the past.
Mark Zuckerberg
Sean Parker
Mark Zuckerberg
Sean Parker
Mark is Sean's puppet.
INT. DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY
Eduardo answers questions about an email where Mark invites him out to California for the millionth member party, and that they also need to have a "business meeting" because the pajamas revenge stunt got Mitchell Manningham to invest. It wasn't a meeting, it was an ambush.
Mark Zuckerberg
Eduardo Saverin
Sy
Gretchen
Mark Zuckerberg
Eduardo Saverin
Sy
Gretchen
INT. NEW FACEBOOK OFFICES - NIGHT
Eduardo checks out the new digs, a modern, open office plan with glass conference rooms and street art murals on concrete walls. For a moment, Eduardo is proud of what he helped build. The lawyer from the first document signing calls him into the conference room to sign some more papers. Eduardo looks them over and immediately knows he's being screwed out of his ownership. He looks out to the floor and sees Mark coding, headphones on, "wired in." Eduardo, furiously swings open the glass doors and heads for Mark. Sean makes a feigned attempt to stop him. Eduardo grabs his laptop and slams it down on the desk in front of him. Screaming, he asks Mark how much the other owner's shares were diluted.
Cut to deposition room.
Mark Zuckerberg
Eduardo Saverin
Sean Parker
Facebook Lawyer
Mark Zuckerberg
Eduardo Saverin
Sean Parker
Facebook Lawyer
INT. DEPOSITION ROOM - CONTINUOUS
Gretchen asks, one by one, the amount each Facebook owner's shares were diluted. No one's but Eduardo's were. His ownership went from 34% to .03%
Mark Zuckerberg
Eduardo Saverin
Gretchen
Mark Zuckerberg
Eduardo Saverin
Gretchen
: All is Lost
INT. FACEBOOK OFFICE - CONTINUOUS
Mark tries blaming Eduardo, claiming it was his own responsibility to make good business decisions for himself. Eduardo is livid and confused. How could his best friend do this to him? He asks if this is about him getting into the Phoenix. Mark doesn't outright deny it. He accuses Mark of planting the story about the chicken in the Crimson. Sean sits aside and repeatedly mocks everything Eduardo's saying, and claims Eduardo is not part of Facebook. Eduardo tells Mark to lawyer up because he's not coming back for 30%, he's coming back for all of it! Before he's escorted out by security, Sean tries to give him a $19k check drawn from the account he froze. Eduardo lunges toward him, psyching him out. Sean cowers in submission.
Mark Zuckerberg
Eduardo Saverin
Sean Parker
Mark Zuckerberg
Eduardo Saverin
Sean Parker
Mark's jealously over the Phoenix.
Mark planted the story.
INT. FACEBOOK OFFICE - CONTINUOUS
Sean addresses the room, trying to put them at ease, "That's are show for tonight." He has an employee put the current user count up on the screen (999,942). He goes to comfort. Mark disapproves of how Sean treated Eduardo. Sean offers a qualified apology. He tells Mark he's got an after party lined up at Ashley the intern's sorority. Ashleigh interrupts to deliver a package to Mark. Sean asks what's in the package. "Nothing." Sean cracks a smile. He knows exactly what's in the package. He calls for another screen refresh. The user count animates to 1,000,046, complete with fireworks. Everyone in the office applauds.
Mark sees now how Sean has been a bad influence. This is why he doesn't want to show him the business cards.
Mark Zuckerberg
Sean Parker
Ashleigh Intern
Mark Zuckerberg
Sean Parker
Ashleigh Intern
Mark no longer trusts Sean.
I/E. SORORITY HOUSE - NIGHT
The after party is in full swing. Sean accompanies a group of young college students, mostly female, including Ashleigh the intern, to an upstairs room. He's going on about a photo-sharing app app idea. One of girls lays on the table while another sets up a line of coke on her stomach. Meanwhile, downstairs, the cops bust up the party. Upstairs in the room, they notice the music has stopped and Sean goes to check it out. He sees the cops heading upstairs. He runs back in and wipes the coke of the girls stomach. The cops bust him with coke on his hands. Everyone except Sean is underage.
Sean Parker
Ashleigh Intern
College Student Extras
Sean Parker
Ashleigh Intern
College Student Extras
: Dark Night of the Soul
INT. FACEBOOK OFFICE - NIGHT
Mark works late at the office. Sean calls him from jail to break the bad news about the drugs and the interns. Mark knows how bad this is. Sean floats the idea that Eduardo tipped off the cops. Mark tells Sean to go home and hangs up. He picks up a business card from the package delivered earlier. They read 'I'm CEO, Bitch.' in bold Facebook blue. He reflects on his mistakes.
To cut between Sean at the police station.
Mark Zuckerberg
Sean Parker
Mark Zuckerberg
Sean Parker
Symbolized
: Finale
INT. DEPOSITION ROOM - NIGHT
Mark sits alone at his laptop, lost in his own thoughts, when Marilyn snaps him out of it. She asks what ever happened to Sean. He responds simply by stating his ownership in Facebook. He asks her if she'd like to grab a bite. She can't. He asks her what happens next in the case. She tells him he will most likely have to settle and pay extra so they'll sign a non disclosure agreement. Before leaving she tells him that she sincerely thinks he's not an asshole.
Him and Sean probably aren't friends anymore. We see Mark attempt to make a real connection with Marilyn. This too is a failure.
Mark Zuckerberg
Marylin Delpy
Mark Zuckerberg
Marylin Delpy
Challenged
: Final Image
INT. DEPOSITION ROOM - CONTINUOUS
After Marilyn leaves, Mark logs into Facebook and searches for Erica Albright. He finds her and sends her a Friend Request. He leans back and steadily refreshes the page to see if she's accepted.
Mark is sorry about what he did.
Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg
Challenged
He regrets losing Erica.
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