The Social Network back You know what's cool? A billion dollars.

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INT. CAMPUS BAR - NIGHT
EXT. BAR - NIGHT
EXT. HARVARD SQUARE - NIGHT
INT. KIRKLAND HOUSE/LOBBY - NIGHT
INT. MARK'S DORM ROOM - NIGHT
EXT. FINAL CLUB - NIGHT
INT. FINAL CLUB - NIGHT
INT. KIRKLAND HOUSE/STAIRWAY - NIGHT
INT. MARK'S DORM ROOM - CONTINUOUS

INT. FINAL CLUB - NIGHT
INT. MARK'S ROOM - NIGHT
INT. FINAL CLUB - NIGHT
INT. ANOTHER DORM ROOM - NIGHT
INT. ALL NIGHT DINER - NIGHT
INT. CYBER CAFE - NIGHT
INT. DORM ROOM - NIGHT
INT. HARVARD DOWM ROOM - NIGHT
INT. COFFEE HOUSE - NIGHT
INT. DINING HALL - NIGHT
INT. GIRLS' DORM ROOM - NIGHT
INT. MARK'S DORM ROOM - NIGHT
INT. BEDROOM - NIGHT
INT. HARVARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE - SAME TIME
INT. MARK DORM'S ROOM - NIGHT
INT. DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY
EXT. CHARLES RIVER - DAWN
INT. PFORZHEIMER DINING HALL - MORNING
INT. SECOND DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY
INT. ADMINISTRATIVE HEARING ROOM - DAY
INT. CORRIDOR - DAY
EXT. QUAD - CONTINUOUS
INT. LECTURE HALL - DAY
EXT. ACADEMIC BUILDING - DAY
EXT. PORCELLIAN CLUB - DAY
INT. PROCESSLIAN CLUB - DAY
INT. SECOND DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY
INT. FIRST DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY
INT. LARGE MULTI-PURPOSE ROOM - NIGHT
EXT. QUAD - NIGHT
INT. FIRST DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY
INT. SECOND DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY
INT. MARK'S DORM ROOM - NIGHT
INT. SECOND DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY
INT. PHOENIX HOUSE - NIGHT
INT. CAMERON AND TYLER'S DORM ROOM - NIGHT
INT. EDUARDO'S DORM ROOM - NIGHT
INT. MARK'S DORM ROOM - NIGHT
INT. SECOND DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY
INT. PFORZHEIMER DINING HALL - NIGHT
INT. HAMBURGER JOINT - NIGHT
EXT. HARVARD YARD - NIGHT
INT. SECOND DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY
INT. MARK'S DORM ROOM - DAY
INT. PORCELLIAN - NIGHT
INT. COMPUTER SCIENCE LAB - DAY
EXT. COMPUTER SCIENCE BUILDING - DAY
INT. KIRKLAND HOUSE/LOBBY - MORNING
INT. DINING HALL - NIGHT
EXT. BRIDGE - NIGHT
INT. BOATHOUSE - NIGHT
INT. CAMERON AND TYLER'S DORM ROOM - NIGHT
INT. SECOND DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY
INT. FIRST DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY
INT. SECOND DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY
EXT./EST. AUDITORIUM - NIGHT
INT. AUDITORIUM - SAME TIME
EXT. AUDITORIUM - NIGHT
INT. MARK'S DORM ROOM - NIGHT
INT. SECOND DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY
INT. MARK'S DORM ROOM - NIGHT
INT. MEN'S ROOM - NIGHT
INT. CLUB/MEN'S ROOM - NIGHT
INT. MARK'S DORM ROOM - NIGHT
INT. FIRST DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY
INT. TYLER AND CAMERON'S DORM ROOM - NIGHT
INT. A GIRL'S COLLEGE APARTMENT (PALO ALTO) - MORNING
INT. LARRY SUMMERS' OUTER OFFICE - DAY
INT. SUMMERS' OFFICE - CONTINUOUS
INT. SUMMERS OUTER OFFICE - DAY
INT. FIRST DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY
INT. AD EXECUTIVE'S OFFICE - DAY
INT. FIRST DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY
INT. 66 - NIGHT
INT. NY TAXICAB - NIGHT
INT. FIRST DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY
INT. MARK'S DORM ROOM - DAY
INT. MARK'S DORM ROOM - DAY
INT. COMPUTER SCIENCE BUILDING/BASEMENT CORRIDOR - NIGHT
INT. CLASSROOM - NIGHT
INT. FIRST DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY
EXT. PALO ALTO HOUSE - DAY
INT. PALO ALTO HOUSE - CONTINUOUS
INT. RUBY SKYE - CONTINUOUS
EXT. THE THAMES - DAY
INT. AWARD CEREMONY - DAY
INT. RECEPTION ROOM - CONTINUOUS
INT. PALO ALTO HOUSE - NIGHT
EXT. PALO ALTO HOUSE - NIGHT
INT. KITCHEN - CONTINUOUS
INT. BANK OF AMERICA BRANCH - DAY
EXT./EST. SAN FRANCISCO SKYSCRAPER - DAY
INT. THIEL'S OUTER OFFICE - DAY
INT. THIEL'S OFFICE - CONTINUOUS
INT. EDUARDO'S APARTMENT - NIGHT
INT. PALO ALTO HOUSE - SAME TIME
INT. FACEBOOK OFFICE - DAY
INT. FIRST DEPOSITION ROOM - EVENING
EXT. SAN FRANCISCO STREET - DAY
INT. FIRST DEPOSITION ROOM - EVENING
INT. NEW FACEBOOK OFFICES - NIGHT
INT. CONFERENCE ROOM - CONTINUOUS
INT. BULLPEN - CONTINUOUS
EXT. SORORITY HOUSE - NIGHT
INT. SORORITY HOUSE - NIGHT
INT. BEDROOM - NIGHT
INT. STAIRCASE LANDING - CONTINUOUS
INT. NEW FACEBOOK OFFICES - NIGHT
EXT. POLICE STATION - NIGHT
INT. FIRST DEPOSITION ROOM - NIGHT
Last title cards
scene
Meet Mark Zuckerberg. He's smart, obnoxious, arrogant, and obsessed with Final Clubs at Harvard. His girlfriend Erica dumps him.
Mark goes through Harvard to his dorm as the titles roll.
Mark bitterly blogs about the breakup. He decides to build the Facemash website that lets people compare the appearance of Harvard girls.

This intercuts with scenes of a party at a Final Club. There's lots of alcohol and lots of hot girls willing to get sexy to get the attention of these Harvard guys.
Eduardo comes to Mark's dorm room, gives him an algorithm for the comparison of the pictures.

Meanwhile, things are getting wild in the Final Club.
Mark launches Facemash, sends it out to some people. It sweeps through Harvard as we see many people using it to compare girls.
Erica sees Mark's blog post about her. She is offended and teased by guys about it.
Facemash is taking off! Harvard girls are offended!
Facemash takes down the Harvard network due to all the traffic.
In the future, Mark is being deposed about the Facemash events. Mark is more concerned about what Erica said about him than about the deposition.
Meet the Winkelvosses, twins rowing a boat on the river.
The Winkelvosses and Divya, their business partner, decide to approach Mark to build their website.
We get introduced to the second deposition room where depositions for the second suit are going on.
Mark is brought up on charges for Facemash. He's a jerk about it.

He gets six months academic probation.
Mark is disliked by the women of Harvard. He's a jerk to his computer science professor. But he is smart.
Mark agrees to build the website for the Winkelvosses and Divya.
In intercut scenes between the two deposition rooms, Mark grudgingly says he proposed the idea for Facebook to Eduardo soon after talking to the Winkelvosses.
Mark recruits Eduardo for Facebook. Eduardo agrees to be the business guy. This conversation gets intercut with Eduardo's deposition describing those events.
Eduardo testifies to the second suit that Mark knew about the Winkelvosses' idea.
Mark works on TheFacebook while, in the deposition, the Winkelvoss lawyer reads emails showing that he was snowing the Winkelvosses.

Meanwhile, Eduardo is going through the hazing rituals to get into the Phoenix Club.
Eduardo makes the next cut for the Phoenix Club. Mark is passive-aggressive about it. Eduardo agrees to provide more money for TheFacebook.

Meanwhile, the reading of the emails Mark wrote to the Winkelvosses continues.
Eduardo gets closer to getting into the Phoenix.
Mark gets the domain name for TheFacebook. Mark finally sends an email to the Winkelvosses expressing reservations for their idea.
Mark's friend inspires him with the idea of putting relationship status on TheFacebook.
Mark and Eduardo launch TheFacebook.
Divya learns about TheFacebook.
Divya tells the Winkelvosses that Mark launched TheFacebook.
Cameron Winkelvoss doesn't want to get into a public fight with Mark. Tyler Winkelvoss and Divya do. They consult a lawyer.
Mark says he didn't want the Winkelvoss money to back TheFacebook - he wanted Eduardo because they were friends.
TheFacebook takes off at Harvard. Pretty girls express an interest in Mark and Eduardo because of it.
Eduardo and Mark glory in their newfound fame as creators of TheFacebook.
Eduardo wants to put ads on the site. Mark doesn't. It's the first sign of business disagreement between the two.

Eduardo finds out that Mark got a cease-and-desist letter from the Winkelvosses. He sent back a denial response that he put together with help from a law student.

Mark is a jerk in the deposition.
Mark and Eduardo go out with Christy and Alice, two girls who are interested in them because of TheFacebook. They have sex in men's room stalls. They're thrilled that they have groupies.
Mark sees Erica in the club. He tries to talk to her, but she tells him off. She hasn't heard of TheFacebook, which bugs him.

Spurred by this, Mark tells Eduardo they have to go wide with TheFacebook. It's to show up Erica.
Mark decides to expand to other universities, and to make sure it's publicized to BU, where Erica goes. Eduardo adds Stanford to the list of universities to expand to, so that Silicon Valley hears about them.
Mark and Marylin, one of his lawyers, have a moment during a break in the deposition.
The Winkelvosses and Divya hear that Mark is expanding. They decide to complain to the president of Harvard that Mark stole their idea.
Enter Sean Parker. He hears of Facebook.
The Winkelvosses complain to the president of Harvard. He is not impressed. They get nowhere.
Eduardo tries to sell ads on Facebook, but Mark sabotages the meeting.
Mark meets Sean. He is enthralled with Sean. Eduardo, not so much.
Mark loves Sean. Eduardo does not.
Eduardo is confronted by Mark's lawyers about the incident with the chicken, in which Eduardo, as a Phoenix hazing ritual, made him bring a chicken around campus and Eduardo fed it chicken. It was a tempest in the Harvard teapot.
Mark asks Eduardo for more money, says he's going to California. Eduardo agrees to fund it.

Meanwhile, they pass 150,000 members.
Mark recruits new programmers with a combination hacking and drinking game.
Mark is a jerk in the deposition.
Mark and the programmers are in Palo Alto. By goofing around, they knock down the chimney.
Sean shows up at the house. Sean is impressed by the house, less impressed by the fact that Eduardo didn't come out.
Sean and Mark go out to a club. Once again, Sean has Mark enthralled. Sean reveals that being dissed by a girl motivated him to build Napster. But he doesn't care about her any more, unlike Mark, who clearly still cares about Erica.
The Winkelvosses lose a close rowing race.
The Winkelvosses and Divya learn that Mark is going international with Facebook. They agree to sue.
Eduardo shows up in Palo Alto, is surprised to find Sean there.

Eduardo finds out that Sean and Mark are having business meetings without him.

Eduardo is deeply bothered by all that's going on.
Eduardo freezes the bank account he set up for Facebook.
Peter Thiel invests in Facebook.
Eduardo is back in New York. Christy comes in, she's a bit crazy.

Mark calls, tells Eduardo about the Thiel deal. Tells him to come out to California to sign some papers.

Eduardo breaks up with Christy.
Eduardo signs legal documents.

They aren't good for him, but he doesn't know that yet.

Mark tells him he'll have to come back for the million member party.
Under the influence of Sean, Mark disses a VC.
Eduardo goes back to the Facebook offices. He finds out that he's being leveraged out of Facebook and has had most of his shares devalued down to nothing.

He has a nasty confrontation with Mark and Sean. He threatens them with lawyers. He is escorted out by security.

Mark shows some regrets. Sean, none.

They pass the million member mark.
Sean does drugs with college girls including a Facebook intern. Police show up and break up the party, arrest Sean.
Sean tells Mark of the arrest. Mark starts to realize what Sean is.
Marylin convinces Mark that he would lose a trial, he has to settle, and will have to pay a lot of money. She tells Mark he seems to want to be an asshole.

Mark looks up Erica on Facebook, friends her. Waits to see if she accepts. And waits. And waits.
We learn that the Winkelvosses got $60 million in their suit.

Eduardo got an undisclosed sum, but he is credited as a Facebook cofounder.
Joe structure
Inciting incident: Erica dumps Mark, which sends him into a tizzy.

Begin Act One: intro to Mark and Facemash.
Act Two: the birth of TheFacebook.
Act Three: Facebook starts to fly as Sean Parker enter the scene.
Act Four: Facebook goes bigtime, and Mark and Eduardo break up for good.
Sequences
Mark's date with Erica.
Facemash.
Meet the Winkelvosses.
The Winkelvosses recruit Mark.
Mark starts work on TheFacebook.
The Winkelvosses start trying to decide how to respond to TheFacebook.
TheFacebook takes off at Harvard - but it doesn't do what Mark wanted, which was to impress Erica.
TheFacebook expands.
Meet Sean Parker.
The Winkelvosses meet with the President of Harvard.
Mark and Eduardo in NYC. They meet an ad exec, then meet Sean.
The Chicken incident.
Mark is now in California, in Sean's territory.
The Winkelvosses decide to sue Mark.
Eduardo no longer fits with Facebook.
Facebook goes bigtime - they have money. Mark stabs Eduardo in the back.
The final breakup between Mark and Eduardo.
Sean gets in trouble.
The final: Mark will have to settle, he is still not satisfied with all this success.
3-act structure
Inciting incident
Plot Point 1: Commence Act Two
Midpoint - the arrival of Sean Parker.
Plot Point 2: Commence Act Three
Climax
Save the Cat Beats
No Debate! Again!

There's no real dark night of the soul either. Mark really never shows doubt or remorse.
Opening Image (p1), Mark with his girlfriend Erica.

Theme Stated (p5): "You are probably going to be a very successful computer person. But you're going to go through life thinking that girls don't like you because you're a nerd. And I want you to know, from the bottom of my heart, that that won't be true. It'll be because you're an asshole."

Begin Set-Up (p1).

Catalyst (p12).
End Set-Up (p10)
Break into Two (p25)

B Story (p30) - the struggle with the Winkelvosses is the B story.
Fun and Games (p30-55).

The fun and games section is really the building of Facebook.
Midpoint (p55)
Bad Guys Close In (p55-75)
All is Lost (p75).

But mostly from Eduardo's POV.
Break into Three (85)

Finale (p85-110)
Final Image (p110).

Mark, alone, wanting Erica to accept his friend request.
Hero's Journey
There is no refusal of the call.
The ordinary world.

Establishment of the hero's status quo.

The Departure begins.
The call to adventure.

The hero is called on to do something.

Note that Mark immediately accepts this call. He doesn't do it, but he accepts.
Instead, Mark creates his own call.

Crossing the First Threshold.

The Hero goes on the adventure.

Start the Adventure.

Tests, Allies, Enemies: tests are building the site. Ally is Eduardo. The enemies are the Winkelvosses.
Approach to the Inmost Cave.

The Hero gets closer to his goal.
The Road of Trials
Meeting the Mentor.

The Hero needs help from someone.
Ordeal.

The Hero faces his biggest test of all.
Reward.

The Hero sees the light at the end of the tunnel.
The Road Back.

The challenge to get back is harder than it seems.
Resurrection.

The Hero meets the final test.
The Return.

The Hero returns with the prize.
SP: Eduardo
Mark is jealous of Eduardo getting an invite to try for a Final Club.
Mark is clearly annoyed at Eduardo making the cut for the Final Club.
This is the high point of the relationship between Mark and Eduardo: everything is good, there's no clouds on the horizon.
The first argument between Eduardo and Mark. Eduardo isn't thinking big enough.
Eduardo is pursuing an ad-based strategy. Mark doesn't want to.
Sean starts being a major bone of contention between Mark and Eduardo.
More contention over Sean.
We hear about the chicken incident. It sure seems Mark was at fault.
Eduardo delivers money to Mark to keep things going.
Eduardo comes to Palo Alto and finds out he's being cut out of business decisions.
Eduardo freezes the Facebook bank account.
Eduardo signs the documents he shouldn't have signed, signs away any control he might have had.
The climax of the Eduardo subplot: Eduardo learns he's cut out entirely. It's harsh.
Eduardo presumably got a nice chunk of change. He also gets credit as a cofounder.
SP: The Winkelvosses
We meet the Winkelvosses.
The Winkelvosses decide to approach Mark.
This is the deposition in the Winkelvosses' suit.
Mark agrees to work for the Winkelvosses.
A long series of shots with the Winkelvosses slowly realizing that Mark is betraying them.
The Winkelvosses learn about Facebook.
The Winkelvosses argue about what to do about Facebook.
The Winkelvosses decide to go to the president of Harvard.
The Winkelvosses fail when they complain to the president of Harvard.
The Winkelvosses have to deal with losing.
The Winkelvosses decide to sue.
The Winkelvosses get a nice chunk of change. And they got to compete in the Olympics.
SP: Sean
We meet Sean. He's interested in Facebook.
Mark meets Sean.
Mark likes Sean.
Sean shows up in Palo Alto and is from now on part of the company.
Mark comes deeply under Sean's thumb.
Sean now has Mark under this thumb.
Mark is being an utter dick because Sean wants him to be.
Sean shows himself for the utter jerk that he is.
SP: Erica
Erica dumps Mark.
Mark blogs offensively about Erica.
Mark's primary concern in the deposition is Erica's representation of their conversation and why she dumped him.
Mark sees Erica. Tries to get back with her. Flames out.
Mark wants to publicize Facebook to BU just to get Erica's attention.
Mark learns that Sean is not obsessed with the girl he founded Napster to impress. He doesn't even think of her. Mark can't be as blase over Erica.
Even at the point of his great success, Mark is still obsessed with Erica and impressing her.
SP: Final Clubs
Mark shows his obsession with Final Clubs.
We see the Final Club and why a young guy would want to be in one.
We see more of the Final Club. It's pretty wild.
Eduardo is invited to try for a Final Club. Mark denigrates him.
Eduardo is hazing his way into the Final Club.
Eduardo makes the next cut for the Final Club.
Eduardo is getting ever closer to joining the club.
Mark gets into the Bicycle Room at a Final Club. He wants to get deeper, but can't.
The Chicken incident is a hazing ritual for Eduardo's final club. But he's clearly in.
Eduardo asks Mark if being cut out of Facebook is all about the Final Club.
SP: Deposition battles
Our introduction to the depositions.
Our introduction to the second deposition room.
A quiet moment in the deposition, with the introduction of Marylin.
Mark is a particular jerk when he mocks the lawyers for making a point that $1000 plus $17,000 is $18,000.
Women as sex objects
Mark references access to women going after Final Club members as an advantage of being in the club.
Mark's Facemash is a misogynous attempt to treat his classmates as sex objects.

The women at the Final Club party are clearly sex objects.
The Final Club girls are now stripping down to their underwear and performing for the men.
Meaningless sex in a bathroom stall is presented as the ultimate prize for building Facebook.
We meet Sean Parker in a scene with a sexy girl in her underwear after a night of meaningless sex.
This scene is set in a club where women are dancing in their underwear.

Sean uses the fact that he's dating a Victoria's Secret model to gain social status.
Christy is presented as the crazy girlfriend. It's a misogynous trope.
We get more scenes of a girl in her underwear.
Notes
That's Aaron Sorkin playing the ad executive.