The Social Network Page #10

EDUARDO:

(CALLING)

Mark.

MARK sees EDUARDO and waves him over to where he is. He wants

to talk privately.

EDUARDO (CONT'D)

I'll be back in a minute.

EDUARDO joins MARK in the back of the room and they take up a

spot next to a bay window that's covered on the outside with

ice.

MARK:

I think I've come up with something.

E DUARDO:

Hang on, I've gotta tell you something

you're not going to believe.

MARK:

What?

EDUARDO:

I got punched by the Phoenix.

38.

MARK:

(BEAT)

Are you kidding?

EDUARDO:

No. I mean it's just the first of the

four step process but they slipped the

invitation under my door tonight. T go to

the first punch party tomorrow and if

they like me--

MARK:

Yeah.

EDUARDO:

--I get the second invitation and then

the third and then who knows?

MARK:

You got punched by the Phoenix.

EDUARDO:

(PAUSE)

It was, you know ...I'm sure it was just a

diversity thing, And I'm never gonna make

it in, it was just a diversity thing. So

I'll just ride that'horse until--what did

you want to talk about?

(PAUSE)

Mark?

MARK:

Yeah.

EDUARDO:

You said you think you've come up with

something.

It seems like MARK's just made a small decision in his head,

MARK:

(PAUSE

Yeah. I think I've come up with

something. Come outside.

EDUARDO:

It's 20 degrees outside.

MARK:

I don't want to stare at that loop of

Niagara Falls which has absolutely

nothing to do with the Caribbean.

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39.

EXT. QUAD NIGHT

MARK and EDUARDO come outside and are immediately met by the

freezing cold air.

MARK:

People came to Facemash in a stampede,

right?

EDUARDO:

Yeah.

MARK:

It wasn't because I put up pictures of

hot girls. You can go anywhere on the

internet and see pictures of hot girls.

EDUARDO:

Yeah.

MARK:

It was because I put up pictures of girls

that people knew. So if people Want to go

on the internet and check out their

friends, why can't I build a website that

offers that? An online community of

friends. Pictures, profiles, whatever you

can click into, visit, browse around. All

from the privacy of your dorm room. I'm

not talking about a dating site. I'm

talking about taking the entire social

structure of college and putting it

online.

EDUARDO:

I can't feel my legs.

MARK:

I know, I'm totally pumped about this.

BUT WARDO--

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INT. FIRST DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY

EDUARDO:

"It would be exclusive".

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EXT. QUAD - NIGHT

MARK:

--it would be exclusive. You'd have to

know the people on the site to get in.

Like getting punched.

40,

EDUARDO:

This is interesting.

MARK:

Like our own Final club except not only

can we get into this one, we're the

president.

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INT. FIRST DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY

EDUARDO:

I told him I thought it sounded great. I

mean it did, it was a great idea. There

was no reason to hack, people were going

to put their own pictures up. What they

were interested in, what they were

looking for, what classes they were

taking... and people had the ability to

invite their friends to join. Or put a

different way, not invite their friends

to join. In a world where social

structure is very important, that was

sexy.

(BEAT)

It was a big project and he was going to

have to write tens of•thousands of lines

of code so I wondered why'he was coming

to me and not his roommates. Dustin

Moskowitz and Chris Hughes were

programmers.

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EXT. QUAD - NIGHT

MARK:

We're gonna need a little start-up cash

to rent'the servers and get it online.

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INT. FIRST DEPOSITION ROOM - NIGHT

EDUARDO:

That was why.

GRETCHEN:

Did he offer business terms?

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41.

EXT. QUAD - NIGHT

MARK:

We'll split it 70-30. 70 for me and 30

for you for putting up a thousand dollars

and handling everything on the business

end. You'll be CFO.

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INT. FIRST DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY

GRETCHEN:

And you said?

EDUARDO:

I said "Let's do it".

GRETCHEN:

Okay. Did he add anything else?

EDUARDO:

Yes. He said---

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EXT. QUAD - NIGHT

MARK:

It probably was a. diversity thing but so

what?

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INT. FIRST DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY

GRETCHEN:

Why do you think he said that?

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