The Social Network Page #11

BY:

Gretchen, what's the relevancy?

GRETCHEN:

This is discovery, I'm trying to

discover.

MARK:

They're suggesting I was jealous of

Eduardo and began a plan to screw him out

of the company.

GRETCHEN:

Were you?

SY:

GRETCHEN--

42,

MARK:

Jealous of Eduardo?

SY:

Stop typing, we're off the record.

MARK:

Ma'am, I know you've done your homework

and so you know that money isn't a big

part of my life, but at the moment I

could buy Harvard University, take the

Phoenix Club and turn it into my ping

pong -room.

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EXT. QUAD - NIGHT

EDUARDO's walking away and calls back to MARK--

EDUARDO:

(CALLING)

I'll let you know how the party is,

We stay on MARK for a moment longer, his wheels turning,

BEFORE WE:

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INT. SECOND DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY

EDUARDO's in different:.clothes and being questioned by GAGE.

GAGE:

We recognize that you're a plaintiff in

one suit involving Facebook and a witness

in another.

EDUARDO:

Yes sir,

GAGE:

At any time in the three weeks prior to

Mark telling you his idea, did he mention

Tyler Winklevoss, Cameron Winklevoss,

Divya Narendra or HarvardConnection?

EDUARDO:

Yes. He said they'd asked him to work on

their site but that he'd looked at what

they had and decided it wasn't worth his

time. Uhh, he said even his most pathetic

friends knew more about getting people

interested in a website than these guys.

GAGE:

"These guys" meaning my clients.

43.

EDUARDO:

Yes. He resented--Mark resented that they-

--that your clients, probably thought he

would jump at the chance to rehabilitate

his image after the Facemash thing but

Mark didn't want to rehabilitate

anything. With Facemash he'd beaten the

Harvard computers, he'd beaten the Ad

Board and he made the girls mad. Facemash

did what he wanted it to do.

MARK kind of nods a little to himself. It should be noted that

these depositions have an extra element of dish ort as

everything is being said within a few feet of the peop" being

talked about.

GAGE:

Were you aware that while Mr. Zuckerberg

was building TheFacebook he was also

communicating with the plaintiffs?

EDUARDO:

Not at the time I wasn't. I am now.

GAGE:

Were you aware that while Mr. Zuckerberg

was building TheFacebook, he was leading

the plaintiffs to believe he was building

Harvard Connection?

SY:

I have some problems with that question.

EDUARDO:

No I wasn't.

MUSIC kicks in that will tie this next section together as we

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INT. MARK'S DORM ROOM - NIGHT

Two printouts of web pages are taped to a white board--

"Friendster" and "MySpace". Under the two pages, MARK draws a

third page and titles it "TheFacebook".

Then he makes the decision to turn the capital "T" into a

lower case "t" and it becomes "theFacebook" as we

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INT. SECOND DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY

GAGE:

(READING)

From mark Zuckerberg to Tyler Winklevoss.

November 30, 2003.

(MORE)

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GAGE (CONT-D)

"I read over all the stuff you sent me re

Harvard Connection and it seems like it

shouldn't take too long to implement, so

we can talk about it after I get all the

basic functionality up tomorrow night."

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INT. MARK'S DORM ROOM - NIGHT

The whiteboard is filled with diagrams now under the heading

"theFacebook"--login page,, profile page, create account-We

move over to see MARK at his computer. He opens the Emacs

program and then Firefox, hits a few keys and the diagram on

the whiteboard comes-to life on his computer as we

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INT. SECOND DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY

GAGE:

Mark Zuckerberg to Cameron Winklevoss.

December 1, 2003. "Sorry I was

unreachable tonight. I just got about

three of your missed. calls. I was working

on a problem set for my systems class."

CAMERON and TYLER are looking blankly at MARK who's giving

them a casual "I'm not scared.of'•you" look and we

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INT. PHOENIX HOUSE -,-NIGHT

The MUSIC CONTINUES as EDUARDO and other prospective new

members, all wearing tuxedos, are lined up in four rows. The

boy at the front of each row has a bottle of Jack Daniels and

drinks as long as they can before passing the bottle, relay

style, to the boy in back of him as a few seniors look on.

EDUARDO gets handed the bottle and starts in as we

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TNT. CLASSROOM - DAY

It's an Art History class and as we run past the rows of

STUDENTS we see that they all have the same painting up on

their laptops as the PROFESSOR gives his lecture. When we get

to MARK's laptop we see that he's writing code for theFacebook

AND WE:

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