The Social Network Page #3

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EXT. BAR - NIGHT

As MARK busts out of the bar, past Bobby the door guy and into

the population of Harvard Square.

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EXT. HARVARD SQUARE - NIGHT

As MARK continues on, he passes a group of people heading in

the opposite direction for a party.

As MARK's steady and determined stride continues, he'll. pass

by all kinds of (seemingly) happy, well-adjusted, socially

adept people.

The vocals from the Paul Young song come in--

PAUL YOUNG:

LIVING ON FREE FOOD TICKETS

WATER IN THE MILK FROM A HOLE IN THE ROOF

WHERE THE RAIN CAME THROUGH

WHAT CAN YOU DO?

TEARS FROM YOUR LITTLE SISTER

CRYING 'CAUSE SHE DOESN'T HAVE A DRESS

WITHOUT A PATCH FOR THE PARTY TO GO

BUT YOU KNOW SHE'LL GET BY

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INT. KIRKLAND HOUSE/LOBBY - NIGHT

As the MUSIC CONTINUES and MARK busts into the lobby of his

dorm. He doesn't look at anyone as he heads up the stairs and

WE:

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INT. MARK'S DORM ROOM - NIGHT

A bedroom that's part of a three-bedroom suite. The MUSIC

CONTINUES as MARK walks in, flicks his lap-top on without

looking at it and walks out of frame as we stay on the laptop.

PAUL YOUNG:

'CAUSE SHE'S LIVING IN THE LOVE OF THE

COMMON PEOPLE:

SMILES FROM THE HEART OF A FAMILY MAN

DADDY'S GONNA BUY YOU A DREAM TO CLING TO

MAMA'S GONNA LOVE YOU JUST AS MUCH AS SHE

CAN:

AND SHE CAN:

Then a moment or two later, a glass with ice gets set down

next to the lap-top. Then a carton of orange juice followed by

a bottle of vodka.

MARK's fingers dance easily on the keyboard---like a Juilliard

pianist warming up.

In the exact time it takes him to pour the vodka and orange

juice over ice, the website he's just called up gets loaded

onto the screen.

Zuckonit.com

This is the only place he's comfortable.

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8:
13 PM

He begins blogging.

MARY, (V.0.)

Erica Albright'•s a b*tch. You think

that's because her family changed their

name from Albrecht or do you think it's

because all B.U, girls are b*tches?

He takes a good gulp of his drink. We see the words we're

hearing filling up his computer screen--

MARK (V,O.) (CONT'D)

Folks, for the record, she may look like

a 34D but she's getting all kinds of help

from our friends at Victoria's Secret,

She's a 348, as in barely anything there..

False advertising.

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11.

INT. MARX'S DORM ROOM - NIGHT

Fresh ice gets dropped in the glass and a new drink poured.

"Love of the Common People" continues.

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9:
48 PM

in back of MARK, sitting on the bed and hitting a bong, is

BILLY. OLSEN.

MARK (V.O.)

The truth is she has a nice face. I need

to think of something to help me take my

mind off her. Easy enough, except I need

an idea.

MARK has moved his mouse to an icon on his desktop labeled

"Kirkland Facebook". He clicks and opens it. A menu of photos

appear. He blogs again.

MARK (V.0.) (CONT'D)

I'm a little intoxicated, I'm not gonna

lie. So what if it's not even 10PM and

it's a Tuesday night? The Kirkland

Facebook is open on my desktop and some

of these people have pretty horrendous

f acebook-pics. Billy Olson's sitting here

and had the idea of putting some of these

girls' faces next to pictures of farm

animals and have people vote on who's

hotter. .

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INT. FINAL CLUB - NIGHT

We'll be cutting back here a lot in this sequence, with the

Paul Young song tying them together, as we show---mostly MOS---

preparations under way for the hottest party on campus

tonight.

We start on a good looking STUDENT fixing his tie in the

bathroom mirror. He walks out of the bathroom and into the

main area where he's immediately tossed a bottle of champagne

by a similarly dressed STUDENT. We see that there are a

couple of dozen other guys around. Our guy takes the champagne

bottle and sticks it on the bar, which is being stocked by two

sexy FEMALE uniformed BARTENDERS.

Our guy walks past P. DJ's table where the DJ is setting up his

incredibly high-end equipment.

Our guy trots down a set of mahogany and red-carpet stairs,

opens a heavy door and looks out to the sidewalk.

12,

A BOUNCER in a tuxedo is standing by a velvet rope which is

holding back three dozen STUDENTS. The students are mostly

women and the women are all dressed to catch a man.

Over all this, we HEAR MARK CONTINUING—

MARK (V.0.)

Good call, Mr. Olson! I think he's on to

something.

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10:
17 PM

MARK (V.0.) (CONT'D)

year it's on. I'm not gonna do the farm

animals but I like the idea of comparing

two people together. It gives the whole

thing a very Turing feel since people's

ratings of the pictures will be more

implicit than, say, choosing a number to

represent each person's hotness like they

do on hotornot.com. The first thing we're

going to need is a lot of pictures.

Unfortunately, Harvard doesn't keep a

public centralized facebook so I'm going

to have to get all the images from the

individual houses that people are in. Let

the hacking begin.

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INT. MARK'S DORM ROOM - NIGHT

There are two more kids-in the room with MARK--DUSTIN

MOSKOWITZ and CHRIS.-BUGHES.

MARK (V.0.)

First u is Kirkland. They keep

everything open and allow indexes in

their Apache configuration, so a little

NGET magic is all that's necessary to

download the entire Kirkland facebook.

Kids' stuff.

On the computer screen, we've been seeing him download picture

after picture of Harvard girls.

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