The Social Network Page #8

29.

MARK:

Four hours?

COX:

Yes sir.

MARE:

That would be impressive except the

algorithm I used was written on my dorm

room window. Keep up the great work.

CUT TO:

INT. CORRIDOR -- DAY

As the heavy wooden door from the hearing slams shut behind

MARK. EDUARDO is waiting for him.

EDUARDO:

Well?

MARK:

Six months academic probation.

They walk out onto--

EXT. QUAD - CONTINUOUS

EDU.ARDO

It could have been worse.

MARK:

No it couldn't. They made me apologize.

EDUARDO:

To who?

MARK:

To them. Over and over.

EDUARDO:

It's alright.

MARK:

No.

EDUARDO:

It's okay. You're fine.

MARK:

(PAUSE)

I shouldn't have said the thing about the

farm animals. That was stupid. Everybody's

mad at me now.

30,

EDUARDO:

Maybe, but at least everybody knows you

now.

CUT TO:

INT. LECTURE HALL - DAY

MARX is in his Operating Systems class. This is considered the

hardest class at Harvard and MARK is one of the 50 students

with their laptops open as the professor takes them through an

impossibly difficult lesson,

PROFESSOR:

So let's look at a sample problem:

Suppose we're given a computer with a 16-

bit virtual address and a page size of

256 bytes.

A GIRL scribbles something on a piece of paper. Then hands it

to the student next to her and nods that it should be passed

over to MARK. While that's happening--

PROFESSOR (CONT'D)

The system uses one-level page tables,

which start at address 0x0400. Maybe you

want to have DMA. on your 16-bit system,

who knows? The first few pages are

reserved for hardware flags, etc.

MARK opens the note., It reads "A**hole".

He looks over and sees a couple of GIRLS looking at him with

contempt.

PROFESSOR (CONT'D)

Assume page table entries have eight

status bits.

MARK closes his laptop, gets up and starts to head out of the

hall.

PROFESSOR (CONT'D)

The eight status bits would be--

(RE:
MARK)

And I see we have our first surrender.

Don't worry, Mr. Zuckerber�, brighter, men

than you have tried and failed at this

class.

MARK:

(CALLING BACK)

1 valid bit, 1 modify bit, 1 reference

bit and 5 permission bits.

31.

MARK walks out of the lecture hall and we

CUT TO:

EXT. ACADEMIC BUILDING - DAY

As MARK comes out and heads onto the quad--

CAMERON (OS)

(CALLING)

Mark?

CAMERON and TYLER have been waiting by the entrance.

CAMERON (CONT'D)

Are you Mark?

MARK:

Yeah.

CAMERON:

I'm Cameron winklevoss.

MARK:

TYLER:

Tyler Winklevoss.

MARY:

(BEAT)

Are you guys related?

CAMERON:

Good.

TYLER:

That's funny.

CAMERON:

We've never heard that before.

MARK:

Did I insult your girlfriends? What can I

do for you?

CAMERON:

No, you didn't insult our girl--

(TO TYLER)

Actually, I don't know.

TYLER:

(TO CAMERON)

We never asked.

CAMERON:

We should do that.

32,

TYLER:

Yeah.

CAMERON:

No, we have an idea we want to talk to

you about. Do you have a minute?

MARK:

(PAUSE)

You guys look like athletes.

CAMERON:

We are.

MART:

What do you do?

TYLER:

We row crew.

MARK:

(pause---then smiles a little)

Yeah, I've got a minute.

CUT TO:

INT. PORCELLIAN CLUB - DAY

The most exclusive of all the final clubs. DIIVYA is sitting in

the main living room with a textbook open as the heavy wooden

door opens and MARK is escorted in by TYLER and CAMERON.

TYLER:

You ever been in the Porcellian?

MARK:

No.

TYLER:

We can't take you past the living room

but we can sit here and talk.

DIVYA:

H i..

MARK is stealing a glance around the room...

CAMERON:

Mark? This is Divya Narendra, our

partner.

MARK:

Hi.

33.

DIVYA:

We were really impressed with Facemash

and then we checked you out and you also

built CourseMatch.

MARK is looking at the framed black and white group pictures

on the wall. of old Porcellian classes. He sees a pretty co-ed

on the couch with her legs stretched over her boyfriend while

they study.

DIVYA (CONT'D)

Mark?

MARK:

Yeah .

CAMERON:

CourseMatch. You go online, you get to

see what courses your friends are taking?

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