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Calculated Shard: 198 (from laksa198)

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curl -X POST \
  'http://laksa198.int.ahrefs:8124/' \
  -H 'Content-Type: text/plain' \
  -H 'X-ClickHouse-Database: crawler3' \
  -H 'Authorization: Basic YXBpOg==' \
  -d 'SELECT getAhrefsURLFromUnparsed(src_unparsed) AS found_url, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(download_stamp), 0) AS crawl_time, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(props_url_first_seen), 0) AS first_indexed_time, download_http_code AS http_code, src_unparsed AS src_unparsed, src_root_hash AS src_root_hash, history_drop_reason AS history_drop_reason, meta_title AS meta_title, meta_descriptions AS meta_descriptions, attrs_boilerpipe_text AS attrs_boilerpipe_text, attrs_markdown AS attrs_markdown, attrs_readable_markdown AS attrs_readable_markdown, meta_canonical AS meta_canonical FROM crawler3.page_info_local FINAL PREWHERE (src_root_hash, src_unparsed) IN ((getAhrefsRootHashFromUnparsed(getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network\')), getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network\'))) FORMAT JSONEachRow'

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{"found_url":"https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network","crawl_time":1769473692,"first_indexed_time":0,"http_code":200,"src_unparsed":"com,fandom!howitshouldhaveended,\/wiki\/The_Social_Network s443","src_root_hash":"11439660390604180198","history_drop_reason":null,"meta_title":"The Social Network | How It Should Have Ended Wiki | Fandom","meta_descriptions":["Template:Infobox film The Social Network is a 2010 drama film about the founding of the social networking website Facebook and the resulting lawsuits. The film was directed by David Fincher and features a cast including Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake, Brenda Song, Armie..."],"attrs_boilerpipe_text":"Template:Infobox film\nThe Social Network\nis a 2010 drama film about the\nfounding\nof the\nsocial networking\nwebsite\nFacebook\nand the resulting lawsuits. The film was directed by\nDavid Fincher\nand features a cast including\nJesse Eisenberg\n,\nAndrew Garfield\n,\nJustin Timberlake\n,\nBrenda Song\n,\nArmie Hammer\n,\nMax Minghella\n,\nRashida Jones\n,\nJoseph Mazzello\n, and\nRooney Mara\n.\nAaron Sorkin\n's screenplay adapts\nBen Mezrich\n's 2009 book\nThe Accidental Billionaires\n. Sorkin makes a\ncameo appearance\nas an unimpressed advertiser. Neither founder\nMark Zuckerberg\nnor any other member of Facebook was involved with the project, although\nEduardo Saverin\nwas a consultant for Mezrich.\n[\n1\n]\nThe film was released in the United States by\nColumbia Pictures\non October 1, 2010.\nThe film received widespread acclaim, with numerous critics praising it for its editing, acting, score and screenplay.\nThe Social Network\nappeared on 78 critics' top 10 list for 2010, of those critics 22 had the film in their number one spot.\nRolling Stone\n's\nPeter Travers\nsaid \"\nThe Social Network\nis the movie of the year. But Fincher and Sorkin triumph by taking it further. Lacing their scathing wit with an aching sadness, they define the dark irony of the past decade.\" It received eight\nAcademy Award\nnominations, including\nBest Picture\n,\nBest Director\n(David Fincher), and\nBest Actor\n(Jesse Eisenberg), and won three for\nBest Adapted Screenplay\n,\nBest Original Score\n, and\nBest Film Editing\n. It also won the\nBest Motion Picture – Drama Golden Globe\nat the\n68th Golden Globe Awards\non January 16, 2011. The film also won the awards for\nBest Director\n,\nBest Screenplay\nand\nBest Original Score\n, making it the film with the most wins of the night.\nPlot\n[\n]\nIn 2008,\nFacebook\nfounder\nMark Zuckerberg\n(\nJesse Eisenberg\n) is involved in two lawsuits, one filed by the Winklevoss twins, the other by his best friend,\nEduardo Saverin\n. The\nWinklevoss twins\nclaim that Zuckerberg stole their idea for a social networking website, and Saverin claims his shares of Facebook were diluted when the company became\nincorporated\n. The film begins with a flashback of Facebook's early history and periodically shifts to 2008, with Mark meeting his plaintiffs and lawyers during his\ndeposition\n.\nIn 2003, Erica Albright (\nRooney Mara\n) breaks up with\nHarvard University\nstudent Mark Zuckerberg. Back at his dorm, Mark gets drunk and writes a scathing blog entry about her, and is inspired to create a website that rates the attractiveness of female students when compared to each other. He downloads pictures of female students from the databases of various residence halls, and, in a few hours, using\nan algorithm\nfor ranking chess players supplied by his best friend, Eduardo Saverin, he creates a website called \"FaceMash,\" where students can choose which of two girls presented at a time is more attractive. Meanwhile, at\nthe Phoenix final club\n, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss host a party. Mark receives six months of\nacademic probation\nafter the traffic to the site brings down parts of Harvard's network, and becomes vilified among most of Harvard's female community. However, FaceMash's popularity and the fact that Mark created it in one night while drunk brings him to the attention of the Winklevoss twins and their business partner\nDivya Narendra\n(\nMax Minghella\n). As a result, he gets a job working for the Winklevoss twins as the programmer of their website,\nHarvard Connection\n.\nSoon afterward, Mark approaches Eduardo and tells him of his idea for what he calls \"Thefacebook\", an online\nsocial networking\nwebsite exclusive to Harvard University students. He explains this would let people share personal and social information securely. Eduardo agrees to help Mark, providing $1,000 to help start the site. They distribute the link to Eduardo's connections at the\nPhoenix S-K\nfinal club\n, and it quickly becomes popular throughout the student body. When they learn of Thefacebook, the Winklevoss twins and Narendra believe Zuckerberg had stolen their idea while stalling on their website. Tyler and Divya want to sue Mark for\nintellectual property theft\n, but Cameron convinces them they can settle the matter as \"gentlemen of Harvard\" without the courts.\nIn 2004, at a visiting lecture by\nBill Gates\n, fellow Harvard University student Christy Lee (\nBrenda Song\n) introduces herself and her friend Alice Cantwel to Eduardo and Mark. She asks the boys to \"Facebook us\"; Christy's use of this phrase impresses both of them. Christy invites them to a bar, where she has oral sex with Eduardo in the restroom. Later, at the bar, Mark runs into Erica, who is not aware of Thefacebook because she is not a Harvard student. Mark decides to expand the site to\nYale University\n,\nColumbia University\nand Stanford University (suggested by Eduardo) as Thefacebook grows in popularity, while the Winklevoss twins and Narendra become angrier at seeing \"their idea\" advance without them. Cameron refuses to sue them, instead accusing Mark of violating the Harvard student\nCode of Conduct\n. Through their father's connections they arrange a meeting with Harvard President\nLarry Summers\n, who is sarcastic and dismissive towards the Winklevoss twins and sees no potential value in either a disciplinary action or in Thefacebook website itself.\nThrough Christy, now Eduardo's girlfriend, Eduardo and Mark arrange a meeting with\nNapster\nco-founder\nSean Parker\n(\nJustin Timberlake\n). When Christy, Mark, and Eduardo meet Sean, Eduardo becomes skeptical noting Sean's problematic personal and professional history. Christy thinks Eduardo is jealous of Sean, and attempts to calm him to avoid a scene. Sean presents a vision for Facebook very similar to that of Mark, which earns Mark's instant admiration. In a parting comment, Sean suggests they drop the \"The\" from Thefacebook.\nAt Sean's suggestion, Mark moves the company to\nPalo Alto\n, while Eduardo remains in New York seeking advertising support. At a nightclub, Sean advises Mark to keep hold of his ownership of Facebook to ensure that Mark does not lose control of a potentially lucrative business venture, using\nVictoria's Secret\nfounder\nRoy Raymond\nas an example. After Sean promises to expand Facebook to two other continents, Mark invites Sean to live at the house he and Eduardo are renting.\nMeanwhile in\nEngland\n, while competing in the\nHenley Royal Regatta\nfor Harvard, the Winklevoss twins discover Facebook has expanded to a number of English universities. Cameron finally relents and they decide to sue. When Eduardo visits from New York, he is angered to find Sean is living in their house and is making business decisions for Facebook. Eduardo pulls Mark aside and has an argument with him, with Mark making a demeaning remark regarding Eduardo's failed attempts at finding advertisers. Fed up with Mark's attitude toward him, Eduardo freezes the company's bank account and returns to New York. Upon returning, Christy argues with Eduardo about his Facebook profile, which still lists him as \"single\". When Christy questions Eduardo about why he has not changed his Facebook profile, he tells her he does not know how to, further infuriating Christy because she believes he is lying. She accuses him of cheating on her and sets fire to a scarf he has given to her. While Eduardo extinguishes the fire, Mark reveals on the phone that although he was upset that Eduardo almost jeopardized Facebook by freezing the bank account, they have secured $500,000 from\nPeter Thiel\nacting as an\nangel investor\nthrough Parker's contacts. He breaks up with Christy for her behaviour and flies out to Palo Alto.\nEduardo soon discovers the deal he signed with Sean's investors has allowed them to\ndilute his share of the company\nfrom 34 percent to 0.03 percent, while maintaining the ownership percentage of all other parties. Devastated, he confronts Mark and announces his intention to sue him, telling him \"I'm not just coming back for 30%. I'm coming back for\neverything\n!\" Later that night, during a party celebrating Facebook's one millionth member, Sean and a number of underage Facebook interns are arrested for possession of\ncocaine\n. Sean calls Mark and tries deceiving him into believing that he had nothing to do with the incident, but Mark does not believe him and tells him to \"go home.\"\nIn the final scene, Marylin Delpy (\nRashida Jones\n), a junior lawyer for the defense informs Mark they should settle with Eduardo, since the sordid details of Facebook's founding will make a jury highly unsympathetic. The film ends with Mark sending a friend request to Erica on Facebook, and refreshing the page every few seconds waiting for a response.\nCast\n[\n]\nJesse Eisenberg\nas\nMark Zuckerberg\nAndrew Garfield\nas\nEduardo Saverin\nJustin Timberlake\nas\nSean Parker\nBrenda Song\nas Christy Lee\nArmie Hammer\nas\nCameron Winklevoss\n\/\nTyler Winklevoss\nJosh Pence\nas the\nbody double\nfor Hammer as Tyler Winklevoss\nMax Minghella\nas\nDivya Narendra\nRashida Jones\nas Marylin Delpy\n[\n2\n]\n[\n3\n]\nJoseph Mazzello\nas\nDustin Moskovitz\nRooney Mara\nas Erica Albright\nDustin Fitzsimons\nas\nThe Phoenix S-K Club\nPresident\nPatrick Mapel as\nChris Hughes\nDouglas Urbanski\nas\nLarry Summers\nWallace Langham\nas\nPeter Thiel\nDakota Johnson\nas Amelia Ritter\nMalese Jow\nas Alice Cantwel\nDenise Grayson as Gretchen\nTrevor Wright\nas Josh Thompson\nJohn Getz\nas Sy\nShelby Young\nas K.C.\nDavid Selby\nas Gage\nProduction\n[\n]\nCasting\n[\n]\nCasting began in early August 2009, and open auditions were held in various states.\nJesse Eisenberg\nwas first announced to be attached to the project in September 2009.\n[\n4\n]\n(Coincidentally, in an interview with\nDiane Sawyer\non\nABC\n's\nWorld News with Diane Sawyer\n, Zuckerberg revealed that Eisenberg's cousin, Eric Fisher, was a Facebook product designer.) Several days later,\nJustin Timberlake\nand\nAndrew Garfield\nwere confirmed to portray the roles of\nSean Parker\nand\nEduardo Saverin\n, respectively. In October 2009,\nBrenda Song\n,\nRooney Mara\n,\nArmie Hammer\n,\nShelby Young\n, and Josh Pence were cast.\n[\n5\n]\nMax Minghella\nand\nDakota Johnson\nwere also confirmed to star in the film.\n[\n5\n]\nIn a 2009 interview with\nThe Baltimore Sun\n, Eisenberg said, \"Even though I've gotten to be in some wonderful movies, this character seems so much more overtly insensitive in so many ways that seem more real to me in the best way. I don't often get cast as insensitive people, so it feels very comfortable: fresh and exciting, as if you never have to worry about the audience. Not that I worry about the audience anyway – it should be just the furthest thing from your mind.\nThe Social Network\nis the biggest relief I've ever had in a movie.\"\n[\n6\n]\nFilming\n[\n]\nPrincipal photography\nbegan in October 2009 in\nCambridge, Massachusetts\n.\n[\n7\n]\nScenes were filmed around the campuses of two Massachusetts prep schools,\nPhillips Academy\nand\nMilton Academy\n.\n[\n8\n]\nAdditional scenes were filmed on the campus of\nWheelock College\n, which was set up to be\nHarvard\n's campus.\n[\n9\n]\n(Harvard has turned down most requests for on-location filming ever since the filming of\nLove Story\n(1970), which caused significant physical damage to the campus\n[\n10\n]\n). Filming took place on the Keyser and Wyman quadrangles in the\nHomewood campus\nof\nJohns Hopkins University\nfrom November 2–4,\n[\n11\n]\nwhich also doubled for Harvard in the film.\n[\n12\n]\nThe first scene in the film, where Zuckerberg is with his girlfriend, took 99 takes to finish.\n[\n1\n]\nThe film was shot on the\nRed One\ndigital cinema camera at 4K resolution.\n[\n13\n]\nThe rowing scenes with the Winklevoss brothers were filmed at Community Rowing Inc. in Newton, MA\n[\n14\n]\nand\nHenley Royal Regatta\n.\n[\n15\n]\nAlthough a significant portion of the latter half of the film is set in\nSilicon Valley\n, the filmmakers opted to shoot those scenes in\nLos Angeles\nand\nPasadena\n.\nMiniature faking\nprocess was used in a sequence showing a rowing event at the\nHenley Royal Regatta\n.\nArmie Hammer\n, who portrayed the Winklevoss twins, acted alongside body double\nJosh Pence\nwhile his scenes were filmed. His face was later digitally grafted onto Pence's face during post-production, while other scenes used\nsplit-screen photography\n. Pence himself appears in a cameo role.\n[\n16\n]\nPence was concerned about having no face time during the role, but after consideration thought of the role as a \"no-brainer\".\n[\n17\n]\nHammer states that director David Fincher \"likes to push himself and likes to push technology\" and is \"one of the most technologically minded guys I've ever seen.\"\n[\n16\n]\nThis included sending the actors to \"twin boot camp\" for 10 months to learn everything about the Winklevosses.\n[\n17\n]\nRowing production\n[\n]\nCommunity Rowing Inc. held a casting call and a tryout for 20 rowing extras; some were graduates from Harvard,\nNortheastern University\n,\nBoston University\n,\nGeorge Washington University\n, and\nTrinity College\n, as well as local club rowers from\nUnion\nand\nRiverside\n.\n[\n18\n]\n. None of the casted rowing extras for the\nHenley Royal Regatta\nracing scene appeared in the film; filming for the race was originally planned to take place in Los Angeles, CA, but Fincher made the call to film in England during production.\n[\n19\n]\nDavid Fincher\nhired\nLoyola Marymount\ncoach Dawn Reagan to help train\nJosh Pence\nand\nArmie Hammer\n.\n[\n20\n]\nWhile  Hammer was new to the sport, Pence rowed previously at\nDartmouth College\n.\n[\n21\n]\nThe extras in\npairs\nfor the\nCharles River\nscene were casted as follows:\nTom Owston & Joe Carrol\nHenry Roosevelt & Teddy Schreck\nTyler Williamson and Matt Webb\nPerrin Hamilton & Steve Barchick\nJim Abegg & Lucas Bayley (body doubles for Hammer and Pence)\n[\n22\n]\nThe indoor rowing scene was filmed at Boston University's indoor rowing tanks. All of BU's blue oars in the scene had to be repainted to Harvard's crimson color for filming.\n[\n23\n]\nSoundtrack\n[\n]\nMain article:\nThe Social Network (soundtrack)\nOn June 1, 2010, it was announced that\nTrent Reznor\nand\nAtticus Ross\nwould score the film.\n[\n24\n]\nThe soundtrack was released September 28 in various formats under the\nNull Corporation\nlabel.\n[\n25\n]\nLeading up to the release of the soundtrack, a free five-track\nEP\nwas made available for download.\n[\n26\n]\nThe White Stripes\n' song \"\nBall and Biscuit\n\" can be heard in the opening of the film and\nThe Beatles\n' song \"\nBaby, You're a Rich Man\n\" concludes the film. Neither song appears on the soundtrack.\nReznor and Ross won the award for best original soundtrack at the 2011 Golden Globes,\n[\n27\n]\nas well as the 2011 Academy Award for Best Original Score.\nThe film itself contains 18 songs,\n[\n28\n]\nsome of which are not found on the soundtrack. These include songs from\nThe Beatles\n,\nBob Marley\n,\n10cc\n,\nGluecifer\n,\nDead Kennedys\n, and\nThe White Stripes\n.\nThe background song used in the club scene (in California) is performed by Dennis de Laat, and is called \"Sound of Violence (Main Mix)\".\n[\n29\n]\nIt does not appear on the soundtrack\nMarketing\n[\n]\nThe first theatrical poster was released on June 18, 2010.\n[\n30\n]\nThe film's first\nteaser trailer\nwas released on June 25, 2010.\n[\n31\n]\nThe second teaser was released on July 8.\n[\n32\n]\nThe full length theatrical trailer debuted on July 15, 2010, which plays an edited version of the song \"\nCreep\n\", originally by\nRadiohead\n, covered by the Belgian choir group\nScala & Kolacny Brothers\n.\n[\n33\n]\nThe trailer was then shown in theaters, prior to the films\nInception\n,\nDinner for Schmucks\n,\nSalt\n,\nEasy A\n,\nThe Virginity Hit\nand\nThe Other Guys\n.\n[\n35\n]\nAnother song used in a trailer for TV featured an instrumental version of the song \"\nGo Do\n\" from the album\nGo\nby\nJonsi\n.\nTemplate:Citation needed\nReception and response\n[\n]\nResponse by the principals\n[\n]\nThe script was leaked online in July 2009.\n[\n36\n]\n[\n37\n]\nIn November 2009,\nexecutive producer\nKevin Spacey\nsaid, \"\nThe Social Network\nis probably going to be a lot funnier than people might expect it to be.\"\n[\n38\n]\nThe Cardinal Courier\nstated that the film was about \"greed, obsession, unpredictability and sex\" and asked \"although there are over 500 million Facebook users, does this mean Facebook can become a profitable blockbuster movie?\"\n[\n39\n]\nAt the D8 conference hosted by\nD: All Things Digital\non June 2, 2010, host\nKara Swisher\ntold Zuckerberg she knew he was not happy with\nThe Social Network\nbeing based on him, to which he replied, \"I just wished that nobody made a movie of me while I was still alive.\"\n[\n40\n]\nZuckerberg stated to\nOprah Winfrey\nthat the drama and partying of the film is mostly fiction, explaining \"this is my life, so I know it's not so dramatic,\" and that he spent most of the past six years focusing, working hard, and\ncoding\nFacebook.\n[\n41\n]\nSpeaking to an audience at\nStanford University\n, Zuckerberg stated that the film portrayed his motivations for creating Facebook inaccurately; instead of an effort to \"get girls\", he says he created the site because he enjoys \"building things\".\n[\n42\n]\nHowever, he added that the film accurately depicted his real-life wardrobe, saying, \"It's interesting the stuff that they focused on getting right – like every single shirt and fleece they had in that movie is actually a shirt or fleece that I own.\"\n[\n42\n]\nFacebook co-founder\nDustin Moskovitz\ncalled the film a \"dramatization of history ... it is interesting to see my past rewritten in a way that emphasizes things that didn't matter,\" he said. According to Moskovitz:\nTemplate:Cquote\nCo-founder\nEduardo Saverin\nsaid of the film, \"[...] the movie was clearly intended to be entertainment and not a fact-based documentary.\"\n[\n43\n]\nSorkin has stated that, \"I don’t want my fidelity to be to the truth; I want it to be to storytelling. What is the big deal about accuracy purely for accuracy’s sake, and can we not have the true be the enemy of the good?\"\n[\n44\n]\nMuch of the negative response to\nThe Social Network\nhas come from\ntechnology\nwriters, some of whom saw the film as an attack on new technologies and those responsible for them.\nTemplate:Citation needed\nJournalist\nJeff Jarvis\nacknowledged the film was \"well-crafted\" but called it \"the anti-social movie\", objecting to Sorkin's decision to change various events and characters for dramatic effect, and dismissing it as \"the story that those who resist the change society is undergoing want to see.\"\n[\n45\n]\nTechnology broadcaster\nLeo Laporte\nconcurred, calling the film \"anti-geek and\nmisogynistic\n\".\n[\n46\n]\nSorkin responded to these allegations by saying, \"I was writing about a very angry and deeply misogynistic group of people\".\n[\n47\n]\nAndrew Clark of\nThe Guardian\nwrote that \"there's something insidious about this genre of [docudrama] scriptwriting,\" wondering if \"a 26-year-old businessman really deserves to have his name dragged through the mud in a murky mixture of fact and imagination for the general entertainment of the movie-viewing public?\" Clark added, \"I'm not sure whether Mark Zuckerberg is a punk, a genius or both. But I won't be seeing\nThe Social Network\nto find out.\"\n[\n48\n]\nSeveral noteworthy tech journalists and bloggers voiced their opinions of how the film portrays its real-life characters.\nMashable\nfounder and CEO\nPete Cashmore\n, blogging for\nCNN\n, said: \"If the Facebook founder [Zuckerberg] is concerned about being represented as anything but a genius with an industrious work ethic, he can breathe a sigh of relief.\"\n[\n49\n]\nJessi Hempel, a technology writer for\nFortune\nwho says she's known Zuckerberg \"for a long time\", wrote of the film:\nTemplate:Bquote\nHarvard Law School\nprofessor\nLawrence Lessig\nwrote in\nThe New Republic\nthat Sorkin's screenplay doesn’t acknowledge the \"real villain\" of the story:\nTemplate:Bquote\nIn an onstage discussion with\nThe Huffington Post\nco-founder\nArianna Huffington\n, during Advertising Week 2010 in New York, Facebook's Chief Operating Officer\nSheryl Sandberg\nsaid she had seen the film and it was \"very Hollywood\" and mainly \"fiction\". \"In real life, he [Zuckerberg] was just sitting around with his friends in front of his computer, ordering pizza,\" she declared. \"Who wants to go see that for two hours?\"\n[\n50\n]\nIndian-American\nDivya Narendra\nsaid that he was \"initially surprised\" to see himself portrayed by the non-Indian actor\nMax Minghella\n, but also admitted that the actor did a \"good job in pushing the dialogue forward and creating a sense of urgency in what was a very frustrating period.\"\n[\n51\n]\nCritical response\n[\n]\nThe Social Network\nhas received critical acclaim; Review aggregate\nRotten Tomatoes\nreports that 96% of critics have given the film a positive review based on 261 reviews, with an average score of 9\/10 and a critical consensus of: \"Impeccably scripted, beautifully directed, and filled with fine performances,\nThe Social Network\nis a riveting, ambitious example of modern filmmaking at its finest.\" It has a 100% among \"Top Critics\".\n[\n52\n]\nThe film also holds a score of 95 based on 42 reviews on\nMetacritic\n, indicating \"universal acclaim\" and making it one of the site's highest-rated movies of all time.\n[\n53\n]\nRoger Ebert\nof the\nChicago Sun-Times\n, giving it four stars, wrote: \"David Fincher's film has the rare quality of being not only as smart as its brilliant hero, but in the same way. It is cocksure, impatient, cold, exciting and instinctively perceptive.\"\n[\n54\n]\nPeter Travers\nof\nRolling Stone\n, gave the film his first full four star rating of the year and said: \"\nThe Social Network\nis the movie of the year. But Fincher and Sorkin triumph by taking it further. Lacing their scathing with an aching sadness, they define the dark irony of the past decade.\"\n[\n55\n]\nThe Harvard Crimson\nreview called it \"flawless\" and gave it five stars.\n[\n56\n]\nQuentin Tarantino\nlisted\nThe Social Network\nas one of his favorite 20 movies of the year, second to\nToy Story 3\n.\n[\n57\n]\nSome reviewers pointed out that the film plays loosely with the facts behind Facebook's founding.\nJoe Morgenstern\nin\nThe Wall Street Journal\npraised the film as exhilarating but noted: \"The biographical part takes liberties with its subject. Aaron Sorkin based his supersmart and superbly funny screenplay on a contentious book, Ben Mezrich's\nThe Accidental Billionaires\n, so everything that's seen isn't necessarily to be believed.\"\n[\n58\n]\nThe film won Best Picture from the\nNational Society of Film Critics\n, the\nNew York Film Critics Circle\n, the\nLos Angeles Film Critics Association\nand the\nNational Board of Review\n, making it only the third film in history (after\nSchindler's List\nand\nL. A. Confidential\n) to sweep the \"Big Four\" critics.\n[\n59\n]\nThe film also won the \"Hollywood Ensemble Award\" from the Hollywood Awards.\n[\n60\n]\n[\n61\n]\nThe Social Network\nappeared on 78 critics' top 10 list for 2010, of those critics 22 had the film in their number one spot.\n[\n62\n]\nTop ten lists\n[\n]\nThe film appeared on many critics' top ten lists of the best films of 2010.\nCite error: Invalid parameter in\n<ref>\ntag\n1st –\nPeter Travers\n,\nRolling Stone\n(declared it \"movie of the year\" as early as October 2010)\n1st –\nRoger Ebert\n,\nChicago Sun-Times\n1st –\nChristy Lemire\n,\nAssociated Press\n1st – Andrea Grunvall,\nChicago Reader\n1st – Owen Gleiberman,\nEntertainment Weekly\n1st - Lisa Schwarzbaum,\nEntertainment Weekly\n1st - Betsy Sharkey,\nLos Angeles Times\n1st - Kenneth Turan,\nLos Angeles Times\n1st - Rene Rodriguez,\nMiami Herald\n1st - Jim Emerson,\nMSN Movies\n1st - Dave McCoy,\nMSN Movies\n1st - Mary Pols,\nMSN Movies\n1st - Stephen Holden,\nThe New York Times\n1st -\nDavid Denby\n,\nThe New Yorker\n1st -\nNow Magazine\n1st - Tim Robey,\nTelegraph\n1st - Joshua Rothkopf,\nTime Out New York\n1st - Ann Hornaday,\nWashington Post\n2nd –\nTy Burr\n,\nBoston Globe\n2nd – Steve Ramos,\nBoxoffice Magazine\n2nd –\nEmpire\n2nd – Kirk Honeycutt,\nThe Hollywood Reporter\n2nd – Todd McCarthy,\nThe Hollywood Reporter\n2nd – Sean Axmaker,\nMSN Movies\n2nd – Glenn Kenny,\nMSN Movies\n2nd – Kim Morgan,\nMSN Movies\n2nd – Richard Broady,\nThe New Yorker\n2nd – Philip French,\nThe Observer\n2nd – Tasha Robinson,\nThe Onion A.V. Club\n2nd – David Fear,\nTime Out New York\n3rd –\nRichard Roeper\n,\nChicago Sun-Times\n3rd –\nBen Mankiewicz\n4th – Roger Moore,\nOrlando Sentinel\n5th – Colin Covert,\nMinnesota Star Tribune\n6th – Jeremy Jahns,\nYouTube\n7th –\nMichael Phillips\n,\nChicago Tribune\n9th –\nJames Berardinelli\n,\nReelViews\n10th – David Germaine,\nAssociated Press\nBox office\n[\n]\nDuring its opening weekend in the United States, the film debuted at #1, grossing $22.4 million in 2,771 theaters.\n[\n63\n]\nThe film retained the top spot in its second weekend, dropping only 31.2%,\n[\n63\n]\nbreaking\nInception\nTemplate:'s\n32.0% record as the smallest second weekend drop for any number-one film of 2010, while being the third smallest overall behind\nSecretariat\nTemplate:'s\n25.1% drop and\nTooth Fairy\nTemplate:'s\n28.6% drop. As of February 27, 2011, the film has grossed $96,962,694 in the United States and $127,621,116 elsewhere, for a worldwide total of $224,583,810.\n[\n64\n]\nAccolades\n[\n]\nMain article:\nList of accolades received by The Social Network\nThe Social Network\nwon the\nBest Motion Picture – Drama Golden Globe\nat the\n68th Golden Globe Awards\non January 16, 2011.\n[\n65\n]\nThe film also won the awards for\nBest Director\n,\nBest Screenplay\nand\nBest Original Score\n, making it the film with the most wins of the night.\n[\n66\n]\nThe film was nominated for seven\nBritish Academy Film Awards\n, including\nBest Film\n,\nLeading Actor\n(Jesse Eisenberg),\nSupporting Actor\n(Andrew Garfield) and\nRising Star\n(Andrew Garfield) won three for\nBest Editing\n,\nAdapted Screenplay\nand\nBest Direction\non February 13, 2011.\n[\n67\n]\nThe Social Network\nreceived nominations for eight\nAcademy Awards\n, including\nBest Picture\n,\nBest Actor\n,\nBest Cinematography\n,\nBest Director\n,\nBest Film Editing\n,\nBest Original Score\n,\nBest Sound\nand\nBest Adapted Screenplay\n.\n[\n68\n]\nIt won three for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, and Best Film Editing at the\n83rd Academy Awards\non February 27, 2011.\nHome media\n[\n]\nThe Social Network\nwas released on\nDVD\nand\nBlu-ray\nJanuary 11, 2011. In its first week of release, DVD sales totaled $13,470,305 and it was the number one sold DVD of the week.\n[\n69\n]\nThe DVD includes an\naudio commentary\nwith director\nDavid Fincher\n, and a second commentary with writer\nAaron Sorkin\nand the cast. The Blu-ray and 2-Disc DVD releases include the commentaries, along with a feature length documentary,\nHow Did They Ever Make a Movie of Facebook?\n, featurettes,\nAngus Wall, Kirk Baxter and Ren Klyce on Post\n,\nTrent Reznor, Atticus Ross and David Fincher on the Score\n,\nIn the Hall of the Mountain King: Reznor's First Draft\n,\nSwarmatron\n,\nJeff Cronenweth and David Fincher on the Visuals\n, and a Ruby Skye VIP Room: Multi-Angle Scene Breakdown feature.\n[\n70\n]\nSee also\n[\n]\nTemplate:Portalbox\nThe Winklevoss Chang Group\n, the alleged partnership between\nConnectU\nand\ni2hub\nPirates of Silicon Valley\nTemplate:-\nReferences\n[\n]\n↑\n1.0\n1.1\nHarris, Mark,\n\"Inventing Facebook\"\n,\nNew York\n, September 17, 2010.\n↑\nTomio, Jay (December 9, 2009).\"\nRashida Jones in Fincher's The Social Network\n\".\nBSCreview\n. Retrieved on February 5, 2010.\n↑\nNemiroff, Perri (July 8, 2010).\"\nThe Social Network's Second Teaser Trailer Makes Its Point Via Status Updates\n\".\nShockya\n. Retrieved on July 9, 2010.\n↑\n\"\nFacebook Cast Confirmed\n\". September 23, 2009.\nThe Playlist\n. Retrieved on November 19, 2009.\n↑\n5.0\n5.1\n\"\n0\/20\/2009 Max Minghella, Rooney Mara, Dakota Johnson & More Join David Fincher's 'Social Network'\n\". October 20, 2009.\nThe Playlist\n. Retrieved on November 19, 2009.\n↑\n\"\nJesse Eisenberg takes on a darker role as one of the founders of Facebook\n\". November 13, 2009.\nThe Baltimore Sun\n. Retrieved on November 19, 2009.\n↑\nFischer, Russ (October 20, 2009). \"\nCasting Notes: Selena Gomez in Teen Rom Com; The Social Network Gets New Kids; The Whistleblower Gets Proven Talent\n\".\n\/Film\n. Retrieved on October 20, 2009.\n↑\n\"\nFacebook Movie Shoots on Campus\n\". 2009.\nPhillips Academy\n. Retrieved on November 3, 2009.\nTemplate:Dead link\n↑\n\"\nMajor motion picture filmed at Wheelock\n\". October 19, 2009.\nWheelock College\n. Retrieved on March 20, 2010.\n↑\nNathaniel L. Schwartz,\n\"University, Hollywood Relationship Not Always a 'Love Story'\"\n,\nHarvard Crimson\n, 21 September 1999.\n↑\nO'Neill, Nick (November 2, 2009).\"\nPictures Of Today's Filming Of \"The Social Network\" At Johns Hopkins\n\".\nAllfacebook.com\n. Retrieved on November 19, 2009.\n↑\n\"\nHollywood crew arrives at Homewood for Facebook movie: Color us crimson\n\". November 3, 2009.\nThe JHU Gazette\n. Retrieved on November 3, 2009.\n↑\nTemplate:Cite web\n↑\nTemplate:Cite web\n↑\nThe Social Network in Henley and Windsor\n. FILMdetail (2010-09-29). Retrieved on 2011-01-28.\n↑\n16.0\n16.1\nTemplate:Cite web\n↑\n17.0\n17.1\nTemplate:Cite web\n↑\nTemplate:Cite news\n↑\nTemplate:Cite news\n↑\nTemplate:Cite news\n↑\nTemplate:Cite news\n↑\nTemplate:Cite news\n↑\nTemplate:Cite news\n↑\nTemplate:Cite web\n↑\nTemplate:Cite web\n↑\nTemplate:Cite web\n↑\nTemplate:Cite web\n↑\nSocial Network, The [2010] Soundtrack @ what-song\n. What-song.com. Retrieved on 2011-01-28.\n↑\nThe song from the club scene in \"The Social Network\"\n. triggla (2010-10-04). Retrieved on 2011-01-28.\n↑\nTemplate:Cite web\n↑\nTemplate:Cite web\n↑\nTemplate:Cite web\n↑\nTemplate:Cite news\n↑\n[1]\nTemplate:Dead link\n↑\nTemplate:Cite web\n↑\nHarlow, John (2010-05-16).\n\"Movie depicts seamy life of Facebook boss\"\n. Timesonline.co.uk. Retrieved 2010-09-23.\n↑\nDitzian, Eric. (October 11, 2009). \"\nKevin Spacey Says 'The Social Network' Will Be 'A Lot Funnier' Than You Think\n\".\nMTV\n. Retrieved on November 19, 2009.\n↑\nTemplate:Cite news\n↑\nTemplate:Cite web\n↑\nTemplate:Cite web\n↑\n42.0\n42.1\nTemplate:Cite news\n↑\nTemplate:Cite web\n↑\nTemplate:Cite news\n↑\nTemplate:Cite web\n↑\nTemplate:Cite web\n↑\nTemplate:Cite web\n↑\nTemplate:Cite news\n↑\nTemplate:Cite news\n↑\nTemplate:Cite web\n↑\nTemplate:Cite news\n↑\nTemplate:Cite web\n↑\nTemplate:Cite web\n↑\nTemplate:Cite web\nTemplate:Rating\n↑\nTemplate:Cite web\nTemplate:Rating\n↑\nTemplate:Cite web\nTemplate:Rating\n↑\nTemplate:Cite web\n↑\nTemplate:Cite web\n↑\nTemplate:Cite web\n↑\nTemplate:Cite web\n↑\nTemplate:Cite web\n↑\nTemplate:Cite web\n↑\n63.0\n63.1\nCite error: Invalid\n<ref>\ntag; no text was provided for refs named\nmojo\n↑\nThe Social Network\nBox Office Mojo'.' 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Pictures films\")\n\n# The Social Network\n[Sign in to edit](https:\/\/auth.fandom.com\/signin?redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fhowitshouldhaveended.fandom.com%2Fwiki%2FThe_Social_Network%3Fveaction%3Dedit&uselang=en)\n\n- [History](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network?action=history)\n- [Purge](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network?action=purge)\n- [Talk (0)](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/Talk:The_Social_Network?action=edit&redlink=1)\n\nTemplate:Infobox film ***The Social Network*** is a 2010 drama film about the founding of the social networking website Facebook and the resulting lawsuits. The film was directed by David Fincher and features a cast including Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake, Brenda Song, Armie Hammer, Max Minghella, Rashida Jones, Joseph Mazzello, and Rooney Mara.\n\nAaron Sorkin's screenplay adapts Ben Mezrich's 2009 book *The Accidental Billionaires*. Sorkin makes a cameo appearance as an unimpressed advertiser. Neither founder Mark Zuckerberg nor any other member of Facebook was involved with the project, although Eduardo Saverin was a consultant for Mezrich.[\\[1\\]](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#cite_note-newyork-1) The film was released in the United States by Columbia Pictures on October 1, 2010.\n\nThe film received widespread acclaim, with numerous critics praising it for its editing, acting, score and screenplay. *The Social Network* appeared on 78 critics' top 10 list for 2010, of those critics 22 had the film in their number one spot. Rolling Stone's Peter Travers said \"*The Social Network* is the movie of the year. But Fincher and Sorkin triumph by taking it further. Lacing their scathing wit with an aching sadness, they define the dark irony of the past decade.\" It received eight Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director (David Fincher), and Best Actor (Jesse Eisenberg), and won three for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, and Best Film Editing. It also won the Best Motion Picture – Drama Golden Globe at the 68th Golden Globe Awards on January 16, 2011. The film also won the awards for Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Original Score, making it the film with the most wins of the night.\n\n## Contents\n- [1 Plot](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#Plot)\n- [2 Cast](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#Cast)\n- [3 Production](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#Production)\n  - [3\\.1 Casting](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#Casting)\n  - [3\\.2 Filming](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#Filming)\n    - [3\\.2.1 Rowing production](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#Rowing_production)\n  - [3\\.3 Soundtrack](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#Soundtrack)\n- [4 Marketing](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#Marketing)\n- [5 Reception and response](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#Reception_and_response)\n  - [5\\.1 Response by the principals](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#Response_by_the_principals)\n  - [5\\.2 Critical response](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#Critical_response)\n    - [5\\.2.1 Top ten lists](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#Top_ten_lists)\n  - [5\\.3 Box office](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#Box_office)\n  - [5\\.4 Accolades](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#Accolades)\n  - [5\\.5 Home media](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#Home_media)\n- [6 See also](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#See_also)\n- [7 References](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#References)\n- [8 External links](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#External_links)\n## Plot\\[ \\]\nIn 2008, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) is involved in two lawsuits, one filed by the Winklevoss twins, the other by his best friend, Eduardo Saverin. The Winklevoss twins claim that Zuckerberg stole their idea for a social networking website, and Saverin claims his shares of Facebook were diluted when the company became incorporated. The film begins with a flashback of Facebook's early history and periodically shifts to 2008, with Mark meeting his plaintiffs and lawyers during his deposition.\n\nIn 2003, Erica Albright (Rooney Mara) breaks up with Harvard University student Mark Zuckerberg. Back at his dorm, Mark gets drunk and writes a scathing blog entry about her, and is inspired to create a website that rates the attractiveness of female students when compared to each other. He downloads pictures of female students from the databases of various residence halls, and, in a few hours, using an algorithm for ranking chess players supplied by his best friend, Eduardo Saverin, he creates a website called \"FaceMash,\" where students can choose which of two girls presented at a time is more attractive. Meanwhile, at the Phoenix final club, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss host a party. Mark receives six months of academic probation after the traffic to the site brings down parts of Harvard's network, and becomes vilified among most of Harvard's female community. However, FaceMash's popularity and the fact that Mark created it in one night while drunk brings him to the attention of the Winklevoss twins and their business partner Divya Narendra (Max Minghella). As a result, he gets a job working for the Winklevoss twins as the programmer of their website, Harvard Connection.\n\nSoon afterward, Mark approaches Eduardo and tells him of his idea for what he calls \"Thefacebook\", an online social networking website exclusive to Harvard University students. He explains this would let people share personal and social information securely. Eduardo agrees to help Mark, providing \\$1,000 to help start the site. They distribute the link to Eduardo's connections at the Phoenix S-K final club, and it quickly becomes popular throughout the student body. When they learn of Thefacebook, the Winklevoss twins and Narendra believe Zuckerberg had stolen their idea while stalling on their website. Tyler and Divya want to sue Mark for intellectual property theft, but Cameron convinces them they can settle the matter as \"gentlemen of Harvard\" without the courts.\n\nIn 2004, at a visiting lecture by Bill Gates, fellow Harvard University student Christy Lee (Brenda Song) introduces herself and her friend Alice Cantwel to Eduardo and Mark. She asks the boys to \"Facebook us\"; Christy's use of this phrase impresses both of them. Christy invites them to a bar, where she has oral sex with Eduardo in the restroom. Later, at the bar, Mark runs into Erica, who is not aware of Thefacebook because she is not a Harvard student. Mark decides to expand the site to Yale University, Columbia University and Stanford University (suggested by Eduardo) as Thefacebook grows in popularity, while the Winklevoss twins and Narendra become angrier at seeing \"their idea\" advance without them. Cameron refuses to sue them, instead accusing Mark of violating the Harvard student Code of Conduct. Through their father's connections they arrange a meeting with Harvard President Larry Summers, who is sarcastic and dismissive towards the Winklevoss twins and sees no potential value in either a disciplinary action or in Thefacebook website itself.\n\nThrough Christy, now Eduardo's girlfriend, Eduardo and Mark arrange a meeting with Napster co-founder Sean Parker (Justin Timberlake). When Christy, Mark, and Eduardo meet Sean, Eduardo becomes skeptical noting Sean's problematic personal and professional history. Christy thinks Eduardo is jealous of Sean, and attempts to calm him to avoid a scene. Sean presents a vision for Facebook very similar to that of Mark, which earns Mark's instant admiration. In a parting comment, Sean suggests they drop the \"The\" from Thefacebook.\n\nAt Sean's suggestion, Mark moves the company to Palo Alto, while Eduardo remains in New York seeking advertising support. At a nightclub, Sean advises Mark to keep hold of his ownership of Facebook to ensure that Mark does not lose control of a potentially lucrative business venture, using Victoria's Secret founder Roy Raymond as an example. After Sean promises to expand Facebook to two other continents, Mark invites Sean to live at the house he and Eduardo are renting.\n\nMeanwhile in England, while competing in the Henley Royal Regatta for Harvard, the Winklevoss twins discover Facebook has expanded to a number of English universities. Cameron finally relents and they decide to sue. When Eduardo visits from New York, he is angered to find Sean is living in their house and is making business decisions for Facebook. Eduardo pulls Mark aside and has an argument with him, with Mark making a demeaning remark regarding Eduardo's failed attempts at finding advertisers. Fed up with Mark's attitude toward him, Eduardo freezes the company's bank account and returns to New York. Upon returning, Christy argues with Eduardo about his Facebook profile, which still lists him as \"single\". When Christy questions Eduardo about why he has not changed his Facebook profile, he tells her he does not know how to, further infuriating Christy because she believes he is lying. She accuses him of cheating on her and sets fire to a scarf he has given to her. While Eduardo extinguishes the fire, Mark reveals on the phone that although he was upset that Eduardo almost jeopardized Facebook by freezing the bank account, they have secured \\$500,000 from Peter Thiel acting as an angel investor through Parker's contacts. He breaks up with Christy for her behaviour and flies out to Palo Alto.\n\nEduardo soon discovers the deal he signed with Sean's investors has allowed them to dilute his share of the company from 34 percent to 0.03 percent, while maintaining the ownership percentage of all other parties. Devastated, he confronts Mark and announces his intention to sue him, telling him \"I'm not just coming back for 30%. I'm coming back for *everything*!\" Later that night, during a party celebrating Facebook's one millionth member, Sean and a number of underage Facebook interns are arrested for possession of cocaine. Sean calls Mark and tries deceiving him into believing that he had nothing to do with the incident, but Mark does not believe him and tells him to \"go home.\"\n\nIn the final scene, Marylin Delpy (Rashida Jones), a junior lawyer for the defense informs Mark they should settle with Eduardo, since the sordid details of Facebook's founding will make a jury highly unsympathetic. The film ends with Mark sending a friend request to Erica on Facebook, and refreshing the page every few seconds waiting for a response.\n\n## Cast\\[ \\]\n- Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg\n- Andrew Garfield as Eduardo Saverin\n- Justin Timberlake as Sean Parker\n- Brenda Song as Christy Lee\n- Armie Hammer as Cameron Winklevoss\/Tyler Winklevoss\n- Josh Pence as the body double for Hammer as Tyler Winklevoss\n- Max Minghella as Divya Narendra\n- Rashida Jones as Marylin Delpy[\\[2\\]](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#cite_note-2)[\\[3\\]](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#cite_note-3)\n- Joseph Mazzello as Dustin Moskovitz\n- Rooney Mara as Erica Albright\n- Dustin Fitzsimons as The Phoenix S-K Club President\n- Patrick Mapel as Chris Hughes\n- Douglas Urbanski as Larry Summers\n- Wallace Langham as Peter Thiel\n- Dakota Johnson as Amelia Ritter\n- Malese Jow as Alice Cantwel\n- Denise Grayson as Gretchen\n- Trevor Wright as Josh Thompson\n- John Getz as Sy\n- Shelby Young as K.C.\n- David Selby as Gage\n## Production\\[ \\]\n### Casting\\[ \\]\nCasting began in early August 2009, and open auditions were held in various states. Jesse Eisenberg was first announced to be attached to the project in September 2009.[\\[4\\]](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#cite_note-4) (Coincidentally, in an interview with Diane Sawyer on ABC's *World News with Diane Sawyer*, Zuckerberg revealed that Eisenberg's cousin, Eric Fisher, was a Facebook product designer.) Several days later, Justin Timberlake and Andrew Garfield were confirmed to portray the roles of Sean Parker and Eduardo Saverin, respectively. In October 2009, Brenda Song, Rooney Mara, Armie Hammer, Shelby Young, and Josh Pence were cast.[\\[5\\]](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#cite_note-playlist-5) Max Minghella and Dakota Johnson were also confirmed to star in the film.[\\[5\\]](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#cite_note-playlist-5) In a 2009 interview with *The Baltimore Sun*, Eisenberg said, \"Even though I've gotten to be in some wonderful movies, this character seems so much more overtly insensitive in so many ways that seem more real to me in the best way. I don't often get cast as insensitive people, so it feels very comfortable: fresh and exciting, as if you never have to worry about the audience. Not that I worry about the audience anyway – it should be just the furthest thing from your mind. *The Social Network* is the biggest relief I've ever had in a movie.\"[\\[6\\]](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#cite_note-6)\n\n### Filming\\[ \\]\nPrincipal photography began in October 2009 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[\\[7\\]](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#cite_note-\/Film-2009-10-20-7) Scenes were filmed around the campuses of two Massachusetts prep schools, Phillips Academy and Milton Academy.[\\[8\\]](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#cite_note-8) Additional scenes were filmed on the campus of Wheelock College, which was set up to be Harvard's campus.[\\[9\\]](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#cite_note-9) (Harvard has turned down most requests for on-location filming ever since the filming of *Love Story* (1970), which caused significant physical damage to the campus[\\[10\\]](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#cite_note-10)). Filming took place on the Keyser and Wyman quadrangles in the Homewood campus of Johns Hopkins University from November 2–4,[\\[11\\]](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#cite_note-11) which also doubled for Harvard in the film.[\\[12\\]](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#cite_note-12) The first scene in the film, where Zuckerberg is with his girlfriend, took 99 takes to finish.[\\[1\\]](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#cite_note-newyork-1) The film was shot on the Red One digital cinema camera at 4K resolution.[\\[13\\]](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#cite_note-13) The rowing scenes with the Winklevoss brothers were filmed at Community Rowing Inc. in Newton, MA[\\[14\\]](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#cite_note-14) and Henley Royal Regatta.[\\[15\\]](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#cite_note-15) Although a significant portion of the latter half of the film is set in Silicon Valley, the filmmakers opted to shoot those scenes in Los Angeles and Pasadena. Miniature faking process was used in a sequence showing a rowing event at the Henley Royal Regatta.\n\nArmie Hammer, who portrayed the Winklevoss twins, acted alongside body double Josh Pence while his scenes were filmed. His face was later digitally grafted onto Pence's face during post-production, while other scenes used split-screen photography. Pence himself appears in a cameo role.[\\[16\\]](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#cite_note-NY_Mag-16) Pence was concerned about having no face time during the role, but after consideration thought of the role as a \"no-brainer\".[\\[17\\]](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#cite_note-pencePost-17) Hammer states that director David Fincher \"likes to push himself and likes to push technology\" and is \"one of the most technologically minded guys I've ever seen.\"[\\[16\\]](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#cite_note-NY_Mag-16) This included sending the actors to \"twin boot camp\" for 10 months to learn everything about the Winklevosses.[\\[17\\]](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#cite_note-pencePost-17)\n\n##### Rowing production\\[ \\]\nCommunity Rowing Inc. held a casting call and a tryout for 20 rowing extras; some were graduates from Harvard, Northeastern University, Boston University, George Washington University, and Trinity College, as well as local club rowers from Union and Riverside.[\\[18\\]](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#cite_note-18). None of the casted rowing extras for the Henley Royal Regatta racing scene appeared in the film; filming for the race was originally planned to take place in Los Angeles, CA, but Fincher made the call to film in England during production.[\\[19\\]](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#cite_note-19)\n\nDavid Fincher hired Loyola Marymount coach Dawn Reagan to help train Josh Pence and Armie Hammer.[\\[20\\]](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#cite_note-20) While Hammer was new to the sport, Pence rowed previously at Dartmouth College.[\\[21\\]](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#cite_note-21)\n\nThe extras in pairs for the Charles River scene were casted as follows:\n\n- Tom Owston & Joe Carrol\n- Henry Roosevelt & Teddy Schreck\n- Tyler Williamson and Matt Webb\n- Perrin Hamilton & Steve Barchick\n- Jim Abegg & Lucas Bayley (body doubles for Hammer and Pence)[\\[22\\]](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#cite_note-22)\n\nThe indoor rowing scene was filmed at Boston University's indoor rowing tanks. All of BU's blue oars in the scene had to be repainted to Harvard's crimson color for filming.[\\[23\\]](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#cite_note-23)\n\n### Soundtrack\\[ \\]\n*Main article: The Social Network (soundtrack)*\n\nOn June 1, 2010, it was announced that Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross would score the film.[\\[24\\]](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#cite_note-24) The soundtrack was released September 28 in various formats under the Null Corporation label.[\\[25\\]](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#cite_note-25) Leading up to the release of the soundtrack, a free five-track EP was made available for download.[\\[26\\]](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#cite_note-26) The White Stripes' song \"Ball and Biscuit\" can be heard in the opening of the film and The Beatles' song \"Baby, You're a Rich Man\" concludes the film. Neither song appears on the soundtrack.\n\nReznor and Ross won the award for best original soundtrack at the 2011 Golden Globes,[\\[27\\]](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#cite_note-27) as well as the 2011 Academy Award for Best Original Score.\n\nThe film itself contains 18 songs,[\\[28\\]](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#cite_note-28) some of which are not found on the soundtrack. These include songs from The Beatles, Bob Marley, 10cc, Gluecifer, Dead Kennedys, and The White Stripes.\n\nThe background song used in the club scene (in California) is performed by Dennis de Laat, and is called \"Sound of Violence (Main Mix)\".[\\[29\\]](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#cite_note-29) It does not appear on the soundtrack\n\n## Marketing\\[ \\]\nThe first theatrical poster was released on June 18, 2010.[\\[30\\]](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#cite_note-30) The film's first teaser trailer was released on June 25, 2010.[\\[31\\]](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#cite_note-31) The second teaser was released on July 8.[\\[32\\]](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#cite_note-32) The full length theatrical trailer debuted on July 15, 2010, which plays an edited version of the song \"Creep\", originally by Radiohead, covered by the Belgian choir group Scala & Kolacny Brothers.[\\[33\\]](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#cite_note-33)[\\[34\\]](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#cite_note-CreepinTheSocialNetwork-34) The trailer was then shown in theaters, prior to the films *[Inception](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/Inception \"Inception\")*, *Dinner for Schmucks*, *Salt*, *Easy A*, *The Virginity Hit* and *The Other Guys*.[\\[35\\]](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#cite_note-35) Another song used in a trailer for TV featured an instrumental version of the song \"Go Do\" from the album *Go* by Jonsi.Template:Citation needed\n\n## Reception and response\\[ \\]\n### Response by the principals\\[ \\]\nThe script was leaked online in July 2009.[\\[36\\]](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#cite_note-36)[\\[37\\]](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#cite_note-37) In November 2009, executive producer Kevin Spacey said, \"*The Social Network* is probably going to be a lot funnier than people might expect it to be.\"[\\[38\\]](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#cite_note-38) *The Cardinal Courier* stated that the film was about \"greed, obsession, unpredictability and sex\" and asked \"although there are over 500 million Facebook users, does this mean Facebook can become a profitable blockbuster movie?\"[\\[39\\]](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#cite_note-surprise-39) At the D8 conference hosted by D: All Things Digital on June 2, 2010, host Kara Swisher told Zuckerberg she knew he was not happy with *The Social Network* being based on him, to which he replied, \"I just wished that nobody made a movie of me while I was still alive.\"[\\[40\\]](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#cite_note-40) Zuckerberg stated to Oprah Winfrey that the drama and partying of the film is mostly fiction, explaining \"this is my life, so I know it's not so dramatic,\" and that he spent most of the past six years focusing, working hard, and coding Facebook.[\\[41\\]](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#cite_note-41) Speaking to an audience at Stanford University, Zuckerberg stated that the film portrayed his motivations for creating Facebook inaccurately; instead of an effort to \"get girls\", he says he created the site because he enjoys \"building things\".[\\[42\\]](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#cite_note-The_Guardian-42) However, he added that the film accurately depicted his real-life wardrobe, saying, \"It's interesting the stuff that they focused on getting right – like every single shirt and fleece they had in that movie is actually a shirt or fleece that I own.\"[\\[42\\]](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#cite_note-The_Guardian-42)\n\nFacebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz called the film a \"dramatization of history ... it is interesting to see my past rewritten in a way that emphasizes things that didn't matter,\" he said. According to Moskovitz: Template:Cquote\n\nCo-founder Eduardo Saverin said of the film, \"\\[...\\] the movie was clearly intended to be entertainment and not a fact-based documentary.\"[\\[43\\]](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#cite_note-43)\n\nSorkin has stated that, \"I don’t want my fidelity to be to the truth; I want it to be to storytelling. What is the big deal about accuracy purely for accuracy’s sake, and can we not have the true be the enemy of the good?\"[\\[44\\]](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#cite_note-44)\n\nMuch of the negative response to *The Social Network* has come from technology writers, some of whom saw the film as an attack on new technologies and those responsible for them.Template:Citation needed Journalist Jeff Jarvis acknowledged the film was \"well-crafted\" but called it \"the anti-social movie\", objecting to Sorkin's decision to change various events and characters for dramatic effect, and dismissing it as \"the story that those who resist the change society is undergoing want to see.\"[\\[45\\]](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#cite_note-45) Technology broadcaster Leo Laporte concurred, calling the film \"anti-geek and misogynistic\".[\\[46\\]](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#cite_note-46) Sorkin responded to these allegations by saying, \"I was writing about a very angry and deeply misogynistic group of people\".[\\[47\\]](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#cite_note-Woman_Problem-47)\n\nAndrew Clark of *The Guardian* wrote that \"there's something insidious about this genre of \\[docudrama\\] scriptwriting,\" wondering if \"a 26-year-old businessman really deserves to have his name dragged through the mud in a murky mixture of fact and imagination for the general entertainment of the movie-viewing public?\" Clark added, \"I'm not sure whether Mark Zuckerberg is a punk, a genius or both. But I won't be seeing *The Social Network* to find out.\"[\\[48\\]](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#cite_note-48)\n\nSeveral noteworthy tech journalists and bloggers voiced their opinions of how the film portrays its real-life characters. Mashable founder and CEO Pete Cashmore, blogging for CNN, said: \"If the Facebook founder \\[Zuckerberg\\] is concerned about being represented as anything but a genius with an industrious work ethic, he can breathe a sigh of relief.\"[\\[49\\]](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#cite_note-49) Jessi Hempel, a technology writer for *Fortune* who says she's known Zuckerberg \"for a long time\", wrote of the film: Template:Bquote\n\nHarvard Law School professor Lawrence Lessig wrote in *The New Republic* that Sorkin's screenplay doesn’t acknowledge the \"real villain\" of the story: Template:Bquote\n\nIn an onstage discussion with *The Huffington Post* co-founder Arianna Huffington, during Advertising Week 2010 in New York, Facebook's Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg said she had seen the film and it was \"very Hollywood\" and mainly \"fiction\". \"In real life, he \\[Zuckerberg\\] was just sitting around with his friends in front of his computer, ordering pizza,\" she declared. \"Who wants to go see that for two hours?\"[\\[50\\]](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#cite_note-50)\n\nIndian-American Divya Narendra said that he was \"initially surprised\" to see himself portrayed by the non-Indian actor Max Minghella, but also admitted that the actor did a \"good job in pushing the dialogue forward and creating a sense of urgency in what was a very frustrating period.\"[\\[51\\]](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#cite_note-51)\n\n### Critical response\\[ \\]\n*The Social Network* has received critical acclaim; Review aggregate Rotten Tomatoes reports that 96% of critics have given the film a positive review based on 261 reviews, with an average score of 9\/10 and a critical consensus of: \"Impeccably scripted, beautifully directed, and filled with fine performances, *The Social Network* is a riveting, ambitious example of modern filmmaking at its finest.\" It has a 100% among \"Top Critics\".[\\[52\\]](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#cite_note-52) The film also holds a score of 95 based on 42 reviews on Metacritic, indicating \"universal acclaim\" and making it one of the site's highest-rated movies of all time.[\\[53\\]](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#cite_note-53)\n\nRoger Ebert of the *Chicago Sun-Times*, giving it four stars, wrote: \"David Fincher's film has the rare quality of being not only as smart as its brilliant hero, but in the same way. It is cocksure, impatient, cold, exciting and instinctively perceptive.\"[\\[54\\]](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#cite_note-54) Peter Travers of *Rolling Stone*, gave the film his first full four star rating of the year and said: \"*The Social Network* is the movie of the year. But Fincher and Sorkin triumph by taking it further. Lacing their scathing with an aching sadness, they define the dark irony of the past decade.\"[\\[55\\]](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#cite_note-55) *The Harvard Crimson* review called it \"flawless\" and gave it five stars.[\\[56\\]](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#cite_note-56) Quentin Tarantino listed *The Social Network* as one of his favorite 20 movies of the year, second to *[Toy Story 3](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/Toy_Story_3 \"Toy Story 3\")*.[\\[57\\]](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#cite_note-57)\n\nSome reviewers pointed out that the film plays loosely with the facts behind Facebook's founding. Joe Morgenstern in *The Wall Street Journal* praised the film as exhilarating but noted: \"The biographical part takes liberties with its subject. Aaron Sorkin based his supersmart and superbly funny screenplay on a contentious book, Ben Mezrich's *The Accidental Billionaires*, so everything that's seen isn't necessarily to be believed.\"[\\[58\\]](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#cite_note-58)\n\nThe film won Best Picture from the National Society of Film Critics, the New York Film Critics Circle, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and the National Board of Review, making it only the third film in history (after *Schindler's List* and *L. A. Confidential*) to sweep the \"Big Four\" critics. [\\[59\\]](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#cite_note-59) The film also won the \"Hollywood Ensemble Award\" from the Hollywood Awards.[\\[60\\]](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#cite_note-60)[\\[61\\]](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#cite_note-61) *The Social Network* appeared on 78 critics' top 10 list for 2010, of those critics 22 had the film in their number one spot.[\\[62\\]](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#cite_note-62)\n\n#### Top ten lists\\[ \\]\nThe film appeared on many critics' top ten lists of the best films of 2010.Cite error: Invalid parameter in `<ref>` tag\n\n|   |   |\n|---|---|\n| 1st – Peter Travers, *Rolling Stone* (declared it \"movie of the year\" as early as October 2010) 1st – Roger Ebert, *Chicago Sun-Times* 1st – Christy Lemire, Associated Press 1st – Andrea Grunvall, *Chicago Reader* 1st – Owen Gleiberman, *Entertainment Weekly* 1st - Lisa Schwarzbaum, *Entertainment Weekly* 1st - Betsy Sharkey, *Los Angeles Times* 1st - Kenneth Turan, *Los Angeles Times* 1st - Rene Rodriguez, *Miami Herald* 1st - Jim Emerson, *MSN Movies* 1st - Dave McCoy, *MSN Movies* 1st - Mary Pols, *MSN Movies* 1st - Stephen Holden, *The New York Times* 1st - David Denby, *The New Yorker* 1st - Now Magazine 1st - Tim Robey, *Telegraph* 1st - Joshua Rothkopf, *Time Out New York* 1st - Ann Hornaday, *Washington Post* 2nd – Ty Burr, *Boston Globe* | 2nd – Steve Ramos, *Boxoffice Magazine* 2nd – Empire 2nd – Kirk Honeycutt, *The Hollywood Reporter* 2nd – Todd McCarthy, *The Hollywood Reporter* 2nd – Sean Axmaker, *MSN Movies* 2nd – Glenn Kenny, *MSN Movies* 2nd – Kim Morgan, *MSN Movies* 2nd – Richard Broady, *The New Yorker* 2nd – Philip French, *The Observer* 2nd – Tasha Robinson, *The Onion A.V. Club* 2nd – David Fear, *Time Out New York* 3rd – Richard Roeper, *Chicago Sun-Times* 3rd – Ben Mankiewicz 4th – Roger Moore, *Orlando Sentinel* 5th – Colin Covert, *Minnesota Star Tribune* 6th – Jeremy Jahns, YouTube 7th – Michael Phillips, *Chicago Tribune* 9th – James Berardinelli, *ReelViews* 10th – David Germaine, Associated Press |\n### Box office\\[ \\]\nDuring its opening weekend in the United States, the film debuted at \\#1, grossing \\$22.4 million in 2,771 theaters.[\\[63\\]](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#cite_note-mojo-63) The film retained the top spot in its second weekend, dropping only 31.2%,[\\[63\\]](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#cite_note-mojo-63) breaking *Inception*Template:'s 32.0% record as the smallest second weekend drop for any number-one film of 2010, while being the third smallest overall behind *Secretariat*Template:'s 25.1% drop and *Tooth Fairy*Template:'s 28.6% drop. As of February 27, 2011, the film has grossed \\$96,962,694 in the United States and \\$127,621,116 elsewhere, for a worldwide total of \\$224,583,810.[\\[64\\]](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#cite_note-64)\n\n### Accolades\\[ \\]\n*Main article: List of accolades received by The Social Network*\n\n*The Social Network* won the Best Motion Picture – Drama Golden Globe at the 68th Golden Globe Awards on January 16, 2011.[\\[65\\]](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#cite_note-HFPA_winners_tsn-65) The film also won the awards for Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Original Score, making it the film with the most wins of the night.[\\[66\\]](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#cite_note-forbes_golden_globes_1-66)\n\nThe film was nominated for seven British Academy Film Awards, including Best Film, Leading Actor (Jesse Eisenberg), Supporting Actor (Andrew Garfield) and Rising Star (Andrew Garfield) won three for Best Editing, Adapted Screenplay and  Best Direction on February 13, 2011.[\\[67\\]](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#cite_note-BAFTA_Past_Winners_and_Nominees-67)\n\n*The Social Network* received nominations for eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Cinematography, Best Director, Best Film Editing, Best Original Score, Best Sound and Best Adapted Screenplay.[\\[68\\]](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#cite_note-oscars-68) It won three for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, and Best Film Editing at the 83rd Academy Awards on February 27, 2011.\n\n### Home media\\[ \\]\n*The Social Network* was released on DVD and Blu-ray January 11, 2011. In its first week of release, DVD sales totaled \\$13,470,305 and it was the number one sold DVD of the week.[\\[69\\]](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#cite_note-69) The DVD includes an audio commentary with director David Fincher, and a second commentary with writer Aaron Sorkin and the cast. The Blu-ray and 2-Disc DVD releases include the commentaries, along with a feature length documentary, *How Did They Ever Make a Movie of Facebook?*, featurettes, *Angus Wall, Kirk Baxter and Ren Klyce on Post*, *Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross and David Fincher on the Score*, *In the Hall of the Mountain King: Reznor's First Draft*, *Swarmatron*, *Jeff Cronenweth and David Fincher on the Visuals*, and a Ruby Skye VIP Room: Multi-Angle Scene Breakdown feature.[\\[70\\]](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#cite_note-70)\n\n## See also\\[ \\]\nTemplate:Portalbox\n\n- The Winklevoss Chang Group, the alleged partnership between ConnectU and i2hub\n- *Pirates of Silicon Valley*\n\nTemplate:-\n\n## References\\[ \\]\n1. ↑ [1\\.0](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#cite_ref-newyork_1-0) [1\\.1](https:\/\/howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com\/wiki\/The_Social_Network#cite_ref-newyork_1-1) Harris, Mark, [\"Inventing Facebook\"](http:\/\/nymag.com\/movies\/features\/68319\/index4.html), *New York*, September 17, 2010.\n2. 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Boilerpipe Text	Template:Infobox film The Social Network is a 2010 drama film about the founding of the social networking website Facebook and the resulting lawsuits. The film was directed by David Fincher and features a cast including Jesse Eisenberg , Andrew Garfield , Justin Timberlake , Brenda Song , Armie Hammer , Max Minghella , Rashida Jones , Joseph Mazzello , and Rooney Mara . Aaron Sorkin 's screenplay adapts Ben Mezrich 's 2009 book The Accidental Billionaires . Sorkin makes a cameo appearance as an unimpressed advertiser. Neither founder Mark Zuckerberg nor any other member of Facebook was involved with the project, although Eduardo Saverin was a consultant for Mezrich. [ 1 ] The film was released in the United States by Columbia Pictures on October 1, 2010. The film received widespread acclaim, with numerous critics praising it for its editing, acting, score and screenplay. The Social Network appeared on 78 critics' top 10 list for 2010, of those critics 22 had the film in their number one spot. Rolling Stone 's Peter Travers said " The Social Network is the movie of the year. But Fincher and Sorkin triumph by taking it further. Lacing their scathing wit with an aching sadness, they define the dark irony of the past decade." It received eight Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture , Best Director (David Fincher), and Best Actor (Jesse Eisenberg), and won three for Best Adapted Screenplay , Best Original Score , and Best Film Editing . It also won the Best Motion Picture – Drama Golden Globe at the 68th Golden Globe Awards on January 16, 2011. The film also won the awards for Best Director , Best Screenplay and Best Original Score , making it the film with the most wins of the night. Plot [ ] In 2008, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg ( Jesse Eisenberg ) is involved in two lawsuits, one filed by the Winklevoss twins, the other by his best friend, Eduardo Saverin . The Winklevoss twins claim that Zuckerberg stole their idea for a social networking website, and Saverin claims his shares of Facebook were diluted when the company became incorporated . The film begins with a flashback of Facebook's early history and periodically shifts to 2008, with Mark meeting his plaintiffs and lawyers during his deposition . In 2003, Erica Albright ( Rooney Mara ) breaks up with Harvard University student Mark Zuckerberg. Back at his dorm, Mark gets drunk and writes a scathing blog entry about her, and is inspired to create a website that rates the attractiveness of female students when compared to each other. He downloads pictures of female students from the databases of various residence halls, and, in a few hours, using an algorithm for ranking chess players supplied by his best friend, Eduardo Saverin, he creates a website called "FaceMash," where students can choose which of two girls presented at a time is more attractive. Meanwhile, at the Phoenix final club , Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss host a party. Mark receives six months of academic probation after the traffic to the site brings down parts of Harvard's network, and becomes vilified among most of Harvard's female community. However, FaceMash's popularity and the fact that Mark created it in one night while drunk brings him to the attention of the Winklevoss twins and their business partner Divya Narendra ( Max Minghella ). As a result, he gets a job working for the Winklevoss twins as the programmer of their website, Harvard Connection . Soon afterward, Mark approaches Eduardo and tells him of his idea for what he calls "Thefacebook", an online social networking website exclusive to Harvard University students. He explains this would let people share personal and social information securely. Eduardo agrees to help Mark, providing $1,000 to help start the site. They distribute the link to Eduardo's connections at the Phoenix S-K final club , and it quickly becomes popular throughout the student body. When they learn of Thefacebook, the Winklevoss twins and Narendra believe Zuckerberg had stolen their idea while stalling on their website. Tyler and Divya want to sue Mark for intellectual property theft , but Cameron convinces them they can settle the matter as "gentlemen of Harvard" without the courts. In 2004, at a visiting lecture by Bill Gates , fellow Harvard University student Christy Lee ( Brenda Song ) introduces herself and her friend Alice Cantwel to Eduardo and Mark. She asks the boys to "Facebook us"; Christy's use of this phrase impresses both of them. Christy invites them to a bar, where she has oral sex with Eduardo in the restroom. Later, at the bar, Mark runs into Erica, who is not aware of Thefacebook because she is not a Harvard student. Mark decides to expand the site to Yale University , Columbia University and Stanford University (suggested by Eduardo) as Thefacebook grows in popularity, while the Winklevoss twins and Narendra become angrier at seeing "their idea" advance without them. Cameron refuses to sue them, instead accusing Mark of violating the Harvard student Code of Conduct . Through their father's connections they arrange a meeting with Harvard President Larry Summers , who is sarcastic and dismissive towards the Winklevoss twins and sees no potential value in either a disciplinary action or in Thefacebook website itself. Through Christy, now Eduardo's girlfriend, Eduardo and Mark arrange a meeting with Napster co-founder Sean Parker ( Justin Timberlake ). When Christy, Mark, and Eduardo meet Sean, Eduardo becomes skeptical noting Sean's problematic personal and professional history. Christy thinks Eduardo is jealous of Sean, and attempts to calm him to avoid a scene. Sean presents a vision for Facebook very similar to that of Mark, which earns Mark's instant admiration. In a parting comment, Sean suggests they drop the "The" from Thefacebook. At Sean's suggestion, Mark moves the company to Palo Alto , while Eduardo remains in New York seeking advertising support. At a nightclub, Sean advises Mark to keep hold of his ownership of Facebook to ensure that Mark does not lose control of a potentially lucrative business venture, using Victoria's Secret founder Roy Raymond as an example. After Sean promises to expand Facebook to two other continents, Mark invites Sean to live at the house he and Eduardo are renting. Meanwhile in England , while competing in the Henley Royal Regatta for Harvard, the Winklevoss twins discover Facebook has expanded to a number of English universities. Cameron finally relents and they decide to sue. When Eduardo visits from New York, he is angered to find Sean is living in their house and is making business decisions for Facebook. Eduardo pulls Mark aside and has an argument with him, with Mark making a demeaning remark regarding Eduardo's failed attempts at finding advertisers. Fed up with Mark's attitude toward him, Eduardo freezes the company's bank account and returns to New York. Upon returning, Christy argues with Eduardo about his Facebook profile, which still lists him as "single". When Christy questions Eduardo about why he has not changed his Facebook profile, he tells her he does not know how to, further infuriating Christy because she believes he is lying. She accuses him of cheating on her and sets fire to a scarf he has given to her. While Eduardo extinguishes the fire, Mark reveals on the phone that although he was upset that Eduardo almost jeopardized Facebook by freezing the bank account, they have secured $500,000 from Peter Thiel acting as an angel investor through Parker's contacts. He breaks up with Christy for her behaviour and flies out to Palo Alto. Eduardo soon discovers the deal he signed with Sean's investors has allowed them to dilute his share of the company from 34 percent to 0.03 percent, while maintaining the ownership percentage of all other parties. Devastated, he confronts Mark and announces his intention to sue him, telling him "I'm not just coming back for 30%. I'm coming back for everything !" Later that night, during a party celebrating Facebook's one millionth member, Sean and a number of underage Facebook interns are arrested for possession of cocaine . Sean calls Mark and tries deceiving him into believing that he had nothing to do with the incident, but Mark does not believe him and tells him to "go home." In the final scene, Marylin Delpy ( Rashida Jones ), a junior lawyer for the defense informs Mark they should settle with Eduardo, since the sordid details of Facebook's founding will make a jury highly unsympathetic. The film ends with Mark sending a friend request to Erica on Facebook, and refreshing the page every few seconds waiting for a response. Cast [ ] Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg Andrew Garfield as Eduardo Saverin Justin Timberlake as Sean Parker Brenda Song as Christy Lee Armie Hammer as Cameron Winklevoss / Tyler Winklevoss Josh Pence as the body double for Hammer as Tyler Winklevoss Max Minghella as Divya Narendra Rashida Jones as Marylin Delpy [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Joseph Mazzello as Dustin Moskovitz Rooney Mara as Erica Albright Dustin Fitzsimons as The Phoenix S-K Club President Patrick Mapel as Chris Hughes Douglas Urbanski as Larry Summers Wallace Langham as Peter Thiel Dakota Johnson as Amelia Ritter Malese Jow as Alice Cantwel Denise Grayson as Gretchen Trevor Wright as Josh Thompson John Getz as Sy Shelby Young as K.C. David Selby as Gage Production [ ] Casting [ ] Casting began in early August 2009, and open auditions were held in various states. Jesse Eisenberg was first announced to be attached to the project in September 2009. [ 4 ] (Coincidentally, in an interview with Diane Sawyer on ABC 's World News with Diane Sawyer , Zuckerberg revealed that Eisenberg's cousin, Eric Fisher, was a Facebook product designer.) Several days later, Justin Timberlake and Andrew Garfield were confirmed to portray the roles of Sean Parker and Eduardo Saverin , respectively. In October 2009, Brenda Song , Rooney Mara , Armie Hammer , Shelby Young , and Josh Pence were cast. [ 5 ] Max Minghella and Dakota Johnson were also confirmed to star in the film. [ 5 ] In a 2009 interview with The Baltimore Sun , Eisenberg said, "Even though I've gotten to be in some wonderful movies, this character seems so much more overtly insensitive in so many ways that seem more real to me in the best way. I don't often get cast as insensitive people, so it feels very comfortable: fresh and exciting, as if you never have to worry about the audience. Not that I worry about the audience anyway – it should be just the furthest thing from your mind. The Social Network is the biggest relief I've ever had in a movie." [ 6 ] Filming [ ] Principal photography began in October 2009 in Cambridge, Massachusetts . [ 7 ] Scenes were filmed around the campuses of two Massachusetts prep schools, Phillips Academy and Milton Academy . [ 8 ] Additional scenes were filmed on the campus of Wheelock College , which was set up to be Harvard 's campus. [ 9 ] (Harvard has turned down most requests for on-location filming ever since the filming of Love Story (1970), which caused significant physical damage to the campus [ 10 ] ). Filming took place on the Keyser and Wyman quadrangles in the Homewood campus of Johns Hopkins University from November 2–4, [ 11 ] which also doubled for Harvard in the film. [ 12 ] The first scene in the film, where Zuckerberg is with his girlfriend, took 99 takes to finish. [ 1 ] The film was shot on the Red One digital cinema camera at 4K resolution. [ 13 ] The rowing scenes with the Winklevoss brothers were filmed at Community Rowing Inc. in Newton, MA [ 14 ] and Henley Royal Regatta . [ 15 ] Although a significant portion of the latter half of the film is set in Silicon Valley , the filmmakers opted to shoot those scenes in Los Angeles and Pasadena . Miniature faking process was used in a sequence showing a rowing event at the Henley Royal Regatta . Armie Hammer , who portrayed the Winklevoss twins, acted alongside body double Josh Pence while his scenes were filmed. His face was later digitally grafted onto Pence's face during post-production, while other scenes used split-screen photography . Pence himself appears in a cameo role. [ 16 ] Pence was concerned about having no face time during the role, but after consideration thought of the role as a "no-brainer". [ 17 ] Hammer states that director David Fincher "likes to push himself and likes to push technology" and is "one of the most technologically minded guys I've ever seen." [ 16 ] This included sending the actors to "twin boot camp" for 10 months to learn everything about the Winklevosses. [ 17 ] Rowing production [ ] Community Rowing Inc. held a casting call and a tryout for 20 rowing extras; some were graduates from Harvard, Northeastern University , Boston University , George Washington University , and Trinity College , as well as local club rowers from Union and Riverside . [ 18 ] . None of the casted rowing extras for the Henley Royal Regatta racing scene appeared in the film; filming for the race was originally planned to take place in Los Angeles, CA, but Fincher made the call to film in England during production. [ 19 ] David Fincher hired Loyola Marymount coach Dawn Reagan to help train Josh Pence and Armie Hammer . [ 20 ] While Hammer was new to the sport, Pence rowed previously at Dartmouth College . [ 21 ] The extras in pairs for the Charles River scene were casted as follows: Tom Owston & Joe Carrol Henry Roosevelt & Teddy Schreck Tyler Williamson and Matt Webb Perrin Hamilton & Steve Barchick Jim Abegg & Lucas Bayley (body doubles for Hammer and Pence) [ 22 ] The indoor rowing scene was filmed at Boston University's indoor rowing tanks. All of BU's blue oars in the scene had to be repainted to Harvard's crimson color for filming. [ 23 ] Soundtrack [ ] Main article: The Social Network (soundtrack) On June 1, 2010, it was announced that Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross would score the film. [ 24 ] The soundtrack was released September 28 in various formats under the Null Corporation label. [ 25 ] Leading up to the release of the soundtrack, a free five-track EP was made available for download. [ 26 ] The White Stripes ' song " Ball and Biscuit " can be heard in the opening of the film and The Beatles ' song " Baby, You're a Rich Man " concludes the film. Neither song appears on the soundtrack. Reznor and Ross won the award for best original soundtrack at the 2011 Golden Globes, [ 27 ] as well as the 2011 Academy Award for Best Original Score. The film itself contains 18 songs, [ 28 ] some of which are not found on the soundtrack. These include songs from The Beatles , Bob Marley , 10cc , Gluecifer , Dead Kennedys , and The White Stripes . The background song used in the club scene (in California) is performed by Dennis de Laat, and is called "Sound of Violence (Main Mix)". [ 29 ] It does not appear on the soundtrack Marketing [ ] The first theatrical poster was released on June 18, 2010. [ 30 ] The film's first teaser trailer was released on June 25, 2010. [ 31 ] The second teaser was released on July 8. [ 32 ] The full length theatrical trailer debuted on July 15, 2010, which plays an edited version of the song " Creep ", originally by Radiohead , covered by the Belgian choir group Scala & Kolacny Brothers . [ 33 ] The trailer was then shown in theaters, prior to the films Inception , Dinner for Schmucks , Salt , Easy A , The Virginity Hit and The Other Guys . [ 35 ] Another song used in a trailer for TV featured an instrumental version of the song " Go Do " from the album Go by Jonsi . Template:Citation needed Reception and response [ ] Response by the principals [ ] The script was leaked online in July 2009. [ 36 ] [ 37 ] In November 2009, executive producer Kevin Spacey said, " The Social Network is probably going to be a lot funnier than people might expect it to be." [ 38 ] The Cardinal Courier stated that the film was about "greed, obsession, unpredictability and sex" and asked "although there are over 500 million Facebook users, does this mean Facebook can become a profitable blockbuster movie?" [ 39 ] At the D8 conference hosted by D: All Things Digital on June 2, 2010, host Kara Swisher told Zuckerberg she knew he was not happy with The Social Network being based on him, to which he replied, "I just wished that nobody made a movie of me while I was still alive." [ 40 ] Zuckerberg stated to Oprah Winfrey that the drama and partying of the film is mostly fiction, explaining "this is my life, so I know it's not so dramatic," and that he spent most of the past six years focusing, working hard, and coding Facebook. [ 41 ] Speaking to an audience at Stanford University , Zuckerberg stated that the film portrayed his motivations for creating Facebook inaccurately; instead of an effort to "get girls", he says he created the site because he enjoys "building things". [ 42 ] However, he added that the film accurately depicted his real-life wardrobe, saying, "It's interesting the stuff that they focused on getting right – like every single shirt and fleece they had in that movie is actually a shirt or fleece that I own." [ 42 ] Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz called the film a "dramatization of history ... it is interesting to see my past rewritten in a way that emphasizes things that didn't matter," he said. According to Moskovitz: Template:Cquote Co-founder Eduardo Saverin said of the film, "[...] the movie was clearly intended to be entertainment and not a fact-based documentary." [ 43 ] Sorkin has stated that, "I don’t want my fidelity to be to the truth; I want it to be to storytelling. What is the big deal about accuracy purely for accuracy’s sake, and can we not have the true be the enemy of the good?" [ 44 ] Much of the negative response to The Social Network has come from technology writers, some of whom saw the film as an attack on new technologies and those responsible for them. Template:Citation needed Journalist Jeff Jarvis acknowledged the film was "well-crafted" but called it "the anti-social movie", objecting to Sorkin's decision to change various events and characters for dramatic effect, and dismissing it as "the story that those who resist the change society is undergoing want to see." [ 45 ] Technology broadcaster Leo Laporte concurred, calling the film "anti-geek and misogynistic ". [ 46 ] Sorkin responded to these allegations by saying, "I was writing about a very angry and deeply misogynistic group of people". [ 47 ] Andrew Clark of The Guardian wrote that "there's something insidious about this genre of [docudrama] scriptwriting," wondering if "a 26-year-old businessman really deserves to have his name dragged through the mud in a murky mixture of fact and imagination for the general entertainment of the movie-viewing public?" Clark added, "I'm not sure whether Mark Zuckerberg is a punk, a genius or both. But I won't be seeing The Social Network to find out." [ 48 ] Several noteworthy tech journalists and bloggers voiced their opinions of how the film portrays its real-life characters. Mashable founder and CEO Pete Cashmore , blogging for CNN , said: "If the Facebook founder [Zuckerberg] is concerned about being represented as anything but a genius with an industrious work ethic, he can breathe a sigh of relief." [ 49 ] Jessi Hempel, a technology writer for Fortune who says she's known Zuckerberg "for a long time", wrote of the film: Template:Bquote Harvard Law School professor Lawrence Lessig wrote in The New Republic that Sorkin's screenplay doesn’t acknowledge the "real villain" of the story: Template:Bquote In an onstage discussion with The Huffington Post co-founder Arianna Huffington , during Advertising Week 2010 in New York, Facebook's Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg said she had seen the film and it was "very Hollywood" and mainly "fiction". "In real life, he [Zuckerberg] was just sitting around with his friends in front of his computer, ordering pizza," she declared. "Who wants to go see that for two hours?" [ 50 ] Indian-American Divya Narendra said that he was "initially surprised" to see himself portrayed by the non-Indian actor Max Minghella , but also admitted that the actor did a "good job in pushing the dialogue forward and creating a sense of urgency in what was a very frustrating period." [ 51 ] Critical response [ ] The Social Network has received critical acclaim; Review aggregate Rotten Tomatoes reports that 96% of critics have given the film a positive review based on 261 reviews, with an average score of 9/10 and a critical consensus of: "Impeccably scripted, beautifully directed, and filled with fine performances, The Social Network is a riveting, ambitious example of modern filmmaking at its finest." It has a 100% among "Top Critics". [ 52 ] The film also holds a score of 95 based on 42 reviews on Metacritic , indicating "universal acclaim" and making it one of the site's highest-rated movies of all time. [ 53 ] Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times , giving it four stars, wrote: "David Fincher's film has the rare quality of being not only as smart as its brilliant hero, but in the same way. It is cocksure, impatient, cold, exciting and instinctively perceptive." [ 54 ] Peter Travers of Rolling Stone , gave the film his first full four star rating of the year and said: " The Social Network is the movie of the year. But Fincher and Sorkin triumph by taking it further. Lacing their scathing with an aching sadness, they define the dark irony of the past decade." [ 55 ] The Harvard Crimson review called it "flawless" and gave it five stars. [ 56 ] Quentin Tarantino listed The Social Network as one of his favorite 20 movies of the year, second to Toy Story 3 . [ 57 ] Some reviewers pointed out that the film plays loosely with the facts behind Facebook's founding. Joe Morgenstern in The Wall Street Journal praised the film as exhilarating but noted: "The biographical part takes liberties with its subject. Aaron Sorkin based his supersmart and superbly funny screenplay on a contentious book, Ben Mezrich's The Accidental Billionaires , so everything that's seen isn't necessarily to be believed." [ 58 ] The film won Best Picture from the National Society of Film Critics , the New York Film Critics Circle , the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and the National Board of Review , making it only the third film in history (after Schindler's List and L. A. Confidential ) to sweep the "Big Four" critics. [ 59 ] The film also won the "Hollywood Ensemble Award" from the Hollywood Awards. [ 60 ] [ 61 ] The Social Network appeared on 78 critics' top 10 list for 2010, of those critics 22 had the film in their number one spot. [ 62 ] Top ten lists [ ] The film appeared on many critics' top ten lists of the best films of 2010. 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[ 64 ] Accolades [ ] Main article: List of accolades received by The Social Network The Social Network won the Best Motion Picture – Drama Golden Globe at the 68th Golden Globe Awards on January 16, 2011. [ 65 ] The film also won the awards for Best Director , Best Screenplay and Best Original Score , making it the film with the most wins of the night. [ 66 ] The film was nominated for seven British Academy Film Awards , including Best Film , Leading Actor (Jesse Eisenberg), Supporting Actor (Andrew Garfield) and Rising Star (Andrew Garfield) won three for Best Editing , Adapted Screenplay and Best Direction on February 13, 2011. [ 67 ] The Social Network received nominations for eight Academy Awards , including Best Picture , Best Actor , Best Cinematography , Best Director , Best Film Editing , Best Original Score , Best Sound and Best Adapted Screenplay . [ 68 ] It won three for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, and Best Film Editing at the 83rd Academy Awards on February 27, 2011. Home media [ ] The Social Network was released on DVD and Blu-ray January 11, 2011. In its first week of release, DVD sales totaled $13,470,305 and it was the number one sold DVD of the week. [ 69 ] The DVD includes an audio commentary with director David Fincher , and a second commentary with writer Aaron Sorkin and the cast. The Blu-ray and 2-Disc DVD releases include the commentaries, along with a feature length documentary, How Did They Ever Make a Movie of Facebook? , featurettes, Angus Wall, Kirk Baxter and Ren Klyce on Post , Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross and David Fincher on the Score , In the Hall of the Mountain King: Reznor's First Draft , Swarmatron , Jeff Cronenweth and David Fincher on the Visuals , and a Ruby Skye VIP Room: Multi-Angle Scene Breakdown feature. [ 70 ] See also [ ] Template:Portalbox The Winklevoss Chang Group , the alleged partnership between ConnectU and i2hub Pirates of Silicon Valley Template:- References [ ] ↑ 1.0 1.1 Harris, Mark, "Inventing Facebook" , New York , September 17, 2010. ↑ Tomio, Jay (December 9, 2009)." Rashida Jones in Fincher's The Social Network ". BSCreview . Retrieved on February 5, 2010. ↑ Nemiroff, Perri (July 8, 2010)." The Social Network's Second Teaser Trailer Makes Its Point Via Status Updates ". Shockya . Retrieved on July 9, 2010. ↑ " Facebook Cast Confirmed ". September 23, 2009. The Playlist . Retrieved on November 19, 2009. ↑ 5.0 5.1 " 0/20/2009 Max Minghella, Rooney Mara, Dakota Johnson & More Join David Fincher's 'Social Network' ". October 20, 2009. The Playlist . Retrieved on November 19, 2009. ↑ " Jesse Eisenberg takes on a darker role as one of the founders of Facebook ". November 13, 2009. The Baltimore Sun . Retrieved on November 19, 2009. ↑ Fischer, Russ (October 20, 2009). 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The film was directed by David Fincher and features a cast including Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake, Brenda Song, Armie Hammer, Max Minghella, Rashida Jones, Joseph Mazzello, and Rooney Mara. Aaron Sorkin's screenplay adapts Ben Mezrich's 2009 book The Accidental Billionaires. Sorkin makes a cameo appearance as an unimpressed advertiser. Neither founder Mark Zuckerberg nor any other member of Facebook was involved with the project, although Eduardo Saverin was a consultant for Mezrich.[\[1\]](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#cite_note-newyork-1) The film was released in the United States by Columbia Pictures on October 1, 2010. The film received widespread acclaim, with numerous critics praising it for its editing, acting, score and screenplay. The Social Network appeared on 78 critics' top 10 list for 2010, of those critics 22 had the film in their number one spot. Rolling Stone's Peter Travers said "The Social Network is the movie of the year. But Fincher and Sorkin triumph by taking it further. Lacing their scathing wit with an aching sadness, they define the dark irony of the past decade." It received eight Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director (David Fincher), and Best Actor (Jesse Eisenberg), and won three for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, and Best Film Editing. It also won the Best Motion Picture – Drama Golden Globe at the 68th Golden Globe Awards on January 16, 2011. The film also won the awards for Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Original Score, making it the film with the most wins of the night. ## Contents - [1 Plot](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#Plot) - [2 Cast](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#Cast) - [3 Production](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#Production) - [3\.1 Casting](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#Casting) - [3\.2 Filming](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#Filming) - [3\.2.1 Rowing production](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#Rowing_production) - [3\.3 Soundtrack](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#Soundtrack) - [4 Marketing](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#Marketing) - [5 Reception and response](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#Reception_and_response) - [5\.1 Response by the principals](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#Response_by_the_principals) - [5\.2 Critical response](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#Critical_response) - [5\.2.1 Top ten lists](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#Top_ten_lists) - [5\.3 Box office](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#Box_office) - [5\.4 Accolades](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#Accolades) - [5\.5 Home media](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#Home_media) - [6 See also](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#See_also) - [7 References](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#References) - [8 External links](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#External_links) ## Plot\[ \] In 2008, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) is involved in two lawsuits, one filed by the Winklevoss twins, the other by his best friend, Eduardo Saverin. The Winklevoss twins claim that Zuckerberg stole their idea for a social networking website, and Saverin claims his shares of Facebook were diluted when the company became incorporated. The film begins with a flashback of Facebook's early history and periodically shifts to 2008, with Mark meeting his plaintiffs and lawyers during his deposition. In 2003, Erica Albright (Rooney Mara) breaks up with Harvard University student Mark Zuckerberg. Back at his dorm, Mark gets drunk and writes a scathing blog entry about her, and is inspired to create a website that rates the attractiveness of female students when compared to each other. He downloads pictures of female students from the databases of various residence halls, and, in a few hours, using an algorithm for ranking chess players supplied by his best friend, Eduardo Saverin, he creates a website called "FaceMash," where students can choose which of two girls presented at a time is more attractive. Meanwhile, at the Phoenix final club, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss host a party. Mark receives six months of academic probation after the traffic to the site brings down parts of Harvard's network, and becomes vilified among most of Harvard's female community. However, FaceMash's popularity and the fact that Mark created it in one night while drunk brings him to the attention of the Winklevoss twins and their business partner Divya Narendra (Max Minghella). As a result, he gets a job working for the Winklevoss twins as the programmer of their website, Harvard Connection. Soon afterward, Mark approaches Eduardo and tells him of his idea for what he calls "Thefacebook", an online social networking website exclusive to Harvard University students. He explains this would let people share personal and social information securely. Eduardo agrees to help Mark, providing \$1,000 to help start the site. They distribute the link to Eduardo's connections at the Phoenix S-K final club, and it quickly becomes popular throughout the student body. When they learn of Thefacebook, the Winklevoss twins and Narendra believe Zuckerberg had stolen their idea while stalling on their website. Tyler and Divya want to sue Mark for intellectual property theft, but Cameron convinces them they can settle the matter as "gentlemen of Harvard" without the courts. In 2004, at a visiting lecture by Bill Gates, fellow Harvard University student Christy Lee (Brenda Song) introduces herself and her friend Alice Cantwel to Eduardo and Mark. She asks the boys to "Facebook us"; Christy's use of this phrase impresses both of them. Christy invites them to a bar, where she has oral sex with Eduardo in the restroom. Later, at the bar, Mark runs into Erica, who is not aware of Thefacebook because she is not a Harvard student. Mark decides to expand the site to Yale University, Columbia University and Stanford University (suggested by Eduardo) as Thefacebook grows in popularity, while the Winklevoss twins and Narendra become angrier at seeing "their idea" advance without them. Cameron refuses to sue them, instead accusing Mark of violating the Harvard student Code of Conduct. Through their father's connections they arrange a meeting with Harvard President Larry Summers, who is sarcastic and dismissive towards the Winklevoss twins and sees no potential value in either a disciplinary action or in Thefacebook website itself. Through Christy, now Eduardo's girlfriend, Eduardo and Mark arrange a meeting with Napster co-founder Sean Parker (Justin Timberlake). When Christy, Mark, and Eduardo meet Sean, Eduardo becomes skeptical noting Sean's problematic personal and professional history. Christy thinks Eduardo is jealous of Sean, and attempts to calm him to avoid a scene. Sean presents a vision for Facebook very similar to that of Mark, which earns Mark's instant admiration. In a parting comment, Sean suggests they drop the "The" from Thefacebook. At Sean's suggestion, Mark moves the company to Palo Alto, while Eduardo remains in New York seeking advertising support. At a nightclub, Sean advises Mark to keep hold of his ownership of Facebook to ensure that Mark does not lose control of a potentially lucrative business venture, using Victoria's Secret founder Roy Raymond as an example. After Sean promises to expand Facebook to two other continents, Mark invites Sean to live at the house he and Eduardo are renting. Meanwhile in England, while competing in the Henley Royal Regatta for Harvard, the Winklevoss twins discover Facebook has expanded to a number of English universities. Cameron finally relents and they decide to sue. When Eduardo visits from New York, he is angered to find Sean is living in their house and is making business decisions for Facebook. Eduardo pulls Mark aside and has an argument with him, with Mark making a demeaning remark regarding Eduardo's failed attempts at finding advertisers. Fed up with Mark's attitude toward him, Eduardo freezes the company's bank account and returns to New York. Upon returning, Christy argues with Eduardo about his Facebook profile, which still lists him as "single". When Christy questions Eduardo about why he has not changed his Facebook profile, he tells her he does not know how to, further infuriating Christy because she believes he is lying. She accuses him of cheating on her and sets fire to a scarf he has given to her. While Eduardo extinguishes the fire, Mark reveals on the phone that although he was upset that Eduardo almost jeopardized Facebook by freezing the bank account, they have secured \$500,000 from Peter Thiel acting as an angel investor through Parker's contacts. He breaks up with Christy for her behaviour and flies out to Palo Alto. Eduardo soon discovers the deal he signed with Sean's investors has allowed them to dilute his share of the company from 34 percent to 0.03 percent, while maintaining the ownership percentage of all other parties. Devastated, he confronts Mark and announces his intention to sue him, telling him "I'm not just coming back for 30%. I'm coming back for everything!" Later that night, during a party celebrating Facebook's one millionth member, Sean and a number of underage Facebook interns are arrested for possession of cocaine. Sean calls Mark and tries deceiving him into believing that he had nothing to do with the incident, but Mark does not believe him and tells him to "go home." In the final scene, Marylin Delpy (Rashida Jones), a junior lawyer for the defense informs Mark they should settle with Eduardo, since the sordid details of Facebook's founding will make a jury highly unsympathetic. The film ends with Mark sending a friend request to Erica on Facebook, and refreshing the page every few seconds waiting for a response. ## Cast\[ \] - Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg - Andrew Garfield as Eduardo Saverin - Justin Timberlake as Sean Parker - Brenda Song as Christy Lee - Armie Hammer as Cameron Winklevoss/Tyler Winklevoss - Josh Pence as the body double for Hammer as Tyler Winklevoss - Max Minghella as Divya Narendra - Rashida Jones as Marylin Delpy[\[2\]](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#cite_note-2)[\[3\]](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#cite_note-3) - Joseph Mazzello as Dustin Moskovitz - Rooney Mara as Erica Albright - Dustin Fitzsimons as The Phoenix S-K Club President - Patrick Mapel as Chris Hughes - Douglas Urbanski as Larry Summers - Wallace Langham as Peter Thiel - Dakota Johnson as Amelia Ritter - Malese Jow as Alice Cantwel - Denise Grayson as Gretchen - Trevor Wright as Josh Thompson - John Getz as Sy - Shelby Young as K.C. - David Selby as Gage ## Production\[ \] ### Casting\[ \] Casting began in early August 2009, and open auditions were held in various states. Jesse Eisenberg was first announced to be attached to the project in September 2009.[\[4\]](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#cite_note-4) (Coincidentally, in an interview with Diane Sawyer on ABC's World News with Diane Sawyer, Zuckerberg revealed that Eisenberg's cousin, Eric Fisher, was a Facebook product designer.) Several days later, Justin Timberlake and Andrew Garfield were confirmed to portray the roles of Sean Parker and Eduardo Saverin, respectively. In October 2009, Brenda Song, Rooney Mara, Armie Hammer, Shelby Young, and Josh Pence were cast.[\[5\]](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#cite_note-playlist-5) Max Minghella and Dakota Johnson were also confirmed to star in the film.[\[5\]](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#cite_note-playlist-5) In a 2009 interview with The Baltimore Sun, Eisenberg said, "Even though I've gotten to be in some wonderful movies, this character seems so much more overtly insensitive in so many ways that seem more real to me in the best way. I don't often get cast as insensitive people, so it feels very comfortable: fresh and exciting, as if you never have to worry about the audience. Not that I worry about the audience anyway – it should be just the furthest thing from your mind. The Social Network is the biggest relief I've ever had in a movie."[\[6\]](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#cite_note-6) ### Filming\[ \] Principal photography began in October 2009 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[\[7\]](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#cite_note-/Film-2009-10-20-7) Scenes were filmed around the campuses of two Massachusetts prep schools, Phillips Academy and Milton Academy.[\[8\]](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#cite_note-8) Additional scenes were filmed on the campus of Wheelock College, which was set up to be Harvard's campus.[\[9\]](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#cite_note-9) (Harvard has turned down most requests for on-location filming ever since the filming of Love Story (1970), which caused significant physical damage to the campus[\[10\]](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#cite_note-10)). Filming took place on the Keyser and Wyman quadrangles in the Homewood campus of Johns Hopkins University from November 2–4,[\[11\]](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#cite_note-11) which also doubled for Harvard in the film.[\[12\]](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#cite_note-12) The first scene in the film, where Zuckerberg is with his girlfriend, took 99 takes to finish.[\[1\]](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#cite_note-newyork-1) The film was shot on the Red One digital cinema camera at 4K resolution.[\[13\]](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#cite_note-13) The rowing scenes with the Winklevoss brothers were filmed at Community Rowing Inc. in Newton, MA[\[14\]](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#cite_note-14) and Henley Royal Regatta.[\[15\]](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#cite_note-15) Although a significant portion of the latter half of the film is set in Silicon Valley, the filmmakers opted to shoot those scenes in Los Angeles and Pasadena. Miniature faking process was used in a sequence showing a rowing event at the Henley Royal Regatta. Armie Hammer, who portrayed the Winklevoss twins, acted alongside body double Josh Pence while his scenes were filmed. His face was later digitally grafted onto Pence's face during post-production, while other scenes used split-screen photography. Pence himself appears in a cameo role.[\[16\]](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#cite_note-NY_Mag-16) Pence was concerned about having no face time during the role, but after consideration thought of the role as a "no-brainer".[\[17\]](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#cite_note-pencePost-17) Hammer states that director David Fincher "likes to push himself and likes to push technology" and is "one of the most technologically minded guys I've ever seen."[\[16\]](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#cite_note-NY_Mag-16) This included sending the actors to "twin boot camp" for 10 months to learn everything about the Winklevosses.[\[17\]](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#cite_note-pencePost-17) ##### Rowing production\[ \] Community Rowing Inc. held a casting call and a tryout for 20 rowing extras; some were graduates from Harvard, Northeastern University, Boston University, George Washington University, and Trinity College, as well as local club rowers from Union and Riverside.[\[18\]](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#cite_note-18). None of the casted rowing extras for the Henley Royal Regatta racing scene appeared in the film; filming for the race was originally planned to take place in Los Angeles, CA, but Fincher made the call to film in England during production.[\[19\]](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#cite_note-19) David Fincher hired Loyola Marymount coach Dawn Reagan to help train Josh Pence and Armie Hammer.[\[20\]](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#cite_note-20) While Hammer was new to the sport, Pence rowed previously at Dartmouth College.[\[21\]](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#cite_note-21) The extras in pairs for the Charles River scene were casted as follows: - Tom Owston & Joe Carrol - Henry Roosevelt & Teddy Schreck - Tyler Williamson and Matt Webb - Perrin Hamilton & Steve Barchick - Jim Abegg & Lucas Bayley (body doubles for Hammer and Pence)[\[22\]](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#cite_note-22) The indoor rowing scene was filmed at Boston University's indoor rowing tanks. All of BU's blue oars in the scene had to be repainted to Harvard's crimson color for filming.[\[23\]](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#cite_note-23) ### Soundtrack\[ \] Main article: The Social Network (soundtrack) On June 1, 2010, it was announced that Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross would score the film.[\[24\]](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#cite_note-24) The soundtrack was released September 28 in various formats under the Null Corporation label.[\[25\]](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#cite_note-25) Leading up to the release of the soundtrack, a free five-track EP was made available for download.[\[26\]](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#cite_note-26) The White Stripes' song "Ball and Biscuit" can be heard in the opening of the film and The Beatles' song "Baby, You're a Rich Man" concludes the film. Neither song appears on the soundtrack. Reznor and Ross won the award for best original soundtrack at the 2011 Golden Globes,[\[27\]](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#cite_note-27) as well as the 2011 Academy Award for Best Original Score. The film itself contains 18 songs,[\[28\]](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#cite_note-28) some of which are not found on the soundtrack. These include songs from The Beatles, Bob Marley, 10cc, Gluecifer, Dead Kennedys, and The White Stripes. The background song used in the club scene (in California) is performed by Dennis de Laat, and is called "Sound of Violence (Main Mix)".[\[29\]](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#cite_note-29) It does not appear on the soundtrack ## Marketing\[ \] The first theatrical poster was released on June 18, 2010.[\[30\]](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#cite_note-30) The film's first teaser trailer was released on June 25, 2010.[\[31\]](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#cite_note-31) The second teaser was released on July 8.[\[32\]](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#cite_note-32) The full length theatrical trailer debuted on July 15, 2010, which plays an edited version of the song "Creep", originally by Radiohead, covered by the Belgian choir group Scala & Kolacny Brothers.[\[33\]](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#cite_note-33)[\[34\]](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#cite_note-CreepinTheSocialNetwork-34) The trailer was then shown in theaters, prior to the films [Inception](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/Inception "Inception"), Dinner for Schmucks, Salt, Easy A, The Virginity Hit and The Other Guys.[\[35\]](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#cite_note-35) Another song used in a trailer for TV featured an instrumental version of the song "Go Do" from the album Go by Jonsi.Template:Citation needed ## Reception and response\[ \] ### Response by the principals\[ \] The script was leaked online in July 2009.[\[36\]](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#cite_note-36)[\[37\]](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#cite_note-37) In November 2009, executive producer Kevin Spacey said, "The Social Network is probably going to be a lot funnier than people might expect it to be."[\[38\]](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#cite_note-38) The Cardinal Courier stated that the film was about "greed, obsession, unpredictability and sex" and asked "although there are over 500 million Facebook users, does this mean Facebook can become a profitable blockbuster movie?"[\[39\]](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#cite_note-surprise-39) At the D8 conference hosted by D: All Things Digital on June 2, 2010, host Kara Swisher told Zuckerberg she knew he was not happy with The Social Network being based on him, to which he replied, "I just wished that nobody made a movie of me while I was still alive."[\[40\]](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#cite_note-40) Zuckerberg stated to Oprah Winfrey that the drama and partying of the film is mostly fiction, explaining "this is my life, so I know it's not so dramatic," and that he spent most of the past six years focusing, working hard, and coding Facebook.[\[41\]](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#cite_note-41) Speaking to an audience at Stanford University, Zuckerberg stated that the film portrayed his motivations for creating Facebook inaccurately; instead of an effort to "get girls", he says he created the site because he enjoys "building things".[\[42\]](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#cite_note-The_Guardian-42) However, he added that the film accurately depicted his real-life wardrobe, saying, "It's interesting the stuff that they focused on getting right – like every single shirt and fleece they had in that movie is actually a shirt or fleece that I own."[\[42\]](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#cite_note-The_Guardian-42) Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz called the film a "dramatization of history ... it is interesting to see my past rewritten in a way that emphasizes things that didn't matter," he said. According to Moskovitz: Template:Cquote Co-founder Eduardo Saverin said of the film, "\[...\] the movie was clearly intended to be entertainment and not a fact-based documentary."[\[43\]](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#cite_note-43) Sorkin has stated that, "I don’t want my fidelity to be to the truth; I want it to be to storytelling. What is the big deal about accuracy purely for accuracy’s sake, and can we not have the true be the enemy of the good?"[\[44\]](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#cite_note-44) Much of the negative response to The Social Network has come from technology writers, some of whom saw the film as an attack on new technologies and those responsible for them.Template:Citation needed Journalist Jeff Jarvis acknowledged the film was "well-crafted" but called it "the anti-social movie", objecting to Sorkin's decision to change various events and characters for dramatic effect, and dismissing it as "the story that those who resist the change society is undergoing want to see."[\[45\]](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#cite_note-45) Technology broadcaster Leo Laporte concurred, calling the film "anti-geek and misogynistic".[\[46\]](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#cite_note-46) Sorkin responded to these allegations by saying, "I was writing about a very angry and deeply misogynistic group of people".[\[47\]](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#cite_note-Woman_Problem-47) Andrew Clark of The Guardian wrote that "there's something insidious about this genre of \[docudrama\] scriptwriting," wondering if "a 26-year-old businessman really deserves to have his name dragged through the mud in a murky mixture of fact and imagination for the general entertainment of the movie-viewing public?" Clark added, "I'm not sure whether Mark Zuckerberg is a punk, a genius or both. But I won't be seeing The Social Network to find out."[\[48\]](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#cite_note-48) Several noteworthy tech journalists and bloggers voiced their opinions of how the film portrays its real-life characters. Mashable founder and CEO Pete Cashmore, blogging for CNN, said: "If the Facebook founder \[Zuckerberg\] is concerned about being represented as anything but a genius with an industrious work ethic, he can breathe a sigh of relief."[\[49\]](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#cite_note-49) Jessi Hempel, a technology writer for Fortune who says she's known Zuckerberg "for a long time", wrote of the film: Template:Bquote Harvard Law School professor Lawrence Lessig wrote in The New Republic that Sorkin's screenplay doesn’t acknowledge the "real villain" of the story: Template:Bquote In an onstage discussion with The Huffington Post co-founder Arianna Huffington, during Advertising Week 2010 in New York, Facebook's Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg said she had seen the film and it was "very Hollywood" and mainly "fiction". "In real life, he \[Zuckerberg\] was just sitting around with his friends in front of his computer, ordering pizza," she declared. "Who wants to go see that for two hours?"[\[50\]](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#cite_note-50) Indian-American Divya Narendra said that he was "initially surprised" to see himself portrayed by the non-Indian actor Max Minghella, but also admitted that the actor did a "good job in pushing the dialogue forward and creating a sense of urgency in what was a very frustrating period."[\[51\]](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#cite_note-51) ### Critical response\[ \] The Social Network has received critical acclaim; Review aggregate Rotten Tomatoes reports that 96% of critics have given the film a positive review based on 261 reviews, with an average score of 9/10 and a critical consensus of: "Impeccably scripted, beautifully directed, and filled with fine performances, The Social Network is a riveting, ambitious example of modern filmmaking at its finest." It has a 100% among "Top Critics".[\[52\]](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#cite_note-52) The film also holds a score of 95 based on 42 reviews on Metacritic, indicating "universal acclaim" and making it one of the site's highest-rated movies of all time.[\[53\]](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#cite_note-53) Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times, giving it four stars, wrote: "David Fincher's film has the rare quality of being not only as smart as its brilliant hero, but in the same way. It is cocksure, impatient, cold, exciting and instinctively perceptive."[\[54\]](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#cite_note-54) Peter Travers of Rolling Stone, gave the film his first full four star rating of the year and said: "The Social Network is the movie of the year. But Fincher and Sorkin triumph by taking it further. Lacing their scathing with an aching sadness, they define the dark irony of the past decade."[\[55\]](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#cite_note-55) The Harvard Crimson review called it "flawless" and gave it five stars.[\[56\]](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#cite_note-56) Quentin Tarantino listed The Social Network as one of his favorite 20 movies of the year, second to [Toy Story 3](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/Toy_Story_3 "Toy Story 3").[\[57\]](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#cite_note-57) Some reviewers pointed out that the film plays loosely with the facts behind Facebook's founding. Joe Morgenstern in The Wall Street Journal praised the film as exhilarating but noted: "The biographical part takes liberties with its subject. Aaron Sorkin based his supersmart and superbly funny screenplay on a contentious book, Ben Mezrich's The Accidental Billionaires, so everything that's seen isn't necessarily to be believed."[\[58\]](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#cite_note-58) The film won Best Picture from the National Society of Film Critics, the New York Film Critics Circle, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and the National Board of Review, making it only the third film in history (after Schindler's List and L. A. Confidential) to sweep the "Big Four" critics. [\[59\]](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#cite_note-59) The film also won the "Hollywood Ensemble Award" from the Hollywood Awards.[\[60\]](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#cite_note-60)[\[61\]](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#cite_note-61) The Social Network appeared on 78 critics' top 10 list for 2010, of those critics 22 had the film in their number one spot.[\[62\]](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#cite_note-62) #### Top ten lists\[ \] The film appeared on many critics' top ten lists of the best films of 2010.Cite error: Invalid parameter in `<ref>` tag \| \| \| \|---\|---\| \| 1st – Peter Travers, Rolling Stone (declared it "movie of the year" as early as October 2010) 1st – Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times 1st – Christy Lemire, Associated Press 1st – Andrea Grunvall, Chicago Reader 1st – Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly 1st - Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly 1st - Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times 1st - Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times 1st - Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald 1st - Jim Emerson, MSN Movies 1st - Dave McCoy, MSN Movies 1st - Mary Pols, MSN Movies 1st - Stephen Holden, The New York Times 1st - David Denby, The New Yorker 1st - Now Magazine 1st - Tim Robey, Telegraph 1st - Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York 1st - Ann Hornaday, Washington Post 2nd – Ty Burr, Boston Globe \| 2nd – Steve Ramos, Boxoffice Magazine 2nd – Empire 2nd – Kirk Honeycutt, The Hollywood Reporter 2nd – Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter 2nd – Sean Axmaker, MSN Movies 2nd – Glenn Kenny, MSN Movies 2nd – Kim Morgan, MSN Movies 2nd – Richard Broady, The New Yorker 2nd – Philip French, The Observer 2nd – Tasha Robinson, The Onion A.V. Club 2nd – David Fear, Time Out New York 3rd – Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times 3rd – Ben Mankiewicz 4th – Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel 5th – Colin Covert, Minnesota Star Tribune 6th – Jeremy Jahns, YouTube 7th – Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune 9th – James Berardinelli, ReelViews 10th – David Germaine, Associated Press \| ### Box office\[ \] During its opening weekend in the United States, the film debuted at \#1, grossing \$22.4 million in 2,771 theaters.[\[63\]](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#cite_note-mojo-63) The film retained the top spot in its second weekend, dropping only 31.2%,[\[63\]](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#cite_note-mojo-63) breaking InceptionTemplate:'s 32.0% record as the smallest second weekend drop for any number-one film of 2010, while being the third smallest overall behind SecretariatTemplate:'s 25.1% drop and Tooth FairyTemplate:'s 28.6% drop. As of February 27, 2011, the film has grossed \$96,962,694 in the United States and \$127,621,116 elsewhere, for a worldwide total of \$224,583,810.[\[64\]](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#cite_note-64) ### Accolades\[ \] Main article: List of accolades received by The Social Network The Social Network won the Best Motion Picture – Drama Golden Globe at the 68th Golden Globe Awards on January 16, 2011.[\[65\]](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#cite_note-HFPA_winners_tsn-65) The film also won the awards for Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Original Score, making it the film with the most wins of the night.[\[66\]](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#cite_note-forbes_golden_globes_1-66) The film was nominated for seven British Academy Film Awards, including Best Film, Leading Actor (Jesse Eisenberg), Supporting Actor (Andrew Garfield) and Rising Star (Andrew Garfield) won three for Best Editing, Adapted Screenplay and Best Direction on February 13, 2011.[\[67\]](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#cite_note-BAFTA_Past_Winners_and_Nominees-67) The Social Network received nominations for eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Cinematography, Best Director, Best Film Editing, Best Original Score, Best Sound and Best Adapted Screenplay.[\[68\]](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#cite_note-oscars-68) It won three for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, and Best Film Editing at the 83rd Academy Awards on February 27, 2011. ### Home media\[ \] The Social Network was released on DVD and Blu-ray January 11, 2011. In its first week of release, DVD sales totaled \$13,470,305 and it was the number one sold DVD of the week.[\[69\]](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#cite_note-69) The DVD includes an audio commentary with director David Fincher, and a second commentary with writer Aaron Sorkin and the cast. The Blu-ray and 2-Disc DVD releases include the commentaries, along with a feature length documentary, How Did They Ever Make a Movie of Facebook?, featurettes, Angus Wall, Kirk Baxter and Ren Klyce on Post, Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross and David Fincher on the Score, In the Hall of the Mountain King: Reznor's First Draft, Swarmatron, Jeff Cronenweth and David Fincher on the Visuals, and a Ruby Skye VIP Room: Multi-Angle Scene Breakdown feature.[\[70\]](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#cite_note-70) ## See also\[ \] Template:Portalbox - The Winklevoss Chang Group, the alleged partnership between ConnectU and i2hub - Pirates of Silicon Valley Template:- ## References\[ \] 1. ↑ [1\.0](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#cite_ref-newyork_1-0) [1\.1](https://howitshouldhaveended.fandom.com/wiki/The_Social_Network#cite_ref-newyork_1-1) Harris, Mark, ["Inventing Facebook"](http://nymag.com/movies/features/68319/index4.html), New York, September 17, 2010. 2. 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