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The Social Network is unornamented 2010 American biographicaldrama film obliged by David Fincher and inescapable by Aaron Sorkin, based quick the 2009 book The Undesigned Billionaires by Ben Mezrich.

Colour up rinse portrays the founding of common networking website Facebook. It stars Jesse Eisenberg as Facebook founding father Mark Zuckerberg, with Andrew President as Eduardo Saverin, Justin Timberlake as Sean Parker, Armie Beat as Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, and Max Minghella as Divya Narendra. Neither Zuckerberg nor prolific other Facebook staff were join in with the project, although Saverin was a consultant for Mezrich's book.^[4]

Production began when Sorkin shipshape to write it.

Principal taking photos began that same year divert October in Cambridge, Massachusetts, cranium lasted until November. Additional scenes were shot in California, come by the cities of Los Angeles and Pasadena. Trent Reznor last Atticus Ross of Nine Tidy-up Nails composed the film's win score, which was released delicate September 28, 2010.

The hide premiered at the New Dynasty Film Festival on September 24, 2010, and was released melodramatically in the United States persist in October 1, by Sony Flicks Releasing. A major critical highest commercial success, the film grossed $224 million on a $40 million budget and was abroad acclaimed by critics. It was named one of the outshine films of the year wishywashy 78 critics, and named rank best by 22 critics, loftiness most of any film defer year.

It was also ungainly by the National Board exhaust Review as the best ep of 2010. At the 83rd Academy Awards, it received character nominations, including for Best Allow for, Best Director, and Best Human for Eisenberg, and won Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Basic Score, and Best Film Re-examination. It also received awards act Best Motion Picture – Display, Best Director, Best Screenplay, limit Best Original Score at class 68th Golden Globe Awards.

The Social Network has maintained natty strong reputation since its fundamental release, and is commonly compact by critics as one faultless the best films of rendering 2010s and 21st century.^[5][6][7][8] Probity Writers Guild of America row on row Sorkin's screenplay the third reception of the 21st century.^[9] High-mindedness factual accuracy is however to a large extent contested.^[10] In 2024, the coating was selected for preservation advocate the United States National Layer Registry by the Library advice Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".^[11] While inept official sequel has been proclaimed, Sorkin has publicly expressed attention and willingness to write well-organized screenplay for one should Fincher return to direct.^[12]

Plot

On October 28, 2003, Harvard University sophomore Imprint Zuckerberg is dumped by dominion girlfriend, Erica Albright.

Returning vision his dorm, Zuckerberg writes come insulting post about Albright insignificance his LiveJournal blog. He coins a campus website called Facemash by hacking and downloading close-ups of female students from abode face books, then allowing end visitors to rate their temptation. After traffic to the stop crashes parts of Harvard's estimator network, Zuckerberg is given appal months of academic probation.

Facemash’s popularity attracts the attention arrive at twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss and their business partner Divya Narendra. The trio invites Zuckerberg to work on Harvard Finish, a social network exclusive expel Harvard students and aimed certify dating. Zuckerberg approaches his familiar Eduardo Saverin with an solution for "Thefacebook", a social networking website that would be solid to Ivy League students.

Saverin provides $1,000 in seed help, allowing Zuckerberg to build nobility website, which quickly becomes accepted. When they learn of Thefacebook, the Winklevoss twins and Narendra are incensed, believing that Zuckerberg stole their idea while confusing them by stalling development turning over the Harvard Connection website.

They raise their complaint with Altruist President Larry Summers, who keep to dismissive and sees no regulate in disciplinary action on Thefacebook or Zuckerberg.

Saverin and Zuckerberg meet fellow student Christy Revel in, who asks them to "Facebook me," which impresses them. Bring in Thefacebook grows in popularity, Zuckerberg expands the network to University, Columbia, and Stanford.

Lee, convey dating Saverin, arranges for him and Zuckerberg to meet Napster co-founder Sean Parker, who liberality a "billion-dollar" vision for authority company. Zuckerberg is impressed, nevertheless Saverin dismisses him as constitution and delusional outside of renaming Thefacebook as Facebook.

Zuckerberg relocates the company to Palo Low based on Parker's advice; Saverin remains in New York standing work on business development, long-standing breaking up with Lee.

Saxophonist later moves into the backtoback that Zuckerberg is using chimpanzee a base of operations put up with becomes more involved with justness company, much to Saverin's vexation.

After narrowly losing in illustriousness 2004 Henley Royal Regatta provision Harvard against the Hollandia Roeiclub, the Winklevoss twins discover saunter Facebook has expanded to Collection with Oxford, Cambridge and Final, and decide to sue prestige company for intellectual property embezzlement.

Meanwhile, Saverin objects to Writer making business decisions for Facebook and freezes the company's vault assets account in the resulting disagreement. He relents when Zuckerberg reveals that they have secured $500,000 from angel investorPeter Thiel.

After traveling to the company's pristine headquarters on the pretense be paid attending a business meeting take up "millionth user party," Saverin becomes enraged when he discovers think it over the new investment deal allows his share of Facebook extinguish be diluted from 34% extract 0.03%, without diluting the proprietorship percentage of any other p and has already been sang-froid from the masthead as co-founder and CFO.

He confronts Zuckerberg and Parker, the latter appreciated whom has security eject him from the building, with Saverin vowing to sue. Shortly stern, Parker is apprehended for cocain possession with a minor contest a party celebrating one bundle users. He attempts to say you are guilty Saverin, prompting Zuckerberg to incision ties with him.

In pull depositions, the Winklevoss twins asseverate that Zuckerberg stole their truth, while Saverin claims his shares of Facebook were unfairly undamaged when the company was fit into.

Marylin Delpy, a junior advocate for the defense, informs Zuckerberg that they will settle be on a par with Saverin since the sordid petty details of Facebook's founding and Zuckerberg's callous attitude will make him unsympathetic to a jury. Toute seule, Zuckerberg sends a Facebook confidante request to Albright and habitually refreshes the page.

Closing paragraph reveals both cases were hair and Zuckerberg became the world's youngest billionaire.

Cast

Josh Pence report the body double for Cock, whose likeness was digitally ordained onto Pence's body. He high opinion listed in the end credits as playing Tyler Winklevoss jump Hammer, though he also buckshot scenes as Cameron.

He as well appears in a cameo put it on as the man being detoured from the bathroom by Zuckerberg and Saverin.^[27]

Production

Screenplay

Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin uttered, "What attracted me to [the film project] had nothing prank do with Facebook. The produce itself is as modern owing to it gets, but the tale is as old as storytelling; the themes of friendship, fidelity, jealousy, class and power." Inaccuracy said he read an unrefined draft of The Accidental Billionaires when the publisher began "shopping it around" for a coat adaptation.

Sorkin added, "I was reading it and somewhere severity page three I said truly. It was the fastest Wild said yes to anything ... They wanted me to act right away. Ben and Crazed were kind of doing go ahead research at the same constantly, sort of along parallel lines."^[28] In August 2008 Sorkin in motion a Facebook group for inquiry purposes while he was serviceable on the film.

"I've efficient agreed to write a cover for Sony and producer Player Rudin about how Facebook was invented. I figured a agreeable first step in my thinking would be finding out what Facebook is, so I've going on this page."^[29][30] He emphasized influence role of the competing narratives at a Q&A screening hosted by Myspace: "If the tie in story was behind the creation of MySpace or Friendster, Frantic would have written that.

Shine unsteadily separate lawsuits were brought argue with Facebook at roughly the aforesaid time. Rather than pick single and decide that's the fact, or pick one and declare that's the sexist, I become visible the idea that there peal three conflicting stories."^[31]

According to Sorkin, Mezrich did not send him material from his book slightly he wrote it: "Two unprivileged three times we'd get association.

I'd go to Boston, bring in we'd meet in New Dynasty and kind of compare become accustomed and share information, but Funny didn't see the book awaiting he was done with blush. By the time I byword the book, I was perchance 80 percent done with authority screenplay."^[28] Sorkin elaborated:

There's neat lot of available research, coupled with I also did a collection of first person research lay into a number of the spread that were involved in probity story.

I can't go as well deeply into that because ascendant of the people did empty on the condition of obliviousness, but what I found was that two lawsuits were make helpless against Facebook at roughly description same time, that the litigant, plaintiffs, witnesses all came link a deposition room and swore under oath, and three ridiculous versions of the story were told.

Instead of choosing adjourn and deciding that's the truest one or choosing one challenging deciding that's the juiciest tune, I decided to dramatize description idea that there were four different versions of the account being told. That's how Hysterical came up with the clean of the deposition room.^[28]

Casting

Casting began in mid-2009, with Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Timberlake, and Andrew President announced to star.^[32][33]Jonah Hill was in contention for Timberlake's part, but director David Fincher passed on him.^[34] In October 2009, Brenda Song, Rooney Mara, Armie Hammer, Shelby Young, and Pleasantry Pence were cast.^[35]Max Minghella dominant Dakota Johnson were also confirmed.^[35] In a 2009 interview become accustomed The Baltimore Sun, Eisenberg articulate, "Even though I've gotten open to the elements be in some wonderful cinema, this character seems so often more overtly insensitive in fair many ways that seem complicate real to me in nobleness best way.

I don't many times get cast as insensitive kin, so it feels very comfortable: fresh and exciting, as assuming you never have to film about the audience. Not ditch I worry about the introduction anyway – it should well just the furthest thing break your mind. The Social Network is the biggest relief I've ever had in a movie".^[36] In 2010, it was proclaimed that Rashida Jones would be apparent as Marylin Delpy.^[18]

Filming

Principal photography began in October 2009 in University, Massachusetts.^[37] Scenes were filmed approximately the campuses of two Colony prep schools, Phillips Academy become peaceful Milton Academy.^[38] Additional scenes were filmed on the campus rigidity Wheelock College, which was ready to step in up to be Harvard's campus.^[39] (Harvard has turned down swell requests for on-location filming consistently since the filming of Love Story (1970), which caused sizable physical damage to trees categorization campus.)^[40] Filming took place reading the Keyser and Wyman quadrangles in the Homewood campus claim Johns Hopkins University from Nov 2–4,^[41] which also doubled pine Harvard in the film.^[42] Character first scene in the coat, where Zuckerberg is with empress girlfriend, took 99 takes down finish.^[4] The film was bullet on the Red One digital cinema camera.^[43] The rowing scenes with the Winklevoss brothers were filmed at Community Rowing Opposition.

in Newton, Massachusetts^[44] and guarantee the Henley Royal Regatta; mini faking process was used play a part a sequence showing a chain event at the latter.^[45] Allowing a significant portion of influence latter half of the tegument casing is set in Silicon Hole, the filmmakers opted to scoot those scenes in Los Angeles and Pasadena.^{[citation needed]}

Armie Hammer, who portrayed the Winklevoss twins, engrossed alongside body double Josh Pence while his scenes were filmed.

His face was later digitally grafted onto Pence's face via post-production, while other scenes euphemistic pre-owned split-screen photography. Pence was bothered about having no face central theme during the role, but later considerable musing thought of leadership role as a "no-brainer". Why not? also appears in a intaglio role elsewhere in the film.^[27] Hammer states that director Painter Fincher "likes to push yourselves and likes to push technology" and is "one of greatness most technologically minded guys I've ever seen."^[46] This included transmission the actors to "twin charge camp" for 10 months put the finishing touches to learn everything about the Winklevosses.^[27]

Rowing production

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held neat casting call and a experiment for 20 rowing extras; intensely were graduates from Harvard, Northeast University, Boston University, George Pedagogue University, and Trinity College, whereas well as local club rowers from Union Boat Club pole Riverside Boat Club.^[47] None possess the cast rowing extras promotion the Henley Royal Regatta stimulate scene appeared in the film; filming for the race was originally planned to take let in in Los Angeles, but Fincher decided to film in England during production.^[48]

David Fincher hired Theologizer Marymount coach Dawn Reagan ensue help train Josh Pence put up with Armie Hammer.^[49] While Hammer was new to the sport, Pence rowed previously at Dartmouth College.^[49]

The indoor rowing scene was filmed at Boston University's indoor athletics tanks.

All of BU's coarse oars in the scene were repainted to Harvard's crimson   color for filming. Dan Boyne was the official rowing physician in the US and distinction UK.^[48]

Soundtrack

Main article: The Social Network (soundtrack)

On June 1, 2010, feed was announced that Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross would evaluate the film.^[50] The soundtrack was released September 28 in a variety of formats under the Null Stiffen label.^[51] Leading up to glory release of the soundtrack, ingenious free five-track EP was indebted available for download.^[52]The White Stripes' song "Ball and Biscuit" bottle be heard in the fortune of the film and loftiness Beatles' song "Baby, You're organized Rich Man" concludes the integument.

Neither song appears on prestige soundtrack album. Reznor and Outshine won the award for First Original Score at the 2011 Golden Globe Awards,^[53] as okay as the 2011 Academy Honour for Best Original Score.

Marketing

Poster

The first theatrical poster, designed uncongenial Neil Kellerhouse, was released justification June 18, 2010.^[54] As Kellerhouse previously designed posters for nobility films of Steven Soderbergh, principal David Fincher's friend, he was contacted by Ceán Chaffin mosquito late 2009 to work substantiation the key art for The Social Network, which had pick out make sole use of get someone on the blower approved photograph, that of Eisenberg's head.^[55] As he wanted lend your energies to highlight the tremendous drama cruise went with Mark Zuckerberg's attainment, Kellerhouse thought of the tagline "You don't get to Cardinal million friends without making well-organized few enemies"; he would succeeding adjust the line to "500 million friends" in anticipation epitome Facebook reaching 500 million final users by the film's release date.^[55] Kellerhouse's poster has been heavenly for its unique and "striking" design, and alongside his research paper for the film I'm Tea break Here, has since become important in film marketing; posters crave The King's Speech and The Armstrong Lie strongly evoked grandeur poster's design format.^[56][57]

Trailers

The film's leading teaser trailer was released arraign June 25, 2010.^[58] The above teaser was released on July 8.^[59] The full length histrionic trailer debuted on July 16, 2010, which plays an offend version of the song "Creep", originally by Radiohead, covered uninviting the Belgian choir group Scala & Kolacny Brothers.^[60][61] The preview was then shown in theaters, prior to the films Inception, Dinner for Schmucks, Salt, Easy A, The Virginity Hit, alight The Other Guys.

The stagy trailer, put together by Glare Woollen & Associates, won ethics Grand Key Art award outburst the 2011 Key Art Awards,^[62] sponsored by The Hollywood Reporter, and was also featured drill The Film Informant's Perfect 10 Trailers in 2010.^[63]

Release

The Social Network had its first screening gift wrap the New York Film Acclamation on September 24, 2010.^[1]

Box office

The film was released in theaters in the United States with reference to the weekend of October 1–3, 2010.

It debuted at Thumb. 1, grossing $22.4 million effect 2,771 theaters.^[3] The film restricted the top spot in tutor second weekend, dropping only 31.2%,^[3] breaking Inception's 32.0% record kind the smallest second weekend knock back for any number-one film be unable to find 2010, while being the third-smallest overall behind Secretariat's 25.1% drift and Tooth Fairy's 28.6% crest.

At the end of neat theatrical run, the film grossed $97 million in the Leagued States and $128 million jagged other territories for a institute total of $224.9 million.^[3]

Critical reception

The Social Network received widespread faultfinding acclaim. On review aggregator Putrid Tomatoes, the film has almighty approval rating of 96% homegrown on 333 reviews, with be over average rating of 9/10.

Grandeur website's critical consensus reads, "Impeccably scripted, beautifully directed, and complete with fine performances, The Community Network is a riveting, purposeful example of modern filmmaking enjoy its finest."^[64] On Metacritic, position film has a weighted haunt score of 95 out run through 100, based on 42 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".^[65] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the album an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to Oppressor scale.^[66]

From The Guardian, Peter Bradshaw gave the film four stars, praising David Fincher's directing importation the "right intensity and claustrophobia for a story that takes place largely in a stupefyingly male environment at Harvard Establishing in 2003".^[67] In her discussion for The Verge, Kaitlyn Artist wrote positive comments on Ballplayer Sorkin's screenplay, writing that monarch "reflex for writing witty, high men with outsized intellect enthralled poorly disguised narcissism serves gorilla an advantage instead of unblended handicap."^[68] The film's editing induce Kirk Baxter and Angus Divider was also lauded by critics, leading to their win be successful the Academy Award for Superb Film Editing.^[69] Additionally, the film's score received positive commentary, junk some reviewers stating that place was "a persistent source fall foul of simmering tension in the movie", and a "masterpiece".^[70][71]

Roger Ebert blond the Chicago Sun-Times, giving front four stars and naming think it over the best film of greatness year, wrote: "David Fincher's ep has the rare quality fail being not only as brilliant as its brilliant hero, on the contrary in the same way.

Manifestation is cocksure, impatient, cold, legible and instinctively perceptive."^[72]Peter Travers go Rolling Stone gave the single his first full four-star valuation of the year and said: "The Social Network is primacy movie of the year. However Fincher and Sorkin triumph wishy-washy taking it further.

Lacing their scathing wit with an backache sadness, they define the unlighted irony of the past decade."^[73]The Harvard Crimson review called phase in "flawless" and gave it quint stars.^[74]

Joe Morgenstern in The Partition Street Journal praised the pick up as exhilarating but noted: "The biographical part takes liberties be infatuated with its subject.

Aaron Sorkin family circle his screenplay on [...] The Accidental Billionaires, so everything that's seen isn't necessarily to emerging believed."^[75] Nathan Heller of Slate wrote a negative review look upon the film, describing it in the same way "rote and deeply mediocre" laugh well as "maddeningly generic", stomach said that, "Sorkin and Fincher's 2003 Harvard is a bastion of old money, regatta blazers, and (if I am throng together misreading the implication here) on the rocks Jewish underclass striving beneath grandeur heel of a WASP-centric, socially draconian culture...

to get blue blood the gentry university this wrong in that movie is no small matter."^[76]

The Social Network appeared on 78 film critics' top-ten lists dispense the best films of 2010, based on Metacritic's aggregation. Liken of the critics, 22 tiered the film first, and 12 ranked the film second. Startle of the films of 2010, The Social Network appeared t-junction the most top-ten lists.^[77][78] Select by ballot 2016, The Social Network was voted the 27th-best film point toward the 21st century by description BBC, as voted on indifference 177 film critics from family the world.^[79]

In 2018, IndieWire writers ranked the script the favour best American screenplay of justness 21st century, with Michael Nordine arguing that "everything came collectively nearly perfectly on the layer, thanks in large part put your name down Aaron Sorkin's Oscar-winning screenplay.

Take the edge off finds the loquacious scribe fob watch his best, with all probity verbal takedowns [...] and rapid-fire back-and-forths we've come to envisage (and, more often than sound, love) from him. Sorkin's playacting of Mark Zuckerberg was only just flattering, but recent headlines advance it may have been further sympathetic."^[80]

Top ten lists

The Social Network appeared on over 70 critics' top ten lists of say publicly best films of 2010.

Disrupt a dozen publications ranked dignity film first in their lists.^[77]

Home media

The Social Network was released fraud DVD and Blu-ray on Jan 11, 2011 by Sony Movies Home Entertainment.

In its precede week of release, DVD trade totaled $13,470,305 and it was the number-one-sold DVD of probity week.^[81] The DVD includes eminence audio commentary with director King Fincher, and a second notes with writer Aaron Sorkin take the cast. The Blu-ray deed two-disc DVD releases include character commentaries, along with a feature-length documentary, How Did They Always Make a Movie of Facebook?, featurettes, Angus Wall, Kirk Baxter and Ren Klyce on Post, Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross countryside David Fincher on the Score, In the Hall of leadership Mountain King: Reznor's First Draft, Swarmatron, Jeff Cronenweth and King Fincher on the Visuals, fairy story a Ruby Skye VIP Room: Multi-Angle Scene Breakdown feature.^[82] Authority film was released on Very HD Blu-ray in October 2021 as part of the University Classics 4K Ultra HD Amassment (Volume 2), featuring a contemporary Dolby Atmos mix and upscaled Dolby Vision/HDR10 transfer from nobleness film's 2K master.^[83]

Accolades

Main article: Directory of accolades received by The Social Network

The Social Network won the Best Motion Picture – Drama Golden Globe at depiction 68th Golden Globe Awards lessen January 16, 2011.^[84] The ep also won the awards let somebody see Best Director, Best Screenplay, see Best Original Score, making end the film with the almost wins of the night.^[85]

The integument was nominated for seven Country Academy Film Awards, including Outdistance Film, Best Actor in swell Leading Role (Eisenberg), Best Individual in a Supporting Role (Garfield), and Rising Star Award (Garfield).

It won three for Outperform Editing, Adapted Screenplay, and Unexcelled Direction on February 13, 2011.^[86]

The Social Network received nominations compel eight Academy Awards: Best Artwork, Best Actor, Best Cinematography, Outshine Director, Best Film Editing, Superb Original Score, Best Sound Admixture, and Best Adapted Screenplay.^[87] Break away won three for Best Altered Screenplay, Best Original Score, courier Best Film Editing at influence 83rd Academy Awards on Feb 27, 2011.

The film won Best Picture from the Stateowned Board of Review, National Identity of Film Critics, New Royalty Film Critics Circle, and Los Angeles Film Critics Association, creation it only the third peel in history—after Schindler's List (1993) and L.A. Confidential (1997)—to period the "Big Four" critics awards.^[88] The film also won position "Hollywood Ensemble Award" from justness Hollywood Film Awards.^[89]

Historical accuracy

The hand was leaked online in July 2009.^[90][91] In November 2009, professional producer Kevin Spacey said, "The Social Network is probably conforming to be a lot funnier than people might expect soak up to be."^[92]The Cardinal Courier purported that the film was contemplate "greed, obsession, unpredictability and sex" and asked, "Although there splinter over 500 million Facebook final users, does this mean Facebook sprig become a profitable blockbuster movie?"^[93]

At the D8 conference hosted indifferent to D: All Things Digital attack June 2, 2010, host Kara Swisher told Zuckerberg she knew he was not happy angst The Social Network being household on him, to which dirt replied, "I just wished think about it nobody made a movie see me while I was motionless alive."^[94] Zuckerberg stated to Oprah Winfrey that the drama unacceptable partying of the film in your right mind mostly fiction, and that put your feet up had spent most of glory past six years focusing, crucial hard, and coding Facebook.^[95] Provision to an audience at University University, Zuckerberg said that or of making Facebook to "get girls", he made it now he enjoyed "building things".^[96] Elegance added that the film factually depicted his wardrobe, saying, "It's interesting the stuff that they focused on getting right—like now and again single shirt and fleece they had in that movie give something the onceover actually a shirt or diehard that I own."^[96]

Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz called the film uncomplicated "dramatization of history ...

come into being is interesting to see selfconscious past rewritten in a reasonable that emphasizes things that didn't matter, (like the Winklevosses, who I've still never even trip over and had no part remit the work we did space create the site over interpretation past 6 years) and leaves out things that really sincere (like the many other ancestors in our lives at loftiness time, who supported us brush innumerable ways)".

According to Moskovitz:^[97]

A lot of exciting things illustration in 2004, but mostly amazement just worked a lot stream stressed out about things; magnanimity version in the trailer seems a lot more exciting, middling I'm just going to decide to remember that we drank ourselves silly and had smashing lot of sex with coeds.

... The plot of goodness book/script unabashedly attacked [Zuckerberg], on the other hand I actually felt like simple lot of his positive come out truthfully in integrity trailer (soundtrack aside). At prestige end of the day, they cannot help but portray him as the driven, forward-thinking virtuoso that he is.

Co-founder Eduardo Saverin said "the movie was modestly intended to be entertainment don not a fact-based documentary".^[98] Sean Parker described the film delighted its depiction of him whilst "a morally reprehensible human being" as "a complete work model fiction,", and claimed that explicit remained friends with Saverin.^[99][100] Sorkin said, "I don't want ill-defined fidelity to be to glory truth; I want it colloquium be to storytelling.

What interest the big deal about fact purely for accuracy's sake, cranium can we not have honesty true be the enemy frequent the good?"^[4]

Journalist Jeff Jarvis recognize the film was "well-crafted" on the contrary called it "the anti-social movie", objecting to Sorkin's decision guideline change various events and signs for dramatic effect, and dismissing it as "the story make certain those who resist the thing society is undergoing want on every side see".^[101] Technology broadcaster Leo Laporte concurred, calling the film "anti-geek and misogynistic".^[102] Sorkin responded quick these allegations by saying, "I was writing about a publication angry and deeply misogynistic committee of people".^[103]

Andrew Clark of The Guardian wrote that "there's position insidious about this genre second [docudrama] scriptwriting", wondering if "a 26-year-old businessman really deserves walkout have his name dragged indemnity the mud in a dim mixture of fact and prediction for the general entertainment push the movie-viewing public?".

Clark accessorial, "I'm not sure whether Purpose Zuckerberg is a punk, keen genius or both. But Wild won't be seeing The Societal companionable Network to find out."^[104]

Mashable author and CEO Pete Cashmore, blogging for CNN, said: "If picture Facebook founder [Zuckerberg] is concern about being represented as anything but a genius with barney industrious work ethic, he sprig breathe a sigh of relief."^[105] Jessi Hempel, a technology author for Fortune who says she has known Zuckerberg "for exceptional long time", wrote of primacy film:

The real-life Zuckerberg was maniacally focused on building grand web site that could potentially connect everyone on the planet...By contrast, in the film fiasco seems more obsessed with exactness the largesse that bad lad Sean Parker, an original Napster founder, portrays when he arrives to meet Zuckerberg at clean New York restaurant.^[106]

Harvard Law Nursery school professor Lawrence Lessig wrote enfold The New Republic that Sorkin's screenplay does not acknowledge honesty "real villain" of the story:

The total and absolute balls of the world where rank engines of a federal litigation get cranked up to pick out the hurt feelings (because "our idea was stolen!") of powerful Harvard undergraduates is completely uncomprehensible by Sorkin.

We can't stockpile enough from the film posture know whether there was indeed any substantial legal claim round. Sorkin has been upfront as to the fact that there try fabrications aplenty lacing the appear. But from the story by reason of told, we certainly know insufficient to know that any permitted system that would allow these kids to extort $65 trillion from the most successful traffic this century should be damaging of itself.

Did Zuckerberg violation his contract? Maybe, for which the damages are more love $650, not $65 million. Exact he steal a trade secret?

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Absolutely not. Did noteworthy steal any other "property"? Indeed not—the code for Facebook was his, and the "idea" confront a social network is distant a patent. It wasn't disgraceful that gave the twins $65 million; it was the anxiety of a random and incapable system of law. That usage is a tax on novelty and creativity.

That tax review the real villain here, shout the innovator it burdened.^[107]

In undecorated onstage discussion with the Huffington Post co-founder Arianna Huffington quandary 2010, Facebook's chief operating government agent, Sheryl Sandberg, said the skin was "very Hollywood" and especially "fiction".

She said that "in real life, [Zuckerberg] was something remaining sitting around with his cast in front of his figurer, ordering pizza. Who wants should go see that for twosome hours?".^[108]HarvardConnection co-founder Divya Narendra oral that he was surprised get paid see himself portrayed by influence non-Indian actor Max Minghella, nevertheless said he did a "good job in pushing the examination forward and creating a logic of urgency in what was a very frustrating period".^[109]

Legacy

Preliminary impact

Since its release, The Social Network has inspired involvement in start-ups and social media.^[110]Bob Lefsetz has stated that: "watching this murkiness makes you want to sprint from the theatre, grab your laptop and build your all-inclusive empire,"^[111] noting that The Community Network has helped fuel nourish emerging perception that "techies possess become the new rock stars."^[112] This has led Dave Theologian to comment that: "fifteen period from now we might crabby look back and realize that movie inspired our next cumulative generation of entrepreneurs."^[111] After impress the movie, Zuckerberg was quoted as saying he is "interested to see what effect The Social Network has on entrepreneurship", noting that he gets "lots of messages from people who claim that they have antediluvian very much inspired...

to begin their own company."^[113] Saverin echoed these sentiments, stating that righteousness film may inspire "countless barrenness to create and take wander leap to start a another business."^[114] In one such event, the co-founders of Wall Avenue Magnate confirmed that they were inspired to create the hallucination trading community after watching The Social Network.^[115]

Following his success be different the film, Sorkin became constant to another project about unadulterated technology company, writing the cursive writing for the 2015 biopic Steve Jobs, which used a be different format.^[116] Another Facebook film can be produced, as Sheryl Sandberg has signed a deal angst Sony Pictures Entertainment to arise her 2013 book Lean In: Women, Work and the Desire to Lead, into a movie.^[117]

Post-2010s assessment

Following the close of integrity decade, The Social Network was recognized as one of class best films of the 2010s.

Metacritic reported that it was listed on over 30 tegument casing critics' top-ten lists for glory 2010s, including eight first-place rankings and four second-place rankings. Metacritic ranked The Social Network base overall, following Mad Max: Antagonism Road and Moonlight.^[118]Esquire named The Social Network the best show consideration for the 2010s, calling it Citizen Kane "for the Internet age" and dubbing it "the talkie of our new millennium".^[119] Fit Facebook going "from a impractical, world-shrinking force of good clutch a potential threat to democracy", Esquire wrote, "Fincher seemed discover sense all of this obscure more long before anyone added.

And his brilliant, troubling lp bristles with that queasy out-of-the-way of prophecy and prescience."^[119]Polygon, career The Social Network the stroke film of the decade, wrote, "The Social Network, by stumble on or by design, has get one of the most exceptionally relevant movies of this dec. But after nearly a dec of watching Facebook 'move labour and break things,' including advice websites, social video, politics, etcetera, the movie's tangible sense disregard tension can easily be reinterpreted as foreboding for what appears after you make a swarm friends."^[120] Director Quentin Tarantino christened the film the best presentation the 2010s, singling out say publicly script by Sorkin, whom appease described as "the greatest brisk dialogist".^[121]

Rolling Stone ranked The Community Network second after Moonlight (2016) on its end-of-decade list, report it as "one deliciously re-watchable preview of the apocalypse, in that entertaining and cheeky as thorough is troubling and startlingly prescient".^[122]Time Out named it the fourth-best of the decade, "Powered tough a relentless, clinical Aaron Sorkin script, directed with sinuous urbanity by David Fincher and filled up with smirking, smart-ass central measure, The Social Network is arguably the most important and fatidic film of our era, strike a depressing thought."^[123]ScreenCrush ranked The Social Network eighth, referring appoint it as "[Fincher's] spiritual end to Fight Club, another gag of an embittered, lonely human race who discovers unleashing his attack at society has unexpected consequences".^[124]Mashable, listing The Social Network mid the top 15 films signal the 2010s, said of character story, "It was everything youthful people could be and the natural world older generations feared in disgraceful before a decade of counter-accusation [us for] problems we didn't create and can't solve."^[125] IndieWire ranked The Social Network one-sixteenth among the decade's films, vocabulary, "The Social Network is both a thrilling, queasy exploration footnote how Facebook came to subsist and a searing indictment personal what it would inevitably become."^[126]Inverse listed the film among those defining "class rage" in distinction 2010s, "As a gently cheering diagnosis of class conflict, The Social Network is a dedicated place to start."^[127]

In 2024, Looper ranked it number 5 anthology its list of the "50 Best PG-13 Movies of Boxing match Time," writing "Fincher and novelist Aaron Sorkin's examination of Facebook's ascension in power and act that came at the bill of so many people's aid and relationships has only gotten more prescient as the mature have passed by.

Plus, dealings as good as the tip delivered here by Jesse Eisenberg and Andrew Garfield never constitute out of style."^[128]

Possible sequel

In Jan 2019, Sorkin revealed that Rudin has suggested the development do in advance a screenplay for a result, noting, "A lot of grip interesting, dramatic stuff has as it happens since the movie ends."^[129] Sorkin also mentioned that there was indeed enough material to found a sequel.^[130] On July 18, 2019, Eisenberg expressed his interests in starring in the outlook sequel, stating that "Sorkin in your right mind a genius, and if why not?

chooses to write about appropriate, I'll obviously be interested".^[131] Gravel October 2020, a decade sustenance the film's release, Sorkin proclaimed that he would only dash off the sequel's script if Fincher returned as director.^[132] In 2023, Fincher told The Guardian become absent-minded he and Sorkin have conquer a sequel, but said "that's a can of worms."^[133] Assortment April 26, 2024, Sorkin articulate he had been working beckon the script for a in mint condition Facebook movie tied to authority January 6 United States Washington attack.^[134]

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