The Social Network

2010
12
2 Std.

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

7,8/10

776.542

IHRE BEWERTUNG

BELIEBTHEIT

829

Jesse Eisenberg in The Social Network (2010)

A story about the founders of the social-networking website, Facebook.

trailer wiedergeben2:31

37 Videos

99+ Fotos

Docudrama Epic Legal Drama Biography Drama

Der Harvard-Student Mark Zuckerberg kreiert die Social-Networking-Site, die als Facebook bekannt wurde. Später wird er jedoch von zwei Brüdern verklagt, die behaupten, er hätte ihre Idee ges... Alles lesenDer Harvard-Student Mark Zuckerberg kreiert die Social-Networking-Site, die als Facebook bekannt wurde. Später wird er jedoch von zwei Brüdern verklagt, die behaupten, er hätte ihre Idee gestohlen, sowie den Mitbegründer, der später aus dem Geschäft verdrängt wurde.Der Harvard-Student Mark Zuckerberg kreiert die Social-Networking-Site, die als Facebook bekannt wurde. Später wird er jedoch von zwei Brüdern verklagt, die behaupten, er hätte ihre Idee gestohlen, sowie den Mitbegründer, der später aus dem Geschäft verdrängt wurde.

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

7,8/10

776.542

IHRE BEWERTUNG

BELIEBTHEIT

829

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

3 Oscars gewonnen
- 173 Gewinne & 187 Nominierungen insgesamt

Wissenswertes
During one of the depositions, it is mentioned that the invention of Facebook made Mark Zuckerberg "the biggest thing on a campus that included nineteen Nobel Laureates, fifteen Pulitzer Prize winners, two future Olympians, and a movie star." One of the lawyers then asks, "Who was the movie star?" and the response is, "Does it matter?" This movie star was, in fact, Natalie Portman, who was enrolled at Harvard from 1999 to 2003, at the same time as Mark Zuckerberg. She invited Aaron Sorkin to a dinner party with her Harvard friends to provide him insider information on the school's social life at the time Facebook was created.

Patzer
In the meeting Eduardo has with the lawyer to discuss the new stock options he is given the following breakdown on stock ownership: Eduardo 34.4%, Dustin 6.81%, Sean 6.47%, Mark 51% and Thiel 7%. These total up to 105.68%.

Zitate
Gage: Mr. Zuckerberg, do I have your full attention?
Mark Zuckerberg: [stares out the window] No.
Gage: Do you think I deserve it?
Mark Zuckerberg: [looks at Gage] What?
Gage: Do you think I deserve your full attention?
Mark Zuckerberg: I had to swear an oath before we began this deposition, and I don't want to perjure myself, so I have a legal obligation to say no.
Gage: Okay - no. You don't think I deserve your attention.
Mark Zuckerberg: I think if your clients want to sit on my shoulders and call themselves tall, they have the right to give it a try - but there's no requirement that I enjoy sitting here listening to people lie. You have part of my attention - you have the minimum amount. The rest of my attention is back at the offices of Facebook, where my colleagues and I are doing things that no one in this room, including and especially your clients, are intellectually or creatively capable of doing.
[pauses]
Mark Zuckerberg: Did I adequately answer your condescending question?

Alternative Versionen
There is an Unrated cut of the film that only includes an extra use of the word "fuck".

Verbindungen
Featured in The Rotten Tomatoes Show: Inception/Predators/The Sorcerer's Apprentice (2010)

Soundtracks
Ball and Biscuit
Written by Jack White (as Jack White III)
Performed by The White Stripes
Courtesy of Third Man Records
and Courtesy of XL Recordings Ltd.

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Just as Fincher gave us the definitive Generation X film with "Fight Club", he and Aaron Sorkin give us a definitive Generation Y film...

...and that's "The Social Network".

It joins the ranks of his best, and just like many of his his previous works, has been reviled before it was properly understood.

For months before it came out, it was the laughing stock of people who were off-put by the idea of a "movie about Facebook" (even though it's easy to look and see that it's about the founding of Facebook and the people behind it), just like "Fight Club" is dismissed as a violent film about people fighting, or that "Se7en" is just a serial killer movie.

Not to get sidetracked, though.

"The Social Network" is filmmaking and storytelling of a high order, that shows the grand irony of a socially inept Harvard student named Mark Zuckerberg who ended up creating one of the largest social phenomena of the twenty-first century (and love Facebook or hate it, it most certainly is that). The story works as an engaging, fascinating character study; at the beginning of the story, Mark is a socially maladjusted reject, and even after several million 'friends' and a few billion dollars later, he remains pretty much the same.

The outstanding acting, style and direction, as well as the great script armed to the teeth with sharp dialogue is what people are likely to miss by dismissing it as a mere 'Facebook movie'.

Even if it were just a "movie about Facebook", why is such subject matter off-limits? Things that have become a large part of our culture shouldn't be reflected in our art? Or, is it because of that? That technology is such a scary thing and needs to be dismissed? The indisputable fact is that everything that's going on with social networking and the world of the Internet is incorporated into the ideas of a certain corner of history, this one, which will be remembered as such, and "The Social Network" may very well be remembered as a film to define that era.

So please, this is one of the films to see this year. Don't get hung up on the idea that it's just a silly "Facebook movie", or else you'll be missing out on an excellent picture.