Category "the-social-network"

Which class is Mark sitting in when he falls asleep?

In the movie "The Social Network" - which class is Mark sitting in when he falls asleep? He then wakes up and answers the question. I think it might be Comput

Is the opening break-up scene in The Social Network intended to be humorous?

In the opening scene we have Mark and Erica talking about knowledge of people in China, SAT and Mark's infatuation with getting into the Finals Club. How is thi

Ending of Social Network

At the start Erica tells Mark "But you’re going to go through life thinking that girls don’t like you because you’re a nerd. And I want yo

Mark's development of character in Operating Systems

Mark stays near the back of his Operating Systems class. He receives a note in class that is passed to him from the front. He then storms out and answers the pr

What does 'Roosevelt punched the Porc' mean?

In the film The Social Network in the opening scene while discussing which club Mark should aim to join there's a line from Mark saying The Phoenix is the

Who is the "movie star" being referred to in one of the scenes from The Social Network?

In The Social Network, which "movie star" was Divya Narendra referring to when he says: The biggest thing on a campus that included nineteen Nobel Laureat

In Social Network, why does Mark need the Phoenix club mailing list?

It seems as though when Mark released Face Smash, the site got 22,000 hits in a couple of hours. Now he said to Eduardo that he needed the Phoenix club mailing

How is Eduardo unaware of the progress on Face Mash?

In the movie 'The Social Network', in the scene after Fashmash has been created but the algorithm has not yet been coded, where Eduardo Saverin gets back to the

Why was "The Social Network" made so quickly after Facebook took off?

The movie was released in 2010 and had to have started being planned for at least 1-2 years before that. It seems this was incredibly fast after Facebook was r

Why is Adam D'Angelo's character not in the movie?

Adam D'Angelo met Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg while the two were still teenagers attending "uber" preppy prep school, Phillips Exeter Academy. Initially

Was Erica Albright real?

In the film The Social Network Mark breaks up with Erica Albright early on, this (through a series of steps) leads to him creating The Facebook. However in rea

What was the Lewis Carroll reference and mockery to the Phoenix members?

A scene in The Social Network Mark wants the mailing list of Phoenix Club members from Eduardo. The conversation was : Mark Zuckerberg: These guys know peop

music used in The Social Network AND Moneyball [closed]

There is a song used in both movies, it occurs towards the beginning of each movie around the time that both parties make a "breakthrough". I

Did Mark Zuckerberg answer a question in similar circumstances to this?

In the Social Network, Mark Zuckerberg (played by Jesse Eisenberg) answers a question in a lecture: Now I know this most like

Why was tilt shift used for the Henley sequence in The Social Network?

David fincher is known to be a perfectionist and each and every frame of his movie is consciously put there to further the main plot of the movie while making t