David Fincher’s movie ‘The Social Network’ is all about making of one of most famous sites of the world, its owner and world’s youngest billionaire, and most importantly inescapable need for acceptance inside each one of us. This paper discusses the movie and several other related aspects of the movie.
The movie is based on the story which revolves around Mark Zuckerberg, a Harvard undergraduate and computer programming wizard who launched a website that changed the definition of networking. The character of Mark Zuckerberg is played beautifully by Jesse Eisenberg who is as arrogant and self-absorbed at the end as he is at beginning of the movie. When the networking site added millions of users and became a money minting machine, several disputes also started taking place and story enters into a net of legal convolutions entwined by the cofounders of the web site. The movie is a perfect blend of boardroom drama, conspiracy thriller and full of provocative dialogues.
The movie also has a string of legal disputes and Mark Zuckerberg is unavoidably a party in these legal disputes. He was sued by Harvard twins, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss for stealing their ideas. Mark was also sued by his colleague and co-founder of Facebook, Eduardo Saverin whose name was slashed from the owners of the networking site by Zuckerberg and Saverin's shares were diluted from 34.4% to .03%. The legal dispute with Winklevoss brothers was settled with Mark for a sum of about $65 million. In the dispute of Saverin, an out of court settlement was reached however terms of the settlement were sealed. Eduardo Saverin was reinstated as the co-founders and as stake holder of the networking site.
Work Cited
The Social Network. Dir. David Fincher. Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake, Armie Hammer, Max Minghella, Brenda Song, Rashida Jones and Rooney Mara. 2010.
