"The Social Network"
By CBSNews.com Producer David Morgan
SUMMERS: Well, I would suggest that you let your imaginations run away with you on a new project.
TYLER: You would.
SUMMERS: Yes. Everyone at Harvard is inventing something. Harvard undergraduates believe that inventing a job is better than finding a job so I'll suggest again that the two of you come up with a new new project.
CAMERON: I'm sorry, but that's not the point.
SUMMERS: Please arrive at the point.
CAMERON: You don't have to be an intellectual property expert to understand the difference between right and wrong.
SUMMERS: And you're saying that I don't?
CAMERON: Of course I'm not saying that.
TYLER: I'm saying that.
GAGE: Mr Zuckerberg, do I have your full attention?
MARK: No.
GAGE: Do you think I deserve it?
MARK: What.
GAGE: Do you think I deserve your full attention?
MARK: I had to swear an oath before we began the deposition phase and I don't want to get arrested for perjury so I have a legal obligation to say 'no.'
GAGE: Okay, 'No,' you don't think I deserve your attention.
MARK: I think if your clients want to stand on my shoulders and call themselves tall they have a right to give it a try, But there's no requirement that I enjoy being here listening to people lie. You have part of my attention - the minimum amount needed. The rest of my attention is back at the offices of Facebook where my employees and I are doing things that no one in this room, including and especially your clients, are intellectually or creatively capable of doing. Did I adequately answer your condescending question?
But Zuckerberg is being sued on TWO fronts.
And what IS cool, Parker is asked? "A BILLION dollars."
There is no clearly defined villain. And the hero is a young creative who appears capable of understanding the value of a social networking tool he has created - and yet exhibits social inadequacies and professes to not need friends. Even Parker, whose self-destructive drug use threatens the company, is less Machiavellian than he is simply a visionary who knows a winning formula when he sees one.
Aaron Sorkin
David Fincher
Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross
Click on the links below to hear samples from the score:
"Hand Covers Bruise" Excerpt (mp3)
"Intriguing Possibilities" Excerpt (mp3)
Jesse Eisenberg
Andrew Garfield
Justin Timberlake
Armie Hammer
Max Minghella
Rooney Mara
Brenda Song
Although some exteriors were filmed in Cambridge, Mass., Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore stood in for the Harvard campus. In one shot, in which the geography of the location required the camera negative to be flipped in order to match other shots, Eisenberg wore a GAP sweatshirt with the lettering printed backwards.
Mark Zuckerberg
Eduardo Saverin
Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss
PICTURES: Oscars red carpet
PICTURES: Oscars highlights
SPECIAL SECTION: The Academy Awards
"I've befriended Hans Zimmer in this process of battling him at award shows," Reznor said backstage after accepting his Oscar. "And he said, 'I hope that your score does win because it's a vote for - it opens the field up a bit, the textures what one can expect in film.'
"And I personally would like to do a very traditional score with an orchestra, but I also see where I think there's a general sense of conservatism in scores these days, and I think it can branch out into stuff and has a little richer palette and wider palette with sound. And I was very impressed we actually won this with a very non-traditional-sounding score. And I say that, with all due respect. I think it may encourage a number of artists who hadn't thought in terms of rigid film scoring, that there's a possibility out there to work in film and make something interesting, a bit different."
Kirk Baxter (left), who'd worked with director David Fincher on "Zodiac" and "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," had advice for viewers: "Find something you truly love doing and great things can happen. The hard part is, you got to meet someone like Fincher. Cheers!"
Angus Wall, who also worked with Fincher on several films, credited the director with helping start his career 20-odd years ago. "Also, a big thank-you to our wives, who allow us to have incredibly passionate love affairs with our families and our work."
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