The Social Network: Movie Analysis
The Social Network is a 2010 film by David Fincher about creating the world’s largest social networking platform, Facebook. The film focuses on Mark Zuckerberg and his interactions with co-founders, influencers and enemies. Fincher portrays many important values through the characters that can be related to the real world; those being betrayal and power. This can be seen through the main characters and their actions based around the creation and lawsuits that followed.
From the first few scenes in the movie there is a clear friendship between Mark Zuckerberg and his former best-friend Eduardo Saverin. The team created the code for FaceMash and Facebook in their dorm, Eduardo provided the money necessary for the company to prosper and Mark …show more content…
This may not have been the case and Mark defends himself by using the metaphor that ‘a guy who builds a really nice chair doesn’t owe money to everyone who has ever built a chair.” The idea of Harvard Connection sparked Mark to come up with a social media website that would not only allow ‘girls [to get] with guys [that] go to Harvard’ but take everything social interaction has and put it online. However, he did use some of their original idea for making it exclusively to Harvard registered emails but then after he saw how big Facebook got within Harvard he branched out showing that ‘they came to [Mark] with an idea, and I had a better one’. Even the Winklevoss twins stated themselves they were being petty ‘[its like wearing] skeleton costumes chasing the Karate Kid around a high school gym,’ they still went ahead and sued Mark for stolen intellectual property. In one way, Mark did steal their idea by making a social media platform only specifically for students with a Harvard email address, but then expanded to other universities, eventually going global showing that Harvard Connection would never have the growth that Facebook …show more content…
To gain power that Mark wants, he need the assistance of social status and money. However, Mark lacks both of these qualities but finds them in both Eduardo and Sean. Eduardo has the money and Sean has the social standing that Mark needs to get his site to the masses. In some ways, it is good that Mark does not care as much about money as the others as it shows that he is not materialistic and is more than happy to show off his skills in computer work rather than with the amount of money he has earned.
The Social Network shows these two themes in various ways. Betrayal is shown with Eduardo and Mark and then the Winklevoss twins. I do believe that these values are still significant, betrayal and power are common throughout life and can be seen in nearly all aspects. Both of these keep issues play a vital role in the film, determining business ventures, friendships or loss of
From the first few scenes in the movie there is a clear friendship between Mark Zuckerberg and his former best-friend Eduardo Saverin. The team created the code for FaceMash and Facebook in their dorm, Eduardo provided the money necessary for the company to prosper and Mark …show more content…
This may not have been the case and Mark defends himself by using the metaphor that ‘a guy who builds a really nice chair doesn’t owe money to everyone who has ever built a chair.” The idea of Harvard Connection sparked Mark to come up with a social media website that would not only allow ‘girls [to get] with guys [that] go to Harvard’ but take everything social interaction has and put it online. However, he did use some of their original idea for making it exclusively to Harvard registered emails but then after he saw how big Facebook got within Harvard he branched out showing that ‘they came to [Mark] with an idea, and I had a better one’. Even the Winklevoss twins stated themselves they were being petty ‘[its like wearing] skeleton costumes chasing the Karate Kid around a high school gym,’ they still went ahead and sued Mark for stolen intellectual property. In one way, Mark did steal their idea by making a social media platform only specifically for students with a Harvard email address, but then expanded to other universities, eventually going global showing that Harvard Connection would never have the growth that Facebook …show more content…
To gain power that Mark wants, he need the assistance of social status and money. However, Mark lacks both of these qualities but finds them in both Eduardo and Sean. Eduardo has the money and Sean has the social standing that Mark needs to get his site to the masses. In some ways, it is good that Mark does not care as much about money as the others as it shows that he is not materialistic and is more than happy to show off his skills in computer work rather than with the amount of money he has earned.
The Social Network shows these two themes in various ways. Betrayal is shown with Eduardo and Mark and then the Winklevoss twins. I do believe that these values are still significant, betrayal and power are common throughout life and can be seen in nearly all aspects. Both of these keep issues play a vital role in the film, determining business ventures, friendships or loss of