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The worst/best thing about The Social Network is that, for the next 3 decades, all campus flyers will reference it.
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“He is the youngest billionaire in the world.”
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Please, No: Aaron Sorkin and Scott Rudin Making FACEBOOK: THE MOVIE - August 27th, 2008
Okay, let’s make this quick because I’m logging off, going outside and sitting quietly under a tree for the rest of eternity. Writer Aaron Sorkin (Charlie Wilson’s War, Studio 60) has joined Facebook. More importantly, he’s created a Facebook group where it’s announced he’s penning Facebook: The Movie (our title) for mega-producer Scott Rudin (NCFOM,TWBB)…
“I’ve just agreed to write a movie for Sony and producer Scott Rudin about how Facebook was invented. I figured a good first step in my preparation would be finding out what Facebook is, so I’ve started this page. (Actually it was started by my researcher, Ian Reichbach, because my grandmother has more Internet savvy than I do and she’s been dead for 33 years.)
I honestly don’t know how this works, which is why I’m here. If anyone has any questions I’d be happy to answer them as best I can. If anyone has any comments I’m glad to listen. And if anyone has any Facebook stories I think they might be helpful.”
This is not a joke (prank is probably a better word). Vulture confirmed the film via Rudin just seconds ago. Never thought I’d say this, but I’d rather see Emily Gould’s Talking Tattoo Biopic realized on the big screen. Okay, it’s Twittered and Tumblr’d, to the forest I go.
Per the “insider drama” and Rolling Stone piece warranting a film, we did fine without Netscape: The Movie. Hayden Christensen for Zuckerberg I say!
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Trent Reznor’s soundtrack to The Social Network is actually superb.
I say this as someone who was never into Nine Inch Nails aside from jokingly quoting “Closer” on occasion.
At the screening I went to, I think that Armie Hammer pretty much articulated the effect it has, so I’ll paraphrase him. Basically, the score sounds like ambient noise at first, until you get halfway through a scene, and realize that that ambient noise has a rhythm, and that you’ve almost unknowingly been listen to a song for the last five minutes. It’s one of the best combinations of sound and image in recent memory.
The Social Network debuts at 100%, with critical comparisons to Citizen Kane and The Godfather.
Would I put it in that tier? No. But is it an incredibly well-scripted movie that moves along at an exhilarating clip without a weak spot in the cast? Yes.
It lives up to the hype. See it.
(via ronworkman)
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This is a screenshot from the promo for the forthcoming The Social Network, apparently showing a real page from the website for “The Eliot House,” a residence for upperclassmen at Harvard. And if you go to that URL shown on screen, it does take you to Eliot House’s site - but to a dead page.
Also, the film starts in fall 2003, but Mozilla didn’t release Firefox 1.0 until Nov. 2004, so hmmm…
Still - sticklers for detail, these filmmakers seem to be. I’d expect nothing less from Aaron Sorkin.
“The Eliot House”
FYI: Columbia Pictures’ official blog for The Social Network is on Tumblr.
“I’m talking about taking the entire social experience of film marketing, and putting it online.”
“You know what’s cooler than a million reblogs? A billion reblogs.”
And so on.
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No one man should have all dat powah.
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This how I warm up before computering.
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Oh man, it gets better.
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Larry Summers is going to steal every scene in The Social Network
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You called me a BITCH on the internet.
