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[The Social Network] Not really about Facebook
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The most intriguing one is the 20 minute long chat on slate.com where they just do not get the humor of the rowing scene, but tastefully point out that Eisenberg will not get any sort of Oscar nod because he is not playing the character like the current "give me an Oscar" crowd.
I do get the feeling that if i watch this movie 2-4 more times I will start to see more of the stylish writing, and then just associate that style with being a pretentious anti-computer culture writer. But right now thinking about it, it was pretty brilliant. All the same though after seeing a couple of Aaron Sorkin interviews the way he comes across to me is as a complete prick and fake psychologist disguised as a sympathetic author. But yet again, brilliant dialogue.
http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/10/06/the-truth-behind-the-social-network/
Interesting stuff: Zuckerberg wasn't dating his (current) long term girlfriend since after she was hired at Facebook, so her omission may not be entirely inaccurate. She wouldve been dating him during some of the films events, but her existence probably had no bearing on the scenes we saw from that time period; Erica Albright's character is based on Zuck's blog posts which were taken mostly word for word including HTML formatting, except that her name was changed (though it's unknown if he was dating the person he called a bitch or not); Sean Parker was arrested for cocaine, but not at a Facebook party. An underaged Facebook employee was there, however.
This is the first time I've seen a mod on PA. Thanks for that Loren! =) The first thing on my mind was the "*gasp* they do exist" commercials on during christmas about M&Ms and Santa.
That rules. Thanks Monoxide for the interview!
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They were done so well that it just never registered with me that it could have been two people or camera tricks.
One, although they probably did use a stand-in for some of the scenes where they were together (especially if you only see the back of one)
Two bodies, one actor. Whenever they were in the same shot they were two different people, just with the one dude's face super imposed on the other guy's body using CGI. And yeah they were really well done, that guy deserves some kind of award. The top of this article talks about it Link
I'd also like to mention that I'm a member of the Alpha Chi Rho (AXP) fraternity and we share a house with Alpha Epsilon Pi (AEPi). When me and a few of my friends saw that they were in the movie, we literally shit bricks. Probably one of the funniest parts to us.
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Also, Armie Hammer is the best name i've heard of since Rooster Cogburn.
Speaking of which, when I went to see this movie there was a preview for the True Grit remake I didn't know they were making that looked pretty rad.
you are very excited
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I don't mean for this to get too philisophical or utilitarian, just some thoughts I had while watching the movie.
No, I know exactly what you mean. I enjoyed the movie a lot, but largely for the same reason I enjoy a lot of Aaron Sorkin's stuff: the languagegasm of hearing a bunch of fast-talking characters fencing with each other about interesting subjects at 3x speed. But their rarefied backgrounds and personal gifts were intensely alienating, and it kept me at an emotional arm's length.
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I've known a handful of people like movie-Zuckerburg from high school and my time at Stanford. The girlfriend character is totally right; interacting with these people is like riding a stairmaster. Every conversation is a battle of intellectual one-upsmanship. It is exhausting. I've had honest-to-God conversations like the one at the bar, and I was always the girlfriend-character, trying to keep up and always getting exasperated.
Also interesting is that the four or five people I have in mind are actually all doing quite well for themselves in various tech start-up / freelance jobs. Movie-Zuckerburg is almost a perfect amalgamation of all their genius and assholery and asperbergerness.
I feel like I didn't "get" the rowing scene. Anybody want to break down why they thought that scene was in there?
Hell, it seemed to me like those two had a lot more going for them than Hahvahd Connection. They were Olympic athletes.
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But really the whole scene was to set up why they were in England, and that facebook had already moved overseas.
What is better?
320 MP3
Apple Lossless
or FLAC
?
(5$ on the NIN webpage)
the mp3 is high quality for an mp3 but it's gonna be worse than the others.
that being said, apple lossless and flac aren't played by every media player where as mp3s are.
I saw this movie last night and loved it but for me this was less about Facebook and more about Mr Zuckerburg's (and maybe that of many nerds/geeks) behavior which in the end caused him to be lonely. In my opinion it is something we can all learn from.
The actors did a great job, by the end of the "betrayal" scene I hated Mr Zuckerburg with a passion but the performance was fantastic. You could see that he wasn't that comfortable with the whole thing and then the end scene completely changed it all.
Plus, their dedication and drive to rowing crew mirrored Zuck's dedication to programming and creating facebook.
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There was a great scene in there that actually gave me some sympathy for Zuckerburg was when
I actualy was shocked that I didn't hate zuckerberg, after all the whrblgrbl going on in this thread. Yes he is a dick, yes he got in bed with Sean Parker who fucked him over, yes he did fuck over his ONLY true friend. But if there's a villian in this movie, it's not zucker, it's Parker. All the little scenes during the deposition really made me like his charector even more, and humanized him a lot to me.
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By the way, I love Justin Timberlake, even moreso now.
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Hell, just seeing the trailer gave me that sort of feeling.
I went to see it again last weekend and it still held up. I'm more into movies with clever dialogue AAAAAND lots of action. Here it's just clever dialogue and literally zero action. I like the fact that I can understand everything he was doing to make facemash.com, while everyone who's not a computer nerd sat there like "ookay, that makes sense?"
Also I still think the betrayal scene is really well done.
P.S. I had to wait til the weekend after I said I was going because that weekend it sold out, again. Then this past weekend it looked like it was about to sell out because all the seats were practically gone, I got a decent view though better than two rows from the screen.
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