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Lines that are probably in that Facebook movie
Since I saw the trailer for the movie, “The Social Network” (embedded below) due out in October, I’ve been a little obsessed with how Hollywood heavy hitters like screenwriter Aaron Sorkin and genius director David Fincher are going to tackle the origin story of Facebook.
Will they portray Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg as a cocky Harvard geek who got in over his head? Or a visionary Millennial with slightly sociopathic tendencies who cunningly bended the Internet to his whims?
Either way, we know that young people sitting at computers on film rarely makes for compelling drama. Instead, we’re sure to get lots of high-decibel dialog between the characters. Here’s a list of exchanges I absolutely expect will make it into the film:
- “Privacy?! (Expletive) privacy!”
- “Do you have a girlfriend?” “No. I have a website.”
- “Users are freaking out! What do we say?” “We tell them we’re sorry. Then we push twice as hard.”
- “It’s called a Poke.” “Poke? Who the Hell wants to Poke someone on the Net?” “Um, only EVERYBODY?”
- “Say goodnight, MySpace.”
- “We are gonna rule the world. Do you hear me, Sean? RULE. THE. WORLD.”
- “$900 million?! Who do you think we are? Friendster? NO DEAL, JERRY.”
- “You stole our idea!” “I didn’t steal your idea. I had a BETTER idea that fixed all your mistakes.”
- “We need more servers.” “OK, Mark. How many?” “Um… 10,000, maybe?” “Are you kidding?” “Make it 20,000.”
- “Take it down? Do you have ANY IDEA how the Internet works?!”
- “LET them sue us. We’ve got more money than God and more lawyers than we’ve got engineers.”
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