Social Network Facebook Movie – Fact or Fiction?
The new Facebook Movie that’s about to come out is sure getting a lot of press and big time buzz in the media. Early reviews have been great and there is even talk about possible Oscar contention for the film. After all, when you put a top flight director like David Fincher at the helm, and hire Aaron Sorkin to craft the screenplay, you’re talking about instant movie industry credibility.
But how close to the truth is the Facebook Movie going to get? After all, everyone knows that Hollywood often takes “poetic license” when it comes to adapting non-fiction material to the silver screen.
So what do you suppose the real life principals in the film think about the new Facebook movie? What do you suppose that the founder of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg thinks about all of the pre-release buzz that’s swirling around?
Here is what Nicholas Carlson of the Business Insider reports:
On October 1, Columbia Pictures will release The Social Network, a movie that portrays Facebook’s CEO and cofounder, Mark Zuckerberg, as an arrogant nerd-punk who betrays friends and classmates in order to get what he wants – sex, money, and power.
The movie is fiction. So is the book it’s based on – Ben Mezrich’s The Accidental Billionaires.
Facebook hates the movie. Zuckerberg says he will not watch it.
Based on the early reviews of the movie, this makes sense.
According to sources – sources who despise Mark Zuckerberg and sources who admire him – the only reason The Accidental Billionaires exists is because one of Mark’s Facebook cofounders pitched the book to Mezrich in an attempt to permanently damage Mark’s reputation.
According to those sources, that cofounder and Harvard student is Eduardo Saverin.
This is the story of how Eduardo got so angry at Mark — how, from Eduardo’s perspective, Mark screwed him out of a huge chunk of Facebook stock. It’s also the story of how Mark solved an early problem at Facebook, one that could potentially have prevented the company from becoming the global behemoth it is today.
The story is sourced from people involved in the founding year of Facebook, people close to Facebook, and documents viewed by Business Insider. It includes previously unpublished emails and instant messages between Mark Zuckerberg and early Facebook colleagues and confidants.
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I saw a video on Youtube where Mark is interviewed about how closely the storyline in the film relates to what actually happened in real life. Mark says there are loads of differences. Apparently he didn’t split up from his GF just before the whole Facemash creation occured. His current GF he has been with since before Facebook/Facemash/etc even started. In the film it kind of looks like that’s what spurred him on to create Facebook. Kind of wish that was true
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I enjoyed the Social Network movie, but I need to remind myself to have a healthy skepticism about how “true” it may be.
Even if Mark Z isn’t painted with the best light, only added more to the already incredibly successful Facebook brand.
Only Mark and his co-founders knew the REAL Score of Facebook, the movie is sharing some insights to make the plot more exciting. It’s up to the smart movie viewers to be convinced on their story.
What matters is Facebook Rules!…. even without exposing the story behind this Milestone.
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They are just insecure of what Mark has right now. I think the movie is just good, what is worst is that they use mark to portray a bad image.
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