I just saw The Social Network and I am somewhat surprised to say that it exactly fit my expectations, though I was less annoyed by it than I expected to be
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I've been looking into it and talking to a few people... very little of the movie has anything to do with what really happened, especially when they ascribe motivations.
Zuckerberg and Parker aren't much like the way they are portrayed. Zuckerberg, although given to robotic diction, speaks slowly, was an athlete (fencing), couldn't care less about final clubs, and had a girlfriend during the entire period the movie documents -- the same one he has now. The hacking scene is indeed taken from his blog verbatim, but they made up all the really misogynistic quotes (there is no bra size comment, nor does he disparage his girlfriend's ancestry or all the women at BU). He might be a dick, but he's not quite the dick they portrayed him as.
Parker is a bon vivant, but not mean and dismissive like he is portrayed. The incident with the underage intern girl did happen, but it occurred at someone's beach house, not at a frat party. The cocaine wasn't found on anyone's person (much less anyone's stomach), but a cop produced a baggie of it, saying he found it in a bathroom.
Dustin Moskovitz is barely in the film (he's comic relief in a few scenes) but was apparently a huge driving force.
The pajamas meeting with "Case Capital", actually Sequoia, had nothing to do with Sean Parker delivering a fuck-you to a VC. It was just a very silly pitch for a P2P project they were developing on the side.
In any case, had Eduardo Saverin accepted 0.03% of Facebook that would be (by my calculations) 7.5 million for less than $10,000 of investment and a relatively unproductive run as CFO for a few months. As some people have noted, the only "accidental billionaire" is Saverin.
Zuckerberg and Parker aren't much like the way they are portrayed. Zuckerberg, although given to robotic diction, speaks slowly, was an athlete (fencing), couldn't care less about final clubs, and had a girlfriend during the entire period the movie documents -- the same one he has now. The hacking scene is indeed taken from his blog verbatim, but they made up all the really misogynistic quotes (there is no bra size comment, nor does he disparage his girlfriend's ancestry or all the women at BU). He might be a dick, but he's not quite the dick they portrayed him as.
Parker is a bon vivant, but not mean and dismissive like he is portrayed. The incident with the underage intern girl did happen, but it occurred at someone's beach house, not at a frat party. The cocaine wasn't found on anyone's person (much less anyone's stomach), but a cop produced a baggie of it, saying he found it in a bathroom.
Dustin Moskovitz is barely in the film (he's comic relief in a few scenes) but was apparently a huge driving force.
The pajamas meeting with "Case Capital", actually Sequoia, had nothing to do with Sean Parker delivering a fuck-you to a VC. It was just a very silly pitch for a P2P project they were developing on the side.
In any case, had Eduardo Saverin accepted 0.03% of Facebook that would be (by my calculations) 7.5 million for less than $10,000 of investment and a relatively unproductive run as CFO for a few months. As some people have noted, the only "accidental billionaire" is Saverin.
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