The Social Network Wins 3, Loses 5 Oscars.
Official Site. IMDB. The Social Network on Dailymotion. Reviews. Shocker: FB Doesn't like the'Social Network' "The Social Network" Movie is Hard on Facebook CEO. It’s hard to feel sorry for a billionaire. But here I am, feeling bad for Mark Zuckerberg. If you see the “The Social Network” you’re probably going to feel bad for him, too. I saw a screening of the movie last week, and can report back that it’s just as rough on the Facebook CEO as his people feared it would be. Not because of scandalous scenes involving sex and drugs–there aren’t many of those, and they’re quite tame*. It’s because the film portrays him as an insecure jerk who screws over people and becomes a much-richer insecure jerk.
At the end of the movie, there’s a suggestion that Zuckerberg may not actually be a jerk–he may just be someone who acts like one. But I liked the movie a lot–I’ll see it again once it comes out in October. The best hope for Zuckerberg and his team is that the wider audience for this one could be relatively small. So that may be a hard sell for a really big audience, at least at first. Mark Zuckerberg On 'The Social Network': 'It's Fun' The Social Network" Writer on Zucky. The Social Network screenwriter Aaron Sorkin voiced "empathy" for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's position as an accused idea thief — an accusation that plays a central role in the film about the young executive.
The film is based on a book called Accidental Billionaires, which among other things accounts a dispute between Zuckerberg and individuals who accused him of stealing their ideas when creating the social network. Sorkin said in an interview with Time, "I've been that guy. I've been the Mark Zuckerberg in that situation, and I have absolute empathy for him. " He referenced occasions when would-be screenwriters tried to claim that they'd come up with the idea for The West Wing, the TV series he ran for seven years, as the reasons for his empathy. At one point in the film the Zuckerberg character says, "If you guys were the inventors of Facebook, you would have invented Facebook. " As is the case with most film versions of true stories, the facts aren't all straight. Stars of “The Social Network” to Discuss the Film on… MySpace.
With the release of “The Social Network” only a week away, the stars of the film are set to make a live video appearance on the social networking site that Facebook long ago unseated as top dog: MySpace. This Sunday, cast members Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Timberlake, Andrew Garfield, Armie Hammer and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin will discuss the film with host Olivia Munn and also answer questions from fans – a format that has become fairly common on MySpace. The event takes place at 5:30 p.m. ET this Sunday on the movie's MySpace page. One might think it somewhat ironic that this isn’t taking place on the site the movie is about, but as has been previously reported, that’s because Facebook isn’t letting that happen (though plenty of promotion is still finding its way onto the site indirectly via “Like” buttons).
Thus, the studio behind the movie – Columbia Pictures – has embarked on a fairly large scale marketing campaign on other social sites. New clip. The Social Network (2010) - Pictures | Stills | Poster - RopeofSilicon.com. Exclusive: Trent Reznor on "The Social Network" and the Evolving Music Biz [INTERVIEW] Back when it was first announced that rocker Trent Reznor would be scoring David Fincher's The Social Network, we thought it was a match made in pop culture heaven — a movie about the dark side of the social networking biz, scored by a man who has plumbed the depths of social media, while also wrestling with its implications? Sign us up. Well, we got an aural glimpse at the soundtrack the other week after Reznor, along with his record company, The Null Corporation, and Sony’s Madison Gate Records announced the disc on Null Co's website and gave fans a five-song sneak peek. Now we're itching to see how music and celluloid go together.
As the premiere of the highly anticipated film rapidly approaches, we decided to talk with Reznor about the experience of scoring a movie in its entirety, the state of the music industry, and, of course, social media on the whole. Check out our interview with the rocker below. It's not about how the kid in the dorm room that likes to listen to music. Sex! Hackers! Embellishment! The Inside Story of the Facebook Movie | Magazine. Computer guys have never had a this-is-our-moment movie that makes a splashy myth out of quotidian reality—where everyone looks sexy-tormented in the bargain.Illustration: Martin Ansin Mark Zuckerberg is many things, not least a student of the classics. He reads Latin and ancient Greek, and his personal motto is said to be Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit, or, loosely translated, “Maybe one day we’ll look back on all this shit and laugh.”
Lately, though, he’s probably meditating on another Latin phrase: annus horribilis. Because it’s been one lousy year for the 26-year-old CEO, despite (and also because of) the success of his dormitory-born company, Facebook, aka the most trafficked social-networking site on earth. He might as well get used to it. In early October, with much fanfare and an eye on the Oscars, Sony Pictures is releasing The Social Network, its liberally dramatized, completely unauthorized, and (its makers hasten to add) thoroughly researched Facebook origin story. 5 Reasons Why 'The Social Network' Does Not Define This Generation. Spoiler Warning: This article touches upon the ending of 'The Social Network' and 'Citizen Kane.' Cinematical's very own Erik Davis began his review of 'The Social Network' by predicting that "They'll call it a film that defines a generation," and if the ubiquitous ads and the chatter following the film's New York Film Festival premiere are any indication, Erik's prophecy is already being fulfilled.
What I find most interesting about the shotgun analysis he preempted is that such a statement seems far more critical of "this generation" (whatever that is) than it does of the film itself. Incidentally, it's also not true. Well, it's not true enough. 'The Breakfast Club' is a film that defined a generation; 'The Social Network' is a film about a generation that defines what it's like to be alive in the first world. It uses Facebook in much the same way that 'Citizen Kane' used newspapers: as a means to an end. ‘The Social Network’ Captures the Facebook Obsession. Problematic depiction of women. There's been a lot of talk on the Web that, all of its rave reviews notwithstanding, "The Social Network" offers a crude, often misogynistic portrayal of nearly every women featured in the movie.
(Or as one particularly acerbic post at Jezebel.com put it: " 'The Social Network': Where Women Never Have Ideas. ") And hey, when you think about it, it's true. Mark Zuckerberg and his 2004-era Harvard cohorts treat women in almost exactly the same way that Jimmy Page and his Led Zeppelin cohorts treated their female fans in 1969 -- like groupies. Veteran TV scribe and blogger Ken Levine loved the movie (after all, he's a guy), but one of his female readers posted a comment, saying that as good as "The Social Network" was, with the exception of one or two women, everyone else was "basically sex objects/stupid groupies.
" What a letdown, she wrote, especially from the guy who created "The West Wing's" C.J. I used Mark's blog verbatim. ... Awards In Hand, The Social Network Filmmakers Heap Praise On Zuckerberg. Mark Zuckerberg meets Jesse Eisenberg. The Social Network.