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the social network
I saw it (maybe a month back?) and it was an excellent film, but hilarious in how little it resembled reality.
The falling apart of the Saverin/Zuckerberg working relationship and sequence of lawsuits is an issue. Probably the nature of the relationship between the two of them as well--Zuckerberg essentially told friends at the time that Saverin was a 'sucker' who was only in it for the money, and he (Z) was happy to use him. Saverin put unauthorized ads on the site and was sued for interfering with business. Certainly they were friends at some point, but it was not a relationship without tensions.
It's more accurate with regards to the Winklevoss lawsuit, although from what I've gleaned, they're not nearly assholeish enough. They were kicked out of apartments for drunken shenanigans and fighting, so.
And the big one for me was Facebook itself. I really think they overestimated Zuckerberg's ~coding genius and the significance within the tech world of Facebook. FB is revolutionary because of its success, and because of its effects, not because of its ~code. There's a weird mystification of computer science and information technology going on in The Social Network.
It'll be interesting to see what angle the inevitable remake takes.
The falling apart of the Saverin/Zuckerberg working relationship and sequence of lawsuits is an issue. Probably the nature of the relationship between the two of them as well--Zuckerberg essentially told friends at the time that Saverin was a 'sucker' who was only in it for the money, and he (Z) was happy to use him. Saverin put unauthorized ads on the site and was sued for interfering with business. Certainly they were friends at some point, but it was not a relationship without tensions.
It's more accurate with regards to the Winklevoss lawsuit, although from what I've gleaned, they're not nearly assholeish enough. They were kicked out of apartments for drunken shenanigans and fighting, so.
And the big one for me was Facebook itself. I really think they overestimated Zuckerberg's ~coding genius and the significance within the tech world of Facebook. FB is revolutionary because of its success, and because of its effects, not because of its ~code. There's a weird mystification of computer science and information technology going on in The Social Network.
It'll be interesting to see what angle the inevitable remake takes.