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There are lots of reasons, not good enough, because you may have chosen Aaron Sorkin and David Fincher not to make the social network.For example, is a film about a website Or to be precise, it is a film about creating a Web site, Facebook, and as founder Mark Zuckerberg was cited by Eduardo Saverin, his best friend and original CFO of the company, and separately from three fellow Harvard who supported stole their idea.
Additionally, events are only a few years and are still in dispute. Zuckerberg, a genius of programming with the notoriously limited social skills, is not a character very relatable.Sorkin (The West Wing) and Fincher (zodiac) are powerfully idiosyncratic talents who had never worked together before. And a lot of action consists of children by typing at the computer and lawyers sitting around tables.(See time fall preview entertainment for 2010).
But Sorkin and Fincher did do the Social Network, which opens on 1 October. they sat down with Lev Grossman of time talking about it.
TIME: What made you decide that this was the story that you wanted to say now?
Sorkin: What came to me was a proposed 14-page book that Ben Mezrich [author of the accidental billionaires, on which the film is loosely based] he wrote to his publisher. I have read, and I said yes very quickly. Faster than ever I said yes to anything.
You really don't have much at all to do with Facebook itself. I wasn't on Facebook. don't spend a lot of time on the Internet, and social networking was not truly part of my life. But the story itself! There are elements of it that are old as narration: friendship and loyalty, class, jealousy, betrayal — all those kinds of things that were written about 4000 years ago.Hit me like a great story of great classical. and such classic elements were applied to something incredibly contemporary. (Read how Facebook is redefining the secrecy of the Internet).
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