The Social Network - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

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[caroline]

Aaron Sorkin and David Fincher wanted to do the movie based solely on a 14-page book proposal that somehow got leaked to Gawker.com right about the time 21 (2008) came out; the book hadn't even been written yet, and Ben Mezrich wound up writing it in a hotel room with Sorkin right next to him, handing Sorkin the chapters as they were finished.

[eli]

Aziz Ansari auditioned for the role of Divya Narendra. In a New York Times article written by Ansari, he admitted that his audition was "horrible" but he did not like that a non-Indian actor was cast, namely Max Minghella.

[ivan]

The film cast includes one Oscar winner: Aaron Sorkin; and four Oscar nominees: Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Rooney Mara and Justin Timberlake.

[dustin]

There is actually a Facebook page for "Erica Albright," a character in the film. The profile pictures are of the actress Rooney Mara who plays Albright. It is also listed that she attended Boston University.

[ava]

During the opening credits sequence in the beginning of the film, when Mark is running back to his dorm, director David Fincher intended to use Elvis Costello's song "Beyond Belief". Even though everyone tried to talk him out of it, it wasn't until Fincher heard composer Trent Reznor's piece "Hand Covers Bruise" that he dropped his initial idea.

[ethel]

Autism expert Temple Grandin (herself the subject of the biopic Temple Grandin (2010) the same year) has stated that the depiction of Zuckerberg in this film matches the profile of Asperger's syndrome.

[tammy]

The real Mark Zuckerberg had never heard of an Appletini before he had seen the film. After he tried one, he liked it so much he made the Appletini Facebook's official drink.

[manuel]

The original banner at the top of Facebook.com included a stylized portrait of a young Al Pacino. It was designed by Andrew McCollum, a friend of Mark Zuckerberg. The banner used on the website in the film uses a portrait of actor Jesse Eisenberg (who plays Zuckerberg).

[melinda]

Despite the fact that director David Fincher has been a big proponent of digital filmmaking since Zodiac (2007), this is his first film to have been completely shot digitally (both Zodiac and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) had certain shots/segments shot on film).

[frances]

Andrew Garfield was originally asked to audition for Mark Zuckerberg but David Fincher decided he was too good at wearing his heart on his sleeve to play such an emotionally guarded character. Garfield found it helpful to go from reading for Mark to reading for Eduardo, because he felt that Eduardo tried to understand Mark through Mark's point of view.

[ruby]

Most outfits that Mark wears in the film are things that the real Mark Zuckerberg has been seen wearing in pictures, with at least one exception, a T-shirt from a theatre company that Jesse Eisenberg had belonged to.

[oscar]

Some behind-the-scenes footage presented as a DVD extra reveals that during the filming of the "facemash montage" (which shows various groups of Harvard students perusing facemash and rating Harvard women against each other for relative attractiveness), one of the actors was instructed to say, "of course she's hot; she's Natalie Portman" while comparing two female Harvard students. That dialogue didn't make it into the finished film, but another oblique reference to Portman's presence on campus did (she is the movie star referred to during the deposition).

[jesse]

Despite the "Erica Albright" subplot and Mark's depiction in this movie as being generally maladroit with women, during much of the period covered by the film, the real Mark Zuckerberg was actually dating fellow Harvard student Priscilla Chan. Chan, who was one of the very first people ever to join Facebook (on February 5, 2004), graduated from medical school in 2012, the same year that she and Zuckerberg got married. They had their first child, daughter Maxima Chan Zuckerberg, in 2015.

[leo]

Aaron Sorkin's small role as the ad executive was not his own idea; David Fincher was reportedly very insistent that he do it.

[sophie]

At the D8 conference hosted by All Things Digital on June 2, 2010, host Kara Swisher told Mark Zuckerberg she knew he was not happy with the film being based on him, to which he replied, "I just wished that nobody made a movie of me while I was still alive." Zuckerberg stated to Oprah Winfrey that the drama and partying of the film is mostly fiction, explaining "this is my life, so I know it's not so dramatic," and that he spent most of the past six years focusing, working hard, and coding Facebook. Speaking to an audience at Stanford University, Zuckerberg stated that the film portrayed his motivations for creating Facebook inaccurately; instead of an effort to "get girls", he says he created the site because he enjoys "building things".[42] However, he added that the film accurately depicted his real-life wardrobe, saying, "It's interesting the stuff that they focused on getting right - like every single shirt and fleece they had in that movie is actually a shirt or fleece that I own."[42]

[tammy]

Mark Zuckerberg originally planned never to see this movie. He ended up taking several of his employees to see it. He later remarked that, despite some of the film's inaccuracies, they got his clothing right.

[eli]

Amy's line in French ("Tu fais l'amour à la jolie fille") roughly translates in English, "You've made love to a pretty girl."

[lena]

When Mark types the word 'facebook' in a blog post during the FaceMash scene, beneath the word appears a collection of dots indicating an unrecognised word on the blogging software. The word 'Facebook' is now an acceptable and globally known term on almost all pieces of software such as Microsoft Word and Google.