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happy ides of march don’t forget to look at your best friend/business partner like this before stabbing him in the back!!!

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may i have your attention please

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i followed you to the bathroom but then i felt crazy

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this song is his anthem, btw

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thinking about the near prophetic quality of that casual business dinner in nyc with sean. wardo sticking out like a sore thumb in his old fashioned business suit with a big tie in a restaurant full of young people dressed casually. “from that moment on, he OWNED mark.” and boy did he. the marlins and the trout conversation, later on referenced by “don’t fish eat other fish?! the marlins and the trout?!” they do and YOU’RE the fish wardo. sean’s paranoid ramblings vs “it was the winklevoss twins, mark!” vs “you did it, i KNEW you did it! you planted the story about the chicken!” (bonus: dustin in the former scene and sean in the latter both literally saying the exact same thing, “what’s he talking about?”) sean’s biggest contribution to the company— “oh, and drop the ‘the.’ just ‘facebook.’”— and then they dropped wardo. because of sean.

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the social network (2010) is really a masterpiece and a gift that keeps on giving because. the one thing that confused me on every single rewatch was the amount of seemingly genuine warmth mark would show wardo, especially towards the end. in general mark’s tendency to either be stony faced or show every emotion known to mankind on his face in a span of one (1) second. and then i saw an excerpt from an interview jesse gave recently where he said they basically had him do each scene two different ways, the first would be without much emotion or facial expression, and the second would be the opposite. later on they mixed the takes up, on purpose, while they were editing. and then it just clicked. like, we all know how the importance of subjectivity in this story, each character has their own truth and version of events. and because we as the audience mainly see these events unfolding through eduardo’s lens, this is another way of putting us into his shoes— it catches you off guard just like him. everything was fine until it wasn’t. we never see anything happening, just hints. because in the end everything happened behind closed doors, behind his back, with sean egging mark on. all of his friends turning their back on him without a word. because he was never there. AND DON’T EVEN GET ME STARTED on the parallels between sean and eduardo (both being kicked out of companies they helped create, for one). wardo saying he read bad things about sean, and mark saying people can read he tortured animals. GOD. sean went through all that three (?) times and still turned around and did it to wardo anyways.

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“i want, i want— i need you out here. please don’t tell him i said that.”

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rewatching the tsn actor commentary. jesse eisenberg has some kind of turbo autism i need him in ways that would get me institutionalised permanently

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girl help feeling insane about the gay facebook movie that’s about real life billionaire mark “senator, we run ads” zuckerberg and his real life college bud eduardo “disappeared off the face of the earth” saverin but they’re played by jesse “Anxiety.” zuckerberg and queer ally icon andrew “falls in love with every costar” garfield and written by aaron “i don’t want my fidelity to be the truth, i want it to be story telling. what is the big deal about accuracy purely for accuracy’s sake, and can we not have the true be the enemy of the good? lol them gay” sorkin and directed by david “well who am i to deny the queers of THIS chemistry and dynamic” fincher with a soundtrack by trent reznor and atticus ross (“hand covers bruise” “creep for trailer” & “baby you’re a rich man for the outro”) so who’s to blame me for forgetting that first part? as far as i’m concerned these are FICTIONAL characters and shipping these two men is NOT the same as rpf thank you for coming to my tedtalk time to cry bc point oh three percent and i need you don’t tell him i said that and i’m here for you and

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the social network (2010 dir. fincher) + flu game by fall out boy

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Just watched Social Network for the first time. I get it now. I understand why I've seen 2000+ Tumblr posts trying to capture the Experience of that film. I understand why I've alternately seen it hailed as a watershed cinema masterpiece that exposes silicon valley for the asshole boys club it is and also as a film that fundamentally misunderstands what it takes to succeed in silicon valley and also as the funniest fucking gay tragedy ever put to screen. And they're ALL correct. In the midst of this film about people who feel a vague twinge of human emotion once a year, Andrew Garfield bravely experiences Shakespearian earthquakes of the soul over *checks notes* Mark Zuckerberg. I laughed harder than I've laughed at a film in years. I was earnestly told by the images on my screen to feel sad for the silicon valley brain-geniuses because the poor dears lose all true human connection on account of their being the worst people you've ever heard of in response to the hardship of suffering nothing ever at all. Edwardo pulled that 'you love Gatsby because Nick loves him' shit so fucking hard that two or three times I was tricked into a glimpse of emotion about the curly-haired fucktwat on my screen before recalling that said fucktwat is *checks notes again* MARK. ZUCKERBERG. At which I'd feel like the butt of a cosmic joke but couldn't even be mad about it because it was in fact the funniest shit I'd ever experienced. After two hours of watching the most obnoxious piece of shit you've ever seen in your life the film pulls an honest-to-goodness 'he's not an asshole' about *checks notes again because surely that can't be right* WAR CRIMINAL MARK ZUCKERBERG. It is, and please know I say this without irony: a good film.

INTERESTING. I don’t think it tries to make you sympathize with mark at all. I thought it had a very…. Not as far as an anti zuck stance. But a mark zuckerberg sowing haha this rules mark zuckerberg reaping well this sucks. What the fuck. Stance. Very Pyrrhic victory rich asshole on rich asshole crime you won at what cost. Stance. Edwardo was in love with him though. I cannot dispute this. The only people who dredge any sympathy out of me are Rooney mara (mark zuckerberg’s ex) and Eduardo saverin (mark zuckerberg’s ex) because Rooney mara voice I was nice to you mark don’t torture me for it. And then he did. I really am well and truly shocked that nobody got sued over that movie. Becuase mark Zuckerberg sucjs so bad in there. BEAUTIFUL flick though. I’ve seen it several times. Incredible soundtrack. I never get tired of watching the drift apart build into an explosion which culminates in mark sitting in an empty room alone with a computer comma hated. Like I watch the social network and I’m like oh it’s about the social media company they made up for their movie. With character types that are meant to round out a cast and plot rather than reflect any real world people. I love it I’ve watched it 3 times this year. My cocomelon

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do you ever think about the girl? (punisher - phoebe bridgers, the social network dir. david fincher)

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what’s meant for you will always find you (my copy of “accidental billionaires” had been sitting on the bookstore’s shelf for literally TEN YEARS until i bought it)

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wardo on his knees begging mark to pay attention to him:

mark:

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- andrew garfield for why ‘the social network’ isn’t just ‘the facebook movie’, published in the san francisco bay guardian, 9/28/10