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...Special note to Mark E. Zuckerberg ’06-’07: Relax, Zuckerberg! We don’t actually think you’re the asshole that the script makes you out to be. Please don’t hack into our computer systems and/or steal our business venture ideas...
What we really want to know is how Zuckerberg is going to take this. In the script, right before he creates facemash.com (a sort of hotornot.com spinoff that was a precursor to Facebook), he muses, “The Kirkland facebook is open on my desktop and some of these people have pretty horrendous facebook pics. Billy Olson’s sitting here and had the idea of putting some of these girls’ faces next to pictures of farm animals and have people vote on who’s hotter….Good call, Mr. Olson! I think...
Granted, this appears in the beginning of the story, with plenty of time for Zuckerberg to redeem himself in a classic Hollywood feel-good about-face. But it never really materializes. The Zuckerberg we get here?...
...roughly the Zuckerberg we get at the end. And that’s the main issue—the script sets him up as an underdog who fights against privilege to achieve a glittering rags-to-riches success, but his motivations seem so shallow (or, if we’re going to be kind, inscrutable) that we don’t really care...
Consider when Zuckerberg rails at Eduardo L. Saverin '05, Facebook's original CFO, who in this scene has just frozen the company's bank account (and at the moment is mildly preoccupied with a matter of life-and-death...