This movie is useful to my project because it marks a point in history as the first mostly-fictional movie relating to computers and technology to get just about everything technically correct. Many hundreds of films both great and terrible have been produced in the same vein over the last fifty years with varying levels of stomach-churning technical inaccuracy. The Social Network breaks that trend with spot-on accuracy that would bore the hell out of mainstream audiences if the scene weren't disguised by moving progressive music, rapid scene cuts and enough technical language to fill a TI Calculator instruction booklet. I'm not hesitant to say that this is likely the first time this has happened, certainly on a scale as large as the audience this movie targeted and hit.
Friday, April 27, 2012
Film Post - The Social Network
The Social Network is a movie about the creation of Facebook - a heavily dramatized story about an in-house college campus connection service that became a full-fledged cultural phenomenon and a multi-billion dollar enterprise company. In the movie, Mark Zuckerberg is a savant Harvard student with socialization issues and lofty goals. Contacted by a pair of rich twin brothers to develop a website, conflict ensues when he builds an adaptation on their idea without their input and launches it with the aid of his friend Eduardo. The brothers move to sue, but the site has already taken off and they can do nothing to stop it or reclaim what they consider to be their IP. They reach a settlement (pennies in comparison to the value of the site) and Zuckerberg walks off as a rich genius.
This movie is useful to my project because it marks a point in history as the first mostly-fictional movie relating to computers and technology to get just about everything technically correct. Many hundreds of films both great and terrible have been produced in the same vein over the last fifty years with varying levels of stomach-churning technical inaccuracy. The Social Network breaks that trend with spot-on accuracy that would bore the hell out of mainstream audiences if the scene weren't disguised by moving progressive music, rapid scene cuts and enough technical language to fill a TI Calculator instruction booklet. I'm not hesitant to say that this is likely the first time this has happened, certainly on a scale as large as the audience this movie targeted and hit.
< Dir. David Fincher. Perf. Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake. Columbia Pictures, 2010. DVD.>
This movie is useful to my project because it marks a point in history as the first mostly-fictional movie relating to computers and technology to get just about everything technically correct. Many hundreds of films both great and terrible have been produced in the same vein over the last fifty years with varying levels of stomach-churning technical inaccuracy. The Social Network breaks that trend with spot-on accuracy that would bore the hell out of mainstream audiences if the scene weren't disguised by moving progressive music, rapid scene cuts and enough technical language to fill a TI Calculator instruction booklet. I'm not hesitant to say that this is likely the first time this has happened, certainly on a scale as large as the audience this movie targeted and hit.
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