Sorkin understands the hilarious cruelty of Zuckerberg’s rejection, while Fincher makes it feel like a brewing apocalypse. The entire sequence is a perfect origin story for a decade fueled by Facebook, social anxiety, and, yes, seething male ego. “It’ll be because you’re an asshole.” The dialogue crackles, but what comes next is as important: Mark jogging through the dark campus back to his dorm as Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’s foreboding score builds in the background. “You’re going to go through life thinking girls don’t like you because you’re a nerd,” Erica says. Mark’s preening defensiveness and Erica’s dismissiveness lead to careless insults from him-so she dumps him. ![]() The scene is a typically tongue-twisty back-and-forth between the self-important Harvard student (played by Jesse Eisenberg) and his weary girlfriend, Erica (Rooney Mara), about his obsession with the university’s elite final clubs. ![]() Aaron Sorkin’s script is the star of the first few minutes of David Fincher’s Mark Zuckerberg biopic.
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