04 janeiro, 2011

Numa sala perto de mim #137

The Social Network (2010) tells about the creation of facebook and the ensuing legal battles. I was impressed by the amount of words that Jesse Eisenberg, portraying Mark Zuckerberg, is able to say in a given unit of time (the movie is fast, but it seems even faster when he speaks) and by the similarities of the main character with quite a few people I know without any social skills... amazing how such a person generated the biggest social network ever. Two passages that stuck:

Erica Albright [leaving]: I need to study
Mark Zuckerberg: you don't need to study
Erica Albright: why you keep saying I don't need to study?
Mark Zuckerberg: 'cause you go to BU...
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Gage: Mr. Zuckerberg, do I have your full attention?
Mark Zuckerberg: [stares out the window] No.
Gage: Do you think I deserve it?
Mark Zuckerberg: [looks at the lawyer] What?
Gage: Do you think I deserve your full attention?
Mark Zuckerberg: I had to swear an oath before we began this deposition, and I don't want to perjure myself, so I have a legal obligation to say no.
Gage: Okay - no. You don't think I deserve your attention.
Mark Zuckerberg: I think if your clients want to sit on my shoulders and call themselves tall, they have the right to give it a try - but there's no requirement that I enjoy sitting here listening to people lie. You have part of my attention - you have the minimum amount. The rest of my attention is back at the offices of Facebook, where my colleagues and I are doing things that no one in this room, including and especially your clients, are intellectually or creatively capable of doing.
[pauses]
Mark Zuckerberg: Did I adequately answer your condescending question?

[first (complete opening) scene here, last here]

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