Go Into The Story Script Reading & Analysis: “The Social Network”
The entire 11-part series on the award-winning movie script.
The entire 11-part series on the award-winning movie script.
Screenplay by Aaron Sorkin, book by Ben Mezrich.
IMDb plot summary: Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg creates the social networking site that would become known as Facebook, but is later sued by two brothers who claimed he stole their idea, and the co-founder who was later squeezed out of the business.
General Comments
Structure
Characters
Themes
Dialogue
TweetCast Transcript
Scene-By-Scene Breakdown
Major Plot Points
Sequences
Psychological Journey
Takeaways
You can download a PDF of the screenplay here.
For my 7-part series on How to Read a Screenplay, go here.
For the archives of 70 Go Into The Story Script Reading & Analysis Series posts, go here.
Years ago, I came up with this mantra: Watch movies. Read scripts. Write pages. A link to my reflections on that here.
Cannot emphasize enough the importance of reading movie scripts.