A Movie About The Last Decade

June 29, 2010 • 4:11 pm • POSTED BY Adam Flanagan

If you had to make a movie about the last 10 years, what would it be about? I think David Fincher, director of Fight Club, and Billy Idol’s Cradle of Love music video, along with Aaron Sorkin, writer and executive producer of The West Wing, have figured out the perfect movie to sum up the last decade.

The Social Network, a movie based on the creators of Facebook, adapted from the novel, The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding Of Facebook, A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal, will be released in October. The movie poster alone makes me want to see this movie, it’s incredibly simple, but packs a big punch, and Jesse Eisenberg is spot on for casting of Mark Zuckerberg. The trailer is great, with amazing dialogue written by Sorkin.

Here’s my favorite real-life quote by Zuckerberg, as a sophomore at Harvard, when he had just put up Facemash, the early predecessor to Facebook.

“Perhaps Harvard will squelch it for legal reasons without realizing its value as a venture that could possibly be expanded to other schools (maybe even ones with good-looking people…), But one thing is certain, and it’s that I’m a jerk for making this site. Oh well. Someone had to do it eventually…” -Mark Zuckerberg