Journal 5: Brief Screeing Report on "The Social Network"

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The scene in The Social Network that I found to be important is the scene in which Eduardo Saverin freezes the bank account for Facebook. The events leading up to this event help to better understand this scene. Mark Zuckerberg wants his best friend and CFO of Facebook to come to California with him so he doesn’t get left behind with Facebook’s constant growth. Mark’s other friend, Sean Parker, keeps making business meetings even though Eduardo is the business end of the company. To get Mark’s attention, Eduardo freezes their only bank account. When Mark finds out, he gets very panicky because without money, the site can’t function. He explains that the servers will be down, the system will crash, and there will be a domino effect as Facebook users log off on one by one.

The scene in which Eduardo freezes the bank account is in chapter 14 of the movie, but the events leading up to it are in chapter 13. I think this scene is important because the events in this scene drive Eduardo to take legal action against Mark for not making him a part of Facebook even though he’s the company’s CFO. Mark diluted Eduardo’s shared down from an original thirty percent to less than one percent. Eduardo then went on to sue Mark for everything because he had a big part in the creation of Facebook. He funded everything needed to get the site up and running and was the one who set up the bank account in the first place. This whole movie is set around the law suits that Mark is in, one of which being with Eduardo.