Here's the best clip from "Saturday Night Live" with a whole lot of Facebook owner Mark Zuckerberg featured for one television. There was the NSL Zuckerberg (Andy Samberg), the movie Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisienberg), and the actual Zuckerberg...who can't act for s$$&.
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Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Thursday, October 14, 2010
First-Class: The Social Network
I believe that Aaron Sorkin is a screenplay god. In case you don't know what he's done, let me refresh your memory: A Few Good Men, The American President, Sports Night, The West Wing, and Charlie Wilson's War.
And now, he's given us The Social Network, a fictionalized tale of the start of Facebook.
Or is it?
SPOILER ALERT!
It's not.
The Social Network is about popularity and belonging and attention and friendship. It's a subtle yet powerful look at how technology has made my generation, those of us that have come of age during the internet age, during the Facebook age, live our lives: through the internet. Through social networking websites. The Social Network is about Mark Zuckerberg, played brilliantly by Jesse Eisenberg, the "creator" of Facebook, and his quest to join the elite Harvard Final Clubs. He is obsessed with exclusivity. He wants to be popular.
But he's a geek, nerd, dweed, whatever you want to call him. He's also brilliant. His ability to write code is shown in the movie as pure mind-blowing power--he hacks into several websites and eventually crashes the Harvard servers by creating a website that compares Harvard girls, all while drunk after breaking up with his girlfriend. It is in these early scene that we learn who Zuckerberg is: lonely, outcast, misunderstood, and needy. In a hearing with the Harvard Advisory Board, Zuckerberg asks for "some recognition." That's all he really wants throughout the movie.
Sorkin's script is music to the ears. His quick banter between characters is mesmerizing. And while he sets aside his usual "walk-and-talk" dialogue that became famous in The West Wing and the short-lived Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Sorkin's script oozes something special.
The fictionalized tale of Facebook is also engrossing and at times painful to watch. The backstabbing and friendship and loss of friendship adds flaws to every character. Zuckerberg is made out to be a king, and all his men are only there to tell him what he wants to hear. At first, it's Eduardo Saverin (Andrew Garfield), Zuckerberg's best friend, who goes from the it man to the wrong man. The story of Facebook is as much the story of the end of the friendship of Zuckerberg and Saverin. And while part of this may be due to Sean Parker, the Napster founder played appropriately by Justin Timerblake, in the end its Zuckerberg and his quest to join an exclusive club, that tears apart his own world.
And the end of this amazing film, Zuckerberg comes across as an ass-hole, a nerd, a social dweeb, and a nice guy. It's up to the movie-goer to decide.
But really, this is an Aaron Sorkin tour-de-force. Or maybe I'm just in love with Aaron Sorkin.
FINAL GRADE: A
And now, he's given us The Social Network, a fictionalized tale of the start of Facebook.
Or is it?
SPOILER ALERT!
It's not.
The Social Network is about popularity and belonging and attention and friendship. It's a subtle yet powerful look at how technology has made my generation, those of us that have come of age during the internet age, during the Facebook age, live our lives: through the internet. Through social networking websites. The Social Network is about Mark Zuckerberg, played brilliantly by Jesse Eisenberg, the "creator" of Facebook, and his quest to join the elite Harvard Final Clubs. He is obsessed with exclusivity. He wants to be popular.
But he's a geek, nerd, dweed, whatever you want to call him. He's also brilliant. His ability to write code is shown in the movie as pure mind-blowing power--he hacks into several websites and eventually crashes the Harvard servers by creating a website that compares Harvard girls, all while drunk after breaking up with his girlfriend. It is in these early scene that we learn who Zuckerberg is: lonely, outcast, misunderstood, and needy. In a hearing with the Harvard Advisory Board, Zuckerberg asks for "some recognition." That's all he really wants throughout the movie.
Sorkin's script is music to the ears. His quick banter between characters is mesmerizing. And while he sets aside his usual "walk-and-talk" dialogue that became famous in The West Wing and the short-lived Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Sorkin's script oozes something special.
The fictionalized tale of Facebook is also engrossing and at times painful to watch. The backstabbing and friendship and loss of friendship adds flaws to every character. Zuckerberg is made out to be a king, and all his men are only there to tell him what he wants to hear. At first, it's Eduardo Saverin (Andrew Garfield), Zuckerberg's best friend, who goes from the it man to the wrong man. The story of Facebook is as much the story of the end of the friendship of Zuckerberg and Saverin. And while part of this may be due to Sean Parker, the Napster founder played appropriately by Justin Timerblake, in the end its Zuckerberg and his quest to join an exclusive club, that tears apart his own world.
And the end of this amazing film, Zuckerberg comes across as an ass-hole, a nerd, a social dweeb, and a nice guy. It's up to the movie-goer to decide.
But really, this is an Aaron Sorkin tour-de-force. Or maybe I'm just in love with Aaron Sorkin.
FINAL GRADE: A
Monday, August 30, 2010
College Humor Does It Again
It's sad that we've come to this. And in a way, it does summarize our culture today. We learn nothing unless it's on Facebook, a blog, or in some other sort of over-entertaining but amazingly simplified fashion. While being hilarious (and it is), it speaks volumes. Really makes you wonder what the world is right now, and what its heading towards.
In the mean time, check it out here.
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Whoops: Facebook hated like airlines and cable companies
This really cracks me up.
Facebook, the most visited site on the Internet , may also be the most despised: A new poll says the site scored 64 on a 100-point scale, which “puts Facebook in the bottom 5 percent” of private sector companies “and in the same range as airlines and cable companies, two perennially low-scoring industries with terrible customer satisfaction,” according to results of a survey released today.
The results of the American Customer Satisfaction Index’s E-Business Report, done by the University of Michigan in conjunction with ForeSee Results, comes as Facebook nears 500 million members, and as founder Mark Zuckerberg prepares to take to the airwaves Wednesday to talk about his company and its woes.
“Facebook is a phenomenal success, so we were not expecting to see it score so poorly with consumers,” said Larry Freed, president of ForeSee Results. “At the same time, our research shows that privacy concerns, frequent changes to the website and commercialization and advertising adversely affect the consumer experience.”
Really doesn't surprise me. I dislike Facebook a lot. The whole privacy issues bugs me to no end. And the Federal Trade Commission is investigating Facebook's privacy and data collection practices. I've really watched what I type and do on Facebook, and I encourage all of you to do the same. Facebook is still an amazing networking too, and the main reason why I haven't gotten rid of it is because I'm afraid of losing touch with friends. But if Facebook does something that makes me mad, I may walk real soon.
In the mean time, read the entire MSNBC.com article here.
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