``The Social Network'' became legendary, with over 90 takes over 5 minutes. Fincher's focus is on the joy of actors.

"The Social Network" synopsis

2003. Mark Zuckerberg, a 19-year-old student at Harvard University, hatches a plan with his best friend Eduardo Saverin. The idea was to create a website where students could freely discuss happenings at the university in order to make more friends. In the closed elite society of "Harvard", their small plan that started with a youthful motivation - "I want to impress female students who looked down on me" - suddenly finds itself in the midst of an unexpectedly large trend. and guide them. An encounter with IT world legend Sean Parker, the founder of Napster, and the site's growth into a huge site that caused a social phenomenon. They suddenly became the darlings of their time and became millionaires at a young age. At the same time, they find themselves in a lonely place far removed from their initial ideals.

Index

• An important opening that cannot be cut in the middle
• Fincher's films are before and after for actors
• Regardless of the facts, those who recognized it as a movie

An important opening that cannot be cut in the middle

``The Social Network'', which focuses on Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, was nominated for eight awards at the 83rd Academy Awards, winning Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Editing, and Best Original Score. It had a good chance of winning Best Picture, but narrowly lost to The King's Speech (10).

movie opening. The scene in which Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg), a sophomore at Harvard University, and his girlfriend Erica (Rooney Mara), who attends Boston University, talk at a diner lasts about five minutes. The conversation continues at a tremendous pace, and Erica, who is dismayed by Mark, decides to break up with him.Here, Mark Zuckerberg's character is conveyed very clearly, and the audience is drawn into the character. It's a great opening.

“The Social Network” (C)2010 Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc.

Although there are some cuts in this scene, it is basically a cut-back of the bust-up of two people sitting across from each other. Sometimes the camera gets too close. Due to the speed, there are many lines that overlap in the cut, and it is clear that the five-minute scenes are being filmed all at once.

When ``The Social Network'' was released, the number of takes for this scene became a hot topic. The number is said to be ``99 takes,'' but there is no definitive information, and it seems that the actual number was between 90 and 100. If you simply repeat a 5 minute scene 100 times, that's 500 minutes. That's 8 hours and 20 minutes. Of course, there will be breaks in between, so it won't be finished in one day. ``By the time we had done about 100 takes, it must have been 3 a.m.,'' screenwriter Aaron Sorkin confessed.

“The Social Network” (C)2010 Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc.

However, for the performers, the number of takes seems to have been welcomed. When I asked Jesse Eisenberg, who plays Zuckerberg, this question, he replied:

``100 times is an exaggeration, I think it was probably around 90 times, but I never got bored of it.'' It's actually a good experience for an actor to try different approaches to the same character over and over again.Aaron A funny line written by Sorkin can be rewritten over 90 takes."

By the way, in the interview, Jesse said, ``My cousin Eric works as a program designer at Facebook.''

Fincher's films are before and after for actors