Daily Dialogue — September 8, 2015
Mark Zuckerberg: You signed the papers.
Eduardo Saverin: [almost in tears] You set me up.
Mark Zuckerberg: You’re gonna blame me because you were the business head of the company and you made a bad business deal with your own company?
Eduardo Saverin: This is gonna be like I’m not a part of Facebook!
Sean Parker: It won’t be like you’re not a part of Facebook. You’re not a part of Facebook.
Eduardo Saverin: My name’s on the masthead.
Sean Parker: You might wanna check again.
Eduardo Saverin: Just because I froze the account?
Sean Parker: Did you think we were going to let you parade around in your ridiculous suits pretending you were running this company?
Eduardo Saverin: [cutting him off; screaming] Sorry! My Prada’s at the cleaners! Along with my hoodie and my ‘fuck you’ flip-flops, you pretentious douchebag!
Sean Parker: Security’s here, you’ll be leaving now.
Eduardo Saverin: I’m not signing those papers.
Sean Parker: We will get the signature.
Eduardo Saverin: [to Mark] Tell me this isn’t about me getting into the Phoenix. [Mark scoffs] You… You did it! I knew you did it! You planted that story about the chicken!
Mark Zuckerberg: I didn’t plant the story about the chicken.
Sean Parker: What’s he talking about?
Eduardo Saverin: You had me accused of animal cruelty.
Sean Parker: Seriously, what the hell’s the chicken?
Eduardo Saverin: [leans down close to Mark, his voice low and dangerous] And I’ll bet what you hated the most was that they identified me as a co-founder of Facebook, which I am. You better lawyer up asshole, because I’m not coming back for 30%, I’m coming back for EVERYTHING.
— The Social Network (2010), screenplay by Aaron Sorkin, book by Ben Mezrich
The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Betrayal. Today’s suggestion by David Proenza.
Trivia: During one of the depositions, it is mentioned that the invention of Facebook made Mark Zuckerberg “the biggest thing on a campus that included nineteen Nobel Laureates, fifteen Pulitzer Prize winners, two future Olympians, and a movie star.” One of the lawyers then asks, “Who was the movie star?” and the response is, “Does it matter?” This movie star was, in fact, Natalie Portman, who was enrolled at Harvard from 1999 to 2003 and helped screenwriter Aaron Sorkin by providing him insider information about goings-on at Harvard at the time Facebook first appeared there.
Dialogue On Dialogue: Commentary by David: “It’s one thing getting screwed out of your own company, but getting screwed by your best friend, too? If anything, Eduardo underreacted to the whole situation… brought to life by the powerful acting of Andrew Garfield.”