Andrew Garfield talks 'Facebook friends' vs 'real friends' in this interview for The Social Network

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BlackTree TV Jamaal Finkley talks to actor Andrew Garfield about his role in The Social Network.

Drawn from multiple sources, the film moves from the halls of Harvard to the cubicles of Palo Alto as it captures the visceral thrill of the heady early days of a culture-changing phenomenon in the making -- and the way it both pulled a group of young revolutionaries together and then split them apart. In the midst of the chaos are Mark Zuckerberg (JESSE EISENBERG), the brilliant Harvard student who conceived a website that seemed to redefine our social fabric overnight; Eduardo Saverin (ANDREW GARFIELD), once Zuckerberg's close friend, who provided the seed money for the fledgling company; Napster founder Sean Parker (JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE) who brought Facebook to Silicon Valley's venture capitalists; and the Winklevoss twins (ARMIE HAMMER and JOSH PENCE), the Harvard classmates who asserted that Zuckerberg stole their idea and then sued him for ownership of it.
Each has his own narrative, his own version of the Facebook story -- but they add up to more than the sum of their parts in what becomes a multi-level portrait of 21st Century success -- both the youthful fantasy of it and its finite realities as well.
One drunken night in October of 2003, having just broken up with his girlfriend, Mark hacks into the university's computers to create a site that forms a database of all the women on campus, then lines up two pictures next to each other and asks the user to choose which is "hotter." He calls the site Facemash, and it instantly goes viral, crashing the entire Harvard system and generating campus-wide controversy over the site's purported misogyny, and charges that Mark, in creating Facemash, intentionally breached security, violated copyrights and violated individual privacy. Yet in that moment, the underlying framework for Facebook is born. Shortly after, Mark launches thefacebook.com, which will spread like wildfire from one screen to the next across Harvard, through the Ivy League to Silicon Valley, and then literally to the entire world.
But in the chaos of creation comes passionate conflict -- about how it all went down, and who deserves recognition for what is clearly developing into one of the century's signal ideas --conflict that will divide friends and spur legal action.
To forge a palpable sense of that fog of creation, of history still being written, Sorkin and Fincher collaborated on a carefully constructed, non-aligned storytelling style that intentionally does not choose sides. Instead, the film presents a consortium of equally tricky narrators -- each of whom believes he is in the right and that his particular memories are the truth of the matter -- while leaving the larger questions of what really happened entirely open for the audience.

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Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• The Social Network
• Andrew Garfield
• Facebook
• Eduardo Saverin
• Sean Parker
• betrayal
• lawsuits
• friendships

[CaptainPommby]

He's got some bitchin hair!

[TheMMProductionz]

why is it that it seems every british actor sounds so smart?

[Blastaar7]

@TheMMProductionz it's just the same type of british accents that you'll hear a lot of narrators and journo hosts having. So you associate it with information and prestige.

[LoveNicoleC]

i only just realised he was the actor 'tom' from sugar rush!

[JinRenegade]

@TheMMProductionz Because British people are smart :)

Nah I'm just kidding, it's just a thing.

[planexxjane]

@TheMMProductionz I know right, I guess it's because he speaks the way our first president spoke.

[mmr11027]

Nothing beats real contact with someone. Facebook is too superficial for sharing your real feelings like the way you can on email, phone, and personal visits. And the privacy of video chat? FB makes it hard to feel safe. I've hardly used FB and use G+ for closer friends...but still reserve old fashioned personal touches for real friends.

[KrazyKindaPOPSTAR]

poor thing seems like he's got allergies...omg i <3 him *faints*

[grandfathercullen]

andrew is this guy in the sn and now his in the amzing spiderman sweet

[aquaticstone]

The interviewer sounds stoned, or something.

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