LA2 Research a film

 The Social Network

The social network is a film starring Jessie Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake, Armie Hammer, Max Minghella, Rooney mara and written by Aaron Sorkin and directed by David Fincher. The budget for the film was 50 million USD and the film is an adaptation of sorts from a book called accidental billionaires written by the American author Ben Mezrich. The story of the book and the film is based off real life of the people Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin and Sean Parker where they all found success creating the very popular social media site known as Facebook in the early 2000s. The story of the film mark Zuckerberg (the character) gets broken up with and continues to make the site www.facemash.com that is a site that compared girls hotness in Harvard this site gets so much attention that the Winklevoss twins try to get mark to make their idea for a site called Harvard connection which was basically the facebook before mark decideed to steal their idea and mark obviously steals the idea and the rest of the film is about the Winklevoss twins trying to stop Mark Zuckerberg along with the friendship of Eduardo Saverin and Mark slowly falling apart due to them both having different ideas on the facebook and through greed as the character Sean Parker comes in. And little piece of trivia The film has more VFX Shots then the film Godzilla 2014.

When the film came out audience reactions were mostly very good as on rotten tomatoes the Audience score is 86% People liking it and for the reviews 96% liked  the film.  On Metacritic film has a 95%, Empire gives the Film a 4/5, Rolling Stone gives the movie a 4/4 and it was nominated to be Best film of 2010 by the national board so it is safe to say that the film was very liked by people who saw it.

When the film released the movie made $224.9 million And when the dvd version came out it made 22.7 million.

References

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unknown. (2010). The Social Network. Available: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the-social-network. Last accessed 08/12/2020.

unknown. (2010). The Social Network. Available: https://m.the-numbers.com/movie/Social-Network-The-(2010). Last accessed 08/12/2020.

unknown. (2010). The Social Network. Available: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1285016/fullcredits. Last accessed 08/12/2020.