Answer two of the questions below, post an image from the film. Facebook, representation & target audience The Social Network presents a ‘new breed’ of youngsters who are culturally and technologically savvy. Ironically, in creating Facebook – a virtual network designed to bring people together – they are ultimately driven apart, personally and professionally. Set in Harvard University, Massachusetts, the film captures a very distinctive class, place and moment in history.
2. To what extent are the students, most of whom come from rich families, portrayed in an unsympathetic light?
Though our protagonist, Mark Zuckerberg can be blunt, unpleasant, and rude at times that can make unlikable, he is ultimately the "underdog" that we are rooting for because of his circumstance: a genius who does not come from a rich family. The students who come from rich families are portrayed in an unsympathetic light to an extent where their emotions are more easily hurt and bruised when they do not get what they want. You can see this in the Winklevoss brothers, Divya, and Eduardo. The big rising action occurs when the film switches between the past to help explain the story in which both the Winklevoss brothers (and Divya) and Eduardo sue Zuckerberg for two different reasons. The Winklevosses are portrayed as bratty and very egotistical as they try to sue Zuckerberg for taking their idea. When the issue is brought to the Harvard president, they were shut down because it is silly to punish someone for stealing an idea that has not been put into words: the idea was not patented, therefore not stolen. But the Winklevosses took no for an answer and took it to legal terms. It seems they do not know how to handle loss, which is also seen in their crew race against Holland. As for Eduardo, there is a little more sympathy for him because of his friendship with Zuckerberg. But, there have been instances in the film where it seems like Eduardo was holding back the company because he was not present or he did not agree with Zuckerberg, or more notably, Sean Parker. His feelings were more hurt by the fact that Zuckerberg betrayed him in a contract and did not tell him about it, and sued him for just that. Ultimately, in contrast to Zuckerberg's circumstance as a student who did not come from a family of money, it seems that the rich students are portrayed in an unsympathetic light to further demonstrate both sides of Zuckerberg's success: the criticism and the praise.
3. Is there anything stereotypical about the representation of adults?
I feel that either adults took the cases way too seriously or thought they were pointless that they undermined the feelings of the students. It is stereotypical of the adults to ask so many questions to only be confused by the answers or demand an answer that did not involve emotions or the way the student felt. The adult's inability to capture the point of the case was in fact their inability to connect and understand the students' circumstance as the world entered a new generation of technology and social interaction online.
2. To what extent are the students, most of whom come from rich families, portrayed in an unsympathetic light?
Though our protagonist, Mark Zuckerberg can be blunt, unpleasant, and rude at times that can make unlikable, he is ultimately the "underdog" that we are rooting for because of his circumstance: a genius who does not come from a rich family. The students who come from rich families are portrayed in an unsympathetic light to an extent where their emotions are more easily hurt and bruised when they do not get what they want. You can see this in the Winklevoss brothers, Divya, and Eduardo. The big rising action occurs when the film switches between the past to help explain the story in which both the Winklevoss brothers (and Divya) and Eduardo sue Zuckerberg for two different reasons. The Winklevosses are portrayed as bratty and very egotistical as they try to sue Zuckerberg for taking their idea. When the issue is brought to the Harvard president, they were shut down because it is silly to punish someone for stealing an idea that has not been put into words: the idea was not patented, therefore not stolen. But the Winklevosses took no for an answer and took it to legal terms. It seems they do not know how to handle loss, which is also seen in their crew race against Holland. As for Eduardo, there is a little more sympathy for him because of his friendship with Zuckerberg. But, there have been instances in the film where it seems like Eduardo was holding back the company because he was not present or he did not agree with Zuckerberg, or more notably, Sean Parker. His feelings were more hurt by the fact that Zuckerberg betrayed him in a contract and did not tell him about it, and sued him for just that. Ultimately, in contrast to Zuckerberg's circumstance as a student who did not come from a family of money, it seems that the rich students are portrayed in an unsympathetic light to further demonstrate both sides of Zuckerberg's success: the criticism and the praise.
3. Is there anything stereotypical about the representation of adults?
I feel that either adults took the cases way too seriously or thought they were pointless that they undermined the feelings of the students. It is stereotypical of the adults to ask so many questions to only be confused by the answers or demand an answer that did not involve emotions or the way the student felt. The adult's inability to capture the point of the case was in fact their inability to connect and understand the students' circumstance as the world entered a new generation of technology and social interaction online.
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