Saturday, September 18, 2010

I DON'T WANT MY FIDELITY TO BE TO THE TRUTH; I WANT IT TO BE TO STORYTELLING: EW-and-elsewhere's Mark Harris talks to Aaron Sorkin, David Fincher and all the other principals (but mostly Sorkin) for a big New York magazine thinkpiece on The Social Network.

added: Per the recommendations of many, this week's New Yorker profile of Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg.

12 comments:

  1. Maret9:25 PM

    I am obsessed with this movie to a somewhat unhealthy extent. The recent NewYorker profile of Zuckerberg is also great.

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  2. I read the New Yorker profile today and agree it was excellent.  Though it's hardly one-sided, I found it to be surprisingly positive, given the conventional take on Zuckerberg.

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  3. calliekl8:22 AM

    I'm not a facebook person (or really a social networking person) but I have a little interest in this movie as far as the soundtrack is concerned- Trent Reznor is doing the whole thing, and the previews sound awesome. You can dl them from his website, and for two days when the soundtrack is released it will be on sale for dl from amazon (I think) for 2.99. Pretty sweet.

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  4. Carmichael Harold8:39 AM

    I'm sort of in the same boat obsession-wise, though not so much for the subject matter as the combination of Sorkin, Fincher and Eisenberg (Adventureland won me over to his side for the duration).   I've been trying to avoid reading too much about it (that would only lower my excitement level), but this article was pretty great.

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  5. Goghaway1:32 PM

    Just downloaded the sampler, and it's so good- and very saavy marketing considering the tie-in to internet promotion, and how something so high-profile would have probably been leaked anyway. But regarding the article, this might be my favorite part: Jesse Eisenberg was a fan of Sports Night. Awesome. 

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  6. I had forgotten, until reading this, the TWoP thing.  But clearly Sorkin has not.  

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  7. One of the most fascinating things is that Fincher apparently obsessed over keeping the movie the "right length," which has been one of his weaknesses, in particular with "Benjamin Button," which was at least 20-25 minutes too long.  (I didn't see "Zodiac," but I understand that he had big battles with the studio about length on it.)

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  8. Zodiac is awesome in every day.  It's what Siskel (IIRC) said: no good movie is too long.  All bad movies are.

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  9. I think perhaps Fincher's concerns about length are all about studio interference, and that probably goes all the way back to Alien 3.

    I agree with Adam about Zodiac; it's one of those movies that fully justifies its length.  In fact although I know on some level that it was long, I couldn't tell you how long without looking it up because it never seemed so.

    Benjamin Button, on the other hand?  About 3 weeks too long.

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  10. I've referred to Benjamin Button on at least a few occasions as "The Curious Case Of The Movie That Would Not End."

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  11. bella wilfer1:24 PM

    I saw the movie last week and obsessively loved it.  I agree with above posters that Fincher usually drags his movies on too long (I felt as old as Benjamin Button started his life by the end of that movie...), but my one problem with The Social Network was that I wanted it to be LONGER.  Performances are A+ across the board - it's exciting seeing people like Eisenberg, Garfield (soon to be Spiderman), Timberlake, and Rooney Mara (soon to be Lisbeth Salander) really shine in this movie and know we have a new generation of actors coming into their own (and I give Fincher a lot of credit for getting these performances out of them - Eisenberg and Timberlake both give career-bests for sure).  

    It's hard to tell a compelling story that focuses around a (IMO) very unlikable character, but Fincher and Eisenberg manage to make Zuckerberg fascinating despite what a dick he is for most of the film.  I really could go on for pages about how much I loved the movie.  Eager to hear what everyone here thinks.

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  12. bella wilfer1:25 PM

    I second the "Reznor's soundtrack is awesome" motion.  Phenomenal.

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