The Social Network (2010) - I'm CEO, Bitch Scene (7/10) | Movieclips

This is probably the only movie in history to accurately portray what it's like to have a convo in a club.

the scene is very well made. the loud music actually makes the dialogue more important because it forces you to focus on it.

It's impressive when a director has the foresight to have his actors talk at the appropriate volume that a club would actually require in real life.

This one scene alone got Social Network the nomination for Best Sound Mixing, but when the film loses to Inception of all films, one can live with that loss.

Wonderful lesson in sound mixing. Great scene.

"Do you ever think about that girl?" "What girl?" "The girl from high school who was with the lacrosse thing." "NO!" // This interaction provides us with an important life lesson: by the time you reach a pivotal goal, your rationale for achieving said goal may have become irrelevant.

10 years later and still an incredible film. Thank you David Fincher, Aaron Sorkin and everyone else that had a hand in making this masterpiece.

I want to hate Justin Timberlake because his portrayl of Sean Parker is so good.

"once in a generation holy shit idea"

Sean Parker is the perfect example of right place at the right time: He understood Mark's vision:.....HOLY SHIT IDEA...LOL

The thing about the music is it makes you try to listen even more carefully to the dialogue

I think the reason Mark asked Sean if he still thinks about that high school girl he started Napster to impress was because Mark still thinks about his ex.

I love this scene; for various reasons but others on here have pointed those out so I'll add something here I noticed. Mark is very impressionable here, he is extremely impressed with Sean's attitude and foresight into business and sees something in Sean that he truly wants to be: confident, charismatic and intelligent. When Sean talks him up by bringing up FaceMash, that Mark tries to feebly explain was a mistake but is quickly overridden by Sean's better version of events (which you will notice is just another reason to talk up himself) you can see Mark readily accepting that "fact" to bolster his ego. That's why he asks Sean if he still thinks about his former love, because he's excitedly trying to find more common ground with this person he identifies with. In a long roundabout way I'm trying to say this script is so excellent because it conveys human nature so well. Ask yourself if you've had conversations like this (especially drunk) and draw similarities.

a little background about victorias secret.

It feels like you can barely hear the dialogue, but in reality you can clearly hear every single word. Great sound mixing

Song: Sound of Violence -- Dennis De Laat

Weirdly, this scene is pretty relatable. Who hasn't started a long winding story to prove a point, and then at the end completely forgot what point you were making and why.

One thing I love about this scene is Seans inability to answer the question about the 'one that got away'. What makes it so masterful is that if the question was answered honestly, it would have cut through Sean's bravado; the entire scene, he's a salesman, but Mark finally has this key moment to ask him about an ex-lover that could potentially open him up and make him vulnerable. But, before we can even get to his answer, his Victoria's Secret model date returns to the table and the false charm is forced to come back up to cover his vulnerability. The moment is gone and Mark, hoping to get some guidance from a more experienced Sean is left without.

I love the “parable” of Victoria’s Secret, there’s a lot of layers, one interpretation is that its about not selling out before you know what something is really worth. But it could also be read as protecting your creation and keeping something that gives you purpose. I think for Roy Raymond it may have been less about losing millions versus losing his creation and his purpose. It most certainly took a enormous amount of work just to get the company to where he got it, probably consuming most of his life, after he sold it, what he lost was the purpose that came with running the business and building it day to day, I think thats what he missed most, not simply the money, but I could be wrong. To build a successful business you have to really care about the product you are creating, if you’re just thinking about making a ton of money you will likely make a lackluster product which will ultimately fail.

2:15 gives me chills