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Sectionalism Archive's avatar

The Social Network is one of my favorite films. I like how they portray everyone at Harvard as conventionally attractive, especially the "huzz" (women/females). When I was watching the film I was like, "wow, they really don't bother hiding just how Jewish the story of facebook is". I originally thought that the Winklevoss twins were also Jewish, because the surname just sounds Jewish in an intuitive way. There's no "berg" or "stein" or "witz", it just sounds... Kinda nerdy... But halfway through watching curiosity got the better of me and I pulled up the ole' "early life" section.

I agree that Zuckerface is quite kek. I really liked the beginning of the movie, where he made the anonymous rating system for Harvard girls. I think that would be great homework for computer science majors in every university in America. Especially because it would force them to do math. I think the casting was fine but I agree that Eisenberg played Zuckerberg as way too cold and emotionless. Andrew Garfield was cast as Eduardo because they had the liberty to do so, as nobody knows what the real Eduardo looks like and Garfield is a good "awkward but charismatic guy" actor (same reason he was spoderman). I think Zuckerstein was under the malevolent influence of his rather robust looking Asian wife, and that's why for so many years he was a slave to the woke regime, had a fucked up haircut, appeared gaunt and pale, and became more aspie in his attitude. Watching the movie today makes me quite nostalgic for a time I was too young to really experience, back when the internet was just a sort of niche thing. When I first started using it, it was still pretty niche, but back then it was really the wild west. Nowadays, I might use it less than normies. Not sure.

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Scott's avatar

Great article. While eccentric and unappealing to the masses, Zuckerberg's Augustus Caesar inspired haircut is cool imo.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/12/what-attracts-mark-zuckerberg-roman-hardman-augustus

Also this cracked me up:

"Look at how chad Zuckerberg looks compared to the pale, vampiric-werewolf creature on the left. Look at his tan skin. Look at his upturned jaw, exuding confidence. Look at his long face, the face of an aristocrat. This is not who they cast in the film. They cast a pale, sallow-faced, brachiocephalic, square face with a square jaw. A totally different species, tbh."

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John A. Johnson's avatar

I saw the movie when it first came out and remember enjoying it. This review makes me want to see it again.

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Luke Croft's avatar

I have always wondered why Thiel is so sweaty these days. Drugs, STD? What's going on?

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The Futurist Right's avatar

Wait is this a joke? Joe Londsdale is not just "some random person you've never heard of." He's a billionaire personal friend of Thiel's and the Co-founder of Palantir! It'd be odd for Thiel not to go on his pod.

Are there any Thiel appearances on truly random pods?

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DeepLeftAnalysis🔸's avatar

Maybe you're right, Thiel just makes a lot of public appearances on the news that he wouldn't if he was really dark and shadowy

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Christian Futurist's avatar

Why no Hispanics? They are basically lower class whites. And there's no demographic Hollywood despises more than lower class whites. Heck, they're even voting for Trump now. Of course, Hollywood hates them.

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DeepLeftAnalysis🔸's avatar

lol this is a hilarious take but you are a visionary for it

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Will's avatar

Saverin is Brazilian, so I guess his character (but not his actor) is Latino, although technically not Hispanic. I agree with you that this movie (which is one of my favorite movies) is essentially libel against Zuckerberg. IIRC, in real life he was dating Priscilla Chan the whole time the events of this movie took place - so they completely ignored that and made the crux of the story that he couldn’t talk to women

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DeepLeftAnalysis🔸's avatar

His family are Ashkenazi Jewish immigrants to Brazil and he didn't have an accent so I don't know how Brazilian he really is. I had no clue he was dating Priscilla in college -- she's a trooper for sticking by him through it all.

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