Facebook film âThe Social Networkâ [iTunes HD $19.99, SD $14.99] just won four Golden Globe awards, including best motion picture and drama. But Mac fans might notice a major movie fail.
Trailer: The Social Network, Facebook Inspired Fiction
Facebook Social Network Revolution
Facebook saved the world from Microsoft-mimicking MySpace, known for its bad taste of âopenâ user page designs that allows annoying animated GIFs and everything fugly about web design.
Mark Zuckerberg, who became the youngest billionaire in the world, started this multi-billion-dollar Facebook social media revolution. In The Social Network, Zuckerberg is portrayed as a young narcissistic genius.
Critics agree that itâs a great film (97% at Rotten Tomatoes), so where does The Social Network fail?
Mac vs. PC in The Social Network Movie
One thing that stands out is that the movie is littered with PCs. The Social Network shows Mark Zuckerberg using a PC at Harvard, where he created the original Facebook.
Unfortunately, in real life, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg used a Mac at Harvard. The Facebook CEO continues to use Apple computers this day.
The movie also shows a PC laptop that turns on from closed / sleep instantaneously. Whatâs this, back to the future? But seriously, a personal computer that turns on from sleep instantaneously? Thatâs called a Mac. A Windows PC is unable to wake up from sleep instantly, like the movie shows.
The Social Network does feature Apple products for a few seconds though. Letâs say Apple Store Genius Bar probably wonât cover what they did to the Mac:
Fiction: The Social Network Movie
Although the film written by Aaron Sorkin contains facts, real names and refers to actual events, the script is fictional. The movie has taken âlibertiesâ on the portrayal of Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
Joe Morgenstern in The Wall Street Journal describes âEverything thatâs seen isnât necessarily to be believed.â
Forbes reports that Mark âhas been dating the same girl since before he built Facebook.â âIt was very clear it was fiction from the beginning,â said the Facebook CEO about The Facebook Effect â" the book which The Social Network is based on. âWe didnât participate because we didnât want someone to write this fiction and then say âand we talked to Mark Zuckerberg.ââ
Sony Social Network Product Placement
So, why would a movie deliberately lie about Mark Zuckerbergâs use of a Mac and try to vilify the Facebook founder? As it turns out, the movie is produced by Columbia / Sony Pictures. Here are some examples of Sonyâs product placement in The Social Network:
Do you think The Social Network director David Fincher sold out? Or maybe heâs trying to say that jerks use PCs?
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