Hottest geeky movie of all time: The Social Network

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is said to feel no pressure from the popularity of a movie based on himself.

Everyone is interested in a genius, especially when he is the youngest billionaire in history. On October 1, TheSocialNetwork, a film about Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's journey to build the company, opened in the United States and topped the weekend box office with $23 million, while the entire film was invested less than 50 million yuan.

The success of "The Social Network" may not only be due to the collaboration of Oscar-winning director David Fincher and screenwriter Aron Sokin, who contribute a crisp pace and clever machine-gun dialogue, respectively. After all, it is not easy to make a plot like writing code in front of a computer fun and tense. People may be paying attention because it's a movie about Facebook, especially at a time when the company is at the center of a controversy over spying on users' privacy.

It is unclear whether the film will be shown in China, but you can buy a biography of the book, "Facebook: On Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal," translated by Citic Press. The film, like the book, centers on two lawsuits that point to Facebook's original sin: did Mark Zuckerberg steal other people's ideas? Did he intentionally betray his best friend and partner? As Sorkin says, the story of Facebook's early days encapsulates themes that are constant in works of art: friendship, jealousy and betrayal. At the heart of the film is bastard Mark Zuckerberg and his relationships. Such a portrayal of a figure who has transformed the social network of 500 million people around the world is more than just a black humor.

The film website MetaCritic tallied the reviews of 41 US newspaper critics, including The New Yorker and The Hollywood Reporter, and 40 of them were positive, including those who had previously been less than fond of David Fincher or Sorkin. The media has a comprehensive score of 95 points and calls it a masterpiece of the Internet era.

Interestingly, SONY Pictures, which produced the film, was not allowed to promote it on Facebook because of Facebook's advertising policy, which does not allow mention of the company itself unless it is working with the target of the AD. Forced to leave, SONY had to launch a campaign on Facebook rival MySpace, including dominating the front page with high-definition trailers, images and brand ads. Although MySpace has been eclipsed by Facebook, the world's largest online social network, it's not a bad thing that a movie is an unexpected beneficiary.

The movie's opening day was filled with programmers, technicians and tech bloggers dressed in quirky T-shirts and cheering for the code that appeared on the screen. Wired magazine wrote an article about it called TheStory (about) theMovie (basedon) theBook (about) Facebook. You don't have to be a geek to love this movie. By the time the Beatles' "Baby, You're So Rich" comes on, most people have a smile on their face.

Geek movie magnum opus

01 "Legend of SiliconValley" (PiratesOfSiliconValley), 1999

Personal computers are an integral part of our daily lives, but how many people know how Microsoft and Apple first rose to prominence? The film is an unofficially licensed biopic of Apple and Microsoft. The film is based on the non-fiction novel Silicon Valley Fire.

02 WarGames (1983)

It's the first hacker movie ever made. The film takes place during the Reagan presidency, at the height of the Cold War. Before the Mac was born and computers were just toys for science geeks, the film did a good job of scaring the public with fears of nuclear war and unknown new technologies.

StealThisFilm (2006)

A video series documenting the anti-intellectual property movement. The film was released via BitTorrent. The film consists of two parts: the first is the interrogation version of the PirateBay, the world's largest BT seed server; The second, sometimes called the DissolvingFortress, explores the consequences of the war between technology and copyright.

04 TheMatrix (1999)

The most philosophical geek movie, TheMatrix, is a metaphor for hackers. It has been praised as the most profound film to explore the interaction between technology and real life.

Facebook kingdom

01 The number of active users exceeded 400 million

02 More than 50% of active users log in every day

03 More than 35 million users update their feeds every day

04 There are more than 60 million dynamic updates every day

05 More than 3 billion photos are uploaded every month

06 More than 5 billion pieces of content (links, news, blog posts, notes, photos) are shared every week

07 3.5 million new events are created each month

There are over 3 million active pages on Facebook

09 More than 1.5 million local businesses have active Facebook pages

More than 100 million people become fans of celebrities or famous brands every day

11 page has attracted more than 5.3 billion followers

(Author: Yang Ying Source: First Business Weekly)