| In 2003, Harvard University student Mark Zuckerberg gets the idea to create a website called "Facemash" to rate the attractiveness of female Harvard undergraduates after his girlfriend Erica Albright breaks up with him. Hacking into the school's computer system, Mark downloads pictures and names, creating hundreds of pages that allow viewers to rank who's hotter of the two photos on that specific page. |
2003年，哈佛大學學生馬克?扎克伯格在與女友艾麗卡?奧爾布賴特分手后萌生想法，打算創建一個叫做“Facemash”的網站，對哈佛女生的魅力指數進行排名。馬克入侵學校的電腦系統，下載了女學生的照片和相應的姓名，藉此創建了上百個網頁。瀏覽者們可以訪問某個具體網頁，從上面的兩張照片中評選出哪一張更性感。 |
| Mark is punished with six months of academic probation after the traffic to the site crashes parts of Harvard's network, and becomes vilified among most of Harvard's female community. However, the popularity of "FaceMash" and the fact that he created it in one night, while drunk, brings him to the attention of Cameron Winklevoss and Tyler Winklevoss, identical twins and members of Harvard's rowing team, and their business partner Divya Narendra. The three are looking for a programmer to help bring to life their idea for a Harvard-only dating site, "Harvard Connection". Mark agrees to help them. |
很快這個網站的流量劇增，導致哈佛大學的部分校園網絡癱瘓。馬克因此受罰留校察看六個月，同時在校內大多數女生社團中聲名狼藉。然而，在醉酒的狀態下，他只用了一夜就創建出了如此受歡迎的網站，這引起了雙胞胎兄弟泰勒?溫克萊沃斯和卡梅隆?溫克萊沃斯以及他們的合伙人蒂維雅?納倫德拉的注意。這對長相一模一樣的雙胞胎是哈佛大學賽艇隊的成員，他們與蒂維雅正在尋找合適的程序員幫助他們創建一個叫做“哈佛聯誼會”的校內交友網站。馬克答應給三人幫忙。 |
| Soon afterwards, Mark approaches his friend Eduardo Saverin, who has recently been invited to pledge the Phoenix S-K final club. Mark has an idea for what he calls "Thefacebook", an online social networking tool exclusive to Harvard University students, where people can display personal information. Eduardo agrees to help Mark, providing a thousand dollars to help start the site. Mark and Eduardo eventually launch "Facebook", distributing the link to Eduardo's connections at the Phoenix S-K. The site quickly becomes popular throughout the student body. |
不久之后，馬克找到了好友愛德華多?薩維林。愛德華多剛剛收到了哈佛大學“最后的俱樂部”之一——鳳凰隊的入會邀請。馬克告訴愛德華多，他要制作一個僅對哈佛學生開放的在線社交網絡工具，他將之命名為“Thefacebook”，人們可以在這個網站上展示自己的個人信息。愛德華多答應幫忙，他拿出了1000美元作為網站的啟動資金。兩人最終創建了“Facebook”網站，還把鏈接發給愛德華多在鳳凰隊中的眾多熟人。這個網站很快在學生中流傳開來。 |
| Through Eduardo's girlfriend, Eduardo and Mark arrange a meeting with Napster co-founder Sean Parker. Sean knows the ins and outs of Silicon Valley, knows the big fish investors, and more than anyone else Mark's age, knows what it's like to create something that changes what people do with their time on the internet. And once Sean becomes part of the "Facebook" team, Eduardo is pushed aside. |
在愛德華多女友的安排下，愛德華多和馬克與納普斯特公司的創始人之一肖恩?帕克見面。肖恩熟知硅谷中的風云人物，認識重要的投資人；不同于馬克這樣年紀的人，他深知一個能夠改變人們上網習慣的網站的誕生意味著什么。在肖恩加入Facebook的團隊之后，愛德華多開始受到排擠。 |
| Just who actually came up with the idea for the site is one of the questions put forth in The Social Network, and the film shows that the Winklevoss twins and Divya Narenda were left with basically no other option than to sue Mark over what they believed was their idea. Eduardo was also forced into turning to the legal system to get justice, recognition, and a share of the profits. But the film digs deeper than just who wants money for the creation of the now billion dollar company, asking questions that go unanswered because the filmmakers aren't privy to the inner workings of Mark Zuckerberg's brain. Did he borrow the idea from the wealthy, good-looking, Olympic rowing twins who had all-access passes to clubs Mark couldn't get into? And was part of the reason Mark left Eduardo behind because he felt resentment over Eduardo's admission to parties and clubs he was denied access to? The Social Network gives audiences a lot to think about packed into a surprisingly short, fast-paced two hours. |
到底是誰最先產生了Facebook網站的想法——這是電影《社交網絡》所提出的一大問題。影片接下來描述了：溫克萊沃斯雙胞胎和蒂維雅?納倫德拉別無選擇，只得將馬克告上公堂，理由是他們認為馬克剽竊了他們關于網站的創意；愛德華多也被迫求助于司法系統來獲取公平、認可和利潤分成。但是電影并未局限于分析哪些人想要從創建這個現今已價值數十億美元的網站中獲利，而是更深入地挖掘了一些問題。這些問題在電影中找不到直接的答案，因為影片的創作者們無法確切地獲知馬克?扎克伯格頭腦中的念頭。他真的借用了雙胞胎兄弟的創意嗎？他們富有，英俊，能夠進入奧運會賽艇隊；上層俱樂部的大門也都向他們敞開，而這些卻是馬克無法涉足的。馬克對愛德華多的疏遠，是不是有部分原因在于他嫉恨愛德華多是眾多派對和俱樂部的寵兒，而他卻被拒之門外？影片《社交網絡》情節緊湊，如此短暫的兩個小時卻給觀眾帶來了很多思考。
（China.org.cn Rebecca 譯）
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