The first thing you?ll do after watching Aaron Sorkin and David Fincher's�The Social Network is visit the ?History? subsection of the Wikipedia article on Facebook, seeking details on how much in the film is actually true, but primarily looking for evidence as to whether or not Mark Zuckerberg was that much of an asshole between 2003 and 2005.
Let me save you the trouble. He wasn't. And perhaps Hollywood has an ulterior motive in making him out to be.
With The Social Network, Hollywood has made an artful attempt at taking the inferiority, fear and awe that it feels towards Silicon Valley and projecting it onto the cold, calculating (and fictional) Zuckerberg; ?Creation myths need a devil"...
