I kinda think we all knew this was coming.
THR is reporting (by way of NYT) that top brass at Facebook as seen “glimpses” of an early cut of Fincher’s The Social Network and asked for a few changes.
According to THR: “One scene in particular is described as a possible deletion from the film’s final cut: A speech made by the character of Napster co-founder Sean Parker while in the background teenage girls offer lines of cocaine for partygoers to snort off their bared breasts.”
Welp.
According to Rudin, Facebook chiefs asked for a lot more changes than they were given (including working in some details from David Kirkpatrick’s “The Facebook Effect” which, one would assume, would show the company in a much more favorable light) and he re-asserted that producers of the film took a lot of creative liberties with the characters and the backstory.
Some people may see this as the first step to turning The Social Network into what THR calls “corporate propaganda,” but I feel like it’s more Rudin’s way of playing the game and keeping Facebook on his side.





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Hopefully this flick shakes people up as much as Fight Club did.
I hope they don't change it to kow-tow to FB. I know it's a movie and they probably changed some shit to be more dramatic but if the shit really happened then why should they have to delete it. Fuck FB, I wanna see what shit they pulled.
I love Facebook and I don't care what they had to do to make it happen. I want to see the truth, whatever it is. And making it look hot only makes me want to see it more. My life is boring.
I'm far less worried about them making it more Facebook friendly than I am making it absurdly and unrealistically salacious. If you are going to make everything seem way crazier than it was (doing coke off a chicks tits? seriously?) then just make up a story wholesale. I'd rather see something less edgy and more honest. But I didn't expect that out of Fincher or Sorkin, two very talented guys that strike me as the type that never let a great story get in the way of the truth.
Gah! I mean let the truth get in the way of a great story. Watch the editor not post this correction…..I'd probably deserve that.
I am totally stoked to see this! I hope nothing happens in this movie too and I also hope its like 3 hrs. That would follow Finchers mold for the last couple of films and the lapdogs just ate it up so this film should see his continued success. What a disappointment Fincher turned out to be.
It would be nice if Fincher would pull his head out his ass and start making films people could actually give a fuck about again. Yeah, that would be great. I mean Facebook? Who gives a fuck? I hope this shit bombs just to discourage anyone else from making movies out of of internet shit. If I wanted to fuck with internet shit, I would be on the fucking internet not going to the fucking movies. I look to see his trend of crap continue with "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo". God, that fucking book sucks and so does the movie. I guess people will swallow any kind of shit if they've got enough morons telling them it's great.
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