Coulter, The Social Network

The social network could be said to be a movie made in order to make friends. This film presented a social image of "cool" through the fall step performances of "cool actors" depicting real life makers of social normative, and how it was made into marketing magic. The film was based on the real lives of Mark Zuckerberg and founding partner Eduardo Saverin. On paper this story would hold little to no interest to those not fully interested in long drawn out legal battles over copyright infringement and intellectual property rights, or maybe those interested in algorithmic math uses in fluctuating proxy servers to initiate a static IP. But on film everyone is interested in how to make friends and how to be cool. By presenting Mark as a completely flippant icon of brain power in constant combat with those insinuated to be his social better through character revelation, the audience was able to connect with this real life billionaire. Even though Mark is constantly presented as a complete ass hole throughout the entire movie, who even turns on his only friend in lay of a more socially cool Sean Parker, he is none-the-less the hero of this film. This transformation of character is accomplished in a few ways. While the court battles were boring in real life, to be sure, they were flashed back and forth to throughout the film in a light and playful way to provide plot elements and display the absolute brilliance, disregard of authority, and remorse at atrocities the character of Mark finds himself in. The character is almost always dressed in a very lackadaisical fashion to indicate his moral superiority to those that are judging him and of corse to be "cool." Mark also breaks up with his girlfriend at the beginning of the film in an exceptionally horrible way by broadcasting her vile traits to the net at large, which throughout the film he shows remorse for. By the end of the film you are left with a person who as an audience member you just want to be your very cool friend.