Longer Social Network review:
This movie is very, very good. The script is snappy and just Sorkin-y enough to be meaty without getting too bogged down in dialogue. Fincher's direction goes a long way towards splitting up the trademark Sorkin walk-n-talks with some great visuals (the closest this movie ever gets to an action scene is a crew race that Fincher shoots like a gladiator match, but he gives good transitional montage and manages to make hacking visually interesting without resorting to stupid onscreen graphics).
Incidentally, according to Sorkin, the ONLY notes he got back from Facebook about the final script were jargon corrections for the hacking scenes. Buncha nerds.
The performances are all very strong, including Timberlake who gets to say things like "You're looking at the man who brought down the record companies!" with a completely straight face and get away with it.
At the Q&A, Sorkin continually stressed how much research he (and the rest of the production team) did in order to make the movie as factual as possible. Which raises the question, why are all the women in the film fictional or composites? And the further question, do these fictional women and their storylines serve to make the (real) male characters appear more or less douchey than they are in real life? I wish there'd been time to discuss this during the Q&A, but it was a PACKED screening and they were only given about 20 minutes to chat, so unfortunately most of the questions were things like "99 takes? Really?" and "Are you on Facebook?"
Chris Evans on Captain America set. Looking large. Also, pointedly porcelain.
Did you get a chance to lick J.T. for me?
I have to say, I like both of those guys' work (Fincher and Sorkin), so I'm sure I'll like this too. Bummer about the women, though.
Did you get a chance to lick J.T. for me?
No, but I kind of brushed past him in the lobby when everyone was leaving! It was very exciting.
The thing about the female characters all being made up while the male characters are based on real people is I'm not sure there would be any women in this movie if Sorkin hadn't written some in, so it's hard to say for certain whether the choice was a net positive or negative. (I mean, I wouldn't trade the line Zuck's girlfriend gives at the end of the opening scene for anything - it's flat-out awesome. But knowing she's pure narrative device while he's a real guy gives the whole thing a weird vibe.)
(I just realized that there are 2 female lawyers in the courtroom scenes who may in fact have been based on real lawyers. But since they're part of the frame and not the main narrative, they don't really count as characters. The purpose of the deposition scenes is to give the main characters a handy excuse to transition in and out of flashbacks, so the lawyers' roles are pretty much limited to asking "So what happened next?" and "Is that the way you remember it?")
Chris Evans on Captain America set.
What's with the hobbit feet?
What's with the hobbit feet?
Probably to protect his actual feet for a barefoot running scene.
He does, however, look almost exactly like Captain America as drawn by Kevin Maguire in the Adventures of Captain America, Sentinel of Liberty limited series.
