The Social Network

Film Information

The Social Network is a 2010 American biographical drama film directed by David Fincher and written by Aaron Sorkin, based on the 2009 book The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich. It portrays the founding of social networking website Facebook. It stars Jesse Eisenberg as the Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, with Andrew Garfield as Eduardo Saverin, Justin Timberlake as Sean Parker, Armie Hammer as Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, and Max Minghella as Divya Narendra. Neither Zuckerberg nor any other Facebook staff were involved with the project, although Saverin was a consultant for Mezrich’s book.

All information in this section came from Wikipedia.

Clip Information

In this clip, a college-aged couple (Marc and Erica) have a conversation in a bar about Marc’s desire to get into a final club at Harvard. Final clubs are social organizations for Harvard students and alumni.

Abbrev Film Clip Start Clip Stop Duration
SocialNetwork The Social Network (2010) 00:00:27.400 00:05:21.400 294
Characteristic Value
Format MPEG-4
File Size 38.0 MiB
Duration 294.003
Frame Rate 23.976
Video Width 1920
Video Height 800
Video BitRate 947.5 kB/s
Audio Channels 2
Audio SamplingRate 48000
Audio BitRate 132.3 kB/s

Subtitles

The following wordcloud shows the words used in this clip, scaled by number of occurrences and colored by sentiment (orange = negative, green = positive, grey = neutral or unsure). Note that the words have been stemmed and lemmatized and stopwords have been removed.

The table below shows all subtitles in this clip with the start and stop time of each subtitle’s appearance in seconds.

Start End Subtitle
0.00 2.04 How do you distinguish yourself in a population of people
2.12 3.96 who all got 1600 on their SATs?
4.04 5.84 - I didn't know they take SATs in China. - They don't.
5.92 8.05 I wasn't talking about China anymore, I was talking about me.
8.13 9.59 You got a 1600?
9.67 11.51 Yes. I could sing in an a Capella group, but I can't sing.
11.59 12.80 Does that mean you actually got nothing wrong?
12.89 15.18 I could row crew or invent a $25 PC.
15.26 16.51 Or you could get into a final club.
16.60 17.93 Or I get into a final club.
18.22 19.43 You know, from a woman's perspective,
19.52 21.39 sometimes not singing in an a Capella group is a good thing.
21.48 22.52 This is serious.
22.60 24.06 On the other hand, I do like guys who row crew.
24.15 26.02 Well, I can't do that.
26.32 27.69 I was kidding.
27.78 28.94 And, yes, I got nothing wrong on the test.
29.03 30.82 - Have you ever tried? - I'm trying right now.
30.90 32.74 - To row crew? - To get into a final club.
32.82 35.07 To row crew? No. Are you, like, whatever, delusional?
35.16 37.12 Maybe it's just sometimes you say two things at once.
37.20 38.74 I'm not sure which one I'm supposed to be aiming at.
38.83 40.75 But you've seen guys who row crew, right?
40.83 41.87 No.
41.96 44.04 Okay, well, they're bigger than me. They're world-class athletes.
44.12 45.58 And a second ago, you said you like guys who row crew
45.67 46.71 so I assumed you had met one.
46.79 50.80 I guess I just meant I like the idea of it. You know, the way a girl likes cowboys.
51.34 52.38 Okay.
52.84 53.93 Should we get something to eat?
54.01 55.80 Would you like to talk about something else?
56.10 59.31 No. It's just since the beginning of the conversation about finals club,
59.39 61.27 I think I may have missed a birthday.
62.06 65.23 There are really more people in China with genius IQs than the entire population...
65.31 68.65 The Phoenix is the most diverse. The Fly Club... Roosevelt punched the Porc.
68.73 69.82 Which one?
69.90 71.40 The Porcellian, the Porc. It's the best of the best.
71.49 73.24 - Which Roosevelt? - Theodore.
74.66 76.66 Is it true that they send a bus around to pick up girls
76.74 78.20 who want to party with the next Fed chairman?
78.28 80.99 So you can see why it's so important to get in.
81.08 82.62 Okay, well, which is the easiest to get into?
85.12 88.00 - Why would you ask me that? - I was just asking.
88.09 90.25 None of them. That's the point.
90.34 93.26 My friend Eduardo made $300,000 betting oil futures one summer
93.34 94.67 and Eduardo won't come close to getting in.
94.76 96.72 The ability to make money doesn't impress anybody around here.
96.80 100.05 Must be nice. He made $300,000 in a summer?
100.14 102.47 - He likes meteorology. - You said it was oil futures.
102.56 104.77 You can read the weather, you can predict the price of heating oil.
104.85 105.94 I think you asked me that
106.02 107.81 because you think the final club that's easiest to get into
107.90 109.15 is the one where I'll have the best chance.
109.23 111.57 I... What?
111.65 113.19 You asked me which one was the easiest to get into
113.28 115.78 because you think that that's the one where I'll have the best chance.
115.86 118.36 The one that's the easiest to get into would be the one
118.45 119.62 where anybody has the best chance.
119.70 121.28 You didn't ask me which one was the best one,
121.37 122.83 you asked me which one was the easiest one.
123.08 126.50 I was honestly just asking, okay? I was just asking to ask.
126.58 128.96 - Mark, I'm not speaking in code. - Erica.
129.50 131.38 You're obsessed with finals clubs.
131.46 133.84 You have finals clubs OCD and you need to see someone about it
133.92 135.59 who will prescribe you some sort of medication.
135.67 138.18 You don't care if the side effects may include blindness.
138.30 140.97 Final clubs. Not "finals clubs."
142.26 144.77 And there's a difference between being obsessed and being motivated.
144.85 147.69 Yes. There is.
147.77 149.44 Well, you do. That was cryptic, so you do speak in code.
149.52 150.77 I didn't mean to be cryptic.
150.86 152.61 I'm just saying I need to do something substantial
152.69 154.53 in order to get the attention of the clubs.
154.61 156.36 - Why? - Because they're exclusive.
157.11 158.86 And fun, and they lead to a better life.
158.99 160.53 Teddy Roosevelt didn't get elected president
160.62 162.53 because he was a member of the Phoenix Club.
162.66 164.87 He was a member of the Porcellian, and yes, he did.
165.00 168.33 Well, why don't you just concentrate on being the best you you can be?
168.96 169.96 Did you really just say that?
170.04 171.54 I was kidding.
171.63 173.29 Just because something's trite doesn't make it less true.
173.38 174.46 I wanna try to be straightforward with you
174.55 176.80 and tell you I think you might want to be a little more supportive.
176.88 180.47 If I get in, I will be taking you to the events and the gatherings,
180.55 183.72 and you'll be meeting a lot of people you wouldn't normally get to meet.
184.89 186.31 You would do that for me?
186.98 188.35 We're dating.
188.56 189.81 Okay.
191.52 193.06 Well, I wanna try and be straightforward with you
193.19 194.98 and let you know that we're not anymore.
195.07 197.57 - What do you mean? - We're not dating anymore. I'm sorry.
197.69 199.74 - Is this a joke? - No, it's not.
199.82 200.82 You're breaking up with me?
200.91 202.16 You're gonna introduce me to people
202.24 203.91 I wouldn't normally have the chance to meet?
204.03 205.83 What the... What is that supposed to mean?
205.91 207.16 - Wait, settle down. - What is it supposed to mean?
207.25 209.08 Erica, the reason we're able to sit here and drink right now
209.21 210.92 is 'cause you used to sleep with the door guy.
212.00 215.67 "The door guy"? His name is Bobby. I have not slept with the door guy.
215.75 220.17 The door guy is a friend of mine, and he's a perfectly good class of people.
220.26 222.76 And what part of Long Island are you from, Wimbledon?
222.89 225.10 - Wait. Wait, wait. - I'm going back to my dorm.
225.22 226.51 - Is this real? - Yes.
226.60 228.60 - Then wait, I apologize, okay? - I have to go study.
228.73 230.02 - Erica? - Yes?
230.10 232.35 - I'm sorry, I mean it. - I appreciate that, but I have to go study.
232.44 234.69 Come on, you don't have to study. Let's just talk.
234.77 236.02 - I can't. - Why?
236.11 239.03 Because it is exhausting. Dating you is like dating a StairMaster.
239.11 241.28 All I meant is that you're not likely to... Currently...
241.41 242.53 I wasn't making a comment on your appearance.
242.61 244.78 I was saying that you go to BU. I was stating a fact, that's all,
244.91 245.95 and if it seemed rude, then I apologize.
246.03 247.37 - I have to go study. - You don't have to study.
247.45 248.79 Why do you keep saying I don't have to study?
248.87 250.71 'Cause you go to BU.
252.79 254.25 Do you want to get some food?
254.96 257.80 I am sorry you are not sufficiently impressed with my education.
258.26 259.80 And I'm sorry I don't have a rowboat, so we're even.
259.92 262.63 - I think we should just be friends. - I don't want friends.
262.76 263.80 I was just being polite.
263.89 265.05 I have no intention of being friends with you.
265.14 267.22 I'm under some pressure right now from my OS class
267.31 269.89 and if we could just order some food, I think we should...
270.27 274.65 Okay, you are probably going to be a very successful computer person.
275.23 277.73 But you're gonna go through life thinking that girls don't like you
277.82 279.48 because you're a nerd.
280.24 283.15 And I want you to know from the bottom of my heart that that won't be true.
284.66 287.28 It'll be because you're an asshole.

Holistic Ratings

A total of 73 participants watched this film clip and then provided holistic ratings on how the entire clip made them feel. These holistic ratings were completed using five Positive Affect items (i.e., alert, determined, enthusiastic, excited, inspired) and five Negative Affect items (i.e., afraid, distressed, nervous, scared, upset), each rated on an ordinal scale from 0 to 4. The plot below shows the

Dynamic Ratings

A total of 73 participants watched this film clip and used the CARMA software to provide continuous (i.e., second-by-second) ratings of how it made them feel. These continuous ratings were made on a single emotional valence scale ranging from -4 (very negative) to 4 (very positive).

Time Series

We can plot the distribution of all valence ratings per second of the film clip to get a sense of how its emotional tone changes over time. The solid black line represents the mean of all ratings and the yellow, green, and purple ribbons represent the central 50%, 70%, and 90% of the ratings, respectively.

Inter-Rater Reliability

A Bayesian generalizability study was used to decompose the variance in ratings of this video clip into the following components: timepoint variance (in average ratings of each second, across raters), rater variance (in average ratings from each rater, across seconds), and residual variance (including second-by-rater interactions and measurement error). The lower and upper columns in the table below represent the boundaries of the 95% equal-tail credible interval. Note that we dropped the first 10 seconds of each clip (as rater “warmup” time).

Component Term Estimate Lower Upper Percent
Rater Variance 1.189 0.926 1.812 0.407
Timepoint Variance 0.244 0.206 0.294 0.084
Residual Variance 1.491 1.461 1.519 0.510

From these variance components, we can estimate inter-rater reliability of the ratings. There are many formulations of the two-way intraclass correlation (ICC), but the most relevant to our purposes here is the balanced average-measures consistency formulation or ICC(C,k).

Term Estimate Lower Upper Raters Error
ICC(C,k) 0.923 0.91 0.935 73 Relative

Below, we can also visualize the posterior distributions of each of these parameters. Values with higher posterior density are more probable.