10 Movie Biopics That Lied To Your Face
8. The Social Network
With a taut, witty script from West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin and razor sharp direction from David Fincher, 2010's The Social Network is undeniably a masterpiece of effective cinematic storytelling.
Essentially a true-life supervillain origin story, the film depicts a young Mark Zuckerberg inventing the social networking phenomenon Facebook out of spite after a nasty college break up. The movie then follows the protracted legal battle between the site's investors and co-owners, all the while making Zuckerberg out to be a mean-spirited but ultimately human, if immature, figure.
The thing is, that incredible verbal takedown that Rooney Mara's one-scene wonder ex girlfriend provides in the opening scene?
Never happened. Zuckerberg was in a relationship with the woman he would go on to later marry throughout his time in college, and the creation of Facebook wasn't fuelled by petty jealousy. Worth keeping this in mind the next time he's in trouble for privacy invasion