看到巴士站的廣告宣傳,才發現「社交網絡」這齣電影在香港仍未上映,不過我已經看了,而且還是十分清晰的版本。題外話,這電影純粹故事性,不值得花錢去電影院看。
看了這電影,你對Facebook的誕生和經過,會比以往知得更多。故事很精彩,看完後,我有兩個結論:一、Mark Zuckerberg絕對是一個天才;二、俗語有話,小富由人,大富由天,而Facebook取得的大成功,不能不說是上天的安排,別人模仿不來,天時地利人和全部配合,所以才能迷倒數以億人。
天才/天意=成功。
天才/天意+努力=成功。
天才+天意+努力=大大的成功!
Bill Gates如是,Steve Jobs如是,Mark Zuckerberg亦如是!
所以我對電影中Napster的創始人Sean Parker分享的一段說話特別印象深刻,他分享了Victoria's Secret創辦人Roy Raymond的故事:
A Stanford MBA named Roy Raymond wants to buy his wife some lingerie but he's too embarrassed to shop for it at a department store. He comes up with an idea for a high end place that doesn't make you feel like a pervert. He gets a $40,000 bank loan, borrows another $40,000 from his in-laws, opens a store, and calls it Victoria's Secret. Makes a half million dollars his first year. He starts a catalog, opens three more stores and after five years he sells the company to Leslie Wexner and the Limited for four million dollars. Happy ending, right? Except two years later, the company's worth 500 million dollars and Roy Raymond jumps off the Golden Gate Bridge. Poor guy just wanted to buy his wife a pair of thigh highs.
想不到Roy Raymond的結局如此,這不能說是天意嗎?
所以總括而言,如果自知不是天才的人,應該要好好把握人生中可以遇到的機遇,然後加上努力,就可以取得大成功。但要大大的成功,還要聽天由命咯!
下面是一些電影中,可能與事實不符的地方,可以作為參考:
-電影中從房頂的煙囪到游泳池之間的滑降繩索是真實的,只不過那個煙囪沒有被弄塌過。
-馬克最初建立網站的動機被描述為對Final Clubs 俱樂部的著迷。
-電影中關於Facemash 的部分有很大誇張,電影中聲稱它「在兩個小時之內獲得了22000 次點擊」,這意味著除非所有人突然間全部都在用這個網站了。而事實是,最初幾小時在用這個網站的只有非常少的人。這個網站也根本沒有像電影中那樣對哈佛的校園網絡造成影響。顯然,網站的癱瘓是發生在馬克的宿舍,也就是網站託管的地方。
-克里斯·休斯(Chris Hughes)在電影中被提到時,他的身份是程序員。不過就我所知,他當時並不是程序員,並且現在也不是。
-電影中很多校園建築的拍攝也出錯了,當然了,這是因為哈佛大學對於電影拍攝有些限制規定。麥克斯韋-德沃金是一棟現代的玻璃建築,它的名字刻在門口一塊石頭的正面,而不是刻在玻璃上。
-Mark Zuckerberg:「電影開頭是我和一個女孩(現實生活中這個女孩是不存在的),她把我情緒搞的低落(現實生活中,這倒是經常發生)。真實生活中了解我的人知道,我現在還是在跟創辦Facebook 之初的那同一個女孩在約會,所以電影中明顯是不真實的。」
最後,又是我喜歡的一些電影精彩句子:
Sean Parker: Drop the "the". Just "Facebook". It's cleaner.
Erica Albright: The internet's not written in pencil, Mark. It's written in ink.
Erica Albright: You are probably going to be a very successful computer person. But you're going to go through life thinking that girls don't like you because you're a nerd. And I want you to know, from the bottom of my heart, that that won't be true. It'll be because you're an asshole.
Mark Zuckerberg: A guy who makes a nice chair doesn't owe money to everyone who has ever built a chair.
Erica Albright: As if every thought that tumbles through your head was so clever it would be a crime for it not to be shared.
Sean Parker: You know what's cooler than a million dollars?
Eduardo Saverin: You?
Sean Parker: A billion dollars.
Sean Parker: We lived in farms, then we lived in cities, and now we're gonna live on the internet!
Marylin Delpy: You're not an asshole, Mark. You're just trying so hard to be.
Mark Zuckerberg: Money or the ability to make it doesn't impress anybody around here.
Eduardo Saverin: Don't fish eat other fish? The marlins and the trouts!