The Social Network was very well received by critics, who praised its direction, acting, editing, and score, and has been named as one of the best films of the decade. Related: The Social Network Predicted The 2010s The film starred Jesse Eisenberg as Zuckerberg, Andrew Garfield as co-founder Eduardo Saverin, Justin Timberlake as former Facebook president (and Napster co-founder) Sean Parker, and Armie Hammer as Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, who sued Zuckerberg for stealing their idea. The Social Network portrayed the founding of Facebook and the lawsuits that followed, offering a look at how the concept for the website came to be, what it took to get it up and running, and the obstacles founder Mark Zuckerberg came across with in the process. Two years after directing the fantasy drama The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, David Fincher returned with a different type of drama film with The Social Network, based on the book The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich. David Fincher’s The Social Network told the story of how Facebook was created, but even though it sells itself as a biographical film, Aaron Sorkin took many liberties when writing the script and made some major changes to real-life people and their roles in creating the popular social network website.
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