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redsageWe went to see The Social Network tonight. At the start of the film, Zuckerberg logs into LJ to blog. My first reaction was to turn to Fox and Sierra and say, "wait, I don't think LJ had that interface yet!" The scene was dated mid-2003, and he was using the blue-and-white interface.
...yes, I'm from the internet.
Anyone happen to know when LJ moved from the old blue-orange-purple-white layout to the blue-and-white one? Did my nerd powers catch a historical inaccuracy, or am I wrong?
On another note, I must offer a bit of native Palo Alto pride that the disposable coffee cup on the law firm table towards the end of the film is from my favorite cafe, Coupa Cafe. It was a nice touch. If you're ever in the area, go there.
I recommend the film, too. As Sierra said, it's rare that we see a movie for which we are so completely in the target market. It's very strange to see a film on the big screen about people who are only a couple of degrees of separation away.
It's no surprise that the film was very well directed. The film was incredibly well cast. The back and forth time shifts between present and past were well executed. The score and use of sound was good too. Story-wise, I suspect it was perhaps a bit generous to Zuckerberg's character, but not enough to make it fail to ring true. On the whole, I suspect a number of things were glossed over, but not to the point of untruth. On the whole, a solid film.
It was really nice to see a piece of my personal cultural history on screen, and I hope it does well at the box office.
Edit: Mystery solved, by Sierra with the Wayback Machine. It seems as though the change was sometime in August or September 2003, making the movie scene accurate.
...yes, I'm from the internet.
Anyone happen to know when LJ moved from the old blue-orange-purple-white layout to the blue-and-white one? Did my nerd powers catch a historical inaccuracy, or am I wrong?
On another note, I must offer a bit of native Palo Alto pride that the disposable coffee cup on the law firm table towards the end of the film is from my favorite cafe, Coupa Cafe. It was a nice touch. If you're ever in the area, go there.
I recommend the film, too. As Sierra said, it's rare that we see a movie for which we are so completely in the target market. It's very strange to see a film on the big screen about people who are only a couple of degrees of separation away.
It's no surprise that the film was very well directed. The film was incredibly well cast. The back and forth time shifts between present and past were well executed. The score and use of sound was good too. Story-wise, I suspect it was perhaps a bit generous to Zuckerberg's character, but not enough to make it fail to ring true. On the whole, I suspect a number of things were glossed over, but not to the point of untruth. On the whole, a solid film.
It was really nice to see a piece of my personal cultural history on screen, and I hope it does well at the box office.
Edit: Mystery solved, by Sierra with the Wayback Machine. It seems as though the change was sometime in August or September 2003, making the movie scene accurate.
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Date: 2010-10-17 10:25 am (UTC)I haven't seen it yet- what do you think of the claims that the film treats women very poorly?
the women characters
Date: 2010-10-17 03:25 pm (UTC)Other than knowing the truth was changed for the sake of drama, it's a great film. Good dialogue, good performances, and - obligatory trent reference - good soundtrack (if much of it was at best very slightly changed from Ghosts).
When one of the characters was eating red vines, I was able to break into the package of red vines I filched from the FB HQ last month. This amused me very much.
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Date: 2010-10-17 07:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-17 11:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-17 09:24 pm (UTC)the internet as we know it was built, by and large, by people with aspberger's syndrome.
one of the reasons it was difficult for me to grok this for so long was that my experience of the web revolution was at macaddict, which was one of the few places whether this was not so. it is only upon reflection and swapping notes years after the fact that i learned that the gender-egalitarian nature of imagine media was the exception, not the norm.
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Date: 2010-10-17 11:42 pm (UTC)