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Half-Assed Internet Research
Uncredited writers, NSA noncooperation, the failed NEC handheld, and Reynolds’s assigned date
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Approx. transcript time · 01:08:28Read transcript
- Aaron Sorkin, Henry Bean, and Tony Gilroy are reported as performing uncredited script rewrites.
- The NSA is reported as refusing to cooperate with the production.
- The handheld game device is identified as the failed NEC TurboExpress.
- Reynolds’ in-film birthday is reported as September 11, 1940, the date of an early remote computer demonstration over a phone line.
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Approx. transcript time · 01:10:19Read transcript
- Fincher, Sorkin, Eisenberg, Garfield and Timberlake are the opening nominees.
- The dialogue is described as the hero and architecture of the film, with conversations mirroring its interwoven depositions.
- Exposition and quotability sustain rewatchability throughout, leading to the first Sorkin choice.
- The screenplay, editing and score work together, supporting a second explicit Sorkin choice.
- A third speaker also chooses Sorkin, while emphasizing how essential Eisenberg is to the movie.
- Eisenberg makes a difficult, unlikable character compelling without resorting to cartoon villainy.
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Apex Mountain
Jesse Eisenberg: yes; Zuckerberg’s likability: around this film or 2015
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- Jesse Eisenberg is judged at his apex.
- Fincher is rejected by two speakers, who suggest a future peak or prefer Seven; another makes the case for this movie.
- Aaron Sorkin is judged below his West Wing apex despite winning an Oscar here.
- Andrew Garfield’s apex remains unresolved.
- Justin Timberlake’s musical and comedy peaks are favored over this film.
- Zuckerberg’s likability apex is placed around the film or 2015.
- Armie Hammer’s Call Me by Your Name period is proposed as his apex.
- Zodiac is called Fincher’s masterpiece, while Gone Girl is also admired and the difficulty of locating a career dip is discussed.
- Fincher reportedly insisted on a forty-one-million-dollar budget despite lower studio counteroffers.
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