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Fincher and company talk "Social Network"
Issue date: 11/5/09
Director David Fincher ("Fight Club," "Benjamin Button") and his crew rolled into Baltimore earlier this week to film part of their latest project on the Hopkins campus. "The Social Network," written by Aaron Sorkin (creator of "The West Wing") is about the popular networking website, Facebook, the birth of which took place at Harvard.
The movie stars Jessie Eisenberg - who recently shot to fame as the overly cautious survivor of a zombie apocalypse in "Zombieland" - as creator Mark Zuckerberg, as well as Andrew Garfield as Zuckerberg's friend and co-creator of Facebook, Eduardo Saverin. Hopkins was one of three schools chosen to stand in for Harvard.
Fincher, Director of Photography Jeff Cronenweth and actors Eisenberg and Garfield took time out of their schedules on Tuesday afternoon to hold a question and answer session for some of the theater students in Hodson Hall.
Of course, individual inspirations and motivations behind entering the movie business were among the first things discussed.
Fincher's interest began when he was eight years old. "I had seen a movie, and since I was eight years old, I always assumed everything was made in real time. I thought it maybe took a couple of days to make a movie . . . then I realized all the stuff that went into it." He then credited his first inspiration to a special effects shot in another movie. "They had this train explode, and to do it, to make it look good, they had to build this entirely out of balsa wood. I just thought that was so cool."
Ultimately, though, the appeal of directing a movie to Fincher is being able to tell a convincing story on film. "You own someone's eyes and ears for a few hours. Whatever they see and hear is what you're giving them. You need to trick them, pull them in, involve them in this story."
Next, the question everyone was waiting to ask: Why Hopkins?
"Harvard has a no filming policy, which we chose to ignore," Fincher replied. "We started filming there, but we got caught pretty quickly and were told, essentially, to get out."
The movie stars Jessie Eisenberg - who recently shot to fame as the overly cautious survivor of a zombie apocalypse in "Zombieland" - as creator Mark Zuckerberg, as well as Andrew Garfield as Zuckerberg's friend and co-creator of Facebook, Eduardo Saverin. Hopkins was one of three schools chosen to stand in for Harvard.
Fincher, Director of Photography Jeff Cronenweth and actors Eisenberg and Garfield took time out of their schedules on Tuesday afternoon to hold a question and answer session for some of the theater students in Hodson Hall.
Of course, individual inspirations and motivations behind entering the movie business were among the first things discussed.
Fincher's interest began when he was eight years old. "I had seen a movie, and since I was eight years old, I always assumed everything was made in real time. I thought it maybe took a couple of days to make a movie . . . then I realized all the stuff that went into it." He then credited his first inspiration to a special effects shot in another movie. "They had this train explode, and to do it, to make it look good, they had to build this entirely out of balsa wood. I just thought that was so cool."
Ultimately, though, the appeal of directing a movie to Fincher is being able to tell a convincing story on film. "You own someone's eyes and ears for a few hours. Whatever they see and hear is what you're giving them. You need to trick them, pull them in, involve them in this story."
Next, the question everyone was waiting to ask: Why Hopkins?
"Harvard has a no filming policy, which we chose to ignore," Fincher replied. "We started filming there, but we got caught pretty quickly and were told, essentially, to get out."
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Irf
posted 11/07/09 @ 2:44 PM EST
This movie sounds shit. Fincher should've done BLACK HOLE instead.
New Jersey Movers
posted 11/11/09 @ 5:55 PM EST
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"Next, the question everyone was waiting to ask: Why Hopkins?
"Harvard has a no filming policy, which we chose to ignore," Fincher replied. (Continued…)
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