Friday, July 16, 2010

Facebook Movie Preview

It's nice to see Harvard finally getting some recognition in the mainstream media, with the upcoming Facebook/Zuckerburg movie the Social Network (based on Ben Mezrich's book The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook: A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal -- Mezrich is also a Harvard grad... graduated the same year I did!) -- here is (one of many) pages with the latest movie preview with some analysis, and here is a Youtube link.  Somewhere in there I saw the words Maxwell-Dworkin (the Harvard CS building).  And the scene where he is in front of the Ad Board (the Harvard body responsible for disciplining students) looks amusing -- I want to see how close it matches reality in full.

3 comments:

Dave Backus said...

You're worried about Harvard getting mainstream media recognition? I'd be more worried that any attention paid to universities misses completely our intellectual mission.

Michael Mitzenmacher said...

"That's a joke... I say, that's a joke, son."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foghorn_Leghorn

Anonymous said...

It was actually filmed at Johns Hopkins University