Very engaging and reflective of the current culture/generation.
As a geek, I liked how they didn't do a lot of fake flashy computer stuff (looked like he was using KDE3 and it was butt ugly). Though netbooks weren't around yet in 2003. ;)
That part at the beginning was certainly realistic.
The part where there were 6 guys interviewing for facebook by taking a shot a minute "cracking SSL" or whatever it was surrounded by 30 screaming people was not realistic.
Yeah, it was Swordfish-esque. And they started so well. Too bad.
I guess the screenwriter just needed a "triumph" moment at that point in the script, something that the audience can share in other than some interns completing a programming assignment.
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Very engaging and reflective of the current culture/generation.
As a geek, I liked how they didn't do a lot of fake flashy computer stuff (looked like he was using KDE3 and it was butt ugly). Though netbooks weren't around yet in 2003. ;)
How accurate was the jargon? When they talked about hacking, or were coding on screen, was it realistic?
It actually was pretty realistic. When he was talking about writing a shell script to wget images from Harvard facebooks, I smiled to myself a little.
That part at the beginning was certainly realistic.
The part where there were 6 guys interviewing for facebook by taking a shot a minute "cracking SSL" or whatever it was surrounded by 30 screaming people was not realistic.
Yeah, it was Swordfish-esque. And they started so well. Too bad.
I guess the screenwriter just needed a "triumph" moment at that point in the script, something that the audience can share in other than some interns completing a programming assignment.
"Welcome to Facebook."
Does he then send the other 5 inebriated guys home?
That was when I got sold on the movie.
You could see him fire up putty on his windows xp box and catch snippets of code as he ran perl & shell scripts to do exactly what he wanted.
Do you consider that hacking?
To clarify, I meant, in the context of the movie, where Zuckerberg is accused of hacking by the administration because he used wget.
Downvote away!
What? You don't want to fly through a world of 3D towers with flashing text on them while you hack the Gibson? :)
I'd take Jolie over Eisenberg, personally.
They did use Motorola RAZRs, though.