I Talk About a Movie... again

This weekend I went and saw  The Social Network .  While watching this movie, I observed 3 things.

1) I learned that appletinis are neon green
2) Everyone in that movie types insanely fast- I bet those actors had to take some sort of class to learn to type like that!
3) The movie theatre doesn't let you bring your soda from Chipotle into the theatre with you, even though you paid like $2.50 for that thing.

When I first saw the preview for this movie, I thought it was going to be terrible.  I mean, really, what person would want to see a movie that was advertised by 3 minute photomontage with a children's choir singing a creepy song in the background?  (For the record, that song wasn't anywhere in the movie, thank goodness).  So when the movie came out I really had no motivation to go and see it.  Then someone told me that it was getting really good reviews, and that it was even being compared to Citizen Kane.  As any movie buff (like myself) will tell you, you don't go around comparing movies to Citizen Kane every day.  It's arguably (but in my opinion) the best movie ever made.   So that made me interested.  And no thanks to the advertising, I went and saw the movie, and oh my it was good.

First of all, I liked the fact that it wasn't about "the legacy of facebook" or whatever, because, lets face it, it hasn't even been around for that long.  I liked how it was about the character of Mark Zuckerberg.  Being a textbook "people-person", movies with plot lines that revolve around a single person really fascinate me.

What I also thought was interesting is that Mark's character didn't actually change throughout the corse of the movie.  In most stories (books and movies) the protagonist usually undergoes some sort of change and by the end is a different sort of person.  (Characters like this are called dynamic characters)  But Mark was pretty much the same at the end as he was in the beginning.  Static (opposite of dynamic) protagonists are pretty rare, basically because they're so hard to pull off while still making the story interesting.

In the movie, there's a scene where Mark, Eduardo (his friend and CFO) go out to dinner with Sean Parker, a successful business owner who seems eerily like Mark.  In the scene, Parker orders appletinis for the entire table, which kind of alludes to the large amount of drinking that goes on through out the movie.  (Mark created a rudimentary social network one night while he was drunk.)  Personally, I think that scene was kind of the turning point of the movie, because it was when Mark realized what he wanted to do with facebook, and it's also the start of the disagreements between Mark and Eduardo.  There's also a later scene that takes place in the facebook office, which is basically a well decorated warehouse with a bunch of guys on laptops.  I noticed that one of the walls and a rug were the exact color of the appletinis... which means the appletini is symbolism for the influence that Parker had on Mark.

What I'd like to know, is why can't I come up with stuff like this during English class, when we get graded on how many times we raise our hands per semester?