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Originally Posted by AlpineValley804
I am not sure I agree with either of those. I am more open minded to the argument for its commentary since that is a pretty subjective topic, but I don’t see how it broke a great deal of ground in terms of its filmmaking, nor can I name a lot of films that I can say “This exists because of The Social Network.”
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I would challenge you on this, which films of the last decade can you point to and say this exists because of this film that came out in 2010 or later? The easy answer would be sequels or something in a cinematic universe, which obviously this exists because of that.
I would say The Social Network paved the way for movies like The Big Short, Vice, The Report, Spotlight, Steve Jobs, & Moneyball. Adult oriented, dialogue first, based on true event scripts to be made by bigger studios with bigger named casts in the face of MCU and Star Wars IP's dominating the box offices. They're also movies that are looking back on events that happened within a decade of the film being released.
In terms of actually pushing filmmaking as an art? Eh, it's certainly as tightly and well made a Fincher film as you'll find.
I'll also concede on the subjective nature of the topic, although I will contend that Zuckerberg is going to be in our life and this film is the one that was made by an exceptional writer and director collaboration and chronicles his rise and it's made as close to the event as possible. I think it will be a movie that gets looked back on as something that sort of predicted this nerdy kid who pissed off some people on the way to making a social network site will become one of the most powerful people the world has ever seen.
I think it's pretty significant. Just my take.