Hollywoodland

Lots of people are complaining, lauding, and generally talking about the fictional aspects of the film Social Network.  Here's the thing, no hollywoodland film about an actual event approaches fact. Remember  Guadalcanal Diary  from 1943 when there were still folks around who lived through it?  Anthony Quinn runs without opposition until some dastardly Japanese flings a knife into his back. Think that was accurate? Gentleman Jim Corbett was no more like Errol Flynn than was George Armstrong Custer was like Errol Flynn or Queen Elizabeth like Bette Davis and Essex like Errol Flynn.  They were fictional movies; Social Network is a fictional movie. People who want to argue about the accuracy of fictional films are like people who read a novel about WWI and think that they have learned something about WWI. Dopes, in short.  One reason there is so much hub bub, bub, might be because lots of people thought that Sorkin's West Wing was a documentary.  It wasn't.  No really it wasn't.  It was a melodrama parading as a mirror of princes.  You want the true story Facebook's development?  Wait a while and some historian or another will take up the task. Want to know what Aaron Sorkin thinks about humanity's vanity and related whatnotery, go see the movie.