If it weren't for the bright red and eye-catching sign at the door, it would have been difficult for Lin Mingyang to associate the unpretentious gray building in front of him with Facebook's headquarters. Because of the incredible pace of growth, Facebook's old headquarters has become overcrowded, and Mark Zuckerberg began looking for a new headquarters last year, and the company later moved to Palo Alto, a city near what is now San Francisco.

Mark Zuckerberg, who had been waiting in the hall for a long time, greeted him, and the two came to an "intimate" hug at the door of the company.

"Felix, I'm really glad you came over!" After the body separated, Mark couldn't wait to lead Lin Mingyang to start visiting the company, and he said as he walked: "We don't seem to have seen each other for more than a year, right?" ”

Lin Mingyang smiled and said: "Isn't this exactly the purpose of your creation of Facebook, people don't need to meet to know each other's recent situation!" ”

"Watching a movie and seeing the actor in person, that feeling is definitely different." Mark Zuckerberg also laughed, "Is the rest of the dorm room okay?" ”

Lin Mingyang shrugged, "It's still the same!" ”

As the two talked, they soon found themselves in a large room with no segregation or large walls, where Facebook had nearly 900 employees, most of whom worked. The whole environment of the office is like a dormitory, with rows of desks and computers placed together, giving Lin Mingyang the feeling of a giant Internet café, but Mark believes that this office environment helps to stimulate the company's open spirit.

"There's our leisure center over there, with all kinds of games to choose from, and downstairs there's a basketball court, and when the weather is nice, we can have a barbecue or a concert there..."

The working environment at Facebook's headquarters is very different from those large companies that Lin has seen before, and the average age of employees in the entire company is no more than 30 years old, and the whole company exudes a sense of difference.

Pop culture has permeated every corner of the building, and even many of the office meeting rooms have their names drawn from the buzzwords of the moment. And Mark Zuckerberg actually had a refrigerator in his office, and when he opened it, Lin Mingyang glanced inside, and he found a dazzling array of all kinds of food, as well as a whole listening beer.

"I only have instant coffee and beer here, which one do you want?" Mark stood in front of the refrigerator and hesitated for a while, and finally decided to let Lin Mingyang choose for himself.

Lin Mingyang looked around the entire office, but did not find the water dispenser, and said, "If I want to drink coffee, I have to have hot water to brew it!" ”

"I'm sorry, I forgot about it!" Mark slapped his head with a big grin, and finally threw a can of beer to Lin Mingyang, "Then it's better to drink this!" ”

Lin Mingyang drank beer while looking around at Mark's unique office space: "Your office gives me a very familiar feeling, but I always feel as if something is missing." ”

"Pretty much like our old dorm, right?" Mark grunted down half a bottle of beer, burped, and said, "There's one less bed, and in fact I spend the rest of my time here except sleeping." ”

"You guy..."Lin Mingyang shook his head, and then sat down on the sofa, "I came to you this time, mainly to talk to you about something. ”

"Something to do with Facebook?" Mark's expression immediately became serious, he was a person who was very separate from work and play.

Lin Mingyang saw through Mark Zuckerberg's worries at a glance, "Things are not as serious as you think, and it will have something to do with Facebook, but it is more about you!" ”

"Something to do with me?" Mark wondered in his heart, he was originally worried that Lin Mingyang would intervene in the company's affairs as a shareholder, but Lin Mingyang had no intention of doing so.

"Have you read the book?" Lin Mingyang took out a book from his satchel and threw it on Mark's desk.

"You know I don't like this kind of inspirational biography, especially when it comes to business things, it's all..."Mark grabbed the book casually, glanced at the title and didn't read it anymore.

"But this book is written about you!" Lin Mingyang added: "To be precise, this is a biography about you!" ”

Mark's eyes widened: "But I haven't published a biography at all...", he looked at the book in his hand magically and strangely, whether it was this book or its author, he felt extremely strange.

"Looks like this guy really hasn't interviewed you!" Mark's reaction did not surprise Lin Mingyang, "But you can look at this book as a novel, although many of the plots about you do not exist, the author's level of storytelling is quite good." ”

"How could such a thing happen?" Mark leaned against the edge of his desk, book in his hand, his eyes full of confusion, "You're not here just to tell me about this, are you?" ”

"Now that you know about it, what are you going to do next, ignore it or sue the author?"

Mark seemed a little caught off guard by the sudden biography, and he shook his head, unable to make up his mind for a moment.

Lin Mingyang stood up from the sofa, then patted Mark on the shoulder, and said, "Now that you know about this, no matter what decision you make, I will support you... I know you probably don't have the heart to read this novel right now, but you still have to open it and have a picture in it, and that's the main reason I'm coming to you today. ”

Mark spread out the book suspiciously, and sure enough, he found a photo inside. When he took out the photo, he only glanced at it, and his expression became solemn.

"Who is this person in the picture? How do I feel..."

"Looks like you, doesn't he?" Lin Mingyang helped him finish the rest of the words, "His name is Jesse Eisenberg, and his current identity is an actor." ”

"Is there any purpose in showing me this?" Mark was not interested in this guy who looked a little similar to his own, but was full of curiosity about Lin Mingyang's intention to do this.

"I owe it to the author of the book you have in your hand, who gave me the idea to make a biographical film about the whole process of your founding Facebook!"

Mark raised the photo in his hand, "This guy is what you prepared for me?" ”

Lin Mingyang touched the bottle in Mark's hand with his beer, "I don't know if you are still satisfied with this 'stand-in'?" ”

When others made such a request, Mark had every reason to refuse him, but Lin Mingyang made it impossible for him to do it. But not being able to say no doesn't mean not being able to bargain, Mark clasped his hands: "What can I get out of this?" ”

The "cake" thrown by Lin Mingyang is very tempting: "This is an opportunity to promote Facebook for free." I know that Facebook has become a fashion culture among young people, and even an integral part of their lives, and this video will show people how you and Facebook grew up, so that more people can identify with you and Facebook. ”

"But I didn't think there was anything special about the real me, so I was curious... What kind of image would you portray me in the film? Mark pointed to the novel he had left aside, "Whatever the author of that book is?" ”

Lin Mingyang explained: "In order to pursue dramatization and let more moviegoers buy tickets to enter the cinema, I will make appropriate changes to reality. The dialogues that appear in the play may have taken place over a long period of time, in different places, but I will compress them together. As for the basic facts, I will make purposeful choices and even exaggerate them, and then use them as the key plot points in the film. ”

"Can you give a few examples?" Mark made a very real request.

"Of course!" Lin Mingyang nodded, "In the film, I will make up an ex-girlfriend for you... Would you mind such an arrangement? ”

Mark shrugged and said it didn't matter.

"And what about Priscilla?"

Mark hesitated, "This... I'm not so sure! ”

"As long as you don't mind, I'll explain this matter to your girlfriend in person!" Lin Mingyang nodded, and then said: "The story started like this, your ex-girlfriend dumped you, and then you created a website called 'facemash' while drinking beer, allowing everyone to vote for the female avatars on Harvard, and conduct human flesh rankings, and for a while, the Harvard campus network was paralyzed..."

Mark defended: "But in fact, the website I did only had 450 registered users, and it only had 220,000 clicks and votes, which is far from the extent of paralyzing the Harvard campus network, and I just published the photos of the girls, and did not compare their avatars with the heads of animals..."

Lin Mingyang did not deny his statement, "This is what I call an exaggerated treatment of a certain plot." ”

"And then?"

"Do you remember the Winklevoss brothers?"

"You're going to put them in too?" Mark's face finally became a little ugly, and he asked sarcastically, "And what about me, vile villain, a shameful plagiarist?" ”

"This is a biographical film, and there is no escaping the fact that you and the Winklevoss brothers are going to be objective. You're in my film, you're just employed by the Winklevos brothers, and you put off the development of their project, but behind the scenes, you're working on your own project, and you end up founding Facebook. ”

When Lin Mingyang brought up the old matter again, the expression on Mark's face was still very unnatural. In reality, the final solution was that Mark and the Winklevos brothers reached an out-of-court understanding, which happened before Lin Mingyang entered Harvard, and the dispute between the two parties was after Lin Mingyang injected capital into Facebook, at that time Lin Mingyang did not make a judgment on the matter, he just spent $5 million to help Mark settle this trouble.

For Lin Mingyang, it doesn't matter who is right or wrong, but there has always been controversy about this matter, and the real situation is only clear to Mark himself. In fact, two years before the birth of Facebook, there was already a social networking site called "Clubnexus" on Stanford University that used the same mechanism as Facebook - that is, although Mark finally acquiesced to the fact that the other party was compensated, it is clear that this idea was not the first of the Winklevos brothers.

"Since you even plan to write about the Winklevoss brothers, then you must not miss Saverin, I know that you have always had a good relationship with him, so you plan to say good things about him in the movie, right?" Mark had already guessed Lin Mingyang's next move at this time.

"In this film, Saverin ended up leaving the company because of a disagreement with you, and that's it." Lin Mingyang knew that the relationship between Mark and Saverin had completely broken down, so he didn't want to provoke Mark too much in this matter.

Mr. Lin sympathized with Mr. Savirin, but he was on Mr. Mark's side when it came to the board resolution on whether Mr. Savirin would remain in Facebook's management. Because Saverin once led the development of Facebook in the wrong direction, and privately froze the company's bank account, which had a great negative impact.

To this day, Saverin, who has left Facebook's management, still holds a 5% stake in the company, worth $2.5 billion, and is Facebook's third-largest individual shareholder, but in the book "Billionaire by Pure Coincidence", Mark is portrayed as a deliberate negative character, and the main source of material for the book is Saverin, who considers himself a loser in the power struggle.

In general, Lin Mingyang framed his story from a more fair and objective standpoint, so even if Mark was dissatisfied with some of the plots in his story, he couldn't find a reason to oppose it.

After getting Mark's approval, Lin Mingyang began to write the script. It stands to reason that a story about a computer otaku like Mark, most of the scenes take place in a college dormitory or classroom, and the protagonist sits in front of the computer all day to write passwords, and is a female insulator. But the strange thing is that Lin Mingyang really wrote the story of this otaku entrepreneurship so that it is not detached from reality, but also attractive and colorful.

Lin Mingyang did not compile this story according to the traditional way of writing biographies. Mark's legendary entrepreneurial story is just a background, what Lin Mingyang really wants to show is the eternal lonely and wandering heart of a genius, this vision with a little irony and sadness, although it is a story about Mark Zuckerberg, but it is integrated into Lin Mingyang's own understanding of success.

In the story, Mark creates a Facebook empire, builds a super club that doesn't require invitations, and creates a huge social network to help people get closer in the virtual world, but he himself is a social person.

He can't build a long-term and stable relationship with anyone, whether it's love or friendship, he doesn't care so much about money, but he doesn't give in easily, because deep down, he believes that he is the only person on top of the world.

In the end, this story is not so much a biography of Mark as Lin Mingyang's own inner monologue. After success, loneliness becomes an inevitability. Lin Mingyang has a deep feeling about this, although he occasionally fantasizes about making changes, but it only makes him more confused.

In the construction of several important characters in the script, Lin Mingyang also incorporated some of his own views on different classes. The Winklevos brothers in the play are wealthy, tall, and handsome, and are the upper-class characters on the Harvard campus. Their "gentlemanly demeanor" is outdated and ridiculous compared to Mark's freaks, and their athlete status suggests that they are a "well-limbed, simple-minded" bunch.

They belong to the past, and Lin Mingyang deliberately left a certain pre-modern lingering trace on their body, just like the rowing sport they engaged in representing the ancient tradition. Although they tried to catch up with the new trend and came up with Facebook's original ideas, it seemed that they were doomed to be eliminated.

And Saverin is not perfect in Lin Mingyang's pen, but he is more representative of the norm of this era than Mark.

In Lin Mingyang's view, Saverin is a representative of modern people, as accurate and steady as a clock. Mark will take risks, if he doesn't succeed, he will succeed, and Saverin will pave the way before and after. He is meticulous in his work, always in order, even if he is not very popular, he will achieve something small. Before Facebook's success, Mark sat on the bench, and Saverin had been a new favorite in Harvard's social circles, and his family was not as prominent as the Winklevos brothers, but he was also in the upper middle class, as evidenced by his generosity to Mark's early career. He was able to fit into the mainstream better than Mark, and if he hadn't been friends with Mark, he would have been on his way like this, becoming an average successful man rather than a famous loser.

In addition to Saverin, another important character in the story is Lin Mingyang himself. If Saverin is the embodiment of the modern personality in the story, then Lin Mingyang's self is the typical representative of the lawless postmodern personality. His passion, his madness, his undisciplined cards...... All kinds of anti-traditional and anti-authoritative behaviors make Mark feel like a fellow believer.

In the process of shaping the role of the "self" in the story, Lin Mingyang uses metaphors to incorporate a reflection on his own life. He deliberately portrays his social life as a post-modern floating state, with a night of passion and unbridled with the girls he meets; Mingle with beautiful models... All kinds of amplified and exaggerated performances allude to Lin Mingyang's real life state.

He didn't even think about what kind of impact the film would have on him if it was shot like this.

(To be continued)