Aaron Sorkin’s wonderful script for The Social Network opens with Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, telling his girlfriend that there are more people with genius-level IQs in China than the entire population of the US.
The claim is ludicrous, of course; if true, it would mean that every fourth person in China was a genius. But in deploying it as his opening line, Sorkin demonstrates his characteristic talent for jabbing a finger on to the raw nerves of American society.
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Author: Ed Crooks
