Released in 2010, The Social Network told the story of how Mark Zuckerberg co-founded Facebook from his Harvard dorm room and found himself on the wrong end of multi-million dollar lawsuits from the people he left behind. Directed by David Fincher and written by Aaron Sorkin, it earned widespread critical acclaim, three Academy Awards, and cemented itself as a modern classic. With Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield and Justin Timberlake delivering career-defining performances, the film remains a touchstone for a generation that grew up watching social media reshape the world. We’re telling the behind the scenes story now with 35 facts about The Social Network. You can also hear us discuss the film on the All The Right Movies podcast, available on Spotify, YouTube, and on the ATRM website.

1. A late-night email kicked things off

The roots of The Social Network trace back to a non-fiction book called The Accidental Billionaires, written by Ben Mezrich. The book told the story of how the social media behemoth Facebook was founded, and it began in the most unlikely way. Mezrich received an email at two in the morning from a Harvard student who wrote: “My friend co-founded Facebook and nobody’s ever heard of him.” He arranged a meeting with that friend, and in walked Eduardo Saverin, Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook co-founder. When Saverin told him the story, Mezrich was struck by how inherently dramatic it was.

Mezrich wrote a treatment, and as soon as his publisher read it, they knew it had film potential and started sending it to studios while the book was still being written. Mezrich had previously written Bringing Down the House, which had been adapted into the film 21 (2007), produced by Kevin Spacey’s production company, Trigger Street Productions. Spacey loved the new treatment and brought in the other companies who had worked on 21: Columbia Pictures, Michael De Luca Productions, and Relativity Media. Relativity had just produced Charlie Wilson’s War (2007), which had been written by Aaron Sorkin, so they showed him Mezrich’s treatment. After reading just three pages, Sorkin declared it was “like Shakespeare,” before adding: “Luckily Shakespeare wasn’t available, so they asked me.”

2. Sorkin nearly directed the film himself

When Sorkin finished the screenplay, Columbia Pictures wanted him to direct it, despite the fact that he had never directed anything before. Sorkin had a different idea. He wanted David Fincher and suggested they send him the script first, with a simple deal: if Fincher passed, Sorkin would step behind the camera himself.

Fincher read the script and later said that five pages into the opening scene, he was thinking: “If this girl doesn’t punch this guy in the face, I’m not doing it.” The very next page had Erica calling Mark an asshole. Fincher emailed Sorkin back with two key words: “I’m in.”

3. Fincher refused to negotiate on the budget

When the director first sat down with the studio, he told them he needed $40 million to make the film. They countered with $25 million. Fincher said no. They offered $35 million. His response was characteristically blunt: “Look, this isn’t a negotiation. That’s how much it costs.” The studio gave him his $40 million.

4. The first person approached to play Zuckerberg turned it down

Jesse Eisenberg plays Mark Zuckerberg in the film: a gifted programmer whose creation of Facebook from his Harvard dorm makes him fabulously wealthy but costs him the people closest to him, landing him in multi-million dollar lawsuits from his best friend Eduardo and the Winklevoss twins. It’s a career-defining performance, but Eisenberg wasn’t the first name in the conversation. Shia LaBeouf was initially approached to play Zuckerberg, but turned the role down.

So the production went through a standard audition process, with candidates reading from a script of The West Wing, the acclaimed political TV drama that Sorkin had also written. Fincher wanted Eisenberg to audition, but Eisenberg initially said no, feeling that reading from The West Wing would do him no favours. When he pulled out, the casting team sent him a few pages of the actual Social Network script instead. He recorded an audition video with his sister, Hallie Eisenberg, a former child actress, playing opposite him as Zuckerberg, and it won him the part.

5. Eisenberg’s own life informed his performance

The actor has been diagnosed with obsessive compulsive disorder, and he said one of the hardest things about playing Zuckerberg was having to speak and behave in ways he had spent his whole life trying not to. In preparation, he watched every interview he could find of the real Zuckerberg and even read his college application, where Zuckerberg had written about his love of fencing. Eisenberg took a couple of fencing lessons before filming as a result.

Fincher asked Eisenberg not to try and meet the real Zuckerberg, so he never did, instead basing his portrayal entirely on what felt right for the character as written. One change Eisenberg did request was for the scene at the “Facebook house” in California, where the company’s employees are ziplining from the roof into the swimming pool. In the script, Mark joined in. Eisenberg felt the character should just stand there filming it instead, and Fincher agreed. It’s a small detail, but it speaks volumes about Eisenberg’s understanding of who this version of Zuckerberg is.

6. Another actor was asked to play the wrong part

The second major character is Eduardo Saverin, Mark’s best friend and Facebook’s co-founder, played by Andrew Garfield. Serving as the company’s CFO, Eduardo finds himself gradually frozen out once Sean Parker enters the picture, and eventually ends up on the opposite side of the deposition table from the person he helped build the company with.

Garfield was originally asked to audition for the role of Mark, but when Fincher saw him, he recognised that Garfield was an actor who wore his heart on his sleeve, and that quality was far better suited to Eduardo. As soon as Fincher saw Garfield and Eisenberg together, he knew he had his leads. The pair became close friends on set, and that chemistry bleeds into the film. Garfield turned up for rehearsals carrying a copy of Economics for Dummies, trying to get into the headspace of Eduardo, who is an economics major. Eisenberg then arrived with C++ for Dummies. Both later admitted they only read the introductions and never touched the books again.

7. Finding the Winklevoss twins required some creative problem-solving

Armie Hammer plays two roles in the film: Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, the rowing-obsessed identical twins who, along with their friend Divya Narendra (played by Max Minghella), come up with the idea for a social platform, ask Mark to build it, and eventually sue him in federal court when he goes off and creates Facebook with Eduardo instead.

Fincher’s first instinct was to cast real-life twins. When he couldn’t find anyone suitable, he decided to cast two different actors with similar builds. One was Armie Hammer; the other was Josh Pence, who had mostly worked as a model at the time and matched Hammer’s frame. The plan, initially, was that both men would appear in the finished film.

8. An actor’s face was digitally replaced

To create the illusion of identical twins, Fincher turned to Lola Visual Effects, the company he had worked with on The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008). They recommended a technique called face projection. Josh Pence would act all of his scenes alongside Hammer with motion capture markers on his face, and the scenes were shot using motion-controlled cameras so that every take was identical. In the edit, Fincher would choose the takes he wanted, and Lola would then digitally replace Pence’s face with Hammer’s.

The result is seamless. When filming began, Fincher hadn’t yet decided whether the Winklevosses would be fraternal or identical twins, so Hammer and Pence had to learn each other’s mannerisms and movements just in case either approach was needed. When Pence eventually learned that his face wouldn’t be seen in the final film, he said he threw the phone at the wall, threw up, and started crying. He does appear on screen briefly, though. When Mark and Eduardo are guarding a bathroom door for two girls, a guy comes over and they tell him a couple of girls are freshening up in there. His response is a breezy “Sweet.” That guy is Josh Pence.

9. Hammer threw himself into the rowing and paid the price

Armie Hammer and Josh Pence took up rowing for real to prepare for the film, and Hammer later said it was the hardest thing he had ever done physically. The training was so demanding that he had to eat large amounts of junk food throughout the shoot just to keep his weight up.

10. The breakup that launches the film never actually happened

The film opens with Mark being dumped by his girlfriend Erica Albright in a bar, a humiliation that drives him to create his comparison site Facemash in a fit of wounded pride. Erica didn’t actually exist, though. She was created by Sorkin for the film. The real Zuckerberg was already dating Priscilla Chan at the time, and the pair went on to marry in 2012. So Sorkin invented the breakup as a dramatic catalyst, a narrative engine to power Mark’s motivations.

Erica may be fictional, but she is loosely based on a real person. On the night the real Zuckerberg set up Facemash, he was blogging, just as he does in the film. One of his blog posts referred to a real woman by name in unflattering terms. Sorkin changed it, saying there was no need to embarrass her further. Something else the film gets wrong: the script tells us Facemash had 22,000 visitors in two hours. In reality, the number was closer to 450. And the real Facemash featured both men and women, not just women, so it wasn’t quite as one-sided as the film portrays.

11. The opening scene took many takes

Rooney Mara plays Erica, and she revealed that the opening breakup scene required 99 takes. Fincher only had Mara for four days, so all of her scenes were filmed first, right at the start of production. One of the reasons it took so many takes is that Fincher knew he wanted the entire scene to run at seven minutes and 22 seconds. Eisenberg said they would finish a take and Fincher would say: “Brilliant, but it’s 40 seconds too long. If you think you’re going a bit too fast, you’re not going fast enough.”

That pace sets the tone for the entire film. The script for The Social Network runs to 162 pages, and in traditional screenplay terms, one page usually equates to roughly one minute of screen time. The finished film, though, clocks in at just 120 minutes, which gives a sense of how quickly everyone is talking.

12. A couple of hidden details are easy to miss early on

Shortly after the opening breakup, Mark and Eduardo put Facebook live for the first time. Eduardo asks Mark “Are you praying?” Sorkin later revealed that Mark was actually davening, a form of Jewish prayer. He originally wrote the line as “Are you davening?” but changed it because he thought some audiences might not know what the word meant.

There’s also a very subtle reference to another Fincher film tucked into the early scenes. When Eduardo goes on a rant in Mark’s dorm about being accused of animal abuse, Mark is simultaneously posting on Facebook to generate content for his contemporary arts final. Look closely at the screen and you’ll see he’s posting under the name Tyler Durden, the anarchic alter ego from Fincher’s Fight Club (1999).

13. A scene referencing a famous actress was cut

Hollywood star Natalie Portman was at Harvard between 1999 and 2003, studying psychology. When she found out Sorkin was writing a script about Facebook, she threw a dinner party and invited him specifically so she could give him insider information about life at the university. She didn’t know Zuckerberg or Saverin personally, though.

To reference this, as part of the Facemash montage, Fincher filmed a scene where two guys are on the site comparing photos. One of them says “Wow, she’s so hot,” and the other replies “Of course she is, she’s Natalie Portman.” Fincher cut it, preferring the ambiguity of the deposition scene later on, when Divya is asked about a rumoured movie star at Harvard and simply says “Does it matter?”

14. A professional lookalike played a tech legend

One memorable scene features Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates giving a talk at Harvard. The Gates we see on screen was played by Steve Sires, a professional Bill Gates lookalike, and his voice was dubbed by a separate voice actor. Sires made something of a career out of the resemblance, also appearing as Gates in Nothing So Strange (2002) and Roboshark (2015).

15. A key detail on the Facebook homepage was changed

When Napster co-founder Sean Parker first comes across Facebook on a laptop belonging to a girl called Amy, we see the original design for the site. There is one notable difference from reality, though. In the film, the header banner features an image of Mark Zuckerberg in the background. In real life, the original Facebook banner featured Al Pacino.

The circumstances of how Parker discovered Facebook were also changed for dramatic purposes. In the film, he comes across it after a one-night stand. In reality, Parker was introduced to the site by his roommate’s girlfriend, who was studying at Stanford. It’s a good example of Sorkin and Fincher reshaping facts for a more compelling scene.

16. A former boyband member beat some surprising competition

Sean Parker, the charismatic Napster co-founder who sweeps into Facebook’s story and reshapes the company’s trajectory, is played by Justin Timberlake. Before Timberlake was cast, Jonathan Groff from Glee was considered by Fincher, and the studio reportedly wanted Jonah Hill, though Fincher disagreed. Timberlake, the former NSYNC member, won the part through audition.

NSYNC makes a cameo of its own in the film, too. In the scene where Mark goes to a meeting with Sequoia Capital, a prominent venture capital firm, dressed in his pyjamas, the radio in Sean’s car is playing an NSYNC song called “Don’t Stop.” Incidentally, that pyjama meeting is rooted in reality. The real Sean Parker held a grudge against Michael Moritz, the chairperson of Sequoia, so Zuckerberg deliberately went to a meeting with them in his pyjamas and presented a deck titled “Top Ten Reasons You Should Not Invest.”

Timberlake was physically bigger than the real Parker, so he lost about 15 pounds for the role. He ran into Parker at an event before filming began and said he’d like to get to know him a little. Parker’s advice was blunt: don’t bother. “The guy you’re playing is nothing like me at all.”

17. One actor couldn’t eat another mouthful by the time Fincher was satisfied

The 99 takes on the opening scene set a pattern that continued throughout the shoot. Armie Hammer said the scene where the Winklevoss twins and Divya are sitting in a restaurant discussing Mark is roughly ten seconds long in the finished film, and required Hammer to take a bite of a burger. By the time they had finished shooting, they had done so many takes that Hammer said he physically couldn’t eat another mouthful.

18. Both Facebook and Harvard tried to stop the film

When Fincher came on board, the script was sent to Facebook to try and secure their blessing on certain aspects of the story. The producer, Scott Rudin, met with Facebook’s representatives several times. Their demands were simple: the film couldn’t be set at Harvard, and it couldn’t call the company Facebook. Rudin relayed this to Fincher, and they decided to do it anyway. Fincher later said that when those same people saw the finished film, they were, in his words, “appropriately appalled,” which he was rather pleased about. The depositions, Zuckerberg’s messages, and other key documents were all public record, so there was nothing Facebook could legally do to prevent their use.

Harvard got in on the act too, refusing to let Fincher shoot on their campus. Fincher’s assessment of the university was characteristically colourful: he called them “fucking atrocious.” The Harvard scenes were instead filmed at Wheelock College in Boston, Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and the University of Southern California, all dressed to look like Harvard. Harvard’s reasoning for the ban went back to 1970, when the production of Love Story had filmed there and their fake snow destroyed some trees, prompting a blanket ban on film productions.

Some genuine Harvard shots do appear in the film, though, including Mark running through Harvard Square at the very start. Fincher got those shots by sending in a street mime with a cart and lights on it. Cinematographer Jeff Cronenweth explained that if campus security stopped the mime, he simply wouldn’t talk, and by the time they managed to escort him out, they would already have the footage they needed.

19. A popular character actor was nearly cast as the Harvard president

In the film, the Winklevoss twins take their grievance about Zuckerberg to Harvard President Larry Summers, who dismisses them with barely concealed contempt. The role is played by Douglas Urbanski, who was better known as a producer than an actor. Before Fincher cast Urbanski, though, he considered Alfred Molina for the part.

Sorkin didn’t just make this exchange up, either. The real Larry Summers has spoken about the actual meeting, and his recollection suggests Sorkin’s version isn’t far off. Summers said: “One of the things you learn as a college president is that if an undergraduate is wearing a tie and jacket on a Thursday afternoon at three o’clock, there are two possibilities. One is that they have a job interview; the other is that they are an asshole. This was the latter case. Rarely have I encountered such swagger, and I responded in kind.”

20. The pivotal dinner meeting was largely made up

A key scene in the film sees Mark and Eduardo (and Eduardo’s girlfriend, Christy) meeting Sean Parker for the first time over dinner. In reality, this meeting didn’t happen the way it does on screen. The real meeting between Parker and Zuckerberg apparently involved Travis Kalanick, who went on to found the ride-hailing company Uber. Parker said they went clubbing afterwards, but the rest of the scene was fabricated by Sorkin.

One detail from the scene, though, had a genuine real-world impact. When Sean arrives, he orders Appletinis all round for the table. When the real Mark Zuckerberg saw the finished film, he didn’t know what an Appletini was, so he tried one. He loved it so much that he reportedly made it the official drink of Facebook for a time.

21. The nightclub scene was filmed in silence

Another pivotal scenes takes place in a thumping nightclub, where Sean pitches his vision for Facebook to Mark over deafening music. When they filmed the scene, though, there was no music playing on set at all. The extras mimed their dancing while Eisenberg and Timberlake shouted their lines at each other as if they could barely hear. The track “Sound of Violence” by Dennis de Laat was added in post-production.

During the scene, Sean tells Mark the story of Roy Raymond, the founder of the lingerie brand Victoria’s Secret, who sold the company too early and later killed himself. Sorkin altered some of the details for dramatic effect. In real life, Raymond sold Victoria’s Secret for $1 million, not $4 million, because the company was going bankrupt. And his death was the result of a series of failed businesses, not specifically because he sold the brand too cheaply. As Sorkin has said himself: “My fidelity is to drama, not to the truth.”

22. The rowing sequence was filmed under extreme time pressure

The Winklevoss twins really did row for Harvard in the final of the Grand Challenge Cup at the Henley Royal Regatta, the prestigious annual rowing event held on the Thames in England. Fincher could only film three races at the actual regatta and had to shoot additional inserts at Eton College. The only window available to film was just six weeks before the movie was due for release, which is one reason why the backgrounds in the sequence are so artfully out of focus: a practical solution that doubles as a striking visual choice.

It was Fincher’s idea to score the rowing scene with “In the Hall of the Mountain King,” the famous orchestral piece by Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg. He told his composers, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, that he wanted it to sound as if it had been written by Wendy Carlos, the electronic musician who composed the score for The Shining (1980). Reznor said their first attempt sounded like a video game, but they worked on it for weeks until they were happy. Ross later admitted they must have listened to the classical piece 20,000 times, adding: “If it hadn’t been approved [by Fincher], we probably would’ve killed ourselves.”

23. Sorkin’s first draft was far too long, and Fincher refused to cut it

The first script for The Social Network ran to 178 pages, and the studio told Sorkin he needed to cut at least 30. He managed to get it down to 162 pages, but when Fincher came on board, he said he wanted to keep every word. Instead of cutting pages, the director told the studio he would bring the film in at two hours by directing the actors to talk faster. That rapid-fire delivery became one of the film’s defining characteristics.

24. The line between fact and fiction is blurrier than you’d think

Because Mezrich and Sorkin were writing simultaneously, each with different goals, Sorkin took significant artistic licence with several elements. The story about Eduardo and the chicken, where he carries a live chicken around campus as part of his initiation into the exclusive Phoenix club, didn’t happen. The Harvard Crimson, the university’s student newspaper, did publish an article about chicken torture and the club, but it had nothing to do with Saverin.

Other details, though, are surprisingly accurate. In the film, the Winklevoss twins describe going after Zuckerberg as being “like the Cobra Kai” from The Karate Kid (1984). That line came directly from the real Winklevosses, who said it to Ben Mezrich when he interviewed them. The Facebook house in Palo Alto really did have a zipline running from the roof to the pool. The moment where Eduardo goes to the bank and freezes the Facebook account really happened, and it coincided with Peter Thiel, the billionaire tech investor, making his $500,000 investment. The real Zuckerberg really did score a perfect 1600 on his SATs, and he really did have a business card that read: “I’m CEO, bitch.”

Mark’s decision to drop out of Harvard is also true to life. Harvard granted him an honorary degree in 2017.

25. Sorkin makes a cameo, and Fincher insisted on it

The screenwriter appears in the film as the advertising executive who meets with Mark and Eduardo to discuss putting ads on Facebook. He had made cameos in his own work before, but this one wasn’t his idea. He said Fincher was insistent that he play the part. Behind the scenes footage from the shoot shows Fincher’s familiar refrain after each take: “Faster… Go faster… Not fast enough.”

26. A rock legend was an unexpected choice to score the film

The score for The Social Network was written by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. Reznor was best known as the lead singer, songwriter, and driving force behind American rock band Nine Inch Nails. This was his first film score credit. Ross, a producer who had worked with various artists including Nine Inch Nails, had three prior film credits, including The Book of Eli (2010).

Reznor had previously worked as a music producer on Natural Born Killers (1994) and Lost Highway (1997), and had written a score for One Hour Photo (2002) that was rejected by the studio. He said it was a surprise when Fincher called him out of the blue, and an even bigger surprise when he learned the film was about Facebook. Within a few minutes of reading the script, though, he had decided to do it, and he brought in Ross to collaborate. The pairing with Fincher wasn’t entirely out of nowhere: Fincher had used Nine Inch Nails’ “Closer” over the opening credits of Seven (1995) and had directed the music video for their track “Only.”

27. The opening music was originally a different song entirely

The piece of music that plays over the opening titles is called “Hand Covers Bruise,” and it appears two more times during the film, both during deposition scenes. For each subsequent use, Reznor recorded the piano from further away to make it sound more echoey, reflecting Mark’s growing isolation as the story progresses.

Fincher had originally planned to use “Beyond Belief” by Elvis Costello over the opening titles, but changed his mind once he heard “Hand Covers Bruise.” He was so impressed by the score overall that during the edit, he started re-cutting the film to match the music, which is a remarkable concession from a filmmaker as precise as Fincher.

28. The film was a landmark for digital cinematography

While Sorkin and the composers were new collaborators for Fincher, the cinematographer was a familiar face. Jeff Cronenweth served as Director of Photography, marking his second collaboration with Fincher after shooting Fight Club (1999) eleven years earlier.

Fincher was already a champion of shooting on digital cameras and had used them on parts of Zodiac (2007) and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, but The Social Network was the first time he committed to an entirely digital shoot. Cronenweth said they used a Red One digital camera fitted with a new chip that allowed for a greater colour spectrum, making the process somewhat experimental. Fincher has consistently pushed for state-of-the-art technology across his filmography, which likely plays a part in why his films always feel so visually precise and modern.

29. Disney tried to stop one of its stars from appearing in the film

Eduardo’s volatile girlfriend Christy is played by Brenda Song. At the time, Song was primarily known for her work on kids’ TV on the Disney Channel. She said that Disney tried to tell her she couldn’t accept the role because of the bathroom sex scene early in the film. She took it anyway.

30. Fincher pushed Garfield to the brink for the big scene

One of the most electric scenes in The Social Network comes when Eduardo storms into the Facebook offices after discovering his shares have been diluted to almost nothing. Fincher shot 40 takes of the argument between Eduardo and Mark. Garfield said he was exhausted, sitting on the floor and wondering how many more takes he could manage, when Fincher walked over, picked him up, shook his hand, and simply said: “Moving on.”

The method by which Eduardo is forced out, through the creation of new shares to dilute his overall ownership, is how it happened in real life, though the details were softened for the film. In reality, Eduardo’s shares were reduced to 10%, not the devastating 0.03% shown on screen. And Zuckerberg’s intention wasn’t to leave him with nothing; it was to reduce his control and offer a significant payout. The reason, according to reports, was that Saverin had agreed to do certain things for the company and hadn’t followed through, instead working on his own business ventures. It’s not great, but perhaps not as ruthless as the film portrays. For anyone left heartbroken by the scene, though, the real Eduardo Saverin is now worth around $26 billion, so he landed on his feet.

31. One scene required a handheld camera for the first and only time

The party sequence at Sean Parker’s house is the only part of the film shot with a handheld camera. Fincher made that choice deliberately to reflect the fact that Sean is drunk and high during the scene. The sequence also had to be re-edited to avoid an R-rating: a shot of a girl lying on a table with cocaine on her body, which the characters snort off her, was removed.

That wasn’t the only change made for the ratings board, either. Much earlier in the film, when Mark is sitting in a lecture, a girl passes a note back to him that reads “U Dick.” The original note didn’t say “dick.'” It was considerably stronger language, and it had to be changed to secure a PG-13 certificate.

32. Fincher left Sorkin to direct the last shot

The final shot filmed during production was a brief insert for the Facemash montage sequence, and it was directed by Aaron Sorkin. Fincher told Sorkin he was leaving and that the shot was his responsibility. Sorkin assumed he was joking, until Fincher got in his car and drove away. Sorkin managed two takes before Bob Wagner, the Assistant Director, intervened with a warning: “If we only get two takes, David will kill us.” So they shot the exact same thing a further six times. Fincher was satisfied.

33. The film’s iconic poster was nearly outdated before it was finished

The poster for The Social Network was designed by Neil Kellerhouse, who was given only a couple of headshots of Eisenberg as Zuckerberg to work with. He came up with the tagline “You don’t get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies.” The number originally read 300 million, but Facebook was growing so rapidly that by the time the film was ready for release, the figure had to be updated.

34. Zuckerberg took his employees to see the film

When The Social Network was released, the real Mark Zuckerberg paid for Facebook employees to go and see it. He said he was amused by how far off the film was from what actually happened, though he was surprised by one thing: how accurate his wardrobe was. He said Jesse Eisenberg was wearing some clothes he had actually owned in real life.

35. The film was a smash hit

From its $40 million production budget, The Social Network grossed $224.9 million worldwide, comfortably making it a significant commercial success. It performed well at the Academy Awards too, earning eight nominations and winning three: Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross for Best Original Score, Aaron Sorkin for Best Adapted Screenplay, and Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter for Best Film Editing. Awards for writing, music, and editing: the fundamental building blocks of filmmaking.

Today, the film holds a 97% critics’ approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes and an 86% audience score. On IMDb, it sits at 7.8 out of 10. Those numbers, particularly the near-unanimous critical acclaim, speak to a film that has only grown in reputation since its release.

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