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Hollywood’s portrayal of Harvard College as the ruthless hunting ground of unethical social climbers in the Facebook film “The Social Network” may titillate the rest of the world, but to denizens of the ivied halls . . . it looks a little cartoonish.
“The only part that I can remember is the guys wearing red coats,” Hena Haines, a sophomore from Georgia, said after seeing the trailer. She said she thinks “The Social Network” will give outsiders a warped impression of social life on campus.“It’s way, way overdramatized,” said junior Olga Zinoveva, 20, who also said she had seen the preview - as did almost every student approached on campus yesterday.
“The Social Network,” which hits theaters Friday, is a fictionalized account of the birth pangs of Facebook, which was started at Harvard while its founder, Mark Zuckerberg, was an undergraduate there.
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