As we mentioned in the lecture, Hollywood is a reflection of the ideas of Franklin himself. Therefore, many Hollywood films contain Franklin's ideas about self-help, self-education, etc. However, one of the most important things is how Hollywood wants the world to identify America and its people through these films. In this essay, I focus on “The Social Network,” the film about the rise of Facebook and its chairman Mark Zuckeberg. The essay gives readers insights into how Hollywood identifies Facebook and its founders. All of these ideas also show the relationship between the film and Franklin's view on identification and its thirteen virtues. First, we need to think about the context of the film. The film is about the rise of Facebook and can be considered the documentary of the world's largest social network. However, the film is not shown the way the documentary is supposed to be. It focuses on the two trials. The first is between Mark and Eduardo Saverin, the co-founder of Facebook. The second concerns the intellectual thief, Mark being accused by the Winklevoss brothers. Because of these lawsuits, brothers Mark, Eduardo and Winklevoss must tell the entire story of Facebook from the beginning. As a result, Hollywood wants to portray Facebook as a very complicated business, in which Mark had to defend himself and his company against enemies, and even against his best friend. This is the identification method that Franklin mastered in the past. The content is not as important as the manner and perspective you choose to represent the story. Thus, by choosing the trials to tell the story, Hollywood attempted to identify the business world as an extremely harsh world where best friends can...... middle of paper ......To conclude, the essay gives you the ideas on how Hollywood uses its medium to identify a real-life character and influence the audience. They are also strongly linked to Benjamin Franklin in the way of expressing his idea to the world. “The Social Network” is a very interesting product from Hollywood, which not only contains historical data about the creation of Facebook, but also to represent Franklin's idea that unwittingly influences the most important figures of modern social media, Mark Zuckeberg and co-founder Eduardo Saverin. In addition, it also shows us how the Internet and its community are changing the way we identify with the change in support tools.Works CitedCase, A. (2011). We are all cyborgs now. TED Talks. 2011. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1KJAXM3xYA Fincher, D. (2010). The social network. Sony Pictures. 2010. Cinema.