QUOTE(ButtsexV2 @ Oct 14 2010, 10:08 PM)
I suppose you didn't see the connection between Avatar and Pocahontas either?
Wow, we got a regular film sleuth over here. You must read a lot of blogs or somethin'.
But really, the only similarities between
Antitrust and
The Social Network are that each features a CEO who isn't afraid to step on a few people to make it to the top. But the difference -- and thematically, this is a major element -- is that the CEO in
Antitrust hurts people he doesn't like or doesn't know or doesn't give a shit about, whereas the CEO in
The Social Network -- and this is crucial -- is willing to betray people close to him, like his best friend and the only girl he really ever loved, in order to make it to the top. That makes all the difference: anyone can kill people they don't know, but not everyone will throw their best friends to the wolves. Because of that,
Antitrust becomes little more than a thriller, whereas
The Social Network gets allusions to
Citizen Kane (which I think are unfounded, but that's beside the point).
I won't even go into the stark cinematographic differences between the two films.