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He's the face of this Facebook film - The Social Network, which is about the creation of the biggest social-media site on the planet.

I watched this film last week, but just started to read articles/interviews about it this morning, what a slow response! Impressed by Mr.Garfield's performance in the Boy A, while in this one I can only say that he has played his role better than people had expected, considering that his character has much less lines to deliver than our mouthful-of-terms protagonist. Speaking of characters, Mark is really an arse. The film opens up with his date with girlfriend, he keeps talking what other people would regard nonsense (may be he thinks other people are not intelligent enough to understand him), typical nerd I will say. This girl can't stand him any longer so she calls it off, Mark then goes back to his dorm and grumbles about it on his blog at Livejournal. He's just a immature boy doing what he wants to do while stays unintentionally out of touch with people.

So much for the story and straight on to the point of this post.(?!) Jesse Eisenberg appears to be shy but the interviews have proved that his innocent, puppet-like face is nothing but a delusion. He's a funny guy with a quick mind. I love his articulate way of speaking, clearly pronouncing each word like Ben Whishaw does.

Movieline has done an interview which becomes a five-part series:
1、Jesse Eisenberg on Awards Season, Narcissism and His Feelings About an Oscar Nomination
Notes:

1. [on his doing after the publicity of TSN]
   "I mean the last two months I’ve been traveling and I just constantly feel like I don’t know what I’m doing and like I’m shilling myself for… not shilling myself. Let me rephrase: The last two months it feels stranger to talk about yourself than to be yourself."
2. [The music volume increases in the bar; Eisenberg addresses the bartender] Is it possible to keep it down, we’re trying to do an interview? [The music is lowered]. Thank you.
   -- This reminds me of him talking about the talk shows the crew did in Europe, how those Europeans made fun of them Americans. He exhibits some pride in these situations, from my perspective...
3. [on doing play reading vs. big film]
   "The acknowledgments don’t necessarily coincide with how you feel about things."
4. [on possible Oscar nomination]
   "I feel it’s such a bigger machine that has so little to do with me. It’s hard to think of myself in it. I don’t know… I don’t know.……I felt like I performed better in other things. So the reception is not in accordance with what I felt I produced."
5. "you want the movie to stand on its own; not have to rely on the cultural shifts or rely on its place in the zeitgeist."

3、Jesse Eisenberg on AOL Chat Rooms and Why He Hates Watching The Social Network
Notes：

1. He didn't like watching The Social Network, because it's a great movie and all he could see was his faults. He doesn't want to be the weak link in something great. But, with Zombieland he felt like he couldn’t have done anything to screw it up. It was like watching a video game.
2. [on watching himself in a movie]
   "The hardest thing about watching yourself in a movie is that you see strange angles of your face that you never see."

4、 Jesse Eisenberg on Bill Murray, Walking Dead and Why He Became an Actor
Notes:

1. "I liked acting when I was younger. I started when I was 8 years old, doing like children’s theater. When I got older, 13 years old, I wanted to perform with adults and come into New York City."
2. "It (theater job) makes you think about performing in a way that is possibly more serious or more in accordance with more complicated parts of culture."

5、Jesse Eisenberg on Zombieland 2, Good Sequels and Missing John Ritter
Notes:

1. [on Zombieland's sequal]
   "It’s a risky thing to do. A lot of time what people like about the thing in the first place is not replicable. With a movie, there’s a hundred people working on it and everybody has an effect. Maybe some people have less of an effect, but everybody has an effect."
2. [on accepting Zombieland]
   Another example of "Don't judge the book by its cover". He didn’t crack open the first page of the script for months, when he did it, he immediately realized that it was great — in many ways, far more sophisticated and rich in character than a lot of independent movies he's signed on to do which are supposed to emphasize those things because they don’t have guns.
3. Zombieland is the one movie that he can watch. He said the director has his own aesthetic that he brings to the movie that seems to him watching himself inside of a video game."I don’t feel as exposed. Maybe?"