One of the many things I love about “The Social Network” is its depiction of Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss — real-life twins and Olympic rowers from a wealthy family who basically accused Mark Zuckerberg of stealing the idea for Facebook from them and settled for $65 million (and are now seeking much more) — as a sort of two-headed, walking sight gag straight out of Frank Tashlin.

Both twins are played in the film by Armie Hammer, but director David Fincher doesn’t use the 90-year-old tradition of double exposures to achieve this. Instead, one Josh Pence serves as a body double in shots with both Winklevosses — disparagingly referred to as the “Winklevii” by Zuckerberg in the film — with Hamer’s face digitally pasted on.

The Winklevii have two big, hilarious scenes in “The Social Network.” In the one shown above, they leverage their connections to get a meeting with impatient Harvard president Larry Summers, who they fruitlessly ask to discipline Zuckerberg for violating the university’s student ethics code.

In the other sequence, the twins — who debate among themselves whether it would be “gentlemanly” to sue Zuckerberg — are seen narrowly losing the Henley Regatta in England. To add insult to injury, they learn immediately afterwards that Facebook has expanded to colleges in the U.K.

Tyler Winklevoss told my colleague Mandy Stadtmiller last month that “I think in the larger macro sense I didn’t think we came off in a negative light.”

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