"Mischief. Mayhem. Soap."
Produced by Art Linson, Ceán Chaffin, Ross Grayson Bell
Screenplay by Jim Uhls
Based on "Fight Club" by Chuck Palahniuk
Starring: Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Helena Bonham Carter
Music by Dust Brothers
Cinematography: Jeff Cronenweth
Edited by James Haygood
Production company: Regency Enterprises, Linson Films
Distributed by 20th Century Fox
Release date: 15 October 1999 (Canada)
Running time: 139 minutes
Country: United States
Budget: $63.000.000
Box office: $100.853.753
Country: United States
Budget: $63.000.000
Box office: $100.853.753
"Fight Club" is a drama directed by David Fincher and based on the novel of the same name by Chuck Palahniuk. The story is about the nameless Narrator who is discontented with his white-collar job. So he forms a "fight club" with soap maker Tyler Durden, and they are joined by men who also want to fight recreationally. But how will that come off?
- Edward Norton as The Narrator
- Brad Pitt as Tyler Durden
- Helena Bonham Carter as Marla Singer
- Meat Loaf as Robert Paulsen
- Zach Grenier as Richard Chesler
The director of the film is David Fincher. His other notable pictures are "Seven","Panic Room", "Zodiac", "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button", "The Social Network", "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo", "Gone Girl". It's important to mention that "Fight Club" was fiercely debated by critics. But today it's in the top of IMDb Films and it's generally considered one of the best movies of all time. And I absolutely agree with this fact as after watching it I was under the great impression. So now it's time to read the book of the same name by Chuck Palahniuk.
Edward Norton is also known by "American History X" and "The Grand Budapest Hotel". His narrator - the main protagonist of the film. He suffers from insomnia therefore he can't say exactly when he sleeps and when doesn't. And so the narrator doesn't note how his underself plays with him. Edward Norton coped with his character greatly. Brad Pitt also doesn't need any presentation. He acted in such films like "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" and "Moneyball". As for his portrayal in "Fight Club", Tyler turned out confident, bold, and insane. He does what he wants and doesn't care about anything. As time goes, Tyler proves to be someone more for the narrator than just a stray acquaintance. Helena Bonham Carter starred in the films like "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" and "Les Misérables". Her role of Marla Singer is an eccentric woman with some psychological problems. She's an impostor in support groups which also the narrator attends and does the same. This way they enter into unexpected relations that lead to something unforeseen.
"Strangenesses"
Advantages
- Edward Norton as The Narrator
- Brad Pitt as Tyler Durden
- Helena Bonham Carter as Marla Singer
Disadvantages
- How terrible doesn't it seem but that's the image of contemporary society
"Strangenesses"
- Who are you and who aren't you?
Clue Moments
- Tyler Durden
- Soap
- Fighting
Don't you want to fight for yourself? A day's routine, a boring job, a tiresome lifestyle will drive you into a corner if you do nothing to diversify your existence. And one day you may realise that your life is vain and you can''t improve anything. But if you can't improve, why won't you get it worse? Self-damage. In fact it's more exciting than it sounds but what after these actions? They will make the world better? Kinder? More beautiful? I doubt. Moreover, remember that it's easier to destroy than to build.
According to Wiki, cultural critics Henry Giroux and Imre Szeman outline three main absences in "Fight Club" 's critique. First, the film assumes that capitalism and consumerism are "impenetrable", and there cannot be resistance or struggle against them. Secondly, the film focuses instead on defending "authoritarian masculinity." The fight clubs' violence are complicit with the system of commodification that it denounces because it ties into instant gratification, heightened competitiveness, and "the market-driven desire" to dominate and win in fights. Lastly, "Fight Club" ascribes to a world under the philosophy of Thomas Hobbes in which cynicism replaces hope. The critics summarize, ""Fight Club" appears to have no understanding of its own articulation with the very forces of capitalism it appears to be attacking. This is most evident in its linking of violence, masculinity, and gender. In other words, Fight Club 's vision of liberation and politics relies on gendered and sexist hierarchies that flow directly from the consumer culture it claims to be criticizing." Fight Club is a reminder to have discourse about ethics and politics but its failed critique suggests "a more sustained and systemic critique" of societal conditions.
Soundtracks
- The Dust Brothers - Who Is Tyler Durden?
- The Dust Brothers - Homework
- The Dust Brothers - What Is Fight Club?
- The Dust Brothers - Single Serving Jack
- The Dust Brothers - Corporate World
- The Dust Brothers - Psycho Boy Jack
- The Dust Brothers - Hessel, Raymond K.
- The Dust Brothers - Medulla Oblongata
- The Dust Brothers - Jack's Smirking Revenge
- The Dust Brothers - Stealing Fat
- The Dust Brothers - Chemical Burn
- The Dust Brothers - Marla
- The Dust Brothers - Commissioner Castration
- The Dust Brothers - Space Monkeys
- The Dust Brothers - Finding The Bomb
- The Dust Brothers - This Is Your Life
Quotations
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Tyler Durden: The things you own end up owning you.
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Tyler Durden: It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.
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Tyler Durden: Man, I see in fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy sh*t we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.
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Narrator: This is your life and it's ending one minute at a time.
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Tyler Durden: You're not your job. You're not how much money you have in the bank. You're not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You're the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world.
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Tyler Durden: Welcome to Fight Club. The first rule of Fight Club is: you do not talk about Fight Club. The second rule of Fight Club is: you DO NOT talk about Fight Club! Third rule of Fight Club: someone yells "stop!", goes limp, taps out, the fight is over. Fourth rule: only two guys to a fight. Fifth rule: one fight at a time. Sixth rule: No shirts, no shoes. Seventh rule: fights will go on as long as they have to. And the eighth and final rule: if this is your first time at Fight Club, you have to fight.
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Tyler Durden: You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else.
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Narrator: When you have insomnia, you're never really asleep... and you're never really awake.
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Tyler Durden: Warning: If you are reading this then this warning is for you. Every word you read of this useless fine print is another second off your life. Don't you have other things to do? Is your life so empty that you honestly can't think of a better way to spend these moments? Or are you so impressed with authority that you give respect and credence to all that claim it? Do you read everything you're supposed to read? Do you think every thing you're supposed to think? Buy what you're told to want? Get out of your apartment. Quit your job. Start a fight. Prove you're alive. If you don't claim your humanity you will become a statistic. You have been warned- Tyler.
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Tyler Durden: Hey, you created me. I didn't create some loser alter-ego to make myself feel better. Take some responsibility!
* * *
Tyler Durden: We're a generation of men raised by women. I'm wondering if another woman is really the answer we need.
* * *
Narrator: It's called a changeover. The movie goes on, and nobody in the audience has any idea.
* * *
Narrator: And then, something happened. I let go. Lost in oblivion. Dark and silent and complete. I found freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.
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Narrator: If you wake up at a different time in a different place, could you wake up as a different person?
* * *
Narrator: Marla's philosophy of life is that she might die at any moment. The tragedy, she said, was that she didn't.
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Narrator: I ran. I ran until my muscles burned and my veins pumped battery acid. Then I ran some more.
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Tyler Durden: Where'd you go, psycho boy?Narrator: I felt like destroying something beautiful.
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Tyler Durden: OK: any historic figure.Narrator: I'd fight Gandhi.
Tyler Durden: Good answer.
Narrator: How about you?
Tyler Durden: Lincoln.
Narrator: Lincoln?
Tyler Durden: Big guy, big reach. Skinny guys fight 'til they're burger.
* * *
Narrator: Bob is dead, they shot him in the head!Tyler Durden: You wanna make an omelet, you gotta break some eggs.
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Tyler Durden: In the world I see - you are stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rockefeller Center. You'll wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life. You'll climb the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Tower. And when you look down, you'll see tiny figures pounding corn, laying strips of venison on the empty car pool lane of some abandoned superhighway.
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Tyler Durden: This is your pain. This is your burning hand. It's right here. Look at it.Narrator: I'm going to my cave. I'm going to my cave and I'm going to find my power animal.
Tyler Durden: No! Don't deal with this the way those dead people do. Deal with it the way a living person does.
* * *
Narrator: Life insurance pays off triple if you die on a business trip.
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Marla Singer: This isn't a real suicide-thing. This is probably one of those cry-for-help things.
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Narrator: What do you do?Tyler Durden: What do you mean?
Narrator: What do you do for a living?
Tyler Durden: Why? So you can pretend like you're interested?
* * *
Narrator: When the fight was over, nothing was solved, but nothing mattered. We all felt saved.
* * *
Narrator: By the end of the first month, I didn't miss TV.
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Narrator: How embarrassing... a house full of condiments and no food.
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Narrator: I flipped through catalogs and wondered: What kind of dining set defines me as a person?
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Narrator: Fight Club wasn't about winning or losing. It wasn't about words. The hysterical shouting was in tongues, like at a Pentecostal Church.
* * *
Narrator: I wasn't really dying. I wasn't host to cancer or parasites. I was the warm little center that the life of this world crowded around.
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Narrator: What do you want me to do? You want me to hit you?Tyler Durden: Come on, do me this one favor.
Narrator: Why?
Tyler Durden: Why? I don't know why, I don't know. Never been in a fight, you?
Narrator: No, but that's a good thing.
Tyler Durden: No, man it's not. How much can you know yourself if you've never been in a fight? I don't wanna die with out any scars.
* * *
Tyler Durden: It's getting exciting now, two and one-half. Think of everything we've accomplished, man. Out these windows, we will view the collapse of financial history. One step closer to economic equilibrium.
* * *
Tyler Durden: Hey, even the Mona Lisa's falling apart.
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Narrator: It's just, when you buy furniture, you tell yourself, that's it. That's the last sofa I'm gonna need. Whatever else happens, I've got that sofa problem handled.
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You may see the trailer here.
Plot: 9/10
Entertainment: 10/10
Acting: 9/10
Originality: 9/10
Music and Sound: 7/10
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