A mysterious extremist who makes a living selling soap made from human fat sucked during liposuction creates a society called "Fight Club". This is an organization for guys who are ready to fight each other at secret night meetings to feel like real men. Before the start of the fights, the hero announces the rules: “The first rule of the club is not to mention the Fight Club. The second rule of the club is not to mention Fight Club! The third rule of the club - if the fighter shouted “stop!”, ran out of steam or passed out, the fight is over. The fourth rule is that only two people participate in the battle. The fifth rule is that the battles go one after the other, not simultaneously. The sixth rule is to take off your shoes and shirts. The seventh rule - the fight continues as long as necessary. The eighth and final rule is that whoever comes to the club for the first time must fight.”
80% fiction for adults in Western countries are bought and read by women. This colossal number is displayed in huge numbers on the ceiling of any publishing house and any best-selling author. When editors and writers look up to the sky to decide which book to publish or write, they see "80%" and act accordingly, often at the expense of the 20% of men who do buy fiction books and all those potential readers who I stopped going to bookstores because I didn’t see anything for myself there. However, in the mid-1990s, there was a man who spurned the 80 percent and wrote a novel exclusively for non-reading (or hardly reading) young men. So there was a cult book, which in 1999 turned into a cult film. Its author was Chuck Palahniuk, and it was called Fight Club.
For Chuck Palahniuk (whose Ukrainian surname in Russian is more correct to write “Palanyuk”), the history of “Fight Club” began with a desire, understandable for any author, to show publishers middle finger. A journalist by training and an auto mechanic by profession, Palahniuk attended a writing workshop in the 1990s and poured his soul into books that publishers refused to publish. When his second novel, The Invisible Women, written from the perspective of a disfigured former model, was dismissed as "outrageous", Palahniuk decided that, as a sign of contempt for the publishers, he would compose an even more "outrageous" thing, against which the Invisibles would seem white and fluffy.
What was the most shocking thing the author could come up with? The answer came from a TV report, a visit to a bookstore, and his membership in the Cacophony Society (an anarchist-prankster club that organizes public pranks like laying out teddy bears filled with concrete in toy stores). The report said that young boys from single-parent families often join gangs because they are looking for harsh but fair fatherly care, which they were deprived of at home. At the bookstore, Palahniuk noticed that the shelves were full of books about women's friendships and women's organizations and clubs, but there was almost nothing about organizations for "real men", without knitting and lisping.
Also, the future work was based on a case from the life of the writer. Having got into a fight one day during a vacation trip to nature, he came to work with a huge black eye and found that none of his colleagues dared to ask what had happened to him. People were simply afraid of a guy who, as they thought, was leading an aggressive and dangerous life.
Gluing it all together, Palahniuk invented "Fight Club" - secret society for guys from the lower and lower middle classes (waiters, clerks, mechanics, security guards) who participate in underground fights. Not for the sake of money, not for fame, and not even for the sake of an adrenaline rush, but in order to feel like real, tough men, and not castrated dogs serving the rich on their hind legs. What could be more outrageous and shocking than an organization of pissed off and disillusioned tough guys ready to get hit and hit? It's even worse than the union! And the unions in America have been at war for more than a hundred years. True, with varying success, but in recent decades - very effectively.
The first version of Fight Club was short story, composed as a literary experiment. Palahniuk built the narrative as a montage of vivid scenes, remarks and observations, united not by a gradual flow from episode to episode, but by a sequence of club rules. By themselves, these rules had little meaning, but they were the core upon which Fight Club was strung. Palahniuk used this artistic move so that there was nothing boring and secondary in his story - only “the very softness”.
To his great surprise, Palahniuk was able to sell The Club for publication in a short-run anthology of short stories. After receiving $50, the author decided to turn The Club into a novel, and in three months he wrote a book inspired by The Great Gatsby. Like F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Club had three central characters: the narrator, the enigmatic, and the respected one. main character and his girlfriend, who gets to know the hero thanks to the narrator. But, unlike the classic, Palahniuk wrote not about luxurious parties, but about night fights, public sabotage and a terrorist conspiracy brewing in the Fight Club (only terrorism can be worse than an underground trade union!).
Many of the incidents and "gags" described in the book - such as pasting porn shots into family films shown in the movies or "tourist" visits to support groups for terminally ill people - were taken from the life of the author and his friends (Palanik was a hospice volunteer, and he accompanied patients on support group meetings). Only Fight Club and the attacks were complete fiction. But the recipes for creating explosives at home set out in the book were real, taken from anarchist manuals.
When Palahniuk brought the new "Club" to the publisher, he was offered six thousand dollars. As he later learned, it was "insulting compensation" - a ridiculously small amount by the standards of the book industry, which is offered so that the author is offended and no longer bothers with his creation. However, compared to his previous fee, this was a huge amount of money, and Palahniuk took the publishers at their word.
At first, the book, published in 1996, did not sell well (80%!), and the reviewers were not enthusiastic about it. But gradually, the "Club" began to acquire fans - both among critics and among ordinary readers. The novel's protest against the unspiritual materialism of America and against the public "castration" of young men was skillfully packaged enough to delight both true radicals and those who only wanted to tickle their nerves with a narrative on the brink and beyond the foul.
As soon as sales of the novel began to grow, Hollywood became interested in the book. At first, however, they did not find The Club suitable for film adaptation, and among those who rejected the novel was the future lead producer of the film adaptation Art Linson, the master of arthouse and entertainment cinema of the 1980s and 1990s (“The Untouchables”, “Fight”). But then the book landed on the desk of Laura Ziskin, then head of Fox 2000 (the mid-budget division of 20th Century Fox), and the woman who had once produced Pretty Woman decided that The Club should be given a chance. It should be noted, however, that Ziskin did not read the book at that time. She was guided by role-play readings of fragments of the novel, recorded and edited by producers Josh Donen and Ross Bell for those bosses who did not have time to read the work proposed for production. For the right to transfer the novel to the screen, Ziskin and Fox 2000 paid 10 thousand dollars.
Since Ziskin felt that The Club could be as important to a new generation of viewers as The Graduate by Mike Nichols was to the Sixties, she looked to The Graduate co-author and Hollywood veteran Buck Henry as a screenwriter. Bell, however, convinced Ziskin that a new author should film the book for a new generation, and debutant screenwriter Jim Ools, who specifically sought the right to do The Club, got the job.
Bell had several potential directors in mind, but Peter Jackson, Bryan Singer and Danny Boyle preferred other projects. David Fincher, in contrast, was willing to take on The Club, and he himself wanted to buy the film rights before Ziskin did. But he was not eager to collaborate with Fox, as the filming of his debut Alien 3 was accompanied by constant conflicts with studio representatives, who often imposed their vision of the tape on Fincher. The director was well aware that filming in such an atmosphere of "Fight Club" would turn into real torture.
Nevertheless, Ziskin wanted the "prodigal son" and the director of the detective hit "Seven" to return to the studio that issued him a ticket to a big movie. Therefore, the head of the studio and the director agreed that Fincher, Uls and his team would prepare the script for the tape, write the director's development, conduct preliminary negotiations with the stars and estimate the budget, and then present all this to the studio, and she would say either “yes, make such a movie”, or “no, we don’t need such a film.” If the answer is yes, then Fincher will continue to work within budget and schedule without significant studio interference. And on "no" and there is no trial. At the same time, the director was ready to shoot a picture in an "underground" low-budget style, for two or three million dollars, but Ziskin asked him to develop a full-fledged medium-budget project.
While working on the script, Ulse and Fincher decided to keep as much of Palahniuk's "extremism" and Narrator's reasoning as possible (this unnamed character in the book was given the name Jack in the film). They knew that voice-overs in Hollywood were considered a sign of weakness in a screenwriter (“Show, not tell!”), but Jack’s musings were too important a part of the book to try to replace them with anything. Where it was possible and meaningful, the hero's thoughts were illustrated with images. In particular, this concerned his bullying of the furniture company IKEA. Later, when the film was already completed, Fincher waited for protests from the Swedish firm, but they did not follow. At IKEA, apparently, they considered that anti-advertising is also advertising. All the more free.
In cases where Uls and Fincher did change something drastically in the script compared to the book, they tried to improve Palahniuk's storytelling. And the writer admits that they succeeded. So, the finale of the film turned out to be both more extreme and more romantic, and the role of the protagonist's beloved was expanded just enough to turn her from a de facto minor character into the main character, without losing the "courageous" plot priorities ("Friendship and politics over love" ). In addition to the main screenwriter and director, the creator of "Jerry Maguire" Cameron Crowe, the screenwriter of "Seven" Andrew Kevin Walker and the leading stars of the picture also had a hand in the text.
Ross Bell hoped that the main character, the radical Tyler Durden, would be played by New Zealander Russell Crowe, already popular, but not yet starring in Gladiator. Art Linson, however, when he joined the project, insisted on the invitation of Brad Pitt from Interview with the Vampire and Seven, and the studio agreed with a more experienced and respected producer. Fortunately, Pitt had already worked with Fincher, and he knew that the actor, despite his image of the "golden boy", in his views and his attitude to life, is much closer to Durden than to the policeman from the Seven. In turn, Pitt readily agreed to play the anti-hero and continue to prove to viewers and critics that he is an actor first and a movie star second. However, the fee offered to him was stellar, not acting - Pitt received $ 17.5 million (more than a quarter of the tape's final budget of $ 63 million). To work off this money, the actor voluntarily went to the dentist and asked him to chip his front teeth so as not to shine with a “Hollywood smile”.
For the role of the Narrator, the studio read Matt Damon from Good Will Hunting and Saving Private Ryan, but Fincher chose to hire Edward Norton, who he liked in the biopic The People vs. Larry Flynt. The actor at the time was literally inundated with interesting offers, some of which eventually turned into outstanding films (for example, Damon played instead of Norton in The Talented Mr. Ripley), but he could not miss the role, which corresponded to his own anti-capitalist views. Recall that Norton grew up in a family of lawyers and financiers and became an actor, abandoning a career in his grandfather's company. True, Norton was still not so radical as to play the Narrator for free, and not for a fee of $ 2.5 million.
In the end, the competition for the role of Marla Singer, Durden's bristly and depressive mistress, turned out to be the toughest. Refusing the services of Winona Ryder, Courtney Love (at that time, Norton's lover) and Reese Witherspoon, Fincher gave the role to British actress Helena Bonham Carter, who in the 1990s was considered a "corset diva" - that is, the star of historical dramas like " Dove's Wings" (This picture earned Bonham Carter an Oscar nomination.) There was little in common between her usual images and Marla Singer, but Fincher saw in the Englishwoman that dark eccentricity that became her hallmark in the 2000s.
Surprisingly, the heroine's unusual name became a stumbling block for Fox's legal department. The studio has discovered that there is only one Marla Singer in the entire United States! This meant that a woman could sue Fox if a tape appeared at the box office, where Marla Singer is depicted, if not a villain, but still more of an anti-heroine than a heroine. Yes, and mistress of a terrorist! Instead of giving the heroine a more common name, the studio paid the real Marla a settlement in advance.
But the city of Wilmington, Delaware, didn't get a dime from Fox. According to the script, the action of the film developed in the capital of the American credit world (Delaware is famous for its profitable financial companies laws, and therefore in its largest city the head offices of many famous banks are located), but lawyers had to coordinate every mention or appearance in the frame of real city streets and attractions. So Fincher, in order not to get involved in this long and expensive process, refused direct references to Wilmington and from a filming expedition to Delaware.
Instead, the picture was filmed entirely in Los Angeles, in more than two hundred locations across the city. Although 70 sets were built at Fox for filming, Fincher tried to shoot in the "real" world whenever possible and later complained that he sometimes had to move the group from point to point just to film a few lines of dialogue. No wonder his next film Panic Room was literally locked within four studio walls! Also, the "guerrilla" mood of the project was emphasized by constant shooting at night or in dark places, coupled with the use of real city lighting ( street lamps and so on).
As you already understood, the studio approved all of Fincher's proposals, agreed on the budget (Fox financed the film in half with their partners from the New Regency studio) and practically did not interfere in the filming process. Despite the fact that one of the opponents of the picture was the chairman of the board of News Corporation (the conglomerate that includes Fox) Rupert Murdoch, known for his conservatism. Fincher was shielded with his broad back by Fox Chairman Bill Mechanic, who believed that the project involving Fincher, Pitt and Norton was a good investment, regardless of its content. In addition, the studio earned so much on Titanic that it could afford artistic experiments and a certain independence from corporate bosses.
While The Mechanic and Laura Ziskin fought off behind-the-scenes attacks on the Club, Norton, Pitt and their colleagues fought in the frame. To prepare for their roles, the stars took up boxing, taekwondo and freestyle wrestling (as well as soap making). But if Pitt pumped up his muscles more and more in the course of filming, so that by the end, as required by the plot, he seemed to be the ideal, divine embodiment of male power, then Norton, who had pretty pumped up for his previous tape "American History X", starved himself so that at the end ribbons look like "barely a soul in the body".
Since the fights of the tape were carefully prepared and rehearsed and the actors only occasionally seriously applied each other, the make-up artists worked hard, drawing bruises on the stellar bodies and physiognomies. By the way, the sweat that the actors doused during fights was also artificial - the stars were smeared with petroleum jelly and poured with mineral water (without petroleum jelly, drops of water did not roll down like drops of sweat roll down the body). Bonham Carter was not hit during the course of the action, but her makeup was also unusual. The actress asked the make-up artist to put on makeup with her left hand, since Marla, according to Bonham Carter, was one of those women who want to look spectacular, but really don’t know how to do makeup properly.
There were no scenes in the main action of the picture that would require complex computer graphics, but Fincher, who loves to play with video effects since his work on commercials and clips, still found a place for her in the film. With its help, the opening scene was created, in which the virtual camera flies along the synapses of Jack's brain, and the final fragment of the total terrorist destruction. Both episodes required a lot of work, and because Fincher was not sure that they would be completed on time and within budget. In case of failure, he was ready to abandon them (especially the first of them), but, fortunately, this was not required.
When the director completed the film and showed it to the Fox, News, and New Regency crowds, they were shocked. As already mentioned, they did not read the book in its entirety and therefore underestimated its radicalism. Plus, they obviously didn't have a strong enough imagination to imagine what The Club would look like on screen. If they could only find fault with a couple of scenes, they might demand reshoots or recuts. But, to their taste, the "Club" had to be completely redone. And that was no longer possible.
Moreover, the film was completed just when the terrible tragedy happened at the school of the Columbine settlement in Colorado. On April 20, 1999, two high school students killed 13 people, wounded 24 more, and then committed suicide. Of course, the "Club" had nothing to do with school affairs and did not promote the killing of random people, but nevertheless, certain parallels between its plot and the senseless and merciless school riot could be traced. Therefore, the premiere was postponed from July, first to August, and then to October - in the hope that by then the passions around Columbine would be forgotten and subsided.
However, this did not solve main problem studios. How to advertise a film that, for most of the action, calls for rebellion against modern society and for organized sabotage and resistance? Yes, in the final one of the heroes realizes some of his mistakes. But that's in the final! And this is a spoiler.
Fincher offered his own, non-standard version of the advertising campaign - not really saying anything about the picture, but transparently hinting that this is an unusual and extreme film featuring popular stars and pink soap. The studio considered this idea a "bad joke", but could only offer a promotional plan that emphasized the action scenes of the "Club" (in reality, not so many). Like, the audience is waiting for action with bloody battles and with a minimum of political overtones. To emphasize this, studio trailers were broadcast during wrestling shows, which are purely patriotic and conservative in their entertainment ideology.
The director was not happy about this, lead producer Linson also protested, but they could only make gloomy predictions. And these predictions came true. When the tape appeared at the box office on October 15, 1999, it did not arouse much interest among the audience. With a budget of $63 million, the film grossed only $37 million in the US and Canada. World fees, however, reached 100 million, but it was still a fiasco in comparison with 327 million "Seven" - also a dark, but not countercultural tape.
This, however, was only the beginning. The discussion of the picture in the press and the reaction of the audience, who nevertheless decided to see it, gradually allowed the public to realize what kind of film Fincher had made. And people realized that this is a movie they need to see. By the time it was released on DVD, interest was so high that The Club became one of the fastest-selling video releases in Fox history. Over the years, the studio has made over $50 million from disc sales and video rentals of the tape, and the film finally turned a profit.
Bill the Mechanic, however, did not help. In 2000, he was fired from Fox - including because he championed a failed and "anti-social" project. A year earlier, Laura Ziskin left Fox 2000, but she did not go into the void, but to the Columbia / Sony studio, where she undertook to produce Spider-Man and thanks to him became one of the most successful female producers in Hollywood history. Fincher also moved there, not working with Fox until the thriller Gone Girl, released this year.
As for the list of Fight Club rules, they not only gave the world the most popular quote (“The first rule of Fight Club is not to mention Fight Club”), but also formed the basis of the rules of real clubs that arose around the world thanks to the book and film. Moreover, Palahniuk assures that with questions like “Do you know where the nearest club is?” not only men, but also women turn to him. So at one time he got excited when he decided that only the stronger sex would be interested in his book, and did not reveal the topic of women's battles. But, as they say, he did so well! After all, few people can boast that they created one of the most discussed books of the decade and that Hollywood did not kill it with a film adaptation, but turned it into a worldwide cultural phenomenon - wild, but cute.
So, it all started rather banally. Friday night, beautiful weather in the Central Russian zone (-12 Celsius), a cozy company of parents of future classmates who hate each other, who lined up in a discordant line, in the hope that their child will get a place in the first grade of the coveted school No. 186. The school, frankly, is really not bad: author's and academic, and even with a FOK! All this provided a strong motivation to take your child there. Actually, in our case, there were a lot of “motivated” ones. A little more than 70 places were offered for a queue of a hundred souls, it is clear that in such a situation, each parent clings to a place in the queue, as to the last span of their native land. And after all, they not only hold on, they are also ready to fight, like the Spartans, fortunately, fathers were on duty in the night line. In such a situation, the most adequate solution at all times was to succumb to warming, and to make the time pass more cheerfully, and to communicate with the men on a friendly note.
And in the conversation, it turned out that not all locals were in the queue - one renegade made a residence permit for a child and climbs into the coveted 186th! Justice was restored on the spot, and the irresponsible parent was brought to reason over his head. At the nearest entrance, the non-local dad was explained with his hands and, probably, with his feet that he behaved somewhat incorrectly. Whether the non-local realized that he was indeed wrong is unknown, since he went straight from the entrance to the intensive care unit.
The usual story line. "Are you extreme?" - "They asked me not to borrow!"
"The officer's widow flogged herself!"
In addition to being freaked out by the fact itself, the story has generated a lot of discussions - among them two topics run like a red thread: "It's right, it's a shame to climb into the wrong area" and "What the hell is standing in line in the cold when you have to be admitted to school?"
The first can be advised to give their children by registration to the local viper schools. For information: closest to the 186th is the 29th school, which the locals do not call otherwise than the “homeless”, but the doors are hospitably opened for suffering knowledge in it - there are always places (do you feel in demand?). Its graduates very often live short, but interesting life established drug addicts.
So the department of education of the city, through the press service, issued a statement that they had nothing to do with it, and the schools had nothing to do with it, but the parents themselves come up with everything.
“The initiative to create such queues belongs to the parents and has no legal force. For the convenience of parents, you can submit an application for enrolling a child in the first grade electronically on the website of the school belonging to their microdistrict, and later provide the original documents directly to the school. Every year, school leaders tell parents about this at meetings and ask them to refrain from creating live queues at the walls of schools. However, from year to year there are parents who ignore requests and prefer to act in a “tested” way that their acquaintances, neighbors, participants in Internet forums and discussions share with them. in social networks». (from the commentary of the press service of the city administration)
Well, now everything is clear: neither the directors of schools, nor even the depobr were involved in this event, which once again glorified Nizhny. Parents just love to stand in line. Well, how else to spend the night with a good temperature minus? Not at the dance, not 17 years old ...
We will delicately keep silent that there is an insignificant nuance, well, quite insignificant: not all schools can be applied electronically. That is, on the websites of schools, addresses related to the data are indicated educational institutions, and some sites even tell you how many places are left, but often the school's website says "come on such and such days and at such and such time." And in some cases, they also indicate which residents of which streets should come in which months. After all, this is by no means the arbitrariness of schools, the uncontrolled arbitrariness of directors, the managerial impotence of the depobra, the connivance and gouging of the city administration, right? And it does not matter at all that you will find on school websites different and completely different algorithms proposed by the department, methodological recommendations for applying for admission to the first grade.
In general, our dear authorities have nothing to do with it. It is we ourselves who arrange fight clubs, downright contrary to their goodwill and all possible assistance. They are good fellows, it is we who have been born like that. And something tells me that in this way Nizhny Novgorod region will thunder over the whole of Mother Russia more than once.
Twenty years ago, on October 15, 1999, the film was released in the US David Fincher"Fight club". The picture was not received too well - she talked about the base sides of human nature and underground fisticuffs, worked to destroy Western values, and many saw in this black comedy the overthrow of the traditional American dream. Over time, passions subsided, and "Fight Club" entered the golden fund of world cinema - where it should have been from the very beginning.
Don't talk about "Fight Club"
It all started with a novel of the same name. Chuck Palahniuk. He was a journalist by training, worked briefly by profession, and then for many years was a diesel mechanic in a large company. However, Palahniuk did not give up the idea of becoming a writer; in 1995 he even attended courses Tom Spanbauer, who came up with the method of "dangerous writing" (dangerous writing). From these courses, Palahniuk developed a love of minimalist prose and the use of painful personal memories as a source of inspiration.
But Fight Club actually existed before that and was even published: in the first version, it was a short seven-page story about how men like to spend their free time. The story appeared as a reflection personal experience: once Palahniuk got into a fight during outdoor recreation, and after returning to work, colleagues diligently did not notice his bruises and abrasions and did not ask about them.
Never talk about "Fight Club"
In general, Palahniuk's first novel was supposed to be Invisible Monsters, written just under the influence of Spanbauer's courses, but the publishers rejected the manuscript as too outrageous. And then he turned the story about Fight Club into a novel, and the story itself turned into the sixth chapter of this story.
Curiously, Palahniuk's novel was published, although it can hardly be called more outrageous than The Invisibles (it came out in 1999, in the wake of the film's success). The famous author did not wake up. The first circulation of "Fight Club" was modest, only 5 thousand copies, and he did not make a furor of the novel, but received positive reviews and caught the attention of 20th Century Fox and director David Fincher. The film rights, by the way, also did not cost too much - only $ 10 thousand.
Film frameDon't ever talk about "Fight Club" at all.
In principle, the film on "Fight Club" had all the ingredients for success. Fincher managed to attract the attention of film fans with the third part of the Alien franchise and the neo-noir Seven. Brad Pitt also already noted as an actor - in his filmography there were the same "Seven", the role of a madman in "Twelve Monkeys" Terry Gilliama and a couple of novels with popular actresses (with Jennifer Aniston they got married in 2000). The budget, however, turned out to be quite decent for a psychological thriller based on a novel by a little-known author ($63 million), but the studio did not spend money on advertising, and the reviews from critics were far from enthusiastic: it was too outrageous. So at the box office "Fight Club" failed miserably. US box office was only $37 million; The film earned $100 million worldwide.
The reviews, by the way, were contradictory. Some critics liked the film, while others found it "terribly overwhelming".
“If, as Fincher said, this picture is supposed to be funny, then the creators are laughing at the audience,” she wrote. Lisa Schwarzbaum from Entertainment Weekly.
Don't ever tell anyone about "Fight Club"
The controversy over Fincher's film went on for a long time, but everything ended somehow ordinary: just at one moment, "Fight Club" became a cult. The picture was considered as a summing up of the 90s, as a critique of the consumer society and as an illustration of the emergence of a fascist society. There were various imitators who even took the Fight Club rules from the book as a basis.
There are only eight of these rules, by the way, but the most famous are still the first two, which sound almost the same - (never) talk about Fight Club. The rest concerned the norms of behavior in the ring, which in a sense provided the participants in the fight with some illusion of safety. And in the project "Mayhem" there were just five rules: two about not asking questions, about the uselessness of apologies, about the ban on lying and about trusting Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt's hero). In general, nothing complicated, anyone can remember and apply in practice.
Don't even think about talking to anyone about Fight Club.
It is curious that for all the participants in the film adaptation of "Fight Club" was such a good step in their careers. Fincher is now one of the most influential directors not only in film, but also on television (he launched the House of Cards series). Edward Norton(Narrator) is filmed a lot and regularly, he has three Oscar nominations, and Helena Bonham Carter(Marla) is one of the most famous British actresses. Everything about Brad Pitt is clear. With an impressive track record (he also has an Oscar as producer of 12 Years a Slave), he has continued to appear in the gossip column, becoming part of Brangelina after a years-long alliance with Angelina Jolie. This year, by the way, Pitt will be one of the main contenders for an acting Oscar - for his role in the film Quentin Tarantino"Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" True, the reward is not guaranteed to him - there is also Joaquin Phoenix from the Joker.
Well, Chuck Palahniuk continues to write "outrageous" books, which, however, outrage society no longer so much. Several times it was about the adaptation of other works of the writer, but in reality the film was released only based on the 2001 novel "Suffocation". In the mid-2010s, Palahniuk returned to his most famous book and released the graphic novel Fight Club 2. This format turned out to be successful, and in 2019 the writer released the third part - also in the form of a graphic novel in several issues. But with the same heroes and their children.
Second rule of Fight Club: Don't mention Fight Club anywhere. The third rule of the Fight Club: the fighter shouted "stop", ran out of steam, passed out - the fight is over. Fourth: only two are involved in the battle. Fifth: the battles go one after another. Sixth: take off your shoes and shirts. Seventh: the fight continues as long as necessary. Eighth and last: the one who first came to the club will take the fight.
Tormented by chronic insomnia and desperately trying to escape from the painful boring life, the clerk meets one Tyler Durden, a charismatic soap merchant with a twisted philosophy. Tyler is sure that self-improvement is for the weak, and self-destruction is the only thing worth living for.
A little time will pass, and now the main characters are hitting a friend for how much in vain in the parking lot in front of the bar, and the cleansing scuffle gives them the highest bliss. Introducing other men to the simple pleasures of physical cruelty, they found a secret Fight Club, which is a huge success. But at the end of the film, a shocking discovery awaits everyone, which can lead to unpredictable events...
INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT THE FILM The film is based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk "Fight Club" (Fight Club, 1996). In the film, Tyler says that he is able to insert a shot of a male sexual organ into a children's film. And, in fact, such a frame appears in the "Fight Club" twice. The hero of Brad Pitt presented to the public his recipe for the production of explosives at home. Fearing possible attempts to repeat these experiments, the filmmakers decided to use a deliberately false method of making a "house bomb".
THE BOOK HAS BEEN BOOKED BY CHUK PALANIK AFTER HIS BEAT ON A HIKING HIKING. REQUESTING NEARBY PEOPLE TO DOWN THE RADIO SOUND, CHUCK RECEIVED SEVERAL IMPRESSIVE BEATS TO HIS PHYSIONOMY. CHUCK PALAHNOIK ACKNOWLEDGED THAT THE FILM END WAS BETTER THAN THE END OF HIS BOOK. DIRECTOR DAVID FINCHER DURING THE SHOOTING PROCESS SPENT ABOUT 1,5 THOUSAND REELS OF FILM - 3 TIMES MORE THAN THE AVERAGE STATISTICAL NUMBER.
After the narrator's first call to Tyler, the payphone rings again. When the camera approaches, you can see the inscription "no incoming calls accepted" on it (no incoming calls are accepted), which means that Tyler, in principle, could not get through back. The shop that the Narrator used to break the glass disappears when he enters the building on Franklin str. In the car crash scene, after the car rolled over, Tyler Durden climbs out of the passenger seat and pulls the Narrator out of the driver's side even though they were wearing their seat belts.
The movie itself turned out to be of high quality: here you have a famously twisted plot, and an inimitable play of actors, “abstruse” chatter of heroes, a little humor and, finally, an unexpected ending. Only for this you can already give the highest score. The rest of the halo of glory is formed by the audience themselves. The film is filled with slurred phrases and confusing reasoning, in its sounding interesting and relevant in the context of what is happening, but essentially meaningless. You can interpret them as you like (in fact, like any vague thoughts).