FIGHT CLUB (Oct 1999)
Director: David Fincher.
Writers: Chuck Palahniuk, Jim Uhls.
Starring: Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Helena Bonham Carter, Meat Loaf, Zach Greiner, Richmond Arquette, David Andrews, George Maguire.
"This is your life and it's ending one minute at a time."
-- Tyler Durden, FIGHT CLUB.
First rule of Fight Club: You do not talk about Fight Club.
So I'm gonna get my head kicked in for this. Don't tell Tyler Durden.
Brad Pitt is Tyler Durden, maniacal instigator of an underground club of masochistic dissidents pushing the boundaries of ethics, laws, physical pain, acceptable behavior - for the animal thrill of it. Fight Club is his loose aggregate of sociopaths aiding and abetting his maladjusted mischeif.
Edward Norton is Durden's conscience - in more ways than one. But the first rule about fight Club prevents me from saying anythinn more.
His philosophy: You can't really feel that you're alive unless you're living on the edge of life.
The Fight Club movement spreads across the country like a contagion until eventually, Durden has no hand in their instigation any more, and no one really knows who Tyler Durden is. he becomes a mythic figure; he could be the guy telling you to blow up a building or he oculd be the guy kicking your head in.
And I'm also breaking the second rule of Fight Club: do Not Talk About Fight Club.
beauty of FIGHT CLUB is that even though he wants to stop the TRW destruction, it goes ahead; buildings explode in a soundless ballet while he watches with his trashy woman, bullethole in his neck leaking blood. Now for a 10-cucumber rating, Tyler Durden should NOT have recanted. He should have embraced the idea that he was this chaotic spirit who set up the destruction of the greatest bane to humanity ever invented - the credit companies (besides the Federal Reserve, of course).
Oh hi, er (some big guy with a steel pipe has kicked in my door) - no, no I wasn't talking about Fight Club, this is an article on the mating habits of snails - oh, er, well you didn't look like you could read - hey, think about it - it only promotes us if I talk about Figh--"
The big guy pauses mid-strike as he recognizes me.
FIGHT CLUB (Oct 1999) Director: David Fincher.
Writers: Chuck Palahniuk, Jim Uhls.
Starring: Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Helena Bonham Carter, Meat Loaf, Zach Greiner, Richmond Arquette, David Andrews, George Maguire.
