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"Fight Club" Film Summary

• "Fight Club" is a 1999 film directed by David Fincher and starring Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, and Helena Bonham Carter.

• The film is based on the 1996 novel of the same name by Chuck Palahniuk.

• The protagonist, played by Norton, is discontented with his white-collar job and forms a "fight club" with soap salesman Tyler Durden (Pitt).

• The film examines Generation X angst and the frustration of people in the system, who are reduced to "a generation of spectators".

• The violence of the fight clubs serves as a resistance to the impulse to be "cocooned" in society.

• The film received polarized reactions from critics and failed to meet the studio's expectations at the box office but later found commercial success with its home video release.

• The film is now considered a cult classic and has been dubbed the "defining cult movie of our time" by The New York Times.

• Fincher described the narrator as an "everyman" who is identified in the script as "Jack", but left unnamed in the film.

• The character is a 1990s inverse of the Graduate archetype: "a guy who does not have a world of possibilities in front of him, he has no possibilities, he literally cannot imagine a way to change his life."

• The film purposely shapes an ambiguous message whose interpretation is left to the audience.

• The studio initially desired a "sexier marquee name" for the role of the unnamed narrator, such as Matt Damon or Sean Penn, but Fincher cast Norton based on his performance in "The People vs. Larry Flynt".

• Pitt was paid $17.5 million for his role, and Norton was offered $2.5 million but could not accept immediately due to a contractual obligation with Paramount Pictures.Summary Title: The Making of Fight Club

• Marla Singer was initially offered to Janeane Garofalo, who later revealed that she was dropped because Norton believed she was poorly suited to the part.

• The screenplay initially excluded a voice-over, but Fincher believed that the film's humor came from the Narrator's voice and added it later.

• The fight scenes were heavily choreographed, and makeup artists used various techniques to create realistic effects.

• Filming lasted 138 days, and more than 1,500 rolls of film were shot.

• Fincher used the Super 35 format and drew elements from his previous films for the cinematography.

• The crew took advantage of both natural and practical light, and heavily desaturated colors were used in the costuming, makeup, and art direction.

• Visual effects, including a 90-second title sequence depicting the inside of the Narrator's brain, were created by Digital Domain and its visual effects supervisor Kevin Mack.

• The score was created by the Dust Brothers, and the song "Where Is My Mind?" by Pixies was featured in the climax and end credits.

• The film was delayed due to negative reactions from senior executives and the Columbine High School massacre.

• Marketing executives faced difficulties in marketing the film, and Fincher refused to let the posters and trailers focus on Pitt.

• The studio financed a large-scale campaign to provide a press junket, posters, billboards, and trailers for TV that highlighted the film's fight scenes.The theatrical run of Fight Club fell short of the studio's expectations, earning $11 million in its opening weekend and grossing $37 million in the United States and Canada and $63.8 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $100.9 million. The film's British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) review removed two scenes involving "an indulgence in the excitement of beating a (defenseless) man's face into a pulp", but did not censor any further. The film was released on DVD on June 6, 2000, in both one and two-disc editions. The two-disc special edition DVD was packaged to look covered in brown cardboard wrapper, with the title labeled diagonally on the front, and packaging appeared tied with twine. The film sold more than 6 million copies on DVD and video within the first ten years, making it one of the largest-selling home media items in the studio's history, in addition to grossing over $55 million in video and DVD rentals. Fight Club was one of the most controversial and talked-about films of the 1990s and was recognized as an innovator in cinematic form and style. Following the film's release, several fight clubs were reported to have started in the United States. A Fight Club video game was released by Vivendi Universal Games in 2004 for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, and for mobile phones. The film was listed as one of the "50 Best Guy Movies of All Time" by Men's Journal, voted by Empire readers as the eighth and tenth greatest film of all time, and ranked as "The Greatest Film of our Lifetime" in 2007 during the magazine's tenth anniversary. In 2007, Premiere selected Tyler Durden's line, "The first rule of fight club is you do not talk about fight club," as the 27th greatest movie line of all time, and in 2008, readers of Empire ranked Tyler Durden eighth on a list of the 100 Greatest Movie Characters.The Popularity of Fight Club Mash-Up Videos

• Fight Club was named the 10th greatest movie of all time by Empire in 2008.

• In 2010, two viral mash-up videos featuring Fight Club were released.

• Ferris Club was a mash-up of Fight Club and Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

• Ferris Club portrayed Ferris as Tyler Durden and Cameron as the narrator.

• The second video Jane Austen's Fight Club gained popularity online.

• Jane Austen's Fight Club was a mash-up of Fight Club's fighting rules and Jane Austen's characters.

• The videos were created by fans and not affiliated with the official Fight Club movie.

• The videos gained popularity on social media and video sharing websites.

• The videos were praised for their creativity and humor.

• The popularity of the videos demonstrated the continued relevance of Fight Club in popular culture.

• Mash-up videos have become a popular way for fans to express their creativity and love for their favorite movies.

• The success of the videos highlights the power of social media and the internet in promoting and sharing content.