[Link] ‘Fight Club’ Gets Back Its Anarchic Ending in China

Read: 7/2/2022 www.vice.com

The 1999 film by David Fincher originally ends with the Narrator (Edward Norton) killing his split personality Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt), and then watching all the buildings blow up, suggesting Tyler’s anarchist plan to destroy consumerist society is afoot.

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[Link] Fight Club author praises Chinese cut of film: ‘Super wonderful!’

Read: 27/1/2022 www.theguardian.com

The author of Fight Club has praised the “happy ending” afforded to David Fincher’s film of his book for a new Chinese cut of the movie. Chuck Palahniuk described the change, in which the police successfully foil an anarchist plot and the heroes are incarcerated, as “SUPER wonderful”.

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