The unnamed Narrator is an automobile recall specialist who is unfulfilled by his job and possessions and suffers from chronic insomnia. He finds catharsis by attending support groups and posing as a sufferer of several diseases, curing his insomnia. His bliss is disturbed when another impostor, Marla Singer, also begins attending the same support groups. The two agree to split which groups they attend. On a flight home from a business trip, the Narrator meets soap salesman Tyler Durden. The Narrator returns home to find that his apartment and all his belongings have been destroyed by an explosion. He is disheartened by the loss of his material possessions.
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Fight Club
Fight Club | Plot
The unnamed Narrator is an automobile recall specialist who is unfulfilled by his job and possessions and suffers from chronic insomnia. He finds catharsis by attending support groups and posing as a sufferer of several diseases, curing his insomni "Fight Club", is based on the 1996 novel of the same name by Chuck Palahniuk. It is about the unnamed narrator, who is discontented with his white-collar job. He forms a "fight club" with soap salesman Tyler Durden (Pitt), and becomes embroiled in a relationship with him and a destitute woman, Marla Singer (Bonham Carter). The narrator  is discontented with his white-collar job. He forms a "fight club" with soap salesman Tyler Durden, and becomes embroiled in a relationship with him and a destitute woman, Marla Singer.
who is 30 seconds to mars touring with
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Muse and PVRIS
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Jared Leto and Shannon Leto
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"30 Seconds to Mars"
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Yes, "How to Make an American Quilt" ,  "Fight Club" , "The Thin Red Line",  "Urban Legend"  are some of the movies
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He supported Senator Barack Obama of Illinois during presidential election
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The Hive
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Marla Singer is about to deliver her second child, but the father isn't her husband, it is his alter ego Tyler Durden.
Fight Club 3 | Plot
Set ten years after the ending of "Fight Club", the sequel is told from the restrained perspective of Tyler Durden as he sits in the subconscious of Sebastian (the name the narrator of the original "Fight Club" currently uses). Sebastian continues his dysfunctional relationship with Marla and has fallen into the mundane routine of society until Tyler re-emerges to cause chaos.
Fight Club 2 | Premise
The series explores Joseph Campbell's concept of the 'second father' as being vital to the hero's journey, which is something that has always fascinated Palahniuk.
Fight Club (novel) | Sequels
In the comic book sequel "Fight Club 2", the Narrator goes by the name of Sebastian. Set ten years after the original novel, the Narrator is depicted as working for a private military contractor, while he and Marla are married and have a nine-year-old son named Junior. After Junior is killed in a house fire, it is revealed that the Narrator's mother and father both died in two other separate fires. Unlike in the film, Tyler's appearance is based on a personal friend of the author, depicted as having "shoulder-length-Jesus blond hair." His temper is somewhat kept under control through the Narrator's medication.
The Narrator (Fight Club) | "Fight Club 2" (2015)
Deciding against asking Marla for help, he calls Tyler, and they meet at a bar. Tyler says the Narrator is beholden to consumerism. In the parking lot, he asks the Narrator to hit him, and they begin a fistfight. The Narrator moves into Tyler's home, a large dilapidated house in an industrial area. They have further fights outside the bar, which attract growing crowds of men. The fights move to the bar's basement where the men form Fight Club, which routinely meets for the men to fight recreationally.
Fight Club | Plot
Mike's wife Sondra (Alice Braga), whose fashion business profits are the only thing keeping the struggling studio afloat, requests that Mike ask for a loan from her brother Ricardo (John Machado), a mixed martial arts champion. At Ricardo's nightclub, Mike meets with Sondra's other brother, Bruno (Rodrigo Santoro), and learns that Joe quit as the club's bouncer because Bruno never paid him. Mike confronts Bruno about the situation but is rebuffed. Mike then declines Bruno's offer to fight on the undercard of an upcoming match between Ricardo and Japanese legend Morisaki (Enson Inoue), which could potentially pay out $50,000. Mike believes competitions with money as the incentive are not honorable and weaken the fighter.
Redbelt | Plot
Fight Club is a 1999 American film directed by David Fincher and starring Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, and Helena Bonham Carter. It is based on the 1996 novel of the same name by Chuck Palahniuk. Norton plays the unnamed narrator, who is discontented with his white-collar job. He forms a "fight club" with soap salesman Tyler Durden (Pitt), and becomes embroiled in a relationship with him and a destitute woman, Marla Singer (Bonham Carter). Palahniuk's novel was optioned by Fox 2000 Pictures producer Laura Ziskin, who hired Jim Uhls to write the film adaptation. Fincher was selected because of his enthusiasm for the story.
Fight Club | Introduction
Its central theme of male machismo (and the anti-social behaviour that flows from it) is emphatically rejected by the central character in the concluding reels." The scenes were restored in a two-disc DVD edition released in the UK in March 2007.
Fight Club | Theatrical run
After being firmly rejected, they threatened to kill him. Somil then leaves for Delhi to help his uncle, leaving the other 3 boys running the Fight Club in Mumbai. When Mohit (Yash Tonk), a college youngster, enters the club and takes part in a fight, he ends up beating his opponent severely to critical condition. After being stopped by Vicky, Mohit attacks him, to which response Vicky throws him out of the club. The scene is caught by several police officers, they arrest Mohit and seals the Fight Club, but others manage to escape and select a new place to keep running the Fight Club.
Fight Club – Members Only | Plot
Shortly after beating the final fighter, the man in black reveals himself to be the boxer's father as the game ends.
Punch Club | Story
Despite widespread expectation that Fight Club 2 would be able to capitalize on the success of its predecessor, the book was almost universally panned by readers upon release. Negative criticism of Fight Club 2 focused on its lack of originality (exemplified by the gratuitous recycling of plot devices from both the source book and subsequent film), confusing narrative, bizarrely metaphysical and ultimately unresolved sub-plots (such as the resurrection of Robert Paulson), and Chuck Palahniuk's breaking of the fourth wall.
Fight Club 2 | Reception
Shawn and Harvey leave after Evan and Shawn nearly get into a fight. Shawn's second fight is at the back of a store in the Bronx, against a much larger opponent. The fight descends into chaos after interference from some of Harvey's crew when the opponent nearly chokes Shawn, and the woman who owns the store pulls out a gun because one of the guys spills her drink. Harvey, Shawn, and the rest of Harvey's crew flee the scene and neither fighter gets paid. For his third fight, Shawn and the crew go to an Asian owned penthouse. Shawn wins the third fight.
Fighting (2009 film) | Plot
A modern-day everyman figure as well as an employee specializing in recalls for an unnamed car company, the Narrator—who remains unnamed throughout the novel—is extremely depressed and suffers from insomnia. Some readers call him "Joe", because of his constant use of the name in such statements as, "I am Joe's boiling point". The quotes, "I am Joe's [blank]", refer to the Narrator's reading old "Reader's Digest" articles in which human organs write about themselves in the first person, with titles such as "I Am Joe's Liver". The film adaptation replaces "Joe" with "Jack", inspiring some fans to call the Narrator "Jack".
Fight Club (novel) | The Narrator
Producer Ross Bell met with actor Russell Crowe to discuss his candidacy for the role of Tyler Durden. Producer Art Linson, who joined the project late, met with Pitt regarding the same role. Linson was the senior producer of the two, so the studio sought to cast Pitt instead of Crowe. Pitt was looking for a new film after the domestic failure of his 1998 film "Meet Joe Black", and the studio believed "Fight Club" would be more commercially successful with a major star. The studio signed Pitt for US$17.5 million. For the role of the unnamed Narrator, the studio desired a "sexier marquee name" such as Matt Damon to increase the film's commercial prospects; it also considered Sean Penn.
Fight Club | Casting
Junior only faked his death in the fire, as he is slowly being taken over by his Tyler Durden just as his father was. The Narrator has to race to stop "Tyler", even though he cannot truly kill him without killing both his son and himself.
The Narrator (Fight Club) | "Fight Club 2" (2015)
In Kansas City, Kansas, two religious missionaries visit two women at two different homes in the same neighborhood who look exactly alike. The second woman yells at them to go away and the two men, inexplicably, get into a fight in the second woman's front yard. Later, two FBI agents who look and sound remarkably similar to Mulder and Scully visit the first woman, Betty Templeton (Kathy Griffin). Betty claims to have never seen the other woman before. The other woman then passes her by in a car and the two agents begin fighting each other, much like the missionaries.
Fight Club (The X-Files) | Plot
They felt such scenes served only as a mindless glamorization of brutality, a morally irresponsible portrayal, which they feared might encourage impressionable young male viewers to set up their own real-life fight clubs in order to beat each other senseless."
Fight Club | Critical reception
The gender mix of audiences for "Fight Club", argued to be "the ultimate anti-date flick", was 61% male and 39% female; 58% of audiences were below the age of 21. Despite the film's top placement, its opening gross fell short of the studio's expectations. Over the second weekend, "Fight Club" dropped 42.6% in revenue, earning . In its original theatrical run, the film grossed in the United States and Canada, and in other territories, for a worldwide total of . (With subsequent re-releases, the film's worldwide gross increased to .) The underwhelming North American performance of "Fight Club" soured the relationship between 20th Century Fox's studio head Bill Mechanic and media executive Rupert Murdoch, which contributed to Mechanic's resignation in June 2000.
Fight Club | Theatrical run
In January 1998, 20th Century Fox announced that Pitt and Norton had been cast. The actors prepared by taking lessons in boxing, taekwondo, grappling, and soapmaking. Pitt voluntarily visited a dentist to have pieces of his front teeth chipped off so his character would not have perfect teeth. The pieces were restored after filming concluded.
Fight Club | Casting
Palahniuk was convinced to continue "Fight Club" in comics form by fellow novelist Chelsea Cain and comic writers Brian Michael Bendis, Matt Fraction and Kelly Sue DeConnick. A teaser was released by Dark Horse Comics for Free Comic Book Day 2015, with "Fight Club 2" #1 following in late May of that year. The series explores Joseph Campbell's concept of the 'second father' as being vital to the hero's journey, which is something that has always fascinated Palahniuk.
Fight Club 2 | Publication
The exterior of Tyler Durden's house was built in Wilmington, California, while the interior was built on a sound stage at the studio's location. The interior was given a decayed look to illustrate the deconstructed world of the characters. Marla Singer's apartment was based on photographs of apartments in downtown LA. Overall, production included 300 scenes, 200 locations, and complex special effects. Fincher compared "Fight Club" to his subsequent, less complex film "Panic Room": "I felt like I was spending all my time watching trucks being loaded and unloaded so I could shoot three lines of dialogue. There was far too much transportation going on."
Fight Club | Filming
An American millionaire rents a country house from an English aristocrat and the two constantly fight. However, their children have secretly fallen in love.
Two's Company (film) | Premise
In 2008, Tyler was selected by "Empire" magazine as the greatest movie character of all time. When the list was redone in 2015, he placed at number 8.
The Narrator (Fight Club) | Reception
In the main event Dunne defeated Daga and Dragon Lee.
The Crash/Fight Club: Pro show | Production
Fight Club is a 1999 film directed by David Fincher. Fight Club may also refer to:
Fight Club (disambiguation) | Introduction
In the novel and film, the Narrator uses various aliases in the support groups. His subconscious is in need of a sense of freedom, he inevitably feels trapped within his own body, and when introduced to Tyler Durden, he begins to see all of the qualities he lacks in himself: "I love everything about Tyler Durden, his courage, his smarts, and his nerve. Tyler is funny and forceful and independent, and men look up to him and expect him to change their world. Tyler is capable and free, and I am not." In the official sequel comic book series also penned by Palahniuk (with art by Cameron Stewart), "Fight Club 2", it is revealed that the Narrator has chosen to be identified by the name of Sebastian.
Fight Club (novel) | The Narrator
By winning fights, the character moves up through the ranks of Fight Club, getting closer to Project Mayhem and become Tyler Durden's right-hand man. The story diverges from the movie and novel in several ways to accommodate for the new character. Winning Story mode also unlocks Fred Durst, lead singer from Limp Bizkit, as a playable character.
Fight Club (video game) | Gameplay
They subsequently move in together and establish a "fight club", drawing numerous men with similar temperaments into bare-knuckle fighting matches, set to the following rules:
Fight Club (novel) | Plot
Palahniuk was cajoled to continue "Fight Club" in comics form by fellow novelist Chelsea Cain and comic writers Brian Michael Bendis, Matt Fraction and Kelly Sue DeConnick. A teaser was released by Dark Horse Comics for Free Comic Book Day 2015, with "Fight Club 2" No. 1 following in late May of that year. The series explores Joseph Campbell's concept of the 'second father' as being vital to the hero's journey, which is something that has always fascinated Palahniuk.
Chuck Palahniuk | "Fight Club"
Filming concluded in December 1998, and Fincher edited the footage in early 1999 to prepare "Fight Club" for a screening with senior executives. They did not receive the film positively and were concerned that there would not be an audience for the film. Executive producer Art Linson, who supported the film, recalled the response: "So many incidences of "Fight Club" were alarming, no group of executives could narrow them down." Nevertheless, "Fight Club" was originally slated to be released in July 1999 but was later changed to August 6, 1999. The studio further delayed the film's release, this time to autumn, citing a crowded summer schedule and a hurried post-production process.
Fight Club | Marketing
"Fight Club" centers on an anonymous narrator, who works as a product recall specialist for an unnamed car company. Because of the stress of his job and the jet lag brought upon by frequent business trips, he begins to suffer from recurring insomnia. When he seeks treatment, his doctor advises him to visit a support group for testicular cancer victims to "see what real suffering is like". He finds that sharing the problems of others—despite not having testicular cancer himself—alleviates his insomnia. The narrator's unique treatment works until he meets Marla Singer, another "tourist" who visits the support group under false pretenses.
Fight Club (novel) | Plot
Fight Club 2 (also known as Fight Club 2: The Tranquility Gambit) is Chuck Palahniuk's comic book meta-sequel to his 1996 novel "Fight Club", with art by Cameron Stewart and covers by David Mack.
Fight Club 2 | Introduction
These films have evidence of "fascinating social content" - the plot of the second entry, "The Chocolate of the Gang", deals with a black child being denied membership in an all-white club, and employed black actors for the lead roles as opposed to the usual practice of white performers in blackface.
Judge Willis Brown | Boy City Film Company
Palahniuk then wrote a second novel, expanding on his short story, "Fight Club". Initially "Fight Club" was published as a seven-page short story in the compilation "Pursuit of Happiness" (1995), but Palahniuk expanded it to novel length (in which the original short story became chapter six); "Fight Club: A Novel" was published in 1996. "Fight Club: A Novel" was re-issued in 1999 and 2004; the latter edition includes the author's introduction about the conception and popularity of the novel and movie, in which Palahniuk states:
Fight Club (novel) | History
Outsiders attributed the delays to the Columbine High School massacre earlier in the year. Marketing executives at Fox Searchlight Pictures faced difficulties in marketing "Fight Club" and at one point considered marketing it as an art film. They considered that the film was primarily geared toward male audiences because of its violence and believed that not even Pitt would attract female filmgoers. Research testing showed that the film appealed to teenagers. Fincher refused to let the posters and trailers focus on Pitt and encouraged the studio to hire the advertising firm Wieden+Kennedy to devise a marketing plan. The firm proposed a bar of pink soap with the title "Fight Club" embossed on it as the film's main marketing image; the proposal was considered "a bad joke" by Fox executives.
Fight Club | Marketing
The game follows the standard formula of fighting-genre games such as "Street Fighter II" and "Tekken 4". In a side-view, players control one of two characters who perform various fighting moves until one is beaten. "Fight Club" structures the formula around the premise of the movie, where two men meet secretly to fight each other into submission. In the game, players play as one of the 10+ original characters such as fighters from the novel and movie including Tyler Durden and Bob Paulson. The game tries to capture the gritty feel of the movie with injuries inflicted on players and blood splattering everywhere, including onto the screen.
Fight Club (video game) | Gameplay
In the 1999 film "Fight Club", based on the Palahniuk novel and directed by David Fincher, the Narrator is portrayed by Edward Norton while Tyler is played by Brad Pitt. The actors began preparation for their roles by taking lessons in boxing, grappling, taekwondo, and soapmaking. Pitt made the decision to visit a dentist to have pieces of his front teeth chipped off so that the character of Tyler would have imperfect teeth. The pieces were restored after the film's production concluded. The film's portrayal of the Narrator and Tyler is similar to that of the novel, with some differences.
The Narrator (Fight Club) | Film
Leonard Termo, Van Quattro, Markus Redmond, and Michael Girardin appear as members of law enforcement also involved in the fight club.
Fight Club | Cast
Palahniuk was convinced to continue "Fight Club" in comics form by fellow novelist Chelsea Cain and comic writers Brian Michael Bendis, Matt Fraction and Kelly Sue DeConnick. At the 2013 San Diego Comic-Con International, Palahniuk announced that a sequel to "Fight Club" is in the works and will take the form of a serialized graphic novel. According to Palahniuk, "It will likely be a series of books that update the story ten years after the seeming end of Tyler Durden. Nowadays, Tyler is telling the story, lurking inside Sebastian, and ready to launch a come-back. Sebastian is oblivious. Marla is bored.
Fight Club (novel) | Sequels
The film was suspected of influencing Luke Helder, a college student who planted pipe bombs in mailboxes in 2002. Helder's goal was to create a smiley pattern on the map of the United States, similar to the scene in "Fight Club" in which a building is vandalized to have a smiley on its exterior. On July 16, 2009, a 17-year-old who had formed his own fight club in Manhattan was charged with detonating a homemade bomb outside a Starbucks Coffee shop in the Upper East Side. The New York City Police Department reported the suspect was trying to emulate "Project Mayhem".
Fight Club | Cultural impact
Matt (Rose) is a London music promoter who wants to one day own his own club. His flatmate is Paula (Behr), a pop singer whose music he helps promote. While accompanying her on a personal appearance at a gay club in Blackpool, Matt meets Craig (Bell), an unemployed youth who makes ends meet as a backroom bareknuckles fighter. They go back to Craig's place to have sex but it's Craig's first time and he freaks out. Matt leaves his card and takes off. Craig wins his next fight and the fight promoter plans to put him against an opponent Craig labels a maniac.
Like It Is (film) | Plot summary
The sequel "Fight Club 2" was released in comic book form in May 2015. "Fight Club 3" was released in comic book form in 2019.
Fight Club (novel) | Introduction
After a series of lion dances in the opening minutes, Wong Fei Hung and his once-rival, now friend, find themselves and their martial arts schools pitted against a rival school which uses a kung fu expert Master Shan from the north to do their dirty work, although the expert doesn't realize he is being evil (they lie to him). After his friend Chu-Ying's brother is beat up in a brothel, Fei Hung goes to the rival school to confront them and Master Shan. There is also a mass kung fu "war" in a local theater which is the second highlight of the film, the first being an excellent fight in an alley between Fei Hung and Master Shan.
Martial Club | Plot
If they're still in the theater, they'll stay with it." Palahniuk's novel also contained homoerotic overtones, which Fincher included in the film to make audiences uncomfortable and accentuate the surprise of the twists. The bathroom scene where Tyler Durden bathes next to the Narrator is an example of the overtones; the line, "I'm wondering if another woman is really the answer we need," was meant to suggest personal responsibility rather than homosexuality. Another example is the scene at the beginning of the film in which Tyler Durden puts a gun barrel down the Narrator's mouth. The Narrator finds redemption at the end of the film by rejecting Tyler Durden's dialectic, a path that diverged from the novel's ending in which the Narrator is placed in a mental institution.
Fight Club | Writing
The studio held "Fight Club"s world premiere at the 56th Venice International Film Festival on September 10, 1999. For the American theatrical release, the studio hired the National Research Group to test screen the film; the group predicted the film would gross between and in its opening weekend. "Fight Club" opened commercially in the United States and Canada on October 15, 1999 and earned in 1,963 theaters over the opening weekend. The film ranked first at the weekend box office, defeating "Double Jeopardy" and "The Story of Us", a fellow weekend opener. Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B-" on an A+ to F scale.
Fight Club | Theatrical run
Fincher also released two early trailers in the form of fake public service announcements presented by Pitt and Norton; the studio did not think the trailers marketed the film appropriately. Instead, the studio financed a $20 million large-scale campaign to provide a press junket, posters, billboards, and trailers for TV that highlighted the film's fight scenes. The studio advertised "Fight Club" on cable during World Wrestling Federation broadcasts, which Fincher protested, believing that the placement created the wrong context for the film. Linson believed that the "ill-conceived one-dimensional" marketing by marketing executive Robert Harper largely contributed to "Fight Club"s lukewarm box office performance in the United States.
Fight Club | Marketing
A singer-turned-boxer signs a contract with a shady promoter. The boxer turns against the promoter and seeks revenge when the promoter's thugs kill his girlfriend when he tries backing out of the contract.
The Last Fight (film) | Plot
Second of all, the name isn't hard to explain. The first factory was my family and school. The second was Opoyaz. And the third – is processing me at this very moment."
Viktor Shklovsky | Film
On the other hand, Fincher also ensured that scenes were not so strongly lit so the characters' eyes were less visible, citing cinematographer Gordon Willis' technique as the influence.
Fight Club | Cinematography
Studio executives Mechanic and Ziskin planned an initial budget of US$23 million to finance the film, but by the start of production, the budget was increased to $50 million. Half was paid by New Regency, but during filming, the projected budget escalated to US$67 million. New Regency's head and "Fight Club" executive producer Arnon Milchan petitioned Fincher to reduce costs by at least US$5 million. Fincher refused, so Milchan threatened Mechanic that New Regency would withdraw financing. Mechanic sought to restore Milchan's support by sending him tapes of dailies from "Fight Club". After seeing three weeks of filming, Milchan reinstated New Regency's financial backing.
Fight Club | Filming
Fincher explained: "[Tyler] can deal with the concepts of our lives in an idealistic fashion, but it doesn't have anything to do with the compromises of real life as modern man knows it. Which is: you're not really necessary to a lot of what's going on. It's built, it just needs to run now." While studio executives worried that "Fight Club" was going to be "sinister and seditious", Fincher sought to make it "funny and seditious" by including humor to temper the sinister element. Screenwriter Jim Uhls described the film as a romantic comedy, explaining: "It has to do with the characters' attitudes toward a healthy relationship, which is a lot of behavior which "seems" unhealthy and harsh to each other, but in fact does work for them—because both characters are out on the edge psychologically." The Narrator seeks intimacy, but avoids it with Marla Singer, seeing too much of himself in her.
Fight Club | Themes
The Narrator is a fictional character appearing as the central figure of the 1996 Chuck Palahniuk novel "Fight Club", its 1999 film adaptation of the same name, and the comic book "Fight Club 2". The character is an insomniac with a split personality, and is depicted as an unnamed everyman (credited in the film as "the Narrator") during the day, who becomes the chaotic and charismatic Tyler Durden at night during periods of insomnia. In 2008, Tyler was selected by "Empire" magazine as the greatest movie character of all time. When the list was redone in 2015, he placed at number 8.
The Narrator (Fight Club) | Introduction
With the help of Project Mayhem, Tyler plans to destroy a skyscraper and a national museum using homemade explosives. Tyler plans to die alongside the Narrator as a martyr during the event. Attempting to stop Tyler's plan, the Narrator ascends to the roof of the building, where Tyler holds him at gunpoint. When Marla arrives on the roof with one of the support groups, Tyler vanishes, as Tyler "was his hallucination, not hers."
The Narrator (Fight Club) | "Fight Club" (1996)
"Because of his nature", Tyler works night jobs where he sabotages companies and harms clients. He also steals left-over drained human fat from liposuction clinics to supplement his income through soap making and to create the ingredients for bomb manufacturing, which will be put to work later with his fight club. He is the co-founder of Fight Club, as it was his idea to instigate the fight that led to it. He later launches Project Mayhem, from which he and the members commit various attacks on consumerism. Tyler is blond, according to the Narrator's comment "in his everything-blond way". The unhinged but magnetic Tyler becomes the "villain" of the novel later in the story.
Fight Club (novel) | Tyler Durden
Lulu then runs out. Mulder finds out through a man named Argyle Saperstein (Art Evans) that Bert is in a relationship with one of the identical women, and that Bert is a professional wrestler. Scully finds that for the past twelve years, the women have followed each other across seventeen states and left mayhem in their wake. Bert is contacted by Argyle, who he is indebted to. It is revealed that while Bert is dating Betty, he has also been having an affair with Lulu. A second earthquake occurs as Lulu prepares to walk in on Bert and Argyle exchanging money.
Fight Club (The X-Files) | Plot
Meat Loaf, who plays a fight club member who has "bitch tits", wore a 90-pound (40 kg) fat harness that gave him large breasts. He also wore eight-inch (20 cm) lifts in his scenes with Norton to be taller than him. Filming lasted 138 days, during which Fincher shot more than 1,500 rolls of film, three times the average for a Hollywood film. The locations were in and around Los Angeles, including the Promenade Towers, Melrose Avenue, St. Brendan's Catholic Church, and Michael Heizer's public art sculpture "North, South East, West". Sets were also built in Century City. Production designer Alex McDowell constructed more than 70 sets.
Fight Club | Filming
The film's title sequence is a 90-second visual effects composition that depicts the inside of the Narrator's brain at a microscopic level; the camera pulls back to the outside, starting at his fear center and following the thought processes initiated by his fear impulse. The sequence, designed in part by Fincher, was budgeted separately from the rest of the film at first, but the sequence was awarded by the studio in January 1999. Fincher hired Digital Domain and its visual effects supervisor Kevin Mack, who won an Academy Award for Visual Effects for the 1998 film "What Dreams May Come", for the sequence.
Fight Club | Visual effects
Uhls started working on a draft of the adapted screenplay, which excluded a voice-over because the industry perceived at the time that the technique was "hackneyed and trite". When Fincher joined the film, he thought that the film should have a voice-over, believing that the film's humor came from the Narrator's voice. He described the film without a voice-over as seemingly "sad and pathetic". Fincher and Uhls revised the script for six to seven months and by 1997 had a third draft that reordered the story and left out several major elements. When Pitt was cast, he was concerned that his character, Tyler Durden, was too one-dimensional.
Fight Club | Writing
Fincher said "Fight Club" was a coming of age film, like the 1967 film "The Graduate" but for people in their 30s. Fincher described the narrator as an "everyman"; the character is identified in the script as "Jack", but left unnamed in the film. Fincher outlined the Narrator's background: "He's tried to do everything he was taught to do, tried to fit into the world by becoming the thing he isn't." He cannot find happiness, so he travels on a path to enlightenment in which he must "kill" his parents, god, and teacher. By the start of the film, he has "killed off" his parents.
Fight Club | Themes
It felt like a wild show."
Fight Club (The X-Files) | Writing
Fight Club 3 is Chuck Palahniuk's second comic book meta-sequel to his 1996 novel "Fight Club". "Fight Club 3" consists of twelve issues, with the first issue being released January 30, 2019.
Fight Club 3 | Introduction
In August 1997, 20th Century Fox announced that Fincher would direct the film adaptation of "Fight Club".
Fight Club | Development
According to Jans B. Wager, "Fight Club" exhibits several film noir characteristics. The film's narrator is a white male protagonist who provides a subjective voice-over. He is involved in "an erotic triangle" with "a female object of desire" (Marla Singer) and a male antagonist (Tyler Durden), all of whom are white. The white masculinity in the film differs from noir films by focusing on the upper middle class instead of the lower middle class or the working class. Both of the narrator's counterparts are simultaneously like him and dangerous to him, and the plot takes place in "an urban, crumbling, criminal milieu".
Interpretations of Fight Club | Retro-noir
In order to make the fights look more authentic during the fictitious martial arts tournament in the opening of the film they are in fact real and not staged, the winner of each fight got paid $500 and the loser $100.
One Down, Two to Go | Production
The owner of the underground fight club explains to the boxer that the man in black is looking for the best fighters to compete in a tournament on a remote island. Depending on the player's actions, the boxer can follow one of the two paths: One is to participate in a boxing championship tournament to gain a professional fighting card, or to fully complete the underground fighting circuit in order to curry favor for a local crime boss named Don. The story diverges based on the player's choices. If the boxer completed the championship, the boxer sustains an injury, prompting fellow competitor Roy Jackson to fight in the boxer's place.
Punch Club | Story
The final production budget was $63 million. The fight scenes were heavily choreographed, but the actors were required to "go full out" to capture realistic effects such as having the wind knocked out of them. Makeup artist Julie Pearce, who had worked for Fincher on the 1997 film "The Game", studied mixed martial arts and pay-per-view boxing to portray the fighters accurately. She designed an extra's ear to have cartilage missing, inspired by the boxing match in which Mike Tyson bit off part of Evander Holyfield's ear. Makeup artists devised two methods to create sweat on cue: spraying mineral water over a coat of Vaseline, and using the unadulterated water for "wet sweat".
Fight Club | Filming
The novel "Fight Club" by Chuck Palahniuk was published in 1996. Before its publication, a Fox Searchlight Pictures book scout sent a galley proof of the novel to creative executive Kevin McCormick. The executive assigned a studio reader to review the proof as a candidate for a film adaptation, but the reader discouraged it. McCormick then forwarded the proof to producers Lawrence Bender and Art Linson, who also rejected it. Producers Josh Donen and Ross Bell saw potential and expressed interest. They arranged unpaid screen readings with actors to determine the script's length, and an initial reading lasted six hours.
Fight Club | Development
Additional roles include: Thom Gossom Jr. as Detective Stern, a police investigator who looks into the Narrator's apartment explosion; Bob Stephenson as an airport security officer who detains the Narrator; Joon B. Kim as Raymond K. Hessel, a young convenience store clerk; Peter Iacangelo as Lou, an aggressive man who owns the bar fight club is held in; and David Andrews as Thomas, a member of the Narrator's testicular cancer support group. Tim de Zarn, Ezra Buzzington, and David Lee Smith appear as the Narrator's co-workers, and Richmond Arquette portrays his doctor. Holt McCallany, Eion Bailey, Paul Carafotes, Mark Fite, and Michael Shamus Wiles portray members of Project Mayhem, and Stuart Blumberg and Matt Winston play people harassed by the group.
Fight Club | Cast
He developed the script with Uhls and sought screenwriting advice from the cast and others in the film industry. He and the cast compared the film to "Rebel Without a Cause" (1955) and "The Graduate" (1967), with a theme of conflict between Generation X and the value system of advertising. Studio executives did not like the film, and they restructured Fincher's intended marketing campaign to try to reduce anticipated losses. "Fight Club" failed to meet the studio's expectations at the box office, and received polarized reactions from critics. It was cited as one of the most controversial and talked-about films of 1999.
Fight Club | Introduction
After failing to convince Geiss, who would rather see him do a sequel to one of Tracy's previous films, "Fat Bitch", Tracy decides that he will make "Jefferson" on his own.
Corporate Crush | Plot
The producers cut out sections to reduce the running time, and they used the shorter script to record its dialogue. Bell sent the recording to Laura Ziskin, head of the division Fox 2000, who listened to the tape and purchased the rights to "Fight Club" from Palahniuk for $10,000. Ziskin initially considered hiring Buck Henry to write the adaptation, finding "Fight Club" similar to the 1967 film "The Graduate", which Henry had adapted. When a new screenwriter, Jim Uhls, lobbied Donen and Bell for the job, the producers chose him over Henry. Bell contacted four directors to direct the film.
Fight Club | Development
The story follows four friends, Vicky (Zayed Khan), Karan (Dino Morea), Somil (Riteish Deshmukh) and Diku (Aashish Chaudhary). The four often attend clubs and drink alcohol together. One night, they witness a physical brawl, and Vicky comes up with the idea of making a "Fight Club," in which the participants will be allowed to fight physically but with valid reason. The night when the Fight Club is opened, Somil comes to know that his uncle, who brought him up and currently lives in Delhi, has met some troubles. Some local gangsters want to take over the club of Somil's uncle to use it for drugs smuggling.
Fight Club – Members Only | Plot
Maya is bitterly disappointed but reluctantly agrees to stay on as Arthur's second-in-command at the store.
Second Act (film) | Plot
"Fight Club" contained several scenes of intense action that necessitated the use of various stunt doubles and extras.
Fight Club (The X-Files) | Introduction
After Mohit is released, he arrives with his gangster friends to get revenge, but is rejected by the latter. Anna (Sunil Shetty), Mohit's older brother, is released from prison where he stayed for 8 years and visits Mohit to see if he has changed himself from keeping fighting and working for gangsters, Anna tells Mohit that the reason he quit the gangster group and handed himself to the police was that he wanted to set a good example for Mohit. He then takes Mohit to Delhi for vacation.
Fight Club – Members Only | Plot
Harvey sets up a meeting with his friend and rival, Martinez (Luis Guzmán). Shawn's first fight is at a Brooklyn church against a Russian. He wins when he knocks the Russian into a water fountain. Harvey takes Shawn to a club where he meets a waitress named Zulay (Zulay Henao), a single mother to whom Shawn had earlier tried to sell a fake Chinese "Harry Potter" book. In the VIP area to the club, Shawn also meets Evan Hailey (Brian White), a professional fighter who used to be on the same college team as Shawn, and was coached by Shawn's father.
Fighting (2009 film) | Plot
The film tells about a boy named Vitya, who grew up without a father. He learned to fight and eventually became a boxer, and took part in the European Championship.
The Second Attempt of Viktor Krokhin | Plot
Seeing the girl who beat him be beaten, he requests to join the club. In order to join the Swan Wrestling Club, Mokichi must move Tamako, who is in a lying position. Unable to move her with traditional means, he strips her panties, startling Tamako, and then flips her. Mokichi is beaten up in the bathroom by a group of students. He is saved by Rentarou Taki, the president of the wrestling club. Taki challenges Mokichi to train harder if he ever wants to truly be strong. Tamako is late getting to school to take an exam. She decides to run rather than take the train.
Battle Club | Storyline
Malik and Chandu kill as many members of their opponents' gangs as possible. Sreenivasan is criticised but he and his men know that since many gang members are being killed, this war is making it easier for his department to dispose of Malik and Chandu. The war results in an intense chase in Kenya, during which Malik hires hitmen to kill Chandu, who is severely injured but survives. Sreenivasan persuades Chandu to come back to Mumbai and fight his war with Malik by helping the police bring the mafia under control. Chandu kills the politician who ordered the contract killing, in prison.
Company (film) | Plot
The following is the storyline of the six volumes of Battle Club. Each volume is subdivided into Rounds. After volume 6 the manga was followed by a sequel called Battle club 2nd stage; which ran for 3 volumes. Mokichi attempts to make his mark as the dominant male at Swan Academy Senior High School by beating everyone with a baseball bat. Unimpressed, a senior student punches him into Tamako. Mokichi challenges Tamako, who soundly beats him. Mokichi is stripped of his pants and tied to a fence half-naked. Embarrassed, he enters the Swan Wrestling Club where he witnesses Tamako being punished for failing in an errand.
Battle Club | Storyline
Norton drew parallels between redemption in the film and redemption in "The Graduate", indicating that the protagonists of both films find a middle ground between two divisions of self. Fincher considered the novel too infatuated with Tyler Durden and changed the ending to move away from him: "I wanted people to love Tyler, but I also wanted them to be OK with his vanquishing."
Fight Club | Writing
Fight Club is a 1996 novel by Chuck Palahniuk. It follows the experiences of an unnamed protagonist struggling with insomnia. Inspired by his doctor's exasperated remark that insomnia is not suffering, the protagonist finds relief by impersonating a seriously ill person in several support groups. Then he meets a mysterious man named Tyler Durden and establishes an underground fighting club as radical psychotherapy. In 1999, director David Fincher adapted the novel into a film of the same name, starring Brad Pitt and Edward Norton. The film acquired a cult following despite underperforming financially. The film's prominence heightened the profile of the novel and that of Palahniuk.
Fight Club (novel) | Introduction
Matthew has troubles with his mom and step father accepting him joining the boxing club at school. Matthew has to argue back and forth with his family in order for his parents to allow him to join the boxing club. Once he gets accepted into the school boxing club, the first day he has to spar with his tormentor bully Hector. As they spar in the boxing ring, Hector becomes aggressive towards Matthew. Once the referee blew the whistle and said stop fighting, Matthew takes a cheap shot at Hector which leads to him being kicked out of the boxing club on the first day.
Knockout (2011 film) | Plot
Ebert later acknowledged that the film was "beloved by most, not by me". He was later requested to have a shot-by-shot analysis of "Fight Club" at the Conference on World Affairs; he stated that "[s]eeing it over the course of a week, I admired its skill even more, and its thought even less." Jay Carr of "The Boston Globe" opined that the film began with an "invigoratingly nervy and imaginative buzz", but that it eventually became "explosively silly". "Newsweek"s David Ansen described "Fight Club" as "an outrageous mixture of brilliant technique, puerile philosophizing, trenchant satire and sensory overload" and thought that the ending was too pretentious.
Fight Club | Critical reception
Duchovny and Anderson later dubbed their voices over Kiziak and Pileggi's. Jack McGee was cast as Bob Damfuse, the father of the half-sisters with a severe anger issue. During rehearsals for his scene, McGee purposely kept his voice down to prevent a severe headache. He recalled, "I remember the director [Paul Shapiro], he wanted me to scream during rehearsal, and I was, like, 'Look, you don't understand: If I do this, I’m gonna have a headache in 30 fucking seconds.'" The scenes were rehearsed about five or six times before the actual scene was filmed.
Fight Club (The X-Files) | Casting
When small-time hood Johnny Warjack and his gang hold up the Club Bermuda, a nightclub/gambling den, he is recognized. Club owner Marty Fain (Bruce Bennett) orders his men to deal with Warjack and offers to make good his patrons' losses. Socialite Linda Vickers (Virginia Mayo) and gambler Nelson Clark (Ben Welden) both try to take advantage of Fain's generosity. He does not believe either of them. Nonetheless, Fain deducts Clark's claimed $10,000 loss from his outstanding debts, but then demands the remaining $13,000 be paid within a week. As for Vickers' $18,000 of stolen jewelry, she claims to have an insurance policy for that amount.
Smart Girls Don't Talk | Plot
In 1999, Pitt portrayed Tyler Durden in "Fight Club", a film adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk's novel of the same name, directed by David Fincher. Pitt prepared for the part with lessons in boxing, taekwondo, and grappling. To look the part, Pitt consented to the removal of pieces of his front teeth which were restored when filming ended. While promoting "Fight Club", Pitt said that the film explored not taking one's aggressions out on someone else but to "have an experience, take a punch more and see how you come out on the other end." "Fight Club" premiered at the 1999 Venice International Film Festival.
Brad Pitt | 1999–2003
Sixteen trained stuntmen and around 200 cardboard cutouts supplemented the hundreds of extras to give the stadium its final, filled-out feel. When filming the crowd fight, producer Harry Bring later noted, "a few of [the audience] members got carried away and we had to tell them to settle down." During post-production, a split screen was used by the editors as a way to "enhanc[e] the scene" and "allo[w] the viewer to focus on various angles of action".
Fight Club (The X-Files) | Filming and effects
Fight Club is a fighting video game based on the 1999 film of the same name, which was based on the 1996 novel of the same name by Chuck Palahniuk. It was released in 2004 by Vivendi Universal.
Fight Club (video game) | Introduction
Unlike the novel, the two meet during a plane flight rather than on a nude beach, and the cinematic incarnation of Tyler does not murder anyone, unlike the literary version. Furthermore, while the novel ends with the Narrator in a mental hospital, the film concludes with the Narrator and Marla in a skyscraper, overlooking the skyline that is detonating due to Project Mayhem's explosives. Like in the novel, the Narrator does not have a name, though the script refers to him as "Jack". While the novel features the Narrator referring to himself as "Joe" from "Reader's Digest" articles, the film adaptation replaces "Joe" with "Jack".
The Narrator (Fight Club) | Film
Upon release, "Fight Club" was met with negative reception. GameRankings and Metacritic gave it a score of 40.11% and 37 out of 100 for the Xbox version, and 36.84% and 36 out of 100 for the PlayStation 2 version. The game has mostly been dismissed by fans of the novel and film as an attempt to milk the success of the story for commercial gain, and was universally panned by critics on its own merits. Critics say the game copies too much from other fighting games without bringing much new to the genre, and has repetitive fighting moves and poor animation.
Fight Club (video game) | Reception
Maya Vargas (Jennifer Lopez) is the assistant manager of the Value Shop store where she has worked for the past 15 years. During that time she dramatically improved sales, customer relations, and general store culture through her intuitive and innovative methods. She awaits a store visit by an executive of her company, Mr. Weiskopf, anxiously hoping to be promoted to manager. Her boyfriend Trey (Milo Ventimiglia), co-workers, and several regular customers all assure Maya she’s guaranteed the promotion, but instead she’s passed up in favor of Arthur (Dan Bucatinsky), a non-local company employee with an MBA from Duke. Mr. Weiskopf explains that while he values Maya’s dedication and success, she only has a GED and no college degree, which makes her ineligible for the promotion by company policy.
Second Act (film) | Plot
The unnamed Narrator is an automobile recall specialist who is unfulfilled by his job and possessions and suffers from chronic insomnia. He finds catharsis by attending support groups and posing as a sufferer of several diseases, curing his insomnia. His bliss is disturbed when another impostor, Marla Singer, also begins attending the same support groups. The two agree to split which groups they attend. On a flight home from a business trip, the Narrator meets soap salesman Tyler Durden. The Narrator returns home to find that his apartment and all his belongings have been destroyed by an explosion. He is disheartened by the loss of his material possessions.
Fight Club | Plot
The X-Club get out in time only to see the dome envelope Utopia and the citizens of San Francisco. Later they work with the Avengers and Fantastic Four in trying to bring the dome down.
Kavita Rao | Second Coming
The duo establish a weekly meeting known as "fight club", in which they and other men can engage in bare-knuckle fistfights. After Marla calls their residence, threatening suicide, she and Tyler begin an affair that confounds the Narrator. Tyler initiates a cult-like organisation known as Project Mayhem in order to aggressively promote his anti-consumerist ideals, but the Narrator becomes increasingly uneasy with the group as its activities become more destructive. The Narrator learns that he and Tyler are, in fact, the same person, as the Narrator's mind formed a new personality that was able to escape from the issues that plagued his life.
The Narrator (Fight Club) | "Fight Club" (1996)
Shortly after completing the fight in Russia or the prison, the boxer builds up his reputation as a fighter by either working under Din Kong as a professional boxer, or as an enforcer for Don's criminal organization. Shortly after beating the champions of the respective path, the boxer is invited to the man in black's island, with the final fighter determined by the boxer's chosen path. If the professional fighter route is taken, the boxer fights the underground fight club owner, revealed to be the boxer's brother. If working under Don's wing was taken, the boxer fights a blue-colored ninja (as a reference to Sub-Zero).
Punch Club | Story
This may be the only role in which Wang Lung Wei as the hero from the north isn't a villain. He fights Wong Fei Hung but once he discovers that he has been tricked by the bad school, he refuses to help them anymore.
Martial Club | Plot
It is only later that Stingy Smith comes to realise that he has been duped, and that Bill had arranged it all.
Saltbush Bill's Second Fight | Plot summary
They eventually meet Muni, an agent for an underground fight club. After seeing Velu win a fight at a bar, Muni introduces him to the ruthless owner of the fight club, Natwar Dada. Velu slowly rises up the ranks and becomes one of the city's best underground fighters. Velu then meets a girl named Kavya and plans to stop fighting in order to be with her, but first, he needs to make enough money to escape his current life. Velu also needs money to get his house back. Together, they hatch a plan to rig Velu's next fight with Victor, the city's top underground fighter.
Pandigai | Plot
"The Guardian" saw it as an omen for change in American political life, and described its visual style as ground-breaking. The film later found commercial success with its DVD release, establishing "Fight Club" as a cult classic and causing media to revisit the film. On the tenth anniversary of the film's release, "The New York Times" dubbed it the "defining cult movie of our time."
Fight Club | Introduction