Fight Club
Also known as FightClub
1999 film directed by David Fincher
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"Fight Club" is a 1999 film directed by David Fincher about an insomniac office worker who forms an underground fighting club that evolves into something much larger and more dangerous. The film became culturally significant for its dark exploration of masculinity, consumerism, and identity, influencing discussions about modern alienation and becoming a touchstone in popular culture.
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8.4A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until an eccentric gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion.
Released: 1999-10-15139 minDir: David FincherDrama, ThrillerBudget: $63.0MBox office: $101M
Cast
- Edward Norton as Narrator
- Brad Pitt as Tyler Durden
- Helena Bonham Carter as Marla Singer
- Meat Loaf as Robert Paulson
- Jared Leto as Angel Face
- Zach Grenier as Richard Chesler (Regional Manager)
Themes
- dual identity
- rage and hate
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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 Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk. Norton plays the unnamed narrator, who is discontented with his white-collar job. He forms a "fight club" with a soap salesman, Tyler Durden (Pitt) and becomes embroiled with an impoverished but beguiling woman, Marla Singer (Bonham Carter).
Palahniuk's novel was optioned by Fox 2000 Pictures producer Laura Ziskin, who hired Uhls to write the film adaptation. Fincher was selected because of his enthusiasm for the story. He developed the script with Uhls and sought screenwriting advice from the cast and others in the film industry. It was filmed in and around Los Angeles from July to December 1998. 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.