Fight Club is a 1999 American film directed by David Fincher and starring Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, and Helena Bonham Carter.
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32 Facts About Fight Club
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Fight Club developed the script with Uhls and sought screenwriting advice from the cast and others in the film industry.
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Fight Club failed to meet the studio's expectations at the box office, and received polarized reactions from critics.
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Fight Club's bliss is disturbed when another impostor, Marla Singer, begins attending the same groups.
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Fight Club tries to warn the police, but the officers are members of the Project.
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Fincher said Fight Club was a coming of age film, like the 1967 film The Graduate but for people in their 30s.
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Fight Club considered Peter Jackson the best choice, but Jackson was too busy filming the 1996 film The Frighteners in New Zealand.
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David Fincher, who had read Fight Club and had tried to buy the rights himself, talked with Ziskin about directing the film.
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Fight Club hesitated to accept the assignment with 20th Century Fox at first because he had an unpleasant experience directing the 1992 film Alien 3 for the studio.
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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.
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Fight Club was cast in Runaway Jury, but the film did not reach production.
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Fight Club chose to cast Bonham Carter based on her performance in the 1997 film The Wings of the Dove.
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Fight Club described the film without a voice-over as seemingly "sad and pathetic".
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Fight Club invited Pitt and Norton to help revise the script, and the group drafted five revisions in the course of a year.
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Fight Club 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.
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Fight Club's 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.
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Fight Club wore eight-inch lifts in his scenes with Norton to be taller than him.
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Fight Club hired Jeff Cronenweth as cinematographer; Cronenweth's father Jordan Cronenweth had been cinematographer for Fincher's 1992 film Alien 3, but left midway through production due to Parkinson's disease.
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Fight Club was filmed mostly at night, and Fincher filmed the daytime shots in shadowed locations.
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Fight Club mapped the computer-generated brain using an L-system, and the design was detailed using renderings by medical illustrator Katherine Jones.
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Fight Club pursued Radiohead, but singer Thom Yorke declined as he was recovering from the stress of promoting their album OK Computer.
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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.
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The BBFC did not censor any further, considering and dismissing claims that Fight Club contained "dangerously instructive information" and could "encourage anti-social ".
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The title "Fight Club" was labeled diagonally across the front, and packaging appeared tied with twine.
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When Fight Club premiered at the 56th Venice International Film Festival, the film was fiercely debated by critics.
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Fight Club's wrote that Fight Club carried a message of "contemporary manhood", and that, if not watched closely, the film could be misconstrued as an endorsement of violence and nihilism.
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Fight Club was nominated for the 2000 Academy Award for Best Sound Editing, but it lost to The Matrix.
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Fight Club was one of the most controversial and talked-about films of the 1990s.
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Fight Club had a significant impact on evangelical Christianity, in the areas of Christian discipleship and masculinity.
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In 2003, Fight Club was listed as one of the "50 Best Guy Movies of All Time" by Men's Journal.
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In 2004 and 2006, Fight Club was voted by Empire readers as the eighth and tenth greatest film of all time, respectively.
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