Fight Club
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 Fight Club facts

• The film was directed by David Fincher, and stars Brad Pitt, Edward Norton and Helena Bonham Carter
• Norton plays the unnamed protagonist, an "everyman" who is discontented with his white-collar job
• He forms a "fight club" with soap maker Tyler Durden, played by Pitt, and they are joined by men who also want to fight recreationally
• The narrator becomes embroiled in a relationship with Durden and a dissolute woman, Marla Singer, played by Bonham Carter
• Palahniuk's novel was optioned by 20th Century Fox producer Laura Ziskin, who hired Jim Uhls to write the film adaptation
• Fincher was one of four directors the producers considered, and was selected because of his enthusiasm for the film
• Fincher developed the script with Uhls and sought screenwriting advice from the cast and others in the film industry
• The director and the cast compared the film to Rebel Without a Cause (1955) and The Graduate (1967)
• Fincher intended Fight Club's violence to serve as a metaphor for the conflict between a generation of young people and the value system of advertising
• The director copied the homoerotic overtones from Palahniuk's novel to make audiences uncomfortable and keep them from anticipating the twist ending