David Fincher adapts to film the highly successful Chuck Palahniuk novel (with screenplay writer Jim Uhls’s help) to create one of the greatest films in Hollywood history. Starring Ed Norton and Brad Pitt, with a scene-stealing performance by musician Meatloaf, Fight Club is a violently beautiful and extremely dark film that journey’s into the mind of one seriously fucked up individual.
Tyler Durden, the person in question, leads a group of outcasts into an underground world where people beat on one another just to release the aggression built up from a world that has somehow labeled them unfit for participation. The fights aren’t for money or fame. The malaise is accentuated by Fincher’s penchant for dark and claustrophobic film making.
Even if you include Norton’s mastery of the acting craft or Pitts character, Fight Club is brilliant more for its direction and climatic surprise ending. David Fincher becomes one of Hollywood’s great directors for this film if you remember he also put out Se7en.
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