Fight Club

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 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 an impoverished but beguilingly attractive 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. 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. Studio executives did not like the film, and they restructured Fincher's intended marketing campaign to try to reduce anticipated losses. Fight Club premiered at the 56th Venice International Film Festival on September 10, 1999, and was released in the United States on October 15, 1999 by 20th Century Fox. The film failed to meet the studio's expectations at the box office and received polarized reactions from critics. It was ranked as one of the most controversial and talked-about films of the 1990s. However, Fight Club later found commercial success with its home video release, establishing it as a cult classic and causing media to revisit the film. In 2009, on its tenth anniversary, The New York Times dubbed it the "defining cult movie of our time."

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Listen, I tried, Tyler. I really tried. I know you did. There are things about you I like. You're smart, you're funny, you're spectacular in bed. But you're intolerable. You have very serious emotional problems. Deep-seated problems for which you should seek professional help. I know, and I'm sorry. Yeah, you're sorry, I'm sorry, everyone's sorry. But... I can't do this anymore. I can't. And I won't. I'm gone.

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You can't leave, Marla, you're not safe!

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No! Leave me alone! Marla, I'm trying to protect you. I don't ever want to see you again! That's fine, if that's what it takes... You wait. Wait right here.

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Hold it right there. Shut up! Shut up! Take this money and get on this bus. And I promise you I will never bother you again if that's what you want. Shut up! Please get on the bus. Please get on the bus!

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Why are you doing this? Because they think you're some kind of a threat. I-I can't explain it right now, just trust me. If I see where you're going, you will not be safe. I'm not paying this back. I consider it asshole tax. That's fine. Remember, stay out of major cities for at least a couple of days, OK? Tyler.

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You're the worst thing that ever happened to me.

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Hello. I need you to arrest me. I am the leader of a terrorist organization responsible for numerous acts of vandalism, and assault all over this city.

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...in the metropolitan area, with probably a couple hundred members. Chapters have sprung up in 5 or 6 other major cities already. This is a tightly regimented organization, with many cells capable of operating completely independent of central leadership. Look, look, go to that house, OK? 1537 Paper Street. That's our headquarters. In the back, buried in the garden, you'll find the body of Robert Paulson. In the basement, you're gonna find some bathtubs that have been used very recently to make large quantities of nitroglycerin. I believe the plan is to blow up the headquarters of these credit card companies, and the T.R.W. Building.

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Why these buildings? Why credit card companies? If you erase the debt record, then we all go back to zero. It'll create total chaos.

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Keep him talking. I need to make a phone call.

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I really admire what you're doing.

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What? You're a brave man to order this. You're a genius, sir. You said, if anyone ever interferes with Project Mayhem- even you- we gotta get his bails.

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It's useless to fight. This is really a powerful gesture, Mr. Durden. It'll set quite an example. You're making a big mistake, fellas. You said you'd say that. I'm not Tyler Durden! You told us you'd say that, too. All right, I am Tyler Durden. Listen to me, I'm giving you a direct order. We are aborting this mission, right now. You said you would definitely say that.

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Are you fucking out of your minds? You're police officers!

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Somebody timing this? No! No! Keep your mouth shut!

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Shit.

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Yeah? Hey, you know, some of this information checks out. Let's go over to that house on Paper Street. Be right there.

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Hey! Wait! I got him. Sir, we have to do this, sir. Stop fighting. Where's the rubber band? Get away from me! Drop that fucking knife! Drop it!

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Back up. Face down on the floor, both of you, right now!

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Get down on the floor!

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