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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First person comes out this fucking door gets a-gets a lead salad, you understand?

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Get away! Get away!

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I ran. I ran until my muscles burned and my veins pumped battery acid. Then I ran some more.

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What the fuck are you doing? Running around in your underpants. Man, you look like a crazy person. No, I'm onto you. I know what's going on here. Well come on, then. I got us a great place to watch from.

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It'll be like pay-per-view.

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Oh, Christ. Now what are you doing? I'm stopping this. Why? Greatest thing you've ever done, man. No, I can't let this happen. You know there are 10 other bombs in 10 other buildings. God damn it, since when is Project Mayhem about murder? The buildings are empty. Security and maintenance, all our people. We're not killing anyone, man, we're setting 'em free. Bob is dead. They shot him in the head. You wanna make an omelet, you gotta break some eggs. No, I'm not listening to you. You're not even there.

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Wouldn't do that. Not unless I knew which wires were what. If you know, then I know. Or... maybe I knew you'd know, so I spent the whole day thinking about the wrong ones.

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You think?

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Oh, heavens no, not the green one.

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Pull any one but the green one. I asked you not to do that!

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Tyler, get away from the van.

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Tyler, I'm not kidding! Get away from the van! God damn it!

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Whoa! Whoa! OK, you are now firing a gun at your imaginary friend near 400 gallons of nitroglycerin!

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Look, Tyler, Tyler!

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Ahh!

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Aw, come on. Don't go.

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What?!

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3 minutes. This is it. The beginning. Ground zero. I think this is about where we came in. Would you like to say a few words to mark the occasion?

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I'm sorry? I still can't think of anything. Ah, flashback humor.

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It's getting exciting now.

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