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Story at a glance The author of the novel that inspired the 1999 classic “Fight Club” has said a newly released cut in China, which edits out the film’s final scene, is more aligned with his own ending. “Fight Club” fans in China over the weekend responded with confusion and outrage to the cut available on the streaming service Tencent Video, which replaced Fincher’s anti-capitalist ending with black screen and text telling viewers that police “arrested all criminals.” According to Palahniuk, the ending of his 1996 novel has been changed many times before – without his permission – and the…
Tencent Video restored the original ending to the 1999 psychological drama Fight Club on Monday, following backlash from Chinese fans of the film. Last month the Chinese conglomerate released a censored version of the film starring Edward Norton and Brad Pitt. In this version all nude scenes were removed and a completely different ending was added.The original ending shows Norton’s character and Marla Singer (Helena Bonham Carter) staring out of a large window as multiple banks and credit card companies explode one by one, symbolizing the downfall of capitalist society. A scene the majority of viewers argue is the core message of the…
Soul-sucking jobs were a common presence in many 90s movies. Understandably so, as Generation X filmmakers entered Hollywood at a time of relative stability in America. 70s cinema trended towards violent and cynical stories that attacked the status quo. 80s movies tended to praise the establishment while longing for the post-war glory days. Without a counter-culture or Reagan revolution to motivate storytelling, what generational theme would 90s filmmakers focus on? For at least some of them, the answer was their profound disenchantment with soul-sucking jobs. This soul-sucking jobs theme occurs repeatedly in 90s films such as American Beauty, Clerks, and…
We know that the first rule of Fight Club is you do not talk about Fight Club, but forgive us; we have to talk about Fight Club. More specifically, how the film was recently released on China’s streaming platform Tencent Video with a brand new ending. The 1999 film’s original ending is iconic and is considered one of the best plot twists in movie history; we find out that the Narrator, played by Edward Norton has been imagining the smooth-talking Tyler Durden, played by Brad Pitt, the entire time and Tyler is nothing more than an alter ego of the…
(Credit: 20th Century Fox) Film Tue 24th Jan 2023 19.30 GMT In the 1980s, when approaching his graduation from the University of Missouri where he studied journalism, Brad Pitt felt unsettled, sensing something more fruitful on the horizon, specifically to the west. As a long-lived film fanatic Pitt regarded the wondrous medium as “a portal into different worlds” during his youth, but it wasn’t until the closing weeks of his tenure at college that he decided to drop the books and set off for the Hollywood Hills. Such erratic behaviour is often subject to parental derision, but Pitt quickly found…
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Tencent Video restored the original ending to the 1999 psychological drama Fight Club on Monday, following backlash from Chinese fans of the film. Last month the Chinese conglomerate released a censored version of the film starring Edward Norton and Brad Pitt. In this version all nude scenes were removed and a completely different ending was added.The original ending shows Norton’s character and Marla Singer (Helena Bonham Carter) staring out of a large window as multiple banks and credit card companies explode one by one, symbolizing the downfall of capitalist society. A scene the majority of viewers argue is the core message of the…
(Credit: 20th Century Fox) Film Tue 24th Jan 2023 19.30 GMT In the 1980s, when approaching his graduation from the University of Missouri where he studied journalism, Brad Pitt felt unsettled, sensing something more fruitful on the horizon, specifically to the west. As a long-lived film fanatic Pitt regarded the wondrous medium as “a portal into different worlds” during his youth, but it wasn’t until the closing weeks of his tenure at college that he decided to drop the books and set off for the Hollywood Hills. Such erratic behaviour is often subject to parental derision, but Pitt quickly found…
Harrison Ford in ‘Blade Runner’, Margot Robbie in ‘Babylon’ and Edward Norton in ‘Fight Club’ (Warner Bros/Paramount/Fox)Predicting which movies will set the box office alight seems like an easy task, but there’s a reason studios get paid the big bucks to do so.However, every so often, an acclaimed film can come along that absolutely tanks after being unveiled for the public.Over the years, there have been a startling number of films that have struggled, or indeed failed, to recoup their budget, and have consequently earned the “box office flop” label.It’s hard to pin down exactly why movies such as these…
Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freePredicting which movies will set the box office alight seems like an easy task, but there’s a reason studios get paid the big bucks to do so. However, every so often, an acclaimed film can come along that absolutely tanks after being unveiled for the public.Over the years, there have been a startling number of films that have struggled, or indeed failed, to recoup their budget, and have consequently earned the “box office flop” label.It’s hard to…