Matt Goldberg has been an editor with Collider since He resides in Atlanta with his wife and their dog Jack. Image via 20th Century Fox. Share Share Tweet Email. Matt Goldberg Articles Published. Read Next in movies. But one particular scene dates the film in , and that's the scene where Project Mayhem uses an electromagnet to erase a bunch of VHS tapes in a video store.
See, this has to be a time when not only are video stores still in business i. The real clue here is the poster in the window. It advertises Independence Day as a new release. Independence Day came out on tape in All those tapes of this Will Smith action-adventure look like this once Project Mayhem is done with them. Parents Home Homeschool College Resources. Study Guide. Previous Next. Setting Anytown, U. This is the House that Jack Built The Paper Street house pretty much rises directly from the pages of the book and lands on our screen in all its dilapidated glory.
Time Stamped Theoretically, Fight Club exists in a nebulous "present. We were in Stage 16 at [the Fox lot]. It was one of the biggest soundstages I had ever been in, and the craft service table ran the full length of it. And on the film where I was trying to starve myself, Brad would eat six hot dogs and half of a pumpkin pie, and only get stronger and younger while I remember just sipping my hot tea. The truth is, we probably spent more time learning to make soap than we did training for anything.
As a result, much of the combat in Fight Club feels sloppily forceful— the handiwork of men taking their very first swings at life. But there was one woman caught up in Fight Club : Marla, the acidic, cigarette-devouring schemer who gets wrapped up with the narrator, unaware of his lunacy.
Several actors had been considered for the role, including Courtney Love, who was dating Norton at the time. And there was a lot of work.
Is this message particularly life-enhancing? I was talking myself into it. Not the actress in The Wizard of Oz —think Judy Garland later on, when she was a bit of a mess, drinking and doing drugs while her life was falling apart. Even for Durden, however, there were limits. But like Lester in American Beauty or Peter in Office Space , the narrator is aching to see a world beyond his cubicle.
The difference is that he abandons his job by repeatedly smashing himself in the face, throwing himself atop a glass table, and threatening to blame it all on his boss. Over the course of countless takes, though, the two men found the proper alchemy of madcap and menace. Norton worked on Fight Club for days—the longest shoot of his career. On the last night of filming, he and Pitt stayed up until four a. The Brothers—Mike Simpson and John King, both in their early thirties—had never scored a feature film before.
He also gave the Brothers a few sonic-specific notes. It was jammed with vintage equipment— electric pianos, effects units, a Wurlitzer—all of which would be used on Fight Club. He and King worked on separate scenes around the house, with Fincher sometimes going from room to room, listening to what the Brothers had created.
He wanted to give the audience the impulse to leave the theater before the opening credits were done. The neighbors thought we were shooting porn or something. In early , Fox finally held its first screenings for studio executives.
It was a sizable price tag for a movie that, as Fincher had promised, amounted to a corporate-backed act of sedition. It was prickly. Upward mobility? None of it mattered, and none of it was making you, the audience member, happy—and the makers of Fight Club knew it.
Watching the movie was like getting a middle finger to the eye. The other was that anything that makes you this uneasy is going to be a knockdown battle.
But you look at the time, and the people who got their knickers in a twist. Fox was right to be trepidatious. Held over the course of a long weekend in late July, the festival was marked by instances of violence, nearly all of it carried out by young men, along with several reports of sexual assault. As Fox and Fincher readied the film for its fall release, Mechanic enlisted a few studio representatives to talk up the movie in Washington, DC, where the post-Columbine pushback against Hollywood was already underway.
It makes them feel bad. I think of it mostly as a series of meetings where I would slap myself so hard, I would leave with a calloused forehead.
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