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Fight
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Book: Fight Club (1996)
Movie: Fight Club (1999)
Official site US:
http://www.foxmovies.com/fightclub/
Official site:
http://www.chuckpalahniuk.com/
Premise
movie:
"You're young. You have an easy, well-paid deskjob. You have a condo, Swedish furniture, artistic coffee tables and a fridge full of condiments. Yet you feel emotionally and spiritually empty. You eventually find comfort in going to support groups for lukemia and cancer victims when there's nothing wrong with you until they're hijacked from you by another faker. Then you meet Tyler Durden, a man that shows you that not only can you live without material needs but that self-destruction, the collapse of society and making dynamite from soap might not be such a bad idea either."
from:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0137523/plotsummary
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Premise
book:
"An underground classic since its first publication in 1996, Fight Club is now recognized as one of the most original and provocative novels published in this decade. Chuck Palahniuk's darkly funny first novel tells the story of a godforsaken young man who discovers that his rage at living in a world filled with failure and lies cannot be pacified by an empty consumer culture. Relief for him and his disenfranchised peers comes in the form of secret after-hours boxing matches held in the basements of bars. Fight Club is the brainchild of Tyler Durden, who thinks he has found a way for himself and his friends to live beyond their confining and stultifying lives. But in Tyler's world there are no rules, no limits, no brakes."
from:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0805062971/
103-8633049-5460649?v=glance
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Author:
"Readers of Chuck Palahniuk's novels must gird themselves for the bizarre, the violent, the macabre, and the just plain disturbing. Having done that, they can then just enjoy the ride. The story goes that Palahniuk wrote Fight Club out of frustration that his first submission to publishers, a version of Invisible Monsters, was being rejected as too risky. He decided to take the gloves off, so to speak, and wrote something he figured would never see the light of day. It ended up turning the spotlight on him. Fight Club's apocalyptic, blackly humorous story of a loner's entanglement with a charismatic but dangerous underground leader was the first in a series of novels that would eventually earn Palahniuk an obsessive cult following. Invisible Monsters, which he significantly rewrote before his newly minted status made it okay to risk publishing, is about a disfigured model -- aided by a campy transgendered pal -- out for revenge on her ex-boyfriend and best friend.
Next came Survivor, a memoir of a "death cult" member as dictated from a plane that is about to crash; Choke, which centers on a sex addict who resorts to staging restaurant choking episodes to pay the bills; and 2002's Lullaby, about a reporter's attempt to remove the threat of an African chant that can be invoked to kill people.
Palahniuk's outré plots and jump-cut storytelling are definitely not for everyone -- some have likened them to the horrible accident you can't tear your eyes away from -- but even critics discomfited by his conceits can't help but be impressed by his flair for language, his talent for satire and his sheer originality. Newsday wrote, "Palahniuk is one of the freshest, most intriguing voices to appear in a long time. He rearranges Vonnegut's sly humor, DeLillo's mordant social analysis, and Pynchon's antic surrealism (or is it R. Crumb's?) into a gleaming puzzle palace all his own."
Palahniuk has said that he has heard a lot from readers who were never readers before they saw his books, from boys in schools where his books are banned. This might be the best evidence that Palahniuk is a writer for a new age, introducing a (mostly male) audience to worlds on the page that usually only exist in technicolor and nightmares. "
from:
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/writers/writerdetails.asp?
userid=um2dvGHAZz&cid=976161#bio
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Director:
David Fincher
Cast:
Edward Norton (Narrator), Brad Pitt (Tyler Durden), Helena Bonham-Carter (Marla Singer), Meat Loaf (Robert 'Bob' Paulson); Zach Grenier (Richard Chesler) and others.
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