I watched fight club for the first time in 10 years recently. I’ll tell you that movie hits different when you’re 20, 30 or 40. I remember in my 20s it all seemed so cool and badass, now that I’m 40 I see now that they’re a bunch of incel losers with toxic masculinity and a lack of self awareness.
They are a bunch of losers, but their plights are very legitimate. That’s how a charismatic cult leader swoops in and radicalises them.
We have a number of real world examples of that. The most current one being Andrew Tate.
The point was to not worship these people. The point was driven better in the book, the movie was more anti-capitalist than the book.
Chuck P was a gay man. The movie takes the homoeroticism to levels that would have been laughable if Palahnuik had written them.
Why does the narrator ignore Marla? BECAUSE HES GAY
Nah, Marla was real. PM members physically brought her to Jack at the end. Even PM wouldn’t be able to pull off bringing an alter ego to Jack, she must be real.
Also, in the film the thrift store cashier LOOKS at Marla during the conversation.
“I haven’t been fucked like that since grade school.” blew my young mind, at the time.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0137523/trivia/?item=tr0755880
The original “pillow talk”-scene had Marla saying “I want to have your abortion”. When this was objected to by Fox 2000 Pictures President of Production Laura Ziskin, David Fincher said he would change it on the proviso that the new line couldn’t be cut. Ziskin agreed and Fincher wrote the replacement line, “I haven’t been fucked like that since grade school”. When Ziskin saw the new line, she was even more outraged and asked for the original line to be put back, but, as per their deal, Fincher refused.
Also, the actress didn’t know grade school in the US is 6-12 years old as she is from outside the US. She didn’t find out until afterwards and was very unhappy about saying it.
It’s 6 to 14 or so. First grade through eighth grade.
Kindergarten to 6th grade (12 yoa) in the majority of the US. 7th and 8th are middle school.
Middle school is also grade school.
why? she’s an actress ffs
She’s not American. They use different terms for things around the world.
E: ducking autocorrupt
i mean why would she care what she said in character, it’s not like it’s her as an actor who said it
Helena Bonham-Carter, being British, didn’t know that “grade school” was much younger than one would expect from such a line until after the film was released.
I think the original line was:
“I want to have your abortion”
But it was cut because it was deemed to krass.
- crass*, FFS. (and too*, while I’m at it)
- If by “cut”, you mean “not included”, then that’s a whole other can of worms re: your comprehension of this shared reality we live in.
Krass is German.
Yes, “not included” like you when people want to have fun and form friendships.
Krass is German.
That doesn’t change that the English spelling is crass.
Also, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/crass says crass made its way from Latin via French to English, not German. Always with a C, btw.
c not as fun as k. no one cares. spelling is for comand line. The rest is jazz. Talking by the numbers is for the coffin-hearted.
If spelling doesn’t matter, why then are all your other words properly spelled in their English form.
And you used proper capitalization and spaces.
Don’t be disingenuous.
I am a fully genuine fiction writer. I am fully candid about the neccesity of fun.
Language is a conductive medium that behaves bizzarely depending on environmental conditions.
Spelling matters for comandline, translation.
My tongue nor typewriter are region-locked. They are drunken and given to singing.
No need to mind. :3 Fortunately plants look great in bauhaus.
Krass is German.
c not as fun as k.
That’s the worst attempt at Motte-and-bailey I’ve ever seen.
no one cares.
This conversation proves otherwise.
Marla… the little scratch on the roof of your mouth that would heal if only you could stop tonguing it, but you can’t.
