In a recent interview with The Guardian, David Fincher was asked how his 1999 classic, Fight Club, became a favorite among incels and far-right groups for its portrayal of disenfranchised white people fighting against each other against capitalist society.
“I am not responsible for how people interpret things… language evolves. Characters evolve“- said the director.
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“We didn’t do it for them, but people will see what they see in a Norman Rockwell painting or in Guernica “, he explained, reiterating that he is not responsible for how people interpret his work.
It’s impossible for me to imagine that people don’t understand that Tyler Durden is a negative influence. To people who don’t understand that, I don’t know how to act and I don’t know how to help.
Fight Club Starring Edward Norton as an insomniac office worker who befriends soap salesman Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt). Together they form Fight Club, an underground fighting venue. Tyler Durden then plans to attack the Consumer Corporation as the club turns into a terrorist group.
The ending of the film was changed in China
Warning, spoilers. The rest of this article shows the ending of “Fight Club”.
Although the film failed at the box office, it has since become a cult favorite and was particularly talked about last year after Tencent Video, China’s largest video streaming service, posted its ending re-edited – before finally returning to its famous self. Final scene later.
character in the original ending of the filmEdward Norton Killing his alter ego Tyler Durden before seeing the city go up in flames seems to prove that his plan to destroy civilization has worked. The ending, censored in China, cut the film before the destruction of the city: the next screen indicates that the authorities have stopped his anarchic plan.
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David Fincher addressed this censorship in an interview with Empire, expressing confusion and amusement as to why a streaming platform would be interested in his Fight Club but with a changed ending.
“If you don’t like the story why are you licensing this movie?Fincher asked. “It doesn’t make sense to me when people say, “I think it would be good for our department to have your movie…we just want it to be another movie.” This damn movie is 20 years old. It’s not like she has a reputation for being super huggable.“
Fight Club is currently available to stream on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Disney+.
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