Gone Girl, the latest from director David Fincher is out
really soon and that was a good enough excuse for us to celebrate a Fincher
Classic here on Things You Didn't Know
it's thin reasoning, I know. But hey, that's never stopped us before
So, here are seven things you didn't know about Fight Club
(probably)
Gentleman, welcome to fight club.
Since we're talking about Fight Club let's start off with the thing about a fight.
in this scene where the narrator fights bob AKA meatloaf
they were both supposed to be shirtless. After all that is one of the rules of Fight Club.
they've built a special version me those bats you for the scene that looked like
a real poor so with
you know skin and nips and stop but the fat super super heavy and hot and it
caused a lot of problems
for example in this scene later in the movie people's pants fall down because
of his big love him
you can even see his leg heading for the fat suit but venture capital in the
movie because it was the best one
anyway going back to the fight seem evil had to be rushed in oxygen mask after
every take just to recover from the exertion
he would be drenched in sweat fun fact: they include a shot a meal ok with his
oxygen in the movie itself
right here the other issue is showing a shirtless Bob fighting was David Fincher
felt that it would just be too much
you know with me loves giant sloppy tits flopping around on
let's move on the scene with the narrator's boss confronting is a
favorite but you may not have noticed that it has a continuity here
they actually to reshoot Edward Norton's profile shot because they came up with a
different take on how we should have played
well in the time between principal photography in the reshoot the office
building they shot in head change the thermostat
so it changes from black to silver and back again
during the sea and it just occurred to me now that you probably won't
able to even watch this scene ever again without looking at the thermostat
literally the whole time the well since they've already kinda grew in the first
half
the boss confrontation scene wanna break the fourth wall on the second half where
the narrator kicks his own ass
this part here where he's on the floor bleeding out his nose there's actually a
died crawling on the floor behind Edward Norton
squirting the fake blood through to it clearly this guy is a pro
and squirting big work for two I mean a pro
look at that good that works
Tyler turns out it's are pretty memorable
but a lot of people including the MPAA didn't seem to pay much attention to
this tank top that he wears at the end of the film because you're not seeing
any other that shirt right there
is a collage of pornography Motion Picture Association of America
you know the guys who give movie ratings were actually really tough on Fight Club
there are a lot of things left on the cutting room for just to get it down to
an R rating but the poor sure
apparently wasn't one because the NBA just did notice
colonie executives box but I noticed the pervy narrator
always notice okay so during the sequence with the narrator's trying to
track down Tyler there's this see
where he looks at the phone bill for clues we probably don't know is the
numbers on the bill
were fake ones like they usually are in movies apparently Tyler had been dialing
Hollywood mega agency CAA all night
david Vitter put that in there because he figured that CA wouldn't sue
and even if they did they have to sue themselves simpson here's a couple be
strictly
see the movie marquee writer that theater is showing seven years in Tibet
which of course
stars Brad Pitt and later on in the same seen the other marquee in the distance
for the people versus larry flint Edward Norton Norton in Pitt are the only ones
with nods to the earlier work David Fincher has 12
it was just a complete coincidence the station wagon in this scene here happens
to also be in the movie the game which Fisher had directed
two years before Fight Club he just as production to get him old beat-up car
well in the wagon ride it looked nearly familiar to
even realized it was the same one the use in this scene with michael douglas
in jeans report I know one fact right T
let's finish on mark hub I i mean I don't ban me
finish on my hon I mean you well you know I never mind actually
maybe I did mean and I am I am approving a reader anyway marla has some of the
best lines in the movie
including this one my guy I haven't quite like that since grade school
fans the book will know the original line was even more controversial
so controversial that part execs insisted that interchange
which he did but they were able to fill many alternate until recieved
after principal and the reshoots for the scene was shot in of all places
a church rectory knowing that little bit of Informix morals like
even more awesomely wrong doesn't it even the camera operator started
cracking up over our bond partners delivery
shot cuts out one frame before the camera starts shaking from him laugh
well those are seven thanks for today but the first rule of things you didn't
know is
tell everyone about things you didn't know in the second row is the same as
the first
so if you guys tell enough people maybe we'll do a part 21 Fight Club
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