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Sign In. Edit Fight Club Showing all items. Author Chuck Palahniuk first came up with the idea for the novel after being beaten up on a camping trip when he complained to some nearby campers about the noise of their radio. When he returned to work, he was fascinated to find that nobody would mention or acknowledge his injuries, instead saying such commonplace things as "How was your weekend? It was his fascination with this societal 'blocking' which became the foundation for the novel.
Today marks 20 years since David Fincher's Fight Club hit the big screen, bombing at the box office, polarizing critics, and becoming a cult classic with its faux-losophic quotes plastered across dorm walls. I saw it for the first time when I was in high school and immediately fell in love with it, although I could never really articulate why. Here was a movie about angry white men releasing their white male anger, and I was a sixteen-year-old Asian American feminist who despised violence, was incensed that war drafts ever existed, and squirmed during slasher movies. And while I'm all too familiar with the first and second rules of Fight Club You do not talk about Fight Club , two decades later, I'm still trying to wrap my mind around why a movie about men beating each other up felt so necessary and important to my teenage self. Even though few on-screen heroes looked like me back then, I couldn't have identified less with the story of a nameless insomniac office drone Edward Norton who attends support groups in church basements because they're the only places he can cry, has intense sex with a woman who steals jeans from laundromats and resells them at thrift stores Helena Bonham Carter , and starts underground fight clubs with an off-the-rails soap salesman Brad Pitt. Upon its release, Roger Ebert called Fight Club "macho porn" and argued that women, "who have had a lifetime of practice at dealing with little-boy posturing, will instinctively see through it. Still, I've watched it around a dozen times. In Best.
Not that people have ever really stopped talking about the polarizing, endlessly quotable film since it came out on Oct. Brad Pitt's Best Roles. The movie inspired more than a few imitators and catchphrases as dudes took to the basement to act out their own aggression. You're not really supposed to idolize Tyler Durden, though it's understandable why some guys might. But eventually about detachment, moral decay and materialism, about the id that lurks within, about how one movie can be so simultaneously appreciated and thoroughly disliked. Or maybe it just makes you think about Brad Pitt 's abs. You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone, and we are all part of the same compost pile. Esquire pointed out in , as the alt-right latched on, that the word had been in circulation as meaning more than a piece of snow since at least the s, when it was a political designation.
