'Fight Club', released in 1999, is a movie adaptation of a novel of the same title by Chuck Palahniuk. Directed by David Fincher, it stars Edward Norton as its unnamed narrator and Brad Pitt as Tyler Durden.
The narrator meets soap salesman Tyler Durden, with whom he later decides to organize a secret fight club. Although underground, the fight club gains immense popularity and its membership grows. Tyler's leadership turns the club into Project Mayhem, whereby the club conducts various acts of vandalism in the city.
While Tyler is away on a trip, one of the club's members dies in one of their missions. The narrator, who has had minimal involvement in the club's destructive activities, tries to shut down Project Mayhem. Conducting investigations, he soon discovers that Project Mayhem has already spread like wild fire to other cities. In one of his trips, someone points out that he is Tyler Durden.
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Figure 1. In this scene, Tyler and the narrator decides to have a fist fight for no reason at all. This scene was spoofed by ToyHollywood.com in this video. |
A call to his girlfriend Marla (played by Helena Bonham Carter), who also has had affairs with Tyler, reveals that Tyler is actually just a split personality of the narrator.
The narrator soon finds out that Tyler's network is about to cripple the financial system by blowing up critical buildings, and attempts to stop the operation on his own (he can't get police help because the system has already been infiltrated by fight club members).
He fights Tyler but finds this difficult because they share the same body. In the end he fires a non-fatal shot at himself, which 'kills' Tyler and releases him from his body.
The narrator gets the girl Marla in the end, but it wasn't a happy ending. From where they are, the couple witnesses the destruction of the financial district as the bombs planted by Tyler's group detonate.
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