FIGHT CLUB!!!

This is my favorite movie.  It's got Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, Helena Bonham Carter, Jared Leto, and even Meat Loaf!  I've seen the movie 12 times and every time I watch it, I like it even more.  If you haven't seen it yet, what are you waiting for?? And if you've only seen it once, WATCH IT AGAIN!!!  Every time you watch it, something new pops out.  It's awesome!  I don't wanna spoil too much of the movie but I wanted to get down a few quotes, the rules, a poem, and all the things that "he" is (you'll have to see it to know what I'm talkin about there).

Quotes:

When you're dying, people really listen to you... instead of just waiting for their turn to speak.
If you were to die right now, how would you feel about your life?
The things you own, end up owning you.
I want you to hit me as hard as you can.
Do not watch.  I can not go when you watch.
I am Jack's colen.  I get cancer, I kill Jack.
Fight club became the reason to cut your hair short or trim your nails.
I wanted to put a bullet between the eyes of every panda that wouldn't screw to save its species.
Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.
Without pain, without sacrifice, you would have nothing.
            Its only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.

      I'm f---in' Lou.  Who the f--- are you?
               For some reason I thought of my first fight....  with Tyler.
           You are not your job.  You are not how much money you make.
                  You're not the car you drive. You're not  the clothes you wear.
           You're not your f---in' khakis.
Sooner or later, we all became what Tyler wanted us to be.
We are the all singing, all dancing crap of the world.
In Tyler we trusted.
Was I asleep?  Had I slept?
Is Tyler my bad dream or am I Tylers?
I was living in a perpetual state of Deja Vu.  Everywhere I went I felt I was already there. (BIG LINE)
You wanna make an omlet, you gotta break some eggs.
Why do you want to put a gun to your head? ;  Not my head. Our head.
You met me at a very strange time in my life.
You determine your own involvement.
I felt like destroying something beautiful.



                      The Poem:

                                            Worker bees can leave
                                      even drones can fly away
                               the queen is their slave


 
 

The Rules:

1.  The first rule of Fight Club is, you do not talk about Fight Club.
2.  The second rule of Fight Club is, you do NOT talk about Fight Club.
3.  Someone yells stop, goes limp, taps out, the fight is over.
4.  Only two guys to a fight.
5.  One fight at a time.
6.  No shirts, no shoes.
7.  Fights go on as long as they have to.
8.  If it's your first night at fight club........  you have to fight.
 
 
 

                                   All that "he" is:

I am Jack's raging bowl duct
I am Jack's cold sweat
I am Jack's complete lack of surprise
I am Jack's smirking revenge
I am Jack's wasted life
I am Jack's inflamed sense of rejection
I am Jack's broken heart
 

The Following Trivia Came Directly From IMDB.com:
 
"Director David Fincher shot over 1,500 reels of film, more than three times the normal amount.
 
Brad Pitt's character was originally going to recite a workable recipe for home-made explosives. In the interest of public safety, the filmmakers decided to substitute fictional, dud recipes for the real ones.
 
Author Chuck Palahniuk actually found the modified ending in the film to be better than the one he had written in the novel.
 
Although he refused to smoke in Rounders (1998) (despite his character being written as a smoker), Edward Norton did smoke in this film.
 
During an exterior shot in a residential, urban area, a man in one of the apartments above the working film crew got annoyed with the noise and threw a 40 oz. beer bottle at them. The bottle hit director of photography Jeff Croneweth who was not seriously injured and the man was arrested shortly afterwards.
 
The reverse-tracking shot out of the trash can, an elaborate computer graphic, was the very last shot to be added to the film - as almost an afterthought by the director. It required so much processing time that it almost had to be spliced in "wet" - i.e., fresh from the lab - so that the film could be duplicated oon schedule.
 
In the short scene when Pitt and Norton are drunk and hitting golf balls, they really are drunk, and the golf balls are sailing directly into the side of the catering truck.
 
During rehearsals Brad Pitt and Edward Norton found out that they both hated the new Volkswagen Beetle with a passion. In the film they are seen banging a Volkswagen Beetle with baseball bats.
 
One of Project Mayhem's acts of vandalism is the destruction of a display of Apple Macintosh computers. The explosion occurs at exactly 84 minutes into the film, an ironic reference to Apple's famous tribute to Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four" when they debuted the Macintosh during the 1984 Super Bowl.
 
The brown station wagon against which Edward Norton falls in his first fight with Brad Pitt is the same brown station wagon used in Game, The (1997), in which Michael Douglas hid while James Rebhorn drove him to CRS headquarters. The car has a CRS sticker on the windshield.
 
Three detectives in the film are named Detective Andrew, Detective Kevin, and Detective Walker. Andrew Kevin Walker was the writer of the David Fincher film Se7en (1995), and did some uncredited work on Fight Club's script.
 
As Tyler jumps into the red convertible outside of the airport a man can be heard yelling, 'Hey, that's my car.'
 
In Tyler Durden's house there is a Movieline magazine cover featuring Drew Barrymore, a close friend of Edward Norton.
 
While Edward Norton is trying to convince Helena Bonham Carter to leave the city by bus, a couple of cinemas are visible with signs announcing the movies Seven Years in Tibet (1997) (starring Brad Pitt), People vs. Larry Flynt, The (1996) (starring Norton) and Wings of the Dove, The (1997) (starring Carter).
 
The telephone number of the Paper Street Soap Company (as printed on the phone the Narrator uses to call the "1888" office building near the end of the movie) is (288) 555-1534. The Paper Street Soap Company's phone number as listed on Tyler's business card is (288) 555-0153. Jack's boss' business card shows a phone number of (288) 555-0138. At the time of the film's release, area code 288 was "reserved for future use".
 
The ZIP code on Tyler's card is 19808, which is Wilmington, Delaware.
 
The "filing cabinet" apartment block that the Narrator lives in is called "Pierson Towers", and the motto is "a place to be somebody" which is the city motto for Wilmington, Delaware.
 
There really is a Paper St. in Wilmington, Delaware, but there's no street number 1537 (the numbers on that street don't go that high).
 
The film appears to take place in Wilmington, the largest city in Delaware, where most credit card companies and 60% of Fortune 500 companies are incorporated. The cities mentioned in the car-smashing scene include New Castle, Delaware City, and Penns Grove, NJ, which are all very close to Wilmington.
 
The typeface used for the titles and logo is named "Big Science".
 
Some of fake names used by the narrator in the self-help groups are names of characters in Planet of the Apes (1968), as well as classic roles played by Robert De Niro.
 
Director Of Photography Jeff Cronenweth's sister, Christie has a cameo in the film as the airline check-in attendant.
 
Cameo: [Kevin Scott Mack] Visual effects supervisor is one of the terrified passengers of the plummeting jet.
 
Cameo: [Ed Kowalczyk] member of the band Live plays the waiter who serves the Narrator and Marla with the line, "Sir, anything you want is free of charge, Sir."
 
The Narrator and Tyler walk out of the basement. It rains. A driver steps out of a limo, and says, "Don't worry, Mr. Durden - airport parking. Long term." He looks at the Narrator, not Tyler.
 
In the press packages released for Fight Club, which came in the form of Ikea-esque catalogues, Edward Norton's character is referred to as "Jack".
 
The only remaining pink and white giant "fat soap" prop (appox. 12" x 10") featured in Fight Club can be seen briefly but clearly behind the character Warren Henley in a scene in the film Automatic (2001) as a framed piece of art.
 
Composition books filled with sociopathic ramblings also appear in Se7en (1995), also directed by David Fincher and also starring Brad Pitt.
 
In the closed captioning for "Fight Club," whenever The Narrator speaks and is not seen, the closed caption begins with "Rupert:"
 
The original "pillow talk"-scene had Marla saying "I want to have your abortion". When this was objected, it was exchanged for what we see now: "I haven't been fucked like that since grade school". When those who had protested saw this they were even more outraged and wanted the original line back. But by then it was too late.
 
Marla Singer (Helena Bonham Carter) says she goes to support groups because "It's cheaper than a movie, and there's free coffee". In Margaret's Museum (1995) (starring Helena Bonham Carter), Kate Nelligan says she goes to funerals because it's cheaper than bingo, and there's free food.
 
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Trivia items below here contain information that may give away important plot points. You may not want to read any further if you've not already seen this title.
 
 
SPOILER: Tyler appears in the film at least five times before Jack glimpses him on the moving walkway in the airport. In the first four appearances, Tyler flashes onscreen for just an instant and is only visible when the Narrator has insomnia: At the photocopier at work; In the doctor's office, when Jack is learning about the testicular cancer support group; At that group's meeting; As Jack sees Marla leaving a meeting but doesn't follow her. The fifth glimpse is longer: the Narrator is in a hotel room on one of his business trips and a closed-circuit channel shows the hotel's staff saying, "Welcome!" - Tyler is in a white tuxedo on the far right.
 
SPOILER: After the Narrator turns off the electricity in Paper Street, he comes upstairs and spies on Tyler and Marla. When Tyler comes to the door, he's wearing a rubber glove on the same hand that Jack used to turn off the power.
 
SPOILER: For a brief moment in the beginning of the film, the Narrator can be seen as Tyler's reflection in the window.
 
SPOILER: Early on, we see the Narrator getting off a bus with one of the Project Mayhem folders.
 
SPOILER: The Narrator wanders the house while Tyler and Marla noisily have sex upstairs. When the detective calls and the Narrator answers the phone, the sounds of the lovemaking instantly stop.
 
SPOILER: When the airport employee "lends" Tyler the car, the Narrator and Tyler get in through the same door. After the crash where Tyler was driving, Tyler pulls the Narrator out of the driver's side of the car.
 
SPOILER: When Norton fights himself during the scene with his boss he says that he thought of his first fight with Tyler.
 
SPOILER: When Jack (Norton) is talking to the doctor about his sleeping problem, he states that he might have narcolepsy, for he sleeps and wakes up strange places that he's never been too. Later, he states that Tyler (Pitt) was a night person. In one Scene, Bob(Meatloaf) even says that he has heard rumors that Tyler only sleeps one hour a day.
 
SPOILER: On the airplane the Narrator mentions that they have the exact same briefcase. And although Tyler opens his, we never see the contents of the Narrator's.
 
SPOILER: At the payphone when the Narrator gets a phone call from Tyler, the sign on the payphone reads: "No Incoming Calls Allowed".
 
SPOILER: When the Narrator is traveling, frantically trying to find Tyler, he says, "I had the strangest feeling of Déja Vu, everywhere I went I felt like I'd already been there before."
 
SPOILER: When the Narrator asks the members of Project Mayhem what they did after they vandalized that building and made a happy face on it, they laugh as if he'd just made a joke about not knowing what was going on.
 
SPOILER: When the Narrator threatens his boss, after he finds the Fight Club rules in the photocopy machine, he says to himself, "Tyler's words, coming out of my mouth."
 
SPOILER: When entering Lou's Tavern, the Narrator enters first and the guy out the front only acknowledges the Narrator, as though Tyler doesn't even exist.
 
SPOILER: When going to the Convenience store where Raymond K Hessel works, Tyler gets the gun out of the narrator's bag. The Narrator obviously didn't know the gun was there, indicated by his astonishment "Is that a gun?". Despite the fact that it's his backpack.
 
SPOILER: When the Narrator enters the house prior to seeing the news report of the happy face on the building, he is carrying one of Project Mayhem's folders.
 
SPOILER: When Tyler is about to tell the Narrator about how he met Marla, the Narrator says "I knew the story before he told it."
 
SPOILER: When the narrator gets on the bus with Tyler, he only pays the fare for one person.
 
SPOILER: When Tyler and Jack are on the bus, the long-haired guy pushes past Tyler without a word, then says "excuse me" as he pushes past Jack.
 
SPOILER: When Marla calls Jack, he is surprised, and asks how she found him. She replies that he left her a forwarding number.
 
SPOILER: When the Narrator and Tyler are discussing their fathers, Tyler mentions how his father didn't go to college but expected Tyler to. The Narrator says that sounds familiar.
 
SPOILER: The Narrator claims that if he could fight anyone, he would fight William Shatner. In Star Trek episode "The Enemy Within" (1966),Captain Kirk (played by Shatner) was split into two alter-egos by a malfunctioning transporter; the two alter-egos, each a side of Kirk's personality, fought against each other before Kirk was eventually returned to normal.
 
SPOILER: After the scene in which Tyler asks the Narrator to hit him "anywhere", and the Narrator hits Tyler in the ear, he is seen at the office the next day commenting that life seems to have the volume turned down after a fight."
 
 
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