Goodwill said:
In the book, Tyler Durden (Edward Norton) does end up surviving the gunshot wound... Marla checks him into a mental institution, where the employees assure Durden that there will be a resurrection of Fight Club in due time. ;-) I checked it up on Wikipedia.
Yeah? I actualy read the book. That's what happens.
On a general commentary on Palahniuk's writing style, the man writes an amazing begining, a great middle, and total **** for endings. Its like he can't figure out how to end his stories and most of the time they just stop. Like in Chuck, one of the characters actualy says "well, I'm still here. I must be crazy". Then everyone walks off. After one guy ****s himself.
Or Survivor, wich had the most wonderfuly ****ed up premise and middle, but fell apart as it went on with psycics and whores. And psycic whores. Yeah.
His short stories are excellent though. I'd deffinatly reccomend Stranger than Fiction. The weakest part in that book was his Celebrity Pieces and I think that came more from me not knowing/caring about the people. Good little bit on Manson though.
As for the novelization of Fight Club, while I think that the movie did a better job of handling the story in the book Marla was a 3 dimensional character, and reading it gave me a much better feel for her and how she could live instead of the charicature that was made out of her in the film. I don't blame Helena Baunam-Carter for it either, I think the screenplay pretty much did that. Some of the changes worked out much better though, such as where they were initialy getting fat (stealing it from Marla's mother) and the Mechanic in the last third, who was swapped over with Brad Pitt (since the line "Tylers words from his mouth" had to be in there a dozen times I think this was a decent desicion. It simplifies things and removes an unnessicary character taht would ahve confused people in the long run)
Goodwill said:
I bought the movie today and watched it again... When he shoots himself in the mouth and it slows down you can see the bullet leave the back of his head. I kind of buy him surviving the shot now, however, it's still a stretch. I think Brad Pitt explains it, though - Marla is there to tie up the loose ends. Him surviving is tying up a loose end with Marla, the catalyst.
No, you see the bullet leave through the back of his jawbone. Theres a nice featureette on how they did that effect, going through half a dozen diffrent attempts. Now it does leave the back of "tylers head". He dies because he though he did. It was the narrator turning the effects of earlier back onto durden, who untill then had more or less been in control of preception vrs reality.
Anyway, if you can't tell I love this movie. It was the first DVD i ever bought, long before I had a proper player that could be hooked up to a TV and struggled through re-watching it on a computer that could barely handle it. Infact if I wasn't so damn tired I'd go watch it right now.
Planet-man said:
The first rule of Fight Club is: It's a s**ty movie.
The second rule of Fight Club is: It's a S**TY movie.
Get his balls. Our best time it 2:46 right now guys!
