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** Creator/ReeseWitherspoon and Creator/ReneeZellweger turned down the role of Marla, because they found the film too dark. Creator/SarahMichelleGellar turned it down due to her commitment to ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. Creator/JaneaneGarofalo, was considered for the part of Marla but ruled herself out because of the sexual content. Creator/WinonaRyder was also also considered.
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** Creator/ReeseWitherspoon and Creator/ReneeZellweger turned down the role of Marla, because they found the film too dark. Creator/SarahMichelleGellar turned it down due to her commitment to ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. Creator/JaneaneGarofalo, was considered for the part of Marla but ruled herself out because of the sexual content. Creator/WinonaRyder was also also considered.
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** Creator/ReeseWitherspoon and Creator/ReneeZellweger turned down the role of Marla, because they found the film too dark. Creator/SarahMichelleGellar turned it down due to her commitment to ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. Creator/JaneaneGarofalo, was considered for the part of Marla but ruled herself out because of the sexual content. Music/CourtneyLove and Creator/WinonaRyder were also considered.
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** Creator/ReeseWitherspoon and Creator/ReneeZellweger turned down the role of Marla, because they found the film too dark. Creator/SarahMichelleGellar turned it down due to her commitment to ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. Creator/JaneaneGarofalo, was considered for the part of Marla but ruled herself out because of the sexual content. Music/CourtneyLove and Creator/WinonaRyder were was also considered.also considered.
** Additionally, Music/CourtneyLove [[https://www.vulture.com/2022/12/courtney-love-brad-pitt-fired-fight-club-kurt-cobain-biopic.html has claimed that she was originally cast as Marla]] before being fired, allegedly at the request of Brad Pitt in retaliation for her refusing to sell him the rights to make a movie about Music/KurtCobain.
** Additionally, Music/CourtneyLove [[https://www.vulture.com/2022/12/courtney-love-brad-pitt-fired-fight-club-kurt-cobain-biopic.html has claimed that she was originally cast as Marla]] before being fired, allegedly at the request of Brad Pitt in retaliation for her refusing to sell him the rights to make a movie about Music/KurtCobain.
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* BannedInChina: Thanks to the Chinese policy that criminals in films are not allowed to win, the Chinese adaptation has [[spoiler:Project Mayhem be stopped by the authorities at the last minute and the Narrator sent to a mental hospital to be cured of the Tyler personality]].
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* BannedInChina: Thanks to the Chinese policy that criminals in films are not allowed to win, the Chinese adaptation has [[spoiler:Project Mayhem be stopped by the authorities at the last minute and the Narrator sent to a mental hospital to be cured of the Tyler personality]]. personality. Ironically, this made it ''more'' faithful to how the book ended.]]
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** However, the Chinese government reversed their decision after getting strong pushback from Chinese citizens who had seen the original ending through bootleg versions, and receiving criticism from international human rights groups.
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* BannedInChina: Thanks to the Chinese policy that criminals in films are not allowed to win, the Chinese adaptation has [[spoiler:Project Mayhem be stopped by the authorities at the last minute and the Narrator sent to a mental hospital to be cured of the Tyler personality]].
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** At the time, Creator/HelenaBonhamCarter was known for playing EnglishRose-type characters in costume drama. Her she plays the role that likely created her current archetype, which is dark female nutcases.
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** At the time, Creator/HelenaBonhamCarter was mostly known for playing EnglishRose-type characters in costume drama. Her The one exception was in ''Film/TheWingsOfTheDove'', where she'd played the scheming ManipulativeBitch Kate Croy, and had done a quite explicit (and dispiritingly loveless) sex scene. Here she plays the role that likely created cemented her current archetype, which is dark female nutcases.
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** The film taps into the zeitgeist of the late 90s and channels it very well: the technology (no one seems to have a cell phone, Project Mayhem plays pranks on stores selling CRT monitors and VHS tapes) and attitudes about airport security (the narrator is surprised and confused when his luggage is held because of a perceived security risk). Tyler's speech about how his generation has "no great war and no great depression" also firmly places it in a time of relative peace and economic prosperity when middle America more or less felt like everything of importance had been accomplished and all that was left was for humanity to slowly die off. Most importantly, its themes were in large part an exploration of a popular meme in TheNineties, the idea that [[RatedMForManly "traditional" masculinity]] was in collapse as a result of the ever-growing penetration of technology and the modern world. The film (and the book it was based on) was largely a {{deconstruction}} of those ideas, and of the men's movement that emerged out of them.
** Not to mention ''those hairstyles and fashions''! From the narrator's short haircut to Tyler's sunglasses, this film SCREAMS "Post-[[Film/TheMatrix Matrix]]''/Pre-9/11." Even the music, with its heavy techno influence, seems firmly rooted in the TurnOfTheMillennium zeitgeist.
** The film taps into the zeitgeist of the late 90s and channels it very well: the technology (no one seems to have a cell phone, Project Mayhem plays pranks on stores selling CRT monitors and VHS tapes) and attitudes about airport security (the narrator is surprised and confused when his luggage is held because of a perceived security risk). Tyler's speech about how his generation has "no great war and no great depression" also firmly places it in a time of relative peace and economic prosperity when middle America more or less felt like everything of importance had been accomplished and all that was left was for humanity to slowly die off. Most importantly, its themes were in large part an exploration of a popular meme in TheNineties, the idea that [[RatedMForManly "traditional" masculinity]] was in collapse as a result of the ever-growing penetration of technology and the modern world. The film (and the book it was based on) was largely a {{deconstruction}} of those ideas, and of the men's movement that emerged out of them.
** Not to mention ''those hairstyles and fashions''! From the narrator's short haircut to Tyler's sunglasses, this film SCREAMS "Post-[[Film/TheMatrix Matrix]]''/Pre-9/11." Even the music, with its heavy techno influence, seems firmly rooted in the TurnOfTheMillennium zeitgeist.
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** At the time, Creator/HelenaBonhamCarter was known for playing EnglishRose-type characters in costume drama. Her she plays the role that likely created her current archetype, which is dark female nutcases.
** Most of Creator/BradPitt's roles at the time had him playing people on the good side of the law, albeit with some being {{Jerkass}}es. Tyler Durden [[spoiler: is the BigBad of the film, and a personification of the Narrator's mental illness and anarchistic desires]].
** At the time, Creator/HelenaBonhamCarter was known for playing EnglishRose-type characters in costume drama. Her she plays the role that likely created her current archetype, which is dark female nutcases.
** Most of Creator/BradPitt's roles at the time had him playing people on the good side of the law, albeit with some being {{Jerkass}}es. Tyler Durden [[spoiler: is the BigBad of the film, and a personification of the Narrator's mental illness and anarchistic desires]].
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* UnbuiltCastingType: Right before Helena Bonham Carter made the switch to playing dark nutcases all the time (she was previously typecast as {{English Rose}}s in Merchant & Ivory films) Marla is less 'enjoyably nuts' and more 'tragic trainwreck'.
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* UnbuiltCastingType: Right before Helena Bonham Carter made the switch to playing dark nutcases all the time (she was previously typecast as {{English Rose}}s in Merchant & Ivory films) Marla is less 'enjoyably nuts' and more 'tragic trainwreck'. It would be argued that this is where her current archetype began, albeit being slightly more realistic than other depictions.
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* AllThereInTheScript: In the press packages released for the movie, which came in the form of an Ikea-esque catalog, the main character is referred to as "Jack", as he is on the back of the DVD, and in the booklet accompanying the DVD, where the Chapter list is referred to as "Jack's Chapters". Also, the original screenplay by Jim Uhls refers to him as Jack. On the other hand, in the closed captions for the film, he is referred to as Rupert. Edward Norton reveals that he refers to the character as Jack on the audio commentary on the DVD and Blu-ray.
