Fight Club the Movie

Fight Club was a good movie. It always surprises me what they decide to leave in and take out of the book. I can understand changing the ending to make the story more “Hollywood” and I’ve seen this in the last two books-to-movies I’ve watched.  In the movie ending, the alternate personality of the main character is shown with a hole through the back of his head. But that’s not how it goes in the book. I’m trying to remember what happened and all I can think is he ends up in prison somehow. Also I remember saying in my last post that this book has a love story in it. Well in the movie they don’t show it as much. There were several scenes left out where Marla was hanging out with the main character, not the alternate personality. And no, they never did give the main character a name. There was only the alternate personality, Tyler Durden. In the ending of the book, I remember all the people from the support groups he attends in the beginning of the story coming to his rescue and telling him he’s got support and doesn’t need to kill his self and blow up the building. In the movie.. he shoots himself and kills the alternate personality but he only shot through his neck (or so it seemed). Then he’s standing there with Marla watching all the buildings fall that were to blow up. It was all a little twisted around; all the famous scenes from the book were there minus the ending. There were also parts they added; like putting Marla on a bus to save her life. I guess overall, I liked this book-to-movie better than any of the others because I knew exactly was they were going for. Maybe that’s why when I asked a friend what his opinion was on fight club his reply was “I don’t know about that movie, it was really hard to follow but that makes me wonder what the books like.” After finishing this project, I called him up and told him he had to read the book. If he would have read the book he would know what was going on and where it was coming from. This is why I would suggest to everyone, in the case of Fight Club, to read the book first!! Happy reading and watching everyone!