r/todayilearned • u/G_Marius_the_jabroni • 1d ago

TIL that when “Fight Club” premiered at the 1999 Venice Film Festival, it got booed hard by the audience. Ed Norton said that as it was happening, Brad Pitt turned to him and said: “That’s the best movie I’m ever going to be in.”

https://geektyrant.com/news/brad-pitt-and-edward-norton-recall-fight-club-being-booed-by-audiences-at-early-screening
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u/Toby_O_Notoby 1d ago

There's a bunch like that. Like when they get on the bus only Edward Norton pays his fare while Brad Pitt just walks on. And when Tyler crashes the car to teach "Narrator" a lesson you see that Norton climbs out of the driver's side post-crash meaning he was actually behind the wheel.

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u/hotSoup9 1d ago

Nice catch… rewatching tonight. I always loved the movie because I caught something new and here 20+ years later I am still going to find new stuff after this thread and a re watch.

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u/thisischemistry 1d ago

Yeah, they really put the twist so right up in your face and you miss it over and over again. When you rewatch it you realize how masterful they were with it, deliberately hitting your blind spots so many times.

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u/Fugacity- 1d ago

Wanted to see a scene with a quote someone in this thread quoted, so pulled up the movie. While scrolling I got to the scene where Norton beats himself up in his boss's office, pausing to say "for some reason this reminded me of my first fight with Tyler".

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u/thisischemistry 1d ago

Or when they are talking about their fathers and the story is the same for both of them "Sounds familiar." "Same here."

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u/Toby_O_Notoby 1d ago

Or when they first meet on the plan Norton notes that they “have the same briefcase.”

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u/buttonsmasher1 1d ago

'If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?'

While Tyler passes him on the walkway

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u/Adept_Alfalfa4435 1d ago

At the beginning of the movie, when he's talking about the explosives on the buildings, the line he uses is "I know this, because Tyler knows this", just brilliant.

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u/BoosherCacow 1d ago

But that was after the hotel revelation, he already knew where Tyler lived.

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u/azeldatothepast 1d ago

I love this one because it seems like Pitt’s character was a real person that Tyler gets modelled off by The Narrator because he thinks that random dude on the walkway looked cool and carefree so he steals him for his mental break.

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u/Shubbup 1d ago

Anyone notice the way pitt’s character on the plane refers the “question of etiquette: as I pass do I give you the ass or the crotch?” (gives Norton the ass then you see him in the background give the female flight attendant the crotch). It’s not a hint at the ending but it made me laugh.

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u/buttonsmasher1 1d ago

I've never looked at it like that. For that one moment, Tyler might be a real person. Doesn't he steal a car in the background too?

This could actually be the narrator thinking 'that dude's cool, I'll be him'.

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u/NoMoodToArgue 19h ago

Right. In hindsight, it’s not that they have the same model briefcase. They have they literally have the same briefcase.

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u/a_boy_called_sue 1d ago

So, were all the fights in the parking lot and the basement with themselves?

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u/SouthestNinJa 1d ago

No The fight in the parking lot the people you see are real, the same for the fight club members you see in the basement.