Fight Club

Fight Club

Over the last few weeks, we have been looking at some of the modern day masterpieces such as Avatar, Inception, and Where The Wild Things Are.

We are at the penultimate week of this series and will be taking a closer look at the fantastic Fight Club: which was one of the best movies of the nineties.

Fight Club is perhaps one of the most iconic movies to come from that decade as Brad Pitt teamed up with Edward Norton for the first time, making an unforgettable partnership.

"The first rule of fight club is... you do not talk about fight club" - it was back in 1999 that those immortal words as Fight Club hit the big screen and showed just how exciting a filmmaker David Fincher is.

The film was recognised as an innovator in cinematic form and style as Fincher and co mixed a bland and realistic palette with more hyper-visual styles - I have to say they really work a treat.

Hard to believe that this movie was considered a box office failure after its release, but it has gone on to gain cult status, and is now very rightly more respected.

Brad Pitt and Edward Norton produced one of the most explosive partnerships as they both see life through very different eyes.

Norton is the uptight, suit wearing kind while Tyler Durden is the laid-back answer to no one kind of guy.

These two couldn't be more different and yet together they cause hell in this exciting and intense movie.

This remains one of Pitt's greatest performances as he plays Durden as this intense and violent character and he is someone who holds you attention for the entire movie.

You can't talk about Fight Club without a little mention of the violence, which as you may expect was frowned upon.

However the violence that was condemned when it was released was merely a metaphor for feeling and wasn't there to glorify physical combat.

Fight Club really is filmmaking at its finest, and is a movie that will keep audiences on the edge of their seat from start to finish.

Fifteen years on, and Fight Club is a movie that is still held in the highest regard and is a film that has never been equalled.


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