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Fight Club is a 1999 American film based on the 1996 novel of the same name by Chuck Palahniuk. The film was directed by David Fincher, and stars Brad Pitt, Edward Norton and Helena Bonham Carter. Norton plays the unnamed protagonist, an "everyman" who is discontented with his white-collar job. He forms a "fight club" with soap maker Tyler Durden, played by Pitt, and they are joined by men who also want to fight recreationally. The narrator becomes embroiled in a relationship with Durden and a dissolute woman, Marla Singer, played by Bonham Carter.
Palahniuk's novel was optioned by 20th Century Fox producer Laura Ziskin, who hired Jim Uhls to write the film adaptation. Fincher was one of four directors the producers considered, and was selected because of his enthusiasm for the film. Fincher developed the script with Uhls and sought screenwriting advice from the cast and others in the film industry. The director and the cast compared the film to Rebel Without a Cause (1955) and The Graduate (1967). Fincher intended Fight Club's violence to serve as a metaphor for the conflict between a generation of young people and the value system of advertising. The director copied the homoerotic overtones from Palahniuk's novel to make audiences interested and keep them from anticipating the twist ending.
Fight fight for you or I'llFight with you
If you want me to stop
Implore me if you
Wanna fight fight our way
Back to the place where we came from
Back where they don't care
At all
About the drinks and shakes
And the morning
Tell me I'm boring
Well, I'll gladly show you wrong
I'll gladly show you everything I know
But you wait too long
I'm done, and you
Well you missed your first chance
At maybe
Having some fun tonight
You want the fun?
Than why'd we
Fight fight at all
Why'd you make me fall
On the ground and
Writhe writhe around
Like the yellow snake that
Sits upon your crown
Of wealth
And beauty
Oh, you're a beauty
But I don't want you to
Beautify anything
No I'm fine
I'm set
But want to make me
Fight fight for
Why? when you do
Not want to
Fight fight at all
And who do you think you are, tall?
No, hardly
You can't tell me
What I hardly want to do
I'll hardly be with you
I hardly want to see you
Fight fight your way around
With him
Why do you fight at all?
Why do you pout why don't you crawl
Right right here
And never ever ever ever do it