Saturday, November 3, 2007

I argue that the movie “Fight Club” portrays the same message of the book but in a different manner. Many of the lines from the movie are taken directly from the book. The movie puts other twist on the series of events that occur, that are very important. I actually like the movie more than the book; only because turning this book into a movie is really hard. What makes this book hard to turn into a movie is all thought process of the nameless narrator. The narrator has such a complex way of thinking which makes it hard to put that thought process in a movie, but the director managed to do it. What makes me like the movie so much is the way the director uses various techniques of filming to portray certain symbols, like the house or the way the space monkeys are portrayed. The book/ Chuck writing was sometimes confusing to me, I am not sure what it is but his writing causes me to re-read it a lot. Even with his other books I find myself re-reading sentences over and over. I really like how the movie incorporates ideas in the book into the making of the actual movie. If you look closely you can see blips of images that have been spliced in. In the book Tyler is a movie projectionist, who splices in images of pornography of dirty pictures of “body parts”. The movie actually has pretty gross stuff spliced in it, on occasion you can see a blip of Tyler standing next to the narrator, or you a see a huge penis that has been spliced in.

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