Fight Club - Movie

aka: Forgive me Fincher for I have sinned

This will be short.

Because I have been enlightened...

I saw the film again today. I saw it as a movie this time. Not as a book to film analysis. Not as a crisis. Not as a research paper. But as a movie.

And it is perfect.

I mean that.

Quite flawless really.

I sat there this time with a look of awe on my face for the two hours plus that it was on screen. I had missed so much the first time around in my attempt to not miss anything. I heard lines I had misheard. I saw images I had only watched.

Fincher is a genius. This is filmmaking at the top of the game. Over 90% of the world's director's will never approach this level of moviemaking. I want to hug him and kiss his hand. He delivered one of the toughest adaptations I have ever read to the screen...perfectly.

See this film twice. Or else you haven't seen it at all.

aka: Two and half years in the making

 phase 1

 Why do I say 2 and a half years in the making? Answer: because that's when it began for me. Through the pipeline, from the grapevine, on the information highway, I basically gathered that a screenplay called "The Fight Club" written by a newcomer was gathering quite a buzz. It was "hot" as the industry called it. Already, a minor war had began over who would get the rights to it....etc. I took it upon myself to delve further into this mysterious screenplay finding out little more then that it was a movie about yuppies beating the crap out of each other. Interested??? Not really.

 phase 2