Fight Club - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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Fan of Fight Club or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Fight Club

[jesse]

[10:08]The group leader for the terminal illness support group (Christina Cabot) is named Terri.

[kim]

[38:18]In the short scene when Brad Pitt and Edward Norton are drunk and hitting golf balls, they really are drunk, and the golf balls are sailing directly into the side of the catering truck.

[gabriel]

[42:55]The rules of fight club are as follows: 1) You do not talk about Fight Club.2) You do not talk about Fight Club.3) If someone yells, "stop", goes limp, taps out, the fight is over.4) Only two guys to a fight.5) One fight at a time, fellas.6) No shirts, no shoes.7) Fights will go on as long as they have to.8) If this is your first night at Fight Club, you have to fight.

[wesley]

In the scene where Tyler and the Narrator go to the liposuction clinic to collect fat for their soap, they hide behind a dumpster with a sign that reads 'Infectious Human Waste'. Earlier, Marla refers to herself as 'Infectious Human Waste' to the emergency services respondents.

[ruby]

When the Narrator is fighting himself in his boss's office he says that this reminded him of his first fight with Tyler. Visually, this is what his first fight with Tyler would have looked like in reality, vs what was seen on screen.

[steve]

[48:37]The sex scene between Tyler and Marla was shot using the same 'bullet-time' technique used in The Matrix (1999); stills cameras were set up in a circle around the bed, and each one would take a single shot in sequence. These single frames were then edited together and enhanced with CG, as both Brad Pitt and Helena Bonham Carter were fully clothed in motion capture suits during the shoot.

[sylvia]

In the end when the screen starts melting you can see for a single shot of a picture of a penis.

[christina]

Director David Fincher shot 38 takes of the scene between Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) and The Narrator (Edward Norton) in Lou's Bar after The Narrator's apartment has blown up. Each take was filmed with two cameras, and for every individual take, Fincher would give the actors a rough idea of what to do, and they would improvise most of the dialogue. The scene as it exists in the finished film is made up of segments from numerous different takes and much of the dialogue, especially Tyler's dialogue, was completely ad-libbed on set.

[ken]

Brad Pitt and Helena Bonham Carter spent three days recording orgasmic sounds for their unseen sex scenes.

[gerald]

The buildings that blow up in the end are all Fox-owned buildings digitally composited into the shot. It was feared that they would invite legal action against the production if they portrayed real credit card companies blowing up.

[chris]

David Fincher and Brad Pitt's second film together.

[violet]

[4:13]The reverse-tracking shot out of the trash can, an elaborate digitally animated sequence, was the very last shot to be added to the film. It required so much processing time that it almost had to be spliced in "wet" - i.e., fresh from the lab - so that the film could be duplicated on schedule. Due to the amount of reflective surfaces in the shot, it took almost 8 hours to render a single frame. The entire shot took 3 weeks to render.

[camila]

[29:10]Tyler Durden tells the Narrator that a woman could cut off his penis (see quotes). He is referring to Lorena Bobbitt.

[chris]

To ensure that Bob's (Meat Loaf) breasts and love handles hung correctly, his fat suit was filled with birdseed, so that it would 'spill' over his pants and give the impression of sagging flesh. Altogether, the suit plus the seed weighed over one hundred pounds.

[javier]

The front of the product packaging for "Avery 8293 Matte White High-Visibility Labels for Inkjet Printers" shows a sample usage of the label on a shipping package. The address on this label is, "Tyler Durden 420 Paper St. Wilmington, DE"

[cameron]

The movie's line "The first rule of Fight Club is you do not talk about Fight Club" was #27 of "The 100 Greatest Movie Lines" by Premiere in 2007.

[sara]

There's a briefly extended scene shown on the premium cable channels that's not on the DVD copy of the film. When the Narrator goes to Marla Singer's apartment to check her for breast cancer, Marla's breast is shown out of her shirt for a moment.

[alyssa]

The Narrator's name is not Jack, rather Sebastian. His name is revealed in the second novel Fight Club 2, written by Chuck Palahnuik.

[nora]

[34:57]When the Narrator hits Tyler Durden in the ear, Edward Norton actually did hit Brad Pitt in the ear. He was originally going to fake hit him, but before the scene, David Fincher pulled Norton aside and told him to hit him in the ear. After Norton hit him in the scene, you can see him smiling and laughing while Pitt is in pain.