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Fight Club Book Vs Movie

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Mason Witt Media and Film December 5, 2016 For my essay, I chose to compare Fight Club, by Chuck Palahniuk, published in 1996, with its movie counterpart of the same name, directed by David Fincher in 1999, starring Brad Pitt and Edward Norton. Overall, the movie was remarkably faithful to the novel, despite a few scenes being changed, likely to save an overly long runtime. Keeping that in mind, much of both the book and the movie was open to interpretation by the reader, which makes citing specific differences between the two stories difficult. The novel Fight Club is about (and narrated by) a raging insomniac that is never named, who finds that the only way that he can sleep at night is by sitting in on support groups for deadly diseases

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