The First Rule of Fight Club is...

You do not talk about Fight Club.

For anyone who had Dawn Ford for Digital Tools and Media Management (I'm not sure what the other sections of that class are doing) and are film pro or broadcasting, we had to create a trailer for a film we really enjoyed. I chose to do Fight Club, and I decided to write a post about the movie because I feel as if I've watched it maybe 15+ times now.

Firstly, it's also a book. A very good book. I know we're all film or animation people, but literature is really the foundation of everything we've learned this year. Without books, I don't think that story telling would be at the advanced level it's come to now. So Fight Club is also a book, and you should read it because it's excellent.

Fight Club is an example of a film that excelled in all meanings of the word. The cast was infinitely perfect for their roles. Initially, Brad Pitt was not going to be cast because the studio thought he wasn't talented enough to pull off such an emotional and disturbing role. Edward Norton and Helena Bonham Carter were almost not cast because they weren't super big names like Brad Pitt. I can't even imagine this film with any other cast.

Helena Bonham Carter has long been my favorite actress, but she excels in this role. I can't even imagine any other person assuming the role of Marla Singer. Trivia about HBC as Marla Singer: She had her makeup artist for the film apply all of Marla's makeup with her left hand because HBC didn't think Marla would be particularly skilled in makeup application.

Edward Norton was the perfect choie as The Narrator. He can pull of the boring white collar worker, and he also pulls being the secret badass who can fight. Here's some trivia: Norton had to actually drop body weight and muscle mass while preparing for this film. Prior to this film, Norton was heavy into body building and was actually more jacked than Brad Pitt. Obviously, because The Narrator is the "nerdy" one, Norton couldn't be more in shape than Pitt, so he stopped lifting weights all together, and took up jogging

Finally Brad Pitt as the infamous Tyler Durden. This is, in my opinion, Pitt's best work. I've seen a lot of his movies and nothing has come close to his performance in this film. Every time I watch it I am blown away by his performance. Seriously, every time. Maybe because I'm actually not too much of a fan, but this movie was the game changer for him. Trivia: In the scene where Tyler asks The Narrator to punch him, Edward Norton really did punch Brad Pitt in the ear. Pitt didn't know Norton was actually going to hit him, so the entire reaction scene is real.

I don't know how to go into how much I love this film without spoiling anything vital, but I recommend it to everyone. It's a movie that you will not easily forget.

-R.