Fight Club
Screenplay by Chuck Palahniuk and Jim Uhls http://realini.blogspot.com/2020/07/fight-club-by-chuck-palahniuk-nine-out.html
10 out of
10
Fight Club
has become a cult movie, and we can still read about the making of it in
contemporaneous articles – in Variety, one major performer was complaining that
she did not get the role in the film, because Brad Pitt aka Tyler Durden in the
adaptation would block her, the response was that the team had not promised
anything, there had been casting, as is regularly the case and eventually someone
else got the part – presumably, we are talking about Helena Bonham Carter aka
Carla Singer
Since it
was programmed last night again, I have watched some of it and thought that
this is a challenging, dynamic, entertaining, thought provoking motion picture
– you could read into the dialogue, the obsessions and give different interpretations
– an attack on consumerism could be the impulsive buying of well, everything
IKEA makes – incidentally, as far as I could tell, they have not been that
‘green’ here, they had bought some land in the neighborhood, but it has been
used as a massive dumping ground (not by them, but still, they should be
responsible owners and prevent that from happening)
Furthermore,
before this property deal, there had been a small wood there, not The
Yellowstone Park mind you, but still, more than a hundred trees, there was
other vegetation, irises which are still growing in my garden, and on the
streets of this gated community where I reside – as Anthony Quinn says in
Lawrence of Arabia http://realini.blogspot.com/2017/07/lawrence-of-arabia-written-by-robert.html ‘I am a river to my people, and
hence I volunteered and brought trees, plants, flowers from the fields to the
blessed group of fucked up neighbors, that would show their gratitude by being
morons and eejits – and all those trees and the rest of it would disappear,
albeit the law prevents it
Speaking of
this gated community, Fight Club was a good metaphor for it, and just as the
movie (and possibly the book) is a look at the way human beings fight, show their
violence – for real, or in the imagination of the narrator, for we could also
go with the version where it all happens in the narrator’s head – the narrator
is Edward Norton, a brilliant artist, though a difficult man to work with,
Brian Cox was saying that Spike Lee had to put him (Norton) in his place on the
set of The 25th Hour http://realini.blogspot.com/2020/10/84-out-of-100-for-25th-hour.html where the star was misbehaving
William
Goldman http://realini.blogspot.com/2017/02/adventures-in-screen-trade-by-william.html is the author of Adventures in The
Screen Trade, winner of two Oscars for the script of Butch Cassidy and The
Sundance Kid and All The President’s Men, he writes about stars attitude, in
one particular case, it is Robert Redford, who had convinced Goldman to work on
a script about the Watergate Affair…
They had
worked on Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid, which had been a massive success,
but when it was released and made such a splash, Redford changed his mind over
another project for which he had commissioned the same Goldman…never mind, this
is a new idea, and the Oscar winning writer works hard on what is a very
challenging affair, he has to talk to Redford, who is producing, through an intermediary,
and then the producer talks to that person, who calls Goldman, it is
pretentious, inflated and silly, but then after months of trying hard to make
sense of what is a complicated, nearly impossible to put in dialogue and lines from
the screen script, Goldman has the worst time of his life http://realini.blogspot.com/2023/08/all-presidents-men-by-william-goldman.html
Redford
calls for a meeting in New York and when William Goldman goes to his apartment,
he is met by the producer, who says ‘meet Mister Carl Bernstein, he will write
the screenplay’…I mean, fuck you, you made me spend so much time, out in the
colossal effort for such an impossible task, and now you tell me that you put
someone else on it, never mind that this is the fella that had been through the
whole thing, the hero, with Bob Woodward (incidentally, Woodward will be
Redford and Bernstein Dustin Hoffman in the Award Winning classic) which is not
what the brilliant Goldman writes, but I did
Dustin
Hoffman is another case of stardom showing off, while on the set of Marathon
Man http://realini.blogspot.com/2017/04/the-marathon-man-screenplay-by-william.html first he acts like a diva when he
is asked to wake up in the night and see his brother, played by Roy Scheider,
then take up a flashlight – Hoffman would spend excruciatingly long time in
arguing about the flashlight (we are told that this was so that he keeps his
macho image with his fans) and keeping the crew, his partner waiting for his artificial,
bogus pretensions, and then he mistreats Sir Lawrence Olivier on the same
premises
Sir
Lawrence Olivier was sick, had a supporting role, but as Goldman insists, he
was a glorious actor, doing his job under duress, while Dustin Hoffman wanted
to emphasize that he has the leading role, perhaps trying to get over the awe
inspired by the titanic Sir Lawrence Olivier, he (Hoffman) would drag the older
artist for many rounds, trying to understand this or that aspect, impervious to
the illness of the aging actor
In an
interview, William Goldman said that he knows only of Paul Newman and Clint
Eastwood as megastars that did not care to be adored and praised, it seems that
for the rest (or most, maybe those that Goldman had known) it is necessary to
hear how wonderful they are, and they react in strange ways…Julia Roberts was
supposed to lead the cast in Shakespeare in Love http://realini.blogspot.com/2023/08/shakespeare-in-love-by-tom-stoppard-and.html only dissatisfied that Daniel Day
Lewis could not be her partner, Shakespeare, because he had already started
working on In The Name of The Father, Roberts abandoned the production and
then, later, Gwyneth Paltrow will take the Oscar instead
Now for a
question, and invitation – maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more
than a million dollars with this http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/unique-in-world.html?q=unique+in+the+world – as it is, this is a unique technique, which
we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then make
lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do not
know how to get the befits from it, other than the exercise per se
As for my
role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/realini-in-newsweek-participant-in.html
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