Film - Book

This changes a lot.

If Marla has really lumps theres a reason for her to visit the support groups, not just like in the film "It's cheaper than cinema and the coffee is for free".
Though she said in the book at first, she wanted to know about death, make a death experience, see really dying people. This would fit her statement in the film, but the lumps wouldn't fit.

so?

It sucked. I saw the movie first. It ruled. Then I read the book. I couldn't stop visualizing all of the scenes from the film when I read it. I felt trapped in the movie. Because of this, I felt I was largely unable to read the book with a loose, ambiguous imagination. That is what reading is all about for me. Then I reread it a second time. Better. Definitely better. The pacing of the book, the way the ideas are interspersed with one another, like a poem really, stood out to me. It was better the second time around for sure.

Invisible Monsters is still number one.

This is slightly off topic, but anyhoo...

I had to find some filler credit (I'm a double major -TV-Video Production & History- senior in college) so I found a film and lit class and frankly wasn't all to thrilled to take it,, god knows I didn't want to have to watch Citizen Kane, analyze, and write another paper about it. But then somthing miraculous happened, on the book list Fight Club was listed! So now I'm uber psyched for this class, where else am I going to get to re-read my favorite author, watch one of my favorite movies, and joyfully write a paper about it?

Do you mean you wanted them to use Joe like in the book? They had to change it to Jack because they couldn't get the rights from reader's digest to use the actual articles.

anyways, he is nameless. i think most people just call him Jack to call him something instead of just Narrator.

The book vs film debate rages on and on.........

Personally, I think they did a great job with the film. And all those little nit-pickety little things don't bother me. What I love most about the film is the way David Fincher captures the dark weirdness of it all and makes quite a surreal story very real indeed.

One thing though - and this is a little nit-pickety lol - is that they left out the part where Marla says she wants to have Tyler's abortion. I just think that line summed Marla up in such a way, really puts the finger on her as a person, and I think that Marla should have said it in the film. It's a pretty contaversial thing to say and it would no doubt upset a lot of people, but hey, that's Chuck all over right?

Do I detect a hint of sarcasm there damien_mayfair?!