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TIL - China changed the ending to Fight Club - "final scene of the buildings exploding is replaced with a black screen and words that say the police discovered the plan, stopped it.."

www.digitalspy.com

Fight Club is back on Netflix UK, so let's dig into the classic ending

In the unauthorised version shown on Tencent Video, Durden is still shot and killed, but the final scene of the buildings exploding is replaced with a black screen and words that say the police discovered the plan, stopped it, and sent the Narrator to an asylum.

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So, to clarify… ONE Chinese company recently edited the ending, which the author (edit: author of the book) himself said more closely matches the book…
Sketchy but also not “China censors film!” Considering they basically showed all of it and slapped a title at the end to make it more like the book
- Aahh … the good shit comments sections were made for! Thank you!
- Sorta ya sorta naw?
  The explosion never happened in the book. Narrator was taken to an assisted care facility/minamal security facility that specialized in treatment and supposedly this was after 'tylor' died.
  One of the orderlies handing him his pills leans in 'we're waiting for you taylor.' pointing at the idea that no... project mayhem is not dead.'
  So while TECHNICALLY closer? The tone is absolutely nothing like the original ending.
- argue with the author of the article. it was something i learnt today.
  
  The author of the article said this? I am summarizing YOUR article lol. The movie didn’t come out in 2022, so your post title is misleading

Hot take, but it's not like people understood the plot of that movie anyway, lol.
Take a film/book about toxic masculinity and the dangers of capitalist societies and a bunch of 20 year old boys with daddy issues will forget any message and worship Tyler forever after.
- Arguably the movie makes the point harder to see. The book is a lot more clear about it. Similar to A Clockwork Orange
  
  The number of copies of the A Clockwork Orange book that omit the last chapter is too damn high.
  
  Brad Pitt cool guy whatta dude

Kind of like how they killed off Poochie
- "Tyler Durden died on his way to prison"
  
  Tyler lost his organs because he was a naughty boy. Don’t be like him.
  
  "...in Taiwan, China"

I was skeptical, but the New York Times agrees.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/27/world/asia/china-fight-club-ending.html
Now I'm kind of wondering how many anti-authoritarian movies out there have altered Chinese versions.
- Did you ever read the book? China's ending is closer to the book ending.
  
  handwobble
  Yes and no. Yes the plot was stopped. No in that the end card implies it was stopped cold and clean.
  Book implies the tylor peronality may be dead or may not be, but project meyhem still lives on.
- Trusting NYT about China is insane

We’re not supposed to talk about this

@breadsmasher
Nooooooo
- you’ve had an account for almost three years, and this is your only comment? 😅
  ed. Why is this being downvoted. I found this user interesting, thats all. jfc.
  
  Since we're on a decentralized service, you won't see every post of a user unless you go to their profile on their instance. You're responding to a Mastodon user, so most of her posts will be invisible to you because Lemmy does not support microblogging. It's a bit of a confusing quirk on the Fediverse - you always have to visit people's own instance in order to see their full profile.
  A quick look on Mastodon discloses that she's been posting punk and anti-fascist content for years. :)
  
  Everything else aside, that's kind of interesting.

I guess they really wanted to ignore how Project Mayhem had already infiltrated the police, eh?
That's only literally part of the plot...

Wasn't there a war in this film?

What the hell for? If you want to censor the ending of a film after allowing people to watch the whole thing .... why not just censor the whole thing and not allow it anywhere. The fact that everyone watched it will now make everyone who saw it want to see the actual ending.
It's like giving things to a teenager and then telling them they can't have the last minute, the last inch, the last piece or the last word .... you know full well they will do whatever it takes to get that last piece just to spite you.
- It's actually really effective. People are going to hear about a movie and if they feel like they already saw the movie, that's the end of it. If it's banned completely, they might get a bootleg DVD and watch the entire uncensored movie.
  Kinda like how TikTokers think they're well informed, and don't bother seeking out information elsewhere. But try finding anything out about what's happening in Hong Kong, the Uighurs, or Tianamen Square on TikTok. It's just not there yet people using that platform never consider what information they aren't seeing as long as there's enough there to make it feel like it's not missing anything.
  China is actually really good at censorship. When people see 95% of things they generally won't put effort into finding the other 5%.
- Had that been considered necessary, it would have been done.

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