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PKG.S12, NEXT $8, THIRD FREE ADDITIONAL $4.00 hit each other." And in a lot of ways, those two criticisms will be dead-on accurate. That's why Fight Club is very, very, very good. CASPER VAN DIEN CATHERINE DXCNBtRQ MICHAEL YORK MICHAEL IB0NSIDE to the narrator and says, "I want you to hit me as hard as you can." The narrator does this, and nothing is ever the same. The reason everything changes is not explained; that's something you just have to figure out. And that's why Fight Club will seem too weird for lots of people.

Of course, most folks won't be bothered by the weirdness as much as they'll be shocked by the actual fighting. "This film glorifies violence," they will tell you. If they're particularly educated, they might even say something like, "It validates the depravity of unadulterated testosterone." They will say this because Fight Club suggests there is a cathartic value to hitting people, and that all guys understand this (at least when they're getting hit). Moreover, it implies that culture has castrated modern males by taking away their opportunities to be men and there is only one way to get that power back. Fight Club is not about the espoused macho aesthetic of punching people to hurt them; Fight Club is about the legitimately masculine aesthetic of being punched in order to feel the hurt.

It's about toughness both physical and intellectual and it speaks to the male experience as directly as Thelma Louise spoke to women. Subsequently, a certain sector I SECURITY LIGHTED PARKING We Reserve The flight To Make Changes Lie. No 05H0-45 4 At- The Uanlffiirf "A Jl lUMIlrJUM VI 7 Crrvr rt 'iki of its audience will say, "Ttiisfilm is misogynistic." The only important female character is a suicidal nymphomaniac named Maria (Helena Bonham Carter), and Pitt treats her like an amusement park ride. Now, there is a reason for this. It can't be explained here (that would ruin the plot), but it serves as a commentary about the duality of all people, regardless of gender.

More importantly, the bizarre relationship between all three main characters illustrates just how talented these performers are. Fight Club presents a revolutionary idea, which is why some conservatives may tell you, "This movie advocates social decline." It also appeals on an emotive level that will prompt liberal alarmists to remark, "This movie ivill make people want to Combined TerrorXlsU OPEN THRU. OCT. 31 tVJLT Details Movie: Fight Club Stars: Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Helena Bonham Carter Director: David Fincher Studio: Fox 2000 Running time: 2 hours, 19 minutes Theaters: Tinseltown USA, Plaza 8 at Chapel Hill, Hickory Ridge, Canton Centre, Interstate Park Cinema 18, Huntington Street Cinema 16, University Plaza, Montrose Movies, Wooster Movies 10, Cinemark 15, Valley View 24 Rating: (extreme fighting, language, nudity, sexual situations) if1 A If) oun. a inu.

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He claims the biggest perk about having Fight Club made into a movie was the opportunity to bribe a female friend who works in the medical community: He agreed to introduce her to Brad Pitt if she would let him in on a few human dissections. "And it worked out perfectly," Palahniuk said. "I mean, meeting someone like Pitt is very interesting, but it's not nearly as cool as exploring something like that." S3 DEEP BLLESEA (R) TO 9:40. SAT. 5.O0, M-TH6il 53 THE IRON GIANT PG SAT It SUN WO 3:00 BOOK Pitt says his character close to way he really is Continued from Page El it was still a manuscript this is before it was ever published and she tried to get everyone she knew to read it "That was exciting, I guess, but 1 had also been told that only 2 percent of all novels got to auction, and of that 2 percent, only 2 percent actually go into SSroRIMOFrrEOAIIITlJO.MCWTHlfSatlO IGREAT OAKS 1-76 4 94 WADSWORIH 336-44641 "I think Brad Pitt is perfect as Tyler, because Tyler needs to be larger than life," Palahniuk says.

"There's a spooky scene where Brad says lines like, 'I look the way you want to look. I (have sex) the way you want to (have sex). I have the life you want to And when he says that stuff, he's really speaking as Brad Pitt as much as he's speaking as Tyler Durden. It blurs the line between reality and fiction even more." Surprisingly (or perhaps predictably), Pitt also has said his role in Fight Club is the closest he's ever come to playing a character who is similar to the person he really is. But how audiences will respond to such a diabolical leading man remains to be seen; like Fincher's previous work (most notably 1995's Seven), Fight Club is relentlessly grim and brutally graphic.

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