Seven things you didn't know about 'Fight Club'
The film, released in 1999, has become a cult film.
Brad Pitt charged 7 times more for his role than Edward Norton.
Do you know why Starbucks cups appear in every scene?
In 1999, under the direction of David Fincher, The Fight Club was released. Based on the homonymous novel by Chuck Palahniuk, Edward Norton, Brad Pitt and Helena Bonham Carter starred in a film that received very good reviews from critics and audiences.
The American medium Fox News has compiled 7 keys to the film that you surely did not know about the casting, the script, or the incidents during filming.
The casting
If with Edward Norton and Brad Pitt they were clear that they were going to be the protagonists, the same did not happen with Helena Bonham Carter. Norton wanted Courtney Love, his partner at the time, to play the character of Marla, according to the novel's writer.
Fincher was against Love and proposed Julia Louis-Dreyfus -known from Seinfeld-, but in the end they ended up deciding on Bonham.
Sick from smoking
Marla's character had to constantly smoke on tape. So much so that the actress who played her gave the director "an X-ray of my lungs" at the end of filming, as she herself said in an interview.
“I had bronchitis from smoking for 6 months on set. Fincher was obsessed with smoke, so she had to sit around with a graveyard of cigarette butts all the time,” notes Bonham Carter.
Salary differences
Brad Pitt was a much better known star than Edward Norton at the time, and he was paid for the film 7 times more than his co-star. Pitt received $17.5 million and Norton $2.5 million.
Starbucks cups
Did you know that a cup of Starbucks brand coffee is always hidden in every scene of the movie? David Fincher explains that he loved it when the brand opened its doors in 1984, but then he saw how one had opened on every street.
Fincher gave the script to the execs at Starbucks and at the end they added the joke of putting coffee cups everywhere, just like everywhere else in America.
Too offensive phrase
In one of the original lines from the film's script, Marla told Tyler after they had sex for the first time, "I want to have your abortion." For Fox that phrase was too offensive and they begged Fincher to change it.
He agreed on the condition that the replacement phrase not be vetoed in any way. At the end, Marla said, "My God, I haven't been fucked like this since grade school."
Accidents on set
The fight scenes of the film were always involving their protagonists in risks. Both Pitt and Norton suffered broken thumbs and ribs, as well as some head concussions. Occupational hazards.
Rock star?
In one of the film's scenes, Tyler tells the fight club members: "Television educates us to believe that one day we will be millionaires and rock stars, but we won't."
Coincidences of life, as he says it he is looking at a young Jared Leto, currently a famous actor and a great rock star with his group 30 seconds to Mars.
