Chinese Version Of Fight Club Has A Wildly Different Ending
thegamer.comFight Club, the 1999 cult classic featuring Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, and the late great Meat Loaf, has received a new ending in China. Whereas the original film ended with everyone’s financial debts being wiped clean thanks to a coordinated attack against America’s credit companies, the Chinese version ends with Tyler Durden receiving therapy.
Screencaps of the new ending are being reported widely on social media showing an English Language title card of the film’s new epilogue.
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“The police rapidly figured out the whole plan and arrested all criminals, successfully preventing the bomb from exploding. After the trial, Tyler was sent to lunatic asylum [sic] receiving psychological treatment. He was discharged from the hospital in 2012,” the new title card reads.
In case you haven’t seen the movie (or read the 1996 book by Chuck Palahniuk), Fight Club is about a nameless protagonist who becomes disillusioned with his materialistic Gen-X lifestyle, suffers a dissociative psychotic break, and then starts an underground boxing club. Eventually, those boxing rings turn into a front for an anti-capitalist slash anarchist organization called Project Mayhem bent on tearing down society.
Although there are some troubling takes on masculinity, the movie is ultimately about rejecting societal norms and materialism in general--hence why the movie ends with the destruction of every financial institution in the country.
Except in China, sensors would never let through a film that depicted the destruction of society. As noted by Variety, Chinese sensors are sensitive to any media that could be harmful to the societal order (depending on your
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