Fight Club Gets A New Ending For Its Chinese Streaming Release
The David Fincher cult classic, Fight Club, is getting a completely different ending due to a new online release in China. The original conclusion to the 1999 film sees the narrator (Edward Norton) slaying his alter ego, Tyler (Brad Pitt), and then watching the surrounding buildings explode as he holds the hand of his love interest, Marla (Helena Bonham Carter).
However, the version of 20th Century's Fight Club released to the Chinese streaming site, Tencent Video, will be entirely opposite to this. In this edit, the explosion scene has been removed and in place of this, the audience are informed that the state successfully prohibited Tyler's plan to cause destruction to the world.
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The message that China replaced for the original ending of Fight Club stated that the police figured out the whole plan to destroy the city and successfully prevented the bombs from exploding. Subsequently, Tyler was sent to a «lunatic asylum» after his trial and received psychological treatment before being released in 2012. Over the weekend, screenshots of the alternate finale went viral on social media, offending many fans with the removal of what they deemed a cinematic classic. One user on the microblogging site, Weibo, commented “There is no point watching this film without that scene.” While the ending of Fight Club is what’s often talked about in regard to the film, it is not unusual that it was eliminated as, in some cases, films edited by the Chinese industry even get an entirely new storyline in order to deviate from any violence or sexually explicit themes.
The censored Fight Club finale is still vastly different from what feels like a victory for the characters in the
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