David Fincher's (DF) masterpiece is Fight Club [FC] (1999).
DF who's one of the most innovative and considered a great film maker himself worked really hard on producing FC.
FC is an american film from 1999 based on the 1996 novel by Chuck Pulahnuik.
The plot of the film is basically in summary is.......
Edward Norton plays the unnamed protagonist, referred to as the narrator, who is discontented with his white-collar job. He forms a "Fight Club" with soap maker Tyler Durden, played by Brad Pitt, and they are joined by men who also want to fight recreationally. The narrator becomes embroiled in a relationship with Durden and a dissolute woman, Marla Singer, played by Bonham Carter.
The director and the cast compared the film to Rebel without a cause (1955) and The Graduate (1967). They said its theme was the conflict between a generation of young people and the value system of advertising.
This film is a cinematic feast. As a Sri Lankan film fanatic that troubled rebellious men is a talked about factor and loved by film makers and fans alike.
Fight Club's got some hard hitting quotes for the audiences.
Tyler Durden : The things you own end up owning you.
Narrator : I found freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.
Tyler Durden : It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.
Tyler Durden : Listen up, maggots. You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else.
Narrator : This is your life and it's ending one minute at a time.
Tyler Durden : You're not your job. You're not how much money you have in the bank. You're not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You're not your fucking Khakis. You're the all singing, all-dancing crap of the world.
Tyler is like an annihilistic priest. His words are true but dangerous and if you blindly follow them it's chaos. And that is what you see in the film.
DF's approach and style in films are basically follows.
Fincher likes to map out camera movement with computer-generated imagery, commission intricate sets, gets heavily involved in post-production, and re-shoot footage after the principal photography has wrapped. He does not normally use hand-held cameras when he shoots a film, preferring cameras on a tripod, this most frequent use of a hand-held camera was for Se7en, in which five scenes were shot that way. Fincher likes to confuse audiences with his camerawork. Sometimes, it is difficult to determine whether a shot is human-controlled, motion-controlled or computer-generated imagery. Close ups are as little as possible. The interior of a refrigerator can be seen in a number of Fincher's films; this can be seen as part of character and story development.
All of these are in FC.
As a Sri Lankan many films like Machan (2008), Mille Soya[Buongiorno Italia] (2004) and Motor Cycle (2016) depicts the internal and external struggles of the youth and middle aged men of Sri Lanka.
And FC will be the one and only depiction of the American man's perspective in 1990's on consumerism.
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(Accessed date : 4/13/2017)
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