{"id":1247577,"date":"2022-01-27T13:39:29","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T18:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1247577"},"modified":"2022-01-27T13:39:38","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T18:39:38","slug":"fight-club-author-approves-of-chinas-censored-movie-ending-says-this-is-super-wonderful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fight-club-author-approves-of-chinas-censored-movie-ending-says-this-is-super-wonderful\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Fight Club\u2019 Author Approves Of China\u2019s Censored Movie Ending, Says \u2018This Is Super Wonderful!\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffight-club-author-approves-of-chinas-censored-movie-ending-says-this-is-super-wonderful%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1247577&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>\u201cThe first rule of fight club is you don\u2019t talk about fight club.\u201d But apparently, the first rule in communist China is that the cops always win.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At least that\u2019s the message being sent in the edited version of the cult classic 1999 film \u201cFight Club\u201d starring Brad Pitt and Edward Norton. Viewers began noticing the change on the edited version posted to China\u2019s streaming platform Tencent Video, NBC News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/china\/fight-club-gets-new-ending-china-authorities-win-rcna13661\">reported<\/a>. In the original version, \u201cFight Club\u201d ends with massive explosions to solidify the overall anarchistic narrative.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>However, the censored version available in China cuts off before the bombs go off because police have ruined Norton\u2019s plan. Instead, the screen fades to black and includes the text, \u201cThe police rapidly figured out the whole plan and arrested all criminals, successfully preventing the bomb from exploding.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Viewers were quick to address the edits on social media and in the comments. \u201cCheers to the great, great censorship,\u201d one Tencent Video commenter said. Another agreed, \u201cThe cut is outrageous!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But author Chuck Palahniuk, the man who wrote the original novel on which David Fincher\u2019s film version was based, was apparently a fan of the new ending. Palahniuk tweeted a link to his Substack newsletter and said, \u201cHave You Seen This Sh**? This is SUPER wonderful! Everyone gets a happy ending in China!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the newsletter, the \u201cFight Club\u201d author expanded on his thoughts. \u201cTyler and the gang were all arrested. He was tried and sentenced to a mental asylum. How amazing. I\u2019d no idea! Justice always wins. Nothing ever exploded. Fini.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Palahniuk said in an interview with TMZ that the censored Chinese ending more closely resembles how his book wrapped up. In the \u201cFight Club\u201d novel, the bombs malfunction and fail to detonate. Then Norton\u2019s character shoots himself in the head and wakes up in a mental hospital believing he\u2019s in heaven.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe irony is that the way the Chinese have changed it is they\u2019ve aligned the ending almost exactly with the ending of the book, as opposed to Fincher\u2019s ending, which was the more spectacular visual ending,\u201d he said, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/fight-club-author-chuck-palahniuk-says-chinas-censored-ending-is-actually-truer-to-his-vision-1235082239\/\">The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>. \u201cSo in a way, the Chinese brought the movie back to the book a little bit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The author continued, \u201cWhat I find really interesting is that my books are heavily banned throughout the U.S. The Texas prison system refuses to carry my books in their libraries. A lot of public schools and most private schools refuse to carry my books. But it\u2019s only an issue once China changes the end of a movie?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Palahniuk mentioned how he\u2019s very used to having his work altered by outside forces.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been putting up with book banning for a long time. A lot of my overseas publishers have edited the novel so the novel ends the way the movie ends,\u201d he said. \u201cSo I\u2019ve been dealing with this kind of revision for like 25 years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Foreign films are edited for Chinese audiences all the time by the ruling communist party. They are usually stripped of sexual or suggestive content, plus like in the case of \u201cFight Club,\u201d movies must always depict law enforcement as the ultimate victors over criminals.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe first rule of fight club is you don\u2019t talk about fight club.\u201d But apparently, the first rule in communist China is that the cops always win.\u00a0 At least that\u2019s the message being sent in the edited version of the cult classic 1999 film \u201cFight Club\u201d starring Brad Pitt and Edward Norton. 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