Before I read the book I saw Fight Club and it instantly became one of m favorites. The book and the movie are very much alike. The major difference between the two is the longer ending in the novel. Palahniuk has the narrator return to a populated area where he is surrounded by project mayhem. I like this ending better because it shows the inescapable reality that his anti-conformist alter ego becomes a role model and establishes a major change in the world. a task that the narrator never would have been able to achieve.
Overall this has been a great book, before reading the book I had seen the movie and was excited to read the book because often times movies loose something from the original novels they are based on. After reading the book there are many similarities but obviously many differences. As Will pointed out the main differences is in the endings. Palahniuk’s main theme displayed is the idea of appearance versus reality with Tyler and the Narrator. Even knowing the obvious plot twist going into the book I feel that the movie makes it clearer than the novel and was impressed with the authors ability to make things different than they appear.
Whenever I watch a movie that is based off of a novel I have read, I watch carefully for parallel scenes to see how accurate the film incarnation of the novel is, and how loyal to the original story it is. In Fight Club's case, David Fincher's (the director of the film) film version of Fight Club is very similar to Chuck Palahniuk's novel. You can tell by reading this novel that Palahniuk intended for this novel to have a very dark sense of humor and at the same time convey a bigger message. Fincher held true and really brought the book to life on the big screen. As said before, the only real significant change from the book to the film adaption is the ending. While the movie seemed like it had a satisfactory ending before I had read the novel, now I wish that the movie had this same ending. We get that final image of how much Tyler Durden has effected the people of Project Mayhem, as they await for him to get out of the hospital. In the film we see the narrator giving his fellow members of Project Mayhem orders after he kills Tyler, but in the novel we actually see that he has impacted all of their lives forever, and without him they are lost. This has been a great novel and has helped me further understand the movie. I enjoyed reading this more than any other novel in my high school years.
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Before I read the book I saw Fight Club and it instantly became one of m favorites. The book and the movie are very much alike. The major difference between the two is the longer ending in the novel. Palahniuk has the narrator return to a populated area where he is surrounded by project mayhem. I like this ending better because it shows the inescapable reality that his anti-conformist alter ego becomes a role model and establishes a major change in the world. a task that the narrator never would have been able to achieve.
Overall this has been a great book, before reading the book I had seen the movie and was excited to read the book because often times movies loose something from the original novels they are based on. After reading the book there are many similarities but obviously many differences. As Will pointed out the main differences is in the endings. Palahniuk’s main theme displayed is the idea of appearance versus reality with Tyler and the Narrator. Even knowing the obvious plot twist going into the book I feel that the movie makes it clearer than the novel and was impressed with the authors ability to make things different than they appear.
Whenever I watch a movie that is based off of a novel I have read, I watch carefully for parallel scenes to see how accurate the film incarnation of the novel is, and how loyal to the original story it is. In Fight Club's case, David Fincher's (the director of the film) film version of Fight Club is very similar to Chuck Palahniuk's novel. You can tell by reading this novel that Palahniuk intended for this novel to have a very dark sense of humor and at the same time convey a bigger message. Fincher held true and really brought the book to life on the big screen. As said before, the only real significant change from the book to the film adaption is the ending. While the movie seemed like it had a satisfactory ending before I had read the novel, now I wish that the movie had this same ending. We get that final image of how much Tyler Durden has effected the people of Project Mayhem, as they await for him to get out of the hospital. In the film we see the narrator giving his fellow members of Project Mayhem orders after he kills Tyler, but in the novel we actually see that he has impacted all of their lives forever, and without him they are lost. This has been a great novel and has helped me further understand the movie. I enjoyed reading this more than any other novel in my high school years.
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