Fight Club Movie Vs Book Analysis

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As I read the novel, I couldn’t help but to compare each word to the movie. I may have just recently watched it, but I was suddenly unsure of what I had seen. Was my memory failing me or were things truly that different? I felt like these differences changed the entire story line. The narrator shouldn’t be in a building that was about to be destroyed, this defeated the purpose of Project Mayhem. Then again, I was only on page one. The first time I read the phrase, “I know this because Tyler knows this,” it didn’t faze me at all. I don’t even think it would have if I was reading it before seeing the movie. It just sounded like the narrator knew information about building bombs because his best friend taught him whatever he knew. It wasn’t After the crash in the movie, the two characters switch seats, but it is hardly noticeable. I was wondering if they would say that or imply it in someway, but the book took a completely different path. Tyler sent a member of mayhem to drive the narrator. It was an interesting way to look at the story. If it weren’t for the seat switch in the movie, I would wonder if Jack was arguing with someone else, but picturing Tyler. I am satisfied with certain parts of the book being removed from the movie because I don’t believe that making it overly violent outside the fight clubs themselves would be too productive. Violent acts like the broken perfume bottles causing blood to drizzle down a woman’s arms would add no positivity to the film. Also, if Marla actually finding a lump in her breast changes the dynamic of the relationship between her and the narrator. One major thing that I noticed was the repetition. I was going to write about all the scenes, but it was so frequent. The first one that I noticed was when the narrator described Marla in the meetings that he once held so sacred. He compared the members and the fear of their truth to the barrel of a gun being pushed against their throats. This was exactly what was happening to him at the beginning of the story by Tyler while he was tied up. This happened multiple times in the story to take the reader back and connect everything to each other. I enjoyed the way this was

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