“Fight Club” a 1999 Hollywood movie has gained a cult status across the world. The movie is praised for the issue it talks about at hand. In the high octane climax scene of the movie, Edward Norton kills his alter-ego, played by Brad Pitt. The buildings get destroyed, as a result of the explosion.
However, the version which has been released in China has a slightly different ending. There is no explosion, instead a message appears, saying that the police foiled the plot and arrested the criminals. It also states that Durden was sent to a Lunatic asylum.
The message, in the end, reads, “The new finale tells viewers: “Through the clue provided by Tyler, the police rapidly figured out the whole plan and arrested all criminals, successfully preventing the bomb from exploding. After the trial, Tyler was sent to lunatic asylum receiving psychological treatment. He was discharged from the hospital in 2012”.
The changes did not go very well with the writer and a senator in the US. Chuck Palahniuk, who wrote the original story in 1996, made a sarcastic comment via Twitter.
Ephemera: TMZ
— Chuck Palahniuk (@chuckpalahniuk) January 27, 2022
Dear Ted Cruz, Why is the novel Fight Club (as well as all my books) banned in the Texas prison system? Is that censorship? Or can only China censor things? Please hit me back.
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On Substack, he further added to his previous comment. “How amazing. I’d no idea! Justice always wins. Nothing ever exploded. Fini.”
Republican Senator Ted Cruz, representing Texas stated. “The second rule of Fight Club is ‘we will do and say whatever the Chinese communist censors tell us to do and say.”
It is not new for China to show an edited version of an American movie. However, a changed ending altogether has raised a lot of eyebrows.
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