The fact that Pitt's character wore a pornographic shirt so subtle that it slipped everyone's notice is brilliant. Just like the porn splicing scene! That's really nifty; art imitates reality.
You missed when the narrator's apartment is blown up and when "Tyler" calls the narrator at the payphone, the payphone reads in the fine print "No incoming calls"; hinting at the narrators alter ego.
Damn right. Additionally, Tyler "never picks up his phone" because Narrator is actually calling himself to his empty cubicle at work (because of the hour). Man, what an awesome movie!
+POACH THANK YOU!! I haven't met very many people that notice that "Tyler," answers with "who's this?" and "Jack/Tyler," responds with, "Tyler?" It's not just a clue, he's both asking AND answering the question. Don't know why people debate what his name is because Marla says it is "Tyler Durden, you fucking freak..." But anyway, I'm so glad to see someone else noticed that!
When the are bashing cars with bats...only the ones the narrator hits have car alarms go off and when they hit golf balls only the narrator's bounce off things....there are tons of clues throughout to the ending
Additional fun fact: Helena Bonham Carter, being a Brit, thought "grade school" implied a teenager, that's why her delivery is so innocent, she didn't know what she was saying.
Bah. Beat me to it by six years. But yea, in the commentary, she happily laughs it off. She hadn't known "grade school" from "graduate school" from any other subcategory of school any given country has a phrase for. And, hang on. Did they do the whole video without speaking the "I want to have your abortion" quote?
@@alm2187 As I recall, the abortion line was filmed, seen by a Fox exec who objected to it, and refilmed with the new line, but it was, as you say, 6 years ago.
Helena Bonham Carter had no idea what "grade school" was (as its called primary school in the UK) hence the perfect deadpan delivery. Thank god for cast commentary.
Another thing you probably didn't know is that in the seen outside of the bar where Tyler Durden tells The Narrator to punch him in the face Brad Pitt insisted it be a real punch. So his reaction to the punch is genuine, but thats not the best part. In the shot for a second or two you can actually see Edward Norton laughing about the punch.
*Here's something nobody knows:* As noted during Author Chuck Palahniuk and Screenwriter Jim Uhls' commentary, the seminary student/priest hosed by the mechanic is ultimately the winning combatant in the fight sequence immediately following the scene in which narrator beats himself up in front of his boss. Specifically this the fight scene that ends with the winner embracing the Mechanic while crying. Yes, that's right, the Priest joined Fight Club.
Well I did know, and I'm sure more people did. And the priest wasn't fighting the mechanic during the fight in Fight Club. Watch the scene again, and you will see the mechanic smiling behind the priest after the fight. Notice him smiling like "I knew you were a good fighter, well done man".
At what point did I ever indicate that the Priest was fighting the mechanic? I would have to check my copy, but I'm also certain that the Priest hugs the mechanic after he wins the fight; just like I said.
Sorry about that, I dont know why but I thought you typed that, my bad. lol Anyway, the mechanic grabs him after the fight and says something like "I knew you were a good fighter, well done man", like I said in my other comment. But again, I knew the priest joined Fight Club. I think I noticed it right after the first time I had seen the movie. I had to comment because you started with "Here's something nobody knows".
It was actually something almost everyone knows hahaha.. he could just have said: Anyone else noticed the priest joined up with Fight club?... but noooooo HERE"S SOMETHING NOBODY KNOWS THE PRIEST IS A FIGHTER EVERYOBDY
The line "I haven't been effed like that since grade school" was a replacement for "I want to have your abortion". MPAA went crazy and made them change it. I somehow feel like they knew if they asked Fincher to change it again, it would be even worse....
He actually got them to agree that he only had to change it once. When they saw what he had changed it to, they couldn't order another change because of the agreement
Btw, in later re-releases, they digitally replaced the thermostat in the office during the narrators confrontation of his boss. In the version I have, it stays white throughout the entire sequence
7. (Extended Fact) The line that was taken out of the film that marla was MEANT to say was "I want to have your abortion". - Don't believe me? Look it up.
Yep, I think I saw that on the Director's Cut and something always bothered me about that... how is an abortion worse than a grade school kid getting fucked? This world is fucking nuts.
rapidron From Imdb.com The original "pillow talk"-scene had Marla saying "I want to have your abortion". When this was objected to by Fox 2000 Pictures President of Production Laura Ziskin, David Fincher said he would change it on the proviso that the new line couldn't be cut. Ziskin agreed and Fincher wrote the replacement line, "I haven't been fucked like that since grade school". When Ziskin saw the new line, she was even more outraged and asked for the original line to be put back, but, as per their deal, Fincher refused. It has nothing to do with which one is more "right or wrong"
Matías Andrés That was cool, thanks for clearing it up. I feel that the morality of this country is a bit less in question now (not sarcastic :)... Dang, that's one clueless censor...
Actually, that's from the book. Tyler Durden works at night in movie theaters proyecting the movies, and because he is a sociopath he inserts frames of pornography in the films as subliminality for a really, really short period of time without anyone noticing it. They used the same idea for the movie in sort of a diferent way, regarding Tyler's character. And yup, I did noticed the two frames of porn in this video too ;3
I might never be able to watch the confrontation with the boss without noticing the thermostat again, but that is NOTHING compared to never being able to go to the movies without noticing the cigarette burn that signals the reel change. They're all digital now, but that was several years of being taken out of the moment by noticing that. Stupid Fight Club!
MP197742: As far as continuity errors go, this one is actually easier ignore than the notorious and better-spoken-of "disappearing bathroom beer bottle" scene from "Twins".
1:19 - Fridge brilliance: the Narrator (Calvin!) sees the thermostat, and possibly the lighting of the entire room, differently than his boss does. The shot with the Narrator shows it darker than the one with his boss, and thus this represents the subconsciously increasing radicality of the Narrator's worldviews. Why is this believable? Because, in the 21st century's It Was His Sled spoiler, the Narrator sees a certain person throughout the majority of the film who, unbeknownst to him, "both is and isn't there" as a result of the Narrator's mind. If an entire person/ality can be constructed whole cloth, then changing an a thermostat's color/lightning is nothing. Why the thermostat? Your guess is as good as mine, but thermostats do control "feeling the heat", and Tyler's projects increasingly involved the use of a lot of heat.
The cameraman did end up shaking the camera from laughing. It's when the car wash guy pushes the priest to coerce him into fighting during the "homework" montage. Norton chose the name "Travis" for one of his names at one of the support groups as an homage to "Taxi Driver". Brad Pitt snorting before him and Norton take their baseball bats to the VW bug was because both of the actors hated how everything from the 60's and 70's was now being passed off as "retro" to a new generation of young people. Meatloaf wore lifts to appear taller than Norton in the support group scenes because in real life Norton is taller (watch them talk outside Tyler's house before the "recruitment" montage and you'll see Norton actually has a few inches on Meat). Also, when they talk outside in the scene before their fight, you'll see that Norton an Meat are now almost eye-to-eye.
7. (Fact Add On) I read somewhere that Helena Bonham Carter didn't know what Grade School was, assuming it was High School and not Elementary School. So she didn't even know how offensively hilarious the line was.
the scene where brad pitt tells edward to hit him outside the bar, before the shoot the director pulled ed aside and told him to really hit brad to make it look authentic.
A fan theory I enjoy is The Narrator is Cameron from Ferris Buehler's Day Off grown up. In Ferris Cameron was the only one home sick and he fantasized what a day off for Ferris would be. The Narrator is Cameron all grown up and everyone in the movie is in his mind. (Kinda like American Psycho, Christian Bale only does his nefarious deeds in his own mind.)
***** I read somewhere that the Fox exec didn't screen what the replacement line would be, just demanding that it be changed to something else. Fincher decided to go with the new one out of spite, which was deemed measurably more offensive, and was too late to change it to something less offensive.
+andyproductions1 If you buy the dvd she actually says it, its in the deleted scenes on honestly they should have went with the abortion one it was so much funnier.
It's amazing what you miss even when you've seen a movie 10 times. I thought Meatloaf was excellent and an unforgettable character. Everyone remembers BOB. :o)
Did anyone else catch the spliced in image after the the video narator says "a pervy narator always notices"? Of course Ed Nortorn's charter is listed as Narator in the credits and the film is full of spliced images.... this guy makes damn good youtube videos. Hey O.P., yes you who made the video: what did you splice into that section and did I miss any others? *Did you catch the extra "the" I spliced into my comment? most common word in english so most people notice it
It's a still shot of porn, like how Tyler spliced porn into the movie reels at the theater. If you pause a vid on youtube you can go back and forth one frame at a time with the period and comma keys.
During the scene where Bob takes down The Narrator by choking him, there is about a three second shot that is encircling the two... as if we are given a complete 360 degree look at the fight. If you watch closely, you can tell that Bob's "gym" shirt is completely reversed. So instead the letters on the back are backwards, meaning Fincher had shot it the other way but it just didn't end up feeling or moving right. Super subtle, probably the hardest one to catch until you see it for the first time. I used to believe Fight Club was devoid of continuity errors... no movie is perfect my friends, which is what makes the whole moviewatching experience so interesting.
You forgot that when Norton punches brad in the parking lot he actually punches him in the ear and brad was just expecting it in the shoulder. Apparently it nearly popped his ear drum.
I knew about the shirt!! I saw an exhibition on Hollywood Costumes and you could get right up and personal with Tyler's outfit. Needless to say, I started laughing.
I heard that the Reason why Rule 1 and Rule 2 of Fight Club are identical ("You do not talk about Fight Club") is because during the Shoot Brad Pitt forgot his Lines and just repeated Rule 1, (a bit of Serendipity I think).
Hahaha! Around "thing 5" just after he says the pervy narrator always notices, there's a split second of something they've spliced in. Looks like two guys... you know. I haven't been able to pause it on the frame but it's there. And absolutely brilliant. A great homage to literally one of the best movies ever made
The soundtrack was written by The Dust Brothers who are a US electronica group. In the UK the Chemical Brothers used to go by that name and changed it to the Chemical Brothers. This is why their first album is called Exit Planet Dust
Regarding the last line: Helena Bonham Carter didn't know what gradeschool meant. She thought of it in UK terms, where grade school is "one leve higher". When she found out what gradeschool meant in the US, she was furious, and wanted the line cut from the film.
#8: The name of the "Narrator is Jack" Yeah the "Jacks enflamed sense of rejection" stuff? Written by most likely Tyler. Edward, Chuck and David all called the "Narrator" Jack, so its a pretty safe bet that it is his real name, especially if Chuck says it.
That's more like it. It really pisses me off when a video is titled "Things you don't know about some shit". How the fuck do you know if I know some detail about a movie or not??? Maybe I know everything. Maybe it is I who wrote the script. Maybe I am the director of the movie, and those things you think I did not know was my own idea in the first place. But when you put that "probably", it makes everything okay. You admit the possibility that your audience may already know what are you going to tell them. That's respectful. That's good. That is the first time I see this "you (probably) didn't know" type of title. And I do appreciate that. Thank you.
I got another one for ya, when the Narrator first reaches out to Tyler by calling him on the payphone he doesn't answer (later saying he never picks up his phone)... then the phone rings and the camera slowly zooms into the payphone and in super tiny print you can see "no incoming calls allowed". Also Tyler saying he never picks up his phone could be seen in two ways. 1st (the more obvious one) is that whenever Edward Norton does answer a phone, it's as the Narrator, never as Tyler. Even when Marla was rambling on the phone he never really "answered it", just listened in. And 2nd (the mindblowing one) is that whenever something major happens to Tyler, it's always the Narrator that is reaching out to him, not Tyler including him. "You decide your own level of involvement" ;)
All part of a great film! To look at these as errors would be appropriate for most other films, but this film is special and these flaws not only added character to the film itself, but they were also not very noticeable. The thermostat scene I remembered thinking the second time I watched it that it was just because his world was just so much different than the exec...
I can't believe you didn't mention - Bonham-Carter did not know what the line meant when she said it. She only found out later that 'grade school' meant what she knew as 'grammar school'.
I didn't know any of these, but from now on, that thermostat will always bother me now. Also, "I haven't been fucked like that since grade school" will now be even more hilarious to me.... and I want Tyler's shirt.
Finally a 'things you didn't know' video where I actually didn't know 6 out of 7 things! Please make a part two for this awesome movie! One of my all time favourite movies...
Thanks for not pointing out the really obvious ones like the 4 Tyler flashes. You really do get a lot from watching the film with commentary tracks- like even though I work in a hospital, I completely missed the humor of the sickle-cell group (sickle-cell primarily only affects people of African descent), but now I find it one of the funniest moments in the film.
Christopher Carbonaro it's funny (to me) because The Narrator is staring daggers at Marla with a "you have no right to be here!" look, meanwhile, all the African Americans who are there for the right reasons seem unfazed by these two Caucasian people in their midst. Though it is possible for a Caucasian to suffer from sickle-cell anemia, it is predominantly an affliction for people of African descent. In other words, if anyone should be staring daggers at a SC support group, it should be everyone else in the room.
Ard 2:20 in the shop where he sells soap to (if I remember correctly): did anybody else actually notice his pants are low, lower abs are showing? I havent heard this mention in any 'did you know about f.c.'
therollingbeatles123 1st rule of Fight Club is... you do not talk about FIght Club 2nd rule of Fight Club is... you DO NOT TALK about Fight Club 3rd rule, if someone yells stop, goes limp, taps out... the fight is over 4th rule, only two guys to a fight 5th rule... one fight at a time (fellas ;D) 6th rule, no shirts, no shoes 7th rule, fights will go on as long as they have to and the 8th and final rule of Fight Club is... if tonight's your first night at Fight Club, then you have to fight...
slug237711 I know a BDSM club with similar rules. They have the "dungeon" separated from the bar area and the rules are kinda similar: · If someone yells "STOP", goes limp or taps out the session is over · Only two people in a session unless you ask the manager · Preferable only 1 session in the dungeon at a time · NO PEEPING · No shoes · Sessions will go on as long as they have to unless it confronts with the closing time (6:30-7:00) · If tonight's your first at the club, you have to hit or be hit in the bar area
I really like how you added the captioning! I think 15 seconds of an ad is fair to watch... it's only 15 seconds :P I was shocked at her line, but applaud the writer to say what really goes on in the world...
I always noticed the thermostats and thought one was an alarm box or something on the other side of the room in the other shots. It always bugged me a little but now I will definitely notice
some viewers may not have noticed, that you can see tyler durdon a couple of times for a second (emerges for a moment and disappears again), before edward norton meets him at the plane. i remember at least one scene on an escalator and one in the hospital, where norton tells the doctor about his insomnia.
I have always enjoyed calling the narrator Jack... I know it's not correct but, being nameless and with how much he says "I am Jack's somethingorother" it feels right to me. also probably because when I was 17 and around the time I first saw Fight Club, I knew a speed dealer named Jack who was a total Tyler wannabe
In some subtitled versions the narrator is called Rupert after one of the fake names he gives in his therapy groups. But in supplemental material and licensed spin off material such as the Fight Club video game and early cell phone games, the narrator character is in fact officially referred to as "Jack."
CineFix - Marla's original line was actually filmed, but cut from the final edit and substituted for the "grade school" line. The original cut scene can be found in the Dvd's extras (it's on my UK release) - not sure if the same extras made it to the Blu-Ray release though
Awesome! I didn't know any of the things you mentioned(except that meatloaf played bob I knew that) but usually when someone posts things you didn't know about fight club ummm yeah they repeat them selves with facts you already know if you've watched the movie more than once. Great job guys! This was well worth my time watching!!!! ;)
I had my doubts and thought you were just going to state a bunch of facts that have been going around already. But you did it. Those were indeed 7 facts that I did not know about Fight Club. *Thumbs Up*
Another tidbit about Marla's infamous line is that, as was implied by our pervy narrator, the original line ("I want to have your abortion") was actually filmed for the movie. But certain exec's wanted it changed, of course, and yet when the line was changed to what we see in the film, one of the exec's came up to the director and basically said (and I'm paraphrasing) that they should've kept the original line.
I thought the thermostat changes was a nod to the old "white hat, black hat" deal in cowboy movies. You know, good guy, bad guy. It was a warning not to think of Edward Norton as the "good" guy.
Another interesting fact re: #7 - The original line was "I want to have your abortion," but a producer (Laura Ziskin) told Fincher it needed to be changed. Fincher agreed, on the condition that he would get final say on what the changed-version would be, and the producers agreed, assuming "well hey, at least nothing could conceivably be worse than the 'abortion' version." When they saw the "grade school" line the producers begged him to change it back, and Fincher refused.
The fact that Pitt's character wore a pornographic shirt so subtle that it slipped everyone's notice is brilliant. Just like the porn splicing scene! That's really nifty; art imitates reality.
And then most of those scenes are so dark it makes it even harder to tell.
nice...big...cock... 🙂
I noticed......and laughed lolz
You missed when the narrator's apartment is blown up and when "Tyler" calls the narrator at the payphone, the payphone reads in the fine print "No incoming calls"; hinting at the narrators alter ego.
Damn right. Additionally, Tyler "never picks up his phone" because Narrator is actually calling himself to his empty cubicle at work (because of the hour). Man, what an awesome movie!
+POACH THANK YOU!! I haven't met very many people that notice that "Tyler," answers with "who's this?" and "Jack/Tyler," responds with, "Tyler?" It's not just a clue, he's both asking AND answering the question. Don't know why people debate what his name is because Marla says it is "Tyler Durden, you fucking freak..." But anyway, I'm so glad to see someone else noticed that!
plus tyler's phone is a rotary which doesn't have a star, so he couldn't have star-69'd the narrator
When the are bashing cars with bats...only the ones the narrator hits have car alarms go off and when they hit golf balls only the narrator's bounce off things....there are tons of clues throughout to the ending
POACH when I’m subbed to you and find a comment that you posted 3 years ago
Additional fun fact: Helena Bonham Carter, being a Brit, thought "grade school" implied a teenager, that's why her delivery is so innocent, she didn't know what she was saying.
Being fucked in "primary" (that's what it says in the Spanish dub) means she was 6-11
Diego Ruiz grade school to Americans means k-6
Bah. Beat me to it by six years.
But yea, in the commentary, she happily laughs it off. She hadn't known "grade school" from "graduate school" from any other subcategory of school any given country has a phrase for.
And, hang on. Did they do the whole video without speaking the "I want to have your abortion" quote?
@@alm2187 As I recall, the abortion line was filmed, seen by a Fox exec who objected to it, and refilmed with the new line, but it was, as you say, 6 years ago.
Helena Bonham Carter had no idea what "grade school" was (as its called primary school in the UK) hence the perfect deadpan delivery. Thank god for cast commentary.
+danii manic England here.. i can't believe i never knew this ha ha cheers!
Another thing you probably didn't know is that in the seen outside of the bar where Tyler Durden tells The Narrator to punch him in the face Brad Pitt insisted it be a real punch. So his reaction to the punch is genuine, but thats not the best part. In the shot for a second or two you can actually see Edward Norton laughing about the punch.
You wouldn't shoot a guy with glasses?!
You're all over the place
+Assassin268 Pretty sure I've heard that Norton was supposed to punch him in the shoulder, but Fincher told Norton in secret to punch Pitt by the ear.
Hahahah I love how you sneaked in a porn scene at 2:52 funny reference to Tyler Durden's job.
How about 0:17?
As well as a porn moan! Good catch. Everyone's talking about 2:54 but NO ONE (except you, Mircea) is talking about 0:17. Good eye.
It's about the penis in the movie, towards the end, just for a frame like that. You can see the "cigarette burns" and then bam, there it is.
*Here's something nobody knows:* As noted during Author Chuck Palahniuk and Screenwriter Jim Uhls' commentary, the seminary student/priest hosed by the mechanic is ultimately the winning combatant in the fight sequence immediately following the scene in which narrator beats himself up in front of his boss. Specifically this the fight scene that ends with the winner embracing the Mechanic while crying. Yes, that's right, the Priest joined Fight Club.
Well I did know, and I'm sure more people did. And the priest wasn't fighting the mechanic during the fight in Fight Club. Watch the scene again, and you will see the mechanic smiling behind the priest after the fight. Notice him smiling like "I knew you were a good fighter, well done man".
At what point did I ever indicate that the Priest was fighting the mechanic? I would have to check my copy, but I'm also certain that the Priest hugs the mechanic after he wins the fight; just like I said.
Sorry about that, I dont know why but I thought you typed that, my bad. lol Anyway, the mechanic grabs him after the fight and says something like "I knew you were a good fighter, well done man", like I said in my other comment.
But again, I knew the priest joined Fight Club. I think I noticed it right after the first time I had seen the movie. I had to comment because you started with "Here's something nobody knows".
Johnny Pretentious Favorite, Everybody!
It was actually something almost everyone knows hahaha.. he could just have said: Anyone else noticed the priest joined up with Fight club?... but noooooo HERE"S SOMETHING NOBODY KNOWS THE PRIEST IS A FIGHTER EVERYOBDY
The line "I haven't been effed like that since grade school" was a replacement for "I want to have your abortion".
MPAA went crazy and made them change it. I somehow feel like they knew if they asked Fincher to change it again, it would be even worse....
He actually got them to agree that he only had to change it once. When they saw what he had changed it to, they couldn't order another change because of the agreement
Damon Dziewiontkowski the left would love that line now. Marla would be their big hero. Yas Queen!
if yu ask me the grade school line is waaaaaaayy worse than the abortion line
@@bigboofalopolis5951 agreed
Not all hero's wear capes! Thanks for saving me the Google! 👍
Btw, in later re-releases, they digitally replaced the thermostat in the office during the narrators confrontation of his boss. In the version I have, it stays white throughout the entire sequence
Thank God :'D
Thomas Torrissen I thought they did it on purpose to show that they were seeing the world differently. (jk, I didn't notice it before watching this)
I finally did it! I paused at the right moment at 2:54, lol.
Procrastinator just did that
Lol
haha wtf i did it too so fucking awsome =P
oh
congratulations TYLER DURDEN
best achievement ever you have accomplished yet
0:16 too
7. (Extended Fact) The line that was taken out of the film that marla was MEANT to say was
"I want to have your abortion".
- Don't believe me? Look it up.
Yep, I think I saw that on the Director's Cut and something always bothered me about that... how is an abortion worse than a grade school kid getting fucked? This world is fucking nuts.
rapidron
Safe to say their just as crude as eachother, how ever anybody sees it, I guess; right?
rapidron From Imdb.com
The original "pillow talk"-scene had Marla saying "I want to have your abortion". When this was objected to by Fox 2000 Pictures President of Production Laura Ziskin, David Fincher said he would change it on the proviso that the new line couldn't be cut. Ziskin agreed and Fincher wrote the replacement line, "I haven't been fucked like that since grade school". When Ziskin saw the new line, she was even more outraged and asked for the original line to be put back, but, as per their deal, Fincher refused.
It has nothing to do with which one is more "right or wrong"
Matías Andrés
Kool.
Matías Andrés That was cool, thanks for clearing it up. I feel that the morality of this country is a bit less in question now (not sarcastic :)... Dang, that's one clueless censor...
In this video, right before the number 5 disappears, there is a hidden frame with pornographic content... 2:54 - Blink and you'll miss it!
there's one at the beginning also
Actually the pervy narrator has 2 such hidden frames. Kinda makes sense due to the hidden porno t-shirt
Yeah, i looked it too!. In fact, in many frames of the movie you can see Tayler
Bravo ! :)
Actually, that's from the book. Tyler Durden works at night in movie theaters proyecting the movies, and because he is a sociopath he inserts frames of pornography in the films as subliminality for a really, really short period of time without anyone noticing it. They used the same idea for the movie in sort of a diferent way, regarding Tyler's character. And yup, I did noticed the two frames of porn in this video too ;3
I might never be able to watch the confrontation with the boss without noticing the thermostat again, but that is NOTHING compared to never being able to go to the movies without noticing the cigarette burn that signals the reel change. They're all digital now, but that was several years of being taken out of the moment by noticing that. Stupid Fight Club!
MP197742: As far as continuity errors go, this one is actually easier ignore than the notorious and better-spoken-of "disappearing bathroom beer bottle" scene from "Twins".
1:19 - Fridge brilliance: the Narrator (Calvin!) sees the thermostat, and possibly the lighting of the entire room, differently than his boss does. The shot with the Narrator shows it darker than the one with his boss, and thus this represents the subconsciously increasing radicality of the Narrator's worldviews. Why is this believable? Because, in the 21st century's It Was His Sled spoiler, the Narrator sees a certain person throughout the majority of the film who, unbeknownst to him, "both is and isn't there" as a result of the Narrator's mind. If an entire person/ality can be constructed whole cloth, then changing an a thermostat's color/lightning is nothing.
Why the thermostat? Your guess is as good as mine, but thermostats do control "feeling the heat", and Tyler's projects increasingly involved the use of a lot of heat.
Everyone's talking about the 2:54 frame with porn but there's a lot in the whole video.
there's only two i think
i literally didn’t notice it
i love how they at 0:17 flashed a pornographic picture, referencing how Tyler Durden used to do the same thing with film rolls.
In the scene where the bishop is hosed down by the fight club member, the camera shakes slightly as the camera operator couldn't stop laughing.
120percentNick That priest shortly later, is fighting in fight club and loving it.
"Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes. Working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need"
The cameraman did end up shaking the camera from laughing. It's when the car wash guy pushes the priest to coerce him into fighting during the "homework" montage. Norton chose the name "Travis" for one of his names at one of the support groups as an homage to "Taxi Driver". Brad Pitt snorting before him and Norton take their baseball bats to the VW bug was because both of the actors hated how everything from the 60's and 70's was now being passed off as "retro" to a new generation of young people. Meatloaf wore lifts to appear taller than Norton in the support group scenes because in real life Norton is taller (watch them talk outside Tyler's house before the "recruitment" montage and you'll see Norton actually has a few inches on Meat). Also, when they talk outside in the scene before their fight, you'll see that Norton an Meat are now almost eye-to-eye.
2:54 You cheeky bugger
Oh good I wasn't the only one who saw that
Lmao I saw that too lol
me to
also 0:16
so when are we getting the cut too bad for an R rating?
What's that?
Remember there's a speed option on UA-cam now. Just FYI... ;)
There is?!?
Michael Cruz go to youtube html5 and enable it, you get speed option now
you don't need that. just pause at the approximate timestamp and frame hunt with , and . until you find it.
The one drawback to that is, hearing “The pervy narrator always notices” at .25 speed is the stuff of nightmares.
7. (Fact Add On) I read somewhere that Helena Bonham Carter didn't know what Grade School was, assuming it was High School and not Elementary School. So she didn't even know how offensively hilarious the line was.
the scene where brad pitt tells edward to hit him outside the bar, before the shoot the director pulled ed aside and told him to really hit brad to make it look authentic.
Rob sanders Lol, I bet Brad Pitt didn't like that idea. But props to the director.
A fan theory I enjoy is The Narrator is Cameron from Ferris Buehler's Day Off grown up.
In Ferris Cameron was the only one home sick and he fantasized what a day off for Ferris would be.
The Narrator is Cameron all grown up and everyone in the movie is in his mind.
(Kinda like American Psycho, Christian Bale only does his nefarious deeds in his own mind.)
2:29 geez this whole time i thought that was a sh*t ton of Anime Waifus
YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO TALK ABOUT FIGHT CLUB!!!!!
It's okay, man. We'd ALL love to finish on Marla.
What was the original line?
andyproductions1 i haven't been f*cked like that since grade school.
CineFix Ughh... That's the line from the movie. I think he asked about the one from the book.
"I want to have your abortion."
***** I read somewhere that the Fox exec didn't screen what the replacement line would be, just demanding that it be changed to something else. Fincher decided to go with the new one out of spite, which was deemed measurably more offensive, and was too late to change it to something less offensive.
+andyproductions1 If you buy the dvd she actually says it, its in the deleted scenes on honestly they should have went with the abortion one it was so much funnier.
It's amazing what you miss even when you've seen a movie 10 times. I thought Meatloaf was excellent and an unforgettable character. Everyone remembers BOB. :o)
His name was robert paulson...his name was robert paulson...his name was robert paulson....
Yes lol
In death a member of Project Mayhem DOES have a name.
bob wasn't real.
Did anyone else catch the spliced in image after the the video narator says "a pervy narator always notices"?
Of course Ed Nortorn's charter is listed as Narator in the credits and the film is full of spliced images.... this guy makes damn good youtube videos.
Hey O.P., yes you who made the video: what did you splice into that section and did I miss any others?
*Did you catch the extra "the" I spliced into my comment? most common word in english so most people notice it
It's a still shot of porn, like how Tyler spliced porn into the movie reels at the theater. If you pause a vid on youtube you can go back and forth one frame at a time with the period and comma keys.
During the scene where Bob takes down The Narrator by choking him, there is about a three second shot that is encircling the two... as if we are given a complete 360 degree look at the fight. If you watch closely, you can tell that Bob's "gym" shirt is completely reversed. So instead the letters on the back are backwards, meaning Fincher had shot it the other way but it just didn't end up feeling or moving right. Super subtle, probably the hardest one to catch until you see it for the first time.
I used to believe Fight Club was devoid of continuity errors... no movie is perfect my friends, which is what makes the whole moviewatching experience so interesting.
You forgot that when Norton punches brad in the parking lot he actually punches him in the ear and brad was just expecting it in the shoulder. Apparently it nearly popped his ear drum.
I knew about the shirt!! I saw an exhibition on Hollywood Costumes and you could get right up and personal with Tyler's outfit. Needless to say, I started laughing.
Anyone realised in the apartment burning scene when Norton came out from the taxi, the taxi label is named "SCAT" ?
They should do the 7 things you didn't know about Kick-ass.
They could start with how many parallels it has to "layer cake" and "Defendor".
I heard that the Reason why Rule 1 and Rule 2 of Fight Club are identical ("You do not talk about Fight Club") is because during the Shoot Brad Pitt forgot his Lines and just repeated Rule 1, (a bit of Serendipity I think).
Hahaha! Around "thing 5" just after he says the pervy narrator always notices, there's a split second of something they've spliced in. Looks like two guys... you know. I haven't been able to pause it on the frame but it's there. And absolutely brilliant. A great homage to literally one of the best movies ever made
The soundtrack was written by The Dust Brothers who are a US electronica group. In the UK the Chemical Brothers used to go by that name and changed it to the Chemical Brothers. This is why their first album is called Exit Planet Dust
Regarding the last line: Helena Bonham Carter didn't know what gradeschool meant. She thought of it in UK terms, where grade school is "one leve higher". When she found out what gradeschool meant in the US, she was furious, and wanted the line cut from the film.
#8: The name of the "Narrator is Jack"
Yeah the "Jacks enflamed sense of rejection" stuff? Written by most likely Tyler. Edward, Chuck and David all called the "Narrator" Jack, so its a pretty safe bet that it is his real name, especially if Chuck says it.
I genuinely didn't know any of these. Good job! I was expecting a video that points out the flashes of Tyler earlier in the film.
That's more like it. It really pisses me off when a video is titled "Things you don't know about some shit". How the fuck do you know if I know some detail about a movie or not??? Maybe I know everything. Maybe it is I who wrote the script. Maybe I am the director of the movie, and those things you think I did not know was my own idea in the first place.
But when you put that "probably", it makes everything okay. You admit the possibility that your audience may already know what are you going to tell them. That's respectful. That's good. That is the first time I see this "you (probably) didn't know" type of title. And I do appreciate that. Thank you.
you must be fun at parties
^
*probably*
CineFix that nod to the 'cigarette burn put a frame in' was brilliant ha
There was something in your popcorn you also didn’t know about
but it's too late now....
Ask Tyler.
fun fact. the whole gas and frozen orange juice is close but wrong
its styrofoam and gas mixed that makes napalm
OMG do a part 2 please! This is my favorite movie and I love when you guys do these!
0:17 Nice reference!
Well... You just broke the first rule
What was her original line?
"I want to have your abortion"
LoL that's real heavy and funny
***** that was your one correction???.... really?... you do know that the sentence, even after the correction, is unintelligible?!?
I haven't been fucked like that since I got back from my first day of Kindergarten and walked in on daddy in the shower. XD
cavv0667 Look at his last name. Probably knows English at a 1st grade level.
I got another one for ya, when the Narrator first reaches out to Tyler by calling him on the payphone he doesn't answer (later saying he never picks up his phone)... then the phone rings and the camera slowly zooms into the payphone and in super tiny print you can see "no incoming calls allowed". Also Tyler saying he never picks up his phone could be seen in two ways. 1st (the more obvious one) is that whenever Edward Norton does answer a phone, it's as the Narrator, never as Tyler. Even when Marla was rambling on the phone he never really "answered it", just listened in. And 2nd (the mindblowing one) is that whenever something major happens to Tyler, it's always the Narrator that is reaching out to him, not Tyler including him. "You decide your own level of involvement" ;)
All part of a great film! To look at these as errors would be appropriate for most other films, but this film is special and these flaws not only added character to the film itself, but they were also not very noticeable.
The thermostat scene I remembered thinking the second time I watched it that it was just because his world was just so much different than the exec...
Finally! I got the 2:54 one, still working on the 0:16 one.
0:17
I can't believe you didn't mention - Bonham-Carter did not know what the line meant when she said it. She only found out later that 'grade school' meant what she knew as 'grammar school'.
I didn't know any of these, but from now on, that thermostat will always bother me now. Also, "I haven't been fucked like that since grade school" will now be even more hilarious to me.... and I want Tyler's shirt.
lol i love that real quick snapshot Easter egg from the movie at 2:54
2:54 I somehow paused it at the right moment, I wish I didn't. lol
Finally a 'things you didn't know' video where I actually didn't know 6 out of 7 things! Please make a part two for this awesome movie! One of my all time favourite movies...
Additional fun fact: In Mr and Mrs Smith there is someone wearing a Fight Club T-shirt
More fashion trivia (this one, I noticed by myself): Tyler's "coffee cup" bathrobe is identical to one worn by Fran Drescher in The Nanny.
Thanks for not pointing out the really obvious ones like the 4 Tyler flashes. You really do get a lot from watching the film with commentary tracks- like even though I work in a hospital, I completely missed the humor of the sickle-cell group (sickle-cell primarily only affects people of African descent), but now I find it one of the funniest moments in the film.
I must have missed the humor of that scene too. Why does that make it funny?
Christopher Carbonaro it's funny (to me) because The Narrator is staring daggers at Marla with a "you have no right to be here!" look, meanwhile, all the African Americans who are there for the right reasons seem unfazed by these two Caucasian people in their midst. Though it is possible for a Caucasian to suffer from sickle-cell anemia, it is predominantly an affliction for people of African descent. In other words, if anyone should be staring daggers at a SC support group, it should be everyone else in the room.
I actually watched this the other day, and I wanted a video like this, Thank you.
8. The telephone narrator uses in his office (where he tells his boss, its a private conversation.) also used in the movie Se7en.
Love Fight Club and all its ideologies
Ard 2:20 in the shop where he sells soap to (if I remember correctly): did anybody else actually notice his pants are low, lower abs are showing? I havent heard this mention in any 'did you know about f.c.'
That's cool I didn't even know meatloaf played in Fight Club!!!!
But it said to share this video with everyone!!! And yes I know the rules of Fight Club!!!
these well
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1st rule of Fight Club is... you do not talk about FIght Club
2nd rule of Fight Club is... you DO NOT TALK about Fight Club
3rd rule, if someone yells stop, goes limp, taps out... the fight is over
4th rule, only two guys to a fight
5th rule... one fight at a time (fellas ;D)
6th rule, no shirts, no shoes
7th rule, fights will go on as long as they have to
and the 8th and final rule of Fight Club is... if tonight's your first night at Fight Club, then you have to fight...
slug237711 I know a BDSM club with similar rules. They have the "dungeon" separated from the bar area and the rules are kinda similar:
· If someone yells "STOP", goes limp or taps out the session is over
· Only two people in a session unless you ask the manager
· Preferable only 1 session in the dungeon at a time
· NO PEEPING
· No shoes
· Sessions will go on as long as they have to unless it confronts with the closing time (6:30-7:00)
· If tonight's your first at the club, you have to hit or be hit in the bar area
I really like how you added the captioning! I think 15 seconds of an ad is fair to watch... it's only 15 seconds :P I was shocked at her line, but applaud the writer to say what really goes on in the world...
Guys at Cinefix,plz make more of these.Thats the only reason I subbed to ur channel because I like these series.
Definitely do a part two!
now I wanna watch this again. this was my favorite film in high school
Thanks... you really delivered on this... 7 things I didn't know about Fight Club...
I always noticed the thermostats and thought one was an alarm box or something on the other side of the room in the other shots. It always bugged me a little but now I will definitely notice
Took some fast fingers, but I finally caught that frame at 2:54. Totally worth rewinding 100+ times. (just kidding... only 99)
some viewers may not have noticed, that you can see tyler durdon a couple of times for a second (emerges for a moment and disappears again), before edward norton meets him at the plane. i remember at least one scene on an escalator and one in the hospital, where norton tells the doctor about his insomnia.
I have always enjoyed calling the narrator Jack... I know it's not correct but, being nameless and with how much he says "I am Jack's somethingorother" it feels right to me.
also probably because when I was 17 and around the time I first saw Fight Club, I knew a speed dealer named Jack who was a total Tyler wannabe
In some subtitled versions the narrator is called Rupert after one of the fake names he gives in his therapy groups. But in supplemental material and licensed spin off material such as the Fight Club video game and early cell phone games, the narrator character is in fact officially referred to as "Jack."
Another of my top 5 favorites, good job!
CineFix - Marla's original line was actually filmed, but cut from the final edit and substituted for the "grade school" line. The original cut scene can be found in the Dvd's extras (it's on my UK release) - not sure if the same extras made it to the Blu-Ray release though
You know what's odd about Fight Club is that those two guys that walked out of the bar were interested in a guy that was fighting his self
Ultimate nod to fight club splicing that single frame right after explaining the shirt.
This was fantastic. You've got a new sub right here.
The thermostat was actually fixed for the Blu-Ray. Though I still won't be able to watch it without looking at it now.
Awesome!
I didn't know any of the things you mentioned(except that meatloaf played bob I knew that) but usually when someone posts things you didn't know about fight club ummm yeah they repeat them selves with facts you already know if you've watched the movie more than once. Great job guys! This was well worth my time watching!!!! ;)
I caught two, ahem, added scenes for sure... I suspect there were more though!!
I had my doubts and thought you were just going to state a bunch of facts that have been going around already. But you did it. Those were indeed 7 facts that I did not know about Fight Club. *Thumbs Up*
Love this channel. Great job, pervy narrator.
minute 2:54, just before the number 5 appears there is a fraction of a cut of an interesting image and sound...like Tyler does at the movies
everyone should thumbs up for a part 2
Fantastic movie :)
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The irrelevence of these details proves this movie was flawless
2:54 i get that meme reference from the film... nice one... :)
2:54 that’s some sneaky shit lol
It was a nice touch that they kept splicing in single frames of pornography throughout the list.
Another tidbit about Marla's infamous line is that, as was implied by our pervy narrator, the original line ("I want to have your abortion") was actually filmed for the movie. But certain exec's wanted it changed, of course, and yet when the line was changed to what we see in the film, one of the exec's came up to the director and basically said (and I'm paraphrasing) that they should've kept the original line.
I thought the thermostat changes was a nod to the old "white hat, black hat" deal in cowboy movies. You know, good guy, bad guy. It was a warning not to think of Edward Norton as the "good" guy.
The _Fight Club_ character Bob was not *also known as* Meatloaf. The singer/actor Michael Lee Aday is, but the movie character was not.
His name is Robert Paulson
Robert Baur HIS NAME IS ROBERT PAULSON!
Another interesting fact re: #7 - The original line was "I want to have your abortion," but a producer (Laura Ziskin) told Fincher it needed to be changed. Fincher agreed, on the condition that he would get final say on what the changed-version would be, and the producers agreed, assuming "well hey, at least nothing could conceivably be worse than the 'abortion' version." When they saw the "grade school" line the producers begged him to change it back, and Fincher refused.
I didn't know most of these...until I watched the commentary the day before yesterday.
I think that in the Blu-Ray version of Fight Club, they fixed the thermostat error.
This channel is a hidden gem with quality content, much better than stupid CinemaSins and their dumb "Everything Wrong With..." nonsense