Fight Club is a 1999 USA / Germany drama by David Fincher. Starring Brad Pitt, Edward Norton and Helena Bonham Carter.
A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept
catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until an eccentric gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion. Chinese streaming giant Tencent has reinstated the original ending of the
Hollywood movie Fight Club after a censored version last month sparked backlash. The original ending to the 1999 film Fight Club, starring Brad Pitt, shows scenes of explosions and relentless fighting. But China's version simply showed a message on
screen saying the authorities won and saved the day. The replacement version on Tencent reportedly restores about 11 of the 12 minutes that were cut. The scenes still missing are those featuring nudity. The changes to the ending were: [
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The film's original finale shows Norton's character killing his alter ego, before bombs destroy buildings in a subversive plot to reorder society. China's version of the film, which was only released last month, cut all those
scenes, and instead explained that the police foiled the plot, arrested the criminals and sent Durden to a lunatic asylum.
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