When it comes to movies with voiceover, Fight Club is one of the best. It's a pathway through the deep psychosis that's in the movie, and it perfectly sets the stage and the tone for the story.It's hard to imagine Fight Club even being a movie without the cynical, biting, and darkly hilarious voice-over from Edward Norton's unnamed narrator.But in a recent revelation, director David Fincher disclosed that the iconic voice-over was initially absent from the screenplay, a creative decision that he believed rendered the story “sad and pathetic.”Speaking to The Guardian at a British Film Institute (BFI) event in 2009, Fincher recalled his first impression of the script as "sad" and "pathetic."He knew that something had to change.Let's dive into what happened next. - YouTubewww.youtube.comThe Voiceover in Fight Club Screenplays are blueprints for movies. Sometimes you have one writer come in and work on certain things, and then you bring in another to work on other things.That's very typical in Hollywood.And when Fincher boards a project, he wants everything to be precise, and he wants to see the movie that's in his head.Well, the original Fight Club script had no voiceover.Here's the whole story from Fincher:"No, they knew what they were doing. Look, I'm not sure Rupert Murdoch read the script or the book that the film was based on, but Bill Mechanic and Laura Ziskin, when we started talking about it, we were talking about this naughty little poke-in-the-eye cult book. I'd tried to buy the book when...
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