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Post #265561

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PaulisDead2221
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Fight Club - Book Edit - DISCUSSION
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Date created
13-Jan-2007, 8:28 AM
Oh right--yeah some changes are unavoidable--the way he and tyler meet and source of the fat I can get around by just replacing those sections in my notes with their film counterparts.

But the atmosphere will match perfectly. I got a brainstorm from a pm from somebody (I'm not signed in yet so I can't check), who was talking about condensing the whole thing into a 4 minute music video. I realized the best way to successfully retain the books stream of conscious narrative is to reorder everything, but to avoid awkward cuts and jumps that just doni't work in a movie, basically there's music playing all the time. basically a two hour long series of music videos (will need soundtrack to fc), loosely one chapter to a song.

Yeah the movie does end differentally too, I got an idea that instead of just using the different ending from the movie, change the ending to make a whole new third ending--I was thinking of tossing in some explosions around Marla and the Narrator just as we fade out--suggesting they've been put into one of the target buildings by Tyler before he died cause he knew all along he'd be shot and...--i dunno, not sure why he would do this--it would kinda make Tyler a monster, when of course in the movie he's a messiah to be trusted by the end and that's such a nice idea...but the point would be to have one more perspective on how FC could have ended.

Okay, I'm past chapter 6 in my note taking--My stragedy of course is when I recognize either a quote/scene/internet spot (from the dvd) I write it down in order it's appearing in the book. I'll post some samples when I can, pages and pages of text--then maybe someone could join in and get the book done twice as fast.--