Fight Club
...mple is the fat Tyler and the narrator used to make soap. In the novel, they steal the fat from Marla. Marla was keeping her mother's liposuction fat for her own plastic surgery. They steal the fat and store it in the Paper Street Soap Company's fridge. In the movie, Fincher had Tyler and the Narrator steal it from a plastic surgery dumpster. In the novels version it could be interpreted as another thing the narrator has done to hurt Marla. Fincher’s version gives the audience some humor to see the two characters struggle to smuggle fat. The film still does a good job in emphasizing the damage the narrator does to Marla. Another minor change was how the narrator met Tyler. In the movie, it says they met on the airplane while he was traveling on the business trip. In the book they met at a nude beach. He went to a nude beach to take a rest from the world "and somehow, by accident, Tyler and I met." Palahniuk is trying to use the nude beach and the nude Tyler as symbolism for birth. When a baby is born, they are naked with no clothing. Tyler was born with no clothing either. Fincher decided not to in that direction and instead the two have a very humorous conversation about emergency exits. Fincher probably decided that the humor aspect of the confrontation would have more value than the symbolism that Palahniuk had. A more significant change is the movie is less violent than the book. Project Mayhem was changed to be less evil. In the book, the narrator says, “Tyler didn’t care if anyone got hurt or not. The goal was to teach each man in the project that he had the power to control history.” In the movie Tyler made sure that the buildings were empty and no one would get hurt. Tyler says in the movie, “We’re not killing anyone, man, we’re setting them free.” The book has the narrators boss at the car company killed Patrick Madden who is investigating the group killed. The movie just has the narrator threaten his boss so he could work from home and the boss is never hurt. The members of Project Mayhem never killed Patrick Madden in the movie. They ...