Fight Club Page #16

Synopsis: A depressed man (Edward Norton) suffering from insomnia meets a strange soap salesman named Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) and soon finds himself living in his squalid house after his perfect apartment is destroyed. The two bored men form an underground club with strict rules and fight other men who are fed up with their mundane lives. Their perfect partnership frays when Marla (Helena Bonham Carter), a fellow support group crasher, attracts Tyler's attention.
Genre: Drama
Director(s): David Fincher
Production: 20th Century Fox
  Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 10 wins & 34 nominations.
 
IMDB:
8.8
Metacritic:
66
Rotten Tomatoes:
79%
R
Year:
1999
139 min
Website
7,929 Views


Jack walks toward the HOUSE.

JACK (V.O.)

You give up the condo life, give up

all your flaming worldly possessions,

go live in a dilapidated house in the

toxic waste part of town...

INT. TYLER'S KITCHEN - SUNSET

Jack walks in. SOUNDS of VIOLENT SEX and a POLAROID CAMERA

from upstairs. Pieces of PLASTER fall from the ceiling.

JACK (V.O.)

... and you come home to this.

TYLER'S VOICE

(laughing)

You f***ing slut!!

MARLA'S VOICE

Thank you, sir, may I have another!

Thank you sir, may I have another... !

Jack rolls his eyes, takes off his pants. He runs water in

the sink, finds a tiny bit of SOAP and scrubs at the blood

stains. The PHONE RINGS. He answers it.

JACK:

Yeah. Speaking.

INTERCUT WITH...

INT. POLICE STATION - OFFICE

A cop, DETECTIVE STERN, refers to a file.

DETECTIVE STERN:

This is Detective Stern with the

arson unit. We have some new

information about the "incident" at

your condo.

JACK:

Yes?

DETECTIVE STERN:

I don't know if you're aware... your

front door -- it seems someone

sprayed freon into the lock, then

tapped it with a chisel to shatter

the cylinder.

JACK:

No, I wasn't aware...

JACK (V.O.)

I am Jack's Cold Sweat.

DETECTIVE STERN:

Does this sound strange to you?

JACK:

Yes, sire, strange. Very strange.

Jack starts to sweat, scrubs his pants obsessively.

DETECTIVE STERN:

The dynamite...

JACK:

Dynamite?

DETECTIVE STERN:

Yes. It left a residue of ammonium

oxalate and potassium perchloride.

Do you know what that means?

JACK:

What does that mean?

DETECTIVE STERN:

It means it was homemade.

JACK:

This is... really a shock...

DETECTIVE STERN:

Whoever set this homemade dynamite

could've blown out the pilot light

days before the explosion. The gas,

it seems, was just a detonator.

JACK:

Who do you think could've done this?

DETECTIVE STERN:

I'll ask the questions, son.

TYLER:

(whispering in Jack's ear)

Tell him...

Jack almost leaps out his skin, startled; looks to see Tyler

standing right next to him.

JACK:

Huh?

TYLER:

(overlap w/below)

"The liberator who destroyed my

property has re-aligned my paradigm

of perception."

JACK:

Shhhhhh!

(into phone,

overlap w/above)

I don't know what to make of this,

sir, I really don't...

DETECTIVE STERN:

Do you know anyone who'd have the

expertise or motive to do something

like this?

TYLER:

"I reject the basic assumptions of

civilization, including material

possession."

Jack pushes Tyler away, cups the receiving.

JACK:

(into phone)

No. No, sir. I loved that condo.

I loved every stick of furniture.

The lamps, the chairs, the rugs, were

me. The dishes were me. The plants

were...

JACK (V.O.)

I'd like to thank the academy...

DETECTIVE STERN:

Well, if any ideas come to you, give

me a call. In the meantime, don't

leave town. I may need to bring you

in for questioning.

END INTERCUT:

Jack hangs up. Tyler shrugs.

TYLER:

Could be worse. You could be cursed

with the three terrible Karmas. You

could be beautiful, rich and famous.

Jack turns away, continues to scrub his pants. Marla's

FOOTSTEPS can be HEARD coming downstairs...

Jack really grinds the soap against the pants, splashing

water. He turns, sees Marla enter. Tyler is GONE. Marla

lights a cigarette.

JACK (V.O.)

Except for their humping, Tyler and

Marla were never in the same room.

MARLA:

I got this dress at a thrift store

for one dollar.

JACK:

(keeps scrubbing)

Worth every penny.

JACK (V.O.)

My parents pulled this exact act for

years -- one came in, the other

disappeared.

Marla begins a slow, exotic dance, moving very close to

Jack. She lifts her dress dangerously high, dancing close

to Jack's body, almost touhcing.

MARLA:

(seductive)

It's a bridesmaid's dress. Someone

loved it intensely for one day, then

tossed it. Like a Christmas tree --

so special, then, bam -- it's

abandoned on the side of the road,

tinsel still clinging to it...

Jack becomes very aware of having no pants on, presses

against the counter. Marla pulls her hemline further up.

MARLA:

Like sex crime victims, underwear

inside-out, bound with electrical

tape.

JACK:

(coldly)

It suits you.

She leans in very close to Jack's ear, whispers hoarsely:

MARLA:

You can borrow it sometime.

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Jim Uhls

James Walter "Jim" Uhls (born March 25, 1957) is an American screenwriter and producer who rose to fame with his script adaptation of the critically acclaimed novel Fight Club. He earned a bachelor of theatre arts degree from Drake University in 1979, and also graduated from the UCLA Theater Program. Currently he is intended to write a screenplay for Trent Reznor's Year Zero-based HBO mini-series. more…

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