and that was a good enough excuse for us to celebrate

a Fincher Classic here on Things You Didn't Know.

It's thin reasoning, I know. But hey, that's never stopped us before.

So, here are seven things you didn't know about Fight Club.

(Probably)

Gentleman, welcome to fight club.

Since we're talking about Fight Club let's start off with the thing about a fight.

In this scene where the narrator fights Bob AKA Meatloaf

They were both supposed to be shirtless. After all that is one of the rules of Fight Club.

They've built a special version Meatloaf's fat suit for the scene

That looked like a real torso with,

you know, skin and limbs and stuff, but the fat suit super super heavy and hot

and it caused a lot of problems

For example, in this scene later in the movie Meatloaf's pants fall down

because of his fat left him.

You can even see his leg padding for the fat suit, but Fincher kept the take

in the movie because it was the best one.

Anyway, going back to the fight scene, Meatloaf had to be rushed in oxygen mask

after every take just to recover from the exertion.

He would be drenched in sweat

Fun fact: they include a shot Meatloaf with his oxygen in the movie itself right here.

The other issue is showing a shirtless Bob fighting was

David Fincher felt that it would just be too much.

You know with Meatloaf's giant sloppy tits flopping around and on.

Let's move on. The scene with the narrator's boss confronting is a favorite.

But you may not have noticed that it has a continuity error.

They actually had to reshoot Edward Norton's profile shot because they came up with

a different take on how it should have played.

Well, in the time between principal photography in the reshoot,

the office building they shot in had change the thermostat,

so it changes from black to silver and back again

during the scene, and it just occurred to me now that you probably won't

be able to even watch this scene ever again without looking at the thermostat

literally the whole time.

Well, since they've already kinda ruin in the first half of

the boss confrontation scene, why not break the fourth wall on the second half

where the narrator kicks his own ass?

In this part here where he's on the floor bleeding out his nose,

there's actually a guy crawling on the floor behind Edward Norton

squirting the fake blood through it too, and clearly this guy is a pro.

And squirting fake blood pro too. I mean a pro.

Look at that, look at how good that looks.

Tyler Durden's outfits are pretty memorable,

but a lot of people including the MPAA didn't seem to pay much attention to

this tank top that he wears at the end of the film, in case you're not seeing it either,

that shirt right there is a collage of pornography

Motion Picture Association of America,

you know the guys who give movie ratings, were actually really tough on Fight Club.

There are a lot of things left on the cutting room for just to get it down to R rating,

but the porn shirt apparently wasn't one of them.

I guess the MPAA just didn't notice.

Colonie executives Fox. But I noticed. The Pervy narrator always notices.

Okay, so during the sequence with the narrator's trying to

track down Tyler, there's this scene

where he looks at the phone bill for clue. What we probably don't know is the

numbers on the bill were fake ones like they usually are in movies.

But apparently, Tyler had been dialing

Hollywood mega agency CAA all night.

David Fincher put that in there because he figured that CAA wouldn't sue,

and even if they did, they have to sue themselves for ten percent.

Here's a couple history for you.

See the movie marquee right there? That theater is showing Seven Years in Tibet,

which of course stars Brad Pitt.

And later on in the same scene, the other marquee in the distance

is for The People vs. Larry Flynt, an Edward Norton movie.

Norton and Pitt are the only ones with nods to their earlier work. David Fincher has one, too.

It was just a complete coincidence the station wagon in this scene here happens

to also be in the movie The Game which Fincher had directed two years before Fight Club.

He just ask production to get him old beat-up car.

Well, in wagon arrived, it looked nearly familiar too.

He then realized it was the same one they used in this scene with Michael Douglas

in Jim's reborn. I know, fun fact right?

Let's finish on Marla. Uh, I, I mean, I don't mean

finish on Mar... I mean, well you... you know what, never mind.

Actually, maybe I did mean that, and I am... I am a pervy narrator.

Anyway, Marla has some of the best lines in the movie,

including this one: "My god. I haven't been f*** like that since grade school."

Fans of book will know that the original line was even more controversial.

So controversial that Fox execs insisted that Finch should change it,

which he did, but they weren't able to film any alternates until reshoot after principal,

and the reshoots for the scene was shot in an odd places, a church rectory.

Knowing that little bit of info makes Marla's line

even more awesomely wrong, doesn't it?

Even the camera operator started cracking up over Helena Bonham Carter's delivery.

The shot cuts out one frame before the camera starts shaking from him laughing.

Well, those are our seven things for today,

but the first rule of Things You Didn't Know is

tell everyone about Things You Didn't know,

and the second rule is the same as the first rule.

So if you guys tell enough people, maybe we'll do a part 2 on Fight Club.

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