Comment on [deleted]

• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  No.

  We won’t.

  We will get movies designed as either patriotic/honorable, wildly unrealistic, aspirational lifestyle glamorization … pure cope/hopium, saccharine, hero/success fantasies for adult children to live vicariously through… and warrior hero stories where the plot is incited by external or seditious threats.

  That’s very roughly what happened to German cinema when the Nazis took over.

  We will just have machines making the slop, instead of demented sycophants.

  … there won’t be any money for things that cause people to think!

  Fight Club was not an initial success, and it largely tricked people via its marketing, into making people think it was going to be something closer to Rocky, but edgier… than a psycho-social critique of basically society.

  Fight Club is an anomaly.

  source

  • 7rokhym@lemmy.ca ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Fight Club was Chuck saying fuck you to publishers for rejecting his work was too edgy etc. So he went all out, and not only becomes a published book, but a movie.

    “Under Spanbauer’s influence, Palahniuk produced an early draft of what would later become his novel Invisible Monsters (1999), but it was rejected by all publishers he submitted it to. Palahniuk then wrote a second novel, expanding on his short story, “Fight Club”.[9] Initially, Fight Club was published as a seven-page short story in the compilation Pursuit of Happiness (1995),[10] but Palahniuk expanded it to novel length (in which the original short story became chapter six); Fight Club: A Novel was published in 1996.[11]”

    source