The group engages in subversive acts of vandalism, increasingly troubling the Narrator. Tyler then recruits their members to a new anti-materialist and anti-corporate organization, Project Mayhem, without the Narrator's involvement. More new members join Fight Club, including Robert "Bob" Paulsen, a man with testicular cancer whom the Narrator had previously met at one of his support groups. The Narrator blackmails his boss for his company's assets to support Fight Club and quits his job. Tyler warns the Narrator never to talk to Marla about him.
They begin a sexual relationship, much to the Narrator's irritation. Tyler picks up the call and goes to her apartment to save her. Marla overdoses on pills and telephones the Narrator for help he ignores her and abandons the conversation without hanging up. The fights move to the bar's basement where the men form the eponymous Fight Club, which routinely meets. They have further fights outside the bar, which attract growing crowds of men.
The Narrator moves into Tyler's home, a large dilapidated house in an industrial area. They find the experience cathartic, and agree to do it again. In the parking lot, he asks the Narrator to hit him, and they have a fistfight. Tyler tells him he is trapped by consumerism. Disheartened by the loss of his material goods, he calls Tyler and they meet at a bar. The Narrator returns home to find his apartment and all his belongings have been destroyed by an explosion. On a flight home from a business trip, the Narrator meets soap salesman Tyler Durden.
The two agree to split which groups they attend. His bliss is disturbed when another impostor, Marla Singer, begins attending the same groups. To cure this, he attends support groups, posing as a sufferer of diseases. The Narrator, an automobile recall specialist, is unfulfilled by his job and possessions and suffers from chronic insomnia.
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In 2009, on the tenth anniversary of the film's release, The New York Times dubbed it the "defining cult movie of our time." The film later found commercial success with its home video release, establishing Fight Club as a cult classic and causing media to revisit the film. It was ranked as one of the most controversial and talked-about films of 1999. Fight Club failed to meet the studio's expectations at the box office, and received polarized reactions from critics. Studio executives did not like the film, and they restructured Fincher's intended marketing campaign to try to reduce anticipated losses. He and the cast compared the film to Rebel Without a Cause (1955) and The Graduate (1967), with a theme of conflict between Generation X and the value system of advertising. It was filmed in and around Los Angeles from July to December 1998. He developed the script with Uhls and sought screenwriting advice from the cast and others in the film industry. Fincher was selected because of his enthusiasm for the story. Palahniuk's novel was optioned by Fox 2000 Pictures producer Laura Ziskin, who hired Jim Uhls to write the film adaptation. He forms a "fight club" with soap salesman Tyler Durden (Pitt), and becomes embroiled in a relationship with a destitute woman, Marla Singer (Bonham Carter). Norton plays the unnamed narrator, who is discontented with his white-collar job. It is based on the 1996 novel of the same name by Chuck Palahniuk. Fight Club is a 1999 American film directed by David Fincher and starring Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, and Helena Bonham Carter.