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Insert your "Fight Club" BluRay and this is the menu screen you're going to be looking at.
This is just a brief story we thought fans of "Fight Club" and director David Fincher would get a kick out of: the director inserted a very funny practical joke into the new BluRay release of "Fight Club" (that's a picture of it on the right). Read on for all the details, my gentle Examiner readers...
Director David Fincher's "Fight Club" had a lot to do with satirizing popular culture and poking fun at shallow, materialistic things. So, what do you think Fincher was trying to say when he inserted the image up-top as the menu screen for the BluRay release of "Fight Club: 10th Anniversary Edition"?
Yahoo! News has their own story about this, which says in part:
After noticing the gag with a preview copy, The Onion's AV Club contacted Fox Home Entertainment and had its suspicions confirmed: while the original "Fight Club" menu replaces the "Never Been Kissed" one after a few seconds, the "snafu" was no accident.
Yes, The Onion's AV Club caught the prank first, and when Fincher was approached about the practical joke, here's the explanation:
Turns out that Fincher thought it would be funny to use the menu from a sweet bubble-gum romance -- the farthest possible thing from the very dark "Fight Club" -- that was a much bigger box office success when both films were released in 1999. Barrymore's inexpensive comedy grossed $55 million in the U.S., while the big-budget "Fight Club" only brought in $37 million. Of course, "Fight Club" has developed a loyal and vocal fan following over the past decade, and it is listed in the top 10 of Total Film's and Empire magazine's Greatest Films of All Time lists.
As for keeping this joke a secret, it looks like The Onion's AV Club were also the first to let the Barrymore out of the bag (to coin a phrase we hope goes into mass-use immediately):
Critics that were sent a review copy of the new Blu-ray were specifically asked not to disclose the joke before it went on sale this past Tuesday. Apparently, the first rule of "Fight Club" still stands: you do not talk about "Fight Club."
Oh, David Fincher: you are such a card. These days, Fincher's working on "The Social Network", the Aaron Sorkin-penned version of the story regarding the founders of FaceBook, with Justin Timberlake and "Zombieland" star Jessie Eisenberg in the leads. Stay tuned for more information on that (assuming it turns out to be even remotely funny) as it develops. You can purchase your very own "Fight Club" BluRay at fine stores and BluRay retailers all over Dallas right now: we're picking up our own copy today.
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