'Fight Club' bows to censorship for Chinese release, while Keanu Reeves stands ground on Tibet

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Hollywood is remaining largely silent on the cult classic film "Fight Club" getting an entirely different ending for release in China, continuing a years-long pattern of the U.S. film industry appeasing Chinese authorities to maintain lucrative access to China's vast market

 

However, amid charges of Hollywood "selling out" to China, a tiny number of actors and directors — most recently film star Keanu Reeves — have refused to submit to China's demands to toe the line of the ruling Chinese Communist Party.

"Fight Club," a 1999 film by David Fincher, shocked audiences when it hit theaters. The movie ends with the narrator, played by Edward Norton, killing his split personality Tyler Durden, played by Brad Pitt.

In the final scene, the narrator stands with his girlfriend, watching his plan to destroy consumerism by erasing bank and debt records come to fruition as his followers detonate explosives to destroy several skyscrapers.

This vision of anarchy — and the state's inability to stop it — appears to have crossed a line to be shown in China, where the government exercises tight control over speech and creative freedom.

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These Alternate Chinese Movie Endings Will Blow Your Mind - Satire

Chinese communists love censorship and propaganda as much as Joe Biden loves eating ice cream and berating journalists. Most recently, we learned that the ChiComs changed the ending to Fight Club, the 1999 cult classic starring Brad Pitt and Edward Norton.

The film is supposed to end with the protagonist (Norton) shooting himself in the head and killing his alter ego, Tyler Durden (Pitt), but not in time to thwart Durden's anarchist plot to bomb the headquarters of major credit card companies. The protagonist embraces girlfriend Marla as the bombs go off and the buildings collapse to the tune of "Where Is My Mind?" by Pixies.

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