Movie: Fight Club (1999)

“A lonely, isolated thirty-something young professional seeks an escape from his mundane existence with the help of a devious soap salesman. They find their release from the prison of reality through underground fight clubs, where men can be what the world now denies them. Their boxing matches and harmless pranks soon lead to an out-of-control spiral towards oblivion. Written by Joe50000″

• Director: David Fincher
• Release Date:
  15 October 1999 (USA)
• Run Time:
  139 min
• Country: USA , Germany
• Genre: Crime , Drama , Thriller
• MPAA:
  Rated R for disturbing and graphic depiction of violent anti-social behavior, sexuality and language.

Tagline: How much can you know about yourself if you've never been in a fight?

Trivia: The burnt out car that Edward Norton’s character is examining is a 1990 Lincoln Town Car. It’s also the same car the Narrator and Tyler crash later in the film. Additionally, Tyler says he’d like to fight Abraham Lincoln.

Goofs: Factual errors: When Tyler splices porno frames into family films, the audio and picture tracks would have only a barely noticeable 1/24 of a second interruption (as is shown). However, the image flash and sound flash are shown as happening simultaneously, when in fact, if they were spliced into the same frame on the reel (which is what we see Tyler doing), they would be 21 frames apart (i.e. the single image frame would occur about a second prior to the single audio frame). The sound for a 35mm film is read by a head located about a foot past the projection lamp; so, for the film and sound to remain in perfect sync, the soundtrack for a given frame is located about a foot in front of that frame, that way the image and the sound are projected simultaneously. For the sound and image flashes to occur at the same precise moment, Tyler would thus have to splice the frame of audio onto the reel about a foot further along than he splices the image frame, which he doesn’t do (not to mention, it would be impossible to perfectly sync it by hand anyway).