But we won't talk about Fight Club because it's pointless.
Have you gone mad? Pointless!
You will talk about Fight Club, do you understand?
You will! [evil laughter]
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This book is awesome.
First of all, because it wasn't perceived in a way it should have been.
What Maciek was talking about,
it happened because of the movie
with handsome Brad Pitt and ugly Norton,
and obviously everybody found handsome Brad Pitt more appealing.
That's why because of this book being so extremely popular,
which, I guess, is not that true about the second book,
although in Poland its popularity didn't rise that much,
I didn't want to talk about it
because this book is perceived in very different ways,
there are thousands of theories regarding what Chuck really meant
and what he wanted to oppose
and what he didn't.
This book was also perceived in an extremely wrong way in the East
because Palahniuk became a person arousing a kind of euphoria,
in me and my friends too.
At that time we were, let's say, 15-16 when the movie was released.
The fact that a person of Ukrainian origin
doesn't only write books abroad
but also had one of them become the plot for a Hollywood movie
got us exceptionally excited about Fight Club.
Moreover, in Ukraine and Russia such fight clubs began to appear.
One of my friends was in such a fight club,
fought there every Sunday,
but they violated the first rule,
and later there were even some police raids in their house.
Later his parents beat him so that fight club came to an end very fast.
There's a fun fact concerning the Polish translation.
Fight Club, at least the one I got from "Niebieska Studnia",
was translated by Lech Jęczmyk
who also translates Vonnegut to Polish.
So the books of author who has the biggest influence on me
and ones of my favorite author
are translated by the same person.
Tyler Durden is the alter ego of the narrator who appears in the book.
The book doesn't differ from the movie too much
apart from the ending.
I have to admit that the ending created by David Fincher
is much better than the one in the book.
In general, at least so far,
I found the movie better than the book.
Maybe it put more emphasis on those things that became iconic.
An interesting fact connected to the publication of Fight Club is that
it was published in the Pocket Book series,
those were cheap black and orange books,
and the translation...
The translation of Fight Club wasn't satisfactory
for people who knew English on a decent level
and, for example, one of my friends had to
find the book in the original somewhere
and tried to translate it himself.
Later, it turned out that that translation was made by Ilya Kormiltsev,
musician, songwriter, translator
who worked in a band that was iconic in the 90s
Nautilus Pompilius.
So at that time, he lived in London
and had cancer so he had to find money for its treatment.
Maybe that's why that translation wasn't that accurate.
Later, in other series,
Fight Club started to appear in other, better translations,
so it depends fully on the house that published the copy you have.
If you buy a cheaper one, you can read
a completely different work in a completely different translation
and interpret some things in a different way.
The recipes for explosives especially differ.
In one book there was one recipe and in the other one - a completely different recipe.
Some time ago, this got published,
all this connection to be precise,
which is Fight Club 2.
Chuck Palahniuk, who swore many times
that there wouldn't be the second part
because it couldn't be a movie,
it couldn't be another book
since...
fans would be dissatisfied anyway,
decided to do something he had never done before,
he specifically learned how to write comic scripts,
and that's how this comic book was created.
It tells about the near future
of the narrator from the first book and Marla,
who are a married couple at that point.
Nevertheless, Tyler Durden returns.
The ending is auto-destructive
and very, very beautiful.
The artist who worked on each of Fight Clubs is Cameron Stewart.
And very soon, we will see,
at least the American audience will,
Fight Club 3, also in the comic book form.
It will continue Tyler Durden's story
who ended up on millions of tatoos, pillows with quotes,
bags with quotes, shirts
and became an icon of the mainstream and pop culture
that he fought so hard with the help of nitroglycerine.
When it comes to the nitroglycerine recipe,
in the first version of his book, Chuck Palahniuk
made such an amazing research
that the recipe was real.
However, the publisher told him to change it
so in different translations we can see all kinds of variants:
from mixing styrofoam with orange juice to other nonsense.
About Fight Club and its phenomenon
that was it.
Talked: Maciej Tuora, Ivan Davydenko
Screenplay writer and director: Maciej Tuora
Editing: Joanna Majdanik
Animation: Natalia B ałabasz, Joanna Majdanik
Subtitles: Tetiana Hutsalenko
I didn't want to film this part about Fight Club at all.
[a cover of "Where is My Mind" by Pixies playing]
So how many of those sheriffs are there?
Hey mate!
Come here.
Wanna talk about Fight Club?
Literature Sheriff
