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thegraymasquerade ([personal profile] lemasquegris) wrote2005-12-06 06:04 pm

Explain Hollywood to me

I was listening to this podcast when they mention (26:30 into it) how in the movie Fight Club, Marla tells Tyler "My God. I haven't been fucked like that since grade school.": (It's mis-quoted..badly...in the podcast) but in the book, Marla says to Tyler "I want to have your abortion."

Abortion: too much for Hollywood. But fucking since the 4th grade? That's ok?

What do ya'll think about that. I found it funny what Hollywood finds to be a "lesser of 2 evils" here.

Btw, I looked up the quote. Yup, it's there. (Scroll to the bottom.)

Off to din-din w/ my day; it's his birthday today.

[identity profile] scanner-darkly.livejournal.com 2005-12-07 02:18 am (UTC)(link)
The commentary of the Fight Club movie explains it. Essentially the censors told them 'no', so the director changed it to something he thought he could get away with, but was in his mind worse.

[identity profile] aoibhill.livejournal.com 2005-12-07 05:36 am (UTC)(link)
I once made the mistake of quoting that line after an especially steamy date. Unfortunately, the guy I was with hadn't seen Fight Club.

Doh!