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David Fincher: Fight Club
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When David Fincher is behind the camera expectations run high. The prickly auteur of "Se7en" and "Fight Club" comes through yet again with a meticulously spare account of the glory days of the Bay Area's own Zodiac killer.
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It is an understatement to claim that the films of director David Fincher are reminiscent of classical film noir. The canonical texts written on the subject, notably Raymond Borde and Étienne Chaumeton's “Towards a Definition of Film Noir” (1955) and Paul Schrader's “Notes on Film Noir” (1972), read like 'how to' guides for understanding films like Alien 3, Seven, Fight Club, and to a lesser extent The Game and Panic Room. Schrader points out that “film noir's techniques emphasize loss, nostalgia, lack of clear priorities, insecurity; then submerge these self doubts in mannerism and style. In such a world style becomes paramount; it is all that separates one from meaninglessness.” (1) If this is true, Fincher has created a series of films that are anything but meaningless. His slick and glossy treatment of a dark world frequently garners accusations that his films are shallow experiments in style. It is more accurate to say that Fincher absorbs the fleeting styles and tastes of Hollywood, reflects them, and twists them.
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Film director David Fincher began his career in Hollywood as a special effects man working for director George Lucas. Eighteen and fresh out of high school when he joined the Lucas team for 1983's Return of the Jedi, Fincher has since forged a path through the film industry maze to become one of the most influential directors at the turn of the twenty-first century. With films such as Seven, Fight Club, and The Game to his credit, Fincher is known for an unorthodox style that eschews advance planning in favor of just winging it. Taking place in gritty urban settings awash in rain-soaked pavements dimly lit by sputtering neon lights, his films are known for their frenetic violence, desolation, decay, and bloodshed, sometimes even death.
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Apart from creating his movies, David Fincher is ... heavily involved in the video releases of his films. Immediately after finishing work on “Fight Club,” the director hooked up with New Line Home Video to work on a special edition release of his thriller “Se7en.” Technically extremely savvy, Fincher spend a lot of time to ensure the quality of the presentation of the movie on that DVD would be meticulous, and had a number of labs checked out to see how he could achieve the best possible look for the DVD. “Se7en” was relying heavily on the silver retention process that allowed for deepest blacks, and Fincher was determined to find a way to reproduce a look like this in the digital domain. However, instead of using a print that was treated for silver retention, he instead opted to have the film’s negative transferred and then do the adjustments digitally, so emulating the look of the chemical process.
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Could Fight Club, David Fincher's violent, dorm-room philosophy-infused cult favorite really be headed to Broadway? Yes, if MTV Movies is to be believed. Yesterday they tracked down the mercurial director to get find out if the rumors were true, and found him surprisingly keen on the idea:
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In 15 years and just six films, David Fincher has established himself as one of the most subversive and preternatural directors ever to step behind the camera. "Seven" redefined the serial-killer genre. "Fight Club" became a counterculture classic for the masses as soon as Brad Pitt asked Edward Norton to hit him as hard as he could. And last year, "Zodiac" showed off Fincher's new bag of storytelling tricks to astounding accomplishment.
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