Friday, 28 October 2011

Fight Club Case Study


Genre - Drama

Storyline – Novel by Chuck Palahniuk

Director - David Fincher, previously directed Seven and Alien 3

Script writer - Jim Uhls

Production Company - 20th Century Fox

Cast – Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Helena Bonham Carter

Budget - $63,000,000

Opening Weekend - $11,035,485

Wold wide Gross - $71,000,000



This film was made as it has the genre of 'drama' which is a popular genre with the public and it is based on a novel. The director had previously directed very successful films and has famous and popular actors such a Brad Pitt, Edward Norton and Helena Bonham Carter.


The trailer has a medium pace, with a voice over. The trailer shows scenes of an office, a basement and a run-down house. From watching the trailer we can tell that the film is about a man who has insomnia, he meets a man with whom he starts an underground boxing club called ‘Fight Club’. There are scenes that show, a building blowing up, a plane crash, and guns and fighting, this shows the film contains violence. The background sound to the trailer is a sort of drum beat, towards the end the soundtrack is played which is Where Is My Mind by Pixies; this is a clever song choice as the film is about a man who is schizophrenic. There are not many titles apart from at the beginning where it shows the directors previous work and at the end where the names of the main actors are shown. This trailer fits nearly all the conventions of a film trailer, including the one liner at the end before the last credits are shown.

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