Movie enthusiasts will remember that the first rule about Fight Club is that you “don’t talk about fight club.” China apparently learned this lesson because it did not want any Chinese citizen who sees this movie to talk about it, especially the ending. The communist country edited the conclusion of the film to have a drastically different ending than the original version — an ending fit for a communist.
In the original version, the film concludes with the narrator (Edward Norton) emerging victorious in a gruesome fight with Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt), his imaginary friend-slash-split personality. He joins his love interest, Marla Singer (Helena Bonham Carter). The two watch the city’s buildings blow up and crumble, fulfilling Durden’s wish, facilitating the destruction of consumerism, and ushering in a new world of chaotic anarchy.
