Hegemony Cricket     - 2022-02-09
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While some film fans were outraged by the edit, blasting China’s heavy hand, Chuck Palahniuk, on whose 1996 novel the movie was based, shrugged it off.
“The irony is that the way the Chinese have changed it, they have aligned the ending almost exactly with the ending of the book, as opposed to Fincher’s ending, which was the more spectacular visual ending,” Palahniuk told the TMZ website.
“So in a way, the Chinese brought the movie back to the book a little bit.”
“A lot of my overseas publishers have edited the novel itself, so that the novel ends the way the movie ends,” he said.
“So I’ve been dealing with this kind of revision for, like, 25 years.”
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