China Restores Fight Club Ending Following Backlash

China Restores Fight Club Ending Following Backlash

Our readers will remember we recently reported on China’s censorship of cult classic Fight Club‘s original ending. Read story here.

In a follow-up to that report, Chinese streaming service Tencent Video has sensationally restored the ending – almost.

After widespread online backlash to the censorship, in which a message on a blank screen read that Tyler was arrested and sent to a mental hospital, Tencent Video backtracked in recent days and restored most of the cuts it had made. 

The number one backlash from fans was that China’s ending was nonsensical, as the character of Tyler (Brad Pitt) is a figment of the narrator’s (Edward Norton) imagination. 

Tencent restored 11 of 12 missing minutes that it cut from the original film. The remaining minute still cut out is brief sex scenes between Pitt and Helena Botham Carter’s characters.

Reversals of censorship are rare in China, which is notoriously well-known for its cutting and chopping of Hollywood films.

One recent example is 20th Century Fox’s Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody. After winning multiple Oscars in 2018, it was granted a theatrical release in China — but only after all mentions of Freddie Mercury’s homosexuality were cut from the film.

What do you think of China’s reversal of its censorship of Fight Club? Let us know by commenting below.

Written by Jackson Miller

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