1. Who directed Fight Club?
David Fincher
Fincher had made Seven and The Game, and here he pushed the studio's violence and tone much further than Fox executives were comfortable with. The film underperformed in theaters and only found its audience on DVD, where it became a cult object.
2. Who plays Tyler Durden?
Brad Pitt
Pitt had a dentist chip his front teeth for the part and had them fixed afterward, and he bulked up while his co-star slimmed down, so the two would look like opposites. Christian Bale played a different kind of unraveling man in American Psycho the next year.
3. Who plays the unnamed narrator?
Edward Norton
The character is never named and is credited only as the Narrator, though fans call him Jack after the magazine articles he quotes, 'I am Jack's raging bile duct' among them. Norton came to the part fresh from an Oscar nomination for American History X.
4. Who wrote the novel?
Chuck Palahniuk
Palahniuk was working as a diesel mechanic when he wrote the book, which grew out of a short story about the club, and he has said he prefers the film's ending to his own. Welsh wrote Trainspotting and Ellis wrote American Psycho.
5. What does Tyler ask the narrator to do when they step outside the bar?
Hit him as hard as he can
The narrator's apartment has just blown up and he has called Tyler for somewhere to stay, so outside Lou's bar Tyler asks to be hit as hard as possible. The first punch catches him on the ear, Tyler answers with one to the stomach, and both want more.
6. What problem drives the narrator to seek help early on?
Insomnia
A doctor refuses him sleeping pills and tells him to visit a testicular cancer support group if he wants to see real pain. Crying in the arms of Bob, the ex-bodybuilder played by Meat Loaf, finally lets him sleep, and soon he is touring every group in town.
7. What is his job?
Automobile recall coordinator
He flies around the country inspecting burned-out wrecks and applies the formula: if the cost of a recall is more than the likely out-of-court settlements, nobody recalls anything. The job supplies the air miles, the hotel soap and the single-serving life.
8. What does Tyler make and sell?
Soap
The soap company's raw material is fat stolen from the dumpsters of liposuction clinics, rendered down in the kitchen. Soap-making also produces glycerin, which is what Tyler is really after, since it is a step on the way to explosives.
9. What is the first rule of Fight Club?
Do not talk about Fight Club
The second rule is the same sentence said again. The list runs to eight: fights are one on one, one at a time, no shirts, no shoes, they go as long as they have to, and anyone on their first night has to fight.
10. Where does the club meet beneath a bar?
Lou's Tavern
Lou owns the bar and comes down to the basement to throw them out, and Tyler takes a beating from him while laughing and bleeding on his shirt until Lou gives in and lets them keep the room. Lou's is also the bar outside which the first fight happens.
11. What street is Tyler's decaying house on?
Paper Street
The house is a condemned wreck with no neighbors, brown water and a leaking roof, and it gives its name to the soap company. It was a set built for the film near the port of Los Angeles and torn down afterward.
12. What is the larger organization that grows out of the club called?
Project Mayhem
Recruits must wait on the porch for three days, shave their heads and arrive with black clothes and burial money, and the work is split among committees for arson, assault, mischief and misinformation. Space monkeys is just Tyler's name for the members.
13. What does Tyler order the convenience store clerk Raymond K. Hessel to do with his life?
Become a veterinarian
Tyler drags him behind the store at gunpoint, finds an old college card and learns he quit studying to be a veterinarian. He lets him go on condition he is back on that path within six weeks, and predicts that Raymond's breakfast will be the best of his life.
14. What is the nickname of Jared Leto's character?
Angel Face
Angel Face is the blond recruit Tyler takes a shine to, and the narrator beats his face to pulp in the basement, explaining afterward that he felt like destroying something beautiful. Leto was better known then as Jordan Catalano from My So-Called Life.
15. Where does the narrator first have a full conversation with Tyler?
On an airplane
Tyler is in the next seat, selling soap by his own description, and the two discover they carry identical briefcases. The narrator files him under single-serving friends, lands, and finds his apartment has blown out into the street.
