![]() Evidence of this abounds in popular culture. While much of Palahniuk's dialogue is intact in Uhls's screenplay, the film version of Tyler Durden is more charismatic. ![]() Tyler himself is slightly different between the two versions. While Tyler's intentions in the novel are purely destructive, his film counterpart seems to have a more political agenda in mind. His intention is to erase the debt record. In the film, Tyler has planned the detonation of several buildings all of which serve as credit card company headquarters. This is intended to be a "theater of death" to kill the Narrator. In the novel, Tyler intends to blow up the Parker-Morris building so that it will fall onto a nearby museum. The implications of such an ending in the film may have been seen by the filmmakers to be too depressing for movie-going audiences. Some scholars have suggested that the last chapter may even be narrated by Tyler instead of the Narrator. However, in the novel it is unclear if the Narrator is truly free of Tyler. As in the novel, it is Marla and his concern for her that allows him to break free of Tyler's hold. He "absorbs" Tyler upon shooting himself and is able to become the dominant personality again. In the film version, Jack is able to reach a middle ground between the two personalities. They tell him that they are eagerly awaiting his return. ![]() The Narrator continues to see orderlies and other employees in the institution with tell-tale bruises and cuts. The Narrator believes his psychiatrist to be God. Palahniuk's depiction makes it clear that the Narrator is actually in a mental institution. In the novel, the Narrator shoots himself but then wakes up in what he believes is Heaven. In the film, Jack is reunited with Marla, seemingly rid of Tyler forever and ready to begin to discover a life with Marla. What happens next in both stories is, however, quite different. In Palahniuk's novel, the Narrator does shoot himself through the cheek, just as Edward Norton's Jack does in the film. The ends of both the film and the novel differ drastically. While screenwriter Jim Uhl's adaptation of Palahniuk's book is remarkably faithful, there are key plot points in the novel that were changed for the film version. Like most film adaptations of novels there are differences between the screen version and the source material of Fight Club.
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