ADG Perspective

September-October 2018

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1 0 8 P E R S P E C T I V E | S E P T E M B E R / O C T O B E R 2 0 1 8 RESHOOTS B Y N I K K I R U D L O F F , A S S O C I A T E E D I T O R The drawing at the top, depicts the kitchen of Tyler Durden's (Brad Pitt) Paper Street House in Fight Club. The illustration is credited to Tani Kunitake with Alex McDowell as the Production Designer (who is also known for Minority Report, The Terminal and Man of Steel). Fight Club is a 1999 film based on the 1996 novel of the same name. The plot involves a traveling automobile recall specialist (Edward Norton) suffering from insomnia who meets a strange soap salesman named Tyler Durden and soon finds himself living in his large dilapidated house in an industrial area of their city, after his perfect apartment is destroyed. The two men form an underground fight club for men who are fed up with their mundane lives. Filming lasted 138 days, there were over 300 scenes shot on 200 locations and 72 sets. The Paper Street House exterior was built in Wilmington, CA, while the interior sets were on stages in Culver City. C O U R T E S Y O F T H E M A R G A R E T H E R R I C K L I B R A R Y , A . M . P . A . S .

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