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It’s worth remembering that David Fincher’s 1999 film “Fight Club”<\/a> was a commercial bomb upon its initial release. It made about $101 million at the global box office, but that wasn’t enough to cover its $65 million budget and other expenses. It wasn’t\u00a0until Fincher’s movie was released on home media that it found a larger following. “Fight Club” has since been closely studied at film schools and is now regarded as a provocative and important essay on the modern state of masculinity, as presented via a hyper-stylized MTV-esque montage. The movie’s famous\u00a0Tyler Durden character (Brad Pitt) is himself\u00a0a satire of men’s presumed desires, requiring violence and class revolution in order to feel anything (and hoping for the day the world ends and men can become hunter-gatherers in a post-apocalyptic landscape).<\/p>\n For those unfamiliar, “Fight Club,” itself based on the novel of the same name by Chuck Pahalniuk, is about a nameless office wonk (Edward Norton) who suffers from insomnia and who can only find catharsis in weepy self-help groups. That changes when he meets Tyler, a mysterious stranger, on an airplane, and the two have an intense bonding experience when they later try out punching each other in a bar parking lot. They soon find that scads of other dissatisfied office wonks want to get in on their fights, and they form a Fight Club as a way to reawaken their flagging sense of masculinity. In time, however, Tyler slowly morphs into a legit cult leader, with his acolytes becoming bomb-building revolutionaries.<\/p>\n When Fincher was interviewed by Playboy Magazine<\/a>\u00a0in 2014, he was asked about the fineries and peculiarities of “Fight Club,” along with his experiences working with Norton and Pitt. Notably, Fincher recalled a scene wherein Pitt, as Tyler, was asked to answer a door completely naked, something the execs behind “Fight Club” encouraged<\/a>. (Pitt is a handsome man). Pitt, however, enraged the studios when he decided that Tyler should be nude … except for a pair of yellow kitchen gloves.<\/p>\n