The first rule of Movie Madness is that you always follow a “chick-flick” with a “guy film”. And this week’s installment isn’t as easy as last week’s either. Elementary students might get the gist of what’s going on, but we’re guessing you’ll need to be a healthy Intermediate before most of the dialogue falls into place. This is a great movie by Dave’s favourite American director: part four in Mystery Movie Madness.
As before, your challenge is to recognize the Hollywood film based on a short audio clip. We try harder (hypothetically) not to give away the answer this time….
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Would I be right in saying that the movie is 搏击俱乐部? I wasn’t entirely sure. Very interesting!
Yes the official translation of the title is 搏击俱乐部
I really don’t know where Dave get this dubbed chinese version, from my sources I could could’t find anything apart the english version.
As this movie praise Anarchy against “humanist” values, it should be difficult to find in mainland China.
How about choosing a funny movie next time? I want to see how jokes are translated in Mandarin.
@Matt - The second rule of Movie Madness is to hint obliquely about the answer in the write-up….
@kmk - Just picked it up at a local store. For what it’s worth, I don’t think the film is nihilist. Project Mayhem is as faceless, impersonal and franchise-ridden as its commercial counterparts. It’s a brilliant film though: if Edward Norton’s behavior at the climax is interpreted as a metaphoric suicide (the ultimate act of self-destruction) rather than as a rejection of nihilism itself (as presented narratively), we have a film that moves in opposite directions narratively and symbolically. It follows the dramatic convention of comedies by ending with a wedding of sorts, but it’s a symbolic marriage of death (Helena Carter had her death ritual earlier). Add a closing dash of pornography, cigarrette burns and the Pixies - this is an endorsement of nihilism?
It actually confused me to read reviews claiming the film was fascist. Chuck Palahniuk seems to be a pretty straightforward nihilist in the book though, so maybe people were just focusing on the book.
My guess was the good, the bad and the ugly. LOL It sounds like a Western.
That’s a good movie too. I think next week is John’s turn.
If you did a line out of Friends, I could probably tell you which episode it was.