Fight Club gets a new ending in China – and the authorities win

The ending to David Fincher’s 1999 cult classic film Fight Club has been changed in China, sparking outrage among fans. Film fans in China noticed over the weekend that a version of the Brad Pitt and Edward Norton movie, newly available on streaming platform Tencent Video, was given a makeover that transforms the anarchist, anti-capitalist message which made the film a global hit. In the closing scenes of the original, Norton’s character The Narrator kills off his imaginary alter ego Tyler Durden – played by Pitt – and then watches…