What did the film Distort?

A film adaptation of a book can be like hearsay. The author writes a novel to send a certain message. Someone else reads it interprets it in a different way and talks to a film producer. The film producers then take its, leaves out major events, change the ending and make a film with a completely different message than the author. The author then screams bloody murder then takes his cut from the box office. Joesph Boggs, the author of Problems with Adaptation, says "We expect the film to duplicate exactly the experience we had seeing the play or in reading the novel. That is, of course, completely impossible" (Boggs 672). No one told this theory to David Fincher, the director of Fight Club. Fincher stuck almost like glue to the novel. He did however, change a few events in the novel and the ending but stills successfully puts Palahniuk's words on screen that even made Palahniuk happy to earn his profits.
Most of the changes Fincher made to......

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