After that movie it's tough to do another "surprise, my crazy friend was actually just my unknown craziness/imagination". "Mr. Brooks" did it well because they weren't trying to hide it.
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It's been done so many times before Fight Club. I wasn't surprised by the imaginary friend concept in Fight Club either. I didn't really think they were trying to hide it here either.
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I actually thought it was more obvious in Fight Club than in this movie. Neither were as clever as they tried to be. The Sixth Sense did it best I think.
shareBut the Sixth Sense wasn't an imaginary person formed in the vulnerable mind (Fight Club), but a dead person's spirit (Willis) stuck Earth, unaware of his own demise until the end.
So a bit different.
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shareDon't give fight club credit for a plot done hundreds of times.
It's just one.
Fight Club may not deserve credit for being the first but it was still brilliantly done.
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I guess you could say Psycho, but even then, the viewer was never led on to believe the guy's mother was a real physical person.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Fight Club was the first major film to do it.
A beautiful mind Kevin Spacey too. In that movie it was the same thing. And also Secret Window with Johhny Depp. And there's another too I just can't think of.
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