Talk:Fight Club

	Film portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Film. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see lists of open tasks and regional and topical task forces. To use this banner, please refer to the documentation. To improve this article, please refer to the guidelines.FilmWikipedia:WikiProject FilmTemplate:WikiProject Filmfilm articles
	This article is supported by the American cinema task force.
	This article has an archived peer review.

20th Century Studios Mid‑importance

	20th Century Studios portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject 20th Century Studios, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of 20th Century Studios and its affiliated companies on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.20th Century StudiosWikipedia:WikiProject 20th Century StudiosTemplate:WikiProject 20th Century Studios20th Century Studios articles
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

United States: Cinema Low‑importance

	United States portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject United States, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of topics relating to the United States of America on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the ongoing discussions. Template Usage Articles Requested! Become a Member Project Talk Alerts United StatesWikipedia:WikiProject United StatesTemplate:WikiProject United StatesUnited States articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.
	Film portal This article is supported by WikiProject Film - American cinema task force (assessed as Low-importance).

Guild of Copy Editors

This article was copy edited by Erik, a member of the Guild of Copy Editors, on 20 February 2008.Guild of Copy EditorsWikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy EditorsTemplate:WikiProject Guild of Copy EditorsGuild of Copy Editors articles

This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the Fight Club article.
This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject.

Put new text under old text. Click here to start a new topic.
New to Wikipedia? Welcome! Learn to edit; get help.

Article policies

Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Archives: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5: 365 days

Fight Club is a featured article; it (or a previous version of it) has been identified as one of the best articles produced by the Wikipedia community. Even so, if you can update or improve it, please do so.

This article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on October 15, 2009.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
August 13, 2006	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
April 28, 2007	Good article nominee	Not listed
May 12, 2007	WikiProject peer review	Reviewed
May 22, 2007	Peer review	Reviewed
June 11, 2007	Good article nominee	Listed
February 11, 2008	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
May 13, 2009	Good article reassessment	Kept
July 28, 2009	Featured article candidate	Promoted
Current status: Featured article

Genre

It can fall into one of two categories: black comedy psychological thriller or Neo-noir psychological thriller. There must be "psychological" and "there must be thriller". Black comedy works better. It has every characteristic of a black comedy (regular violence, careless death and injury, and brutal interpersonal conflict) while hinging utterly on a twist that hurls the film into the psychological realm. It must have the world thriller because at its core the movie intends to challenge what we unconsciously believe is safe and secure. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.6.112.53 (talk • contribs) 04:41, May 15, 2024 (UTC)

Hello! So this film has been labeled with many different genres, including what you've mentioned, but there has not been a consensus among reliable sources about the most common one, which is why it has been left empty. (And we need to use reliable sources here, we as editors cannot go with what we personally think.) We have guidelines at WP:FILMLEAD to follow. We are not necessarily compelled to name a genre in the opening sentence, and we can instead use the rest of the lead section to write about the nature of the film. See a 2017 discussion about this Talk:Fight Club/Archive 5 § Genre? Erik (talk | contrib) ^{(ping me)} 12:20, 15 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Idk if this helps but the afi (american film institute) has it labelled as a drama, while allmovie says it’s a satire or psychological thriller, these are two very reliable websites that are heavily used in other articles so maybe this could work possibly? I’d rather ask first than add stuff before telling Pomniismywife (talk) 04:05, 30 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Production

Is this possibly too detailed? Drsruli (talk) 02:42, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I think it is on par with other Featured Articles in terms of "Production" sections, like American Beauty (1999 film) and Tender Mercies. It actually does not reference some Fincher-focused books, so it's possible it could be longer. (Though at that point, it could be split off into its own sub-article, leaving behind a summary section of 2-3 paragraphs.) Erik (talk | contrib) ^{(ping me)} 03:23, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Genre

the genre of the film is action thriller. Why don't you want it to mention in the page? Arthursunrise (talk) 05:43, 5 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Listed genres must come from WP:SECONDARY sources with named authors describing the film in prose (rather than automated genre tags on web pages). I've seen good sources saying it is a psychological thriller[1][2] or drama thriller.[3] Roger Ebert described it as an action movie but he did not mention thriller.[4] Hope that helps you decide what to do. Binksternet (talk) 06:33, 5 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Says who? SubSeven (talk) 05:42, 6 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Genre

Production

Category

Genre