American Cinematographer - November 1999 - 44
"SfeUSA.
his
lonely, mundane existence.
Through a chance encounter on an
airplane, he meets the enigmatic
Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt), the
founder of Fight Club, an under¬
ground group of young men who
take part in bare-knuckle brawls
concocted
to vent
their pre-apoca-
lyptic angst.
Fincher has worked with
score
of
phers
on
a
prominent cinematogra¬
commercials, music videos
and feature films. Interestingly, he
began shooting Alien3 with the late
Jordan Cronenweth, ASC - who left
the
production due to his battle with
replaced
by Alex Thomson, BSC. For Fight
Parkinson's disease, and was
Club, Fincher enlisted Jordan's son,
Jeff Cronenweth, to realize his
uniquely dystopian vision.
While working with his father
on a number of
pictures in various
capacities, Cronenweth was afforded
the rare opportunity to have a master
cinematographer as his personal
tutor, mentor and best friend. "I
his 1996 novel
Fight Club,
posed
this question: What do you do
when you realize the world is not
destined to be your oyster, when
you recognize the innocuous banali¬
ties of everyday life as nothing more
than a severely loosened lid on a
seething underworld cauldron of
n
writer Chuck Palahniuk
unchecked
impulses and social
atrocities?
stranger to
no
this theme. All of his
previous films,
142 November 1999
'92), Seven (AC Oct. '95) and The
Game (AC Sept. '97), have explored
exposed to filmmaking quite early
on," says Cronenweth. "On summer
vacations, I was able to stay with my
father on sets, wherever he happened
to be at the time. I loved the way the
the dark side of the human
crew
With
tions that took
psyche.
Fight Club, Fincher once again
demonstrates his affinity for this
bleak and
Alien^ (see AC July
foreboding realm, display¬
interacted, and the collabora¬
place. When I was
presented with opportunities in
this business, I thought it would be
later
deft cinematic sensibility and a
gift for taut visual execution.
Fight Club opens as its disen¬
quite foolish if I didn't at least make a
franchised
-
loader and second assistant before
(Edward Norton) feigns
graduating from high school, and
ing
a
narrator
Director David Fincher is
was
-
and
nameless
illness and
go
of it."
Cronenweth
worked
then enrolled in film school
begins attending cancerpatient support group meetings in a
where he studied
vain attempt to
Among his classmates
find
purpose
within
at
as
a
USC,
cinematography.
were
future
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