• 51dusty@lemmy.world
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          4 days ago

          have you read the book? while visually appealing, the movie did not do the book’s content justice.

          major theme is destroying the traditional definition of manliness pushed on us by society… fighting ourselves to become our own boss/master in order to create our own definition of manhood.

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            4 days ago

            I heard some conspiracy theorist say they did that to the movie because they thought young males interested in the fighting and incel nonsense wouldn’t both reading the book and exploring the concept.

            Now im not saying they’re right, but, it definitely tracks.

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              4 days ago

              The easier explanation is that they had to distill a 200 page novel down to 120 minutes of film and convince people to give them money to make it so they could make those people more money… the irony is thick.

              conspiracy theories are fun though!