"Fight Club" is now available to stream (legally) in China, but wait until you see how this story ends
CBSN
Beijing — The 1999 cult classic "Fight Club" is now available to stream — legally — in China, and internet users are buzzing over the version that recently hit streaming site Tencent Video. Many people who had already seen the movie thanks to China's booming pirate video market quickly noticed some key differences.
The Tencent version is 12 minutes shorter than the original, and it has a very different ending. Somewhat paradoxically, the climatic ending of the U.S. movie, in which two high-rise office buildings symbolizing Western conformism and capitalistic consumer culture are blown up, has been removed.
Instead, a title card appears informing viewers that "the police rapidly figured out the whole plan and arrested all criminals, successfully preventing the bomb from exploding."
