The following slide contains references to child abuse and abortion.
Following the introduction of Helena Bonham Carter's character, Marla Singer, Tyler Durden begins a sexual relationship with her. Like all things in "Fight Club," their affair is anything but PG-13. However, the raunchiness comes to a head in a scene that takes place after one of their sexual encounters, with Marla exclaiming, "I haven't been f***ed like that since grade school."
To almost anybody who hears it, that line of dialogue is exceedingly uncomfortable. However, it's actually the toned-down version of a line taken from the book. According to Total Film (via GamesRadar+), in the first version of the film, Marla says, "I want to have your abortion," but the film studio was adamant that this needed to be changed. Director David Fincher agreed to change the line under the condition that they could not refuse whatever line replaced it. Of course, this turned out to be a trick. Fincher came up with a line that's almost worse, making then Fox 2000 President Laura Ziskin extremely uncomfortable, much to Fincher's joy.
"You know in 'ET' when his head extends up on his neck?" Fincher said. "Laura did the inverse. The first vertebrates in her neck just contracted wafer[-]thin. She just cringed so hard."
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