Seat-pocket card · Los Angeles, 1998 · keep this card
Brad Pitt Tyler Durden
Edward Norton the Narrator
David Fincher director
12 exits all of them ordinary, all of them real.
Side A: the people. Turn the card over for the exits.
One frame in twenty-four
Before the Narrator meets Tyler, the filmmakers slipped Tyler into single frames, for a subliminal effect. Each reel here is one second of grey film with a real Los Angeles place spliced into a single frame. Run it once, then step through to find it.
Frame 1 of 24: grey.
Nothing on this frame
Every reel hides one place in one frame. The counter tells you where you are.
Downtown Los Angeles · seven items
The Narrator walks through his apartment while effects pick out his IKEA belongings. Here is downtown, sold the same way. Add the places to a walk; the distance is worked out as the crow flies, in the order you choose.
No. 01 PEARSON
123 South Figueroa Street, Bunker Hill
No. 02 SPHERE
350 South Grand Avenue, between 3rd and 4th Streets
No. 03 HOMEWORK
444 South Flower Street, at Fifth Street
No. 04 PRESSMAN
506 South Grand Avenue, facing Pershing Square
No. 05 CLEANERS
501–511 South Spring Street, Historic Core
No. 06 BUS STOP
313 West 8th Street, at Broadway
No. 07 MARLA
423 West 8th Street
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The actors had lessons in boxing, taekwondo, grappling and soapmaking. So here is a hotel bar. Wash it, and each layer that comes off is a fact about the hotel that played the Pressman.
A new bar, still wrapped in its stamp.
506 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles
Sleep in the Pressman Hotel. The Biltmore’s Emerald Ballroom was Tyler’s restaurant, and the hotel has stood on Pershing Square since 1923. Promenade Towers, California Plaza and Spring Street are all within a walk.
Check roomsPinned up by the basement stairs
The film has its rules. Visitors get these instead. Tick each one you agree to.
0 of 8 rules agreed.
The film’s first rule is silence. Ours is the opposite: tell people where you are going, and send them this guide.
Tyler’s Paper Street house was a set, removed after filming. American Cinematographer puts its facade in San Pedro; Wikipedia and Film Oblivion put it in Wilmington, on Neptune Avenue.
Lou’s Tavern, the bar whose basement holds the first fights, was a real bar near Wilmington, at South Figueroa Street and West Harry Bridges Boulevard. It was demolished not long after filming.
The Bristol and Promenade Towers are homes. Look from the pavement, keep the doorway clear, and do not follow residents in.
St Brendan’s is a working church, and the support groups in the film were fiction. Go quietly, outside service times.
The laundrette on Melrose and the cleaners on Spring Street are working shops. Wash something, or walk on by.
There is no actual ball or fountain there.
The Fox lot is a working studio and closed to visitors. Stage 15 is behind the gate.
Stage 15, the Fox lot, Century City
The Paper Street rooms and the tavern basement are built side by side on Stage 15 at Fox. Switch on the lamps that made the ring.
Lamp 1
Lamp 2
Lamp 3
Lamp 4
0 of 4 lamps on.
The film was shot in and around Los Angeles, with sets built at the studio in Century City. Filming lasted 138 days, from July to December 1998.
Alex McDowell built more than 70 sets; the film had about 300 scenes and 200 locations.
In the IKEA scene, effects pick out the Narrator’s belongings as he walks through his apartment.
A working studio lot, closed to visitors. You see the gate and offices from the street.
Fincher · Pitt · Norton · Bonham Carter · Palahniuk
David FincherDirector
Brad PittTyler Durden
Edward NortonThe Narrator
Helena Bonham CarterMarla Singer
Chuck PalahniukWrote the novel
David Fincher made the film from Chuck Palahniuk’s 1996 novel, with Brad Pitt as Tyler Durden, Edward Norton as the Narrator and Helena Bonham Carter as Marla Singer. Before the cameras rolled, the actors learned to box, grapple and make soap.
Directed by David Fincher from Chuck Palahniuk’s 1996 novel; Pitt, Norton and Bonham Carter star; the actors took lessons in boxing, taekwondo, grappling and soapmaking.
10 September 1999 · the Lido
Fight Club premiered at the 56th Venice International Film Festival on 10 September 1999. It opened in American cinemas on 15 October 1999 and took $11 million from 1,963 cinemas in its first weekend.
It found its audience on home video, which made it a cult classic. The Palazzo del Cinema hosts the Venice Film Festival. It opened on 10 August 1937; its Sala Grande seats over 1,000.
On the Lido seafront. Walk the front any time; the halls are for festival and congress ticket-holders.
12 places you can visit. Seven are a walk apart downtown; the church and the laundrette are a short drive west, the harbour is down the freeway, and Venice is a long way off.
Pins mark public places; private homes are named but not pinned.
General reference · Restricted access · Coordinate precision: site · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. Private apartments. See the towers and the entrance between them from South Figueroa Street; do not go in.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A working hotel on Grand Avenue, facing Pershing Square. The ballrooms open for events and for the Conservancy’s monthly tour.
General reference · Restricted access · Coordinate precision: site · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. People live here. See the painted sign from West 8th Street and leave the door alone.
General reference · Restricted access · Coordinate precision: site · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A shut cinema front on West 8th Street, a block from the Bristol. See it from the pavement.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: site · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A public plaza and water court off Grand Avenue, beside the top of Angels Flight. Best by day.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: site · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. An office plaza on Flower Street at Fifth. Walk the forecourt; the tower is for tenants.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: site · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. Busy pavements in the Historic Core. The Alexandria is on the corner at 501; the cleaners is a working shop at 511.
123 South Figueroa Street, Bunker Hill
Promenade Towers, 123 South Figueroa Street between First and Second Streets, played the Narrator’s condo building, Pearson Towers.
Private apartments. See the towers and the entrance between them from South Figueroa Street; do not go in.
506 South Grand Avenue, facing Pershing Square
The Biltmore’s Emerald Ballroom played the restaurant of the Pressman Hotel, where Tyler works.
A working hotel on Grand Avenue, facing Pershing Square. The ballrooms open for events and for the Conservancy’s monthly tour.
423 West 8th Street
The Bristol Hotel on West Eighth Street played Marla Singer’s apartment building.
People live here. See the painted sign from West 8th Street and leave the door alone.
313 West 8th Street, at Broadway
The Narrator puts Marla on a bus at Broadway and West 8th Street, then walks toward the old Olympic Theatre.
A shut cinema front on West 8th Street, a block from the Bristol. See it from the pavement.
350 South Grand Avenue, between 3rd and 4th Streets
A huge metal sphere rolls down the plaza steps into a coffee bar and a piece of corporate art; it was filmed at Two California Plaza.
A public plaza and water court off Grand Avenue, beside the top of Angels Flight. Best by day.
444 South Flower Street, at Fifth Street
The forecourt with geometric metal sculptures at 444 South Flower Street is where the Narrator is set the homework of starting a fight with a stranger.
An office plaza on Flower Street at Fifth. Walk the forecourt; the tower is for tenants.
501–511 South Spring Street, Historic Core
The Narrator and Tyler walk north-west along West Fifth Street from Spring Street, the Alexandria Hotel behind them, deciding which famous people they would fight.
Busy pavements in the Historic Core. The Alexandria is on the corner at 501; the cleaners is a working shop at 511.
Stay
The Biltmore on Pershing Square, a walk from most of downtown’s places.
506 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles
Sleep in the Pressman Hotel. The Biltmore’s Emerald Ballroom was Tyler’s restaurant, and the hotel has stood on Pershing Square since 1923. Promenade Towers, California Plaza and Spring Street are all within a walk.
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The Los Angeles Conservancy’s Saturday tour of the hotel.
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Take it home
Two 1999 originals from our store, Palahniuk’s novel and the Dust Brothers’ score.
An original poster from the film’s 1999 release. Size and condition are not yet recorded in our catalogue, so ask before you buy.
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View posterChuck Palahniuk · W. W. Norton
Palahniuk’s 1996 first novel, which the film adapts, in Norton’s paperback.
Find the bookThe Dust Brothers · CD, Restless Records, 1999
The Dust Brothers’ score for the film, on Restless Records in 1999.
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Every place and moment behind this page, with sources.
12 of 12 places · 17 of 17 Moments
123 South Figueroa Street, Bunker Hill
The Narrator’s condo building, Pearson Towers, is Promenade Towers on South Figueroa Street.
The Narrator walks through his apartment while effects pick out his IKEA belongings.
With his condo gone, the Narrator rings Tyler from the phone booth between the towers.
506 South Grand Avenue, facing Pershing Square
Tyler works at the Pressman Hotel, played by the Biltmore’s Emerald Ballroom, corporate video and Regency Room restroom.
423 West 8th Street
Marla lives in the Bristol Hotel on West Eighth Street.
313 West 8th Street, at Broadway
The Narrator puts Marla on a bus at Broadway and 8th Street.
350 South Grand Avenue, between 3rd and 4th Streets
A huge metal sphere rolls down the steps of Two California Plaza in one of Project Mayhem’s pranks.
444 South Flower Street, at Fifth Street
The Narrator is set the homework of starting a fight with a stranger, in the forecourt at 444 South Flower Street.
501–511 South Spring Street, Historic Core
The Narrator and Tyler walk along Fifth Street from Spring Street, past the Alexandria Hotel.
The Narrator tracks Tyler to S&H Cleaners on South Spring Street.
310 South Van Ness Avenue, at Third Street
The Narrator finds sleep at support groups for illnesses he does not have, until Marla turns up at them too. They were filmed at St Brendan’s Church.
4314–4371 Melrose Avenue, East Hollywood
Marla takes clothes from a Melrose Avenue laundrette and sells them across the road.
Harry Bridges Boulevard, Wilmington, at the Port of Los Angeles
The first fights happen in the basement of Lou’s Tavern, a closed Wilmington bar given new neon for the film.
Tyler’s house on Paper Street is a facade built by the harbour, with its rooms on a stage at Fox.
Century City, Los Angeles
The Paper Street rooms and the tavern basement are built side by side on Stage 15 at Fox.
Before the Narrator meets Tyler, Tyler is slipped into single frames of the film.
Lungomare Guglielmo Marconi, Lido, Venice
Fight Club premieres at the 56th Venice International Film Festival.
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