David Fincher’s “Fight Club” has grown from an underrated gem, this video essays takes a look at the sound design that helped this film become a cult classic, to eventually being widely accepted as one of the best films of all time. I shine a light on the sound design of Ren Klyce and Richard Hymns, specifically in the film’s fight scenes, and (hopefully) give a better idea of why it’s so important in a film, and the role it played in cementing the films status as one of the greatest of all time.

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All music taken from the film’s original score, composed by The Dust Brothers.

Ren Klyce full video:

Foley Artists – How Movie Sound Effects are Made:

The Beautiful Lies of Sound Design:

A Foley Artist Sounds Off:

Clips featured from “Fight Club”, “Die Hard”, “Guardians of the Galaxy”, “The Matrix”, “Daredevil”, “Star Wars”.

Other clips taken from behind the scenes footage of “Interstellar”, “WALL-E”, “The Social Network” and “Star Wars”.

This video was written and edited by Daniel Netzel.

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49 COMMENTS

  1. Mmhm. ;D As a music nerd this was always a favorite thing of mine to do in my own mediocre way. (AKA: not with the budget nor the equipment/people) But its funny since I haven't watched any "cult classics" until recently. Ya'll gotta watch out for my films in the future!!! Hopefully ONE day….finishing up dental school this year and then gotta work on the craft more, prove myself, work my ass off…and get to where my vision will be with many others. I got the sounds and what not…just gotta do everything else somehow! Haha : D But I made a fight club "music video" in kinda celebration of it!!! It's on my channel if theres any fans (or you, film radar) that would like to check it out! 😀

  2. Your work is service to artistic quality and preservation. In this age of thankless craft and dedication, you keep the fantastic art of our age grounded, and properly validated.

  3. I think the music is the most important to me besides the main plot.
    like how i loved to watch music videos on MTV as a child.

    Really nice to get a view of this world though, i had no idea. fukin chicken and valnuts lol.

  4. Great job! And best ending scene in movie history 🙂

    I think same goes for the score of 'Social network'. When I found out that it was nominated for Oscar in soundtrack category, I was surprised since I barely could recall even the main theme. But that's how you tell it was good.

  5. hi, i don't know if it's just my copy of the film, or is fight club has this continuous noise such as clicks, and "one-note" sound from the beginning to end excepet the credits and ending? can anyone confirm this? is it intentional?

  6. what a great video! a long time ago I saw some special on foley artists and have always been mesmerized by the magic they perform.  the creativity required to represent a sound with something totally different is amazing.  There's also an SNL skit with ben stiller (I think) where they mock foley artists and it's pretty funny too 🙂  great video

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