10 Movie Scenes Where Actors Weren't Faking

Hard to believe that David Fincher's masterful adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk's cult novel Fight Club is now over decades old, given how fresh, dynamic and relevant it still feels, but some things, ironically, are built to last.

Centring around Edward Norton's unnamed Narrator and his imaginary friend Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt), the film drags us by the scruff of our shirts into a world of bare-knuckle fighting, corporate sabotage and luxury soap.

But this all begins with one small, inconvenient punch.

Insisting that we can never really know ourselves until we've been in a fight, a drunken Tyler challenges the Narrator to hit him as hard as he can in the car park of a late-night bar. Obligingly, the Narrator lands a blow on Tyler's ear, to which the latter shouts, 'Mother f*cker! You hit me in the ear?' This was actually an honest-to-god unscripted response from Pitt when Norton landed the blow.

Much like Tarantino, Fincher likes to really direct and micromanage every scene, shot and performance crossing his screen, and so quietly encouraged Norton to make contact with Pitt for the first punch. But, having never really fought before, Norton opted for the ear...

It's no wonder Brad Pitt has never worked a Fincher picture again, but the results are hard to fault.