The 1999 David Fincher movie Fight Club, which starred Brad Pitt and Edward Norton, returned to headlines recently after it came to light that the nihilistic classic had been altered in China. It turned out Fight Club’s ending had been changed so that instead of the original’s high-rise explosions, which were coordinated to destroy credit companies, Chinese viewers were treated to a curt message that Tyler Durden was in fact arrested. Screen-caps of the altered ending circulated widely on social media, with the translated epilogue reading: “The police rapidly figured out the whole plan and arrested all criminals, successfully preventing...