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Original 'Fight Club' ending restored in China after online backlash

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The original, iconic ending of cult U.S. film "Fight Club" has been restored to screens in China after a censored version that brought all criminals to book sparked outrage online. Beijing has some of the world's most restrictive censorship rules with authorities only approving a handful of foreign films for release each year — sometimes with major cuts. But reversing endings is rare, and there was widespread anger after censors replaced the original finale of "Fight Club" on a version streaming on platform Tencent Video. In the original closing scenes, star Edward Norton's narrator kills his imaginary alter-ego Tyler Durden,…

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