Why in the Ear?

Edward Norton has explained the meaning behind one of Fight Club’s most talked-about lines.

Film fans and devotees of Chuck Palahnuik’s Fight Club novel have pondered over Brad Pitt’s line, “Why the ear?” for almost a decade – and now Norton has revealed what it meant.

The actor recalls, “The first hit in the movie is supposed to be really awkward and we had kind of agreed that I would just connect with Brad’s shoulder muscle and (director) David Fincher walked up right before we did the first one and just said, ‘Hit him in the ear.’
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