Yeah, there’s the obvious freeze frame joke at the end, with the porno shot. I caught that, your mother caught that, dogs caught that.
What I’m wondering about is the other ones. In rewatching the film this evening, I noticed two apparent single-frame interjections. The first is during the scene when Norton is Xeroxing and lamenting about insomnia. The second is after he leaves the cancer group when first discussing Marla. My copy is only a DIVX .avi file, so I can’t really go frame-to-frame to catch it. It appeared that the second of these two was a picture of Brad Pitt’s character wearing that red jacket (speaking loosely in case somebody who never saw the film clicked on this subject for some reason.) I could not quite catch the first one.
It took me until my 4th viewing to notice this, unlike the one at the end which is obvious from the first time. Has someone perhaps actually freeze-framed these two scenes, and if so then what are the images?
Tyler (Pitt’s character) flashes on and off about six different times in the film before he’s actually shown on the moving floor thingie at the airport.
When Norton is in the hotel, and he’s watching a commercial, Brad Pitt is one of the men in the commercial… if memory serves, he’s on the right of the screen.
He also shows up when Ed Norton is talking to the doctor about his insomnia. I believe he pops in when Ed says “I find myself in places, and I don’t know how I got there.”
“Tyler” is a figment based on the image that Ed say while on one of his trips to view corpses in wrecked cars. Hence he shows up on the periphery a lot to sort of announce himself as he approaches and to hint that he does not actually exist. You should get the actual DVD and listen to all the commentary.
I do believe it’s 5 times. And they’re all of Tyler. Let’s see if I can recall from memory – in the hospital while talking to the doctor, there’s one in one of the cancer meetings, one outside after Marla is introduced, um…
Okay, I can’t name them all from memory.
Tristan, I don’t think Brad Pitt in the hotel commercial was supposed to be part of the movie… I’ve always figured it was just a little in-joke among the people behind the movie. He’s the second from right in the front row. It’s pretty much impossible to see if you’re not looking for it.
The genesis of the Tyler character isn’t clearly defined in the story, but it is clear that he’s been around for a while prior to the beginning of the timeline shown in the movie.
The commentary and special features on the Fight Club DVD are awesome and well worth watching even if you have to rent it.
WL, you should check out the commentary tracks on the DVD - both the Fincher and the Norton/Pitt tracks specifically point out the Pitt appearance in the commercial as one of the six intentional freeze frames in the film.
Huh, no kidding. I must not have been paying enough attention. I don’t have a DVD player so I’ve only seen the commentary once. Thanks for the pointer. My dad’s girlfriend just bought one so maybe I’ll rent it again and go over to their house and make them watch it with me again, heh.
:rolleyes:
It’s a movie about people confronting and defying capitalism, and you’re telling him to buy it? Dude, chill out and quit with all the rolleyes. What are you, Hollywood’s personal guilt lackey?
That’s clever (how’s that working out for you?), but I don’t recall hearing that Chuck Pahlaniuk or David Fincher said it was OK to give the book or the movie away just because of its enlightened socio-economic content.
Again…clever :rolleyes:. I do believe that we should support artists we like monetarily so that they can continue to produce quality work. Jackholes like RexDart should expect such treatment when they complain about the limitations of the bootlegged movies and music they steal.
I don’t have the DVD yet so I haven’t heard any commentary, but assumed that Tyler’s image is actually from the actor Brad Pitt, who exists as an actor in the “universe” of the movie because in one scene you see a marquee in the backround of a theater that’s playing “Seven Years In Tibet”, which stars Brad Pitt. Does the DVD commentary shed any light on this?
:rolleyes:
It’s a movie about people confronting and defying capitalism, and you’re telling him to buy it? Dude, chill out and quit with all the rolleyes. What are you, Hollywood’s personal guilt lackey? **
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Holy missing the point Batman!!
Ever notice the people in the film Defying and confronting capitalism are… oh I don’t know mindless idiots or frickin insane?
Notice that by the end Norton’s character ends up rejecting the Tyler side?
The anarchy loving rebel image is nonsense and the film points it out quite well.
Now go and buy the movie ya @#$%# Pirate!
I saw a few of the flickering Images of Pitt at the theater. Surely it was more than one or two frames. That is how I “figured out” Fight Club long before the end.
watsonwil, each image was only 1 frame. I figured it out too, but only because my roommates were drunk and kept whispering each time they appeared. Good eye!
I love that movie. but anyway, I saw them the first time around as well, thought it was pretty cool. you can probably find them all listed and stuff an easter egg site
How do you know he didn’t own it, and transfered it to .avi format, then lost the DVD? You don’t! You are just jumping to conclusions. Do you call people who tape Fight Club off the TV pirates as well? Well, then Avast, Ye Scurvy Dog, prepare to be boarded!!
You’re right - I should have held my tongue on the infinitesimal chance that this is the case. Hey, wait! :eek: THAT must be why so many people are sharing movies on the internet! They’re not pirates! They’ve all just misplaced their original DVD’s!
OK… maybe I should have refrained from posting my snotty comment about the irony of telling someone to buy a movie featuring people attempting to destroy capitalism. It obviously wasn’t an argument - just as if I’d used the same argument to defend a terrorist blowing up the studio that produced it. (They’re complaining? They made a movie about people blowing up buildings). One more time… I was being facetious. Fight Club deserves the same protection from copyright laws that a movie based on, say, Atlas Shrugged would.
First, RedDart wasn’t complaining. Second, since you’re so concerned about rules, you might like to remember that we limit personal insults such as ‘jackholes’ to the pit…
and, third, I agree. Artists we like should be compensated for the work that they produce. But someone must do the compensating. And if you can’t afford to compensate them, I don’t think anyone is any better off by you not owning the film.
For instance, I have a moderate mp3 collection, and a vast CD collection. I couldn’t hope to own the CD of every single song I have on my computer, so I download what I at present cannot afford. If I was a kazillionare and I had entire albums sitting on my hard drive, then yes, I would be an arsehole. And if RexDart is sitting on a couple of million dollars and can’t even be bothered to buy a movie he enjoys, then I can’t support that either.
But most of us don’t have the money to experience all the art we would like. So we must compensate.
And lastly, I’m still amazed that you value the rights of whatever studio owns Fight Club that you would demand to random people on the internet that they go purchase the movie. That is what I found most curious of all.