Fight Club is for real men, and real men don’t tweet.
The first time I watched the movie I thought the first rule of fight club was “you don’t talk about fight club.”
The second time I saw it, it dawned on me that fight club was the fastest growing club in the country. They were springing up so fast our hero found fight clubs in all the cities he traveled to.
So the real, unspoken rule of fight club is “don’t follow the rules.”
Not sure if this is a whoosh, but Tyler was travelling all around the country to start up the fight clubs. This is revealed towards the end of the movie when they do the “big twist”.
One post at a time, Fella’s.
I don’t remember the books part, but either way these are a play on an old Readers’ Digest articles series called “I Am Joe’s…” or “I Am Jane’s…” <body part>.
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No, he didn’t. He was simply the narrator in the book, if memory serves.
In the movie I think the credits list him as ‘jack’, but that’s probably because in the movie he reads through a bunch of books about ‘jacks…’ (various body parts).
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I believe in the book the names were all different. I could also swear that in the movie they mentioned a few different names, but when the narrator made up his own he’d always start with “I am Jacks…”, never any other name.
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So is everybody in this thread is the actually the same person?
Talking is communication.
Writing is communication
Texting sexting and tweeting are communication.
The first rule of Fight Club is you don’t communicate about Fight Club.
The second rule of Fight Club is you don’t communicate about Fight Club.
All except for me. Turns out I was Kaiser Soze all the time.
<Limps away quickly.>
Cool theory, Nonny.
“one of if not THE best movie I have ever seen”
Of course being limited to the movies the poster has seen the pool might be very limited, but I remember when the movie came out there were many people making this claim in general - best movie ever.
Does anybody else think OK, good movie, nowhere near the best movie ever?
A potential plot hole occured to me after seeing the movie several times. The big twist is is that the Narrator and Tyler Durden are the same person, though the Narrator doesn’t realize it. Other characters like Marla see only one person and are understandably confused by the inconsistent behaviour of Narrator/Tyler. When the Narrator runs into Robert Paulson (the heavyset character played by Meat Loaf), he is surprised to learn that ‘Tyler’ (i.e. his other personality) has been setting up other Fight Clubs. Thing is, Paulson has no idea that the Narrator is aleady involved in Fight Club - shouldn’t he have recognized the Narrator as Tyler?
Granted, it’s possible that Paulson got into Fight Club without ever seeing “Tyler”. I find it unlikely, though, since Fight Club at this stage doesn’t yet seem to be at the nationwide cult network level.
I think even at that stage it was pretty networked: You had to know a guy who knows a guy who knows Tyler, not necessarily knowing him directly.
Plus, even if he had seen him in passing at a meeting, that’s a totally different context, and not one conducive to recognition: It’s poorly-lit, there’s a lot else going on, etc.
IMDB lists Edward Norton’s character as “The Narrator”, as do the credits.
What are the first three rules of real estate?
- Location
- Location
- Location (sorry Opal)
i don’t think spoiler tags are necessary for a movie that’s nearly fifteen years old
You’re saying fifteen-year-olds can be spoiled?
It depends… how were they fucked in grade school?
Double math followed by double geography.