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Reacting to FIGHT CLUB (1999) | Movie Reaction - Zábava
The “grade school” line has a funny story. Apparently Helena Bonham Carter didn’t know what grade school was either and, after filming, was horrified to learn it meant elementary school, basically 1st-5th grade.
In my country it was 1st through 6th but in her country they call it primary while highschool is secondary
and they changed the line from the book which was "i wanna have your abortion"
@@gregdixon2454"I hope I just got pregnant because I can't WAIT to have your abortion". (According to the author on Joe Rogan).
1st-through-8th.
Hilarious
"A woman could cut off your p*n*s and throw it out the window of a moving car..." is something that happened to a guy named John Bobbitt in the 90s. It was national news for months. I'm pretty sure that's what Chuck Palahniuk was referencing when he wrote the novel.
Another woman cut her husband's off and put it in a garbage disposal. So sad.
You forgot to mention that fact that Mr. Bobbit was raping his wife for years. And THEN she did that.
It falls under the category of other similar revenge attacks on that part of the body while someone is asleep, like throwing boiling grits on it or gluing it to a leg. Supposedly, Sean Young did that last one to James Woods.
@@celladora31yeah, apparently he was abusive to every other woman he was with after that too.
@@subliminallime4321 I am not surprised. After what he went through, I can hardly believe he got near anymore women. Or that his ex wife managed to get another man near her.
"Maybe he's in a club all by himself" so wise of you
I feel Brad Pitt is in a league all by himself. Good looks, rich, can act, gives to charities, also a father figure. 🔥
Lass is really on the ball
She's done it again.
Nahhh, she just got lucky.....this time. 😄
@deepermind4884 idk man, she made a few comments throughout that had me thinking "you sure you haven't seen this yet"
Are we not gonna address that she said she'd be totally fine with the whole pissing/cream of mushroom soup as long as it was Brad Pitt? 🤣
I think she was just imagining the pleasing picture of Brad Pitt with his cock out. 😆
I don't think she's talking about piss, there was a cut in the video there. He may be pissing in THAT soup right there, but I think the implication is that cream of mushroom soup has Cream of Tyler Durden in it (wink wink), and that she wouldn't mind.
Well, she has standards. 😉
Brad Piss.
She'll let Brad bust💄🤤
“Is that something you guys think about?” Yes, because Lorena Bobbitt did exactly that to her husband.
I remember that. We made women at work have to check out scissors in a logbook, as a joke. You couldn't "get away" with that now but people have no sense of humor these days.
A better question is it something your spouse thinks about, bet it has!
She’s not the only one. I heard a story about a woman in Kansas City who did that, only she tossed his willy on the floor of her car and stomped on it every few minutes on her 3 hour drive to Wichita, KS. Where it was starting to smell bad, so she chucked it out the window onto a grocery store parking lot
@@tru3sk1ll wtf
And he got a porn career and she a long time in jail. He won. 😂
Tyler and the narrator is the same person. That's it. Getting bamboozled like that, really had you second guessing everything. Preetty entertaining. Unless it is all a dream, of course. Then he technically is everyone.
The bullet went through the side of his face, but he really believed he was killing himself and Tyler. Since Tyler was in his mind, he was really killed by the act. Tyler can't control him anymore. His eyes are open.
His eyes were open to what he needed to do and him actually taking control rather than living through Tyler. The act of willingly attempting to kill himself to get rid of Tyler killed Tyler because it proved he no longer needed or wanted Tyler.
or he could have even hit the part of his brain where tyler resided and left everything else intact, that's how i always thought it happened since the movie came out
@@notimportant3686 The part of his brain that's in his cheek? The cheekbrain? Nah I think it was more that he didn't know whether he'd survive or not, but he just took control and made the decision anyways. Whiich is why he stopped caring about the buildings being destroyed - cus the part of him that was Tyler, just became a normal part of his mnd again, instead of something he'd externalised. Whchever....it's a way better ending than the book.
@@ashscott6068 don't be a douche, the bullet was upwardly diagonal, and it exited out of the back of his head... also... don't be a douche for other reasons... u get cancer from that shit
During the fight with his boss; "For some reason I thought about my first fight with Tyler..." It's amazing how many people miss this. A similar movie that makes you question how you think is Memento, Christopher Nolan's masterpiece.
A gem of a film!
There are many instances in the script that reflect this. If you look for them, you won't be disappointed.
*One of Nolan’s masterpieces
There are a lot of clues when you re-watch the movie. Even the Brat Pitt inserts are clues
Unreliable narrator - first movie with unreliable narrators is the japanese classic, Rashomon. In that movie a narrator, caught in the rain with strangers under the devil’s gate (rashomon), tells the story of the trial he just watched: the murder of a samurai and rape of the samurai’s wife by a bandit. But who is telling the truth? And is the narrator telling the truth about who is telling the truth?
Let's take a moment to appreciate The Dust Brothers soundtrack for this film. It's spectacular.
This soundtrack is a mainstay in my regular playlist.
Fun fact: The buildings in the end that were blown up were digital, however each one is a building owned by Fox, including the one used in Die Hard as Nakatomi Plaza. As far as the story, the narrator and Tyler are the same person, everyone else is a real person reacting to him from the outside only seeing one person.
Oh my! Are you saying that David F. ain't a fan of FOX?/now Disney(better😛)
He must have been a Firefly fan.
I think is certainly likely on both counts
There is a popular theory that Marla also wasn't real, that she, too, was just another of the Narrator's personas. Like Tyler, she's very intense, painfully direct, extremely opinionated, and appeals stongly to the Narrator even while annoying him very much. Like Tyler, she is physically quite attractive in spite of having visibly poor hygiene. Also, in the final shot we see the Narrator and Marla from the back, standing side by side, and each one is wearing a black overcoat, below which we see each one's bare legs. This similarity could symbolize that the two are actually just one.
@@user-mg5mv2tn8q I think she's the visual representation of a brain or spinal tumor. She's always wearing black, always smoking like Tyler, and the first time she speaks, she walks up to the camera and asks "this is cancer, right?" The narrator says if he DID have a tumor, he would name it Marla. When she and the narrator are negotiating their group schedule in the laundromat, he says to her "you can't have the whole brain". Also, if he legitimately had DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder, or multiple personalities) when he shot himself, I don't see how he wouldn't still have it when he survived. You may also remember there's a period in the beginning of the movie where he's not sleeping, and he seems sort of confused, in which he jumps back twice before the narrative proceeds normally, as if it's an early warning sign. It's all speculation, of course, but this is a fun movie to do that with. You'll never watch it the same way bc you'll constantly be trying to figure out what's real. lol
My jaw nearly hit the floor the first time I saw this freak show. LOVE IT!
"Maybe he's in a club all by himself..."
Wait for it...
And "Is it natural soap?" Oh yes!
I considered this a correct guess.
“You are you” is literally the greatest
thing you’ve ever said in a reaction and you’ve said a lot of great things.
Rest In Peace Meatloaf aka Bob. Yes, American men fear the Loraina Bobbitt treatment.
You would love Brad Pitt in "12 Monkeys" with Bruce Willis. He was so unlike his trademark self in that dark sci-fi and went totally off the wall with his character... in a very good way.
I ❤ 12 monkeys and you're right - he hardly ate anything in that movie 😂
Was about to say the same thing because she said Brad was always Brad.
I thought, well yeah but, there's this one Terry Gilliam movie...
Aye, 12 Monkeys is great.
I doubt she'd get 12 Monkeys either.
He has so many iconic roles:
- A River Runs Through It
- Kalifornia
- True Romance
- Interview with the Vampire
- Legends of the Fall
- Seven
- 12 Monkeys
- Sleepers
- The Devil’s Own
- Fight Club
- Snatch
- the Ocean’s Eleven series
- The Assassination of Jesse James
- Burn After Reading
- Inglorious Basterds
- World War Z
- Fury
- The Big Short
- War Machine
- Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
- Ad Astra
He did shoot himself, but the bullet went out the side, leaving the exit hole you see him staunching by the back of his jaw one the one side. He envisioned, though, that what he was doing was shooting straight through his skull out the back. Because Tyler is a figment of his imagination, how he imagined the bullet going is what happened to Tyler, so that's why we see the bullet hole coming out of the back of Tyler's head. At least that's what makes sense to me and what I've heard others say. I have not read the book. If it happened the same way in the book, perhaps someone that did read it has more info, but just scrolling down a few dozen comments, I'm not seeing any clear explanations (though I probably just missed them). Hope that helps.
Nope. The book is super unclear on this point. He could be dead, he could be in heaven, he could be in a psychiatric ward after that shot is fired. The reader just doesnt know. After the shot the final part of the book is deliberately unclear, but it seems most likely that he’s in a psychiatric ward.
All we know is that its the imaginary tyler durden with the gun in ‘the protagonist’s’ mouth - imaginary Tyler durden’ is the one threatening the protagonist with the gun, which is the opposite to the movie. Imaginary Tyler durden does that until immediately before the very end - and the protagonist uses his tongue to push the barrel to the side of his cheek. The gun barrel also has holes drilled in it to make it into an improvised silent weapon, so in the book the fired bullet has less power. The who and why of that shot are unexplained, but in the book the protagonist says ‘i pulled the trigger’ but what he’s actually saying is ‘imaginary Tyler durden pulled the trigger’ - its the moment when the two finally merge, and the exact circumstances surrounding the protagonist and Tyler Durdendurden at that point are slightly different.
Yeah, what the other reply said. The book suggests that he's in a psych ward, but that some of the people that work there are from Project Mayhem, and his followers are waiting for him to "get better."
There is also Fight Club 2, which came out as a comic book mini series. Things get real weird in that, so read at your own risk.
I remember reading a theory about the ending being explained by “the Narrator” loosing a tooth [molar?] earlier in the film, while Tyler maintains his perfect “I look how you want to look” smile - so the bullet non-fatally passes through that gap in {Ed Norton’s} jaw, but ricochets off {Brad Pitt’s} tooth and into “his” brain. I’m not claiming this as truth, but it’s an interesting thought 😅
@@cometgirl217 wherever that idea comes from its not from the book.
@@tileux I thought not! It’s been years since I’ve actually read the novel, but I’m pretty sure the theory is based off the movie’s visuals, rather than the source text. Again, I was just sharing what I think is a fun (albeit not necessarily true) interpretation of how Norton’s character “survived,” while Pitt’s doesn’t
“He said he could never sleep”
Actually what he said was he can’t sleep and sometimes he NODS OFF AND WAKES UP IN STRANGE PLACES. All the clues were there throughout the entire movie that he had a split personality. When he “fought” his boss he said it reminded him of his first fight with Tyler…which we found out that he was just punching himself then as well. Even the flickers you saw in the beginning of the movie and asked what that was…it was Tyler Durdhen starting to appear in his personality…starting to be born and break through.
To me the most blatant clue is the narration "could you wake up as a different person" as the camera tracks Brad Pitt's character on the moving walkway, before we even meet or hear the name Tyler Durden. Somehow very few people mention that.
A smaller but highly entertaining Brad Pitt role is in True Romance. It's a great twist on a non-traditional romantic film, written by Quentin Tarantino. It really shows how Brad Pitt can embrace a role and make it his own, no matter how large or small.
e: The "cutting off your penis while you sleep and throwing it out of a moving car" thing wasn't something we used to think about. But after that exact thing was done by Lorena Bobbitt to her husband John, it quickly entered the male collective consciousness.
e: Celebrity? Sean Bean. He'd probably just keel over before the fight started.
e: Grade school is primary education, from age 5 until 10 or 11.
I guess brad Pitts smallest role would be the vanisher, and fight club has the hulk beating the crap out of the joker while the vanisher watches
I don't have a pot to piss in or a window to throw it out, all I got is fuckin Floyd.
Brad's best role was 12 Monkeys!
@@djquiz6425 I loved him in that role. I sometimes quote his line, "Get out of my chair!" Just because it's delivered so perfectly.
Brilliant Brad Pitt role. Stoner aggressive smokin bowls out of a homemade honey bong.
If you ever rewatch this movie on your own, you'll notice SO MANY hints about the twist!
It's all over the movie, things that you don't really question at first, but you see them under a whole new perspective when you know what's really happening!
The flashes on the screen u kept noticing was Brad Pitt's character materializing in his. He has multiple personality disorder. So the flashing u kept seeing were basically you noticing him slowly going insane.
GOING insane, no. The Narrator is not sane from the first time we meet him. He was already blacking out when he switched to the Tyler persona, The flashes of Tyler was when the Tyler persona was first leaking into his consciousness.
Great movie. A mind blowing underrated movie of the same director is The Game 1997 with Michael Douglas.
It is a once in lifetime experience watching it for the first time which you can not recreate.
Other great You should watch other great Brad Pit movies like Interview With An Vampire and Troy.
Also other Edward Norton movie like Primal Fear and The illusionist
This is how a great movie makes you feel. You just can’t stop thinking about it.
Bob is played by the great Rock Singer "Meat Loaf"
He was so very good in this role.
@@celladora31 So sad Hes gone
@@fannybuster yes but we still have his great music to enjoy. In a way, he will always be around.
"Why would you make a movie like that?" gave me the best laugh all week.
He lived because the bullet exited the side of his face, never hit his brain. He is only 2 people (multiple personalities).
sucha great reaction.. its been awhile since i saw a reactor not figure out the twist before it happened
The twist ending is really subtle. To “get it” you kind of have to be unsettled by some of the reactions from Marla and the members of Project Mayhem to the protagonist and that’s all the clues they give you. The protagonist thinks everything is 100% real until he knows it isn’t.
The 1st time I saw it I noticed the wrong person getting out of the driver's seat after the crash. I figured the movie just got it wrong. Little continuity stuff like that happens all the time in movies. Later on after all the buzz this got I realized every last little detail was definitely thought out. I remember questioning it in the beginning because he was thinking the way Tyler was acting. But then he regressed when Tyler got emboldened and the action ramps up and and the stakes get raised so you just go with it. The pacing was spot on. I'm not easy to fool usually, I think it's from comics. They train you to seek out the tropes and gotcha moments. The betrayal reveals and the double crosses. But this movie did get me and I loved it for that.
Marla acting a certain way was an obvious red herring cause she was crazy herself. So when she seemed sane it didn't click until you rewatched. Definitely a movie that needs a rewatch when many movies with that in mind don't really need a rewatch, like 6th sense.
There are a lot more clues than those though… of course they’re very hard to grasp on the first watch
@@jademermaidmusicseen many people catch “paper street”, and/or the phone(But most are architect/construction/planning people). Also they probably wouldn’t have caught it if other movies with a “twist” hadn’t been a thing. Not me, I was taken for the ride, the sideshow, and a derailing.
Paper Street, There’s another level of fun, is it a clue or the whole story. 😂.
In regards to him surviving at the end. I think most people would be pretty surprised at how often someone tries to take their own life by using a gun & shooting themselves in the head but survive... at the least the first shot & a number of instances of people surviving multiple shots. The reason why is complicated based a number of factors that I am not going to go into here for what I hope are obvious reasons, but there is an explainable reason for why this happens.
He only shot through his cheek
@@johgu92
I mean the special effects on Norton make it look like the bullet exited right at the head, or maybe the upper neck, of the mandible [jaw] bone. Which I don't think is technically the cheeks, correct me if I'm wrong, but is nonetheless not the relatively harmless, superficial type injury that would occur if it was in the cheeks that people can puff out or some get pierced.
I've always thought it odd that Norton's character had the exit wound where it was, yet Pitt's character clearly shows it as virtually dead center out the back of the skull.
@@aaronhoy3410 He imagined the bullet would go thru the back of his head when he shot himself. Which is why it went thru Brad Pitt's head but not his
@@aaronhoy3410 Tyler dying from it was just a symbolic act, that's how I understood it
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I mean why didn't he just imagine shooting the gun then?
Or are you saying that as in he was trying to do that but the recoil and/or being slightly off on aiming ended up by chance going through that part of his mandible instead?
"A woman could cut off your **** while you sleep and throw it out the car window"
Yes we think about this, because it REALLY HAPPENED! Lorena Bobbitt...
It was re-attached and he went on to make porn movies.
A Japanese woman did the same thing, but tied it to a balloon and let it go so it couldn't be re-attached.
“It all started to make sense in a Tyler sort of way… NO FEAR. NO DISTRACTIONS. THE ABILITY TO LET THAT WHICH DOES NOT MATTER, TRULY SLIDE.
It just hit me. The “Slide” from the power animal come to fruition here.
I just have to say this, I have been following your reactions for a long while, and they are absolutley delightful ^^
Bob is played by Meatloaf the singer, "Bob's got bitch tits" Such an awesome movie, one of my favorites.
RIP Meatloaf
"The things you own ends up owning you". This movie is full of Buddhist insight and wisdom mixed into the chaos. My favourite scenes were when Edward Norton kicks his own ass after getting himself fired + the homework assignment where you have to start a fight and lose!
Great reaction Marie like always, that actor that you reconize in minute 18:49 is Eion Bailey you remember him from Band of Brothers he was Webster. Keep up the amazing work.
I am Jacks obligatory youtube comment.
Top comment! Deserves to be pinned.
"I think I know him" yeah I forget his name (and the character's name) but he was in Band of Brothers
The three primary questions asked in the US are, "What do you do, what car do you drive, and are you married (with kids)?)" Standard stuff, as each completely defines the individual 100%... in the US..
It's one thing to start with wanting to fight someone you dislike or hate when approaching Tyler's "who would you fight" question but it becomes more of an internal debate about what you yourself are willing to endure. I didn't think these guys had anything against Ghandi or even William Shatner personally other than what they might have represented in their lives at some point, a figure or a concept. This really is the true and fundamental basis for fight club's ideology. I always felt that most viewers, and most male viewers especially, missed that about this idea of guys getting together and punching each other. Mind you, in this world, competitive sports like boxing still exists, there's an outlet where winning and losing matters, a prize is won. It was a bunch of contemporary working class males trying to seek a path back to what they considered "masculine", not by what they can dish out but what they can take. If that's the case then a man might choose to receive such punishment only from someone or something he'd once held in an unattainable regard or status, even someone they have trouble loving, like an absentee father or their boss. There's a line in the novel where Chuck Palahniuk talks about fight club members no longer bothering to watch football or boxing or any other full-contact sport since joining a fight club, watching sports on TV when you had fight club was like watching XXX videos when you could be having great sex. There's quite a bit from the book that didn't make it into the film but that observation would have been interesting. After this movie came out, some of the guys around me jokingly suggested starting a fight club but they could only imagine taking on someone that they don't like. It's another thing fighting a best friend or a brother though. There's intimacy involved, brutal but intimate regardless. Like the crying sessions at those groups in the beginning. This led a lot of people over the years to start looking at "Fight Club" as having these homoerotic undercurrents buried under what amounts to nihilistic, toxic male behavior. A satire, a social commentary, but one that tends to get lost on some people, especially men of a certain impressionable age.
That was fun and hilarious watching you trying to figure this out, thank you!!!
So much to say about this movie...
Short version...
We never get the narrators name in film... he is listed as "Jack" in thr credits for the book series he mentions
His multiple personality of "Tyler Durden" was a result of his insomnia
The one frame flashes of "tyler" was him developing the tyler personality as well as a reference/reflection of the "single frames of 'pron' spliced into films" at the 'night' job... he was tyler in his insomnia hence 'night job'
The fight in the bosses office reminded him of his first fight with tyler because he was fighting himself.
In his insomnia he set up "fight clubs" across the country.
"Jack" was on the phone with marla when "tyler" took over.
These are just a few of the many tidbits about this movie.
The 'I am Joe's [body part]' thing is real. It was a regular column in Reader's Digest magazines.
With "My eyes are open" is telling Tyler that he is awake and conscious of his actions at that moment, taking control of the action...like shooting his head on a non-lethal way just to get rid of his existence on his subconscient side (that' when -and why- Tyler falls down with his head blown open).
There are 4 times that Pitt is inserted into single frames. Like he's getting warmed up to enter the story.
Best reaction ever!!❤❤❤❤ First time I've ever seen you not predict every twist, plot turn & surprise in advance! 🤣🤣🤣🤣💯
This is always such a great movie & always deserves a 2nd & 3rd reaction to see what else/differences you notice the next few watches.
'Is it natural soap?' Why yes. Yes. Yes it is.
In the book it eludes strongly that Marla is also a figment of his imagination. Tyler being the Id, Marla.. kinda the super ego but more just the more feminin grounding element of his mentality and he well.. the ego. Aside from just the psychological depth of the film, it says SO much about society, specifically North American and the loss of masculenity. The rise of everything masculine being labled "toxic".. this was written WAY before woke culture became anywhere near as prominent as it is today. If anything, this story says more today then it did back when it was written.
One thing that doesn't necessarily have an obvious explanation is that someone appears to see Tyler steal a car while Narrator is still trying to get his luggage.
It also doesn't make sense that Bob knows Tyler but doesn't see him as the narrator.
@@ramonacosta2647
I got the impression he hadn't met Tyler yet when they were met up on the sidewalk. Either way, it's a difficult balance to maintain when you're trying to make it plausible and still keep the audience in on the dark.
It could have been that he saw someone else stealing the car, but his mind projected Tyler onto that person doing something he has imagined doing.
The guy you recognized on the porch was in Band of Brothers.
“Was he Bob” is certainly a unique theory. Never thought of that.
5:18 That happened, it was a big news story. Lorena Bobbit and her husband John Wayne Bobbit. He later starred in an adult film "John Wayne Bobbit: Uncut".
the Fight Club .. sounds like it would be a Monty Python night school class next to the Argument Clinic.
This is one of my top 5 favorite movies. The book is just as good in a different way. It definitely is worth re-watching, you'll find new things each time. It's brilliantly written, filmed and edited. It definitely throws you for all the loops the first time you see it. Best of luck putting your head back together...!
PS - I was impressed at your remark about Tyler not knowing his address, major clue there I missed in my first viewing.
"This all happened because he couldn't sleep?!" - nailed it :D :D
First time seeing your channel, I just had to click on it to relive the first time seeing this movie.
The cool thing is that, as you stated, you must watch it again to try to comprehend everything you just thought you saw!
5:24 - it happened to Bobbit. Look it up
let it percolate in your mind for a while. might need a few watches to get it all... in terms of Brad Pitt, watch 12 Monkeys to see him actually acting.
Most people miss the inserts of Brad Pitt's character in the early part of the movie; it's his mind splitting.
His name was Robert Paulson!
Damn I had to subscribe for your Gwyneth Paltrow answer alone 😂
*Also I thought I was already subscribed but the algorithm was just suggesting your channel often enough to make me think that was already the case.
Great reaction btw!
"Is it natural soap" Uuuh yes, yes it is
This film is weird AF!!! So 90's and perfect for that era + the soundtrack is amaaaazing!!!! First rule we don't talk about the Dawn Marie club 😜🤍lyssssssm hugs and happy Friday Queen!!!
Thirsty much?
Tbh the anticonsummerist part is just as perfect now
Another interesting theory is that Marla is also only in The Narrator's head.
He IS Marla.
The narrator is pretty much everyone in the film. The audience is basically viewing his delusion through his eyes.
Maybe, in either case, she was an angel who tried to save him from himself, even if she got destroyed in the process.
@@SC10NCE Oooh. Had not considered that angle. That is why I like this film. You can watch it many times from a whole new perspective.
Tyler was his id, & Marla may have been his superego. Props to Sigmund Freud! 😃👍🏻
29:40
You haven't watched Terry Gilliam's Brazil yet.
All the nights he slept well were the nights Tyler was out doing stuff. I assume that he was the previous owner of the house on paper Street and wrote all those weird journals. The really clever bit is how did he blow up his own apartment without being seen? Oh, the "flashes" are all single frames of Tyler.
Bravo ❤ your reactions. Have a good day!😂😂
"What the hell is going on?" "I didn't see that coming!" Lots of all of that with this movie! 😆😆😆
The best thing about this movie is rewatching it and noticing all the obvious hints you missed.
"IS IT NATURAL SOAP?" made me laugh!
Yes..people always ask what do you do? It’s an ice breaker.
Another great reaction love
I loved your reaction to this, Dawn.
Everyone and everything was real except, Tyler, the condition was caused by his insomnia.
Another good Brad Pitt film which is quirky too is, 'Burn After Reading', it's a Coen Brothers film and well worth reacting to.
Dawn, your voice and your laugh come from Heaven. 🥰🤭😘xxxx
The flashes you saw early in the film were images of Tyler as he was slowly beginning to be manifested into Norton's psyche. Later on it we see it again as an analogy from Tyler saying he would splice images into theater films.
Dawn is so awesome she actually spotted that first flash of Tyler in a second I was just confused when I first saw it in the theater😂
Yes, in America, you are *constantly* asked what you do for a living, something that is simply not done in the UK or Oz. It's gross and invasive and very embarrassing if you've never found a career and hated every job you ever had and felt like a failure your entire *life* .
(cough) not that I know anyone like *that* , of course.
Actual conversation, at what was a very exciting event (arguably one of the best days of my life):
THEY: What do you do?
ME: I'm retired.
(they look at me, as I am clearly younger than 65)
ME (feeling a need to explain): Disability. Stress. (This is true.)
THEY: Oh. (beat) What did you used to do?
Wow. I've seen people get the twist before you're supposed to, people get it when you're supposed to, and people not get it till the end. This is the first time I've ever seen anybody not get it at all.
I was blown away back then in the cinema. It was crowded by many young people, but everyone was focussed to the movie. Everybody laughed to the scenes with the dark humor.
And yes, I also wanted to be like Tyler Durden! :-D
The only person that was "imagined" was Tyler Durden. A significant part of the movie revolves around copping with and understanding ones own mortality. The scene 13:22 where Tyler (himself) burns his hand he says "First you have to know, that some day you're gunna die" , "It's only after we have lost everything, that we are free to do anything"
These lines and other parts of the movie work to show that he created Tyler to survive a life he hated and previously was only waiting to die unfulfilled, which he was very afraid of. Finding the terminal support groups is a way for him to temporarily relieve his fear of dying unfulfilled.
The act of him placing a gun in his mouth and pulling the trigger was the ultimate way from him to prove he has no fear left of dying, and is essentially free of his old self. Doing this kills Tyler because he embraced the parts of Tyler he needed to survive, making Tyler irrelevant and "killing" Tyler. He however only survives because the bullet missed his skull and spine, and came out his back jaw.
The people he meets and recruits are all real. And the plan to blow up the credit system is also real. He did all those things as his alter ego "Tyler Durden".
Hope this helps. Always a fun movie to see people react to. But it is a head scratcher at times.
Those little flashes are Tyler Durden.
In 1994, Lorena Bobbet cut off her husband's penls drove down the road with it and threw it out of the window into a field. That is what Pitt was referencing in that bar scene.
The Narrator or 'Jack' for convenience, suffers insomnia, and unconsciously creates the alter ego Tyler Durden, who spends his time working odd jobs while Jack is unable to sleep.
Jack attends self-help meetings to experience emotional release so he can sleep (probably the same reason people watch Reaction videos to sad things, vicarious emotional release), and stops being Tyler because he's actually sleeping.
Marlashows up, and her presence reminds Jack he's a faker at these self-help meetings, so he can't get that emotional release anymore, and reverts to suffering insomnia. Tyler comes back, and this time so strong that Jack 'meets' Tyler and starts letting that personality influence him and take over.
Eventually Tyler starts becoming the dominant personality, taking the reins without 'Jack' being aware of what's going on, until he asks Marla about their relationship, and is forced to confront the fact that Tyler is his own invention, an alter ego he created to escape his soulless, alienated life, and create purpose for himself.
Bob and Marla and all the rest are all real. But for them, 'Jack' IS Tyler Durden, he's simply a guy with massive mood swings. They don't know he's having a full dissociative identity situation going on.
He shot himself in the cheek, I guess the thinking is he was trying to shoot the devil over his left shoulder, or some idea of a left-brain/right-brain split. In the novel the film is based on it's simply that he fucks up trying to shoot himself, blowing a hole in one cheek, in in doing so ripping open to hole in his other cheek that he got from having his face pounded into the concrete in fight club (the "Do it again next week?" "How 'bout next month?" scene in the movie) so he ends up with something like a Chelsea Grin.
The flickering is a couple frames of Tyler Durden being spliced into the scene, in the same way we later see him splice porn into family films, but long enough you can notice it, to hint that Tyler isn't real. Visual storytelling done well. The only dong that gets spliced into the film is in the closing sequence, a joke inclusion
There's a theory going round, a way of looking at the film, as if the various characters closest to 'Jack' are personalities he creates to deal with learning he's got testicular cancer: Bob represents emasculation, Tyler is the toxic hyper-masculinity he clings to, Marla is his more feminine side or acceptance of the diagnosis, and the story is just elaborately playing out how he resolves these various sides of his identity, which is definitely an interesting spin on it.
I think that the head in a box, Brad Pitt film is called Seven ?
The movie is great. The book is fantastic. Also, please watch the 1994 b&w comedy Clerks.
Best line ever,"Why would you make a movie like that"
5:16 Look up Lorena Bobbitt yes we think about it because of Lorena Bobbit.
Sleep state misperception is a condition where you underestimate how much you’ve slept the night before. You may feel like you were awake all night, but you actually slept for hours.
That plot twist hit you so hard that it had you reaching so far into things that don’t exist lmao. Tyler is both mc’s. That’s it. Lmao
Dawn, you have good instincts for this movie, you don't trust what you see there.
Kindergarten, GRADE SCHOOL, Junior High, High School. And that's all I have to say about that.
The book, Fight Club, was written by Chuck Palahniuk
One of my favorites Its definitely a movie you have to watch a few times to catch everything
He had an alter ego called Tyler Durden that's all. no dreams. But you are correct to think it wasn't real, it was a movie.
18:52 when you said you think you know him, he's the same guy who played Webster on Band of Brothers.
Dear Dawn!! Sometimes you're so clever, foreseeing every twist in all the movies that has shocked us all. The first time I saw this movie I never noticed that Tyler was briefly flashing up before my eyes in the beginning, so with you noticing it I was sure you'd figure out too soon that he was just imaginary. But you know what, this is one of those movies you can watch again and again and again and always see new details in it! Give it a few more chances, and you'll see things more clear. :)
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I think the first time I saw this movie I never noticed because it was on DVD so lower quality and frame rate, the flashing wasn't as clean/clear as it is in high definition.
I didn't notice it in the theater, but it seemed really obvious on DVD.
“Is this something only boys get”
Honestly a lot of boys don’t get it either, because they think Tyler(Pitt) is a cool, aspirational figure, which is definitely not the point of the movie.
The narrator was just the narrator and Tyler, no other characters. Basically, all the characters were real apart from Tyler, and Tyler was the narrator's alter ego that he would become and then forget he had become, thinking he had just been asleep.
His name is Robert Paulson
small fun fact:
when they enter the bus and tyler asks if a man should look like that, while looking at a comercial in the bus, the body ishown in that picture, is brad pitt, in a comercial photoshoot he did shortly before this movie...
Most people aren't aware that Marla isn't real either.
She's the opposite part of his thoughts to Tyler.
Thats why after his apartment exploded he phoned her first and then phoned Tyler.
Also we never see anyone interact with Marla
What the hell are you talking about?! We see his followers interacting with Marla when they kidnap her.
@@KrazyKat007 just like they interact with Tyler?
You ever notice when he puts Marla on the bus the driver just lets her on without paying?
@@the98themperoroftheholybri33 Yeah there’s a whole bunch of this movie that doesn’t make any sense.
Like would people listen to and follow a clearly mentally ill delusional man out in a parking lot beating himself up.
Or why would the bus driver just sit there with the door open and wait for nothing and just go along with a strange man’s delusions instead of just peeling off.
@@KrazyKat007 he sits there because he's looking at the main protagonist wondering why he stopped the bus and began talking to himself
True clairvoyance in the guessing of the movie yet again.
Was looking forward to you watching this dawn, still remember seeing it in the cinema as a young man, made a big impression. The Director is David Fincher; who also did se7en, he puts a lot of CGI in his movies but doesn't want the audience to notice them (except those object flyby's) The book is only 200 pages if you want to give it a go but I'm not sure it make anything any clearer. As far as the plot goes you get given it all in the first watching, there is no deeper plots, even though a second watch is always entertaining. The Narrator resolves his mental health issue; at least until the end of the movie.
Just like "Run Forest Run" you will now start hearing "The First Rule of ### Club....The Second Rule. etc" It pops up everywhere.
Dawn, I think I just fell in love with a CZcamsr. You laughed at all the bits that I laugh at. Just saying. This is my all time favorite film. Fun fact for you Dawn, "grade school" in the U.S., is what you would call "primary school".
Also known as elementary school.