Fight Club
“The first rule about fight club is that you don’t talk about fight club” (Palahniuk 87). The story of Fight Club was very nail biting; you never knew what was going to happen next. There were so many things that led up to a complete plot twist. It was amazing how closely directed and written Chuck Palahniuk and David Fincher’s versions were. However, the role in both that stood out to me the most was the role of Marla. Marla was the biggest influence in discovering the narrator (or Jack’s) identity.
Fight Club, in both Palahniuk and Fincher’s versions is about a man who is bored with his everyday life until one day when he meets this guy named Tyler. Tyler is unlike anyone he has ever known before and this interests the narrator/Jack very much. Tyler ends up changing his entire personality and has him doing things that he never thought that he would be doing. Tyler unleashes a sort of wild side and the narrator/Jack likes that side of him. However, towards the end, things start getting out of hand and the narrator/Jack seems helpless to stop Tyler; the man who originally was just a mere imaginary friend has taken over the narrator/Jack’s life. Discovering that Tyler and the narrator/Jack was the same person is where both of the versions took a huge plot twist. The person that was responsible for essentially bring the two characters together was Marla, and her persistence with Tyler. Both versions were very similar however the biggest difference between the two versions was the endings. However, both had an equal significance or meaning. Fincher had to end his version in the way he did because his entire story was a visual one. His audience saw Tyler and Jack as two different people. It wasn’t till ...
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...narrator/Jack may have never realized that he even had an alter ego. He would have walked through life thinking that he had a best friend named Tyler Durden and that they committed random acts of vandalism together. Marla used foreshadowing the most out of any of the other characters in both Palahniuk’s and Fincher’s versions.
Foreshadowing is probably the most common element used in both novels and film making. It offers that suspense, and allows the audience to make the connection back to previous parts once it all makes sense. Marla, even though her roles were small, they were the most important. Without her character, even if the narrator/Jack figured everything out on his own, the story would have been worthless. However, even with Tyler gone, Fight Club remains.
Works Cited
Palahniuk, Chuck. Fight Club. New York: Henry Holt and Company LLC, 1996.
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Fight Club “Its only after we’ve lost everything are we free to do anything”, Tyler Durden as (Brad Pitt) states, among many other lines of contemplation. In Fight Club, a nameless narrator, a typical “everyman,” played as (Edward Norton) is trapped in the world of large corporations, condominium living, and all the money he needs to spend on all the useless stuff he doesn’t need. As Tyler Durden says “The things you own end up owning you.” Fight Club is an edgy film that takes on such topics as consumerism, the feminization of society, manipulation, cultism, Marxist ideology, social norms, dominant culture, and the psychiatric approach of the human id, ego, and super ego. “It is a film that surrealistically describes the status of the American
The narrator is changed by his experience with fight club; his life becomes all about fight club. Fight club becomes the reason for the narrators existence. The narrator experiences a shift in consciousness; in that, he is able to understand more of who he is and what really matters in life through fight clubs trial by fire. Through battle and a mindset of counterculture and a complete expulsion of ...