Perhaps the person to make a definitive call on how we should regard Tyler Durden is Chuck Palahniuk himself. However, when BBC Culture asks him, the author demurs to give anything like a solid answer. Writer Neil Strauss released a notorious book in called The Game, in which he championed the rules and techniques of pick-up artists who use pseudo-scientific techniques to seduce women. BBC Culture approached Cook for this article but he did not respond. Surely this co-opting of Tyler Durden must annoy Palahniuk?
Once more, Palanhuik remains determinedly neutral. Imitation is the most sincere form of… fill in the blank. In the novel, as well as being less altruistic, Tyler Durden is also more psychopathic and murderous, a true dark side to The Narrator. I fuck who you want to fuck. No Brad, no movie. Who, ironically, would probably have no truck with those on the internet who essentially want to be Brad Pitt. Love film? If you would like to comment on this story or anything else you have seen on BBC Culture, head over to our Facebook page or message us on Twitter.
And if you liked this story, sign up for the weekly bbc. Film Film history. Share using Email. By David Barnett 23rd July Fight Club the movie is brutal, sexy, violent, stylish and has a powerful message. What Fight Club understands is that the modern male is in an incredibly tenuous place when he becomes disconnected from his own emotions and healthy ways of expressing those emotions. The narrator starts the film not looking for violence, but simply for an emotional outlet and in a darkly comic fashion goes to a support group.
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Image via 20th Century Fox. Share Share Tweet Email. He had a reputation for being a pretty boy, an empty-headed heartthrob. In interviews, Fincher was on the same page as Norton: he said he was making a satire.
In the movie, Durden and the narrator are opposites; the narrator is an office drone who wears forgettable suits, whose scenes are cast in somnolent shades of blue, while Durden is flashy, marked by the color red, and as tan and swaggering as the narrator is sallow and thin. They first meet one night at a scuzzy bar. Without broken rules, there would be no recruitment, which Durden needs to scale up his club of disaffected men into Project Mayhem, a group of anarchists who blindly follow Durden into chaos.
Project Mayhem sets its sights on destruction. The movie is rife with Easter eggs, including cigarette burns and sudden phallic flashes that are often too quick to see. Fincher watched UFC fights to study the blood and the movement of broken bodies. Norton and Pitt took tae kwon do—and they really learned to make soap.
Cinematographers played up the grit with cheap lighting. Designers created sets with holes, smoke, and leaks, making the grungy, dripping, shadowy, disgusting places that seem like the grossest parts of our own subconscious rendered on the screen. Combined with the fractured cinematic techniques, the flashbacks, spliced-in images and imagined scenes, the film feels like a slow descent into madness, a fever dream with Durden at the wheel.
For a rallying cry against capitalism, Fight Club had appropriately humble beginnings. Chuck Palahniuk wrote the novel in snippets while on the job at a truck manufacturer.
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