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2. Director David Fincher has claimed in interviews that there is at least one Starbucks cup visible in every scene in the movie.

4. And, in an early scene of the narrator, there is an ad for Bridgeworth Suites playing on a TV in front of him...

5. The breath in the cave scene is actually Leonardo Di Caprio's breath from Titanic, composited into the shot.

And Courtney Love and Winona Ryder were also considered for the role.

17. Brad Pitt and Helena Bonham Carter spent three days recording orgasm sounds for their unseen sex scenes.

But at the last minute, director David Fincher told Edward Norton to actually punch Brad Pitt. Pitt's wince of pain is real, and you can see Norton laughing about it.

20. Marla Singer's phone number is the same as Teddy's number in the movie Memento.

It is also the same as the Hong Kong Restaurant's phone number in Harriet the Spy, Eddie Alden's phone number in the movie Someone Like You, and the number for a mental institution in an episode of the show Millennium.

23. When Tyler is giving a speech to the Fight Club, he looks directly at Jared Leto's character when he mentions rockstars.

25. And, finally, in the last scene of the film, there is a single frame flash of male genitalia, just like Tyler Durden would insert into films at his projectionist job.

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25 Things You Didn't Know About The Movie "Fight Club"

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2. Director David Fincher has claimed in interviews that there is at least one Starbucks cup visible in every scene in the movie. 4. And, in an early scene of the narrator, there is an ad for Bridgeworth Suites playing on a TV in front of him... 5.

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Inciting Event: We have a bit of a double whammy in the Inciting Event department here. The obvious Inciting Event is when the narrator meets Tyler Durdin on the airplane and is immediately fascinated with this "most interested single serving friend he's ever had." The timing on this moment is just a bit late and comes directly after the narrator's meeting of his fellow support-group troll Marla. Although Marla's role takes a backseat for most of the story, and although it's not immediately obvious, it's actually Marla's introduction that causes Tyler's appearance. Aesthetically speaking, Tyler is the Inciting Event; realistically, Marla is. This is a really nice bit of plotting, since it's an invisible indication of the truth of the film: that there's actually two totally different stories being told.

First Plot Point: After taking the narrator out for a drink (after the narrator's condo exploded), Tyler tells the narrator to "hit me as hard as you can." They end up brawling in the parking lot behind the bar-and being observed by others.

This is a good example of the one-two punch (ha!) of the Key Event (leaving the First Act) and the First Plot Point (entering the Second). The narrator's wasted condo is an obvious destruction of his Normal World in the First Act, but he doesn't step fully into the adventure world of the Second Act until he takes that swing at Tyler and enters the nascent world of "Fight Club."

First Pinch Point: Marla-high on Xanax and possibly suicidal-calls the narrator, who is now living in Tyler's crumbling mansion. The narrator abandons the phone, only to have Tyler pick it up, fetch Marla, and begin a relationship with her-of which the narrator is jealous. This is a really nicely layered pinch point. On the surface, it turns the plot by bringing Marla back into the picture as a prominent character. Plus, it introduces the first real frisson of conflict between the narrator and Tyler. Under the surface, it's also the first indication of the narrator's split personality-since Marla is confused by his bi-polar treatment of her.

Midpoint: When Lou-the owner of the bar where Fight Club is now regularly held-tells them to leave, Tyler allows Lou to beat him up-and then freaks Lou out with his craziness, convincing Lou to allow them to stay. Inspired by the encounter, Tyler begins assigning homework assignments to the members-signaling his digression into extracurricular ideas for Fight Club.

Again, lots more going on here. We've also got the narrator feeling pangs of jealousy that Tyler is the one who is recognized and idolized as the leader of Fight Club-when the narrator is himself a co-founder. We also see him taking action as he (sort of) fulfills Tyler's homework assignment by blackmailing his boss.

Second Pinch Point: Tyler begins what he calls Project Mayhem, in which he recruits members of Fight Club to act as his own personal guerilla force in a campaign of social terrorism. As the narrator becomes more and more uncomfortable with Tyler's plans and methods-and more and more uncertain of what their relationship is-this swings the plot around into its preparation for the final act.

Third Plot Point: While driving home after a "mission," Tyler admits he was the one who blew up the narrator's condo. He then deliberately lets the car crash. When the narrator finally wakes up back home, Tyler has disappeared. This launches him on a desperate quest to find Tyler-only to come to the shocking realization that he is Tyler.

Climax: Realizing Project Mayhem is inexorably about to blow up several credit-card headquarters, the narrator tries to turn himself into the police. He discovers many of the cops are Fight Club members themselves. He runs away, finds one of the bombs, and encounters Tyler for a final confrontation. Note how the conflict spirals down from broad to narrow: least important antagonists to most important.

Climactic Moment: The narrator realizes the only way to stop Tyler is to first stop himself. He shoots himself in the throat-survives-and watches Tyler "die."

Resolution: The credit card buildings blow up anyway, but the narrator saves Marla from the Project Mayhem members who were tasked with killing her.

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Inciting Event: We have a bit of a double whammy in the Inciting Event department here. The obvious Inciting Event is when the narrator meets Tyler Durdin on the airplane and is immediately fascinated with this "most interested single serving friend he's ever had."

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Explores different interpretations of 'Fight Club'

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[ With Mindhunter set to premiere next week, we're reposting our deep dives into the work of director David Fincher. These articles contain spoilers.]

The first rule of Fight Club is to talk about Fight Club. The movie underperformed at the box office, and found life on DVD where it became a cult classic. Within the context of the film, Tyler Durden's famous rule is a brilliant and ironic bit of marketing for a group of men trying to reject advertising and find human connection. "Jack" (for clarity purposes, I'll use this name to refer to the Narrator) may be our storyteller, but Tyler is our lens, and through that lens, the story of Fight Club has been greatly misinterpreted by any audience member who saw the movie and thought, "I should start a fight club!" The movie isn't preaching. It isn't an angry screed by David Fincher or worshiping at the Church of Tyler Durden. It's not even wholly about male bonding. Fight Club is a romantic comedy as only David Fincher could tell it.

More than any of Fincher's other movies Fight Club offers itself to the widest amount of interpretations because it covers so much. It's a bit of a paradox that a director who's known for his precision should cast his thematic net so wide, but screenwriter Jim Uhls (with an uncredited assist from Se7en screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker) did a masterful job of translating the breadth of Chuck Palahunik 's rich novel into a workable script.

Fight Club can be taken as a rallying cry against consumer culture. It can be a commentary on a lost generation. It can be about a primal reduction to our base instincts. It can be a celebration of anarchy. It can be all of these things and more because the movie is specific enough to provide this information but not so broad as to invite any interpretation. But on my latest viewing, I've become convinced that more than anything, Fight Club is one of the most twisted, funny, deceptive, and perverse love stories ever seen on screen.

Jack ( Edward Norton) may be our protagonist, Tyler ( Brad Pitt) may be our seducer, but the key to the entire movie is Marla ( Helena Bonham Carter). Before we even reach Marla, Tyler is briefly cut into single frames of the movie. He's already in Jack's mind, but only in a flash. Before they truly meet, Jack thinks he's found peace in the artificial connection of support groups. These groups don't represent a real relationship for Jack; they fill an empty hole that's keeping him awake at night. He has absolutely no sympathy for anyone else, and if that's not abundantly clear by the fact that he's crashing support groups, it's hammered home by his comment about Chloe, a terminally ill cancer patient: "Chloe looked the way Meryl Streep's skeleton would look if you made it smile and walk around the party being extra nice to everybody." Then Marla enters the picture and, "She. Ruined. Everything."

She ruins everything because he has a crush on her. "Her lie reflected my lie," Jack says. She's a kindred spirit for someone who is still too self-involved to make any kind of real connection. He fills his apartment with stuff, but his refrigerator is only filled with condiments. Jack can't create a meal, and he certainly doesn't have anyone with whom to share it. Marla reflects his emptiness back at him, and like any grade-school boy who likes a girl, he kicks her in the shins and pushes her away. He can't have intimacy with a real person.

Enter Tyler Durden. Marla is leading Jack down the path to needing someone real, but when his artificial connections at support groups begin to weaken, a wholly fake connection is even better. When Tyler and Jack meet, Jack has "woken up as a different person," and it's a person who starts calling Jack on his bullshit from the get go. Tyler knows Jack's mind, which makes him alluring from the start. Jack may not be able to explain to us why he decided to call Tyler, but it was clearly a subconscious decision to call forth a subconscious friend: Someone to get Jack to reevaluate his life rather than sell him something like a yin-yang table or a shoulder to cry on.

Their first fight is a consummation of their relationship. It's the mix of self-love and self-hatred that Jack feels bottled up inside. But before we even get the first punch, Jack reveals a few important tidbits about the movie, and lets Fincher briefly pop his head in as he alerts us to the anarchic spirit that's about to explode (not that it wasn't already threatening to overflow already with the impressive VFX work, dark humor, and sliding penguins). We're told that Tyler works as a projectionist, (i.e he works in film), and he likes inserting shots of pornography into movies. Aside from the fact that "No one knows they saw it, but they did," also refers to Tyler's earlier appearances, it's an announcement of how Fincher is going to keep providing clues that Jack and Tyler are the same person.

Yes, there are overt moments where Jack is on the phone with the detective, and when asked about a possible suspect, Tyler whispers, "Tell him the liberator who destroyed my property has realigned my perceptions," and when asked about enemies, and Jack responds, "Enemies?", Tyler quickly proclaims "who reject the basic assumption of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions!" Again and again, we're given these clues. When Jack beats himself up in front of his boss, he tells us he's reminded of his first fight with Tyler. These moments add up, especially when Tyler and Jack talk about their lives.

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'Fight Club' Revisited: The Films of David Fincher

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With Mindhunter set to premiere next week, we're reposting our deep dives into the work of director David Fincher. These articles contain spoilers. ] The first rule of Fight Club is to talk about Fight Club. The movie underperformed at the box office, and found life on DVD where it became a cult classic.

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- Enigmas / Puzzles
- Psychological
- Development of characters
- Set in cities
- Injustices in society
- Corruption in particular institutions; police, army, government
- Hero only can show the truth
- Rational rather than supernatural
- Violent crime central
- Hero is often an outsider
- Red Herring deliberately to mislead the audience
- Use of suggestion
- Lots of twists and turns
- Use of false plateau

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Codes and conventions of the thriller genre

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Codes and Conventions of the Thriller genre

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- Circular Narrative (starts at the end
- Equilibrium is used a lot in the narrative to create a sense of belonging and reality
- Use of subliminal messages of Tyler's non existence throughout
- Use of flashbacks to emphasise the Narrator's reality from fantasy
-Use of first person narration is uncommon in a thriller film; adds a sense of self-awareness to the spectators' viewing experience.
- No allusion that the spectators aren;t watching a film; ides of escapism through film is shattered by use of narration and fourth wall breaks.

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An auteur is a filmmaker who influences their films on a personal level and who develops a distinctive and consistent visual style. An auteur is said to be present in every film that they make.

Fincher can be considered an auteur due to his us of repeated stylistic features throughout his feature films. An example of this is his dislike for hand-held cameras, much preferring the use of fixed, stationary and dolly shots in his films. (skip to 1:37 in 'And the Other Way is Wrong and stop at 3:00)

His feature films also use some of the same actors, for example Brad Pitt has worked on 3/9 of Fincher's films. Fincher also uses the same crew to work on the post production of his films; he's worked with the same editor, Angus Wall, on 5/9 films, showing the control Fincher has over his work.

The link below is a video which explores 3 the visual style and process of 'The Game' (1997), 'Fight Club' (1999) and 'Panic Room' (2002)
"https://player.vimeo.com/video/128163934"

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David Fincher - And the Other Way is Wrong

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For sheer directorial craft, there are few people working today who can match David Fincher. And yet he describes his own process as "not what I do, but what I don't do." Join me today in answering the question: What does David Fincher not do? For educational purposes only.

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- Consumerism
- Self discovery / identity
-Nihilism
- Violence
- Isolation
- Generational dissatisfaction
- Masculinity / gender issue
- Alienation
- Community
- Mental health
- Relationships
- Choas and social breakdown
- Absent father figures
- Threat of death

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Fight Club study guide contains a biography of Chuck Palahniuk, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis.