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When the narrator is on the moving walkway before he gets on the plane Tyler is heading the other way. This might actually be the real person that the narrator bases his alter ego Tyler on. I think he subconsciously saw the man heading the other way and thought 'he looks cool, I wish I could be like him.' Then, low and behold, he gets on the plane and is sat next to him, the first time he imagines Tyler.
But doesn't that happen after the office and hospital scenes where the Narrator had already seen Tyler in blips? I might be wrong, need to rewatch the movie lol
Eh I'm not so sure. During that scene the narrator is looking the other direction away from Tyler Durden. So how could he have seen him and have based Tyler's appearance on him subconsciously if he never even saw that guy? Just my two cents.
I still think this is a hallucination and not a real person. If you watch the walkway scene carefully, Brad Pitt’s character appears out of nowhere behind Norton. He is not on the walkway to Norton’s right with the group of people going the other way, but suddenly appears as Norton passes by, as if out of nowhere. I think the blips we see are Tyler slowly working his way out, and this is the moment where he fully materializes as his second personality. It also times up with Norton’s VO: “if you wake up at a different time, in a different place, could you wake up as a different person?”. This is the moment Tyler Durden is truly born.
when the detective called narrator and told him that the explosion wasn't an accident, Tyler told the narrator to tell the detective that he did it him self. that was a great detail
Another detail during that call is that Tyler says that very loudly, but the detective does not hear him and also asks the narrator if he’s still there, proving that the detective didn’t hear anyone because there isn’t anyone but the narrator in there
This one is a very good detail: when the narrator beats himself up in his boss office, he remembers his first fight with tyler, that is because in his first fight with tyler he also beat himself up. Hope you like it.
I agree with you that the scene when the narrator fights himself in his boss's office is hinting at Tyler being a product of his imagination, but not in the same way you do. Throughout the whole movie we're seeing what the narrator thinks is happening, not what is actually happening, for example the apartment explosion scene, where the narrator thinks the apartment blew up accidentally but in reality he did it himself, or the car scene, where he was the one at the wheel in reality. Now, in the scene with his boss we actually see what's happening for real, it being that the narrator is beating himselft up but is imagining it's his boss doing it to him, hinting that it was always him from the begining
Marla tyler and the narrator are never all in the same room together, it’s always 2 at a time keeping the illusion throughout the film that Tyler was a real person
@@smartass751 no, cause him not being real is for one not an illusion, that's the truth. Secondly that's not what the movie tries to convince you. It tries to convince you Tyler is real, therefore those filming choices are designed to keep the deception going
Marla isn’t a real person either. There are some clues to it with the biggest one being a breast cancer scene- narrator comes to her in the middle of the day, spends 3 mins at hers, leaves and its already dark. He was her this whole time
Here's a big one I'm pretty sure no one noticed. Bob was initially not fit for project mayhem as he was too soft and wanted to leave when criticised at the door of the narrator. Bob was basically let in out of pity but wasn't mentally up to the task. Bob was the only member of project mayhem to die in the movie. This suggests that his commitment to the cause of project mayhem was inauthentic and he should have never been there in the first place. He was simply trying to fit in.
true but if it was for durdens persona he would of went away and not died but who let him in ? the narator out of pity and he died . tyler knew what he was doing
One of my favorite Easter Eggs that points to the fact that the narrator and Tyler are the same person: When Project Mayhem starts, and they're walking down the road hitting the cars with the baseball bats, the car alarms only go off after the narrator hits them with a bat, not when Tyler Durden hits them. On top of that, they skip one of the cars in the line because its a Toyota Corolla, a working man's car. They only swing on the nice luxury cars.
yes but they hit a modern beetle, and we both know thats not a luxury car. But nice on picking up the detail that they only go off when the narrator hits them, i never noticed that.
in the beginning on the movie, when the narrator is talking to the doctor about his insomnia, he says “i wake up in random places and i don’t remember how i got there”, this is very common with people with dissociative identity disorders
One remark I'd like to leave. After the car crash, the narrator does one thing he hasn't been able to do since Marla first showed up and ruined the groups for him, that is, fall asleep. Waking up, he even asks to himself if he was sleeping, as he can't believe he actually managed to rest for a night. Well, after that rest, Tyler seemingly disappears, tying back to the premisse that he was just a product of the narrator's insomnia allucinations. No sleep narrator = Tyler. Narrator sleeps = Tyler's gone
but then again, the narrator uses fight club as an alternative to the support groups ( which were helping him sleep) so does that not make you assume he was sleeping because of it? because surely then he'd go back to the support groups.
when marla gets on the bus you can see a group of people in black stand up around her on the bus for a split second. everyone on the bus was apart of project mayhem.
@@ksl2137 that’s part of my theory is the plane crash was the reality all this is fiction in his head with either the oxygen mask on his face or he survived the crash and is in a coma
You misses one of my favorites. When Tyler asks the narrator to punch him the first time, the narrator punches me in thr ear and you can hear a ringing in the audio which indicates the narrator hears it too because he struck his own ear
@@kelpdock8913not true. It was scripted for him to NOT hit Brad. But the director pulled him to the side and said to actually land the punch to get a sincere reaction from Brad. If you watch Norton’s character throughout the scene you see him stifling his laugh
A good detail is when he’s traveling to all the bars around the world where “tyler” had flights to, he says “I feel like I’ve been here before, some type of Deja vu and I’m always a step behind”
The scene where he dreams of having sex with Marla & then waking up to find out that Tyler did was also a hint. For a few seconds he believes he was sleeping with her, which he actually did, until he gets convinced that Tyler did. However the memories were real & not just a dream
When the Narrator met Bob again, Bob said "have you ever heard of the guy who invented the Fight Club. They say he was born in a mental institution and sleeps only one hour a night." - one hour night = insomia - mental institution = the narrator ans Tyler's dissociate personality
You missed the bit when narrator says “I still can’t think of anything” which is a call back to the beginning of the film and Tyler reply’s “hmm flashback humour”
Also when Tyler was telling the narrator about his life, the narrator said it sounded familiar, Tyler said his father called him and told him to get married, the narrator said “me too”
@@MrSimon1909 it doesn’t hit Tyler. Its a ricochet out of his mouth showing it’s not killing him. But didn’t ricochet out of alter Tyler’s and blew the back of his head out killing the alter ego.
At the very end of the movie the screen cuts to a naked picture of man's bottom half, a reference to when Tyler was working as a projectionist and said that he often put these types of pictures into movies and in this scene it shows children crying in the audience, which i found to be one of the most outrageous and hilarious moments in the film! 😂
One of my favorite movies of all time. This movie is so good, it's crazy that we can go back YEARS later and still catch easter eggs! I love how the messages boil down to the minor details like coffee cups. Also, you're breaking the first rule of Fight Club with this video...!!
My favorite movie #1 in my adult life. You're right in that this movie was way ahead of its time. It's relevancy to today's world is uncomfortably accurate. Rejecting society and at the same time creating your own society seems to be right sentiment. Becoming angry and toxic is not without its destructive consequences.
I just watched the movie for the first time. In the scene where the narrator talks to Marla after burning his hand, Tyler tells him what to say to her, and the Narrator repeats every word back to her, signaling that they are the same.
The relationship and fight with Angle face has a lot of meaning and there is a nice Easter egg in there. Before the fight he has no voice, he does not speak. But after the fight he suddenly speaks a lot. So by becoming ‘ugly’ he gains his voice. Why does Jack beat Angle face so hard? He is described as ‘beautiful’ and the fight is about disfiguring that beauty. There is clearly a jealousy, of Tyler and Angle getting increasingly close. To me this jealousy stems from the fact that Angle face is the closest thing to a real Tyler, when Jack knows he cannot realise that it angers him.
Also in American Psycho right next year. Patrick Bateman get jealous of Paul Allen . Jared Leto is really good supporting actor . And also Unfortunately Too Perfect to be hated by people.
You have no idea how much it means to me to find this video here today, thanks buddy. Fight Club is my favorite film of all time, I've seen it over 100 times, read the book, did a presentation on it and punched the living daylight out of myself once to know how it feels to be Tyler Durden. Thank you :) You missed a few things, but it's my perfect video non the less.
You forgot to mention the true ending was that the Narrator and Marla are both dead because the building they are standing in has a bomb in the basement - the camera zooms at the start show the building they are in was the one where he fights Tyler, and as the camera zooms over the bomb you can see the number change meaning Tyler rewired it before breaking the key off in the lock and continuing the fight.
When I first saw fight club, i noticed tyler every time he appeared and thought brad pitts character was a ghost made up by the narrator. Later since i was watching with captions I realized nortons character was never given a name
I never saw it when it came out in 1999. I was all about The Matrix till I saw Fight Club. Calling it one of the greatest movies ever made is bold and deserved.
Just seen the movie for the first time today and it blew my mind to how accurate some the points were and how it related alot to today’s society. Especially when you said “rebelling against the sensitive person they’re being told to be” @10:00. This movie was gold and you don’t see ones like them being made anymore sadly
Another detail: When Tyler is saving Marla from her apartment, they run past a convex mirror. The Police also run past, and you can see their reflection, but tou cant see Tylers/Marlas reflection because neither of them are real.
@@ivanbastos4963 there is a theory that marla, Tyler and Bob are all made up by the narrator. There is a few videos about it on here, one of the theory's is because they don't have reflections.
Interesting comment and replies... I must admit early on in the film I came to the conclusion that Marla wasn't real based on a scene where she walks into the middle of the road and talks to the narrator, without looking for traffic or fear of being hit. I cant even remember if any car horns sound at her. I thought if she's real, she wouldn't have risked crossing into the road like that. I dropped that theory as the movie went on but you've just made me think again 🤔
Marla is very real, never thought somebody thinks she’s not, first appearance when she showed up in the meeting, all black, smoking, people in the room turned their head to look at her
When Marla gets on the bus, as it's pulling away you can see everyone on the bus stand up and surround her, showing that everyone on the bus is part of project mayhen and tyler probably told them that the narrator would try and send her out of town. Also when the narrator is beating himself up in his bosses office he says it reminds him of his first fight with tyler, because their first fight was really just him beating himself up too. ALSO when Lou the guy who owns the bar and the basement starts talking to tyler, hes looking at the narrator until he walks up to tyler later on. This movie has so many layers, which is what makes it so good. I am jack's inflamed sense of rejection.
Because of your easter egg videos, I've had Fincher and Nolan films on constant rotation. I probably never would have noticed the phone number dupe, no matter how many times I re-watched.
I also haven't noticed, but so far I've only watched the DVD or a dubbed version on some shitty streaming site. it's only been a few months since I've started downloading 4k movies (and having a beamer that supports it) and now I can finally see or read these little details 👍 it isn't really noticable on lower resolutions
8:52 - In the movie you can also see that 4 guys stand up as the bus drives away, showing that everyone on the bus was actually a part of Project Mayhem
Another thing is the scar you'll find on Tyler's cheek later in the movie. It's a reference to an injury the narrator sustained in the book. Also, when he completely annihilates angel face, while that did happen in the book, I think the extent they go to with it is also a reference to how the Narrator got Tyler beaten out of his head in the book. (if I recall correctly, been a minute)
The moment I realized that the narrarator is Tyler was when Tyler was feeding him lines to say to Marla, implying that he does not think for himself and Tyler is in his head.
The narrator repeats something Tyler said when they were talking about his dad. He talks about how his dad left him and went around to a bunch of cities and would make a family and leave the in 6years. Tyler makes the joke of, “the man was starting a franchise”. When the narrator goes to find Tyler and is going around to different cities, he realizes there are different fight clubs and makes the same joke. This also shows how he used Tyler as his intern father figure.
The Narrator introduces himself to Marla as Tyler before he even meets Tyler on the plane. We don't get to hear it because the scene cuts when the bus passes by. She later calls him Tyler so he didn't say "Rupert or Cornelius or any of the stupid names he gives each night".
When they first meet on the plane, Tyler is reading the emergency exit door procedure, talking about ‘the illusion of safety.’ He mentions ‘if you are unable to fulfil this task, please ask an attendant to switch seats’ Tyler asks the narrator ‘Wanna switch seats?’ And the narrator replies ‘No, I don’t think I’m the man for the job’ indicating that Tyler should be in the ‘drivers seat’ of his life and be in control. He IS the man for the job. IN DURDEN WE TRUST.
I think Marla is also a split personality of the Narrator. She is there at the testicular cancer group, and no one bats an eye. She appears at the tower just as the Narrator shoots himself. Throughout the book there are hints about this. The Narrator never meets Marla and Tyler together, he just hears them. (okay, there is a scene where we catch a glimps of them together but the film changed bits and pieces of the story)
i also thought that. didn't read the book, but the scene where Marla walks in the middle of the street, with traffic, could be a hint that she's created by the narrator's mind. BUT it is also used to express Marla's "I dont give a sh*t about life" state of mind
I took Tyler's statement about the underwear ad as one of the many hypocritical statements/actions made by him throughout the film. He's mocking the 'perfect' body whilst being projected as having one himself by the narrator. So Even in his own fantasy the narrator is deeply confused and not totally willing to give up what's been engrained in his head for so long through advertisements and brainwashing through marketing tactics and then ends up stripping the individuality away from all his followers after appealing and manipulating them through their lack of purpose and their overall frustration with their lives. But yeah I watched the movie recently and couldn't stop thinking how the whole thing seemed like a battle between Marla and Tyler over control of the narrators brain. The yingyang table reminded me more of Tyler and Marla instead of the narrator and Tyler. I also don't know if Marla is supposed to be real in the movie or the result of a psychotic break just like Tyler. There's scenes that make it hard to buy this theory but there are a couple that help this theory make a lot of sense. Marla and Tyler's influence definitely seem to be at odds for the narrator's attention, though. Enjoyed the video, well done!
I watched this movie for the first time high, and after it was over I swore out loud that I would never watch a breakdown video because that's not what Tyler would have wanted. Here I am now, and I still haven't started a fight yet.
Just before Marla gets on the bus, there is a quick shot of a cinema whose sign board reads, "Seven Years In Tibe" The last letter has obviously dropped off the name of a film that stars Mr Pitt. Now that's meta.
Fight Club remains one of my favourite films of all times…from the swirling cinematography, The Dust Brothers soundtrack, to its easily quotable dialogue But above all, it is a sharp satire of society…how this was missed by many, is a mystery to me! Tyler rallies against a society that tells us to look a certain way, consume a certain way & act a certain way to fit in All sold by impossibly perfect people selling simple solutions through punchy slogans and edgy imagery Tyler Durden offers a way back to what he imagines was the pinnacle of society, an almost spartan way of living where you face death and fear almost daily. Yet Tyler is himself male model handsome, with perfectly chiselled abs, with loud trendsetting outfits. He offers his followers easy solutions to their problems through catch slogans and ice-cream koans. He says that the way to be free of society’s conditioning is to think freely…yet he demands his followers dress the same, act the same, live under the same roof, follow his orders without question. Tyler is NOT, and will NEVER be, someone to idolise or imitate. His dream is unsustainable and idiotic. It’s little more than the simplistic plans of a small child, and his “No girls allowed” club, wanting to live in the woods with his friends, playing all day, and eating sweets, away from mummy and daddy, early bedtimes, the loathed baths, the dreaded & boring homework. Tyler and the Narrator are nothing more than a nihilistic Calvin & Hobbes! The author himself says that the idea of living a double life came from his own experiences- hiding his homosexuality from his family. Tyler is a parody of the impossible body standards the Gay Subculture in his life demanded, and he himself struggled with.
This is an amazing movie! I remember watching this in theater and I was totally blown away when I found out Brad Pit isn't even real, at that time I just couldn't believe Brad Pit plays an imaginary character!
So, i thought about it again. Tyler says: "It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything", and at the end, The Narrator gets to this point, by "killing" himself. I think thats why Tyler dies, now, that he has lost everything he ist free to do anything. He's a free man now and "The whole Fight Club and Project Mayhem thing" fullfilled it's purpose. I have to apologize for my bad english, i'm not a native english speaker, but i think you all get what i'm saying.
Love all the quotes! I'll add something.. When someone mentions the leader of project mayhem was born in a mental institution and only sleeps one hour a night. The Narrator smiles thinking they are referencing him and how amazing he is and then they say Tyler and he frowns. More information pointing to possible true back story.
I don’t know if you mentioned this and I missed it but when the Narrator fights his boss and is really just fighting himself he says it reminds him of his first fight with Tyler because that’s probably what the fight would have looked like
My favourite movie of all time and incredible book, the author has written some incredible works but almost impossible to transform into cinematic form.
if you liked the film, you will freaking love the book. An extra Easter egg for you all: the whole story should have been just a short story, based on chapter 3, criticizing the insurances methods about how and when to retire car models, as shown also in the film, then Palahniuk wrote the rest of the novel around it. Another one? The end you see in the movie is 10 pages short from the true end of the book, which is personally, a lot creepier.
another part of marla being taken near the end of the movie, you can see all the passengers stand up as the bus is leaving through the window. another fun detail :)
Today someone was watching this movie on the TV. I was looking at it and I saw Tyler blinking in the screen when Marla is going down the street. Swear to you I started to freak out and turned the TV off really quickly, thinking I was seeing things. It scared the shit out of me, so I came running to google to see if that actually was supposed to happen or not. Might watch the whole movie soon.
When marla ever crossed a road, the cars would simply pass by her and never stop. When her and the narrator had an argument, you see her standing in the middle of a busy road, and the cars do not change course
Awesome content! But, I think you might be looking at this film at just under the surface level. I think Marla could be the opposite to Tyler’s masculine character and is also part of the narrators D.I.D and have theories to back this up.
Bob is probably another and is bang in the middle of the masculine and feminine characters. After loosing his testicles and growing ‘bitch tits’. I believe the Narrator was told by the doctor he has testicular cancer and created these characters to help with the trauma of this.
I'm pretty sure throughout the movie you can see multiple quick snips of something (never stopped to see for sure) even right in the beginning, which throws back to how Tyler put those pp cuts into the films
I actually just watched the movie yesterday and was amazed by the fact that i just got my hands on this masterpiece. The only thing i didn't quiet get was when he shoots himself, tyler vanishes. I don't believe that he just stopped accepting tylers ideologies by shooting himself, because they are in fact a part of him (explained at the end of my theory), i'm furthermore convinced that when he takes the shot, he actually kills himself, potrayed by the fact tyler got that huge gash at the back of his head, keeping the phenomenon in mind, that when we die in our dreams we wake up 'cause our mind isn't able to comprehend the feeling of being dead - so why shouldn't it be the same the other way around, when we die in real life our mind isn't able to comprehend afterlife, so in our mind we just keep on living, that's why the narrator on screen just got a gash in his cheek, whilest tyler is lethaly hit. That's the reason tyler died, because the part of the narrators brain that is responsible for tyler appearing is completly blown out. They are the same person and because of that connected with each other, the part where louis beats tyler - the narrator also feels pain, they also got the same injury on the hand from the chemical reaction, so why exactly don't they have matching injuries at the end? In summary because we as human beings aren't able to comprehend afterlife, so the movie ends how it would have played out in the narrators mind but in fact still, partially, with tylers idelogies in mind, hinting to the towers still being destroyed (Tylers ideologies) but with Marla holding his hand (Narrators ideologies) - also the first time they both held hands and were physically gentle with each other, referring to the conversation they had once about not just having sex but loving each other, which makes not much sense because they are both not the type to hold hands and they haven't done it the entire movie aswell, not even when tyler went to her apartment to "safe" her from overdosing and when running from the cops he held her arm and her jacket but didn't touch her hand, further hinting to the fact that the narrator in fact shot himself dead and his mind just playing out the perfect scenario. Edit: I also just noticed while typing this theory, i recalled the conversation the narrator and tyler once had about their dads, whilest the narrator never met his dad, tyler called his dad yearly for advice. At the age of 25 he called him again and he was like "I don't know, get to know a woman and start a family or something" - again hinting to the end of the movie where he kills himself and his mind just playing out the perfect scenario - with Marla being at his side to eventually create a family. Let me know what you think about this theory, if it is completly delusional or even more realistic than some other explanations
I could be wrong, but I believe that you are overanalyzing it. The Narrator genuinely attempted to kill himself as he thought it was the only solution to killing Tyler. He completely 'let go', which is what Tyler encouraged all along. He had accepted death - not feared it, accepted it (also just as he Tyler taught him earlier in the film) for the greater good. So this acceptance about him just killing himself also affected Tyler as soon as he pulled the trigger, seeing as he is a manifestation from own his psychology. However, The Narrator - in reality - accidentally missed his own head through his mouth. His un-Tyler-like clumsiness ended up saving him. He ended up surviving even though he thought he was a dead man as he pulled the trigger.
Upon reading your comment, I vaguely remembered that in the novel the Narrator died and went to Heaven. I just opened the final chapter of the book, and the way Chuck sets the scene it it seems like the Narrator ended up in a mental health institution that the he perceives as heaven. He talks about God "writing down on his notepad" and how in Heaven everyone receives their meals in plastic trays alongside their daily medication. He also talks about receiving letters from his admirers and how one day he hopes to go back to "Earth". It's a great film to think deeply about but in actuality Project Mayhem's plan failed and the Narrator ended up in the loony bin. The ending portrayed in the film was probably chosen because it looks cooler and gives the viewer a sense of closure. " And nothing. Nothing explodes. The barrel of the gun tucked in my surviving cheek, I say, Tyler, you mixed the nitro with paraffin, didn’t you. Paraffin never works. I have to do this. The police helicopters. And I pull the trigger. "
in the meeting scene of narrator and tyler, the narrator says that they have the exact same briefcase, which makes tyler chuckle a little because he knows that briefcase doesnt exist
Paper street is also made up. You have to really think and go back and watch the film. Jack actually staying at the hotel. That’s why the hotel is named two different things in the film, but the same hotel. When he’s Marla the hotel is called hotel lindy but when he’s himself it’s the actual name of the hotel “hotel Bristol”. Bob isn’t real either, after he goes to meet Marla the front of the hotel says “I love myself” 4 times. But initially when he first went the hotel didn’t say that on the walls. This is saying that right now jack had 4 distinct personalities, like the condoms in the toilet. Tyler, Marla, Bob, and jack. When you think of how he can make up personalities because of his psyche you will start to see the clues of most of these characters not being real
Remember how would Tyler/jack have known where Marla lives? She never gave a address. Also at the hotel, only the paramedics had a reflection in the mirror. How did Marla get the number for paper street (that doesn’t exist)?
In a scene where the narrator is in a hotel near the beginning of the movie, he watches a hotel welcome video on the TV. When the hotel staff all say "welcome", Tyler is seen amongst the crowd of people.
After the narrator starts hitting himself in his bosses office, he says that for some reason it reminded him of his fight with Tyler(Their fight outside the bar, where the narrator was just hitting himself), this hints at Tyler not being real before the big reveal.
or did you notice that when tyler catches the narrator listening outside the door while him and marla are doing it and they have that brief conversation that marla asks tyler who he’s talking to. bc irl it would’ve just been the narrator (as tyler in his mind) talking to no one bc there wasn’t anyone outside the door.
One of my favourite details is the narrator saying "I STILL can't think of anything" at the end of the movie after Tyler asks if he has any words to mark the occasion; at the beginning of the film,,,,, the narrator only responds with "I can't think of anything", just another cool fourth wall breaking detail.