Dude you said it, i was one of those kids that started a "fight club" with my friends. But it changed me for the better.(we were 16-17 in 2003) but no one can make me feel helpless ever again, and thats really what your talking about, and its a positive from a negative.
This video has such high production value I feel like I would see a video with this high quality from channel with 1k subscribers or more?? You're incredibly underrated man!! earned a sub for this one
Amazing video, the quality of the content is really good and I hope you can make a living from creating videos because you really deserve it! Regarding the idea of an updated version of Fight Club, I recommend you watch the series Mr Robot, it's my favorite series and I believe it takes some elements of Fight Club and improves them and creates something totally new and incredible.
Awesome. I need to get my hands on the Fightclub 2 & 3 comics. But I know Fightclub two is a really weird and super meta comic with the author of the book being a character.
@@thatguidewithglasses and you also should read the original novel because there are some changes or even episodes which are not in the movie. Some ideas and Tyler's character are different in the book.
3:24 If Marla is another alternate personality, she would be the yin to Tyler's yang. Remember Jack's table that he describes as being "in the shape of a yin-yang?" In Taoism, that symbol is called a taijitu. The balance of yin and yang are what it represents. 5:12 Not that we don't want to have to think. Just that we don't want to have to obsess over tedious banality or "that which does not matter." 5:40 Some describe him as "a Nietzschean ubermensch." 6:27 Andy Tater is a Philistine barbarian. Change my mind. 10:33 It was by happenstance that he survived it because he put the muzzle in his mouth too far to the left. And by that, I mean the inside of his left cheek.
Thanks for commenting! As for your points; 1. I am not sure how Marla would balance out Tyler as they are quite similar, bit I see your point. 2. I agree that banality plays a role in our screen addiction. 3. I didn't know that! 4. Not sure how I can change your mind on that one :). 5. I agree that he survived due to dumb luck. If you have any movies you'd like me to review, let me know :)
@@thatguidewithglasses Oh, yer gonna regret that last one! };-P How about...Street Trash?! If that's too risque, then Tourist Trap, The Ice Pirates, Freaked, Bad Channels, The Deadly Spawn, and/or Killer Klowns from Outer Space. 🙃
You had my subscription before I even finished your video. A TV series for Fight Club would be amazing. I don't mind if it's modernised or works with the original but it's so necessary. Today really mirrors the sentiment of the 90s gloom in that we don't have a great struggle other than the hardships of our life. Inflation, cost of living, echo chamber division of culture and a heavy disconnect from each other. No one thing we can all band together and struggle through... I'd love further videos on this Also the bit you said about the narrator and both fearing and ideating death... Oof that hit home to some dark times in my late teens and 20s. I now love Fight Club even more
Great video, thanks for doing this and reminding me just how great FC is. Definitely my fav movie too. I agree with you that its as relevant today as it was when it first came out. I actually hope that a prequel isn't made, nor a remake for 2024. The film provokes thought and interpretation and its more about what it doesn't say than what it does I feel. I don't want those questions answered by someone else's prequel/remake. The story of FC for me is what happens in the viewer's mind, not what is shown on the screen. Just my 2p. Keep up the good work, YT is a tough place but more like this and you'll continue to smash it.
One of the biggest problems i see for a 2024 version is it'd be even harder to hand-wave the medical attention everyone so easily got in the original. Maybe have the club make friends with disenfranchised veternarians? Getting cheek meat sewn back together with spaying and neutering needles while wasted on large animal tranquilizers in someone's basement definitely matches the tone and the aesthetic of the original. "Whether you like it or not, you are an animal. You need to live off more than kibble. You need space to run and play. You need to be socialized with other mammals. You need enrichment in your enclosure." comes from tumblr, but it wouldn't sound out of place in the mouth of a space monkey medic.
I get what you’re saying. I can see the members claiming that we ‘ attacked for their wallet’ and claiming the streets are getting worse to explain their injuries. But being able to hide so many men with bruises and broken bones would be pretty hard with social media and everyone having cameras on their phones.
Interesting take. The movie is full of death references, but I never took it as literal death. "Jack" clearly wishes he was dead, but as a personality, not a body. He has no respect for himself in any dimension. At the end, he doesn't become Tyler, he triumphs over Tyler, and I've always wondered who he is then. A synthesis? Back to "Jack"? The movie doesn't give us any clues, except that "You found me at a very strange time in my life" doesn't sound Tyler-like. A reboot. Never thought about that either, perhaps, because as you say, its themes are still all too much us. I believe the central theme is power vs. powerlessness. "Jack" is all too aware that he is a cog in a machine with no control over much of his life. He seems to have given in to despair and given up any sense of agency. Tyler controls everything and everyone. He's a fantasy only because he lives in a consequence-free world. My alter ego does, too.
omg i actually had no idea you didn't have that much visibility, the quality of your context is incredible!! Like the mic, visuals, ideas, editing is crazy. Your voice is relaxing to listen to, one of my fav videos about fight club just because of that. You don't have that generic annoying tone that gets impossible to focus on after a few minutes. Definitely wish you to get more recognition as your work is fantastic !
Also i'm sorry i know its probably annoying having everyone say 'omg you dont have that many subscribers" like youre aware of it lol. But really, its shocking
His name is not Jack! Jack is the name of the guy he finds in a book in the abandoned house. The Narrator does not have a name because he represents just any man. If you call him Jack you understood nothing from the movie.
I didn’t say his name is Jack, and I also introduced the character as ‘The narrator‘ I then said I will refer to him as Jack as a lot of people do. Onset the director referred to Edward Norton’s character as Jack as well. His was named Sebastian in the comics by the same author.
I want an alternate version of the movie without Brad Pitt. I want to see the whole thing as the Ed Norton character, just as the members of Fight Club and Project Mayhem and Marla see him.
It is possible, but the director was meticulous to make sure that when Jack and Tyler were in the same scene that only one was acknowledged. It’s not the same with Marla as both characters are acknowledged.
@@thatguidewithglasses Marla is not acknowledged at all pretty much all the time. The only time I can remember is when the project mayhem boys bring her back, but even then that whole arc makes no sense unless marla isn't real because why the fuck would project mayhem bring her to a tower that "tyler" wasn't even meant to be at. Then again it makes a lot more sense if project mayhem were all not real
