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  • Fight Club
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    Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club, that perhaps gained more exposure through the film adaptation, is narrated by a character whose name is never revealed but who is often referred to in critiques and reviews as Joe, a reference to the character's discovery of an old Reader's Digest article in which the bodily organs and functions of various people refer to themselves in the first person. The name 'Joe' is used in this context throughout the novel to comically articulate the character's mood or mental...
  • Fight Club Chuck Palahniuk Independent Reading Response
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    Independent Reading Response: Fight Club-Chuck Palahniuk Independent Reading Response: Fight Club-Chuck Palahniuk First Reaction: The novel was intentionally confusing and hard to follow due to its nonlinear structure. It was thoroughly enjoyable and upon completion it generated many questions in my mind, as well as thoughts of my own life and the decisions I make. Feelings: Fight Club excited me, scared me and even angered me. These emotions were not negative, simply pure and raw. The scenes of...
  • Fight Club
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    Fight Club Starring: Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Helena Bonham-Carter, Meatloaf Director: David Fincher Writer: Jim UhlsBased on Novel By: Chuck Palahniuk Studio: Fox Studio Rating: R 18+Genre: Action, Thriller Running Time: 139 minutes approx. Filming Locations: Los Angeles and California Special Effects: Many of the visual effects in Fight Club have been overshadowed by effect-based movies (LOTR, The Matrix) but upon closer examination I found that they were perfect in their own right. They depi...
  • Tyler And Jack
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    I choose Fight Club as my topic, because I am so familiar with it. Fight Club was the first movie shocked me deeply. Jack, Tyler and Marla are the main characters of Fight Club, a white-collar worker, a soap manufacturer, and a female smoker who makes a living by sale the clothes she steal off from washing machine. Jack is an insomniac, he find the cancer patients' meeting can make him go sleep. Therefore, he is addictive for those different kinds of meeting, same as Marla. One time, when Jack w...
  • Fight Tyler
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    Joshua Cobble y period 14-9-00 Synopsis Night has fallen. Bombs are placed in the worlds largest building. A man rants about how the first step to take towards eternal life is death; while he shoves the barrel of a gun into the mouth of his best friend. ' We won't really die. ' Tyler says. 'This isn't really death, we " ll be legends. '. But soon were the two men are standing will be nothing more than a point in the sky. A time laps camera will pick up all the action in 9 minutes. 'Here is the P...
  • Fight Club Into Project Mayhem
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    Fight Club appears to be a sequel to Clockwork Orange (1971) for the yuppie X Generation, half of whom see their parents get a divorce and are fatherless teenagers. (The word 'clockwork' is in the script!) Jack (played by Edward Norton) narrates the film, explaining how his 1997 life of white-collar employment and middle-class materialistic success bored him until he fell under the spell of Tyler Durden (played by Brad Pitt), who takes on part-time jobs so that he can engage in mischief to deal ...
  • Movie Fight Club
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    The movie Fight Club made a great realization in the film industry, and significantly depicted the social system of the late 20th century. According to most of the reviewers, the success of the film lies behind the fact that almost every American man over twenty-five years of age is going to inevitably see some of himself in the movie: the frustration, the confusion, the anger at living in a culture where the old rules have broken down and one makes his way with so many fewer cultural cues and g...
  • Jack And Tyler
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    Reading in-between the lines: An analysis of Fight Club novel by Chuck Palahniuk a film directed by David Fincher " You are not your job. You are not how much you have in the bank. You are not the contents of your wallet. You are not your khakis. You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. What happens first is you can't sleep. What happens then is there's a gun in your mouth. And what happens next is you meet Tyler Durden. Let me tell you about Tyler. He had a plan. In Tyler we trusted. Tyler...
  • Actual Meanings Of Fight Club And Siddhartha
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    Since the beginning of time, man has been on a quest to find his inner self. This topic has been the theme of many books and researches. This is no exception, in the 1959 book, Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse. In this particular story the main character, Siddhartha, is trying to find his 'inner self'. He tries to accomplish this in many ways, one being self denial or destruction. This is also the case in the 1996 book, Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk, in which the main theme promoted is that destructi...
  • Durden And The Fight Club
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    The film 'Fight Club' follows, to some degree of accuracy, the archetypal paradigm of the apocalyptic guidelines discussed in English 3910. Specifically the movie mostly deals with the genre of the personal apocalypse. Thus, following suit in relation to such works as 'Lancelot', 'The Violent Bear it away' and 'Apocalypse Now'. 'Fight Club', essentiality contains the basic premise of these works, that is the purging of one's identity through extreme measures and crisis; to ultimately arrive at a...
  • Fight Club Review The Movie
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    Fight Club Review The movie that is being reviewed and analyzed is Fight Club, which stars Brad Pitt and Edward Norton. Fight Club is in a genre on its own, but falls into the categories of action and mystery. We will be looking at the subdivisions of plot, character, setting, and focus. By analyzing these points of the movie we can see why Fight Club belongs to the certain genre it is placed in. The movie starts off where one the characters is held at gun point. Of course we all wonder how he g...
  • Idea Of The Fight Club
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    The Fight Club, directed by David Fincher, constructs an underground world of men fighting with one and other to find the meaning to their lives. Ed Norton and Brad Pitt are the main characters who start the fight club. They make a set of rules in which everyone must follow. The fight club exists because individuals get weighted down by possessions causing them to miss the deep meaning of life. Most of the people in the fight club hold service jobs or lower level management jobs that are meaning...
  • Fight Club For People
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    Fight club is a very good movie to see. I reccomend it because i have seen in it some of the finest acting that has been in movies. Brad Pitt plays Tyler Durdan, the imagined friend of Edward Norton. Together the two develope a fight club for people who need to relieve tension. They eventually turn the fight club into an organization which gets into controlling the entire city and becoming a leader. They basically become an anarchy. The interesting twist to this story however is that Tyler Durda...
  • Tyler And Jack
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    "Fight club"; directed by David Fincher (1999), is a movie that holds many themes. One main theme that is consistent throughout the entire film is that of masculinity (web), linking into the theme of anti-feminism, however this theme is not presented to the viewer in a way which is insulting to females. This film demonstrates to the viewer how the modern men of today feel their power and purposes are fading and highlights the extreme men will go to in order for them to regain their important mas...
  • Fight Club Members
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    "Fight Club" is the most frankly and cheerfully fascist big-star movie since "Death Wish", a celebration of violence in which the heroes write themselves a license to drink, smoke, screw and beat one another up. Sometimes, for variety, they beat up themselves. It's macho porn -- the sex movie Hollywood has been moving toward for years, in which eroticism between the sexes is replaced by all-guy locker-room fights. Women, who have had a lifetime of practice at dealing with little-boy posturing, w...

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