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Fight Club is a film adaptation American of the novel Fight Club of Chuck Palahniuk, carried out by David Fincher and left the September 10th 1999 at the time of the Venice Film Festival in Italy. The official coming out date with the the United States was the September 21st 1999 with CMJ Film Festival and the first was launched the October 6th 1999.

Synopsis

An employee, expert in insurances (Edward Norton, the narrator), only, in about thirty, suffering Insomnia chronic and disillusioned by the life, seeks a way of escaping from his monotonous existence, way which it will find thanks to the assistance of a ladle but charismatic soap salesman, mid- nihilist, mid- terrorist, Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt), which will make him discover a new way of living and of seeing the things. The two characters will thus find their freedom vis-a-vis the prison of reality through a fight club (club of combat) underground which they will create; where the man can be what the world denies to him to be. But them fight inoffensive club and their hoaxes, just like the appearance of a girl who grinds in the streets, Marla Singer (Helena Bonham Carter), will lead them towards a vicious circle of behaviors and facts unverifiable.

General comment

  • Fight Club is a critic of the men and women of our Western company. By Tyler, they are described as being beings subjected to the appearance of the Mannequin S of the magazines and publicities, which according to the talk of film, influence the perception of their Virilité and degrade to them innate Jugement. Tyler considers that to live in a consumer society, to agree it then to become actor cannot lead to happiness. According to him, the only valid possibility would be to live originally, where one would drive out to eat, where one would live far from all these pretenses. Of course, there remains still the prospect for love, but Tyler answers quite simply: “One is a generation of men raised by women. I am not sure that another woman is the solution with our problems. ”

  • Fight Club is also a criticism of the Manipulation: one has there indeed (if the assumption is followed that only Tyler was invented by the narrator) a man, who, at him all alone, manages thanks to a speech to rejoin an incredible number people with his cause (even of the police officers adhere to it and where who the narrator goes, people greet it).

One can thus bring it closer to Tueurs born of Oliver Stone

  • the fight club in itself is only the physical prolongation of the “not-virility” of its participants. Through these bloody combat, they find their desire for fighting for what they are, to take the things “with arm the body”; they relearn literally their robustness, their strength; they understand that to buy a television 16:9 gets much less adrenalin and of personal satisfaction to put an adversary at the carpet; they leave finally their zone of comfort to run up against the basic things. Little by little, these men transform themselves into what Tyler itself wishes that they change. They become again sharp, they lose their morbid desires quietly to consume and Tyler thus creates for itself a “army” of disciplined characters with simple values; people whom it names the “monkeys of space” (in reference to the monkeys used as guinea-pigs during the space conquest).

  • “Neither wolf nor sheep” could be a morals appropriate to film. In addition to the explicit denunciation of the individual-sheep, the spectator can be caused to revolt vis-a-vis these individual-wolves, the “ Space Monkeys ”, which have as little personality as the type of individual that they flee. Thus work can be perceived like humanistic, personalist, and pleasing to wonder about the doctrines all the same marginal which are the Antispécisme and the Anarchist-primitivism.

  • Tyler mistakes the worship of appearance as well as the futile human concerns. This part of film is leaning in a way picturesque on the Machisme and even on the Fascisme.

  • Fight Club is ironic in the direction where the film criticizes the system in which it was produced and from which it draws its codes. It is with the second degree that it is certainly necessary to perceive Fight Club ; not as the real criticism which he claims to make, but as a joke (Fincher qualified itself its film of joke, without forgetting on the other hand that the film is drawn from the original book of Chuck Palahniuk). The last image of the film (a penis in subliminal Image) is the perfect illustration, even if the film is more ambiguous than the book on this concept of first/second degree, with in particular the outcome “Hollywood IEN” of film (fine happy, presence of a romantic history, etc), contrary to that of the novel. Moreover this irony and this second degree presented previously are in the schizophrenia of the character who becomes victim of itself. As the speeches anticapitalists which depend on the existence even of capitalism, the character become victim of his refusal of reality within reality, such as it arises: abrupt.

  • Certains American teenagers did not see film under this angle, and of information were filtered concerning “free” aggressions people awaiting the bus in a street of a city of the Nevada, to make as in film, become worship at those. One thus notes the same influence for this film, as Clockwork orange , in his time, with the the United Kingdom, film to which Fight Club refers by the composition of certain plans (the aggression of notable in the toilets of the hotel).

  • Before even the beginning of film, when the DVD is launched, one is entitled to usual “the work fixed on this support is subjected to copyright… ”, and a few moments after this message, another text of the same kind appears, but this time, it is signed Tyler Durden.

Here this text: “ If you then read this warning is for you, each word which you read of this useless text is another lost second of your life. You do not have anything else to make? Is your life if empty, honestly, that you cannot think of a better manner of spending these moments? Or are you if impressed by the authority which you give your respect and dedicate your faith with all those which are claimed some? Do you read all that you are supposed to read? Do you think all what you are supposed to think? Do you buy what one said to you to buy? Leave your apartment. Go to the meeting of the sex opposé.
 Stop excessive shopping and the masturbation. Leave your work start to beat you. Prouvez that you are in life. If you do not assert your humanity you will become statistics. You will have been warned… Tyler." '

  • Fight Club preaches the self-destruction and the abandonment of hope (but not the suicide). Tyler explains why only a sudden anarchy, and the destruction of the existing lifestyle could save us. He explains why the life is not used for nothing and that the paradise really does not exist: if a person dies, after having had a mean length of life, it will go to the paradise. But on Earth, it will not leave any trace. Tyler thus recommends that if one must die, as much to mark the History, and to choose the Hell. “There are all the capacity to change the world. ”

Data sheet

  • official Label (in English): Mischief. Mayhem. Soap.
  • Scenario: Jim Uhls, according to the Romance éponyme of Chuck Palahniuk
  • Country of origin: the United States
  • Kind: Thriller, drama
  • Comings out date: September 10th 1999 (Venice Film Festival)/September 21st 1999 (CMJ Film Festival)/November 10th 1999 (France)
  • Certification (popular countries): the U.K.: 18 years and more/CA: 18 years and more/FR: 16 years and more/KNOWN: 15 years and more/E. - U.: Must be accompanied by a relative or a tutor under the 17 years age

Distribution

Specific comments

  • Other also notices on the aircraft, when Tyler announces “Now, a question of protocol: to pass, I present my bottom or my prick to you? ”, it does not fail to present its " queue" when it crosses the hostess of edge which leans in the corridor to serve a passenger.

Publicities

The film, as mentioned above, contains an apparent paradox: its contents act like a firm Opposition to publicity and like an anthem to the revolt vis-a-vis consumption, whereas the images of film themselves are faggots of publicity. Each one will draw its own conclusions from them: to show for démont (R) er, irony, duplicity, inspiration situationnist…

However good number of these appearances is associated with acts of violence or with destruction, even with the criticism which the narrator of its own lifestyle makes.

Here a list of these appearances:


Be the welcome to add others items if you find some.

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Music of film

  • the original soundtrack of film is Dust Brothers.
  • Goin' out west of Tom Waits (music of the arrival of the narrator and Tyler in the bar)
  • Where Is My Mind? of the Pixies interpreted by Pixies themselves (final incidental music)

Quotations

  • “With the gun of a firearm between the teeth, one pronounces only the vowels. ”
  • “You want to see suffering of it? Make a turn with the church methodist Tuesday evening: you will see of the guy with a cancer of the testicles, that, it is suffering. ”
  • “the philosophy of Marla Singer was that one could die from one moment to another; what there was of tragedy, said she, it is that she did not die…”
  • “an emergency exit to 9000 meters of altitude: the illusion of safety”
  • “Now, a question of protocol: to pass, I present my bottom or my prick to you? ”
  • “One is a generation of men raised by women, I do not think that another woman is the solution with our problem”
  • “It is not enough to put a feather in the bottom to you to have the air of a cock”
  • “One is the by-products of a lifestyle become an obsession. I want to place a ball between the two eyes of all the pandas which were not foutus kiss to save their species. ”
  • “There is a proverb which says that one makes evil with those which one likes: but he forgets to say that one likes those which make us evil. ”
  • “You are not your work, you are not your bank account, you are not your car, you are not your wallet, nor your whore of lattice, you are the shit of this world ready to be used for all. ”
  • “It is only when one very lost that one is free to do all that one wants. ”
  • “To lose any hope, it was that freedom. ”
  • “the objects which one has finish all by us having. ”
  • “publicity makes us run after cars and clothes, one makes jobs which one hates to treat to of the shits which are not useful to us with nothing. One is the forgotten children of the History. There is not a goal nor of true place. There is not a Great War. There is not great depression. Our Great War is spiritual. Our great depression, they is our lives. Television learned how to us to believe that one day one would be all of the millionaires, of the gods of the cinema or the rockstars, but they is false and we learn this truth slowly. ”
  • “the hood, it is the shoe of glass of our generation. ” Marla singer
  • “You met me at one strange time of my existence. ” Last counterpart of film.

  • Here rules of the Fight Club stated by Tyler:

    • 1st rule: “It is interdict of speaking about the Fight Club . ”
    • 2nd rule: “It is INTERDICT of speaking about the Fight Club . ”
    • 3rd rule: “Somebody shouts STOP, somebody collapses or cannot about it any more, the combat is finished. ”
    • 4th rule: “Only two men per combat. ”
    • 5th rule: “Only one combat at the same time. ”
    • 6th rule: “No shirt nor of shoes. ”
    • 7th rule: “The engagements will continue as a long time as necessary. ”
    • 8th and last rule: “If it is your first evening with the Fight Club … you must fight! ”

Criticisms

American media is

  • “ Fight Club a good film? It is so much stuffed explosive ideas and of wild humor that the guards of morality start to shout: “Danger! ” It is thus a good film. ” (magazine Rolling Stone )
  • “If you fear that what occurs in film really arrives, it is well, you must be afraid! It is the goal of film to frighten you. To give you desire for not being a monkey of space, insane, another sheep. ” (magazine Aint-it-cool-news )

French media

  • “a work brilliantly put in scene, a film punch which leaves K. - O.” (magazine FHM )
  • “the veil of ambiguity is raised: on the two sides, it is the dead end. And there the scenario writer is held, in the medium, speaking pipe of a practitioner generation the car-sacrification. The camera virtuoso with the fist. And the rage with the belly with the idea to know where to go. ” (magazine the new cinema )
  • “There will be still some of them to find this film inventive and funny (on the condition of supporting a commercial of 2:15 and showing off of Brad Pitt), but they will not dare to say that Fight Club is “nice object”. ” (magazine Inrockuptibles )
  • “ Fight Club is satisfied to water molasses sub-nietzschéenne spiced free violence. ” (magazine Télérama )
  • “Fincher adores the decomposition, the sordid one, sinks it. In Seven , in The Range , he filmed the cut heads, the obscure recesses, the intimate filth with an obvious talent. In Fight Club , this talent even turns over film. ”, Nouvel Observateur .

External bonds

  • the official site of the film
  • the downloadable original screenplay
  • an analysis of the film

  • an analysis criticizes film

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