Fight Club follows the story of an unnamed protagonist, an 'everyman' who is discontented with his white-collar job, and Tyler Durden, the enigmatic soap maker. They form a fight club and our joined by other men who also want to fight recreationally. As the narrator becomes more and more embroiled in his relationship with Tyler and a dissolute woman named Marla, Fight Club develops into project mayhem and the narrator slowly loses his mind.
Plot twist, Tyler and the narrator are one in the same, whilst the narrator has been asleep, Tyler has been taking control and living a separate life. Tyler is the id part of the narrators psyche, he is the concerned with fulfilling pleasure above all else. Tyler introduces the narrator to a much more wild life than he previously held, he is irrational and selfish, and only really concerned with his own well being. Whereas the narrator is the super-ego, quiet, living a standard, consumerist lifestyle, happy with what he has and happy to conform. Fischer constantly eludes to this being the case, there are splices of Tyler throughout the film, Tyler literally appears out of Edward Norton when we first see him at the airport, and again in Fight Club later in the film. Interestingly, even Jack notices the similarities between them and points out to tyler that they have the exact same brief case.
Jack tries to stop Tyler and we are shown just how deeply Jack and Tyler are connected through both the dialogue and technical conventions such as their appearances. Jack's disadvantage in trying to stop Tyler is that they share a mind. Tyler is aware that Jack might go to the police, which he does. The officers there inform him that he might try to talk his way out of his situation. When Jack finds Tyler in the garage at Franklin St. he turns the tables by using their shared mind to his advantage. Tyler becomes enraged when Jack diffuses the bomb. Jack's persona is asserting itself and it is getting in Tyler's way. Jack continues to use their shared mind to his advantage even after Tyler throws him down the staircase. He is able to gain control of the situation when he realizes that he's the one holding the gun, not Tyler. When he puts it to his own head, Tyler is forced into a corner. He tries to bargain his way out. "Hey. You and me," he says, trying to reassert their friendship. Tyler has no intention of there being a Jack and a Tyler. During the duration of the film, Jack's appearance deteriorates while Tyler's becomes more and more idealized, a symbolic representation of Tyler as the dominant personality in Jack's mind, to show that he is getting stronger while Jack is becoming weaker. To rid himself of Tyler, Jack has to go farther than Tyler ever would. He shoots himself through the cheek to symbolically kill Tyler. When the Space Monkeys arrive upstairs to find the seriously injured Jack they are impressed with his strength, proving that Jack had this capacity inside him all along. He doesn't need Tyler. What he does need is an antidote to the loneliness that isolated him in the first place: Marla. He takes her hand as the buildings detonate outside, indicating that they are now able to embark on a real relationship together.
Tyler's character will be a big influence on my own version of the Id, Tyler Durden to me is the perfect embodiment of the Id and as such it would be stupid to not take influence from such an established character. I also feel like the narrator is a good influence on my version of the ego, he again displays the quality of the ego so well and I'd like got capture this in my own film.
Jack tries to stop Tyler and we are shown just how deeply Jack and Tyler are connected through both the dialogue and technical conventions such as their appearances. Jack's disadvantage in trying to stop Tyler is that they share a mind. Tyler is aware that Jack might go to the police, which he does. The officers there inform him that he might try to talk his way out of his situation. When Jack finds Tyler in the garage at Franklin St. he turns the tables by using their shared mind to his advantage. Tyler becomes enraged when Jack diffuses the bomb. Jack's persona is asserting itself and it is getting in Tyler's way. Jack continues to use their shared mind to his advantage even after Tyler throws him down the staircase. He is able to gain control of the situation when he realizes that he's the one holding the gun, not Tyler. When he puts it to his own head, Tyler is forced into a corner. He tries to bargain his way out. "Hey. You and me," he says, trying to reassert their friendship. Tyler has no intention of there being a Jack and a Tyler. During the duration of the film, Jack's appearance deteriorates while Tyler's becomes more and more idealized, a symbolic representation of Tyler as the dominant personality in Jack's mind, to show that he is getting stronger while Jack is becoming weaker. To rid himself of Tyler, Jack has to go farther than Tyler ever would. He shoots himself through the cheek to symbolically kill Tyler. When the Space Monkeys arrive upstairs to find the seriously injured Jack they are impressed with his strength, proving that Jack had this capacity inside him all along. He doesn't need Tyler. What he does need is an antidote to the loneliness that isolated him in the first place: Marla. He takes her hand as the buildings detonate outside, indicating that they are now able to embark on a real relationship together.
Tyler's character will be a big influence on my own version of the Id, Tyler Durden to me is the perfect embodiment of the Id and as such it would be stupid to not take influence from such an established character. I also feel like the narrator is a good influence on my version of the ego, he again displays the quality of the ego so well and I'd like got capture this in my own film.
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