¶ … Fight Club" and the creation of a false urban masculinity in cinematic and real life
One of the most interesting aspects of the narrative art is seen in the unpredictable ways in which individuals are apt to embrace filmic narration and cinematic narrative techniques and to transfer them into the narrative texture of their own lives. Also reflected in this phenomenon is the fact that viewers can develop ways of approaching and understanding films that depart entirely from the filmmaker's original conception and intent. For instance, in the case of "Fight Club," the evident intent of the filmmakers was to create a film that was highly deflationary in terms of masculine posturing. The film depicts a number of highly paid executive young men who create societies devoted to bare-fisted pugilism. These boxing societies are held illegally and underground. The film is fictional, and began as a fiction. Eventually, the societies flourish and spread all over the nation, as membership is limited to fifty within each boxing 'cell.' However, reality eventually mirrored filmed narrative life, as many individuals who saw the film were inspired to create fight clubs of their own across the nation.
The protagonists of "Fight Club" consider the club to be a viable antidote to the modern lives they are subjected to as corporate drones. The film's depiction of a bar of soap in its advertising media meshes with the entire film's concerns with the way identity is constructed through consumerism in America. Individual's gender identities are bought and sold like soap in contemporary capitalist American society,...
He is just as surreal as Palahniuk's Tyler Durden, and yet he is not freeing any hero from consumerist enslavement but -- on the other hand -- burying the reader behind a false and deluded masculine mythology -- namely, that a masculine hero is virile not because he "knows himself" and seeks virtue but because he knows how to drive fast cars, win at cards, be physically fit and
Fight Club The 1999 feature movie, Fight Club, directed by David Fincher and starring Brad Pitt and Edward Norton seemed as if the entire film was dedicated to the phenomenon of antisocial behavior. This exploration into the mind of an apparently normal man demonstrated the significance and the trials of an individual dealing with the pressures of society. The purpose of this essay is to explain antisocial behavior as it is
It is also important to note that major offenses within the fight club are punished through castration, as if to imply that the punished person is no longer a man and therefore no longer worthy of being part of the violent organization. The roles of women in Fight Club are extremely limited. Marla Singer is the only female character in the film. She shares qualities that are present in "Durden,"
Project Mayhem on the other hand focuses outwardly towards society, rather than the members of the organization. The secrecy of Project Mayhem has evolved to being a secret even from its own members, and particularly from the protagonist, suggested by its first and repeated rule "You do not ask questions." This also suggests that Project Mayhem is a far more sinister entity than its predecessor, in that the rules no
They lived in a derelict building with the other white males they recruited -- the army they recruited. They created their own world where everything was masculine and they plotted against the capitalists in order to redefine their masculinity. They continued to engage in violent acts which grew more and more destructive. Through these, they were able to gain back their power, the power they have lost through the
Disassociation, Personality Disorders, & Global Capitalism: Open Your Eyes to the Fight Club Fight Club is a cinematic adaptation of a novel of the same title; therefore, the novel will be referenced peripherally in this work. While the focus of the paper will be upon Fight Club, in an effort to expand the context of the ideas to be discussed, the essay will also include analysis of a related Spanish film, Abre
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