In tyler we trust — what greater good?

‘self-improvement is masturbation’ //

Seek ‘Self-DESTRUCTION’ // seek ANTI-Consumerism // anti-social media // anti photography // anti-street //

anti-role model.

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‘i see all this potential; and i see it all squandered. entire generation of slaves with white collars.’

‘advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need. no purpose or place. no great war, no great depression. our great war is a spiritual war. our great depression is our lives.’

you wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life.

‘without pain and sacrifice, we would have nothing’

‘It is only after we’ve lost everything that we’re free to do anything.’ – Tyler Duren

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‘i don’t have a car’

‘you are not your job; you’re not how much money you have in the bank; you’re not the car you drive; you’re not the contents of your wallet.’

‘the things you own end up owning you’

‘i look like you wanna look; i fuck like you wanna fuck; i am smart, capable, and more importantly — I’m free in all the ways that you are not.’

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‘were consumers; we are the byproducts of a lifestyle obsession. murder, crime, poverty — these things don’t concern us.’

‘you wanna make an omelet; you gotta break some eggs’

Tyler and Narrator stop outside a convenience store at night. Tyler takes out a gun and walks into the store to do their homework assignment of a “human sacrifice”, while Narrator protests. Tyler forces the clerk out the back exit at gun point.
Voice-over: On a long enough timeline the survival rate for everybody drops to zero.
Narrator: Stop! What are we doing? Come on! God!
Tyler Durden: Hands behind your back. Give me your wallet.
The clerk, now kneeling, hands him his wallet.
Tyler Durden: Raymond K. Hessel. 1320 South East spanning apartment A. Small cramped basement apartment, Raymond?
Raymond K. Hessel: How did you know?
Tyler Durden: ‘Cause they give shitty basement apartments letters instead of numbers. Raymond, you are going to die.
Raymond begins to cry. Tyler examines content of the wallet.
Tyler Durden: Is that your mom and dad? Mom and Dad are going to have to call up kindly Doctor So-and-so. Pick up your dental records. Wanna know why? Because there’s gonna be nothing left of your face.
Narrator: Oh come on, come on.
Tyler Durden: An expired community college student ID. What did you study, Raymond?
Raymond K. Hessel: S-stuff.
Tyler Durden: Stuff? Were the mid-terms hard? I asked you what you studied!
Raymond K. Hessel: Biology mostly.
Tyler Durden: Why?
Raymond K. Hessel: I don’t know.
Tyler Durden: What did you wanna be, Raymond K. Hessel? The question, Raymond! Was “What did you want to be”?!
Narrator: Answer him, Raymond! Jesus!
Raymond K. Hessel: Veterinarian, veterinarian.
Tyler Durden: Animals.
Raymond K. Hessel: Yeah animals and stuff.
Tyler Durden: And stuff, yeah I got that. That means you have to get more schooling.
Raymond K. Hessel: Too much school.
Tyler Durden: Would you rather be dead? Would you rather die? Here, on your knees in the back of a convenience store?
Raymond K. Hessel: No, please no!
Tyler takes his gun down, takes out Raymond’s driver’s license throwing the wallet in front of Raymond.
Tyler Durden: I’m keeping your license. I’m gonna check in on you. I know where you live. If you’re not on your way to becoming a veterinarian in six weeks, you will be dead. Now run on home.
Raymond gets up and runs into the night.
Tyler Durden: Run Forrest, run!
Narrator: I feel ill.
Tyler Durden: Imagine how he feels.
Narrator: Come on, this isn’t funny! That wasn’t funny. What the fuck was the point of that?!
Tyler Durden: Tomorrow will be the most beautiful day of Raymond K. Hessel’s life. His breakfast will taste better than any meal you and I have ever tasted.
Voice-over: You had to give it to him. He had a plan. And it started to make sense in a Tyler sort of way. No fear, no distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide.
Tyler throws gun to Narrator who opens the barrel to find no bullets inside.

Narrator: I felt like putting a bullet between the eyes of every Panda that wouldn’t screw to save its species. I wanted to open the dump valves on oil tankers and smother all those French beaches I’d never see. I wanted to breathe smoke.
Tyler Durden: Where’d you go psycho boy?
Narrator: I felt like destroying something beautiful.

Narrator: I know it seems like I have more than one side sometimes…
Marla Singer: More than one side? You’re Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Jackass!
Taglines
• How much can you know about yourself, if you’ve never been in a fight?
• When you wake up in a different place at a different time, can you wake up as a different person?
• Losing all hope is freedom
• Mischief. Mayhem. Soap.
• It’s only after we’ve lost everything that we are free to do anything.
• This is your life and it’s ending one minute at a time.
• Fuck Martha Stewart ..its all going down
• You’re the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world.
Cast
• Edward Norton – The Narrator
• Brad Pitt – Tyler Durden
• Helena Bonham Carter – Marla Singer
• Meat Loaf – Robert Paulson
• Jared Leto – Angel Face
About
• A stylized version of our IKEA present. It is talking about very simple concepts. We’re designed to be hunters and we’re in a society of shopping. There’s nothing to kill anymore, there’s nothing to fight, nothing to overcome, nothing to explore. In that societal emasculation this everyman is created.
• We wanted a title sequence that started in the fear center of the brain. When you hear the sound of a gun being cocked that’s in your mouth, the part of you brain that gets everything going, that realizes that you are fucked – we see all the thought processes, we see the synapses firing, we see the chemical electrical impulses that are the call to arms. And we wanted to sort of follow that out. Because the movie is about thought, it’s about how this guy thinks. And it’s from his point of view, solely. So I liked the idea of starting a movie from thought, from the beginning of the first fear impulse that went, Oh shit, I’m fucked, how did I get here?
• David Fincher Gavin Smith goes one-on-one with David Fincher (1999) Interview with Film Comment magazine, October/November 1999 issue
• The movie is not that violent. There are ideas in the movie that are scary, but the film isn’t about violence, the glorification of violence or the embracing of violence. In the movie, violence is a metaphor for feeling. It’s a film about the problems or requirements involved with being masculine in today’s society.
• Violence shouldn’t be presented as drama. I think people looking for an easy way out often write scenes where characters come into violent conflict as opposed to looking for the true drama in the situation. That’s a shortcoming of a lot of films and television shows. I think certain presentations of violence are not immoral, but amoral.
• I find it amoral if you’re making a movie where the problem is solved with a guy standing in the back of pickup truck firing a machine at the bad guys. The morality of it is questionable because the repercussions of violence are incredibly far-reaching.
• I do like movies that take a toll on the audience. I want to work the subconscious. I want to involve you in ways in which you might not necessarily want to get involved. I want to play off those things that you’re expecting to get when the lights go down and the 20th Century Fox logo comes up. There’s an audience expectation and I’m interested in how movies play with–and off–that expectation. That’s what I’m interested in.
• David Fincher Fightin Words (1999) Interview with drDrew.com about Fight Club
External links
 Encyclopedic article on Fight Club (film) at Wikipedia
• Fight Club quotes at the Internet Movie Database
• Fight Club at Rotten Tomatoes