1999’s Fight Club, combines black comedy, satire, drama, action and psychological thriller genres in a fuel-injected red-sticky-snowball of sick, toxic joy. The Venice screening was not quite prepared for Fight Club and the film got panned initially.
DID YOU KNOW…
Author, Chuck Palahniuk, wrote the novel, Fight Club, after getting into a vicious fist fight on a camping trip. He came home and went to work with his face bashed in…and nobody asked any questions, ignored the damage and moved on. The premise of what goes on in peoples’ private lives spurred the book’s idea.
Where did the name “Tyler Durden” come from? Tyler was from an old Walt Disney story – Tyler Goes to the Circus. Durden was the name of Palahniuk’s former co-worker fired for sexual harassment.
Did you catch the subliminal glimpses of Tyler Durden in Act I? We see a one-frame shot of Tyler Durden, Jack’s alter-ego, first in the office scene by the copier, next at the doctor’s office and then again at the gymnasium support group meeting. We finally meet Tyler at the airport on the moving sidewalk.
Also, when Jack is at the hotel watching TV – he watches the hotel’s welcome channel. The screen shows hotel workers. You’ll quickly see Tyler Durden in the front row, far right.
Where did Jack’s support group made-up names (Travis, Rupert, and Cornelius) come from? They used a combination of Robert De Niro characters from the 1970’s and Planet of the Apes – go figure.
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