David Fincher

Se7en is a movie written in 1995 by Andrew Kevin Walker and directed by David Fincher. The movie is classifies as a drama mystery and thriller. It talks about two detectives, a rookie and a veteran, hunt a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his modus operandi. It is quite often raining in the city. Somerset, the veteran criminologist, wears a cap and waterproof shell. Mills, the child who has quite recently been moved into the area, strolls exposed headed in the downpour as though…

Fight Club is an exhilarating thriller directed by David Fincher (Se7en, Gone Girl). This movie was considered one of the most controversial of the year due to its “Fight the System” attitude. The narrator is a nameless, white-collared employee of a law firm who is plagued by insomnia and depression. He medicates his depression through consumerism, a frequent and steady acquisition of “things”. “I flipped through catalogs and wondered: What kind of dining set defines me as a person”, he asks…

"You are not your bank account, you are not the clothes you wear. You are not the contents of your wallet. You are not your bowel cancer. You are not your Grande Latte. You are not the car you drive. You are not your …. khakis." (Fincher 1999) David Fincher’s 1999 film Fight Club is a movie discussing issues in modern masculinity, social stratification and relations of power. By presenting us with a character completely opposite in the extremes of his alter egos. From here he shows us the issues…

In 1992 David Fincher made his directorial debut with Alien 3. Fincher’s film was the third entry in the Alien franchise following the critically acclaimed films Alien and Aliens directed by Ridley Scott and James Cameron, respectively. Unfortunately, Alien 3 was poorly received by moviegoers, as well as Fincher himself. There was studio interference in the making of Alien 3, so much so that Fincher has disowned the film and to this day still does not consider it his film. David Fincher…

The Game, a 1997 drama film directed by David Fincher, sets place in the late 1990s in California. Michael Douglas stars as the film’s main character as Nicholas van Orton. Van Orton is a mid-aged, divorced, businessman who appears to be very stoic and cold, and who tends to be bothered by interaction with other people. The film takes place in one-day’s time with a few flashbacks. The movie begins on van Orton’s birthday where van Orton receives very few “Happy Birthday’s” from those that he…

Fight Club the film compared Fight Club the book The 1996 book Fight Club written by Chuck Palahniuk is a classic satrical novel that contains interesting social commentary on connsumierism and masculinity in the United States, particularly for Generation X and Generation Y. The 1999 film adaption of Fight Club directed by is considered to be one of the best book-to-film adaptations ever, however it manages to change quite a lot from the original novel without damaging the themes, culutral…

In the movie Fight Club, Edward Norton stars as an unnamed man, who is both the narrator and the protagonist. This man is discontent with his white-collar job, depressed, and plagued with insomnia. His only solace is to attend support groups for various afflictions and illnesses, none of which he possesses. In one of his various support groups, he meets a woman named Marla Singer, played by Helena Bonham Carter, who is also a support group imposter or “tourist.” Her presence robs him of his…

to do anything.” (Linson, Chaffin, Bell & Fincher, 1999). The meaning is explained with another quote from Brad Pitt, “The things you own end up owning you.” (Linson, Chaffin, Bell & Fincher, 1999). So the overall theme is to break free the material consumer based items that hold us slaves to them and preventing us from living our lives as individuals. “Like so many others, I had become a slave to the IKEA nesting instinct.” (Linson, Chaffin, Bell & Fincher, 1999) said by The Narrator as he…

Fight Club is a postmodernist novel, which shows the reader how a group of people created a club about dealing with officials and American structure, officials, and androgen pumped men. Fight Club is basically an escape of reality in which whoever joins it cannot tell anyone outside of it. Tyler Durden feels trapped in his schizophrenic mind, along with a woman named Marla Singer, who fakes her diseases to join Fight Club. There is another person who is in the club named Bob Paulson. Bob comes…

Violence is a key part of the film “Fight Club” but it isn’t the centerpiece of the action. The philosophy of the of the film begins to starts with a fight between Tyler and the Narrator with the idea that what could you really know about yourself if you’ve never been in a fight. This is the beginning of a philosophy of changing the world from being a society of consumers who don't know themselves into people who can see the world as it really is. Together Tyler and The Narrator build Fight…