Granddad's Fight

I am reading Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk and I am on page 180. Fight Club follows the story of a nameless narrator and his newfound insane friend, Tyler Durden. Our narrator lives a life of regularity and routine. Day in and day out at a desk job, making just enough for basic necessities. Tyler inspires him to break free from this chain and experience cold, true life. Life in the freest sense. They do so by starting an illegal underground boxing organization, or, Fight Club. Where men of all…

The novel centers on unnamed narrator who struggles with life and suffers from insomnia. Henry A. Giroux says, “Fight club portrays a society in which public space collapses and is filled by middle-class white men disoriented in the pandemonium of conflicting social forces who end up with a lot of opportunities for violence” (71-72). He works as a Product Recall Specialist for unnamed company. He is responsible for determining if product recalls or detective models meet cost benefit analysis.…

The film Fight Club, based on Chuck Palahniuk’s novel represents dissociative identity disorder throughout the main character (the narrator), who for the majority of the film was namelessly though referred to himself as “Jack” on a few occasions. The character is suffering from anxiety and depression thus bringing forth insomnia, as a response he tries to immerse himself with consumerism. Seemingly, nothing could help his problems until he met, “Tyler Durden”, a free spirited and impulsive…

His speech to the fight club shows the new America that follows the baby boomers. “ God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need…

The Movie The movie Fight Club from 1999 was based off the novel Fight Club written by Chuck Palhaniuk in 1996 while his mother was dying. Fight Club introduces the main character as the “Narrator” played by Edward Norton. The Narrator also known as Cornelius, through the movie the narrator takes the viewer through the process of mental breakdown of Tyler Durden who is played by Brad Pitt. The movie starts with the Narator/Tyler Durden suffering insomnia, depression, PTSD, narcissism and in the…

I. Summary of the Movie The movie is a comedy between Edward Cole (Jack Nicholson) and Carter Chambers (Morgan Freeman) these characters meet after they were both diagnosed with cancer and are now reluctant in sharing a room together. Carter is portrayed, as a middle-class mechanic, while his counterpart is a billionaire hospital financier. The two men are living entirely different lives. Although Cole is of money, he lives a life that lacks a significant person. On the other hand, although…

For me, Black Rain is just another prime example of why I consider Ridley Scott to be a mixed bag as a Director. Sure he’s definitely made some classics like Blade Runner, Alien, and Gladiator but other films that I’ve seen in Scott’s filmography (Robin Hood, Exodus, and G.I. Jane) seems like he gets so caught up into creating visual atmospheres (especially in this one) to the point of where he loses focus on maintaining a genuine plotting or narrative. Black Rain is an 80’s recycled tough cop…

Fight Club (1999) doesn’t need much of an introduction, and the first two rules state that I can’t talk about. I guess I’ll have to make an exception just this once; I just hope Tyler will be able to forgive me. The movie itself performed moderately well in its opening weekend but was ultimately a box office failure, as it only brought in about $37 million in revenue. The main character who is played by Edward Norton, a nameless narrator, is unhappy and discouraged with his mediocre life. In…

As I was walking into the Career Center, I heard Mr. Railey tell Tyler, who was a few steps ahead of me in the hall, to take his hat off. Tyler removed his hat and acted as if he was going to throw it to the ground, but instead of throwing his hat he ended up putting it back on his head. Later in class, after Mrs. Linzey was done taking attendance, she asked Tyler to take off his sunglasses. Tyler did not immediately take off his glasses and even began to mumble things under his breath. I…

Since the beginning of his career, outrageous and courageous Tyler, the Creator has turned heads with his bold lyrics and surprising talent for writing and producing rap music. In 2011, the twenty-two year old rap artist released his debut studio album entitled Goblin (“Tyler, the Creator”, n.d.). It was the second album in his trilogy and it immediately had people talking. One of the standalone songs on the album, “She” is an R&B rap song written by Tyler and features Frank Ocean on the…