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    Fight Club is tangible proof that movies don’t need to smash box office records or take home a multitude of awards to find a place in the public’s memory. Despite not doing exceptionally well at the box office or with the Academy, people still talk about Fight Club with unbridled affection. To test this, just ask someone what the first rule of Fight Club is. All this talk is not without founding, as Fight Club is a mostly entertaining film. This David Fincher movie follows a man identified…

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    There are no standards or restrains regarding how far Tyler will go to satisfy his objective. The understood importance is that Fight Club was made as a response to the dismissal of a buyer society is with the utilization of roughness. Battling was an approach to free a man from society. Material things are terrible in light of the fact that you work to get in a steady progression…

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    Fight Club is a 1999 film directed by David Fincher; starring Brad Pitt and Edward Norton. Based on the novel of the same name, Fight Club takes you into the mind and world of “The Narrator” (Edward Norton) – AKA Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt). As he struggles to take control of his life and of his reality. The film touches on multiple issues: Revenge, masculinity, and consumerism. It juggles all these issues while using a variety of editing, filming, and storying telling tricks and techniques. For…

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    rapidly growing country of America one day, but right now was not the time to think of that, right now he was to drink and sing and celebrate his independence. “Juan” Someone called, thats how he introduced himself to people, it just felt right. “We have come up with a flag what do you think of this” The general in charge, who was for once letting loose, was standing on a table holding a flag. Mexico felt his heart stop, how had they known? They probably didn’t, Mexico decided. These were his…

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    In the 1999 film, Fight Club, Tyler Durden proclaims, “we’re the middle children of history. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars, but we won’t. We’re slowly learning that fact. And we’re very, very pissed off” (Fincher) Then, through the 2000’s, we experienced a highly televised war and an economic crisis. When the idea of upheaving the economic structure of society from…

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    Beowulf We all know that actions speak louder than words, but when do words speak louder than the actions that you have done. In the epic poem, Beowulf, we have a great Geat warrior who is best known for being the strongest and the best fighter in his land. Beowulf has fought many demons and monsters and always seems to have fate on his side. With all that being said, Beowulf seems like a great candidate for being a role model to many, especially during the Anglo-Saxon era. However, I think…

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    In society, the teenager is seen as the embodiment of rebellion, and this generality extends into works such as Persepolis and Fight Club, whose main protagonists are teenage rebels. In both novels, each protagonist conforms with their societal standards, “accept(ing) (the demands of society) patiently, though (s)he may have protested inwardly, but in that (s)he remained silent (s)he was more concerned with his/her own immediate interests than as yet aware of his/her own rights” (Camus 14).…

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    necessarily have to be the right decision (don’t know what you mean, rephrase) . The imagination is a powerful tool and has been with humans ever since inception; it just becomes repressed by the reality of society. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller and Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk both have literary characters who create illusions to have a sense of acknowledgement to reinforce that their choice was the correct one. They show the characteristics of a person who is living a life to just…

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    I smiled at my work walked back into the castle. “hey Star!” I turned around seeing who called me. Two red heads were running at me in record time. “we’re having a snowball fight, in the courtyard wanna join?” I nodded my head. “sure” “who’s playing?” I asked Fred. “Seamus, Dean and Lee” I ran off with Fred & George. We reached the courtyard making a fort were the three boys, one of them nudged the other and pointed at me. “We’ve got our third player!” the twins announced excitedly.…

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    Fight Club is a perfect novel for the times. Many American men, including myself, have found that they are frustrated with modern day society’s views are how we should behave. Chuck took this issue head on, creating a character who was well behaved on the surface, but haunted by something dark deep down inside of him. This in turn made him want to fight, or “destroy something beautiful” not for any particular reason, but to just feel the pain from it or to feel anything at all. Justin Garrison…

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