Fight Club question SPOILER ALERT!

The Bollox

Do not read this post if you have not seen Fight Club!


On my last viewing of Fight Club I thought about something that hadn't occurred to me before: when the Narrator (can't remember if you find out his name) moves into the house on Paper St. he finds some notebooks where someone started writing from the point of view of his body parts e.g. "I am Jack's colon, I get cancer; I kill Jack".

now my question is: did the narrator, as Tyler, write this stuff, or was this material just the inspiration for why he starts talking like that throughout the rest of the film. We know The Narrator became Tyler completely before this because it was Tyler that blew up the apartment, the reason the Narrator moved to Paper St.

cabrwab

You never find out edward nortons names in the movie, he is called the narrator. But its never explained either if the house belongs to tylar, so therefore belongs to the narrator.

My theory is that it is the house they grew up in, so he wrote that stuff as a kid, because it was written in journals but you just can't be sure with fight club.

Its like the usual suspects after you've seen the ending, you wonder about what the story really means or whats it about!

Its just a theory so no bashing!

Mellor

I think he just found it, it was in the house first. Tyler wouldn't of worth like that, I think he found it, found it a strange way of describing emotion, and later copied it for his oen devices

cabrwab

Yeah, but the point in the movie when tyler leaves him for awhile and gives this weird speech when norton is asleep, is meant to be the speech the narrators dad gave when he left him.

Well i did say it was my idea as to why he adopts it as his own!

But the narrator seems to be more of a sheep, while tyler is a leader, so maybe that is why he copy's the "iam jacks colon" when they found it.

Rhyme

They threw the name 'Jack' onto the back of the DVD case as well as far as i can remember.

From what i gather, the narrator just absorbed the habit of speaking about his emotions etc in the third person from the articles. The narrator draws so much from his imagined perception of Tyler that him drawing a vocal habit doesn't come across as too unusual.

I'm fully prepared to be wrong though, i've not read the book or watched the film in a good long time.

Theboinkmaster

cabrwab wrote: »

You never find out edward nortons names in the movie, he is called the narrator. But its never explained either if the house belongs to tylar, so therefore belongs to the narrator.

My theory is that it is the house they grew up in, so he wrote that stuff as a kid, because it was written in journals but you just can't be sure with fight club.

Its like the usual suspects after you've seen the ending, you wonder about what the story really means or whats it about!

Its just a theory so no bashing!

Ed Norton's character's name is Jack - on the DVD commentary they point out the scene with the notebooks (where someone started writing from the point of view of his body parts e.g. "I am Jack's colon, I get cancer; I kill Jack") as the definitive clue


Best film ever btw

tylerdurden94

Some very interesting theories.

Shacklebolt

In the book the narrators name isnt given. He reads a pile of old Readers Digest articlesall beginning with "I am Joes....." etc

In the film they changed it to "I am Jacks..." for copyright reasons as far as I know.

Not a very thrilling explanation but thats all there is to it.

Fysh

I thought that in the book each article used a different name ("I'm Joe's pancreas", "I'm Jenny's colon", etc) and that they kept the same name in the film just to reinforce that Norton's narrator had picked up the habit from there.

Regarding the house on paper street, Tyler rented it in the narrator's name shortly after he was "born"; the same way he used the narrator's free flight coupons towards the end of the film.

Shacklebolt

Fysh wrote: »

I thought that in the book article used a different name ("I'm Joe's pancreas", "I'm Jenny's colon", etc) and that they kept the same name in the film just to reinforce that Norton's narrator had picked up the habit from there.

Regarding the house on paper street, Tyler rented it in the narrator's name shortly after he was "born"; the same way he used the narrator's free flight coupons towards the end of the film.

I havnt read it in so long I really cant be sure. I know the articles were from Readers Digest though I must check what names they used.

Rhyme

Fysh wrote: »

("I'm Joe's pancreas", "I'm Jenny's colon", etc)

...and "I am Jills nipple."

Shacklebolt

I found an old Readers Digest article today called "I am Joes brain tumour"