10-11-2019, 06:52 PM | #1 |
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Is Tyler Durden from Fight Club a hero?
I mean he's considered to be anti-PC and doesn't give a F and all.
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10-11-2019, 11:03 PM | #2 |
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But also an anarchist and an "eat the rich" sort.
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10-11-2019, 11:30 PM | #3 |
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This is crazy to see this thread randomly appear here - especially to this audience. I love Fight Club. I've got a nice Pahluniak collection, actually.
Tyler Durden is not a hero. Not by any means. The character is a protagonist born of duality who serves as a point of conflict, but also as a catalyst for action by the narrator. All of Tyler's actions are generally subversive - there is nothing heroic about them. However, along the way he delivers some sense of meaning to the office employee generation, which grants him a certain "heroic charm". But academically, no he is not a hero at all. Instead, he is the unbridled action man that we all, in some small shape or another, wish we could be to escape much of the structured, rigid-establishment-like-nature of society. Given what millenials are doing now, I'd say that Fight Club was significantly more relevant to my generation than it would ever be to millienials. They aren't the same people. If they "get it", it's likely only through their lens of perceived superiority rather than actual empathy for the subject matter. The narrative of Fight Club can definitely be cross-generational, but I'd argue adamantly that you had to be there to really have that story shake your DNA. |
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LMAO, no he's not a hero.
Looking past that he's the split personality of the Narrator/Joe/Jack, Tyler is a pathetic creature who preaches self thinking, freedom and anti-consumerism but still made his own little cult who follow his every command. Anyone seeing Tyler as the hero of the Fight Club franchise completely missed the point. |
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I'm no expert in these things but wouldn't Tyler be considered now like... basically an Antifa extremist? No?
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10-12-2019, 07:20 AM | #6 |
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Hey, so does anyone but me here know about the retcon of Tyler's nature? As of the comic, Tyler is no longer a mere manifestation of the main character's frustration but a mental disorder passed down gentically. That's the reason the main character's father had kids with with multiple other women, he wanted to make sure there was another kid with the Tyler Durden disorder.
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-ahem- Um. Tyler represented a social movement for men though, I suppose. Quote:
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“Antifa” literally means “anti-fascist”, as in, “opposed to fascism”. Fascism is defined as “a form of far-right, authoritarian ultranationalism characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition, and strong regimentation of society and of the economy”. So yeah I’d say they’re doing it for politics reasons but I’m sure you’d disagree, Mr. Kidnap-and-Torture.
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11-18-2019, 05:23 PM | #10 |
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What it means and what they are are two very different things.
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11-18-2019, 06:44 PM | #11 |
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Yeah, they can call themselves anything they want but at the end of the day they still advocate for state-sponsored thought control - i.e., "Certain statements or even thoughts should be illegal and/or forbidden, and people who espouse them should be punished by threats and physical violence, preemptively if possible". Which is fascist. It's merely fascism they can agree with because the target is "mean people", or anyone they disagree with about anything, really.
It's like how PETA says they're all about "protecting animals" when the reality is they're just sh*t-disturbers who do a lot more harm than good. As are MOST "crusaders" of any sort. Well-intentioned miscreants at best.
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A significant amount of those people aren't behind a political message. They are just anarchists or assholes. It's like Lord of the Flies in those circles. You have to look at the psychology a little more realistically I think, regardless of rigid definition. So yeah, I disagree. Last edited by IMJ; 11-19-2019 at 11:05 AM. |
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True, there’s always gonna be people who co-opt a movement when they have no real interest in anything other than policing the actions of others but I try to give most people the benefit of the doubt. I guess we all become jaded in different ways tho, c’est la vie
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Do you think him putting guns to people's heads then stealing their ID cards and threatening to kill them if they don't do something else gave those people even that clerk serious PTSD and true fear? and is that makes Tyler a terrifying maniac?
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It just kind of hit me that Ed Norton wasn't actually Tyler Durden when he wasn't in Brad Pitt mode. And according to Fight Club 2, that name is Sebastian.
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01-25-2022, 03:14 PM | #16 |
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Did they give the 'Narrator" a name? Wow! I've been meaning to read those comics for years, but never got around to it...
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01-25-2022, 05:04 PM | #17 |
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Yeah, right off the bat in Fight Club 2. And it's treated like no big deal.
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01-25-2022, 08:40 PM | #18 |
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there's a Fight Club 2??
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01-25-2022, 10:04 PM | #19 |
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In comic form, written by the author of the original book. And a Fight Club 3. Like 10+ issues each. Either series could easily be a movie.
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01-26-2022, 12:45 AM | #20 |
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Should they decide to make a movie sequel, they'll do it "In memory of Meat Loaf" most likely, and hopefully they'll do it well.
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