Fight Club :: Fight Club Tyler Durdens

Fight order bournessBefore the fibber actually meets Tyler, he sees him in brief, one-frame flashes, representing Tylers development in his mind. Below is a list of these appearances. - Tyler is standing in front of the duplicator at the Narrators company, as the Narrator says, Everything is a repeat of a copy of a copy. - When the Narrator goes to the doctor for his insomnia, Tyler appears as the doctor tells him to go to the testicular cancer support group. As the doctor says, Thats pain, Tyler is standing just over his shoulder, laughing. - At the support group, when the leader says really open ourselves up, Tyler is smirking and leaning against him with his build around him. - After the Narrator confronts Marla and is watching her walk away, Tyler appears in his line of vision, smoking.- In the Pressman Hotel welcome video, Tyler is the waiter on the far right. (Thanks to Caite) This appearance isnt actually subliminal. The Narrator, as Tyler, really did work at the Press man Hotel, so he would stick out appe ared in the video.- Tyler is riding d make an escalator as the Narrator is riding up in an airport. Nick writes, In the starting line there are quick flashes of Tyler in the back ground. I counted 3 of them in different times. Later in the impression they explained the projectionist job that Tyler had and how he put pornographic clips in family movies. Do you think those two things have anything in common? I hadnt really thought about this before, yet its a good point. The characters are aware that they are in the movie (Tylers references to flashback humor, etc.), and Tyler DID splice a porn clip in at the end, so its very likely that he put himself in as well. Kevin asks, ...what are your thoughts on why the bullet killed Tyler but not the Narrator? My own theory is that Tyler was destroyed because the Narrator hit bottom when he was so unafraid of death that he was able to put a ordnance in his mouth and pull the trigger. The Narrator no longer needful Tyler because he had hit bottom, and he had become Tyler. Cramer replies, I disagree on this point. Tylers presence isnt completely gone. While the main internal conflict of the Narrator may have been how to mesh Tylers and his own personalities together into a exclusive individual, I believe that the reoccuring thesis of Its only after youve lost everything that youre uncaring to do anything, can explain that Tyler (the rebel, the nonconformist) is not dead.