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Wall Art. Art Media. House Styles. After a splashy premiere at the Venice film festival, which set the industry abuzz, it failed to set fire at the box office and critics were extremely divided.
However, the renowned reviewer Roger Ebert hated it. It is this element that is perhaps most pertinent — and, many would argue, misunderstood — two decades on. The big twist that Bradshaw refers to is, of course, that The Narrator and Tyler Durden are one and the same. The first has created the second as an avatar who can say and do all the things he is too scared to. The turning point for The Narrator comes when he realises that Tyler — before he knows they are one and the same — is directing the energy from the Fight Clubs into something very different: militia group Project Mayhem.
Tyler has turned the men who have found both a release and a purpose from knocking hell out of each other into a private army, with plans to launch a devastating terrorist attack. The Narrator travels the country to try to stop the operation… only for it to finally dawn on him that he is Tyler. The battle lines are drawn between The Narrator and the creature from his id. As for the audience?
Because the thing with Fight Club is that not everybody does think Tyler is the bad guy of the piece… in fact, there are many people today who still consider him the hero. Fight Club came out when the internet was in its infancy, a good decade before most people began to join social networks such as Twitter and Facebook. Evolutionarily, men were developed to hunt, to fight, to kill, to survive only by the force of their own muscles and instinct…The modern world has completely removed this aspect of life and replaced it with soft, decadent, consumer capitalism.
Laurie Penny is a feminist journalist and writer, and author of the book The Bitch Doctrine. Despite her own anti-capitalist stance, she looks at Tyler Durden as a feeble type of social justice warrior. Great job, Tyler. As has time has gone on, however, her feelings have changed about the latter. They associate womanhood with oppression.
Clearly, parts of the internet disagree. Perhaps the person to make a definitive call on how we should regard Tyler Durden is Chuck Palahniuk himself. However, when BBC Culture asks him, the author demurs to give anything like a solid answer.
Writer Neil Strauss released a notorious book in called The Game, in which he championed the rules and techniques of pick-up artists who use pseudo-scientific techniques to seduce women. BBC Culture approached Cook for this article but he did not respond.
Surely this co-opting of Tyler Durden must annoy Palahniuk? Once more, Palanhuik remains determinedly neutral. Imitation is the most sincere form of… fill in the blank. In the novel, as well as being less altruistic, Tyler Durden is also more psychopathic and murderous, a true dark side to The Narrator.
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