Fight Club created a string of controversy after its initial release in 1999. The movie's release date was postponed after the Columbine tragedy to allay any possible backlash from the explicit violence and encouragement of violence and terrorism for males to have a voice. The film, nonetheless, incited a firestorm of heated comments; ironically, the comments either vehemently praised or condemned the movie for both its content and cinematography. One critic notes, "Most viewers, in fact, felt that Fight Club was either wildly funny or morally reprehensible- (Crowdus). Very few critics, however, commented upon the comedic value of the movie. Despite the brutal violence and nihilist attitudes of the main characters, audiences nonetheless find themselves laughing during the film. Fight Club is a fine example of comedy, despite the violence and apocalyptic messages.
The best comedies incite an audience to laugh despite themselves. Intelligent, rational minded people are caught laughing at very disturbing scenes. In the movie Pulp Fiction, Vincent Vega and Jules Winnfield are left in a car filled with the brains of their young companion, Marvin, after an accidental shooting. The absurdity of the violent images shocks audiences into laughter. Though this is a grotesque scene with blood and/or brain chunks splattered all over the white interior of the car, inevitably the surprised audience finds themselves laughing "perhaps guiltily. If this scene were to actually occur, anyone witnessing it would be deeply disturbed and upset; he or she clearly would not be laughing. Somehow in the context of the movie, this grisly image of brain on car is rendered humorous. Death is not the only disturbing image that audiences convert to humor in this movie. In the scene in which Marcellus and Butch are kidnapped, bound, and prepared for sexual assault after attempting to murder each other, audiences perhaps laugh at a very serious and inappropriate situation.
The Comedy Club The Comedy Club was a presentation by Steve Kent in which it dealt with comedy as a mean of medicine. ... Researches suggest that comedy raises the immune's level of T cells. ... That is why it is important for people like Steve to travel and teach people what comedy is all about (of course he does this in a humorous way). ...
The ideas of the leaders of these groups are sometimes contrary to that of society, as in the movie "Fight Club". The main characters from "Fight Club" form a group that is centered on members taking their aggression out on the other members in order to cope with the issues that they are currently facing. The "Fight Club" allow the members to enter into a world in which pain and hurt distract them from the realities of the real world. The main character, Tyler, starts the "Fight Club" as a way of dealing with his problems and by doing this he incorporates Marla and Jack into this aggressive...
Fight Club isn't about winning or losing fights. Fight Club isn't about words (Palahniuk 55). ... The rules of the Fight Club were as follow: Rule #1: You do not talk about the Fight Club. Rule #2: You DO NOT talk about the Fight Club, Rule #3: Someone yells stop, goes limp, taps out; the fight is over Rule #4: Fight club exists only between the hours of when Fight Club starts and when Fight Club ends. ... After Fight Club, you"re just so relaxed you just cannot care," (Palahniuk 139) Fight Club calms you down so much. ...
The Didactic Purpose of Fight Club Rarely does a modern novel or motion picture captivate the mind like Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club. ... Times deems Fight Club " a witless mish mash of whiny, infantile philosophizing and bone crushing violence that actually thinks it's saying something of significance- (Fight Club: DVD Review, 1). ... If art can't examine those issues, then we are in a lot of trouble- (Fight Club: Supplemental disc, 27 min.). ... Transcendentalism, in all its forms, seeps out of Fight Club's pages and motion picture frames. ... The sarcastic tone of ...
The protagonist of Fight Club enters the movie without a name. ... Fight Club was a therapy for the lost soul. ... Fight Club helped these working men relate to each other. Fight Club taught these working men what was truly important. ... Fight Club essentially, taught us the true meaning of life. ...
Fight Club is a film directed by David Fincher which was released in 1999. ... At first you wonder what Fight Club really is in the film. ... The members of Fight Club were all middle class citizens. ... Most of them could've joined fight club not even for the fighting but to restore order in society. ... Remember no women were in Fight Club. ...
"Fight club"; directed by David Fincher (1999), is a movie that holds many themes. ... This club is a place where they can fight each other and feel like real men again. ... Similarly, another male character, known as Angelface, is also a member of Fight Club. ... The Fight Club is liberation, an escape for the members. They forget their normal weekend jobs and responsibilities and during Fight Club, all men are equals. ...
An Evaluation of Fight Club and corporate America The film Fight Club shows the influence of consumer culture in America and how it destroys our individuality. ... Fight Club shows how we can distance ourselves from how we are told to think and act. ... (Fight Club 0:20:41) The advertisements you see are made to make you think you need to buy their product no matter what. ... You can even see products being advertised in Fight Club. ... Fight Club uses a graphic and bloody approach to make us understand this message. ...
"It's only after we've lost everything that we"re free to do anything": Suffering in the Fight Club Fight Club portrays the life that most men, whom have been oppressed by society's rules, want to live. ... First of all, the main character in Fight Club, let us call him Ed, is unnamed because he does not know his true identity. ... Cornflakes, thinks that Ed is going to apologize for the way he has been acting; little does he know that the protagonist is actually here because Tyler sent everyone in the club to go fight someone and lose. ... Moreover, as the fight club becomes m...
