Project 2: Movie Analysis

Movie selected: “Fight Club” (1999)

Opening Scene: Fox 2000 Pictures and Regency Enterprise present…
A Linson Films production
A David Fincher film

A) Main cast appearance: Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Helen Bonham Carter
B) Title Appearance: “Fight Club”
C) More cast: Meat Loaf, Jarez Leto, Zach Grenier, Holt McCallany, Eion Bailey
D) Cast by: Larry Mayfield
E) Costume designer: Michael Kaplan
F) Special Make-up Effects Supervisor: Rob Bottin
G) Sound Designer: Ren Klyce
H) Music by: The Just Brothers
I) Film Editor: James Haygood
J) Production Designer: Alex McJowell
K) Director of Photography: Jeff Cronenweth
L) Executive Producer: Arnon Milchan
M) Based on the novel by: Chuck Palahniux
N) Screenplay by; Jim Oals
O) Produced by: Art Linson, Cean Chaffin, Ross Grayson Bell
P) Directed by: David Fincher

Visual cues: Loud music of the Rock genre, uses the role of micro to macro (from inside
the human body in an outward motion), depth-of-field is important and the speed used for it (fast-to-slow), color choice is dark, grungy, and feeling of isolation.

Main Characters: Brad Pitt = “Tyler Durden” – lazy, laid back, easy going, philosopher,
obnoxious, and a pushover. Edward Norton = “Narrator” – always on the go, calm, had insomnia, complete opposite of “Tyler”

Usage of “person”: First person used by Edward Norton’s character while the remainder of the movie is in third person.

Key elements: there’s a lot of usage of repetition when it comes to what is important in
the movie. Type is used as a visual effect when it comes to describing the furniture in the narrator’s condo. The majority of the movie has a dark, grungy, and dirty tone to the way the characters are interacting with one another. There seems to be two complete opposites in the movie – that which happens by day and then what occurs at night. This can also be seen between Norton’s and Pitts’ characters.

Female figure: the presence of “Marla Singer” makes the plot change a bit each time.
This especially occurs when Tyler’s character get to meet her. From that point on, things are starting to “worsen” for the narrator.

Introduction of Fight Club: this becomes the escape route that the narrator needs for his
insomnia but at the same time almost becomes a drug when later we find out the Tyler and the narrator are the same person.