Fight Club; over quoted or am I bonkers?
Fight Club was the first Palahniuk novel I ever read. It was the trigger for my love of everything and anything written by Palahniuk. The prose in this novel are absolutely stellar and the internal conflict within the book, although confusing at times, was very organized and compelling.
However, I have found one thing about this novel that irks me; it is over-quoted. Many people do not even understand the Fight Club references made on sites such as Bash.org. They first two rules repeating each other stating "the first rule about ___________ is that you don't talk about ___________. The second rule about _____________ is you don't talk about ______________." are so overused that not many are able to enjoy the real humor behind the statement in accordance to the reference it is making. I seem to hear people quote Fight Club everywhere, but I am never able to find anyone who knows where the quotes came from.
I realize many people have seen the movie-version of Fight Club, but I do not see why these quotes have spread so rapidly through main stream culture from an originally underground novel.
Don't get me wrong, I still ADORE Fight Club, but it just seems to be blown out of preportion a tad in the scheme of things. Am I bonkers, or does anyone else find this agitating? Also, can anyone explain this Fight Club phenomenon?
As natty p puts it, it's just a cool line. Pherhaps it's cos it's used by an outlaw element of society n every group (no matter how geeky) would like to think that their membership has that cool devil may care attitude about them.
Oh and hello.
There are no pacts between lions and men.
In one of the editions of his book, there's this thing at the end where he talks about what Fight Club was originally, and what it's become. Not that it's a bad thing, it's a badass line, but true. If I ever hear "the first rule of the laundromat is that you do not talk about the laundromat. the second rule of the laundromat is tha--"
--I will punch them in the knees and they will go down.
(Hometown reference. Very lame old man trying to catch up with the times will use movie quotes for his laundromat.)
"I could tell by the tone of his voice that he was trying to make me see his point, but really...all I could see was the big fucking knife."
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viewing an episode of The Feed sunday afternoon, there was a flash and then a pink bar of soap, big, some reference to what point they were championing and the second word being "club", with suds bubbling just like the novel cover, but not like the novel cover and more like one of the movie posters:
<edit> cant [img] pictures right now for some reason, or i'm incorrectly attempting it and dont have the patience to play anymore with it. but it's the bar of soap </edit>
this one, i think. same color and bubbles, just a different word and a much bigger bar.
it is over quoted, even to the point of being plain old stale from time to time, as everything iconic tends to become
besides. that's what the book is about, and the movie as well for the most part
truthfully, no one here has made a serious fight club reference in quite a while. it's too stale and expected, especially at the cult.
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I think it's just more from the movie being so well known people have realized that it is such a cool line and taken to use elsewhere. It's incredible for Chuck to have written just one line like that, that has caught on seemingly every where you look.
My favorite has to be the Spaced reference where he goes " The first rule of robot fight club is you do not talk about robot fight club, the second rule of robot fight club is...no smoking."