When did you realize...
...that the narrator was also Tyler Durden?
I read the book a long time after seeing the movie so I knew all along, obviously.
As I was reading, I was curious as to when it would've dawned on me that he had a split personality.
In the movie it was during the climax and it was a big "Holy Shit!" moment. But in the book it seems like you could've figured it out earlier.
I laughed hard.
Damn, I should've used spoiler tags.
Is this a reg posing as a noob?
There should be a name for that, undercover reg.
"They sold you hippies grunge, hip hop, now liberty activism."
Oh, ish, I read this wrong. I thought the guy was saying it took multiple viewings/readings to figure it out.
"They sold you hippies grunge, hip hop, now liberty activism."
seriously though, I knew something was up when he comes home and they're all there celebrating the smiley face building and acting all weird around him.
i realized it when someone ruined the ending in a chatroom. same with the sixth sense.
You know they're actually not the same person though, right? That was the real twist all along.
this thread is too deep for me today
i shall return
I thought this thread was going to be about when did we realize there was no Santa or Toothfairy.
Only saw the movie, never read the book.
Discovered that Santa was not real when I didn't thank my parents coz I thought everything was from Santa, and mom said, "What do you say?" I said,"I can't say thank you, because you didn't get anything for me." She said, "who do you think got you this?" I don't remember how it went afterward, but I remember it dawning on me.
Discovered that Santa was not real when I didn't thank my parents coz I thought everything was from Santa, and mom said, "What do you say?" I said,"I can't say thank you, because you didn't get anything for me." She said, "who do you think got you this?" I don't remember how it went afterward, but I remember it dawning on me yesterday.
You shit on these nukkas two times Dr.Dre?
Oh Fo' Sho'!
Jeez, only one serious response? Is it because the topic is beaten to death? Is it like posting a thread on a Herman Melville website asking, "When did you realize the whale in Moby Dick represented Ishmael's inner demons?"
Anyway, thanks, Nathaniel Parker.
did you just spoil moby dick??
Oy vey.
i've only seen the movie so i guess i would have very little input on this subject after all.
Like so many people I had it figured out for me by watching the movie. I wish I could have read the book first. A different experience.
I think it could have been figured out a lot earlier in the book just by what was in there, but for me it was superb twist. I really didn't expect it. I mean when I watched the movie, I was like wow, never saw that coming.
If I had read the book first, I do not think I would have figured it out. It's not something that I would have considered a possibility. It's completely feasible, but it would never have occurred to me. That was the beauty of the book to me.
Good arms vs bad arms will win hands down.
my dad told me before i saw the movie or read the book. the b*****d.
This. When I first saw the movie, (before the book) I laughed until tears were running down my face, at him beating the hell out of himself.
It was only after I wiped my eyes and hit rewind, I realized that I could be mildly damaged to think of such a thing as humorous. But to know there is another person who reacted in the same way,... whew.
The best twist is when my devout christian friend tells me he's not gonna buy things he doesn't need because christ made his disciples give up all their belongs to go off with him. After that and another read hes every. You can see tyler as God, unseen by all but Joe. Tyler makes the rules, but but physically does nothing. But a part of himself is there to do his bidding. If your father is your model and he abandoned you, what does that tell you about God. Tyler tells him and and all of a sudden he's saying how Tyler has abandoned him. Palahniuk is having fun with the idea. The best part is when he thinks he died and wakes up 3 days later thinking he must be in heaven, everything white, angels to look over him. Is symbolically brought back to life when he figures it out. Marla is both Marys. She's is having sex with God and Joe says it's like living with his parents all over again. Social commentary. Jesus can't even help us. He'd have to do things he's against to make a difference.
Palahniuk throws in a phrase at times, mentions a cross or something and you see how a scene is the authors version of the events.
If you mostly knew this bit, I tried to find it discussed, only some posts about Choke, where Palahniuk uses the idea again in, but Vic is delusional , he's convinced he's someone he's not.
It doesn't change the story, only a literary device. An Allusion. You can only understand if you know he's alluding to and are familiar with. If you see the New Testament as common knowledge, then it's something else.
What the flip?!
Wait, how is Tyler narrating stuff after he's been shot and dead?
Oh god, I'm a noob all over again.
Joe?
I am Joes yada yada...
His name was ALLEN WAYNE.
Just Now!! WHOAAAA!