As the Narrator goes to answer it, the camera zooms in on some text on the payphone that reads, “No incoming calls accepted.” In other words - Tyler could not have called him back, because this phone cannot ring. Then, a few seconds later, the phone rings. When the Narrator’s condo blows up, he calls Tyler from a payphone, with no answer. This is a quick, subtle hint early on that Tyler isn’t real. The writing portion took me just over 90 minutes. I wrote this entire list while listening to Paradise By The Dashboard Light.
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He’s amazing in this movie as Robert “Bob” Paulson. It’s the little touches like this one that take Fight Club into the legendary territory. A group of waiters on screen all say “Welcome.” If you look carefully, Brad Pitt is in the front row of waiters, on the far right.
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The fifth time Tyler appears? When the Narrator is in the middle of his early traveling montage and he’s watching TV in his hotel room. Sure, his shirtless scenes in Fight Club launched a thousand male eating disorders (both manorexia AND boylemia)… but seeing how gleeful he looks, even in one-second freeze frames, makes it hard to be mad at him. Say what you will about Brad Pitt but he really looks like he’s having fun in this movie. These, of course, create the foundation for Tyler.īelow are screen grabs of all four one-frame Tyler Durden appearances - once when the Narrator is mindlessly making copies… once when he’s leaving his doctor… once when he sees Marla leaving a therapy session… and once during his testicular cancer support group. Once he’s riding a moving walkway at the airport (that appearance isn’t included on this list, since it’s not hidden).įour of those times, Tyler appears as a subliminal flash that occurs when the Narrator has a moment of frustration or anger during his insomnia daze. You’ve had time to watch it.) 1 | The Tyler flashesīefore Tyler officially enters the Narrator’s life when they’re sitting together on the plane, he appears six times in the film. (And warning: This list wouldn’t be possible without spoilers, and I’m going to let them fly. I went through Fight Club and picked out freeze frames of 11 of the best hidden secrets in the movie. But the messages, the visuals, the story, the art of Fight Club - all still perfect.Īnother great part about re-watching it: The movie has so many subtle secrets going on in the background (most of which super-subtly foreshadow the huge twist) - secrets you’d never pick up your first time through but notice more and more with every subsequent viewing.
Yes, society’s consciousness toward terrorism is different (and if the movie came out today, they’d probably go a different direction than having Project Mayhem blow up a bunch of financial buildings at the end). It’s as relevant today as it was a decade ago.
I re-watched it this weekend and, like the great film that it is, it still holds up. There are lots of little subtle secrets in the background of Fight Club, and I found ’em.įight Club came out 10 years ago next month.