Fight Club is actually GENIUS (movie vs book + a deep analysis)

[@anthonywheeler2082]

I'm so glad you mentioned that Fight Club is a distorted version of itself. To me Fight Club can be broken down into two sides. The first half is Fight Club and the second half is Project Mayhem which is a total parody of the first half! It's also a love triangle between the narrrator, Tyler and Marla. Most of Palaniuk's books are f'ed up love stories!

[@AndaKent]

It's been so long since I've read his work. I'm so excited to go back and reread all of them.

[@el-violador]

The importance of the hand is that Tyler is not sitting in the hand of god, but the hand of his own creation. It is a rejection of the divine and embrace of the individual

[@sofiagimenez8659]

Loved the video! I recently wrote an article on this exact same topic, comparing the book and the movie, but I focused on a less popular read: the homoeroticism present all throughout the story. I couldn’t help but notice it the first I watched the movie, then I read the book and I found it had even more hints at this homoeroticism. Palahniuk himself is openly gay and many of his experiences as a young gay man during the AIDS crisis can be seen in the book. I think what’s awesome about this work is that there are so many interpretations, and they can all go together. To me, this is the story of a gay man whose identity has been lost between capitalism and the expectations of men and their masculinity, so he makes up this perfect man who he loves and he wants to become. I agree fully with your opinion as well. This is one of my favorite books (& movie) so I always love hearing new interpretations/opinions on it! :)

[@cindyo6298]

Omg, I never thought of Tyler Durden's career being a projectionist and the connection that he's a projection. At one point Chuck said that he writes every book to work through something personal, and I haven't been able to figure out what that was for Fight Club.

[@matthewsmith3322]

Thank you so much, you reawakened my passion for my one of my absolute favorite books

[@AndaKent]

I'm so glad! It's such a great reread.

[@MandalaBunnyhome]

Great analysis! My favorite movie and a fantastic book 🙌

[@pad92011]

very good analysis. I read that book just out of university... a long, long time ago. So, the only thing I remember vividly is that I liked the movie more than the book. I should re-read it though...

[@AndaKent]

There's SO much I missed the first few times I read it, and honestly probably this time too.

[@brennan4159]

Awesome breakdown. I totally agree with much of what you said!(i wrote multiple paragraphs originally but they got deleted when i refreshed the page accidentally)

[@the_eerie_faerie_tales]

This is excellent!! Now I want to read it again.

[@AndaKent]

Hopefully you enjoy it even more on the reread! I definitely did.

[@jsschrstsprstr]

This video is great. You should definitely do more like it, i.e. where you analyse some contemporary work of fiction that you definitely love. I haven't read the novel, but now I'm interested in it. I wouldn't pass good literature.

[@AndaKent]

I'll definitely make them when I come across a book I have to talk about. Thanks for watching!

[@ilovenachovarga]

you are a live saver

[@thewitchef]

I've only ever watched the movie and like it a lot. Now I'm intrigued to read the book. I think FC is about struggling to become what you want to be instead of what's expected of you.

[@AndaKent]

Absolutely! Hopefully you get a chance to read it someday. It's great.

[@j.mikerosner5722]

6 months ago? Nice. I read this book too, first; the movie afterwards: movie movie movie; like DEF prob All-time fav book/ movie!!

[@melissaaugust7016]

You should read The collector by john Fowler I would love to know your opinion. Love your channel

[@AndaKent]

I'll definitely add it to my list. Thanks for the suggestion!

[@melissaaugust7016]

The book was way more intense.

[@eddieferrero]

I have so much to say about all this, but the first rule of Fight Club is-

[@HorrorDeconstruction]

Palahnuik wrote an actual sequel to fight club (FIGHT CLUB 2/FIGHT CLUB 3)in graphic novel format to the book not the film (i've only seen the film) and it's the worst crap i've read (and i've liked the books i've read of his) ... get this, TYLER is an actual phantom in them ... ooofahhh

[@cindyo6298]

haha, it's not good

[@abba3642]

If i might? Interject : Marla at least tries to HIT#ROCK#BOTTOM... WHERE PENGUIN$ $LIDE

[@thebrospaul2312]

If you think this is about mams "right' to violence, you wanted to think that. At best you can see it as man's inherent need to violence.

[@abba3642]

My faRgER was an Vodka#economist and he Chose#more#guiding#power between the Valerian#root#and#ThoraZine over One#own#Kid$

[@GuacamoleyNacho]

Fight Club is a very sickening and dark book. Their self destruction is so violent and stupid, their thoughts are so dark and disturbing, it is so hard to push through the reading. i dont understand why nobody says the self beat up and gory messes up their head? Why are people trying to act cool by saying Fight Club is a cool/genius/etc (majority only had watched the movie but not read the book). it is not cool. it is stupid as hell. i feel like i am wasting my time trying to run through the book as fast as possible to save my sanity. i suspect the writer Chuck Palahniuk may have a mental illness to have conjured so much violence, bloody mess, self destruction and such sad lives. Only a person with a very dark mind can think of such and to write a bloody book of it! i would not suggest this book/movie for anyone with depression. Too much insanity and bloody gory in destroying their stupid sad lives, nonstop like a vertigo to make me want to vomit! To the book reviewers and people who watched the movie and say Fight Club is cool, i suspect they are the type that got bullied often and imagined themselves fighting someone. LOL!😂

[@GuacamoleyNacho]

i just saw Chuck Palahniuk's interview, in which he said he enjoyed his past work cleaning up the warm human parts after surgical operation and plus he is very gay, now explained very well his books are sicko and kind of erotic!

[@chuck2703]

You ok?

[@GuacamoleyNacho]

@@chuck2703 finally i discover the astonishing startled flip-u-on-the-face part, the part where Chuck Palahniuk wants to throw an unexpected turn of his comic-like novel that the narrator and Tyler Durban is 2 person in 1! That is in page 158, the book ends at page 218 so after reading to three quarter of this book, then tge writer Chuck did this kick the reader's ass (yup following his style of language!) I think Fight Club is too boring, hence Chuck needs to inject this what-the-heck surprise. *roll my eyes* 🙄