Comment on 20th Century Studios will be releasing "Fight Club" on 4K Ultra HD on May 12

chaotic_disorganizer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• TheImpressiveX@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  He was referred to as “Jack” in the screenplay, and throughout the film he refers to himself as Jack (ex. “I am Jack’s complete lack of surprise.”).

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  • Flamekebab@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I really wouldn’t characterise that as referring to himself as Jack. He’s referencing articles that use that format, not saying that his name is Jack.

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You mean it’s not Barabbas?

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• Flamekebab@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’ve seen some regions give him a name which makes the film worse. I loved the reveal that at no point had we actually learned his name.

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  • Gathorall@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Well a modern movie actually having a narrator kinda gives it away. Especially when they’re recounting the tale of some nobody.

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    • Flamekebab@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Sorry, I don’t follow.

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      • Gathorall@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I’m saying that the format of a film generally doesn’t need a narrator. Typically what is told by a narrator is just actually seen on screen, shown in flashbacks or whatever. The framing story of Fight Club doesn’t need a narrator, nor are they defined as any third party like a detective making sense of it.

        So that the narrator remains in a movie where they aren’t necessarily part of or necessary to the apparent plot already spoils us that there’s some reason we are not we have narrator. From there the simple mystery rapidly unravels.

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