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

• 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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      • Flamekebab@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Lots of things have a narrator when one isn’t necessary, that’s not all that weird for a film and doesn’t tell the audience much.

        nor are they defined as any third party in-universe like a detective making sense of it.

        I don’t think that comparison works here. Most of the film is a flashback, described by the narrator. He doesn’t give his name as he tells us what led up to the prologue but that doesn’t seem all that odd, it doesn’t seem pertinent. Marla asks what his name is but the scene ends without us finding out - it’s relevant information to her but we have no particular reason to care whether his name is Dave Smith or Lance Elbowbottom III. It’s only later, with the reveal, that it becomes interesting. The credits might as well call him “also Tyler Durden” but “narrator” works well enough.

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