(fight club spoilers will be at the end and i will notify before spoiling so please read at will until said notice occurs) well well well i was going to reply to the "friggin shitload of emails" that came through my box since i started spouting out cusswords at will. look at the goddamn mess i made. i had a reply all written up and then my computer froze and it sure did suck.. for a minute there i lost myself. at any rate, a lot of you people are very "lame" so to speak on language. language is language... youre going to die some day and the words you uttered to one another will be lost in time, never to be re-heard. i can think of some worse words than the word i used.. and its not like im constantly spouting it off to old women and little children (although we do a nice christmas prank at the golf course in my hometown but thats besides the point). if youre afraid to use language then i seriously think youve got another thing coming. but whatever.. that argument is old and has since died out.. my apologies to all of you kind folks out there who got 62 emails like i did. i went to chicago and i got a job. woo hoo. more like a career anyways. so if you live in the chicago area and are cool then im looking to meet people once i move out there.. prolly in the beginning of june. hmhmhm ok now for the fight cluib talk. if you havent seen the movie dont read on. russ fucking shit dood! fight club YEAH. i saw it twice on the opening weekend.. the first time i was just mesmerized by this film, beautiful plot (up until the end when it tended to get a bit cheezy imho), cinematography, CGI's. wacky fuckin shit. there are 4 spliced shotss of brad pitt in the first 20 minutes of the movie.. one is where he is giving the rant about planet starbucks, one is where marla singer is walking down the dark alley, one is where the guy whos girlfriend recently had her first baby is being consoled by the testicular cancer group leader, and i dont remember the other. the scene someone mentioned where ed nortons character talked to tyler when marla was falling off the bed doesnt count.. since marla was a little "out of it" and when she said "who are you talking to?" tyler durden said "shut up" or something... in fact... if you watch the movie a second time, with the knowledge of the twist in mind, youll notice that everytime marla talks to ed norton, you can really see her confusion and surprise at the way ed treats her as opposed to tyler (since they are the same person but shes so unaware of the dual personality). its kinda interesting. and ed nortons name is NOT jack in this movie. everytime he says "i am jacks wallowing self pity" or whatever its in reference to the magazine article written in the third person from an organ.. "i am jacks medulla oblongata" i believe is the first line. ed nortons character name is never revealed, which is evident in scenes like when they are in a meeting and the manager asks if he can get the icon in cornflower blue, and the marketing guy says "i showed it to 'my man' over here and he liked it, didnt ya" to which ed norton replies with a snarl of bloody teeth hmhmhmhmh so yeah.. the ending... i dunno... i think it was slightly reminiscent of the ending to "Pi", where (stop reading if you havent seen Pi) the math genius drills a hole in his head to exorcise the demon within. gunshot through the neck might have severed a nerve, the tyler nerve. who knows. i thought the ending to this movie was cheeze, but im not a schizo (yet geminis have a tendency to be) so i wouldnt know what an internal battle is like. as for the scene in the car where he is arguing with himself, i think some of that was uttered out loud, and the boys in the backseat merely thought it was a test, but at one point they give each other a look of confusion, perhaps ed was muttering both lines. who knows... tyler certainly was aware of ed norton's personality, if ed was not aware of tylers, and set the stage up with project mayhem to ensure that ed never won. uh. and someone said that there was a very "youre watching a movie here folks" feeling in this movie, which i thought was well portrayed by the whole scene with the "cigarette burn" tutorial and the line "id like to thank the academy"... funny shit. poor ed norton must have never gotten any sleep.. its amazing that no one ever called him by name when he was eds personality and not tylers. and another thing, when the mob boss kicked the shit out of tyler, the next day he goes into work and ed nortons face is completely alright.. which would be necessary to perpetuate plot i understand but it seems a little weird that he would have the living shit kicked out of him by the mob boss and then the next day beat his own ass down. doesnt this man feel pain? i cant stop thinking about fight club. russ
