16 Hidden Details That Few Realize in the Movie “Fight Club”

It’s impossible not to talk about Fight Club, Tyler Durden forgive us. The 1999 film was not a box office success, but time has made it a cult classic, even entering lists of the best films of all time.

Much of this is due to the genius of the director, David Fincher, and, of course, the author of the book that spawned the film, Chuck Palahniuk. The production of the film hid countless secrets, details and references that only make the work richer and more interesting.

So we from awesome.club Here we have gathered the main details of the Fight Club movie that will make you want to review the movie and talk about Fight Club with all your friends.

Tyler’s (Brad Pitt) character, even before being introduced to viewers, appears several times. First, he “signs” a message from the FBI warning about piracy, on the old DVDs of the film. But the important thing is that it appears six more times in very fast frames, disappearing in the blink of an eye. First at the Narrator’s work, then in the doctor’s hallway, in the aid group, in the street after talking to Marla.

The last two appearances are no longer fast frames, which could indicate that the Narrator is closer to collapsing. The fifth is on a passenger conveyor belt at the airport, while the Narrator wonders if he could wake up being someone else. And the sixth in a video of the hotel where the Narrator is staying.

The Narrator (Edward Norton), whose name is never revealed, suffers from insomnia. So in every scene you can see Starbucks coffee cups or coffee pots — here we only show a few, but they are all over the movie. Starbucks itself agreed to have at least one cup appear in every scene in the film, except for the one at the end, where a coffee shop explodes. The fictitious name “Gratifico Coffee” was given to this one. The name appears to be a thank you to Starbucks.

The Narrator liked to attend a self-help group, but he never gave his real name — not least because that would spoil the fun of the film. The fictitious names he uses are from classic movie characters. For example, Cornelius from Planet of the Apes, Rupert from The King of Comedy and Travis from Taxi Driver. Or Lenny, who may refer to the film of the same name, which tells the biography of a comedian who was highly critical of society.

Incidentally, Fight Club also pays homage to films starring its actors. Screens are shown in cinemas where the films The People against Larry Flint by Edward Norton, Wings of Love by Helena Bonham Carter and Seven Years in Tibet starring Brad Pitt are shown. In the latter, the letter T is missing at the end, was it on purpose?

When the Storyteller is looking for new help groups in the classifieds, there is an ad that says “don’t fight alone”. Well, fighting alone, literally, was one of the things the Storyteller did most.

Marla (Helena Bonham Carter) writes down her phone number on a piece of paper and gives it to the Narrator, and the number is 555-0134. This is one of 100 fictitious numbers that US telephone companies allow to be used in movies. Therefore, it is to be expected that the same number will appear in other films. Here, we show you which other movies this number appears in and what happens if you try to call one of them.

On the card that the Narrator uses to call Tyler, the address that is written is “Paper Street”, that is, “Paper Street”. This is a term used by professionals who make maps to identify streets that do not exist in reality, only in the project. For anyone who knows the twist at the end of the movie, this is the perfect address for Tyler. Also, we have another one of the hundred dummy phone numbers on the card: 555-0153.

Still in the same scene, Tyler calls the Narrator back on the pay phone. It would be normal if the phone didn’t display a warning saying it doesn’t receive calls. In other words, it was an imaginary connection.

In one scene, the Storyteller is using his work computer (don’t do that!) to email some haiku he’s written. We can see on the screen the list of recipients who received the emails, but they are not random names. Most, if not all, of them are people who worked on the film’s production.

Throughout the plot, the Narrator has relationship problems with Marla because of Tyler Durden’s interference. In one scene, after a small argument between the Narrator and Marla, he drops her off at her apartment and goes out into the street. In the background we can see this graffiti on the wall, written “myself”, which means “myself”, several times. Would they be a reminder to the Storyteller of who Tyler is?

And speaking of Marla, during the makeup sessions for the recordings, Helena Bonham Carter asked makeup artists to do their work with their left hand if they were right-handed and vice versa. She wanted the makeup to look weird and sloppy because she understood that her character, Marla, didn’t care about those things.

Some movie appearances become more special when the screenwriter fits a little joke or reference like that. In the scene where Tyler is giving a speech to Fight Club members, he says that TV makes us believe we will be millionaires or movie stars or rock stars, but we won’t be. At the very moment he says “rock stars,” he’s looking at Angel Face, a character played by real-life rock star Jared Leto.

This is one of the scenes that demonstrates the genius in the direction of David Fincher. In the scene where the owner of the bar beats Tyler Durden, we can see that the Narrator, even blurred in the background, moves according to the punch that his friend takes. He bows when Tyler gets punched in the stomach, and raises his head when he gets punched in the chin. The movements are light, but they are there.

Fight Club members have a hard time carrying out the task given by Tyler, which is to start a fight with a stranger on the street, because people avoid getting into trouble. One less priest, who is wet by the member of the Club and retaliates. This priest enjoyed this business of fighting so much, that in the end he is seen as a new member, manufacturing explosives.

After Fight Club became Project Destruction, they decided to threaten the Police Commissioner, coercing him to stop investigating the “boxing gangs”. For that, they infiltrated an event as waiters, wearing white suits. Exactly like Tyler’s hotel TV appearance at the beginning of the article, remember?

Toward the end of the film, Tyler and the Narrator are arguing in a car, at night and in the rain. Tyler is driving and, to prove a point and teach the Storyteller a lesson, causes an accident. Moments later, with the car overturned, we see Tyler pull the Narrator out of the wreckage, but with one difference: this time it’s the Narrator who’s on the driver’s side. But that’s not a mistake: it’s just another clue to the film’s denouement.

This movie has so many hidden details that we seem to find one more each time we watch it. So let us know if you noticed any more that we missed.