Tyler appears in the film four times before we clearly see him on the moving walkway at the airport. In the first four appearances, he flashes on screen for a single frame (1/24 of a second) and only when the Narrator has insomnia: at the photocopier at work; in the corridor outside the doctor’s office, at the testicular cancer group’s meeting and as the Narrator sees Marla leaving a meeting but doesn’t follow her.
“I remember Fight Club played at the Venice Film Festival at a midnight screening. Edward Norton and I, after having a few drinks, were sitting next to the president who’s running the whole thing. We’re sitting up in the balcony. It’s subtitled and we’re the only fuckers laughing. It gets to one of Helena’s scandalous lines - ‘I haven’t been fucked like that since I was in grade school.’ - and literally, the guy running the festival got up and left. Edward and I were still the only ones laughing. You could hear two idiots up in the balcony cackling through the whole thing.” —Brad Pitt
Hey, you created me. I didn’t create some loser alter-ego to make myself feel better. Take some responsibility! Fight Club, directed by David Fincher (1999)
The Kids Are All Right (2010)
Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)
Only the best people fight against all obstacles in pursuit of happiness.
Keanu Reeves and River Phoenix in My Own Private Idaho, directed by Gus Van Sant 1991.
I’m a connoisseur of roads. I’ve been tasting roads my whole life. This road will never end. It probably goes all around the world.
My Own Private Idaho (1991), Gus Van Sant
“I’m missing something. I’m all messed up. I’m crazy.”
Tomboy (2011) dir.Céline Sciamma
You know, there’s too many buttons in the world. There’s too many buttons and they’re just - There’s way too many just begging to be pressed, they’re just begging to be pressed, you know? They’re just - they’re just begging to be pressed, and it makes me wonder, it really makes me fucking wonder, why doesn’t anybody ever press mine? Why am I so neglected? Why doesn’t anybody reach in and rip out the truth and tell me that I’m a fucking whore, or that my parents wish I were dead?
Kristen Stewart in The Runaways, 2010.
Kristen Stewart in The Runaways, 2010.