Fight Club

1. “It was on the tip of everyone’s tongue!”
YOU MUST watch the following 2 scenes:
1.‘Fight Club’ rules
2.Burning of the hand
Consider the messages and values to come out
of these scenes, especially in relation to:
•Delayed adolescence
•The male genders ‘need to belong’
•The move towards Luddite Utopianism (Page
79 of study guide)
FEEDBACK

2. • ‘…It pushes the concepts of subjectivity and
identification to extremes to suggest a male
identity that’s not only fragile but frangible.
Jack is so filled with self-loathing and
repressed rage he’s desperate to get out of
his own skin and into someone else’s.”
– Sight and Sound (Amy Taubin – 1999)

3. “Congratulations. You’re one step closer to hitting bottom”.
Luddite Utopianism

4. YOU MUST fill in find a moment (scene) in the film that best personifies ‘Jack’s’
desire to be Tyler.
Entrance Activity
Penis Envy (Sigmund Freud)
“I look like you wanna look, I f*ck like you wanna f*ck , I am smart, capable, and
most importantly, I'm free in all the ways that you are not.”
5 minutes

5. Penis Envy (Sigmund Freud)?

6. Penis Envy (Sigmund Freud) –
Females experience anxiety upon realising they don’t have a penis
“This is
cancer
right?”

7. Title:
Tyler – Nietzsche and the ‘Ubermensch’
Friday 24th
April 2015
FM4:
Varieties of Film Experience – Issues and Debates
Section C:
Single Film – Close Critical Study
(30 Marks)

8. Why?
Aims & Objectives
• YOU WILL establish HOW an
ideology and critical approach you
need to know for the exam
applies to the text.
• YOU WILL develop an
understanding of how Tyler
conforms to the “ultra male” in
the text.
• Review the learning.
AO1
Demonstrate knowledge and
understanding of film as an
audio-visual form of creative
expression together and
AO2
Apply knowledge and
understanding, including
some of the common critical
approaches that characterise
the subject, when exploring
and analysing films.

9. • YOU MUST HOW this specific Critical approach
applies to the text.
• Research x2 examples of WHERE Tyler conforms to
the belief that he is the ‘Overman’ and note down
specific micro feature examples that help construct
this representation.
• Write x2 PEA Paragraphs based around these
examples.
• Extension – YOU COULD apply another specific
Critical approach applies to the text.
Friedrich Nietzsche –
Übermensch (The ‘Overman’ or Superman)

10. • “This is the greatest moment of your life”
• Realisation and the powerful message of the need to no longer be a “30 year old boy”,
accept our responsibilities and not blame others.

12. Exit Activity