Fight Club is a novel written by Chuck Palahniuk that was adapted into a film directed by David Fincher. It was released in 1999 and centers around a nameless protagonist played by Edward Norton who forms an underground fighting club with Tyler Durden, played by Brad Pitt. Helena Bonham Carter plays Marla Singer. The film was likened to The Rocky Horror Picture Show upon its release due to its cult status and controversial themes around masculinity and consumerism.

1. Fight Club
Big fat quiz of the
year

2. Who WROTE the Novel Fight
Club?

3. Who DIRECTED the film
Fight club?

4. When was Fight Club
released?

5. What is the name of the
character played by Helena
Bonham Carter?

6. What is the name of the
character played by
Meatloaf?

7. Who came up with the
‘mytho poetic’ movement?

8. List 3 qualities of a ‘new
man’

9. What does the author of
the ‘Mytho poetic’
movement blame for
today’s ‘new man’?

10. List two initiations the
narrator goes through in
order to enter manhood?

11. What is meant by
consumerism?

12. What was the Narrators
power animal?

13. What does this power animal
symbolize?

14. Why was Fight Clubs release
date put back? List the reason
given by the production company and
the reason given by film critics

15. Why did the American
government dislike Fight
Club?

16. What studio distributed Fight
Club?

17. The studio wanted to release
fight club as what sort of film in
order to get around the
violence?

18. What was the original cast
for Fight club?

19. How many rules does Fight
club have?

20. What film was fight club
likened to when it was
released?

21. What has WWF got to do
with Fight Club?

22. How many times does Tyler
flash on our screen before
finally appearing as a whole
being?

23. Why does the narrator join
the self help groups?

24. Why is Bob there?

25. What happened to the other
main man at the self help
groups?

26. What does Fight Club
become?

27. What does Tyler do in the
cinema? Why?

28. What is the Oedipus
complex? Who came up with
the theory?

29. List three examples of tyler
being the ‘father figure’

30. What is Tyler’s first
assignment to everyone?

31. The first rule of Fight Club
is……..

32. Short essay questions
Why does the Why is the
Narrator dislike Narrator drawn to
Marla so much? Tyler Durden?

33. Exam Question
Discuss critically some of the
characteristics of Fight Club that
have given it cult status as a film.

34. Cult Film
Cult Films have limited but very special appeal. Cult
films are usually
strange, quirky, offbeat, eccentric, oddball, or
surreal, with outrageous, weird, unique and cartoony
characters or plots, and garish sets. They are often
considered controversial because they step outside
standard narrative and technical conventions. They
can be very stylized, and they are often flawed or
unusual in some striking way.