This document discusses the ideology presented in the film Fight Club, based on Robert Bly's work on male frustration and anger in society. It introduces how Bly argued that modern men feel removed from their fathers and experience anguish. It previews a scene from Fight Club that represents this ideology by showing Tyler Durden contrasting with the Narrator and representing a doppelganger that tells the protagonist he is not special. Students are assigned to watch the full film over the holidays and complete an analysis sheet to discuss these themes and issues.

1. Entrance Activity
Robert Bly ‘Iron John’ (1992) ideology – Male frustration and anger at society –
“The anguish of soft men” and how “part of their grief rose out of remoteness from their
fathers”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpc2-UWHzXw
YOU MUST write down the ideology above and
establish HOW this is represented in the scene you’re
about to watch.
Extension – YOU COULD refer to other examples from
the text that establish “the anguish of soft men”

2. Title:
‘Fight Club’ – Section C Introduction
Film Review
Tuesday 14th April 2015
FM4:
Varieties of Film Experience – Issues and Debates
Section C:
Single Film – Close Critical Study
(30 Marks)

3. Why?
Aims & Objectives
• YOU WILL re-cap HOW an
ideology you need to know for the
exam applies to the text.
• YOU WILL develop an
understanding of the Single Film
Case Study and it’s many complex
ideologies and approaches.
• YOU WILL analyse a key scene
from 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.

4. Doppelgänger

5. According to Homer, man has
dualistic existence, the one in his
visible appearance, the other in his
invisible image which becomes free
only after death – this, and no
other, is his soul. In animate man
there dwells as a strange guest a
more feeble Double – his other Self
in the form of his Psyche – whose
kingdom is the world of dreams.
When the conscious self sleeps, the
Double works and watches1.

6. "You are not special. You are not a
beautiful or unique snowflake. You are
the same decaying organic matter as
everything else".
Doppelgänger

7. • WHAT else does Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) represent to the spectator?
• HOW does he “contrast” with ‘The Narrator’ (Edward Norton)?

8. FEEDBACK

9. What have you learnt?
YOU MUST list some of the issues surrounding this Case Study text that you have
covered today.

10. Homework
• Watch the film in it’s entirety
• YOU WILL be given an A3 Analysis sheet to complete
over the Holidays – Bring this to the screening on the
first Monday back after Easter.
• Complete some research into the text and further
reading by going to the Section C Blog Page.
Due: After Easter – Monday 13th April