Jack experiences a predicament and rage at the world that has consigned him to it. Tyler comes to represent the unleashing of Jack's anger at his situation and the society that has placed him in it. As Project Mayhem's activities escalate, the narrator grows frustrated with the destruction it is causing. He begins trying to track down and stop Tyler, in an exhausting process of insomnia. In the closing scene, the narrator shoots himself in an attempt to resolve his suffering and be free of Tyler's influence over the world he no longer believes in.

1. “Tyler comes to represent the unleashed
fountain of Jack’s rage at his own predicament
and at the World that has consigned him to it”
(Thomas Wartenburg – 2013)
Task - 10 minutes
•What IS ‘Jack’s’ predicament?
•What IS the World that he consigned to?
•Tyler – Is there anything he says in the text
that represents this critical opinion?

2. Penis Envy (Sigmund Freud) –
Females experience anxiety upon realising they don’t have a penis
“This is
cancer
right?”
‘Jack’s rage at his own predicament’ (Wartenburg – 2013) - Is Marla to blame also?

3. Title:
Killing Tyler – Messages & Values
Monday 27th
April 2015
FM4:
Varieties of Film Experience – Issues and Debates
Section C:
Single Film – Close Critical Study
(30 Marks)

4. 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 WHY Tyler is
killed by Jack and what messages
& values this presents to the
spectator.
• 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.

5. Oedipus Complex (Sigmund Freud)–
Killing of the Father Figure and Oppressive male force
Task - 5 minutes
•WHY does Jack resort to shooting himself?
•HOW does Jack and Tylers relationship transform throughout the text?

6. Jack vs. Tyler
“Jack is the rational part of his split personality, Tyler, the demonic and irrational side, is
an underground man in his own right.”
(Constantine Santas – 2008)
• WHY does Jack resort to shooting himself?

7. “My eyes are open” – Tyler is Jack’s “Psychological aspirin” (Chris Landis)
• Jack resorting to shooting himself – Has he found a resolution to his suffering?
• Has Tyler consigned him to a World – “Ground Zero” – he no longer believes in?
Task - 5 minutes

8. Textual Analysis – Chapter 34
• Watch the closing scene – Is it something you would define as a ‘Resolution’ (Syd Field)?
• What are some of the messages & values to take away from this scene?

9. Entrance Activity
Look through your exercise books and write down x3 Questions on the 3 post-it notes
you have been given based around the topics we have covered so far.
THEN:
1.Stick them up on the Big White Board
2.Answer x1 Post-it note Question that you HAVE NOT produced yourself using the
pens available.
3.SHARE your ideas and opinions with other members of the class

10. ‘Fight Club’ is a Romantic Drama
WHAT evidence do you have to support this point of view?

11. Title:
New Beginnings
Tuesday 28th
April 2015
FM4:
Varieties of Film Experience – Issues and Debates
Section C:
Single Film – Close Critical Study
(30 Marks)

12. “Self improvement is masturbation….Self destruction is
maybe the answer” –
1.The destruction is somewhat triumphant – or is it?
2.“The narrator becomes frustrated and aghast at the
destruction that Project Mayhem is wreaking, and he
begins the exhausting insomnia filled process of trying to
track down and stop Tyler” (David McNutt – ‘I am Jacks
Happy Ending’)
YOU MUST find an example of WHERE this is represented in
the text and establish whether the destruction of capitalism
also symbolises the destruction of a relationship between
Tyler and Jack.

13. “The narrator becomes frustrated and aghast at the destruction that Project Mayhem is
wreaking, and he begins the exhausting insomnia filled process of trying to track down
and stop Tyler” (David McNutt – ‘I am Jacks Happy Ending’)
Death of Bob Vandalizing the Building

14. “What the f*ck did you guys do?”
“The narrator becomes frustrated and aghast at the destruction that Project Mayhem is
wreaking, and he begins the exhausting insomnia filled process of trying to track down
and stop Tyler” (David McNutt – ‘I am Jacks Happy Ending’)

15. Millennial Masculinity:
Men in Contemporary American Cinema
Timothy Shary (2012)
“Fight Club provides numerous hints of its anxiety about the
replacement of absent fathers with iconic images of
masculinity and its concern with the impact that this
substitution has on the development of coherent, mature
masculinities in young men.”
‘anxiety’
‘millenial anxiety’
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/movies/feature/a609503/15-years-on-
• Fear of Technological advancement
• Fear of the unknown
• Fears at the dawn of a new millenium’

16. ‘The resolution’ (Syd Field)

17. JUNE 2012
YOU MUST complete the following:
1.Find x5 examples of ‘writing by critics’ that you are going
to base your answer around.
2.Ensure you have EVIDENCE from the text to support your
argument FOR AND/OR AGAINST a particular critical opinion.
3.YOU SHOULD then “Mind-Map”/Plan your answer
electronically – for example find screen grab evidence from
the film – and highlight Sound examples in “speech marks”
from these examples
4.Answer the Question
5.Assess the Quality of your answer using the Mark Scheme
on the Blog.

18. JUNE 2012

19. Exit Activity