Key scenes Flashcards
Jack photocopying
panning Starbucks cup, flash frame of Durden, surreal micro-world inside a bin (Krispy Kreme is shown) - attack on Fincher’s advertisement background, mise-en-scene of corporate identity and white collar jobs = joke of acquisition
Criticises bare male
having things is an overdeveloped value, the progress o pain - sense of nihilism and loss of hope
Project Mayhem
loss of identity, men have no enemy to fight against so they fight each other, destroying the bodies they inhabit.
Ikea catalogue
panning of apartment and appearance of furniture ‘what coffee table defines me as a person’ camera inside the fridge with virtually no food - materialistic world
Breaking the 4th wall
non diegetic suspense music on Tyler Durden, camera shakes side to side, CGI and zoom.
