cartoonjonah(Competent) posted this on Monday, 19th April 2004, 21:56
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he doesn`t actually have a given name. In the screenplay, he is referred to as The Narrator. As Stanz says, Jack is just some names he reads in some Readers Digest. You could say his name was Cornelius, or Travis etc, as he says in the help groups. Tyler wasn`t his name, that was his other personality I came to that conclusion anyway. AFAIK, his name is never given.
` i`m gonna fight em off a seven nation army couldn`t hold me back`
RE: Pop Quiz, hotshot!
Pete-MK(Elite Donator) posted this on Tuesday, 20th April 2004, 17:23
Upon closer analysis, Tyler Durden may be just as false a name as Cornelius et al, Ed`s character has an apartment, a job (which he evidently has had for a while), yet when Marla calls him Tyler on the phone, he`s confused and suprised. Ed`s persona in the film is supposed to be the rational side, whereas Brad`s is the wild side. Ed `created` tyler, so he probably started his relationship with Marla, and began Fight Club under the name of Tyler.
Spiny Norman(Elite) posted this on Tuesday, 20th April 2004, 18:53
From IMDB : Cites Norton`s character as `The Narrator`. The Fake names are also names of characters from Planet of the Apes films or characters that Robert De Niro has played.
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RE: Pop Quiz, hotshot!
floyd_dylan(Elite) posted this on Tuesday, 20th April 2004, 21:36
The narrator is kind of a Norman Bates character. He`s a schizophrenic, caused by sleep deprevation, stresses at work, and the constant traveling all over America with different time zones, to the point where he doesn`t know who he is.
He`s startin to lose it from the start, when you see flashes of Tyler Durden during the film, trying to break out of his unconscience mind.
Marla is the cause of him to go straight over the edge, as his mind is at conflict with each other, one hates her, the other lusts for her. Norman Bates would of killed her via his alter ego (his mother), where as the narrator vents his anger by fighting or causing total destruction through his alter ego.
Tyler encourages the narrator to hit him as hard as he can, but in reality he`s beating himself up, because he feels he has to punish himself for having impure thoughts for Marla, but when he feels satisfied with punishing himself, his alter ego takes over and shags Marla, and then he punishes himself again, with what he has done.
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