FIGHT CLUB 43 Easter Eggs, Insane Details,Things You Missed And Every Hidden Tyler Durden Appearance

Released in 1999 the anti-corporate, mind-bending movie Fight Club was massively ahead of it’sits time and though its style, twist and ending have often been mimicked, they’ve never been duplicated. Here we’re breaking down all the best easter eggs, hidden details and things you missed.

1. It’s very fourth wall breaking and this even goes beyond the film itself as when you put in the Blu Ray it actually doesn’t have a title hinting at one of the big rules in the movie.
2.  When you start it up you’ll be taken to what appears to be the menu screen for Drew Barrymore’s Never Been Kissed.
3. The first time I put the disc in I genuinely thought I’d been given the wrong film and it completely caught me off guard to the point I took out the DVD to make sure I’d put the right one in. Luckily I eventually realised what had happened and this idea of tearing down a commodity and commercial image of course ties into the message of the film itself.
4. The film actually starts with a disclaimer that appears on screen for a split second (http://i.imgur.com/tJUUv.jpg). These are of course common on DVDs and Blu Rays and most of the time people don’t bother to read them, however, if you pause it and check out what it says you’ll see that it’s actually a message from Tyler telling you that just by reading this message you’re wasting your life. He pretty much berates you for reading everything you’re supposed to and doing everything everyone tells you to do which reminds me you should like comment and subscribe to this video.
5. We go to the title sequence and can hear classic music which is then cut to play the heavy theme tune of the actual movie (play music clip right at beginning of the movie) this is showing us that the foundations of what we expect in a film to be are gonna be pushed to the side for this more contemporary piece.
6. Cut to the Narrator…who yeah…doesn’t even have a real name, take that Protagonist who has a gun in his mouth.
7. This is very much to give us the idea that he isn’t really a person and that the persona he develops slowly starts to become the main one.
8. The opening line of the film is the character saying ‘people are always asking me if I know Tyler Durden.’ This is a little meta joke about as we learn that the pair are indeed one and the same however this reveal is only brought about at the end of the movie.
9. Before his appearance on the aeroplane Tyler actually appears on-screen at several points for a split second. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hzox6ea78vs) these are all blink and you’ll miss it moments that work much in the same way that the character describes inserting hidden frames into films and slowly it sets up the notion that he is infecting the Narrators mind before he full materialises. For the clips on screen now we’ve slowed down the footage so that you can see every time he pops up but in the movie itself it’s almost impossible to catch unless you’re looking for it. Watching it in a cinema where you can’t rewind stuff I can imagine that many people didn’t even catch it.
10. Similar to this the idea of corporations now being part of every aspect of society is cleverly slotted into the movie through the use of Starbucks cups throughout the film these pop up at several major points and though initially just thought to be some set dressing, the sheer amount of them goes beyond that. Fight Club very much carries the idea that we must rebel against the system and like the Matrix it surrounds our characters at several points even if we and they are unaware of it.
11. In the film, we learn that the first two rules of Fight Club are that you do not talk about Fight Club. These two are exactly the same much like how our two main characters are.
12. The rules of fight club get people used to breaking the rules early on. If the rule about not talking about Fight Club was actually upheld then the club would not gain any more members. However, we see throughout the film that it grows exponentially. Thus we can take it that everyone is talking about it and in doing so they’re becoming comfortable with breaking the rules.
13. Now one rule that does get broken that we know for definite is that Meatloaf wears a shirt. We are told that you’re not allowed to but he actually had to don one to cover up the fact that he was wearing a fat suit.
14. Now the Narrator starts to go to support groups and when looking through a list of them there’s actually one that asks if someone may be schizophrenic
15. Cut to The Narrator meeting Tyler for the first time and just before it the character has a dream that he’s on an aeroplane as it’s just about to crash. This idea of his death happening before he starts what’s a new chapter of his life is of course a clever way to introduce Tyler and we are also given a hint that the pair are one and the same when the Narrator remarks that they have the same briefcase.
16. The Narrator’s apartment is blown up by Tyler who prior to this scene did reveal on the aeroplane that he knew how to build explosives. Though it is thought by the Narrator that the pilot light on the stove went out, in retrospect, we know that Tyler was behind it and the clues do start to fit into place after the police discuss what happened later in the film. The Narrator also says to the investigating officer that the condo was his life, thus it being destroyed shows the complete change in the narrators.
17. In the introduction to it, we see how The Narrator very much sees his identity in the things that he owns and therefore this location being destroyed makes him carve out a new one.
18. We can see amongst the rubble that he has a yin and yang table, showcasing the duality between the two characters that we follow.
19. It’s not too long before he goes and calls Tyler as he needs a place to stay. He, however, however, hangs up the phone and Tyler calls back (28:28) but if we look closely at the phone set we can see that it doesn’t actually receive incoming calls, hinting to us as to what exactly is going on here.
20. There are several hints to us that Tyler isn’t a real person and during the second fight we see that the crowd only ever look at the Narrator rather than Tyler.
21. The character also lives on Paper Street which is typically defined as a street or location that appears on a map but one that doesn’t actually exist in reality.
22. Tyler’s business card is also the paper street soap company, the logo of which is two identical figures staring at one another, hinting at the dual personas.
23. The pair start Fight Club and one of the more interesting members of the group includes Jared Leto who plays Angel Face. During a monologue, Tyler says that we were all promised to be rockstars and he actually looks at Jared Leto who at the time was headlining with 30 seconds to Mars… a little bit of irony there.
    
24. We also see at one point that a fight is started with a priest when a man sprays a hose at him. This priest later pops up in the film as part of Fight Club showing that the ideologies are starting to be embraced by all aspects of society.
25. When the pair get on the bus there is only one ticket bought (44 mins ish) hammering home the idea that they are only one person. There’s also a bystander that walks past Tyler but bumps into the Narrator hinting at the former not really being there.
26. They actually see an advert for Calvin Klein Underwear and Tyler remarks throughout the movie that this is fitting in with the system. Throughout the film when he’s shirtless you can’t actually see him wearing any underwear showing that he probably goes commando.
27. Anyway back to the clues: when holding a gun to the back of the shop worker’s head he also only answers questions when the Narrator tells him to answer Tyler. This is because he is the only one in this scenario and therefore Raymond as we learn he is called only sees there as being one person.
28. During the car crash scene, we can see that Tyler is the one driving the car and yet when he crashes it he actually gets out of the passenger side and pulls The Narrator out of the driver’s one.
29. Tyler also appears in the Hotel Welcome video which further hints at him not being someone that actually exists in the Narrators life.
30. When Tyler gets punched (1:12:20 ish) the Narrator actually winces along with him showing how the two are affected at the same time.
31. When getting the chemical burn Tyler’s face also starts to sweat along with the Narrator and there are tonnes of clues towards this laced throughout the movie. (1:03:50 ish)
32. It’s not too long before we meet Marla and Helena Bonna Carter actually told her makeup artist to apply her makeup with the left hand because she didn’t want it to seem like she knew how to properly put it on or even cared about her appearance.
33. The Narrator is very much angered by a woman invading a space he thinks should belong to men only and thus he invents a toxic persona to handle being emasculated.
34. Marla’s phone number is also 555-0134 which also just so happens to be Teddy’s in Memento.
35. During their sex scene (54:40 ish) she asks who Tyler is talking to when he answers the door to The Narrator and I’m telling ya, the clues are there.
36. The Narrator refers to him and Tyler as “us” to Marla (1:26:00) and she asks what he means by that showing that she’s only aware of one person.
37. When on the phone with the officer investigating the apartment explosion, Tyler and Marla stop having sex, likely because The Narrator was actually on the phone at this point so he couldn’t be doing both.
38. One of the big questions in the movie is how Marla gets taken to the tower at the end of the movie but when she gets on the bus we can see that the driver has a black eye, showing that he was a member of the group.
39. At the end of the movie, The Narrator says to Tyler “I want you to really listen to me” just before he shoots himself. Tyler suddenly pricks up as he says this and this is because earlier in the movie The Narrator says to Marla “When people think you’re dying they really listen to you.”
40. The Narrator truly believed that he was going to die at this point and the reason I think that this is how he kills Tyler even though he shoots himself in the cheek. Throughout the movie, we watched as a person started to deconstruct their own existence and thus they created another person to fill the void.
41. The movie itself tackles the idea of old masculinity such as savage men that want to fight one another taking back the more sensitive person that they have been told to be. This is shown through Bob who has breasts and the hugging scene which is a big moment for the Narrator. Tyle is very much about coming in and shaking this idea up but we very much see how this leads to nothing but destruction and loss.
42. Tyler is very much about embracing one’s male primal side but whether this is the right path to take or not depends on your perception of society and the world around us. Whilst Tyler wants people to break free of the trappings of society he also ends up creating project mayhem, a group of men with no individual identity that all follow orders without question. We learn that the punishment for exposing this is castration and this actually has a lot of depth to it. This makes it seem to like Tyler wants men who don’t fall in line to be reduced to less than that but the fact that The Narrator ascends beyond this and decides to reject these ideas by killing Tyler shows that he no longer embraces these toxic ideologies and has gone on to become a better man.
43. It’s a really complex film and one that still feels relevant after 22 years making it one of my favourite movies ever made.