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Fight Club (1999)

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DZ-111: Unreliable Narrators and FIGHT CLUB

How does the unreliability of a narrator impact the way a story is told?

AI✦Examines how voiceover stitches together the film’s sequence-driven structure, with Jack’s narration functioning as the primary tool that controls what the audience sees and believes about the story unfolding.✦

⏱ 55h 26m

2 JUL 2024

Character · Structure · Words

Listen to learn how unreliable narrators shape storytelling through voiceover, structure, and control.

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In this episode, Stu and Mel (sans Chas!) take a deep dive into FIGHT CLUB and its use of the unreliable narrator. This is a bridging episode between our previous episode on VOICEOVER and our forthcoming episode on TALKING TO CAMERA as Fight Club does both.… →

Films: Fight Club (1999)

Character: Unreliable Narrator , Audience Complicity

Structure: Narrative POV , Sequences

Words: Voiceover

"I mean, no wonder the manosphere jumped on this film, because it’s all about men who don’t take responsibility for their actions. And so they’re like, that really resonates with me and how my life is not in my control, even though clearly Jack at this point has control over the entire narrative."

— stu | DZ-111: Unreliable Narrators and FIGHT CLUB

DZ-109: Talking DIRECTLY to your audience

What are the different ways a filmmaker can ask something of the audience?

AI✦Analyzes Fight Club’s use of character voiceover as a tool for managing audience knowledge and motivation, exploring how the film withholds crucial information about narrative perspective to create the conditions for a late-stage revelatory twist.✦

⏱ 1h 20m

1 MAY 2024

Words · Character · Structure

Listen if you've wondered what a character actually wants when they're talking directly to the audience!?

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What are the different ways a filmmaker can ask something of the audience… →

Films: Fight Club (1999) , Fleabag (2016) , The Big Short (2015) , F for Fake (1973) , Star Wars (1977)

Words: Direct Address , Voiceover , Fourth Wall , Exposition

Character: Character Motivation , Unreliable Narrator , Tactics

Structure: Narrative POV

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DZ-9

Characterising Introductions

⏱ 1h 22m

JUN 2014

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