10 Ridiculous Movie Premises Everybody Fell For

5. Tyler Durden Is The Kind Of Guy People Would Follow - Fight Club (1999)

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20th Century Fox

After all those time travel headaches, it€™'s a relief to do an easy one. Supposedly, the Fight Club itself is formed when various disaffected men witness the narrator and Tyler Durden beating each other up, and find that this alienating, pointless violence stirs something within themselves. However. There is no Tyler Durden€ or rather, no Brad Pitt as Tyler Durden. There€™'s just a skinny, lost-looking man, Edward Norton€™s narrator, a man with dissociative identity disorder who beats himself up while engaged in forming a co-dependent friendship with his own secondary personality.

Those various disaffected men didn'€™t witness something primal and inherently masculine that moved them in ways they couldn'€™t properly articulate. They witnessed a mentally ill man beating himself up in a car park. That€™'s not the kind of guy you follow like he was Jesus of bloody Nazareth. That€™'s the kind of guy you have moved on by the police before he brings property values down.

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