20 Most Iconic Hero Introductions In Movie History

9. The Narrator - Fight Club

If there's one thing that literature can accomplish better than movies it's really getting inside a character's head. That is, unless the movie is made by David Fincher; he literally starts a film inside the protagonist's brain. Fight Club, like Trainspotting, is another defining movie of the late 1990s which straddled a line between mainstream and cult, its existential philosophizing and destructive nihilism playing on the growing anti-capitalist, anti-consumerism ideas at the turn of the 21st century which perpetuate to this day. It's also a great "twist" movie, and the opening introduction of Edward Norton's narrator character - actually from a scene near the end of the movie - sets up the intrigue with real style. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SftQ6poMW8