20 Things You Somehow Missed In The Social Network

11. The Tyler Durden Reference

The Social Network
Sony Pictures Releasing

At one point in the film, we see Mark using a fake Facebook profile to cheat on a college art exam, and the name of that alias? None other than Tyler Durden.

Durden is of course a focal character in the film Fight Club, which was directed by Fincher just over a decade prior, and has remained a cultural monolith ever since.

Given how a more abundant reference to the iconic movie would've been embarrassingly on-the-nose, this one was sensibly concealed away where only the most attentive of viewers would have a chance of noticing it.

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