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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

"Immediately he’s talking about going to these meeting and presenting himself as one thing while he’s actually another. So immediately the audience knows, okay, this guy’s unreliable. I can’t trust anything he says."

— mel | 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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