“Tyler comes to represent the unleashed fountain of Jack’s rage at his own predicament and at the World that has consigned him to it”

(Thomas Wartenburg – 2013)

Task - 10 minutes

•What IS ‘Jack’s’ predicament?•What IS the World that he consigned to?•Tyler – Is there anything he says in the text that represents this critical opinion?

Penis Envy (Sigmund Freud) –

Females experience anxiety upon realising they don’t have a penis

“This is cancer right?”

‘Jack’s rage at his own predicament’ (Wartenburg – 2013) - Is Marla to blame also?

Title:Killing Tyler – Messages & Values

Monday 27th April 2015

FM4: Varieties of Film Experience – Issues and Debates

Section C: Single Film – Close Critical Study

(30 Marks)

Why?

Aims & Objectives

• YOU WILL establish HOW an ideology and critical approach you need to know for the exam applies to the text.

• YOU WILL develop an understanding of WHY Tyler is killed by Jack and what messages & values this presents to the spectator.

• Review the learning.

AO1

Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of film as an audio-visual form of creative expression together and

AO2 Apply knowledge and understanding, including some of the common critical approaches that characterise the subject, when exploring and analysing films.

Oedipus Complex (Sigmund Freud)–

Killing of the Father Figure and Oppressive male force

Task - 5 minutes

•WHY does Jack resort to shooting himself?

•HOW does Jack and Tylers relationship transform throughout the text?

Jack vs. Tyler“Jack is the rational part of his split personality, Tyler, the demonic and irrational side, is an underground man in his own right.”

(Constantine Santas – 2008)

• WHY does Jack resort to shooting himself?

“My eyes are open” – Tyler is Jack’s “Psychological aspirin” (Chris Landis)

• Jack resorting to shooting himself – Has he found a resolution to his suffering?• Has Tyler consigned him to a World – “Ground Zero” – he no longer believes in?

Task - 5 minutes

Textual Analysis – Chapter 34

• Watch the closing scene – Is it something you would define as a ‘Resolution’ (Syd Field)?

• What are some of the messages & values to take away from this scene?

Entrance Activity

Look through your exercise books and write down x3 Questions on the 3 post-it notes you have been given based around the topics we have covered so far.

THEN:

1.Stick them up on the Big White Board

2.Answer x1 Post-it note Question that you HAVE NOT produced yourself using the pens available.

3.SHARE your ideas and opinions with other members of the class

‘Fight Club’ is a Romantic Drama WHAT evidence do you have to support this point of view?

Title:New Beginnings

Tuesday 28th April 2015

FM4: Varieties of Film Experience – Issues and Debates

Section C: Single Film – Close Critical Study

(30 Marks)

“Self improvement is masturbation….Self destruction is maybe the answer” –

1.The destruction is somewhat triumphant – or is it?

2.“The narrator becomes frustrated and aghast at the destruction that Project Mayhem is wreaking, and he begins the exhausting insomnia filled process of trying to track down and stop Tyler” (David McNutt – ‘I am Jacks Happy Ending’)

YOU MUST find an example of WHERE this is represented in the text and establish whether the destruction of capitalism also symbolises the destruction of a relationship between Tyler and Jack.

“The narrator becomes frustrated and aghast at the destruction that Project Mayhem is wreaking, and he begins the exhausting insomnia filled process of trying to track down and stop Tyler” (David McNutt – ‘I am Jacks Happy Ending’)

Death of Bob Vandalizing the Building

“What the f*ck did you guys do?”

“The narrator becomes frustrated and aghast at the destruction that Project Mayhem is wreaking, and he begins the exhausting insomnia filled process of trying to track down and stop Tyler” (David McNutt – ‘I am Jacks Happy Ending’)

Millennial Masculinity: Men in Contemporary American Cinema

Timothy Shary (2012)

“Fight Club provides numerous hints of its anxiety about the replacement of absent fathers with iconic images of masculinity and its concern with the impact that this substitution has on the development of coherent, mature masculinities in young men.”

‘anxiety’

‘millenial anxiety’

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/movies/feature/a609503/15-years-on-and-were-still-breaking-the-first-rule-of-fight-club.html

• Fear of Technological advancement• Fear of the unknown• Fears at the dawn of a new millenium’

‘The resolution’ (Syd Field)

JUNE 2012

YOU MUST complete the following:

1.Find x5 examples of ‘writing by critics’ that you are going to base your answer around.

2.Ensure you have EVIDENCE from the text to support your argument FOR AND/OR AGAINST a particular critical opinion.

3.YOU SHOULD then “Mind-Map”/Plan your answer electronically – for example find screen grab evidence from the film – and highlight Sound examples in “speech marks” from these examples

4.Answer the Question

5.Assess the Quality of your answer using the Mark Scheme on the Blog.

JUNE 2012

Exit Activity