Fight Club

Fight Club was created by Tyler Durden and The Narrator.

Fight Club is a secret underground fighting club where men gather to engage in bare-knuckle fights. The club serves as a means for its members to release their frustrations, anger, and primal instincts, offering an escape from the monotony and emptiness of their lives. Fight Club is not about fighting but about doing painful things that are out of your comfort zone. If you get in a vicious fight every day of your life, then what normal day occurrence could ever scare you? Fight Club symbolises rebellion, masculinity, and the desire for authenticity in a world dominated by superficiality and conformity.

Fight Club grows to have several locations and eventually evolves into a larger anti-establishment movement known as Project Mayhem, which seeks to dismantle societal norms and challenge consumerism and materialism.

The rules

The rules:

1. You do not talk about Fight Club.
2. You do NOT talk about Fight Club.
3. If someone says "Stop" or goes limp, taps out, the fight is over.
4. Only two guys to a fight.
5. One fight at a time.
6. No shirts, no shoes.
7. Fights will go on as long as they have to.
8. If this is your first time at Fight Club, you have to fight.

Quotes

• Tyler Durden: [42:50]  "Gentlemen, welcome to Fight Club. The first rule of Fight Club is: you do not talk about Fight Club. The second rule of Fight Club is: you DO NOT talk about Fight Club! Third rule of Fight Club: someone yells "stop!", goes limp, taps out, the fight is over. Fourth rule: only two guys to a fight. Fifth rule: one fight at a time, fellas. Sixth rule: No shirts, no shoes. Seventh rule: fights will go on as long as they have to. And the eighth and final rule: if this is your first time at Fight Club, you have to fight."
• Tyler Durden: [1:10:11]  "Man, I see in fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off."