Fight Club

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Cast

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Edward Norton (left) in 2009 and Brad Pitt (right) in 2019

• Edward Norton as the Narrator. He adopts a number of aliases while attending support groups.
• Brad Pitt as Tyler Durden
• Helena Bonham Carter as Marla Singer
• Meat Loaf as Robert "Bob" Paulson
• Jared Leto as Angel Face, a young Fight Club recruit and member of Project Mayhem.
• Holt McCallany as the Mechanic
• Zach Grenier as Richard Chesler, the Narrator's boss.
• Eion Bailey as Ricky
• Peter Iacangelo as Lou
• Thom Gossom Jr. as Detective Stern

Themes

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For academic interpretations of the film, see Interpretations of Fight Club.

We're designed to be hunters and we're in a society of shopping. There's nothing to kill anymore, there's nothing to fight, nothing to overcome, nothing to explore. In that societal emasculation this everyman [the Narrator] is created.

—David Fincher^[8]

Fincher said Fight Club was a coming of age film, like the 1967 film The Graduate but for people in their 30s. Fincher described the narrator as an "everyman";^[8] the character is identified in the script as "Jack", but left unnamed in the film.^[9] Fincher outlined the Narrator's background, "He's tried to do everything he was taught to do, tried to fit into the world by becoming the thing he isn't." He cannot find happiness, so he travels on a path to enlightenment in which he must "kill" his parents, god, and teacher. By the start of the film, he has "killed off" his parents. With Tyler Durden, he kills his god by doing things they are not supposed to do. To complete the process of maturing, the Narrator has to kill his teacher, Tyler Durden.^[10]