Stereotypes In Fight Club
In the onset of a 1999 film entitled Fight Club, by David Fincher, the viewer can identify a dominant and submissive representation between the Narrator and Tyler Durden - the Narrator’s alter ego. The film continuously displays how the Narrator gains an intimate relationship with Tyler once they meet on a flight for a business trip. The two move in together and become inseparable, such as a monogamous relationship. Fincher’s Fight Club constantly gives innuendoes of sexual allegories and dominant roles throughout the film depicting the Narrator’s insecurities and vulnerabilities.
Tyler is portrayed as the dominant figure, or father figure, while holding a gun in the Narrator’s mouth that could also be viewed as a phallic representation, in the first scene of the film. This flashback scene shows Tyler standing over the Narrator who is sitting
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Right before this scene, the Narrator calls Tyler to see if they can meet up so they meet at a bar and have a couple drinks with each other. As they start to leave the bar, Tyler tells the Narrator to “cut the foreplay and just ask me” (Fight Club) talking about the Narrator asking for a place to stay for the night. The Narrator finally asks and Tyler says yes but also tells the narrator to “hit me as hard as you can” (Fight Club). They hit each other once and then begin their first fight together. Afterwards, they share a beer and the Narrator says “we should do this again some time” (Fight Club). This scene can compare greatly to a “booty call” or a “hook-up” in the sense of calling up a partner, getting drinks together, having some pleasurable rough sex, then one telling the other that “we should do this again some time”. The two characters enjoy fighting each other just as two partners would receive pleasure from each other while having
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