Fight Club as a sequel to Calvin and Hobbes. Yes, it all makes sense.
Tyler is Hobbes, reincarnated after being trapped inside Calvin/Jack’s brain for so many years. Just as Calvin is Jack, Hobbes is Tyler.
Once you grasp this insight, everything becomes clear.
Little does Calvin suspect that while he is busy growing up, deciding what "dinette set defines him as a person," Hobbes is also maturing in the recesses of his mind, waiting to be unleashed at an appropriate time.
The theory is like some revelatory, hermeneutic virus, working its way through your memories. "Calvin—"I Am Jack’s Lost Youth""
Discussion Questions:
1. In the film, Calvin and Hobbes actually reversed many personality traits as Jack and Tyler. Is it possible that Calvin is the personality that got repressed and Hobbes is the one that did the "growing up"? Discuss.
2. Tyler wears a fur coat near the end of the movie. What is the significance of this garment, given his past incarnation as a jungle animal? Discuss.
3. If Calvin really wanted to change things, why didn’t he just dust off his old cardboard-box time machine and hop in? Discuss.
4. After the end of Fight Club, when Calvin realizes he’s effectively killed Hobbes twice now, do you really think he’ll still be "okay"? Discuss.
1. In the film, Calvin and Hobbes actually reversed many personality traits as Jack and Tyler. Is it possible that Calvin is the personality that got repressed and Hobbes is the one that did the "growing up"? Discuss.
2. Tyler wears a fur coat near the end of the movie. What is the significance of this garment, given his past incarnation as a jungle animal? Discuss.
3. If Calvin really wanted to change things, why didn’t he just dust off his old cardboard-box time machine and hop in? Discuss.
4. After the end of Fight Club, when Calvin realizes he’s effectively killed Hobbes twice now, do you really think he’ll still be "okay"? Discuss.
(thanks to the twisted mind of Tanya)
And a bonus theory:
http://www.iheartchaos.com/content/fight-club-theory-ferris-bueller-i-heart-movies
Posted by: Jesse Walker | May 03, 2009 at 18:48
Yes! And worth it alone for the _Requiem for a Day Off_ trailer.
Posted by: Bryan Alexander | May 03, 2009 at 22:51