PLEASE DO NOT READ THIS IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THE MOVIE!!!! SPOILER ALERT!!!
Sorry, I may have been a little ambiguous. The point I was trying to make was that Edward Norton's character was actually Tyler Durden. In the movie he didn't have a name (the names he used in groupd - eg Cornelius and the like - were made up).
When he was talking to Marla on the phone he actually asked her what his name was - and she said Tyler Durden. That was the twist in the movie....
re: The whole 'Jack' thing. The Jack thing starting when the men (man) found a stack of articles written by body organs in the first person eg 'I am Jack's nipple'. He adopted this later on in the movie a few times (eg 'I am Jack's total lack of suprise' 'I am Jack's flaming sense of rejection') - but it wasn't actually his name.
...can you tell I've seen this movie a few times? :)
Sep 05 2002, 11:41 PM
Gunderson
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Gunderson
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Even though this thread is old as crap I think I could shed some light. His name is not, Tyler, Jack, or Joe. many people think it's Tyler because his alter ego is Tyler, but that is his alter egos name, not his. many people think it's Jack because of the readers digest that he finds and throughout the film he gives quotes such as "I am Jack's Smirking Revenge" etc. In the book there is a part where after he realizes that he is also Tyler Durden, and he's sitting in the restaurant with Marla, he shows her his ID with his real name, but it remains unknown to the reader. So we know he has a name we just don't know what it is. when they wrote the script they just called him Jack but that is not his name. So all we can really call him is, The Narrator.
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