Fight Club By David Fincher

He and Tyler had an interesting, yet unusual conversation. When the character arrives to his apartment complex, surrounded by police cars and fire trucks, he realizes his apartment was in flames. Not having anywhere to stay and almost no one to call, the character desperately calls Tyler and they decide to meet at a bar. After a few beers, the two characters discuss how neither of them have ever been in a fight before. They then decided to fight each other for fun. Later that night the character spends the night at Tyler’s run-down home and Tyler tells him to live there for a while. The next night, the two characters fight outside of the bar again to release stress from their day. Fighting to produce happiness and relieve stress from the day became a tradition. As the tradition continued, other men at the bar began joining them in the fighting to relieve tension for them. The narrator and Tyler start a “fight club” for those who are stressed with their lives and want a burst of happiness. The narrator stated, “It used to be that when I came home angry or depressed, I’d clean my condo or polish my scandinavian furniture. Now I fight” (112).

His life is empty and meaningless and in attempt to fill these voids, he looks to the IKEA catalogue. He believes that by decorating his condominium in this way, that it will make him feel something or complete. This is a blatant example of consumerism and is mentioned multiple times in the film. The narrator is participating in what Adorno & Horkheimer describe as the relationship between consumers and producers. This is where the producers create things for a specific target group and the consumers will purchase it, even though it is just likely many other brands that are already out there. The narrator, for example has to have items out of the IKEA catalogue even though there may be a nearly identical couch at another store for less. This shows how important image and feeling complete is. He needs to furnish his home in solely furniture from IKEA to feel complete which he explicitly states in the film, “That condo was my life, okay? I loved every stick of furniture in that place. That was not just a bunch of stuff that got destroyed, it was ME!” (Fight Club). This is after his home has been destroyed by fire and Tyler is confronting him by saying that it is not that big of a deal. He describes several of the objects in his home, including the plates which he describes as “I had it all. Even the glass dishes with tiny bubbles and

Within each example wither it’s in your face like Palahniuk’s movie, gently given like Capra’s or if it challenges you to think like Berman’s book conflict between “The Big Guys VS. The Little Guys” truly exists in our world. In each movie we are given our everyday, run of the mill guy. In Berman’s book conflict lies between our need for consumer goods so it is us versus corporate America. In It’s a Wonderful Life capitalist are portrayed in the character Mr. Potter who is full of greed willing to walk on the backs of the working people in his community. But Bailey was willing to fight him and with it he was fighting everything he dreamed of being one day. In Fight Club the character after making an alter ego named Tyler Durden begins his fight against capitalist leaving his life of materialistic consumption behind. In the movie he says “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.” This shows us why he is choosing to fight against

In the film, Do The Right Thing, directed by Spike Lee, is a story of African-Americans and Italian-Americans that live in local residents. This film takes place on the hottest and longest day in Brooklyn, New York. Lee represents himself, Mookie, an African-American delivery boy at a pizzeria. Throughout the film, Lee establishes two main characters that illustrate “the right thing”, starting Salvatore is known as Sal, an Italian who owns a pizzeria. Radio Raheem is an African-American enjoys his boom box music. In particular, Sal becomes upset when Radio Raheem attends the pizzeria. Sal comments, “It 's about turning that shit off and getting the fuck outta my pizzeria” Sal clearly is disturbed. That explains the loudness that comes from Radio Raheem’s boom box. To illustration, Mookie throws the “trashcan” tensions rise when the riot with Radio Raheem. In many ways, things are accomplished by the story of the “trash can”.

This film presents a worldview of business that drips with materialism. The late 80’s was a fairly prosperous time for America. For the characters represented in the film, success was measured by how nice your apartment was, what types of suits you wore, and where you had dinner reservations for the evening. According to literary critic Jeffrey W. Hunter (2000), American Psycho is largely a critique of the "shallow and vicious aspects of capitalism. The characters are predominantly concerned with material gain and superficial appearances, traits indicative of a postmodern world in which the 'surface ' reigns supreme.”

One important Symbol/object in the film of Fruitvale station, directed by Ryan Coogler was Oscar Grant's Marijuana. Throughout the film this symbol of Marijuana portrayed many key ideas that the director had purposely set up. These key ideas included: Protecting, caring and supporting for his daughter Tatiana, Oscar Grants past life and Oscar Grants rehabilitation through the effects of marijuana where he is working towards a better and safer life.

is that leading in material gain” (Pidgeon 2). The American society has made its people focus so much on making money and material gain that the people forget the real things in life that matter, and the things that are actually achievable. People may think that money can achieve all goals in life, but in actuality it cannot because money cannot buy happiness nor can it fulfill all dreams. “From Jay Gatsby… to Tony Soprano… the woefully wealthy are among the seminal figures of literature, film and television… extolling the lifestyles of the rich and famous while exposing the sadness of celebrity” (Zane 1). The power of money and materialism make people forget about who oneself really is and lose a sense of selfhood. Money over powers the things

The literary element setting includes the time when the story happens and location where the story takes place. Some stories use variety of settings to initiate an interesting beginning. However, the 12 Angry Man has only one fixed setting – the jury room, which is not commonly used in a novel. The author, Reginald Rose, overcomes the limitation in setting by describing changes in weather, initiating different types of character and imitating the events of the murder.

While twenty-nine years has passed since its release, Spike Lee’s 1989 film Do The Right Thing remains a tragically relevant tale of race relations, heated confrontations, and police violence. As the sweltering summer heat rises in the black Brooklyn neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant, racial tensions escalate between the locals and the Italian-Americans. Characters sweat and scream, fight and fend, dance and die. On screen, Spike Lee depicts a 1989 Brooklyn that acts as a magnified view of what was happening politically and socially outside the theater. Coupled with Public Enemy’s 1989 hit “Fight the Power,” Do The Right Thing acts as a artistic acknowledgment of the various forces that oppressed minority groups in the 1980’s. Spike Lee uses “Fight the Power” as a musical leitmotif to bring attention a theme of racial tension and power imbalances within society. The leitmotif becomes the film’s theme song, intensifying moments of conflict and narrating dialogue-free scenes to explore abuses of power.

"You work for the American Dream, you don't steal it." Says a Minnesota family man early in "A Simple Plan," but is only repeating an untested theory. Challenged with a sum of $4 million in cash, he finds his values evolving, and is eventually trapped in a horror story of greed, guilt and murder.

Who doesn’t love a movie where the protagonist is off on a quest for revenge in numerous action sequences for his taste of sweet, sweet revenge? When breaking films into this type of category, one film that stands out among the rest has to be Gladiator. Gladiator can be argued as one of the greatest action movies of all time, and for good reasons. The soundtrack, dialogue, and characters have no equal in the revenge action category of film, and can be considered tops of pure action films. Gladiator is a perfectly well rounded movie that adds the best of all worlds to create the masterpiece seen today.

It is this consumerist, materialistic world which the narrator encounters that prompts the actions he has in the rest of the movie. The movie begins with the narrator explaining that he is an insomniac, a white-collared employee of a firm, and that he makes himself feel better by acquiring “things,” to destroy this anxiety and depression which the postmodern world has created for him. He asked himself, “I would flip through catalogs and wonder, "What kind of dining set defines me as a person?” This consumerist method of his to cope with the new frontier did not work, however, and this prompted the creation of Tyler Durden. The important thing to understand here is that Tyler Durden, despite his nihilistic attitude and his devotion to the anti-consumerist movement, is a product of the narrators schizophrenic delusion which was the result of the postmodern consumerist world which plagued his very existence.

“The things you used to own, they now own you,” says Tyler Durden. The entire film is focused on a consumerism-based society in which people are beaten down by a system that wants to shape them into a mold based on advertisements. The movie opens with The Narrator going through his whole apartment, which is filled with IKEA furniture. He had this perfect lifestyle set up for himself, yet couldn’t be any more unhappy. He didn’t sleep and didn’t feed himself well, shown through his refrigerator mainly consisting of condiments, then his lack of caring when he returned home to his apartment on fire.

Paranoia personality disorder can be a very difficult mental condition to live with. In fact, some people with this condition generally have a hard time trusting and have difficulties getting along with others. They don’t entrust in people and are actually surprised if someone shows loyalty. They are constantly suspicious of others around them and contemplate every action. This can lead to the destruction of every professional and personal relationship they have. In the end however, having this mental condition doesn’t have to be a traumatic event. By seeing a psychologist or psychiatrist, even those with the most severe cases can learn how to make life with this mental condition not just easier, but actually manageable.

As Austrian writer Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach wrote,“To be content with little is difficult; to be content with much, impossible.” History and literature have established that the ideal goal every American has wanted is for his thirst for material possessions to be reached, but even then, the individual isn’t truly happy. Money, and the things it can get you, have long been a part of American culture and the materialist culture of society have been examined in numerous ways from novels to the art of those like Andy Warhol. A life free from the economic woes that plague almost everyone seems like the quintessential existence, but material wealth is not a way to mend issues.