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    J. D. Salinger and David Fincher use to explore the personal dilemmas of their protagonists, Holden Caulfield and Mark Zuckerberg, in The Catcher in the Rye and The Social Network? In David Fincher’s The Social Network and J. D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, a story of two young men, Holden Caulfield and Mark Zuckerberg face many difficulties and ultimately are very vulnerable souls. The dilemmas that Holden and Mark face are alienation, betrayal and identity. Fincher and Salinger both use

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    33 years later, American director David Fincher made Fight Club, which shares many parallels with Bergman’s Persona. The story of Fight Club comes from a novel written by Chuck Palahniuk, which strikes a difference between Persona and Fight Club because Bergman wrote Persona himself. In Fight

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    The moment you begin watching The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo or Gone Girl people familiar with David Fincher know it’s his work. Simply his lack close-ups, dark lighting values, and especially dark in visual aesthetics. Fincher’s obsession for psychological thrillers fit perfectly with his dark tones and wide shot directing style. Fincher likes to allow the audience to see everything in the frame as if the audience were there in person. That is why he rarely includes close-up shots unless it is

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    David Fincher is a well-respected and established director known for his unique visual style and for being one of the biggest proponents of the digital film movement. He started his career in music videos after leaving Industrial Light and Magic. He uses Darkness is a staple to his style and his signature color scheme is filled with these dark tones of earthy colors. Fincher’s use of color is not solely based on aesthetic but because it brings an additional layer of meaning to his films that amplify

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    At a young age of eight, David Fincher’s passion for cinema grew when he saw the movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969). Born in 1962 Denver, Colorado, David Fincher moved to Ashland, Oregon in his teens, where he graduated from Ashland High School. Much of his time here, he directed plays, designed sets, and managed lighting after school. Until one summer, he and a friend attended the Berkley Film Institute’s summer program, where he hoped to learn film as a true art form but instead learned

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    The movie “Fight Club” is an American based film that was produced in 1999. The production was done after the release of a novel in 1996 by Chuck Palahniuk. The movie involved stars such as Edward Norton, Brad Pitt and Helena Bonham Carter and David Fincher is the director. An overall analysis of the video shows that it is a very disturbing film in that it questions our conscience, our phobias, obsessions, reality as well as habits. Many individuals up to date presume that it is visually stimulating

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    Fight Club Analysis

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    goods is a battle between the fists. Fight club makes us realise that we are immersed in a world of materialistic possessions which makes us less satisfied. These ideas that are presented by Fincher is what makes “Fight club” a dark yet enlightening film. It’s insanely genius, twisted and thrilling by David Fincher. Edward Norton, the Narrator is an office worker at an automobile company who suffers from chronic insomnia. He is a consumerist slave who spends time filling his condominium apartment with

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    Fight Club (1999) Fight Club is a drama directed by David Fincher, based on the Chuck Palahniuk novel of the same name. It follows an insomniac (Edward Norton), who becomes discontented with his white-collar job and forms an underground ‘fight club’ with the eccentric Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt). (Figure 3.1) Tyler spliced frames in Fight Club, this technique foreshadows Tyler’s habit of splicing explicit imagery into family films. Throughout the opening twenty to thirty minutes of the film, until

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    The Social Network Essay

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    The Dramatic Interpretation of the Social Network Myth After watching the movie The Social Network, the first thing I did was to search for Mark Zuckerberg’s real life experiences to see which parts are facts and which are fictions. As a matter of fact, this Harvard genius that founded the world’s first social network was not as childish as the movie portrayed. At least he didn’t write programming for getting into elite Harvard “Final Clubs” or for retaliating his girlfriend. During Mark’s

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    David Fincher’s Fight Club is praised by fans and critics alike as one of the most impactful representation of society in film. The film follows Jack, the narrator and main character, as he teams up with a newfound acquaintance named Tyler Durden to form an underground fight club for men who are bored of their mundane lives(Fincher 1999). As Durden becomes more of a dominant personality, Fight Club evolves to Project Mayhem, multi-celled secret society of oppressed gray-collar workers whose purpose

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