Analyzing Evil: Tyler Durden From Fight Club

Welcome everyone and welcome to the seventy-second episode of Analyzing Evil! Our feature villain for this video is Tyler Durden from Fight Club. I hope you enjoy, and thanks for watching. If you have any feedback or questions feel free to let me know below!

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Analyzing Evil: Eric Cartman from South Park

[TheRoomforImprovement]

“We are the middle men of history. No purpose or place. We have no great war or Great Depression. Our great war is a spiritual one and our great depression is our lives. We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we will become millionaires, movie gods and rock stars. But we won’t. And we’re slowly realizing that fact. And we are
VERY pissed off.”
-Tyler Durden

[JasperXIII]

I felt like they emphasize the rule of “don’t talk about fight club” so much as a subliminal way to tell people to not spoil the movie.

I only watched this movie three months ago and I never heard one spoiler, despite its massive audience and popularity. Thus, *don’t talk about fight club*

[ironjellly]

I never realized how funny it is that the only thing Jack finds solace in is furnishing a home he's literally never in

[jacobeperrier]

There is one small detail in the movie that I always found interesting. The Narrator tells Marla that he's been going to the meetings for a year. Later he mentions that Tyler Durden has been living on Paper Street for a year. Its a small detail, but one I couldn't help notice definitely has a connection.

[ajtaylor]

It was only on the third viewing of Fight Club for me where Tyler's evil ways started to show. He's truly a manipulative and psychotic guy who, while making some great and timeless observations of the world, is just like the corporations he despises.

[danielchavez]

"The things you own end up owning you".

- Tyler Durden.

That line gets me every time.

[spideyz]

You forgot another major difference between the book and movie. In the book, the target was museums to destroy our past, which the Durden character thought was keeping us in our mundane life. Pahalnuk thought changing it to financial institutions was a much better idea though.

[hongquiao]

Narrator : "I need help for sleeping because I have insomnia."
Doctor : "No. You need healthy natural sleep."
Narrator : "What part of "insomnia" do you not understand?"

[justinriley]

I hope you got Tyler’s permission to make this…

[porkybeans]

I love how it sounds like Vile has ulterior motives when it comes to talking about healthy alternative cereal that is delicious and nutritious

[AshtonHaggart]

I almost can’t believe that this is the 72nd episode of the series…keep it up👍🏻

[bodhixxx]

Fun fact the author got the idea for Fight Club was when he was on a weekend trip he got beat up and went back to work with black eye and a fat lip and people were wondering what happened to him he took the ball and ran with it. Genius

[JoeGrzzly]

Since the movie ends with Tyler falling dead while Jack lives, I always took that to mean that Jack did kill off Tyler in his head, not absorb him as part of his identity. The plan was simply too far along to stop, so Jack accepts what has happened and prepares to eat the omelet made from society's broken eggs.

[ObaREX]

I love how this is more s study on Jack than just the Tyler personality. Honestly, for a while I started to dislike the Tyler character because of how many stories I've read and watched where they make a character exactly like him.
But every now and then I find a video (or just rewatch the film) that reminds me Tyler is in fact a total delusion. He feels phony because he IS phony. And his motivations stem from Jack, who is a very emotionally deep character.

[mioairgetlam]

I have never been so excited for an analyzing evil thus far

[HowlV]

With all the schizo memes going around, this movie aged incredibly well

[beircheartaghaistin]

How I met Tyler was I went to a nude beach. This was the very end of summer, and I was asleep. Tyler was naked and sweating, gritty with sand, his hair wet and stringy, hanging in his face.
Tyler had been around before we met.
Tyler was pulling driftwood logs out of the surf and dragging them up the beach. In the wet sand, he’d already planted a half circle of logs so they stood a few inches apart and as tall as his eyes. There were four logs, and when I woke up, I watched Tyler pull a fifth log up the beach. Tyler dug a hole under one end of the log, then lifted the other end until the log slid into the hole and stood there at a slight angle.
You wake up at the beach.
We were the only people on the beach.
With a stick, Tyler drew a straight line in the sand several feet away. Tyler went back to straighten the log by stamping sand around its base.
I was the only person watching this.
Tyler called over, “Do you know what time it is?”
I always wear a watch,
“Do you know what time it is?”
I asked, where?
“Right here, ” Tyler said. “Right now.”
It was 4:06 P.M.
After a while, Tyler sat cross-legged in the shadow of the standing logs. Tyler sat for a few minutes, got up and took a swim, pulled on a T-shirt and a pair of sweatpants, and started to leave. I had to ask.
I had to know what Tyler was doing while I was asleep.
If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?
I asked if Tyler was an artist.
Tyler shrugged and showed me how the five standing logs were wider at the base. Tyler showed me the line he’d drawn in the sand, and how he’d used the line to gauge the shadow cast by each log.
Sometimes, you wake up and have to ask where you are. What Tyler had created was the shadow of a giant hand. Only now the fingers were Nosferatu-long and the thumb was too short, but he said how at exactly four-thirty the hand was perfect. The giant shadow hand was perfect for one minute, and for one perfect minute Tyler had sat in the palm of a perfection he’d created himself.
You wake up, and you’re nowhere.
One minute was enough Tyler said, a person had to work hard for it, but a minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.
You wake up, and that’s enough.

[JackValeroMusic]

This is one of the most honest analytical videos I've seen on Fight Club and didn't make it about a crisis in masculinity or an anarchist hand book. Really great job.

[kylemcclintock]

I know this sounds crazy but because of everything he's done throughout the show I'd love to see an analyzing evil for Eric Cartman from South Park. I believe despite being a child, he is truly an evil human.