'It’s impossible for me to imagine that people don’t understand that Tyler Durden is a negative influence,' Fincher said
Like The Matrix and its incel-hijacked red pill, Fight Club occupies a very different space in today’s culture than it did upon its release in 1999. Somewhat unsurprisingly, the movie—which features a number of dissatisfied men beating the shit out of each other in order to feel something—has become a touchstone for a specific sect of the alt-right who’ve blindly chosen to side with its clear antagonist Tyler Durden, the violent alter-ego to Edward Norton’s downtrodden narrator.
At an additional prodding from the interviewer to address the film’s status as a “manosphere” darling, Fincher replied, “OK, fine,” in a tone that seemed “slightly exasperated,” per the article. “We didn’t make it for them, but people will see what they’re going to see in a Norman Rockwell painting, or Guernica.” This isn’t to say that Fincher doesn’t understand the acute plight of not fitting into the larger mold.
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