Section One - Analysis of Fight Club

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AS MEDIA – ASSIGNMENT ONE

Zahra Okera

Assignment Title: Textual Analysis of a film (Fight Club)

Section One – Analysis

Denotation: In the final scene Jack has a gun in his hand and is at the top of a building, waiting for the great explosion that has been set to take place. He puts the gun in his mouth, and is about to shoot the side of his face.

Connotation: In the final scene Jack takes the only action possible in his own mind.

The irony is that Jack is now able to see more clearly after he has shot himself and killed Tyler. Jack now seems not to require his father or Tyler or anyone else so much;

1. What is the point of the three-minute scene?

This scene changes the whole affect of how you felt on the whole movie. Jack is ridding himself of that aspect of his personality. He finds confidence to destroy his own split personality and one part of his life.

2. How does the scene make you feel emotionally? Is this deliberate?

As the opening titles begin by pulling out from inside Jack’s brain and ending up along the barrel of Tyler’s gun, which is in Jack’s mouth- instantly gets your attention, represents that all Jack’s trouble started from inside his head.

SOUND: Music 1 – Non diagetic music= calm/relaxing

                                                                   *Character showing confidence and knows  

                                                                     what he is doing.

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                                                                     Creating a juxta-position effect towards the  

                                                                     scene. This type of music being played to

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