Listen up, maggots. You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else.
If you're on Facebook (and who under 90 isn't?), have you noticed that many people "Like" the movie Fight Club. And that includes many women. Interesting.
Also, did you know that the director of the upcoming Facebook movie is David Fincher, who also directed Fight Club, and logs onto the Long Term blogs under the moniker ergsum? (OK, I made that very last part up, but the rest is interesting, too.)
That's a convoluted path to my point: what would Tyler Durden, the protagonist (or antagonist?) of Fight Club, drive? He didn't own a car of course, and drove only a couple of time in the movie: that red Camaro covertible he jacked at airport baggage claim and the Town Car he let drift into the ditch.
Myself, I could see him in a jacked NYC Taxicab like the one I recently spotted in our Santa Monica gargage. Or our Dodge Viper, again the victim of grand theft auto. The Raptor, perhaps?
OK, you've seen the movie a dozen times: what would Tyler Durden drive?
The things you own end up owning you. (Hit the jump for the movie teaser.)
Albert Austria, Senior Engineer, Edmunds, Inc
It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.
mrb5091 says:
05:46 AM, 09/24/10
Umm...honestly something old and boring. That Lincoln from the film is probably about as good as it gets.
I don't understand why you would relate Fight Club to automotive culture? If anything the character would have hated us all for our obsession with expensive possessions.
moreau says:
06:07 AM, 09/24/10
How about this? Most of that Facebook Movie's on campus scenes were filmed at Johns Hopkins rather than Harvard (well, none of it was filmed at Harvard)... Which introduced me to the film crew. Who were jerks. Heaven forbid you had a class in the building they were thinking about filming in front of. Or even looking at a building where they were thinking of filming in front of. Not to mention they brought in a bunch of extras to pose as college students (further clogging everything) when they had a whole college full of them...
And it's all David Fincher's fault.
old_volvo says:
06:09 AM, 09/24/10
Tyler durden would drive whatever POS or nice car he could steal/get for free from craigslist.
You said it yourself: "The things you own end up owning you"
dougtheeng says:
06:45 AM, 09/24/10
"Tyler durden would drive whatever POS or nice car he could steal/get for free from craigslist.
old_volvo is absolutely correct. To suggest he would buy (or go out of his way) to steal a Raptor is to misunderstand his character.
wrinklebump says:
06:52 AM, 09/24/10
The FAR more interesting question here is this: if Rant Casey were with us today (although it's certainly possible he is), what would he drive?
93aero says:
07:30 AM, 09/24/10
when i watched this movie, i wanted that crazy b*tch to get hit by a bus. She plays the same disheveled drug addict looking role in every movie...even harry potter...I LOVE HER! Also, id say he would drive a Fisker Karma, since they both aren't real in the end...or just too good to be, so you question it.
feloniousmonk says:
08:50 AM, 09/24/10
More importantly: what would Varg Veum drive? Anyone who gets that reference is a real cool cat. Or a Scand-ophile. Or a European. Or something.
hybris says:
09:01 AM, 09/24/10
A Pinto.
oldno7 says:
11:36 AM, 09/24/10
Which car is this blog post about?
misterfusion says:
11:41 AM, 09/24/10
The thing I liked most about Fight Club was that the Tyler Durden character was ultimately about mocking the kind of people who would like a character like Tyler Durden. (This refers to the film; I don't know if the book had the same POV.)
desmolicious says:
04:55 PM, 09/24/10
"Heaven forbid you had a class in the building they were thinking about filming in front of. Or even looking at a building where they were thinking of filming in front of"
All film crews are like that. I live in Venice Beach and they are here all the time. Often they'll be filming on my street and try to prevent me from returning home. The only people that get compensated are those that own the property used for the filming. Everyone else is inconvenienced.
It is funny though when the slacker I mean hipster who's minimum wage job is to make sure there are enough Sweet'n'Low packets tries to act like a bouncer...
lostboyz says:
07:07 PM, 09/25/10
I agree with wrinklebump, if we are looking at any chuck palahniuk story, Rant would relate more to cars than fight club