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Fight Club : I Want You to Hit Me

Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) encourages The Narrator (Edward Norton) to stay over at his place. Once that's settled he asks him to hit him. The Narrator then gives us a backstory for Durden. It flashes back to the present and The Narrator hits Durden, starting the first fight of the movie and the beginning of fight club.

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acting, ambient sound , beat, action, beat, event, beat, general, crosscutting, deep focus, depth of field, diegetic sound, editing, flashback, flashforward, framing, hard lighting, hue, low angle, mise-en-scene, monologue, narration, narrator, naturalistic acting, nondiegetic insert, pan, plan-séquence, plot, prop, rack focus, restricted narration, semidiegetic sequence, shallow focus, side lighting, sound effects, stylized acting, unreliable narrator, voiceover narration

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"I Want You to Hit Me" in Fight Club. Directed by David Fincher, Regency Enterprises, 1999, Kinolab, https://kinolab.org/FilmClip.php?id=2513

This clip was uploaded by Kinolab.org user Emily Greenzang

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