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Fight Club : The First Rule of Fight Club

Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) lays out the rules for Fight Club decided on by him and The Narrator (Edward Norton). This includes the well-known line, "You do not talk about Fight Club." The first fight begins, which includes someone from The Narrator's office. We flash forward to the following days where The Narrator explains that Fight Club only exists when you're in it—that in the outside world, it is not acknowledged. We see him and various other injured people go about their daily lives without talking about it.

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beat, action, beat, event, beat, general, chiaroscuro, cutaway, dialogue, diegetic sound, dolly shot, high angle, hue, jump cut, lighting, low angle, music, empathetic, music, nondiegetic, pan, rack focus, restricted narration, shallow focus, stylized acting, subjective narration, tilt, tracking shot, unreliable narrator, voiceover narration, whip pan

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"The First Rule of Fight Club" in Fight Club. Directed by David Fincher, Regency Enterprises, 1999, Kinolab, https://kinolab.org/FilmClip.php?id=2516

This clip was uploaded by Kinolab.org user Emily Greenzang

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