Did Tyler Durden forget his name?
Ed Norton plays the Narrator or Jack ( due to reading a book that described someone called Jack's body parts from a 1st person perspective). Meanwhile Brad Pitt is introduced as Tyler Durden. Later on we find out that they are the same person.
So is Tyler Durden the new name he has chosen which he went and made an ID for and got various part-time jobs under or is it his original name and he somehow keeps blanking it out when he needs to tell police (things like his apartment exploded, or that other things will explode) or when he sees it on his checks from work or his work documents Id and many other things that would have his name on them?
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In addition to Orion's answer, I'd add that while it's not specifically stated in the movie, I think it's implied well enough that the Narrator's name is not Tyler Durden. Tyler says at one point that the Narrator is "slowly letting himself become Tyler Durden." If his name was actually Tyler, this line wouldn't make any sense.
I suspect the movie avoids telling us his real name as a clue that he and Tyler are the same person. It was very clever indeed.
I still remember the first time I watched it and Marla is asking him his name, "What's your name? It's not on your card. Is it Radith? Corneleus? Any of the stupid names you give each night?" The bus passes in front of her, ending the scene so we don't get to hear the Narrator's answer . . . and it didn't phase me one bit. It just seemed like a neat way to end the scene.
Fight Club is definitely one of my top ten movies of all time.
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Why does the narrator have no name in Fight Club?
Name. The Narrator's real name is never revealed. Throughout the film, he refers to himself several times as Jack (in the novel and the screenplay it's Joe). He does this as a nod to a series of articles he read that were written about the first person perspective of a body part.Is Tyler Durden the same person?
Spoiler alert: Our narrator and Tyler Durden are the same person. Okay, we know. That's about as much of a spoiler as Darth Vader being Luke's father or Dumbledore dying (sorry, kids), but this crazy identity crisis is a huge part of the book.Why did the narrator make up Tyler Durden?
He was created by the perfect storm of the Narrator's insomnia-induced insanity and his frustration with a hollow life of wage-slavery and consumerism. He is the manifestation of the completely free person the Narrator wishes he could be.Fight Club 1999: Jack finds out the truth.
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Answer 2
Since Ed developed Tyler as part of his split personality a.k.a. Dissociative identity disorder. Then all memories of Tyler are actually his with his mind filling in the logical holes in the memory. So Tyler looks and acts like a separate person with all the accessories that would make the separate person.
It is not until the end that the two personalities become "aware" of each other. At this point the memories merge and the personalities become one.
Answer 3
This appears to be intentionally ambiguous on the part of the author. From an interview with author Chuck Palahniuk:
What exactly IS the name of the main character in Fight Club, is his name Tyler, Jack, or something else?
His name was never given in the book. They needed a name for the screenplay to put next to the character's lines so they just put Jack in there for the hell of it. In the book at one point he even takes out his drivers license and shows it to Marla to prove that he's not Tyler Durden, but Marla was introduced to him under a dozen different names in the support groups. So when he finally comes to save her as Tyler, that's who she knows him as. All the people who have met him have met him as Tyler, so that's who they know him as. But his name is really…. I have no idea.
According to IMDB][2], Palahniuk explains that he "named Tyler Durden after the character of Toby Tyler in Toby Tyler, or Ten Weeks with a Circus, and a man called Durden with whom Palahniuk worked, who was fired for sexual harassment. Marla Singer was named after a young girl called Marla who used to beat up Palahniuk's sister in school." So the name has symbolic meaning to the author, not the character.
Answer 4
As a member of Project Mayhem, the narrator has no name. Tyler can have a name, because he is not the true identity, and therefore not a real person-- and therefore not a member of project mayhem.
Answer 5
Edward norton sees the visiting card only he is not reading the card but introducing himself as "Tyler Durden" in the Aeroplane...
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