Meaning of the pink soap bar in Fight Club
On the main poster of the Fight Club, Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) is holding a pink bar of soap in his hand. If I remember correctly, Tyler was a soap maker.
But why soap? Is there any hidden symbolism behind it?
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In addition to the answer @Yetisasquatch gave, chemicals used in the making of soap are also used to make the explosives that go off in the credit card companies at the end of the movie. The fact that they use human fat is also relevant because Tyler Durden's philosophy in the film revolves somewhat around the disdain for gluttony and people going through life as consumers vs. doing something meaningful or rewarding.
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What is the pink soap in Fight Club?
An original prototype bar of pink \u201chuman fat\u201d soap from the production of David Fincher's Fight Club. This bar of soap is one of the very first Fight Club soaps ever created.What was the soap made of in Fight Club?
The ingredients are simple: lye (sold as drain cleaner, must be 100 per cent pure), olive oil and a fresh batch of hard fats. Equal quantities of fat and water are rendered over heat for three hours. This process produces a putrid stench, so good ventilation is advised.What is the real message of Fight Club?
Tyler's maxim, \u201cIt's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything,\u201d sounds tempting, but it's a line about freedom for the sake of self-indulgence rather than responsibility towards others.Fight Club Soap! (Bacon * Drain Cleaner * Soap)
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Answer 2
Well it's not hidden. Yep he made soap ..... out of human fat or blubber if remember a few funny scenes. There's a scene where they have a bag of human blubber! It adds probably a great creep factor to the character IMO.
Answer 3
While @gannolloy's answer is correct if you're rewinding the script to come up with a way to blow up the buildings, it doesn't answer "why soap?" except in retrospect. "Tyler Durden was the guerrilla terrorist of the food service industry." He also spliced porn into movies as a projector. He lived in a debilitated and abandoned warehouse. Given these attributes, it's fair to say that he wanted to stay off grid while sticking it to the man. Making soap killed two birds with one stone. It allowed them to make money and it also allowed them to be "selling rich women their own fat asses back to them."
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