“It was on the tip of everyone’s tongue!”

YOU MUST watch the following 2 scenes:

1.‘Fight Club’ rules

2.Burning of the hand

Consider the messages and values to come out of these scenes, especially in relation to:

•Delayed adolescence•The male genders ‘need to belong’•The move towards Luddite Utopianism (Page 79 of study guide)

FEEDBACK

• ‘…It pushes the concepts of subjectivity and identification to extremes to suggest a male identity that’s not only fragile but frangible. Jack is so filled with self-loathing and repressed rage he’s desperate to get out of his own skin and into someone else’s.”

– Sight and Sound (Amy Taubin – 1999)

“Congratulations. You’re one step closer to hitting bottom”.

Luddite Utopianism

YOU MUST fill in find a moment (scene) in the film that best personifies ‘Jack’s’ desire to be Tyler.

Entrance Activity

Penis Envy (Sigmund Freud)

“I look like you wanna look, I f*ck like you wanna f*ck , I am smart, capable, and most importantly, I'm free in all the ways that you are not.”

5 minutes

Penis Envy (Sigmund Freud)?

Penis Envy (Sigmund Freud) –

Females experience anxiety upon realising they don’t have a penis

“This is cancer right?”

Title:Tyler – Nietzsche and the ‘Ubermensch’

Friday 24th April 2015

FM4: Varieties of Film Experience – Issues and Debates

Section C: Single Film – Close Critical Study

(30 Marks)

Why?

Aims & Objectives

• YOU WILL establish HOW an ideology and critical approach you need to know for the exam applies to the text.

• YOU WILL develop an understanding of how Tyler conforms to the “ultra male” in the text.

• Review the learning.

AO1

Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of film as an audio-visual form of creative expression together and

AO2 Apply knowledge and understanding, including some of the common critical approaches that characterise the subject, when exploring and analysing films.

• YOU MUST HOW this specific Critical approach applies to the text.

• Research x2 examples of WHERE Tyler conforms to the belief that he is the ‘Overman’ and note down specific micro feature examples that help construct this representation.

• Write x2 PEA Paragraphs based around these examples.

• Extension – YOU COULD apply another specific Critical approach applies to the text.

Friedrich Nietzsche – Übermensch (The ‘Overman’ or Superman)

• “This is the greatest moment of your life”• Realisation and the powerful message of the need to no longer be a “30 year old boy”,

accept our responsibilities and not blame others.

Exit Activity