Tyler Durden: WOAH! You just shot at your imaginary friend next to a truck full of 400lbs of nitroglycerine!
In the scene towards the end where The Narrator is trying to break into the building, he smashes the bench into the door and fails to break the glass. He then shoots the glass with the pistol and it jams. The camera cuts to the next shot and the pistol is no longer jammed. See more...
The scene showing Tyler and The Narrator hitting golf balls outside the house is actually footage of Ed Norton and Brad Pitt drunk and hitting things at the on-site catering van. See more...
Directed by David Fincher, starring Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Helena Bonham Carter, Jared Leto, Meat Loaf (add more)
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Close to the end of the movie, Edward Norton shoots his gun at Brad Pitt. The bullet hole in the van is visible, but Edward Norton shoots again, but no bullet hole, or even a sound of ricochet is evident. [This is because he is firing a gun at Tyler, a figment from his mind. We see no bullet hole anywhere because he fires at Tyler's body, which blocks the view of the background. We hear no ricochet because Edward Norton's character is so focused on Tyler, that he simply blocks out the sound.]
After Tyler Durden is shown splicing porn film frames into the children's film, the audio of the woman moaning should not be heard. All that would be heard is a quick pop in the sound, if even that. [It wasn't heard. The movie-goers did not hear the moaning, nor did the filmmakers intend for that to be the case; the moaning was, like Norton's narration, not meant to be within the setting of the movie. Submitting this as a mistake is much like claiming that it is a mistake that nobody hears Norton's narration. Norton says that the viewers don't know that they saw the image.but if the moaning was in the film itself, I doubt that would be the case.]
When Jack shoots himself in the mouth, you can see the bullet come from his mouth even though the exit wound is under his left ear. [If you watch it in slow motion, that's a tooth - not the bullet.]
At the end, Tyler sits on the large case and says that there's 60 seconds until the bombs go off. Yet after all is said and done with Tyler's demise, the bombs go off nearly five minutes later. [Two things offer some explanation for this, firstly all interaction between Tyler and Jack is inside their head so concievably their converstations could take place in the space of a second or two real time. Secondly the bombs are homemade and unlikely to be dead on accurate with the timing devices which would allow a small amount of leeway.]
When Bob is shot in the head, he is shot in the back of the head. But when you see Bob laying on the table back at the headquarters it is the back of his head that is missing. The exit wound of the bullet would have left a huge hole in the front of the head not the back. [The injury shown is the rear/top section of the skull is gone. In fact, a gunshot is unlikely to cause such an injury, but the bullet hitting with just the right force at just the right angle, MIGHT have caused it. Besides, the Warren Commission proved that a gunshot from the back will blow the back of the head out - see JFK.]
During the scene where Tyler and company crash into the parked car, there are two shots of the speedometer. It reads zero both times even though they are portrayed as moving at a high rate of speed. [The first shot of the speedo at 1:40:02 (it's digital, not analog) shows 60, not 00. The second shot at 1:40:06 does not show the speedo, but shows other gauges. They are very blurry even on the DVD, so they might look like a speedo on a tape.]
In the bathroom scene when project mayhem are confronting the city council member, Brad Pitt's character is the one pushing the council man into the bathroom and to the floor, however at the same time we see Edward Norton's character locking the bathroom door, as one is a figment of the others imagination it should not be possible for them both to be touching different things at the same time. [Everything that the Narrator does in that sequence is in his imagination. He's unsure about the whole thing, doesn't want to be holding down the councillor, so he imagines himself doing something relatively passive, like locking the door behind them. In fact, this was done by the last person in, the one we see going in before the Narrator enters, but mentally, he sees himself doing it - after all, he believes that he was the last one into the room, so it must have been him that locked the door.]
Corrected by Tailkinker
When Ed Norton calls Tyler in the phone booth, Tyler star 69's him to call him. Yet when we go back to Tyler's house, all of the phones are the old fashioned phones - not touch tone ones. He would not be able to do star 69 on his phones. Even Chuck Palahniuk points this out on the DVD. [On a rotary dial phone 1169 is the equivalent of star 69.]
In the scene where they bring back Bob's dead body, one of the Project Mayhem members says, "They shot Bob." About a minute later, someone says that members of project mayhem have no names. [Seeing how Bob broke the first two rules of Fight Club when talking to Edward Norton, it is highly possible that Bob would break another by telling people his name. Seeing how his fellow members were distraught about seeing Bob shot, they let the "no names" rule slip.]
In the scene where Ed Norton discovers that Meat Loaf's character has been killed, you can clearly see him breathing while he is lying dead on the table. [I would be difficult to see Bob breathing as they used a doll (as said on commentary).]
When the guys bring the dead Bob back to Tyler's, they tell him how he got killed. They then show the scene where the police were chasing them and Bob getting shot. However, how the hell did they get Bob back to Tyler's? If they are being chased by police, they're hardly going to go back, pick up his body and carry on running. Even if they waited until the police were gone, I somehow doubt that the police would leave a dead body lying in the middle of a park. [Some police officers are also members of Fight Club and Project Mayhem (as shown later), so even if the police took Bob away his body could be returned to Paper Street.]
In the scene where Marla gives the Narrator her phone number, she writes it on his hand. But after the Narrator's apartment is blown up, he picks up her phone number off the ground on a scrap of paper. [The apartment blows up in a later scene, and if the narrarator wanted to keep the number permanently he'd have to transfer it to something other than his hand.]
After Ed Norton's apartment blows up, he calls Brad Pitt and they meet at a bar. In the bar when Brad Pitt lights a cigarette its between his middle and index finger. The shot changes and then returns back to Pitt very quickly and the cigarette has changed positions to between his thumb and index finger. [The cigarette is still between his first two fingers when the camera comes back to him, but Pitt gestures and moves the cigarette to between his thumb and index finger.]
When Ed Norton is walking down the street he runs into Bob, and Bob tells him he joined fight club. He also tells him about Tyler. If Ed Norton is Tyler and Ed Norton is one of his friends wouldn't he notice they look exactly alike, or at least say he looks like him? [By this point, there are several fight clubs - the Narrator and Bob discover during their conversation that they attend on different nights. Bob merely knows about Tyler from what he's heard from other club members - he's never actually met him, so he doesn't realise that Tyler and the Narrator are one and the same.]
Corrected by Tailkinker
At the end of the film, when Ed and Brad are fighting in the parking garage, as Brad punches and throws Ed around like a rag doll, Ed's face goes back and forth between being caked in blood and being clean from shot to shot. [His face goes back and forth between being clean and bloody, because he is imagining the fight.]
When Ed Norton enters the building in which the final scenes take place, he runs in and stops. Behind him and to his right, the "garage/escalators" sign is visible. When it shows him turn and read it, he turns to his left. [It appears to me that the "garage/escalators" signs are both on his left and his right. There are two different signs, on each side, pointing in the same direction. So this appears to not be an error.]
In the scene in the cinema, Ed Norton says that while the rest of us slept Tyler worked as a projectionist. However, the cinema is full of children and showing a cartoon, so its unlikely Tyler works in the cinema at such a late time. [Ed says this because when Tyler is working, "Ed" (or Jack, or the Narrator, whatever you wish to call him) is sleeping. ED is Tyler. So when Tyler does these 'other' things, Ed cannot account for his time, so he believes he's asleep. So these things could happen at any time of the day or night.]
In the scene where Ed Norton and Brad Pitt are fighting in the parking garage, Brad flips Ed into the ticket dispensing machine for admission into the garage. After the ticket dispences, we see the parking gate bar lift up. However the bar on these machines does not operate until the ticket is removed from the machine. I don't believe either Brad or Ed stopped the fight to take the ticket. [Not necessarily. Some of these machines lift the bar when the ticket is dispensed, and then drop the bar after the ticket is removed (after a delay to allow the car to move forward). The dispensers behaved like this at my local airport for several years.]
Right after the car crash scene, Ed gets out of the driver's side even though Tyler had been the one driving. [Ed, Brad and David Fincher discuss this on the audio commentary. This is not a mistake because Ed Norton was in fact driving since Tyler does not exist. So Ed envisions Brad pulling him out the driver side when he actually got out that side himself.]
When Ed Norton's character is on the toilet ordering stuff from Furni, he wears no tie. Later on - still on the phone - he opens the doors of a kitchen closet where you see him wearing one. [In the scene where Ed Norton is on the toilet, he is indeed wearing a tie before and after he leaves the bathroom. Look carefully and the tie is thrown over his shoulder and tucked behind the phone and out of view. If he did not wear his tie in such a way, the end would fall into the toilet bowl drenching the tie.]
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