#186: Man Up, Pt. 1 - Fight Club

The Next Picture Show

Filmspotting

Tv & Film, Film History, Film Reviews

4.6 • 858 Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

We’re looking at two films featuring underground fight clubs, secret identities, and male protagonists trying to reclaim their self-worth through violence, beginning with David Fincher’s FIGHT CLUB, which traffics in many of the same themes as Riley Stearns’ new THE ART OF SELF DEFENSE, albeit with decidedly more stylistic flourish. In this half of our toxic masculinity double feature, we dig into what made FIGHT CLUB so divisive in 1999, and what makes it seem so prescient today. Plus, some feedback asking about our podcast hometown of Chicago and its many cinephiliac offerings. Please share your comments, thoughts, and questions about FIGHT CLUB, THE ART OF SELF-DEFENSE, or anything else film-related, by sending an email to comments@nextpictureshow.net, or leaving a short voicemail at (773) 234-9730. Outro music: Dust Brothers, “Psycho Boy Jack” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sitting quietly once you've made the house all shiny.
0:04.0	Down time can be just fine, playing bangers from the 90s.
0:08.0	Tea break.
0:09.0	Lunch break.
0:10.0	Maybe listen to the outbreak.
0:12.0	Sometimes it's not time for some tombola, right?
0:15.0	It's enjoying lasagna time, chilling with a book time, or time to visit your nan time go on play some other time put your phone down
0:23.8	tombole open for fun terms apply 18 plus gambleaware.org
0:29.3	hello next picture show listeners tasha genevieve scott and i have been working together for many
0:34.9	years now and working on this podcast together since 2015.
0:38.1	The next picture show has mostly been a passion project for us, but we've recently started
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0:48.6	and links to our written work and other film writing we've admired from the week, and I'm
0:52.0	usually a little essay for me. At the $5 month level, you'll have access to bonus audio segments where we argue about films
0:58.0	that didn't make the main podcast, and whatever else we feel will spark a good discussion.
1:02.2	We're even dubbing into Gasp, television.
1:05.5	We've had recent audio discussions about Spider-Man far from home and Netflix's Stranger Things,
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