Word: durden
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Edward Norton--his character isn't even given a name. Food good reason, since his identity consists of what furniture to buy, what shoes match his suit, and which dinette set best fits his non-existent personality. In this yuppie's life, IKEA is synonymous with orgasm. Enter Tyler Durden. Brad Pitt takes on the challenging role of this American psycho-- a soap salesman who lives as a squatter, steals a sportscar one day and ditches it the next, and takes random nightshift jobs to survive. Tyler wants "freedom" from yuppie existence and he makes it a point to obliterate...
...your answer to that question is, "Are you kidding?" then Fight Club is not for you, though it must be said that early on, it funnily realizes the satirical possibilities of 12-stepping your way through life. The film remains strong when Edward Norton's Narrator meets Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) on an airplane. He's everything Norton isn't--a bruising truth teller with a taste for urban anarchism. He's the kind of guy who splices pornographic flash cuts into family movies when he works as a projectionist, who pees in the soup when he works...
...judge sent Ovando to prison for 23 years after two anti-gang squad members, who had allegedly shot him multiple times, claimed he had threatened them with a rifle. L.A.P.D. partners Rafael Perez and Nino Durden had been working undercover in a vacant apartment in a building known as a gang hangout. They said they were forced to shoot Ovando when he burst in. Their story seemed a bit iffy--"He has a semiautomatic with a banana clip, yet they both manage to pull out their pistols and shoot?" asks Tamar Toister, who defended Ovando--but the testimony seemed persuasive...
...right, many others could go down. Police chief Bernard Parks has already relieved a dozen cops of duty, with pay. They all worked in the Rampart division, which handles a part of town heavily populated by immigrants. Durden was fired recently on charges (separate from the Ovando case) that he planted evidence and made a false arrest. Other cops are suspected of selling drugs, using excessive force or simply keeping the whole mess at Rampart quiet...
...Premise In search of companionship and empathy, a confused young man [Norton] wanders from support group to support group, seeking human connection. He ultimately finds it when he and his friend, Tyler Durden (Pitt), create a new club where rich, bored young men fight each other till one surrenders or dies. The trend soon spreads in to cult-like, society-warping proportions. Also, the nameless narrator [Norton] becomes involved in a love triangle with Tyler and a girl named Marla [Carter...